Kilgore's Kindergarten Communicator

Thanks to my Cubs for the wonderful gifts and the bucket of love notes! I cannot wait to read each and every one! You guys are "bucket fillers!" 

...our 22 days of school countdown! Starting on Tuesday, a student will get a chance to pop a balloon to reveal our special activity/treat for the day! Can't wait to enjoy these last few days with my Cubs!

With it being the end of the school year, we all feel it. We're ready for SUMMER! However, we have 6 more weeks to be classmates and Mrs. Kilgore's Cubs! To help my friends focus on the good they see in one another, I started a kindness chain! The first day or two was a slow start but we now have 4 chains of kindness! When our chain reaches the floor, we're having a PaRtY! Not sure what kind of party yet but it will be a friendly fiesta!!

I love these kids! SO precious!

Monday was Earth Day and we discussed ways to take care of our earth, wrote about it (and finished those earth watercolor paintings from Friday!), read The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, and picked up trash on our playground!

This week in Social Studies, we learned about why we need jobs. You know how kids are, they think that all of our needs and wants can be bought from the money tree growing in the back yard! Hehe! Thanks to Paige Throgmorton (Evan's mom) for representing the Cubs and speaking about her job as a cardiac nurse! A special thank you also to Greenville PD K9 Officer Robert Pemberton (Hannah's dad) and Greenville FD's Colby Estes (Evie's uncle) for sharing their jobs with us!

Miss Hammons just happened to know a REAL Cowgirl...her sister-in-law Holly! So, she invited Holly to bring her horse and her tools to talk to us about them. She was very knowledgable and patient with all of the Kindergarteners and even let us pet her horse if we wanted! You know the cool part? Holly gives private riding lessons! Her business card is pictured below! Thanks to Holly Hammons for being such a great guest!

Thanks to all of the parents and Cubs who came to open house last Tuesday night! I love the excitement that the kids have over showing off their hard work and their classroom! Here are some highlights:

In science, we have been talking about the moon and stars. We made our own constellations and hung them on the ceiling.


Then, we used prepositional phrases (Language Arts lesson) to describe where our shooting stars went around the moon.


Also in Language Arts, we are reading expository (or real life) text. We read a few books about Texas and studied a few of the main facts. Using these facts we learned, we authored and illustrated a fact book about Texas. Another topic we learned about was the job and tools of the cowboy and cowgirl. After reading a few books on the topic, we wrote about a tool that they use and what the tool is used for. Finally, we learned how to draw ourselves a cowpoke!

Tonight was the Kindergarten Christmas program. I was so happy to see 17 of my Cubs on stage performing! They all looked so cute dressed up for the occasion and they did a fabulous job singing and dancing! I am so proud to be their teacher. ❤

The entire program was presented with a yoyo! To help fund this program, they sell special NED yoyos!! They are available for purchase until Friday and I will send home another order from home tomorrow. Learn more about the program here!

To kick off our Christmas Around the World unit, Sinter Klass from the Netherlands came to see us after he visited the Dutch children on December 5th! We put our shoes out for him and he came to bring us treats! Good thing his helper, Zwarte Piet, didn't leave us switches!

Recently, we took a field trip to the Northeast Texas Children's Museum herein Commerce. Commerce ISD is blessed to have this educational resource in our own community!

Today was the 50th day of Kindergarten! We are just TOO cool for school!!

I love presents...especially chocolate ones!! Thanks Cubs!!

On Friday, the Cubs and I were blessed to have 6 parent volunteers come and help with our pumpkin math activities! We counted lines and seeds, used our senses to explore, floated and weighed the pumpkins. We even discussed shapes to design a face to carve a jack o' lantern! It was a great afternoon! Check out the picture slideshow for more pictures from the event!