Kindergarten: Day 6

Today we learned that our field trip for next week has been postponed until the following week. Same time, just a new day!

Today’s number was 5.

Isabel’s dot-to-dot for today. She also said she was practicing writing her name. We have noticed that she’s switching from lower case to all capital letters or mixing it up. Our hope is that as the year continues she will begin to do it correctly, again.

Today was music day with Mrs. Seal. Isabel says they headed over to her class, which is in her old Chapel room. Today for music they played musical chairs! Isabel said she didn’t know how to play musical chairs until today and she really enjoyed playing it.

The Bible story for this month is focusing on Creation.

 

Happy Birthday Makayla

Today was our friend Makayla’s birthday and since her birthday was a week day her Mom celebrated with a little party with friends and family. Enjoy!

After having a bit of play time and chatting time for the adults, we started the party off with a game of Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and guess who won???…

Isabel was the one to put the tail on the donkey!

A quick hug before cupcakes! So cute together.

The party crowd before we sing Happy Birthday to Makayla!

All the kids enjoying their cupcakes before heading inside to open gifts.

The last gift to be opened was from Isabel who got her a Strawberry Stylin’ doll, hair accessories (clips and bows) for Makayla, a homemade flower, and a giant colored picture.

Kindergarten: Day 5

Last nights Parent Orientation was very helpful! We got so much information, it’s going to take me a few days to wrap my mind around all the things that were said. We learned more about Mrs. Boettcher and who she is and got to see her enthusiasm for teaching. She loves the kids already!

Mrs. Boettcher.

The first week of class was focused on getting into a classroom routine, expectations, assessments and getting acquainted.

The classroom rules are: Honor God by doing what is right. Follow directions, and Be a good listener.
We learned about memory verses (I’ll go over that later), show & tell, birthdays, field trips (first one is next week!), snacks, lunch, and the Extended Care Program.

This week’s verse, which they actually get at the beginning of the week, goes along with the letter of the week which is “Aa“.

“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” – Romans 3:23

Each week will be a new letter of the alphabet and a new verse! I thought this was a cool idea instead of using objects to represent the letters like last year in Preschool.

Today’s number was 4 and the class worked with pattern blocks. Isabel really liked learning this and told me that if you put 2 trapezoids together along the “base”, it makes a hexagon.
I told her that was cool!

After hearing the story of “Moo Moo Brown Cow” Isabel drew a few of the animals in the barnyard. From the top down: a blue cat, a red pig, a large brown sheep, and a blue goose.


Kindergarten: Day 4

Tonight is Parent Orientation. We will learn all the rules and regulations for the elementary side of school. Learn who all the teachers are and get to visit the classroom to meet Mrs. Boettcher. So exciting!! Isabel will be spending the evening with our neighbors.

Today was Chapel at school today! The first thing Isabel told us, was about the music teacher, Ms. Webster (soon to be Mrs. Seal) and her violin! She was so excited about it.

A math dot-to-dot that was done today.

On the back of her dot-to-dot page.

Today’s number was 3. Mrs. Boettcher told them to draw a picture of 3.
Isabel drew 3 pictures of Daisy.

When I asked about the rest of her day she couldn’t quite remember anything else, just that today was Chapel and the music teacher was there with a violin that she played!

Picking

Our plan for the day was to find and get some huckleberries out in the wild. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any, but we had a great time together and we got to see new things. Enjoy!

Mount Rainier from the east side.

My cutie-patootie and my hubba-hubba hunk of love!

The road down just as pretty as the road up.

A waterfall, one of many, that we saw along the road. This one went way up the mountain side!

The hunt for huckleberries lead us to this slow moving stream in the woods off the main road back in the woods.

Didn’t see any animals besides this frog and several hawks. Isabel was worried we were going to see a bear but we didn’t.

Isabel and I along our quiet stream. So peaceful…

We decided that it was time to head back toward home, so we drove further and then turned westward toward home.

Checking out this fast moving stream for fish… there were none.

Getting sleepy, hungry, and disappoint we didn’t find any huckleberries, Isabel sits a moment along the stream.

Gorgeous view of Mount Rainier looking from the south.

Surprise Surprise

Today as we headed out, Gino told Isabel that he had a “meeting” he had to go to…

She was still thinking about this “meeting” that Daddy had to attend, up until she saw the poster and then she leaned over to me and whispered, “Momma, can we see that (pointing to the sign) after the “meeting”.” I couldn’t help but laugh as I explained to her that Daddy’s meeting was at the movie theater. The look on her face was priceless!

Kindergarten: Day 3

Today Isabel seemed excited to meet me after class. She was talking so fast and I could hardly catch up!

This was an exercise with hard plastic teddy bears (which I told Isabel I remembered those from when I was little!).
On the back of this sheet (you can just make it out) is a giant number two.  The kids trace the number with their finger; curl around and then slide to the right. 2!

During recess she got to see more of her preschool friends but not for very long because the whistle blew and they had to go.
She also said she saw a book, “Arthur’s TV Trouble” that she said she would like to read. I told her maybe next time she’s in class.

They got to do a dot-to-dot and Isabel said she understands already how to do them. When she was completed with her dot-to-dot she turned her paper over and drew…

This awesome dinosaur! Whose name by the way, is Rexy!

She said they sang a bunch of new songs one of them
(she couldn’t remember the other one) goes like this…

“God pushed up the mountians, he rolled out the sea.
He painted the sky and he even made me!” (this little song as actions too!) – Love it!

Isabel even said Mrs. Boettcher even brought a guitar case to class today
and inside was a real guitar!