We have had a bast in the Dinosaur class! Although I think temperature changes have been putting everyone a little under the weather. Our numbers have been pretty low. We have really missed all of our sniffly dinos, but we have had a good chance to review some of our skills with the ones that have been here. One thing we still need to work on are shapes. Most everyone knows their shapes, but we are having a hard time distinguishing shapes when they are right next to each other (especially squares and rectangles) So if you see shapes around the house point them out and work on them together to reinforce that these shapes are everywhere. In class we have been playing wth magnetic shapes.... they have had a ball...sphere...or circle, whatever you want to call it :)

The weathe channel said we would have a few days of rain and thunderstorms so we took an extra long recess this morning. It is so nice to be able to play outside!!!

I LOVED Eliza's Arkansas Razorback outfit today! The tutu is just too cute!

Carson was all bundles up and SO excited about his hat. What a cutie!

So during recess we had a big game of CK football. It was pretty intense. This is the halftime huddle...we had to review the rules before the next half!

The game was hysterical all around, but I just could not get over Eliza playing football with the boys in her tutu! Precious!

We have had a wonderful Wednesday together! We are still learning about the letter "Q" now that is a tough one! When we brainstormed words that started with "P" we could easily get to 30... we are struggling to think of 3 good "Q" words, and I don't blame them, it's a tricky one!

Well here is our class...most of us anyways, we had a few absent :( We miss you when you aren't here! After our bible story we colored a picture together.
Today we talked about Queen Esther and how brave she was- she did the right thing even when it was scary! We talked about how we could do the right thing too, even when it was hard to do.
This is our "Jungle Sand" box. It is colored rice and jungle animals, so easy, but they LOVE it.
(Put rice in a sturdy ziplock bag and add rubbing alcohol and food coloring. Squish it around and let it sit for awhile. Then set out to dry and voila! Really fun toy...although it is pretty chalky, we have to clean up our "dusty" fingers after playing with it...any suggestions?)
Boys and their tinker toys. Seriously this is the #1 played with toy in the whole classroom. Every single one of them love to play with the tinker toys... I love to see what they "invent." Of course the boys always want to make weapons...bows and arrows, swords... they aren't allowed to play with weapons so they get creative... water guns, ice cream shooters, flashlights, microphones... it's a party in a box!
I couldn't get thins picture to load flipped correctly *sigh* oh well, this is our class going on a bear hunt with Mrs. Wendy!
Wednesdays are exciting days in our class. After Lunch we give Shelley (our class hermit crab) a bath, and then we have reading time with Mrs. Wendy. We love Wednesdays!

Our Class Blog

I know this doesn't look like much now, but I really will use this a lot as the year goes on! These first few weeks have been a big time of transition-for EVERYONE! The little building became the baby building, we got a whole new building for the "little building" kids, and our poor big building kids had to share with everyone in the time in between!

I am so thankful that I knew several of the "dinosaurs" before I came in, it made it easier on everyone not having a total stranger teaching their class! Over the past 2 weeks I feel like I have really gotten to know my class (Including our three new dinosaurs, welcome Carson, Sophia G. and Christian!) We have really had a great time getting to know each other and I am already in love with each and every one of your kids!

I have spent the past week trying to assess each child in my class to see what their strengths and weaknesses are so that I can get a good feel for the things we need to be doing in class, but you, the parents, are the real experts and I want you to feel free to give me any input as to things that you want us to work on (you guys know what your kids strengths and weaknesses are, and my goal is to give everyone a good start into Pre-K 4 next year) But most importantly, we are going to have fun, when you are 4 years old isn't that what you would want your teacher to want to do? I know I sure would!

I am pretty "techy", my husband is an IT guy and he has my classroom all set up for me so I bring my digital camera to school with me at least once a week and take pictures of our class. I put them on the digital frame on my desk (you're welcome to check it out anytime) the kids LOVE seeing their pictures up in the room like that. I will also post pictures on here a lot, I usually bring my laptop to school so that I will be able to post during naptime. Feedback is always appreciated, there isn't much incentive to put a lot on here if I think i'm just writing to myself! haha!

I hope you enjoy having this as a way of communication, and getting to see what your child's day is like here with the dinosaurs!

Mrs. Jamie