Polar Express Day

It was a fabulous day in Kindergarten today.  What a way to end school before vacation. 

Before the train came to pick us up, we had a moment of silence with the nation for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary school.

After that, the train came to pick us up to take us to the North Pole where we met the conductor who read us the story of the Polar Express.

Thoughts, Prayers and Love for Sandy Hook

Can't believe it is December!

It's really hard to believe that we are already at December.  Report cards come out on Friday and the holiday break will be here before we know it.  We have been awfully busy working in the classroom.  I thought I would share some recent pictures of us.

We were looking for the missing lower case letters.

Here we needed to find lower case letters that matched the upper case letters.

Everyone loves the smartboard.  We were clapping beats (syllables) in words and graphing them.

We are doing a lot of sound sorts to help us distinguish between beginning sounds.

The sand table is always a fun place to play.

This is Mr. Hewitt's sister who came from England and wanted to see our classroom.

Mr. Hewitt's aunt came for a visit as well.

We love playing in the housekeeping center.

We are working on a Nursery rhyme book for our browsing box.  Kids are making Pat-A-Cake.

The 50'th Day of School

Boy did we look fabulous!

We had a blast during the Sock Hop!

Mr. Guerrette even did the stroll!

Just Curious

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Thanks so much,   Mrs. Hewitt

Election

We used our smartboard to talk about the upcoming *now finished* election on Monday.  The children learned about what you need to run for president and then we did a mock election.  Each child cast their ballot in a booth and put it in our ballot box.  We graphed the results and

Although it was close, our class thought that Mitt Romney would win!

Haunted Gingerbread Houses

Hopefully everyone got to see the finished product before they were most likely gobbled up.  Of course we were delayed in doing the houses due to the hurricane, but the kids didn't seem to care. Candy is candy no matter when you get it.  They had a blast decorating the houses.