Winner, winner!!

And the winner of the Golden Cone Award is.....

OUR KINDERGARTEN CLASS!!! 

Every Monday at the school-wide morning meeting in the gym, one K-2 class and one 3-5 class is chosen to receive the Golden Cone award by the playground/lunch supervisors and Dr. Majerus and Mr. Woods.  They pick the class that did the best job the previous week at lining up when recess is over, picking up the balls, jump ropes, hula hoops, etc. and by showing exemplar behavior in the lunchroom while eating.  The winning class then has the "fast pass" for the week and is the first one to head into lunch from recess to eat.  Therefore getting longer to eat!  We take the Golden Cone out to recess with us and sit it on our line- up spot to signify we are the winners for the week and get to go in first.  Way to go! 

There is also a Golden Broom award chosen by the janitors on the classrooms that keep their room the cleanest, but we haven't won that award yet.  What can we say, Kindergarten is messy!! haha!!

Daily Positive Note

This week I am starting a daily positive note.  Each month I pick a special notepad (this month it is a notepad that looks like a box of crayons) and write each child's name on a page.  At the end of every day I will pick one child from the notepad who exhibited wonderful behavior that day.  I will then write them a short note, read it in front of the class and we will all cheer for them.  They will bring the note home with them that day.  Then at the end of the month every child will have received at least one positive note before we start over the next month. Our first Positive Note recipient was Kenzi for being a kind friend and helper.

Writing Workshop

The last week and a half we have been working on drawing, which is an important part of writing.  We have learned how to use different shapes to help us draw people (characters).  We have also talked about the setting of a story.  How our writing/drawings need to have a background/setting to help with the story.  To finish up this learning every child was able to choose a character card today to glue onto a piece of blank paper.  They then had to create a setting around the character card that would make sense.  We have talked about how people don't float in the air, so we need to make sure they are on the ground.  However some characters might float (butterflies, fish, etc.)  Check out some of the work below!  You can see your own child's work in their take home folder that came home today.  

Tomorrow is Library book check-out day....please make sure your child has their book in their backpack so they can get a new one.  Library check-out day is every Tuesday.