Holiday Cheer!

We have done several crafts and have a very decorated classroom! Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Thank you Cheryl Larick for helping us make gingerbread cookies!
We finally found them, after they ran away.

We did an elf project, telling how we are nice.  We have a magic elf in our classroom that leaves us a message each day about the holidays and thinking of others.

Our reindeer and stockings are hung in the window.

We made a nutcracker with the wonderful Mrs.Espinosa!

Holiday trees and our cute little faces made into a reindeer.

I wanted to share my granddaughter in her first program. Littlest angel!

Apple Day!

We had a special day to celebrate our study of apples. Here are the fun centers and activities we did for apple day.

Apple Counting book 

We had a tasting center and graphed our favorite way to eat an apple!
Yummy!

Roll the dice and count the dots. Beginning of joining two sets for addition.

Bingo with beginning sounds and the Lakeshore mystery box.

Tossing apple bean bags into baskets and counting our points.
Then we played the apple letter sound game.

Writing center. We used our apple word books to complete sentences.

Tasting center

Thank you to all the parents who made donations and helped with our  learning centers!

A Very Busy Week

We had a very busy week last week.  We welcomed parent volunteers, our music teacher and Mrs.Ott, the teacher on assignment.

Mr.Freeman visits once a week to teach us about music and sing songs.
We always have fun! 

Mrs.Ott is a special teacher that works at Mariposa once a week. She comes into the classroom
and does demonstration lessons that are engaging and fun. We learned about
text features.

TLC lessons with the wonderful Kaye Espinosa. She is Ava's grandma and taught kindergarten
in Redlands for many years.  We are so excited to have her come once a week to do a lesson.
We are learning to listen and follow directions. She also teaches us about shapes and we create art projects.
I love how creative the projects are and how they are all different.

Making the very hungry caterpillar.

We Rocked the First day of Kindergarten!

We had a wonderful first day! We talked about classroom rules and

read a story about Owl and his first day.  Everyone loved the

Pete the Cat stories.  After reading, we found a note from Pete

and went for a hunt to find him.  He left us a color sheet and our

Pete the Cat hats.  We started to learn about the letter Aa, 

you can see the papers and book that came home.

Have your child keep the book in a special box

to practice reading at home.

Enjoy the pictures of our darling class!