Here a chick, There a chick, Everywhere a chick chick

It was a VERY exciting week in kindergarten!!! Our first chicks hatched on Monday.

They are in a box with a light to keep them warm.  We have 8 chicks out of 12 eggs!

So thrilled to finally get to hold a chick.  Hannah Snodgrass, a former student, helped the kids learn how to hold the chicks.

Happy day!

Dr. Amy Snodgrass is trying to help our little chick with bad legs.   We are keeping our fingers crossed.

Love seeing the wonderful stories in our homework journals this week.  Look at those cute feathers.  Nice job Chloe!

Great pictures and terrific story Rachel.

Great job Jake! I'm proud of you!

Learning about what was happening in those eggs for 21 days!

Our cute chicks!

Community Helpers - Redlands Police

We were very excited to have some special visitors on Friday.  This is Officer Breanna Herrera reading a funny story to our class.  

In this picture, Officer Patrick Estrada, Officer Nelson Rodriguez and Officer Crane (Nolan's dad)

Officer Patrick Estrada has a wonderful partner.  This is Kass.  He was very happy to be in kindergarten.

Kass was trained to find something that the officer hid in the classroom.  His reward was a tennis ball.
Boy did he get excited when he was given his ball.

The kids were very interested in Kass.  They wanted to pet him, but you can't pet a working dog.

Officer Crane arranged the visitors from the Redlands Police Department.
Nolan was thrilled to have his Dad come to school.

We enjoyed the visit.  I hope the children came home and shared their Community Helper books they made at school.

Happy Halloween!

We had a lot of fun at our first big party!

Stella with some pumpkin playdough! Yum!

Collin in his cat hat.

Chloe in her cat hat.

Mrs.Flory helping the kids decorate cookies.

 Yvonne Pham helping with cat headbands.

Mrs. Anderson helped us make spiders out of tootsie pops.

Mrs.Lopez playing Halloween bingo.

Mrs.Vandenbosch playing pin the nose on the Jack O Lantern.

Mr. Crane helping with pumpkin playdough.

Big smile from Brooke.

Mohamad having fun.

Mrs.Crane helping with pin the nose on the pumpkin.

Nolan smiling for the camera.

Leilani having a good time.

Just had to share my students that visited my home on Halloween. Sydney and her family.

Collin and Ethan also live in my neighborhood! 

Toby and Molly won 2nd place at the doggie Howloween parade!

Very Busy Spiders and Monster Madness

Our spider circle thinking map.

The kids were so excited that we had the same number of kids like spiders and kids that didn't like spiders.

Science center - life cycle of the spider. This thinking map is a flow map.

One of our spider centers reviewing color words.

We recorded beginning sounds on the spiders.

This is our tree map for writing.  I introduced using the word and.

Great sentence!

Two terrific sentences with lots of details in the picture.

A fun book we did together as a whole group.

Spider center work.

Monsters are fun!  Here are the shape monsters we did in class. 

Our monster shape writing books.

Each day we wrote a page in the book.

We loved all the fun monster stories and music.

Are you afraid of monsters?

Center work with sight words.

Measure the monsters with blocks.

Monster writing with centers.

Our October class quilt.

Scarecrows in the windows.

Monster story writing.