Monday Preschool:Thanksgiving

Shauna taught about Thanksgiving this week. They added feathers to a turkey.

They talked about how to set the table and made a place mat. I would have never thought about that but it makes total sense to talk about setting the table since there is a big feast. Robert loved this and was happy to show off his new skills at dinner.

They also talked about the letter F. Robert didn't trace any of the Fs but wrote some near the frog.

Kindergarten: week 9 & 10

They talked about Stellaluna soon after Halloween. Hailey has this book so she was very excited since she recognized it.

Other than that, nothing big happened. I got a little behind on scanning in her papers, so I combined the two weeks since I didn't know what paper happened on which week.

Here is a copy of the sight words Hailey is working on.  For a couple of weeks, Hailey would bring three sight words home to work on. Then she would pass them off to Mrs. Liz (the teacher's assistant) for a little treat. Hailey learned them quickly at home but kept forgetting to pass them off at school.

Hailey put her name in the cloud. The big red thing is a sloth.

Hailey drew a zebra and started writing her name in bubble letters.

Hailey's school had a little assemble on Veteran's Day. The kids also had the opportunity to have a picture of a Veteran they are related to be put on display in the halls. So, Hailey was able to bring a picture of her Uncle Kyle who is currently serving in the Iowa National Guard. Her great-grandpa, Grandpa Baker, also served in the army.

Preschool: Zoo Animals

Robert had preschool at Jamie's house this week. On Monday, they did these fun worksheets.

On Wednesday, they made a giraffe with finger paint.

Kindergarten: Halloween

For Halloween, Hailey's school had a costume parade that parent's were invited to attend. So, Gramma went with Hailey and took lots of pictures.

This year instead of buying new costumes, we just used our dress up clothes. Even though we have tons of princess dresses, Hailey only wanted to be Belle this year and didn't switch with each event.

They got to take turns standing up and taking about their costume.  Mrs. Thomas was a witch.

There is Ethan, Bruce, Madysen, Lauryn, (don't know her name), Madeline, and Hailey.

I'm not sure of the names of the rest of Hailey's classmates expect for Beau, he is in the red super hero costume. Beau is a first grader and lives next door to us.  After my mom left Hailey started walking to school with Beau and Kiah who lives across the street.

This cute little white and blue costume was homemade.

Here are some creative adult costumes.

The kids went in and out each class room all around the school.

After the parade there was a class party. Here are the Halloween crafts that Hailey brought home.

Wednesday Preschool: Animals

The theme for preschool today was baby animals/pets. Robert came home with this puzzle that he refused to color.

Monday Preschool: Halloween

Robert wore his Thomas the Train custom to preschool today at Chelsie's house. He brought home a small pumpkin of candy and a sucker with a the black fussy spider attached to it. It looks like they did a Halloween shape rubbing activity. He also has jack-o-lantern matching cards. He enjoyed preschool a lot today.

Kindergarten: Week 8

There was Parent-Teacher Conference this week. Mrs. Thomas had only nice things to say about Hailey. Hailey is the most advance Kindergartner in her class as far as reading at least. She's missing a couple of sounds to the different letters of the alphabet. She's only counting to 25ish and Mrs. Thomas wants her to count to 100 by the end of the school year.  She encourages us to help her read and get her as advance as Hailey will let us. The kids get assessed once a month. Here is what they are assessed on:

Count five objects

Count to 10

Identify numerals 1-5

Name a square and circle

Count number of words in a sentence

Holds a book and turns pages properly

Identifies letters in name

Identifies words that rhyme

Writes name

She aced all these and I'm surprised how simple the these tasks are even for someone in Kindergarten. I am pretty sure Robert can do all those things now expect for writing his name. I am glad that I now know what is Kindergarten level material and what they are expected to know. I'm thankful that Mrs. Thomas sees Hailey potential and eagerness to learn and encourages it. It seems like in this school, students (especially the 1st graders) are bounced around into other classrooms to help find activities closer to their level.

We also talked about Madeline. They are in the math group together and they do get in trouble for talking.  Madeline has a very dominating personality and challenges the teacher a lot. It's hard to see Hailey limit herself to one friend and I'm glad I can go to the class and point out that there are other people to play with also.  I hope Hailey can be the good example to Madeline and not pick up on bad habits.

Here's the papers she brought home this week.

 The paper says 5+1+6   5+5=10   5+2=7   5+3=8   5+4=9