What a Great First Week!

This is my little one and he was one tired school boy on Friday night. Thanks for a great first week parents. I love having your children in my class and I can't wait for all the exciting things we are going to do this year.

Parent Connection

Our First Day

We had a great first day! I really enjoyed meeting all of your sweet children. Today we had a little surprised- we went on a scavenger hunt to look for the dish and the spoon- they ran away (smile). Luckily we found the dish and spoon in the library reading a book. Stay tuned to find out where we look the dish and the spoon for the rest of the week. Tomorrow is P.E., please wear sneakers.

Open House Video

Welcome to Ms. Rose's Class!

Thank you for visiting our class website and blog! I am very excited about the upcoming 2010-2011 school year. We do have Open House for my class on Thursday, September 2, 2010 to see the classroom and hear all the exciting things about kindergarten. Please feel free to bring your child's school supplies during Open House.

We have three wishlist items for our classroom.
1. AA batteries (for the digital camera) (no limit)
2. Thin expo dry erase markers (no limit)
3. Extra glue sticks (no limit)

Each year we have students who are unable to buy school supplies. Below are items that these students will need if you would like to donate supplies to another kindergartener.
1. Composition Notebook
2. Hard plastic pencil box

Thank you so much! Please continue to check this website often as I will update our class blog several times each week. In addition, you can follow our class activities on twitter. Please click on the birdie icon on the right side of the site to begin to follow us!

Parent Connection Workshop

Kindergarten Friends

Kindergarten is such a sweet age to teach...

Thank-You!

Hands-On, Interactive Learning

As our school year begins to come to an end, I would like to share this video of my class doing various math activities.  As many of you may already know, I never do worksheets in my classroom and instead prefer hands-on, interactive activities that help students become self-guided, independent, and responsible learners.  Worksheets will not help our students thrive in the 21st century.  After watching this video, I hope you can recognize the conversations as students collaborate and communicate with each other.  Students are also using problem solving skills and very creative thinking ("I'm measuring his head") to learn new ways of learning and exploring math objectives.  Each child also had a choice on what they would work on during this math time and also can switch activities at any time during the session.  Choice is a powerful way to provide students an opportunity to learn from their peers and from themselves. 

My Kindergarten Friends

Today we had everyone sign our kindergarten sheets.