The Leaders of the Pack!
Our first fiftieth day of school celebration was a great success! Thanks to the families for being so creative with the children’s fifties wear! I think the T-birds and Pink Ladies looked great, and they brought a smile to everyone’s face as we marched through the hall. I could not have asked for a better day. What fun!
Best talk of the day was about what a jukebox was. Most children thought I was saying juice box – and yes, they had seen one of those before!
Playing Race to 50!
In the morning, I set up stations for the children having to do with the number fifty. They had to trace numbers to fifty, play Race to 50 (rolling a dice and counting on), put 50 cotton balls on a poodle and make patterns on records. In the afternoon, we had a “sock hop” with real fifties music, hula hoops and a game of limbo.
Dr. Devaux tells us about growing up in the fifties.
We also had a special guest in the afternoon – our superintendent – Dr. Devaux came down and spent a few minutes talking to the children about life and school in the fifties. (We won’t give away his age here, but he did admit he was a teenager in the 50s!)
This will definitely be added to my list of Kindergarten events from now on! Ask your child to count to 50 for you and we are working on skip counting, so try seeing if they can skip count by 5s and 10s to 50 as well.
children read to one one another.
Between this week and last week we also began “Read to Someone Else” time as a part of the Daily Five literacy block. The children are enjoying reading to one another. We are still in the beginning stages of this, but I am seeing many promising things happening so I can only imagine where we will go from here.
Before I sign off, just a reminder our Thanksgiving Show is this coming Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. in the cafeteria. (If we weren’t busy enough!) I hope you and your family is able to make it. We will go downstairs following the performance for snack and our cast party.
