Red Ribbon Week

Here are the theme days for Red Ribbon Week to support and promote a drug free lifestyle.

Names

We are a few weeks into Kindergarten and it's a great time now to begin exploring our names. We have many fun and learner driven activities planned. We graphed the number of letters in our names today. We also began working on using an uppercase only at the beginning of our name and followed by all lowercase. Writing letters from the top down is also a focus as well as pencil grip.

We will be creating graphs and class books as we explore names. We will be using playdough,markers to practice writing and create alliteration writings, complete name puzzles and share information found in special homework.

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes: http://youtu.be/t2pCR8YHszM

Marek Class  Graph

Crawford Class Graph

Collins Class Graph

Williams Class Graph

Orange Splot

We like to celebrate each others differences. The Orange Splot House is a book that helps illustrate this to students. Students then placed their own orange paint onto little white houses. The next day once they have dried students decorate their homes with crayons. Each home is uniquely their own. We like to have the students cut out the houses when done to practice the skill of cutting.

Pete the Cat

As a grade We have used Pete the Cat to discuss colors and read color words. Classes completed a cutting and listening activity this week.

5 to 4

Many of you may of noticed that a class list for Mr. Mika could not be found. Our kindergarten enrollment was not as projected by the district, so he has been moved. Mr. Mika was a great addition to our school and grade level and will be missed. He has returned back to Negley Elementary to and will continue to teach kindergarten and impact the students of Hays CISD.

Grant Awarded

In May our Kindergarten Team worked together writing a grant for items to help us meet the needs of our students this coming year. We have many new Math standards and we believe the best way for students to learn is with physical objects to manipulate and explore. We are excited to learn A+ Federal Credit Union accepted our request. As team we are thrilled that we will have new materials to enhance our students learning.

SeaWorld

We were once again overwhelmed with the amazing parent support. We had 105 adults attend and 98 kindergarten students representing Carpenter Hill at SeaWorld. Thank you to the families who experienced the day with their child or who took on an extra friend.

Our kindergarten students had a great time experiencing the sights, smells and sounds of SeaWorld. We spent weeks prior gaining knowledge and learning facts about the animals and their habitat we would observe.

We received many comments from parents expressing their amazement at the depth students knew about the animals. Thanks for helping us get to Sea World and letting your child experience this amazing learning day.