Entertainment Day brought to you by Mrs. Gilmore's Talented Friends

Today was E day!  We celebrated by "Entertaining" our friends with our amazing talents!  Here are some pictures and videos from our exciting afternoon!  Thank you parents for all your help!  We hope you enjoy!

Beck showing us his awesome soccer kick!

Ayden showing us how he drives his four wheeler!

Nicole preparing her princess puppy for the show!

Nicole is an excellent dog trainer!

Jaylen showing us his amazing basketball shot!

Abby showing us how she drives her go-cart!

Knox showing us his fabulous baseball swing!

Elawoe showing us his terrific soccer kick!

Deisrae telling us how she shares with her brother!

Symia showing us her incredible cartwheel!

Spencer showing us how he can toss his frog and catch him!

Spencer sharing his handsome smile!

Patrick reading his book!  What a talented little reader!

Blaire singing Grand Old Flag!  Beautiful, beautiful!

      

Michelle demonstrating her amazing hula-hoop skills!

Gracie showing us her amazing jump roping skills!

       

Jordyn & Symia...future Auburn cheerleaders!

        

Cali reading her beautiful poem!

        

Jake showing off his amazing talent!

                                               

Charlie's duck call!

           

Charlie's turkey call!

ABC Days of Kindergarten

We are celebrating and counting down the last 26 days of kindergarten with the ABC Days of Kindergarten!  Each day we have a special topic or activity based on the letters of the alphabet.  We began on Tuesday with Auburn Day, Wednesday was Book Day, Thursday was Crazy Hair Day, and Friday was Dance Party Day!  We have had a blast celebrating this week!  Here are a few pictures of some of our ABC Days of Kindergarten! 

Celebrating Auburn Day by making shakers!

Blaire and Gracie's Crazy Hair!  

Ayden and Myana's Crazy Hair!

Spencer, Michelle, Nicole, Beck, and Jake's Crazy Hair!

Friday was Dance Party Day and we celebrated Kid Zumba Style with the help of Nicole's mom, Karen Seale!  She taught us some fun and silly dance moves!  We had a blast with a new style of exercise!  Thanks Karen!  We had so much fun!

Getting ready...

Warming up...

Patrick amusing Jordyn with his new moves!  

Abby, Michelle, Charlie, Elawoe, Gracie, Kwame, Myana, Ayden, and Beck learning Zumba moves!  They were hilarious!

  

Commercial - Take Two

We re-recorded our commercial with our new bookstore name! 

Our bookstore is up and running!  We hope you enjoy! 

Welcome to the show...

I am amazed each day at the creativity of this precious group of children!  They all work so well together and are so thoughtful and encouarging!  Today, during centers, Cali, Charlie, and Spencer were making and selling tickets to their puppet show.  Quickly the word spread and before you could blink we had a puppet show in the works with an amazing audience anticipating the excitement of the story to come!  We hope you enjoy the pictures!  We had a great time watching the show!

Ticket to the show.

Blaire and Jordyn getting ready to sign in at the puppet show!

Spencer preparing the stage for the show while Cali prepares the main stars!

Time for the show!

What a fabulous audience!

Laughing at the silly characters!

Our New Pet

This week the children have been learning about mammals and reptiles with Miss Free and Miss DeVee!  They voted on the type of lizard they would like to have as a class pet and chose the Green Anole lizard which can be found in many of our back yards!  Miss Free and Miss DeVee brought a special visitor this morning for us to enjoy together as our new class pet...our very own Green Anole!!!  The children were beyond excited!  We placed him in his special habitat of dirt and bark, placed a water bowl and some delicious crickets for him to enjoy!  We set him up in the Science Center where we can observe him and care for him.  He is a beautiful green!  We tried to snap some pictures of him, but he liked hiding at the top so we did the best we could.  Hopefully he will grow more comfortable in his new home and we can capture some better pictures soon!  We look forward to learning about this special lizard next week and watching him in his habitat.  Enjoy!

Our Green Anole climbing in his cage.

What a long tail!

Elawoe observing our Green Anole and recording what he sees in our Lizard Journal.

Literacy in Centers

This week we took a little time off from our horse study to continue updating our centers.  We focused on Big Blocks and Puppets.  We are working on adding literacy to our centers by providing opportunities for the children to read and write in each center.  This is a great way for them to cultivate their reading and writing skills with a purpose as well as communicate and share what they are doing!  This also promotes problem solving, critical thinking, and conversation.  We reviewed our "I can..." lists and discussed materials that we wanted to add to each center.  Blaire said, "In Big Blocks we added pencils, crayons, and a Big Block journal.  In the journal we draw what we made and we write about what we made.  We also added small blocks and the animals.  Jordyn and Symia said, "In the Puppet Center we added a box with a Play journal, pencils, crayons, and scissors.  The scissors are for making tickets and invitations."  We had our Grand Re-Openings of Big Blocks and Puppets!  We are so excited about the new possibilities for these centers!

Nicole and Kwame cutting the yarn to re-open Big Blocks.

Michelle building a house for her cat Cinnamon Roll.

Blaire recording her construction in the journal.

Hard at work!

"I can..." list for Big Blocks.

Preparing for our Grand Re-opening of Puppets.

Myana and Spencer cutting the yarn.

Enjoying the puppet show!

Commercial - Take One

In creating our bookstore this week a wonderful discussion came up about advertising and we decided to make a commercial.  This is our first take.  We will re-record a new one next week with the new bookstore title!  We hope you enjoy!

Introducing our classroom book store...Auburn Town Books

Here is what Charlie had to say about it..."This week we worked in our Dramatic Play center to make it into a bookstore.  First we got everything cleaned up from the kitchen and restaurant.  Then we voted on the name of the store.  Auburn Town Books won!  Friends made books to help us get ready to sell.  We got some boxes to put the books in so that moms and dads and grandparents and friends can come to buy some books. We have fact books, ABC books, fairy tale books, and 123 books.  We got paper to make credit cards and money to buy some books. We are almost finished and will have our Grand Opening next week!"

Charlie, Spencer, and Myana getting ready to move the book store into the Dramatic Play area.

Spencer and Cali exchanging pretend money for a book catalog.

Jordyn, Myana, Symia, Cali, and Desirae making pretend money.

Spencer, Ayden, Myana, Cali and Charlie cleaning out restaurant and kitchen materials.

Myana, Symia, Jaylen, and Jordyn setting up the bookstore.

Michelle came along to help organize the books.

Kwame and Jaylen making the book store sign.

Progress in the bookstore...

More to come with our Grand Opening next week!