Ms. Segura's Kinder Stars!

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all my wonderful parents who helped make our Halloween celebration a success.

One of my centers is called the writing center. After noticing that some of my students were ready to write on their own I created some mini books. These books are small and are easily made with scissors, construction paper, and staples. I am seeing some great work and just wanted to share with you some of the first books that were made by your children. I threw out some ideas such as: books about food, family, or favorite things. All of the words were spelled by sounding out the letter sounds.

We listened to wonderful stories about Mexican rebozo's. A rebozo is a woman's garment that is made in the shape of a rectangle. It may be worn as a scarf or shawl. We learned that a rebozo can be used for many other things such as: a super hero cape, butterfly wings, princess wear, ballerina wear, and even a bullfighter's cape! Your children have THE best imaginations!!!!

In honor of fire prevention week our counselor visited our classroom wearing her father's fire suit. We learned why a firefighter MUST wear the suits as well as how to become a firefighter when we grow up. Mrs. Roden informed our class that she was a volunteer firefighter before working at our school. The kids had a great time talking with her and even had a chance to smell her gloves which smelled like fire.

We have sadly come to a close on our apple unit. We had a lot of fun learning about apples! Your children learned that apples come in different colors and they grow on trees. We also talked about the parts of an apple as well as the different foods an apple makes. We taste tested many items including: a red delicious apple, a granny smith apple, a golden delicious apple, applesauce, apple juice, and apple cinnamon Cheerios. The apple juice was a huge hit! We created many graphs documenting our favorite foods. Below is one that I quickly drew on our board. We also displayed a graph of our favorite apple in our room.

Greetings Families! It is the fourth week of school and we have been super busy learning lots of new things. Please stop by tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. to see some of the fun things we have been doing in class. Open house begins at 6 in the cafeteria.

These are some of the fun activities that your child does throughout the day. We visit centers to practice skills that we are learning!

Here we are sorting shapes by size and color! Enjoy!

Well, he finally showed up! Our special friend read us two Winnie the Pooh stories. Some of us were scared to see him while others were ecstatic. Thanks to Barnes & Noble who made this visit possible!!

I am so happy to announce that Winnie the Pooh will be visiting us this FRIDAY!! Our wonderful librarian, Mrs. Brogan, will read us a story about our special guest tomorrow (Thursday). We will then get a "suprise" visit from the one and only Winnie the Pooh! I am so excited!!!!!!

Thanks to all my parents and grandparents who stopped by on Friday! It was great to see so many familiar faces and to meet new ones. If you weren't able to stop by please know there will be many other opportunities for you to visit your child's classroom.

School is right around the corner and I am getting super excited! I can't wait to meet my wonderful students and their parents. I have created this blog as a way to communicate and showcase what we will be learning in our classroom. You will soon find class projects, writing samples, artwork, and even photographs of your child engaged in active learning. Let's get this thing going and I'll see you soon!

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