Staggered Start

We started off Kindergarten with an awesome Staggered Start day for everyone!

Each day was full of tons of fun from beginning to end. When we got to school, we explored with some toys on our table and then painted our hands for a handprint puzzle.  We then gathered on the rug to sing a song and read a book called "Pete the Cat; Rockin' in my School Shoes". When the story was over, a special note fell out of our book. We couldn't believe it but Pete the cat jumped out of our book and ran around our school! We decided we needed to go find him! We looked in the music room, the lunchroom, the gym (which we can't get into yet because it is full of furniture) and the library. Everywhere we went, Pete left us a special note as a clue to tell us where to go next. Finally, we ended up back in our classroom where Pete left us a delicious cookie to enjoy and a coloring paper to color.  We loved looking for Pete the Cat!!

After our snack and coloring our Pete the Cat paper, we went to Specials and met all of our teachers. We can't wait to go to Art, Music, P.E., Rosetta Stone and Makerspace this year.  After Specials, some of us got to go outside to play or draw with sidewalk chalk (if it wasn't raining). We can't wait for the weather to be nice so we can go play on the playground structures!

Then, we got to make Pete the Cat.  Mrs. Feller helped us cut and glue our Pete together.  We worked super hard on this project!  Then, Mrs. Deaton let us play in the Blocks Center while she called us over for some testing.  We had to tell her our colors, shapes, numbers, letters, sounds and lots of other things. She had us count as high as we could for her!  Branson and Zhaine already know how to count to 100.  How awesome!! 

Lunch time was great! We learned that when our signal in the middle of our lunch table is turned to red, we have to be quiet and eat. We get to talk quietly when our teachers turn our signal to green. It was nice to talk to our new friends at lunch.

After lunch, we got to help Mrs Deaton make play dough.  We read the list of ingredients and the directions with Mrs. Deaton and then we made it.  It was so much fun!  After we made the play dough, we got to play with it.  We even got to play with some play dough toys. 

At the end of the day, we learned all of the rules for the Free Centers in our classroom. Then, we got to play with all the new toys, which was awesome! We love Blocks, Puzzles and Games, Math and Housekeeping. One of our favorite things to do was play Family in the Housekeeping Center. Some of us wanted to read in Mrs. Deaton's cool reading fort, too! Free Centers are fun!

All day long we worked hard to learn our rules for inside the classroom and in our hallways. We know we are going to be South Superheroes this year.  We are going to make awesome choices, have a lot of fun and learn so much with Mrs. Deaton and Mrs. Feller.  We can't wait for a wonderful year in Kindergarten!

Iker

Darius

Cheyenne

Leslie

Gavin

Jeremiah

Isabel

Scarlett

Austin

Gwen

Zhaine

Bowen

Chelsey

Shayla

Reese

Bransen

Chamberlyn