Mrs. Colwell Returns to JK

The students enjoyed another special visit from retired Glengary music teacher, Mrs. Colwell, who shared some of her favorite classic holiday stories with the children. 🥰

Brown Bear Literacy Stations

The learning target of our literacy stations centered around the book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. The goal of the stations was to use letters, pictures, and sounds to help the students to create, understand, and retell stories. In Story Workshop with Mrs. Steele, the students listened to the nonfiction story/song, Bear Facts by Norma L. Genter used the information from the story and the provided supplies to respond to the provocation to create a story about their bear. At another station, the students colored the pictures from the Brown Bear book, cut them out, and glued them in the proper sequence. At the next station, the students traced the uppercase and lowercase letters and then used tweezers to hunt through the forest sensory bin to find and match uppercase and lowercase letters to the corresponding letter mats. At the final station, the students sorted words that rhymed with animal characters from the Brown Bear book and then played a rhyming memory game together. 

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Story Workshop with Mrs. Steele Creating Stories about a Bear

Coloring, Cutting, and Sequencing the Pictures From the Brown Bear Book

Searching Through the Forest for Uppercase & Lowercase Letters

Sorting Words that Rhyme with Animal Characters in the Brown Bear Book

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Happy 5th Birthday, Everyone!

To celebrate that everyone in our JK class is officially 5 years-old, we had a special celebration in class encompassing the number 5! We read lots of books about the number 5, we did lots of activities around the number 5, and we even had special birthday treats including birthday cake oreos, cupcake flavored goldfish crackers, and fruit snacks! Such a fun time was had by everyone!

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Hooray! We're 5! 

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