Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1
This year Dr. Seuss's birthday and our monthly house meeting fell on the same day!  We learned all about Dr. Seuss and read several of his books in class throughout the week.  On Friday, we got to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday with our house buddies!  Their 5th grade house buddy read a Dr. Seuss book to them, then we sang "Happy Birthday" to Dr. Seuss. Finally, we had a small birthday party in honor of Dr. Seuss.  After 300 cupcakes, 40 tubs of cotton candy, 250 drinks, and lots of Dr. Seuss books, we think these kiddos had a blast! 

Mr. Hickerson, a 5th grade teacher, really enjoyed reading to our kinders!  The kinders LOVED hearing him read and seeing him dance at the celebration.   

 Some kinders read to their 5th grade buddy!  Seeing our kinders reading to their buddy made our hearts so happy! 

Hoot #2

Well, we have been lucky enough to be able to expose our kindergartners to more technology than ever this year!  This week is "Report Card Testing" week. We don't know about you, but usually that also means it is a review week. It is a little more relaxed. In a world full of assessments and rigor that is not age appropriate, it is nice to sit back and show our students how much their brain has grown! ESGI allows us to do just that! Our students are so excited to see how much of their pie graph turns green.

This year, we have been blessed to get ipads in our classroom. We now have 7 in our room. The students love to get on them. If the students are doing individual work, they are doing Reading Eggs. This is a great tool that we recommend for your kinders. It helps with phonemic awareness and other reading skills. During free centers, they love to work together in pairs. We discovered these jewels, and we are loving these new headphones!

What makes these headphones different from others is that you can take any other head phone and plug it directly to the headphone and you immediately have a partner to work with. So now we have the ability to have 14 students working at one time on tablets!!! There is no more fighting over tablet time!

The additional headphone plugs in right under the ear!

This Week's Holler...

This week's holler goes out to Amber at A Smiling Teacher. She is an elementary teacher from Ohio. We are in love with her writing station. Super fun and super easy! She is selling it as a bundle on TPT, and it is on our wish list now!  Go check it out!!

Two Hoots and A Holler: Celebrate Good Times, Come on!

 Hoot #1

This week our school celebrated Veteran's Day.  Our PTA hosted a luncheon for all of the veterans, and there was a school-wide assembly afterwards.  Our co-workers worked so hard decorating the hallways, library, and gym for this special day.  They did an amazing job, and everything was perfect! Our high school band joined us for the program to play music for the assembly while each grade sang a patriotic song for the veterans.  Just being among all of the heroes in one room was amazing...it brought a tear to your eye just listening to the music and seeing all of the veterans.  

Hoot #2

 Today the Jitterbugs and Rockstars got to celebrate Ms. Jamie's 40th birthday!  I stayed late to put up a few decorations in her room, in BLACK of course! I knew her parents were planning on decorating her room too, but I had no idea what they had up their sleeve!  Jamie was in shock when she walked in her room and saw everything!  She was so surprised!  Her parents really out did themselves!  They had 40th birthday things EVERYWHERE!  IT WAS GREAT!!  Check out these pictures of her room!  

The kids loved it!!

All 6 kindergarten classes got to sing "Happy Birthday"  to her today at lunch.  Her class had cupcakes, TWICE!  haha!  I bet the Jitterbugs sleep good tonight after all of the partying they did today!  

All joking aside, I really hope that my partner in crime had the best birthday ever!  She deserves only the best!  I hope all of her birthday wishes come true...I am so blessed to have her in my life! Jamie, I really do think you are 40 and FABULOUS!  

This Week's Holler...

This week's holler goes out to Marissa at First Grade Stars.  Marissa is an Indiana blogger.  We loved going through her blog. Our favorite topic was her Five For Friday linky.  It was such a wonderful way to get an overview of the week in her class! We are totally jealous that she gets an iPad cart! Who cares if you have to share it?!?! We don't!!! We do not have one at all! Totally jealous! Everyone hop on over and check Marissa out!