halloween party!

It was a fun Halloween party! hope everyone enjoyed it. ! 

November is here.

November is here! In November we are learning about our colors. And our shapes. We will be learning about one color everyday and making something with a shape. If you would like to, you can have your student wear the color of the day to class. That's always fun!

I will be sending home Baggie books soon. They are the Sam or the bob books, simple readers. These are the same books they use in kindergarten. I know some of the kids are not ready for them and some are. So please let me know if you would like me to start sending them home or not.

For those who have kids that are still learning their letters please make sure you are working with your children on their letters at home as well. They need repetition. If you need any ideas on how to help your student at home, let me know I would be glad to help!

Don't forget, there is no school on this Monday, Nov. 5th. As Davis County School District is having their teacher prep day.

Thanks for all you do! As they say practice makes progress!

-Miss Hanah

happy hallooooweeeeeeen!

We have been busy busy around here. We did a mini unit on apples. We worked hard on our scissor skills and I think they are doing great! We cut out an apple and glued the apple puzzle back together. Another day we cut out number apples and matched them with number blocks on the apple tree. We told the story of a little red house with no windows and a star inside. Then cut open an apple to find the star inside. Today we measured each other to see how many apples we are tall. They liked that!

We have learned about letter v and we are working on the letter w. I also started sending homework. Thanks for everyone for your help with that. I will be sending home Baggie books soon!

As we are headed into cold and flu season I ask that you please remember to keep your student home if they are sick. We want to keep our classroom healthy. Thanks everyone for your understanding with me canceling school when I was sick. I did not want to pass that on. But I want to reassure you I have not canceled school like that before and hopefully we can keep a healthy class so I won't have to again.

I have sent home the November calendar make sure you get it out of their back pack. And don't forget that the Halloween party is Wednesday! Can't wait to see them all in their costumes!

Thanks for all you moms do!

-Miss Hanah

our big big world.

October has been fun. we are learning all about our big big world. we learned about space, and our planet. then all the countries and that we live in America. We learned our Pledge of Allegiance. we learned about Utah, about our neighborhoods, our houses, and our families. today we learned about our phone numbers. I went over each of their phone numbers with them individually, but please make sure you go over their phone numbers and their address with them at home. Those are two of the things they need to know for kindergarten, and they are also one of the harder things for the kids to remember so repetition is important!

Thanks to all of you for coming to the pumpkin patch field trip! It was so much fun! We have been enjoying some fun Halloween songs! you should have your student sing them to you, they are great singers! 

For Halloween we will be having a class party! Make sure your student is dressed in their costume! We will be "trick or treating" to each other and practicing safe trick or treating so send a treat with your student. it will be fun! 

I will be sending home homework starting next week. please have your child do what they can on it and bring it back so they can get a sticker on their homework. i know some of them are not ready for homework, and that is okay. Just the act of taking it and bringing it back teaches them responsibility. So don't forget to check their backpacks. 

And don't forget there will be NO SCHOOL tomorrow. Enjoy your day off. 

Thanks! 

-Miss Hanah 

September is gone

It's been a whole month! Can you believe it?! I can't. We have had so much fun talking about our amazing bodies. We made some skeletons, we did some great scissor skills to feed our paper mouths. We did the hokey pokey with our hands. We listened with our ears and watched with our eyes. we smelled different things with our noses and talked about our 5 senses. But I think our favorite part was painting with our feet. (Well favorite for some of us, some of us would rather not have painted with our feet!) but we had fun playing outside anyways!
This month had been a fun one with getting to know each other, playing and learning. And of course being silly!
They have been learning some fun songs. A-Tootie-ta is a fun one. A I'm a nut (I'm a little acorn round). The months of the year (done to the time of the Macarena. Yes we are that cool!) and the days of the week. (Sung to the Adams family tune)
October should be just as fun. We are learning about our big world! Starting with the planets and ending up in our own house.
October calendars were sent home last week. Please make sure you have them. We have a lot going on. Our first field trip on Monday the 8th to black island farms. More information will be sent in an email (instead of posted on the blog).
The kids had a great time doing show and tell. Remember they can bring a toy or something fun to show on Wednesday. I ask that toys stay home on other days. Thanks!
I sent home scholastic book orders this week (also in their backpacks). I'm excited about these. i just love books! If you would like to order something please go online and submit your order. It's the quickest and easiest way to order them. I will be closing the order in the 3rd of October so make sure to get your order in before then. (If you need any help logging in let me know!)
Thanks to all of you for getting the kids to school on time and ready to learn. Thanks for all your help with the snacks! And thanks for letting me teach your kids!
I just can't wait to jump into October!
-miss Hanah

friendship, watermelons, all about us

wow! we are moving right along here at school.hard to believe that we have been in for two weeks now! the kids are getting used to the routine and working with each other. Preschool is such a fun time.

the first week we talked about how to be a friend and then we went on a scavenger hunt around the room looking for our watermelon that was hiding. this helps the kids learn where things are in our classroom. then we had a little math, art, and science fun with our watermelon. we measured with blocks how tall and long our watermelon was, then we tested it in a bucket of water to see if it would float or sink... it floats! then we ate our watermelon. yum! we made a match game and got to use scissors.

the second week here we started into our unit on our amazing bodies. we talked about our feelings, decorated pictures of ourselves, and talked about our hands and feet. today was fun, while learning about our feet we went outside and painted with our feet! they had a blast. i tried hard not to let them get paint on their clothes. it is washable paint so it should wash out. but they may have blue feet for a few days! they spent half the class painting. then we played in the grass outside.

i will be sending home October calendars tomorrow so watch their backpacks

we will be doing show and tell on wednesdays. every child can bring one item to show the class. that day at stations they will have the option of playing with a toy if they bring a toy instead of playing at a station. all other days i ask that toys stay home (if they sneak into preschool we will just keep them in their backpacks) thanks!! if they don't want to bring a toy for show and tell they can always bring something else you approve of.

i'll try and send home emails often so you can know what they are learning

-miss hanah

where did April go? and important info

I have NO clue where April went. It's gone and I never updated you all on what we did. we had fun learning about gardens and how they grow and what fun things you can grow in a garden. Sorry i didn't send out more updates!

with May here, I will let you know we are learning about opposites and will be working on our class graduation program.
Each child will have a part to say in the program. I will send the parts home so they can practice them. (they are short I promise!) I am sending home an invitation with the program details.
Monday the 7th is backwards day and crazy hair day! Clothes backwards and hair wacky. and yes you can reassure your child that even Miss Hanah will be silly.
We are also going to have CLASS PICTURES on Wednesday the 9th. We will be taking them the first part of class on next Wednesday. Please make sure your child comes dressed ready for pictures. :) Miss Ashley, Dax's mom will be taking them for us. I'm excited about them!

so make sure you check your child's backpack for reminders. I don't want anyone missing this information. I can't believe the end of the year is so close! makes me a little sad! I'm going to miss these cute kiddos!