100 Book Club for November

There have been a LOT of friends reading and working toward becoming a 100 BOOK CLUB member!  This month we got to celebrate these friends for reaching the --

25 BOOK Benchmark!

 Caleb

     Ella & Haley

50 BOOK Benchmark!

Julianne & Chase

Ian

75 BOOK Benchmark!

Chase

100 BOOK CLUB!!!  

Congratulations Paul for being the 1st person in our class to join the 100 BOOK CLUB!

Making Play Dough

We had a great time making new batches of play dough for our classroom!  The children worked with the friends at their table to measure, pour, stir and mix all of the ingredients.  They also worked together to decide on the color that they would make for our Play Dough Center.  When we were finished, we had all 3 primary colors and 1 secondary color.  We learned a lot and had a lot of fun!

 The first table decided to make blue play dough.

The second table decided to make red play dough.

The third table made yellow.

The last table decied to make a secondary color.  

They chose green!

100 Book Club for October

Our 100 Book Club had a great kick start on Talk Like a Pirate Day.  We got to celebrate these friends for reading in October and making it to the...

25 BOOK Benchmark-

  

Chase & Julianne

50 BOOK Benchmark - 

Paul

75 Book Benchmark-

Paul

Great readers are made on the laps of grown-ups!  Keep reading!

Special Guest Reader

This afternoon, we were treated to a special guest.  Ella, from my class last year, came to visit.  She brought a special book to share with us.  Ella did a great job reading and everyone LOVED her visit!  We can't wait for her to come back again.

Explorer of the Week!!

This morning on the morning news, Ella was named as the Explorer of the Week for Kindergarten!  It has been a while since someone from our class was named Explorer of the Week, so we were VERY excited!  Congratulations Ella!  We can't wait to see your picture on the wall when we go down to the gym.

Student of the Week!

Each Friday, a student is named as the CWES Explorer of the week.  This student is chosen from all of the CWES students who have been "Caught Being Good" throughout the week.  His or her name is announced on the Friday edition of Explorer-TV.  This week, the CWES Explorer of the Week for kindergarten was Paul!  

Shared Journal Time!

We have been working really hard to learn the procedures for Shared Journal!  We are learning how to tell and listen to a story, how to ask and answer questions and how to talk about the story that we heard.  This is a lot to learn, so we started out with just one person sharing a story each day.

Take a look at some of us sharing for the first time.

We are learning to be good listeners.  We have to listen so that we will know what to draw and write about!

 After we hear a story, we get to ask questions about it.

 Once we know all about the story, we draw and write about it  in our journals.

This week, our last friend got to share a story and be written about by the class!  Now that everyone has been written about at least one time, we are ready for two friends to share each day.