Welcome to our classroom blog! I am very excited about sharing information about all the fun and exciting things we do in kindergarten! I plan to use this sight to post happenings in our classroom during the year. I will try to post things weekly and also after a special event in our classroom. I will be using our Kindergarten Facebook Page to post pictures of events. I will give you a reminder on this blog so you can refer to our Facebook page to see the pictures.

First of all I would like to let you know that I am a graduate of Iowa State University. Go Cyclones! I am beginning my 24th year of teaching. I thoroughly enjoy teaching kindergarten and I am looking forward to a great year with my students!

I have a husband named Eric, two sons, Zach and A.J. and a daughter named Mackenzie. I love to take pictures so be watching for me to post them. I also enjoy scrap booking and spending time with my family. I have a dog named Buddy and six cats! We went on a family vacation to Red Rock Lake last summer and enjoyed fishing and spending family time together. We had a blast! My husband and I enjoyed a trip to New York! It was an amazing experience!

Looking forward to a fantastic year! :)

Friday, August 27, 2010

Green Day!

Today was a great day!  We made green monsters after listening to the Big Green Monster book.  Our monsters turned out really neat!  Then Mrs. Nelson's 3rd grade class came into our room and we listened to the story of Miss Nelson is missing on the smart board.  Then we made paper airplanes and raced them in the room.  We were excited when they flew across the room . . .varoooooom! 

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Getting to know each other!

We have had three days of kindergarten and are starting to get to know each other.  We have been learning the routine and rules and continue to work on following them.  :)  We had fun playing a name game so we can learn all the new faces in our classroom!  We read the story of Curious George and made a paper plate Curious George monkey. 

We have started our color days.  We will be having show and tell to correspond with the color days until the end of next week.  During that time each child can wear and/or bring something for the color that day.  After we are done with our color days we will have show and tell on assigned days. 

We are off to a great start!  :)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Open House

I enjoyed getting to meet students and parents at Open House tonight!  I am excited for school to start on Monday so we can get to know each other!  :)