Teacher Appreciation Week

Wow!! Thank you all so much for these amazing surprises every day!! We love being teachers and seeing your children grow. Thank you for always supporting us and showing that you appreciate us also. Look at all of our beautiful flowers and plants. Thank you again!!

Whoo hoo it's a Zoozical!!!

The cheetahs are ready for their big performance.

                        

The cheetahs speaking part

                                      

Hippos speaking part

Smiling cheetahs!!

"See all the baby seals honk honk honking"

"The seals on the bus go round and round"

"Let's have a musical today"

Great job!!

Flowers for all of the amazing performers!! We are so proud of you!!

Wow!! What an amazing performance!! We are so proud of every student. They worked so hard. Thank you so much parents for coming and supporting us. Enjoy the pictures. If you were able to take any, email them to Ms. Hawas at hawass@duvalschools.org.

Zoozical Performance

 The blue group is the cheetahs

The green group is the hippos

Your child will be performing on Thursday, April 26th at 6:30 pm in the cafeteria. Please make sure you are there by 6:00pm in the hallway near the cafeteria. Our classes have worked so hard and we would love for all of you to be there. Thank you!!

10 minute jog

Wow!! Our classes jogged for 10 whole minutes in PE. We are so proud of you all!!

Easter Egg Hunt

On Wednesday, April 4th our classes will have their Easter egg hunt. Each student must bring a basket. If they do not have a basket, please have them bring a plastic bag. So far, we have not received any plastic Easter eggs. We need your help!! The more Easter eggs we receive, the more eggs our students will each get to collect. Please send them in by Wednesday. Thank you!!

Literacy Week

Fancy Nancy and Purplicious

Thanks to all of our little ones that participated in character dress up day!!

Thing 1 and Thing 1

Princess

Woody from Toy Story

Cinderella

Cowgirl

Pinkalicious

Butterfly

Homework the Week of 3-12-2012

Examples of Leprechaun traps:

This week please make a Leprechaun trap with your child. They will need to bring these school by Thursday, March 15th. You may want to use a shoe box or cereal box as the base for the trap. Remember Leprechauns love rainbows, shamrocks, and pots of gold. I hope we can catch that silly Leprechaun!!

Zoo Field Trip

Our next field trip is to the Jacksonville Zoo on March 9th!!!

9:00 leave School

9:30 – 11:15 tour the zoo

11:30 – 12:15 educational program

12:30 – 1:00 eat lunch

1:15 leave zoo to return to school

*Students need to wear sneakers.

*Students will need a bagged lunch and drink.

*Please apply sunscreen at home.

*No siblings are permitted on trip.

*Students will not be permitted to go in the gift shop – ride the train – feed the giraffes – purchase items from snack bars – see the stingrays (No money is needed – please do not send with your child)

Performances

For black history month, we had many performers come to our school. We listened and danced to music. Two of our performers came all the way from Africa!!

Ms. Hines was called to go on stage to dance it out!!

Happy Mardi Gras Ya'll

Look who got the baby from the green group!!

King Cake

Look who got the baby from the blue group!!!

Throw me something Mister!!

Catching beads

Beautiful masks

Look at our masks we made!

Ms. Hawas taught us how to dance to Zydeco.

Zydeco is music from Louisiana.

We love to dance to Zydeco.

Friends dancing

1-2-3 1-2-3

We love MARDI GRAS!!

Today, we learned about Mardi Gras!! Students were so excited. We learned that Mardi Gras is celebrated in Louisiana. We learned the music the cajuns love to listen to is called Zydeco. Students even learned how to dance to Zydeco. Ask them to show you! We learned the three colors that represent Mardi Gras are yellow, green, and purple.

We watched what a parade looks like and even made Mardi Gras mask. Ms. Hawas tossed beads to students and they tried to catch them. Click on the link below to listen to the Zydeco music with your child.
http://youtu.be/w8f3cLARhhI

Enjoy the pictures!! Ask your child what their favorite thing about Mardi Gras is!! Share their answers and leave a comment.

Kindergarten Expectations:Third Quarter

Reading:
· Name letters
· Make sounds for letters
· Identify initial sounds in words
· Blend and segment one syllable words
· Read the follow sight words without hesitation: I, see, a, the, can, we, you, my, like, to, and, it, is, me, yes, no, go, at, am, an.
· Read words with a consonant, vowel, consonant pattern (i.e. rat, map, tub, ten, pit, net).
· Discuss books with others (i.e. describe illustrations, characters, setting, problem/solution, make predictions)
· Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
· Draw/write the beginning, middle and end of a story.
· Use reading strategies effectively (i.e. use picture clues, make predictions, stretch the word, ask yourself, “Does this make sense?”)
· Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.
· Reads on grade level.

Writing:
· Use spelling that shows letter/sound correspondence.
· Writing shows evidence of spacing.
· Write daily (pictures and/or words are done neatly and legibly).
· Generate own topics.
· Include detailed illustrations to support writing.
· Working toward meeting the elements of narrative writing (story with a single event or several events loosely linked, tell events as they move through time, include drawings that support the meaning of the story).
· Working toward meeting the elements of report writing (gather, collect and share information about a topic, maintain focus and exclude extraneous information when prompted).

Math:
· Name numerals 0-20.
· Place numerals in order 0-20.
· Write numerals 0-20 correctly.
· Match numerals with groups of objects 0-20.
· Count orally 1-75.
· Count by tens to 100.
· Compose and decompose numbers from 11-19 into ten ones and some further ones.
· Name three-dimensional shapes (cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, cone, sphere, pyramid).
· Compare and describe two and three-dimensional shapes.
· Identify shapes as two or three-dimensional.
· Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes.

100th day of school

100 days smarter!!

This is what our class thinks we will look like when we are 100.

Every student collected 100 items to put in our bags. They're on our board outside the classroom. Come by and see them.

These cupcakes spelling out the number 100 were so yummy.

Who's excited about the 100th day of school?

We're excited!!

Counting out 100 beads to make a necklace.

This is the Terry Parker High School band.

We loved hearing the cheerleaders CHEER.

What a great day!

Wow!! We can't believe it's already been 100 days!! We only have 80 more school days together. We still have a lot to learn in a little amount of time. Please make sure your little one comes to school prepared every day ready to learn.

February 3rd was the 100th day of school. We started the day with a pep rally in the courtyard. The marching band and cheerleaders from Terry Parker High School joined us and made sure we had an exciting beginning to our day. We found out at the pep rally that our school collected over 2,000 can goods. Way to go Merrill Road!! Ms. Hines homeroom class even got a popsicle party for collecting over 100 cans yay!

Our fun 100 day activities for the day included:

*counting out 100 beads to make a necklace

*decorating our 100 day crowns

*making a portrait of what we believe we will look like when we are 100 years old

*writing different topics for 100 seconds each

We also talked about what we wish we had 100 of.

*Riley wants 100 pennies.

*Gavin wants 100 cats.

*Ciara wants 100 puppies.

*Sienna wants 100 stars.

*Ny'Jia wants 100 skittles.

*Mason wants 100 wild horses.

*Leanna and Avery want 100 dolls.

*Cy'Kyia wants 100 jellybeans.

*Noah wants 100 dollars.

*Kaitlyn wants 100 pieces of rice.

*El-Hajj wants 100 sharks.

*Illias wants 100 vampires.

*Cur'Myria wants 100 pizzas.

*Ayla wants 100 puzzles.

We had so much fun! Ask your little one what their favorite part of the 100th day of school was. :) Enjoy the pictures.