Number 4

During class today Isabel lost her fourth tooth. She was super excited because it happened at school! She said she was eating her snack when she felt her tooth come loose. She said it was bloody and she went to the bathroom, where another girl helped her wet a paper towel to get the blood to stop. Mrs. Boettcher put her tooth in a small envelope so she could bring it home.

When we stopped for gas on the way home, I was able to get a few photos…

Her new smile!

A close-up of her new smile. It’s looking more and more like a big girl smile.

BTW… that bit of flesh poking up is just part of her gum and was back to normal the following day.

Kindergarten: Day 88

Today was a typical Monday morning except I got to school a bit earlier then normal for me to get photos of classroom.

The opening activity; backward circles. I love this picture! She was so focused on it before I left the classroom. Great job!

It’s a penguin habitat along the east classroom wall.

I was finally able to get the snowman photographed from the homework assignment from 2 weeks ago. With the winter weather we had, she turned it in on Monday the 23rd and they were hung on Friday the 27th.

“Jesus Loves the Little Children” front board in class.

Each child “reported” to the whole class, on a different country of their choosing. After going to the library and looking at a huge book with all 280 countries of the world; Isabel choose Denmark as her snowman’s country.

From left to right: Hawaii, Untied States (the whole country), and Hawaii.
(Isabel keeps telling us that Hawaii is a country!)

Left to right: Hawaii, Viking, United States, and (not sure).

Left to right: (not sure), Japan, Denmark, United States, and United States.

Left to right: Both are United States, just a closer look.

Left to right: United States, Switzerland, Untied States (Military), and Philippines (turned around), and Mexico.

Left to right: Philippines, Mexico, and Scotland.

Left to right: Scotland, Untied States, and United States.

Left to right: Australia and South Africa.

I love them all! The individuality of each one is awesome! What a great way to get kids into early book reporting and research. Isabel enjoyed doing it and gathering research for her country that she choose. We found a small book on Denmark at the library and I went over just a few of the highlights with her about it. A few days after talking about Denmark  for her project, Denmark was in the news, about their queen Margrethe II. Who was celebrating 40 years of reign in her country! We got to watch the carriage procession on T.V. That was cool!

After class Isabel was really excited because her 4th tooth fell out! (see this post)

Nothing else was said about the day, except that she did MAP testing instead of going to recess. For the next 3 consecutive Mondays, she’ll be doing mid-year MAP testing.