Week 5- Lady bugs

Showing off our ladybug life cycle hats.

having fun making our field trip shirts.

Observing our African clawed frogs from the science center

Our Friday guest reader did a wonderful job!

Observing our classroom fish rainbow

observing ladybugs

Mr. Ornes stops by to read a book and play guitar for the class.

This week was a busy week. We learned all about ladybugs and life cycles. We observed animals in science, we observed ladybugs, birds, frogs and fish. We released the ladybugs in the school garden on friday afternoon. We also tie-dyed our field trip shirts on friday with lots of parent support.

Week 4- Friends and Family

Our wonderful Family Trees. They turned out great.

Friday was the last day at Zilker for one of our friends. We had a little goodbye party for her and made her a card. We will miss our friend.

Working on our houses, we drew the people who live in our houses

We made shapes families for our math center this week.

Playing with playdough during one of our free choice centers.

Reading to our new puppets in the loft

Watching a short film with Mrs. Scheib's class about Friends and Family.

Making houses

Working on our family trees, everyone wrote the names of their family

Working together as a group to finish the puzzle!

Working on our family trees

Movement song with Mrs. Scheibs class
This week we learned about Family and Friends, we discussed why they are so important, how families are all different and why we should be a good friend.

Every Tuesday we get to go the library where Mrs. Krall reads to us.

Working on our letter of the day in our writing journals

My mother-in-law, the other Mrs. Ornes (right), and her sister (left), stop by to read a book

Week 3- What are the five senses?

Morning activity song- Tooty Ta (following directions song)

Celebrating our first birthday of the school year with a special treat.

Using the FEEL box- to use our sense of feel and touch to describe to the class.

Art Class with Mrs. Petit

Celebrating  our second birthday with a special treat- Muffins and juice)
Our very first guest reader, what a wonderful job she did!

Making ME books, students had to describe there favorite color and food.

ME Books

This week was custodian appreciation week. All the kinder classes made a big banner for Ms. Margie who helps clean up after all our messes. The banner is hung out in the hall.

This week we celebrated our first two birthday's which were both boys.

We had a lot of fun learning about our five senses this week.

Week 2- School Helpers (Gingerbread Hunt)

Off to the playground to EAT THOSE COOKIES. What a fun day we had and also learned about our school helpers!
Mr. Thomson said that he caught those cookies and put them in the vault for us! He said that the cookies were so tired that they would not run away from us anymore. We were so excited to get our cookies back!

Once in the office we asked our Office Assistants, Ms. Rachel and Ms. Virgina if they had seen our cookies. They said YES and that we should go search Mr. Thomsons office.

On our way to the office.
Mrs. Krall our Librarian tells us that we just missed the cookies, she thinks they were heading to the office.
Searching the gym for the run away cookies. We then decided that maybe the cookies wanted to read a good book and went to the library so away we went.
Here is our music teacher Ms.Price, she the gingerbread men came and made a mess with the music instruments then headed towards the gym. So away we went tip toeing along to the gym.

The purpose of the gingerbread hunt is to learn about our school helpers. In the story of "The Gingerbread Man" he runs away and goes past several people. We arrived to pick up our gingerbread men at the cafeteria only to hear from our cafeteria workers that the little men had jumped out of the oven and ran to join the PE class. So we asked our PE teacher Ms. Ponzoho if she had seen our cookies. She said they played with the 5th grade class during PE for a while then went off to ART. So to the ART class we went. Mrs. Petit our ART teacher, told us that those little cookies came into the class ran around then went out towards the music room. ( I was so caught up in the excitment of our hunt that i forgot to take pictures of us in the cafeteria and PE) Oops!

Thanks to many wonderful parents who helped donate dough, decorations and their time to make our gingerbread hunt successful!