Yikes!

My first peek into my classroom is always a little scary!  Here is what I saw....

Well, the floors are nice and shiny!  We have our work cut out for us! 

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My new avatar image my daughter made. Miss Ambler's avatar coming soon!

Parent Questionnaire

Here is a parent questionnaire created on Google Docs that I thought was pretty cool! Your parents can answer questions to help you learn about their child before school starts. They fill out the form and Google docs puts all the information into a spreadsheet that can be pulled up easily to access information. There is even pretty cover sheets to choose from. We are the blue jays so that is why I picked this form out. Try it out!

Reading Street High-Frequency Words freebie!

Our students love looking up at the word wall and seeing popcorn!  That is what we call our high frequency words or sight words.  We call them popcorn because they are always "popping" up in our reading!Check it out here!

Pancakes Pancakes!

After reading Pancakes Pancakes by Eric Carle we made our very own pancakes! We had so much fun helping out and eating delicious pancakes and strawberries! This was the conclusion of our Eric Carle author study. Ask your child what their favorite Eric Carle book is!

Butterfly Life Cycle

For the last couple of weeks we have been discussing the butterfly life cycle. We watched as our caterpillars turned into a chrysalis and then beautiful butterflies.  We let our butterflies go this week.

 Here are a few of the activities we did. We made "hairy" caterpillars with egg cartons, pipe cleaners, dirt, grass seeds and markers.  In Math we reviewed symmetry and made beautiful symmetrical butterflies. 

Cock-a-doodle-doo Barnyard Hullabaloo!

Chick hatching out of its shell!

Piggy Tales

 Once upon a time a pig wanted to be a princess.  She wanted to see the world.  She went to a castle. She liked it....

 Once upon a time there lived a pig who was a princess.  She wanted a teddy bear.  And one day the pig went to a fair.  And she played...

Once upon a time there was a pig.  He is the boss of...

Once there was a pretty princess pig named Maia. She was lovely and helpful. She lived in a pretty castle. ...

Here is a glimpse of some of our fiction writing about pigs.   Doesn't it make you want to pick up one of these piggy tales to find out what happens to the pig in the story? 

What I know about pigs!

In kindergarten we have been discussing the difference between fiction and nonfiction! After writing our "piggy tails" fiction stories we explored non fiction writing today! Of course we had to stick to our theme of the week pigs!

The Great Egg Drop

We watched as Mr Paul dropped our boxes from the ceiling.  We can't wait to see what happened!

Look, more eggs survived than broke!  Nice going kindergartners!

The Exquisite Wedding of Q & U

 Quite a good time was had by all the quarterbacks and queens in kindergarten!

Chicks and Eggs

This week we started learning about the life cycle of a chicken. Hopefully your child came home to tell you all about it.  On Monday, our chick eggs are arriving and we are getting ready for the countdown to begin.  Look in your child's backpack to see your official countdown to follow along with us.  Monday, April 8th is Day Zero, so Tuesday is Day One.  Your children found out that it takes 21 days before our chicks will hatch.  So... we should be seeing our little chicks hatching @ April 29th.  In order to make our chicks comfortable we changed the theme of our room to look more like a farm.  Our door has changed into a barn door and we are starting to look like farmers too!

Of course we had to make our own chick and even wrote on an egg about what we are eggs-cellent at!