I’m starting off this post with a #ThrowbackThursday moment to get us in the mood for our 50th Day of School celebration that is coming up quickly! This throwback picture just happens to my mother (in the Mickey Mouse Club shirt), her cousin and her sisters circa 1956 when the girls were growing up in Rockport.
Today was day 40 of Kindergarten! Seems like I just wrote a post about the 20th day. As I mentioned at Open House, my favorite Kindergarten holiday is 100th Day of School. This summer, while perusing my favorite new website, PInterest, I found great ideas for having a 50th Day of School Celebration. Who says we have to till the 100th Day for a party? We are going to have 50s day and do lots of activities like have a sock hop, play a bingo game with 50s trivia and other fun stuff (like maybe someone or someones might be in poodle skirts?) I have a fondness for the 50s and it’s music, so we will be well equipped on this day with lots of festive fun!
I will be sending out information on all of this on Monday. Next week is looking like a fun week as well with Halloween on Wednesday. Our room moms are planning a small celebration with a craft for Wednesday afternoon. Remember, no school for students on Thursday, November 1 due to a Teacher Professional Day.
I will devote an entire post to all the ravenous reading going on in our classroom. But just to give you a small nugget, I am extremely pleased with all the real reading that is happening in the classroom. We are building our stamina for “Read to Self” time. (We are between 5-6 minutes without interruption, which is excellent for the developmental level.) This week children began to “shop” for books in the classroom library and we also began “Work on Writing” time. Children are also enjoying sharing their reading with the group when we come back together to the rug.
I could go on and on about the tricky teens and all the math we did this week, and what we learned about Spiders this week in Science, but I’ll end it here for now. Will post more over the weekend. 🙂
