Valentine Party, George Washington and Officer Crane



Valentine Party Centers

Getting ready for the bean bag toss

Fun at our Valentine Party

Valentine Crowns

Time for Goodies!

Kaye Espinosa reading George Washington book from Fran Kramer

Making George for our America Book

Officer Crane came on Friday for our study of Community Helpers

He read us a story, told us about being a police officer and a farmer in Nebraska.

Officer Crane with his son Austin

The police car arrived and we heard all about the patrol car.  Our favorite part was the siren.

Badges for Junior Police officers!

Thanks Austin for sharing your Dad with your class!
Thanks Officer Crane for the wonderful visit and talk.

Yappy Hour, Abe and Valentines!

Yappy Hour! Not school related, but I was so excited to share my fun afternoon.
I have two Cavaliers and we went to a party with all the local Cavaliers! There were eight doggies all together.
My daughter also has a Cavalier, she's standing next to me.

Kaye reading from Fran Kramer's Lincoln book!

Pictures of Abe!

Love to see the kids so engaged.

Here's the project of the day: Abe Lincoln.

Our new aide Kailey Gillotti.  Joe and all the kids adore her.

Abe's beard

It is so fun to see how different they are and how well they listened and followed directions.

We also drew Abe for our story writing.

February Quilt: Handprint hearts and flags.

Our bags are ready for Valentine cards.

Write Up a Storm.  We added "sparkle" words, or  adjectives to our sentences today!

This is our art project for our second semester Kindergarten artist : George Seurat.

One last doggie picture! Molly and Cooper!

We Love America

Barack Obama page for our America book.

Ready for teaching the lesson.

Kaye teaching us some interesting facts about Barack.

Did you know Barack collects Spiderman comic books?

Our book is really growing!  TLC America book by Kaye Espinosa.

Chinese New Year - Lunar New Year

Maggie Gullon was our guest speaker this morning.  Lindsay's mom taught us about the Chinese New Year.

She brought several special decorations and a slide show.

Joan Le, Dean's mom did a presentation today about the Lunar New Year.

We learned about traditions and celebrations in many countries.

This is the year of the dragon.

The Le family gave each child a special red envelope with a surprise.

Polar Bears and more TLC

We read lots of stories about polar bears and watched a video on the National Geographic website.  Then we made TLC polar bears at centers.  Our tree map was a collaboration of what we learned and used to write our stories.  We are working on complete sentences, neat printing and spacing.  Some children are able to write a sentence that has two ideas connected with the word and.  We call this a SUPER sentence!

We did this TLC lesson at a center during the week.  Parent helpers were helping at the center.

Love the added footprints.  We are working on reading back our stories and making sure they make sense.

We sponge painted some snowflakes around the polar bears.

Later gators thinking and writing.

We are making great progress.  The homework journals are continuing to improve.  Thank you parents for your help at home.