"Squirrel Scientist" Voicethread

Be sure to visit our voice thread about squirrels!  We had a great time reading about and researching on the internet to learn squirrel facts.  We even had a special squirrel visitor "Petey Girl"!http://voicethread.com/share/2298145/

Moring Centers (Beginning of School)

Practicing letter formation with "Letter Roads".

Stamping the alphabet

Letter Arcs

"Read to Self"

Reading with a partner

Guided reading

Making shape posters

Sorting with tongs

Matching keys

Apples

 We worked together to make apple trees for each season of the year.  This group is working together to make a winter tree.

We made apple pies.

Painting our tree trunk.

Decorating our "Spring" tree.

Our Apple Pie Recipe

Our beautiful trees on display

We used real apples to make apple prints!

Math Number Hunt

We went on a hunt for numbers in our environment.  The kids had a GREAT time using construction paper "spy glasses" to look for numbers.  We took pictures of each number we found to make a class book.

Zoom, Zoom, We're off to the Moon!

Our school theme this year is a "Global Connections" theme. Each grade level has an adopted cause and will be collaborating with students in another country via Skype and other technologies to work on our cause. Our school is decorated with space items as part of our theme. We thought, what better way to kick off our school year than by doing our first collaborative project by using recyclables to make rocket ships? We  introduced researching by looking up rockets on the internet with our smart board. We checked out books from our library for reference. Four small groups worked together to make 4 very unique rockets.  Each group proudly made a sign for their rocket. We concluded our project by drawing / writing about our rockets. The children had a GREAT time and worked so hard! I think we have a room full of little "inventors" and "scientists"! I can not wait to see what future collaborative projects hold after this great start!

Everybody Read!

We have had an exciting start to our brand new school year.  Already, our kids are on their way to becoming great readers!  We have learned that there are 3 ways to read a book.  We have learned how to look at books and are well on our way to becoming amazing "book detectives".  Check out these great kinder-readers!

Welcome to Kindergarten!

"Kindergartener, kindergartener come on in.  Learn about the world with brand new friends!"

We are so excited to have a chance to work with your child this year.   My name is Karissa Cockrell and my assistant's name is Miriam Henzler.  We are so fortunate to have a student intern with us for the fall semester named Miss Acuff.  We are looking forward to an exciting year full of possibilities and fun!