Something to Say from 102A » Kindergarten

Our First Field Trip!

goethe102a — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:14:54 +0000

Here we are with our best audience manners, listening to the Talking Tree. I think the adults in attendance were impressed with all the knowledge about trees and the environment that we already had! Hands were raised quickly to answer questions and usually the answers were ‘right on’.

Here is M. Amy, the naturalist who was our guide on the hike. She is talking to us about Douglas fir cones and how they can be identified by the little seed casings that poke out of the creases in the cone, looking much like the tails and hind feet of little mice.

Here are the boys, hands all washed and ready for lunch!

The girls are ready to eat too!

How come food always tastes better on a field trip?

The whole group of us, after eating. I fussed with editing the photo quite a bit but still did not totally capture the beauty of the blue sky, the new green of the leaves and the sparkling of Lake Washington with Mt. Rainier in the distance. I just couldn’t pull the mountain into view, no matter what edits I chose. You’ll just have to believe me; it was a spectacular day!

Scientists and Artists

goethe102a — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:48:46 +0000

We have started the Science unit on Fabric and on Friday the children made collages of fabric scraps. The teachers walked around asking “How does the fabric feel? How does the fabric look?” We are listening for words such as: scratchy, rough, smooth, soft, silky, sheer, sparkly, light, dark, and bumpy. Those are vocabulary words that you can reinforce at home as your children do the homework assignment of attaching labels to household items made of fabric. It is always interesting to learn of the items the children identify as made of fabric in their homes. Here are your little collage artists busily creating:

Has your child been reading the letter books he (or she) has brought home from school? Please save them and read and reread them frequently. When your kindergartner reads these ‘letter books’ to you, the right thing to do is to have him (or her) follow along with his (or her) finger. Our sight word list is growing RAPIDLY! Please click on the list in the ‘Pages’ section at the top of this site. These are words to be memorized by sight, not to be sounded out.

Please read our October letter to families which will be in your child’s homework folder on Monday (10-5). Picture day is scheduled for this week (I don’t trust my memory to say if it is Tues. or Thurs.!) and Friday is a statewide Professional Development Day for teachers and that means a three day weekend for students!

Sometimes Sweet and Sometimes Silly

goethe102a — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:57:52 +0000

The Lifetouch photographer we had for our group photo is a veteran. Last year we had some ‘newbie’ who forgot pieces of equipment and we ran late the entire day. This year I was happy to see a familiar photographer and I said, “Gee, you have been doing this for quite a while.” She smiled and said “So have you!” BINGO! This is year 26 of contracted teaching for me and it promises to be a good one. So take a look at the sweeties of 102A:

Who can also be very silly! I know, I know; they really shouldn’t put their fingers in their mouth, but it makes for such a great ‘funny face’. Do you see who is my drama queen this year?