Fun in the Fall

We have been very busy this fall with many projects and events! We learned a lot about pumpkins, apples, trees, and spiders! We hope you enjoy the pictures!

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Montgomery Zoo

We had a wonderful visit to the Montgomery Zoo!  The children loved seeing the animals!  Some of our favorites were the monkeys, flamingos, alligators, snakes, and giraffes!  Thank you parents that were able to join us and help tour a group around the zoo!  We hope you enjoy some of our pictures from our trip!  If you have more pictures from the zoo, we would love to have them to add to our blog!  Thanks!






























Busy Bees!

We have been very busy so far this year, getting to know the routines of our classroom and making new friends!  Here are a few pictures of our friends hard at work!  We hope to have pictures of our classroom transformation into "The Great Outdoors" very soon!
Holland teaching a shared reading lesson to her pretend class! I love it!

BryLee counting the days in August on the calendar.

Alex and Forrest working together on a building.

Sam looking ahead at October's exciting events!

Jaylen busy constructing a train track.

 
Campbell and Caroline M. recycling our milk jugs.

Alex and Aiden working together on a drawing project.

Caroline J. visiting the choice board to choose a new center.

Ashlyn making patterns with stamps at the art center.

Jasmyn practicing her reading skills!

Our word wall that the children added many words to last week including: I, am, the, my, we, is, have, little, a, and, to!  We are busy learning our sight words and making great progress!

Metamorphosis:  The Life-Cycle of a Caterpillar and Butterfly
 
On Friday, September 30th, Mrs. Morse stopped by to teach a lesson on metamorphosis!  The children had a blast!  I hope they came home to share all the interesting things they learned about caterpillars.  Here are a few pictures of the chidlren working on the life cycle chart and participating in a fun sequencing song.  I have included the song link at the end, so you can ask your child to show you how to use the sequencing cards that came home on Friday!  Hope you enjoy!

Jaden, Sofia, BryLee, and Campbell making patterns on their caterpillar life cycle chart.

Quin, Emma, Alex, Jasmyn, and Forrest hard at work.

Holland, Knox, Aiden, Caroline J., Caroline M., and Omaya working together on their caterpillar patterns.

Mrs. Morse helping us sequence our life cycle cards to hold up during the song.

Singing away...

Here is the song link!  The kids loved it!  Thank you Mrs. Morse!  We can't wait for your next visit!


















Meet Mrs. Gilmore's Class

Hello from Mrs. Gilmore's friends!  We are off to a wonderful start in kindergarten and have made many new friends!  We are excited to share our wonderful adventures of kindergarten and the things we learn while visiting "The Great Outdoors!"  More to come soon....



Town Creek Park

We had a wonderful trip to Town Creek Park!  It was such an exciting adventure to walk from school and enjoy the fabulous stations!  The weather could not have been more perfect!  Our first station was the scavenger hunt around the pond.  Then we visited the Wrights Mill Road Fourth Graders and read a book with a buddy!  Our third station was the snack and writing station where we enjoyed a hot dog snack, juice, and worked in our Big Back Yard books.  Next we visited the back yard games station and played kick ball with our celebrity guest, Coach Robert.  Our final station was back yard animals where we had a special visit from Josie, the dog, and some fascinating turtles from Auburn High School's Acquatics Lab.  Here are a few pictures from our exciting day!  We hope you enjoy!

Sweet friends!

Silly friends!



 
On our scavenger hunt we looked for these things...
Here we go...searching for fish, turtles, frogs, ducks, and more!






Precious angels having a blast!



Jordyn & Symia smiling for the camera!

Looking at the pond skaters!



Enjoying our scavenger hunt!

We were great explorers!


Reading with the fourth graders from WMR!









Working in our Big Back Yard books!




Sweet Josie and her vet!


Reptiles from AHS Acquatics lab!

Great listeners!

Viewing the turtles!  They were so neat!


The alligator snapping turtle trying to escape!!!

 The big alligator snapping turtle!  Watch those fingers!


Josie was so kind to let us pet her!


Enjoying the reptiles!


This turtle had algae growing on his shell!

Tiny turtle!