Polar Express Day was a huge success. The children arrived in pajamas and brought their imaginations. We went to the wiggle room to have the conductor (Mr. Steve) punch our tickets. Then we entered the wiggle room which was magically transformed into a train ride, with wrapping paper lining the walls and holiday lights overhead.

Thank you so much to all of the families that have shared a holiday tradition or story with the class. Our class really enjoys bringing their families into the classroom. The children have been able to make reindeer snack mix, scoop hot cocoa, label ornaments, decorate our class picture, and many other holiday traditions. They

I am very excited to be back in the kindergarten classroom! I have been having a great time getting to know the children and playing some new games. The children really enjoy seeing Miss Clare in the classroom next door. Our new classroom job is “mail carrier” and that person delivers notes to Miss Clare.

Our current theme is all about penguins. Prior to this lesson, many of the students were describing penguins as cute and fluffy animals-- they really were not able to describe much more. In expanding our knowledge of penguins we learned about what they eat, what they sound like, and how they take care of their

This week we continued our author study of Eric Carle. We went through many more books by this author and illustrator. We compared his work and described the different characteristics of the illustrations in various books. We compiled the list into a brainstorming web that included that his work is colorful, uses collage, and is

What an exciting week we have had! We not only had a school election, but we also started a new theme and had a speaker come to our classroom to teach us about how animals get ready for the winter. As usual we were still very busy completing our classroom routines and daily schedule. On