Welcome!

 Dear Families,

Welcome to our class blog, this blog has been moved to this new location!  This can be accessed from the UCS website.  In this blog, you will see all of the fun learning that we are doing in Kindergarten.  Also please remember that you can see more frequent updates on Twitter @PoorAmy.  

The first few days of school have been filled with building community and exploring our classroom materials and centers.  Students have been respectful and kind learners.  On the first day, we read Butterflies on The First Day of School and decorated butterfly bracelets. We also recited a magic poem that turned our playdough into colorful dough! 

On Thursday, the first day of September we read a book and had a great discussion about alopecia and how September is alopecia awareness month!  Students were very thoughtful and kind with their responses.  I had pictures of some inspirational people like Bethany Hamilton, Stevie Wonder, and Christie Valdiserri, a model who has alopecia. Christie tore her wig off on the runway to show that she does not need hair to be beautiful! We then shared what makes us unique and special! I was so proud of how all of the kindergartners took in this information and reflected with kindness and sincerity.  

Students did a lot of exploration with math manipulatives this week.  They explored pattern blocks, geo-blocks, unifix cubes, and colorful animals to sort.  I was so impressed with their spatial awareness skills that by day 3 I challenged them with some butterfly-shaped task cards, which had them build the shape on their own.  All of the students rose to that challenge and completed one or more of the task cards!  Very impressive!!

We had our first All School Morning Meeting on Friday.  We sang a song, met the new teachers at UCS, and the 4th graders welcomed the K. students by giving them a carnation.  It was a very sweet ceremony!  We look forward to these meetings being on a regular basis.

Thank you all for sharing your lovely children with me, I can't wait to continue to watch them grow and build a strong classroom community.  Also thank you for your communication regarding after-school plans, soon all of this will flow into a lovely routine!

Please enjoy the video of our first 3 days!