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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Almost to the end...

     I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break.  I was able to visit with family and enjoy the time off, but was very happy to get back to the routine today with the students.  We talked about all the fun things we did during our Spring Break and will be doing some independent writing on Wednesday.  I FINALLY got my phone working again and am able to show you what we've been doing the past few weeks.  I hope you enjoy the work they've been doing.  We've been having a great time!

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Reading Eggs

I have so many things to update you about!  We have another new student in our class her name is Amina and we're so happy to have her join our class.  Also I have gotten a free trial to a program called Reading Eggs.  The students started it today.  It is a computer reading program that works with them on their individual level.  The great part is they can do it at home as well.  The trial is good until May 19th and the students are having so much fun with it already.  We went to the computer lab today and work on it.  We will be using this during our center time and you can feel free to use it at home as well.  I will be sending home a paper today that has some more information as well as their username and password.  The passwords may seem a bit silly, they were given by the program.  When you log into the program click to go to the program called Reading Eggs, not Reading Eggspress that is for 7 yrs and up.  They are able to do activities and games that help with their learning.   The reason I like this program so much is because it is on their level and also gives me reports to see how they are doing with the different skills being taught.  It's another great tool that I have to help to individualize our instruction and also to have some fun while reading.  Many of the students enjoy the computer and I thought it would be nice to have an educational tool that they can use during centers.  I hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions you have my email feel free to message me! 
Here is that address again:  readingeggs.com