Mrs. Steny's Kindergarten Class

Another student invited me to one of their activities outside of school! I actually got to watch a few of my students this morning!! A little Saturday morning kindergarten soccer!🙂⚽ ❤️

🎗️❤️🎗️❤️🎗️❤️ There was so much pink at Oakwood yesterday! What a great way we showed support for those who have beaten, those who are battling, and/or those we have lost to breast cancer. We had a pair of pink sunglasses in our class that everyone that wanted to have a turn wearing them got a turn and a picture! What great students and families we are lucky to have at Oakwood! 💕

We had a great week at school! 🙂 We learned about pumpkins in Science and wrote and drew about ways people use pumpkins!! Did you know some pumpkins can weigh 2,600 lbs?! 🎃 One thing our class learned that was new is that some big pumpkins can be used as boats in boat races!! 🚣‍♂️

October is Breast Cancer awareness month, so we thought we would have a day at Oakwood to wear pink! That day is TOMORROW!! Thursday, October 25th!!
We are wearing pink to celebrate those who have beaten breast cancer, support those who are fighting breast cancer and remember those we might have lost to breast cancer. ❤️💪🎗️🎗️🎗️

We had a great lesson today with our school counselor, Mrs. Hansen! She read the book called Shubert´s Helpful Day and we talked about what things can help us when we are feeling upset. Some students shared that hugging a stuffed animal or squeezing a ball can help them when they are feeling upset. What a great book with a great lesson for our class! 💕🙂

Toy Day! Toy Day in our class was a hit! The students had fun sharing their toys and telling their friends about them during purposeful play time on Friday! 😃

We read the book Hands Are Not For Hitting this week during Kindness Week! We cut out a hand and wrote and drew kind ways we CAN use our hands! Some ideas were sharing, helping a friend, holding hands, planting gardens, playing games, and many more!💕

1st day with chrome books for our class!! We are practicing logging in! We were being kind and helping each other figure it out together! 👍🙂 Our class was SO excited!! Yay!! Thank you Mrs. Verhunce for helping us out too! ❤️

Interactive Writing! We are finishing this sentence this week with our ideas.
¨I am kind when I _________________________¨. We are writing our ideas together on a big chart paper and on our whiteboards!
(so far we have: help a friend and donate food) ❤️💕

More Kindness Week Fun! :) Today was ¨Dreaming of Kindness Day¨. We got to wear pajamas or comfy clothes!! We have been trying out some new seating ideas on the carpet in our class and our friends are doing a great job of sharing and being kind by taking turns trying these out!

Great start to Kindness Week!! ❤️ ¨Crazy for Kindness¨ with crazy socks and taking pictures of friends doing kind things to and for one another!! 🙂 We will be taking pictures all week of students being kind!!

Pumpkin Walk Fun @ Oakwood! 🎃👀👻😃

We took a field trip to the Town of Algoma Fire Station today! We learned a lot and even got to spray the firefighter hose!😎👨‍🚒🚒

Who doesn't like using shaving cream to practice writing letters, words, names, etc!?😉☺️👍

Popcorn and Writer's Workshop! What a great Friday! ❤️🙂🍿📝

Kindness Week is next week at Oakwood! ❤️❤️

We practiced saying the letters and words on our linking chart today! We do this often so we become familiar with the letters and the sounds they make. We use this chart as a tool to help us when we are writing and reading!

Book #2: Wild Berries
We read the book Wild Berries and talked about the setting of the book, where it takes place. We talked about where we live and drew some things that are special to Oshkosh, WI to share with our buddy class from New Jersey! Some of our ideas: Menominee Park and Zoo, movie theater, South Park Splash Pad, and many more!

Ms. Jaeger (one of our clinicians) read us a book called Neck and Neck by: Elise Parsley. It was a great book where we got to make predictions about what things might happen next. We shared our ideas and predictions with our peers and got to draw and write about what we thought would happen at the end!

Ms. Ramey (one of our clinicians) read us a great story today called Jabari Jumps. Jabari is nervous at first to jump off the diving board. At the end of the story, he gets enough courage to jump! We made connections to this story and got to share those with our friends in our class!

It's so important for students to know that you care about them not only as students but that you care about them in all areas of their lives! I love when my students ask me to come to watch them in their activities outside of school! I got to see some of my boys playing football this morning! 🙂🏈 Have your child let me know about their activities so I can come to watch!

A few more buddy reading pictures! ❤️📗

We wrote about and drew what fills our hearts with happiness! ❤️❤️ Each student got to draw what fills their heart with happiness and write the letter for the beginning sound of the word!

Loved chatting with our buddy class from New Jersey today! We got to learn a little about New Jersey and they asked us questions to learn about Wisconsin! Tomorrow we will be sending pictures of some activities we are doing with our book this week for !

More PJ day fun!

Mrs. Steny's Kindergarten Class's cover photo

We got to practice our Buddy Reading today!! We sat EEKK (elbow, elbow, knee, knee), both held the book, read the whole time, took turns, and shared our thinking! We were rockstar readers!😎🤩👏⭐ More Buddy Reading pictures to come soon!

Pajama Day! When we fill up our 10-frame with buckets, we earn a class celebration!! We voted and Pajama Day won!! We can fill up our 10-frame by doing what is expected at school, being "bucket fillers" (kind), and being active listeners during learning times! It was a fun day! We did a little morning Yoga in PJs to start our day. 🙂

Cubs vs. Brewers...I was definitely outnumbered today!! Oh well it was a fun day to dress up with co-workers! 😎⚾

The first day of the GRA18! We read our first book and are looking forward to our Google chat with our buddy class in NJ this week! 😀

We are working on combinations to 5 and shapes in our workplaces in Math!

Our class will be participating in the Global Read Aloud 2018! We will be starting next week! We are connecting with a class from New Jersey this year! We have a new book each week and will connect with this buddy class through various forms of technology and social media to learn about our featured author and illustrator. We are very excited!

https://theglobalreadaloud.com/2018/08/10/information-for-2018-global-read-aloud-gra18/

In Science today, we got to be scientists by observing and noticing things about weather. We saw what it looked like, what it felt like, and noticed what types of clothes we wear in this type of weather. We went outside to take notes and record our observations. ☁️🌞

Update 👍

We learned about drawing WOW pictures today during Writer's Workshop!! Look at all these WOW pictures!!! 🤗😲

Our first day of Interactive Writing! We are writing about the things we like to do with friends and using our linking chart to help us write! Students are doing some of the writing along with Mrs. Steny! We will be adding to our list for the next few days. 😀

This week during purposeful play we are learning about the Five Finger Friendship Challenge! We have learned about the first 2 fingers which remind us to "share" and "use kind words". We will learn about the other fingers later this week! Here are some pictures of us doing the challenge and filling up buckets!

We have 2 teachers (clinicians) that are joining us this semester in our classroom! We love Ms. Ramey and Ms. Jaeger! ❤️🙂

We learn so much from our purposeful play time!