Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1

Before Thanksgivng Break, we went to the Orpheum to watch "Red and Green Rhythmic Circus".  Kamarion sat on the very front row and watched their every move.  Since that field trip he has wanted to dance like the dancers that he saw on that stage.  He came back from Thanksgiving Break shouting "I got it!"  Then he showed us what he was talking about...he had been practicing tap dancing like he saw on that field trip!  When he shows us what he has been practicing or when he watches tap dancers on the computer, his whole face lights up!  He has so much interest and passion about tap dancing.  We knew right away what we must do!  Well, Santa came early this year and brought Kamarion a pair of tap shoes! His face is indescribable.  He is a great tap dancer, and we plan to use him as part of our kindergarten program!  Watching his excitement over tap shoes and dancing overflows our hearts with joy and happiness.  Oh to be a kid again!  This right here is what it is all about!!  It truly brings a smile to our faces and a tear to our eyes.  

Hoot #2

Our first House field trip is in the bag! We took about 100 kinder and 5th grade students to the Memphis Riverkings hockey game. It could not have gone any better. The students sat according to their house. We just love watching the 5th graders interact with their kindergarten house buddy! This was such a FUN field trip!  Can't wait to do it again.  We all had such a blast!

This Week's Holler...

While looking on the internet for fun, new Christmas ideas to use in our classrooms, we ran across Mrs. Hoffer's Kindergarten.  We LOVE how she transformed her classroom into Santa's workshop!  Since visiting RCA, we have been very interested to see how teachers in kindergarten are transforming their classrooms.  Kudos to Mrs. Hoffer for giving her students this wonderful experience!  Go check out how she did it!

Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1

It is so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is already here, and Christmas is right around the corner.  Time flies when you're having fun!   We are thankful that we are off the week of Thanksgiving because the days leading up to it have kept us super busy!  We have had a Veteran's Day Program, train safety presentation and visitors, a field trip, and our Thanksgiving feast!  

Our Veteran's Day program is always a big hit!  It is a Walls tradition to have this awesome program.  It takes a lot of preparation to make it happen from the staff, but it is so worth it!  We love that we have the opportunity to honor and celebrate all of our veterans.  

Obie, the little train, was brought to our school from CN Railway!  The students always have so much fun learning about train safety and riding the train around the school!  

Here we are at the Orpheum in Memphis, TN waiting on the Rhythmic Circus to begin!  The show was very entertaining and fun! 

We celebrated Thanksgiving by eating lunch in our best Thanksgiving attire with all of our kindergarten friends!  The students loved making their hats and vests!  They even got to eat lunch on their place mat that they made! 

This week has us like.... 

Hoot #2

We are so proud of how much progress our kids are showing!  We have been working really hard on writing and math.  We have began writing in our journals daily, and the students are loving it!  They are taking so much pride in their stories.  We also have been learning part-part-whole in math.  This is a very hard skill to understand at first.  We are beginning to see our students understand the concept because of their hard work and perseverance.  The best part about all of it is that we are seeing our students become more independent and grow into risk takers and problem solvers...and that makes our hearts SO happy!  

 

This Week's Holler...

This week we would like to holler at Herding Kats in Kindergarten.  We love her fall math activities to use with our dollar spot finds at Target!  We also love how she incorporates videos into her blog posts! It makes teaching a whole lot easier when teachers like her share all that they know!

 

Two Hoots and a Holler

Hoot #1

This week we finally topped 200 likes on our Facebook page.  This means the world to us!  Our goal is to collaborate with and help out as many people as we can, and we are off to a great start! 

Hoot #2

Today we survived our field trip to the Orpheum Theater of Memphis!  We headed off with 125 kindergarteners (6 kindergarten classes)  to downtown Memphis to see a play called “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”.  If you ever come to Memphis, you must go see the Orpheum!  It is gorgeous, and we are so grateful that we could give our children the opportunity to have the “Orpheum Experience”!

This Week’s Holler

This week we would like to recognize the girls from All Ya’llNeed, Amy and Lisa…we missed out on meeting the 3^rd partner from this blog.  While we were at the Spring Teacher Blogger Meetup, these two girls helped us out so much!  We are very glad we got to meet them!!  Also, their blog is AWESOME!  If you haven’t checked it out, then you should hop on over to see all of the great ideas! 

 

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