Celebrating Black History Month

February is black history month and today we watched the bookflix Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman.  We also have the book in our class so the students can reread the story.  Some other stories we will be reading for black history month are below.

Report Cards

Report cards will be sent home Thursday, February 11th.

Great Job Collecting 100 Cans of Food!

We did it!  We collected 106 cans to donate to celebrate the 100th day.  Many thanks to my husband and brother-in-law for coming to haul away the cans last Friday before the snowstorm.  That night the cans were delivered to the Food Bank of Virginia.  Thank you so much parents for all your support!

Five Senses Science Lab

Little Gulls is Rescheduled

John B. Dey Elementary  “Little Gulls” Preschool Outreach Program

Rescheduled for 2/11/106:00-7:30PM
R.S.V.P. 648-2440 extension 51323

Snow Day Updates

Here are some updates on our schedule:

1. Science Lab is still on!  If you are a schedule volunteer- please come at the scheduled time.
2. Please use the same word sort from last week for this week's homework.
3. The "Little Gulls" preschool outreach program (first meeting was Tuesday night) has been postponed until further notice. 
4. I'm not sure when report cards will be issued.  I will update as soon as I find out.

Happy Snow Day!

This post is for all my loyal website visitors from all over the country (thank you for your continued support).  Something very unusual happened- it snowed!   In the past, school has been cancelled with the threat of snow and I think it even snowed about half an inch one year (I think).  However, this weekend we got about 4-6 inches!  This is so exciting for kindergarteners and for myself- we will finally be able to mark snow on our weather graph!  This is my fifth year teaching kindergarten and I always tell my kiddos to wear the pajamas inside out the night before it is suppose to snow and hopefully this supersitition will make it snow.  It has never worked and this past Friday was such a hectic day (it was a half day) that I forgot to remind the kiddos to wear their jammies inside out. Anyways stay tuned for all the exciting events we will be doing this week in relation with snow- writer's workshop, reading snow books, creating snow number stories:)

SPCA Reader

Today we had a SPCA volunteer reader come and read us stories about dogs.  She also brought a special friend with her.

Click, Clack, Moo Orchestra

Today, our music teacher Mrs. Gordon, taught us how to use musical instruments to create a soundtrack for the story Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows That Type.  This story is one of our class favorites that we watch on Bookflix.

Five Senses with our Science Lab Coordinators

Thank you so much to our wonderful science lab coordinators Mrs. Becker and Mrs. Choi for coming to our class to do a preview lesson on the five senses.  The kiddos were so excited when our volunteers popped popcorn and talked about using all five senses with the popcorn including taste- yummy popcorn.  We will be attending the science lab next week to explore all five senses.  Please check back to see pictures of our very first science lab.  Thanks!