Here's to a new school year!

I am so happy the school year has begun.  The first few weeks we always take the time to get to know each other. I have such a great time getting to know all my new students. This first week was filled with all new faces. We read The Kissing Hand and did activities to learn about ourselves.
I would like for each child to create a poster telling the class about them. We call it an All About Me poster.  It can include pictures of your child and the family, favorite things, etc.  You are free to do the poster as you please. It will be something fun for your child to share with the class. We will start sharing next week when all of the students will be here.
I sent home forms for you to fill out on Friday to give permission for your child's picture and name to be used on the blog.  Please return these asap so that we can start posting all the fun activities we do each week. I look forward to updating you through this blog about all the fun things we do each week!  As always if you need anything or have any questions please feel free to email me!

Back to School

Tomorrow will bring about a new year in the Lower K classroom.  I am so excited to see my students from last year, and get to see all the new faces.  I have been working hard all summer to create a new and exciting curriculum for my students.  We have so many fun things planned and I can't wait to get started.  This week will be a week full of getting to know each other and the routines of our class.  Next week starts the hard work =)  I am so excited for the big first day of school tomorrow!  To my new parents, welcome to our website, and to the returning parents, I am so happy to have you back!  I hope you all had a wonderful summer and I can't wait to hear about it!  See you tomorrow!!

Huber's Field Trip

Hooray!  I finally am getting to put our pictures up of our trip.   We had such a great time at Huber's.  It was definitely my favorite field trip of the year.  It was such a great experience and everyone had a wonderful time.  We saw many different animals and even got to feed them.  Enjoy the pictures!

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Summer Time

I hope all my former students are having a wonderful summer so far. I am excited to see you in a few months when many of you have moved to Kindergarten. For my students who will be with me again I am so excited and cant wait to see you again. I have been working hard to come up with fun new ideas for next year. For my parents if you wouldn't mind letting me know what you liked or didn't like about last school year I would love to hear it. One of the things I pride myself on is reflecting on the past year to make improvements in my teaching and to make each year better than the last. If you have ideas on things you would like to see, ideas for field trips, content to teach, anything I would love to hear your ideas and opinions. If you don't mind sending me an email sheehank618@gmail.com, I would love to hear from you! Also I am working on getting those pictures up from the last day of school and our Huber's field trip. I have to recover them off of my computer and that's not been an easy job. I can't wait for you to see them though they turned out great. I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer can't wait to see you in August!

Summer Begins

I can't believe the school year is over. I have been going through all the pictures I took from our field trip and the last day of school. I have so many it's taking me a little longer than normal to get them all put into a slide show. Im having to make 3 so far because I have so many great pictures of the kids. I hope you are enjoying your summer so far. I have already begun planning fun activities for the year to come. I just wanted to let everyone know there are many great pictures coming very soon. Please keep in touch and have a wonderful summer!

We Love our Moms!

The school year is almost over.  We are continuing to do our end of the year testing.  The students are doing a great job.  I hope to be completely done by next Friday so we can get back into our normal routine. 
I hope all of the mothers got to enjoy their Mother's Day gifts we made in class.  They had a hard time keeping them a secret but did a wonderful job.  We talked about how important our parents are to us and how we should make sure to show how much we love them everyday.  Enjoy the pictures below!

Enjoy watching us make our Mother's Day gifts

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Into the Wild

Thursday April 24th we headed off to the Louisville Zoo.  The weather wasn't too bad and with a few hiccups I think the trip went pretty well.  The students had a wonderful time and continued to talk about it all day Friday.  I am so grateful to my parent volunteers who came with us on this field trip.  I have an amazing groups of kids and they're that way because of their parents.  I can't thank you enough!! To prepare for the field trip we learned about different animals at the zoo.  We colored pictures, acting out different animal sounds, and wrote about the animals we might see at the zoo. 
We have mastered 25 sight words and will be getting 5 new words on Monday.  Along with that we have been learning about ending marks.  We leave the classroom and go on "ending mark hunts" to find as many different ending marks as we can.  We do this everyday when we go to dismissal and the class has lots of fun doing it.  We have also called exclamation marks "excited marks" so that we discuss the feeling when get when we read a sentence that has on.  They are doing such a great job.  I'm proud of how many beginning Kindergarten standards we have been able to cover this year. 

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