Mrs. Garrabrant's Classroom: Dr. Seuss Week, Carnival & Big News!

We had a week full of fun and learning in Kindergarten! We delivered the P.E. trophy to Mrs. Milano's class, worked on our Journey's curriculum and focused on literacy activities in Literacy Lab. We also celebrated Dr. Seuss spirit week by dressing up and doing different fun activities such as writing, surveying friends and enjoying snacks. I also shared a big secret with the students and they were so excited! The students shared their work from the week with their preschool reading buddies and we had our Dr. Seuss Birthday Carnival. We finished our letter G & R alphabet cards and students earned a popcorn party for meeting our iReady goal for lessons passed.

Take a look below for more details on our fun filled week!

We delivered the P.E. trophy to Mrs. Milano's class.

Our Focus Wall for Journeys for the week.

Students worked in their reader's notebooks on the letters Gg & Rr.

They also worked on sounding out words with Gg and Rr in them.

Of course we worked on our sight words too.

Students worked hard in Literacy Lab.

We read stories and wrote about what we read.

Word Family Picture Sort

Word Family Matching Activity

Making words by putting pictures together

We started our Dr. Seuss spirit week with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and wearing red or blue. We also enjoyed a goldfish snack.

For Cat in the Hat day, students wore stripes, a hat, or both.

Students also wrote about what they would do to get the Cat in the Hat to leave their house.

They had some funny answers! Below are a few examples.

For Hop on Pop day we enjoyed a popcorn snack.

For the Foot Book, we wore crazy socks!

Students went around and surveyed their peers on what kind of socks they were wearing.

They also drew themselves in their crazy socks or made up different crazy socks!

For Green Eggs and Ham day, we wore green.

For Fun Friday in Literacy Lab, we listened to the story Green Eggs and Ham and enjoyed a "Green Eggs and Ham" snack (vanilla pudding with green food coloring in it and a vanilla wafer).

We talked about how Dr. Seuss likes to rhyme and we did a fun writing activity. Students talked about different food they would eat and then something it rhymed with. They came up with some great ideas and below are a few of them!

On Friday, I shared a big secret with the students, that I am having a baby!!!

They enjoyed trying to crack the code and figure it out!

We did the genetic testing to find out early what we are having and we found out Friday night that we are having a........

BOY! I can't wait to share with the students tomorrow!

Kindergarteners shared their work from the week with their preschool reading buddies.

At recess one day this week, students made a nest on the playground. The next day we came out, there were rocks in it and they kept saying that a pigeon came to visit their nest!

They have been obsessed with their nest every time we go outside for recess!

Thank you to everyone who donated to our Ohio State basket, it made $47 for our classroom!!

Here are the other classroom baskets at our Carnival on Saturday.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our school, the Dr. Seuss Birthday Carnival was a big success and everyone had a great time!

The Pie the Teacher was a big hit!

The Photo Booth was beautiful!

Truffula Toss Game

Cake Walk

There was even a performance from the Seussical cast.

We worked on making our letter Gg & letter Rr cards for our alphabet word wall.

Students passed our 2 week iReady goal and earned a popcorn party that we will have this week!

Important papers sent home this week:

March Reading Log & Homework

Information on our Pennies for Patients Program. We will be collecting money until Friday, March 15th and the class that earns the most money will win a pizza party!