Family Museum Night

Pizza night/free transportation to museum – Tuesday  4:30 – 5:15 PM cafeteria

Family Museum Night – Tuesday  6 – 8 PM (Ft Worth Museum of Science and History)

Great opportunity to see the renovations to the Ft. Worth Museum of Science and History.  The place is just awesome.  There are so many fun things to do and learn.  Head out early to Effie Morris Elem. to get in on the free pizza (first come, first serve), free bus ride to the museum and the a great night of fun and learning. See you there.

Pete the Cat was Rockin' in our Classroom!!!

On Friday, we had a rockin' good time in our classroom!  I introduced the students to one cool cat, Pete the Cat.  Pete the Cat  rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing his song . . . because it’s all good. We sequenced the story and loved singin' his song!!

We also read Pete the Cat: Rocking In My School Shoes! Pete has some cool new white shoes, but each time he steps in something the shoes change color.  We colored our own shoes and made a graph of the colors.  We learned a log of information by creating a graph.  This was a rockin' day in room #006!

Freedom Week

This week we have been learning about our freedom, the Constitution, the Texas pledge and the U.S. pledge.  We learned that the Constitution sets the rules that govern our country.  The Texas pledge and the U.S. pledge are promises made to our state and country.  Here are the flags that we made to go along with this weeks unit.

Go Away Big Green Monster

This is actually from our classroom last Friday.  We worked with the literature, Go Away Big Green Monster  by Ed Emberly.  This book is a clever series of die-cut pages that lets children construct and then deconstruct a big green monster. The book starts with a black page, and two round eyes gleaming through the text. "Big Green Monster has two big yellow eyes." Each page adds a new adjective-laden element, including a "long bluish-greenish nose" and "scraggy purple hair" until the culmination of effects prompts a response of, "YOU DON'T SCARE ME! SO GO AWAY . . . ." Each subsequent page subtracts one of the scary pieces until the last page is entirely black, featuring the words, "and DON'T COME BACK! Until I say so."  The kids really had a great time reading along with me.  We sequenced the events in the story and then constructed our own BIG GREEN MONSTERS to go along.

Fall Picture Day is coming up!!

 On September 29th we will be taking our Fall Pictures.  These are the pictures that will appear in our yearbook.  All students must be wearing a school appropriate uniform for the picture.  So don't forget to fix that hair and bring a smile. 

Fall Festival is just around the corner!!

Can you believe that Fall is almost here? I love fall and I love carnivals.  I guess this has to be my favorite season.  Our Fall Festival is going to be October 7.  I just sent home notices today that have all of the information.  Please sign up to help run our booth and make this a successful PTO fundraiser for our students.  We really have an easy booth to run this year and it is popular among the little kids.  The Lollipop Tree is where they draw out a sucker and depending on the color at the tip of the sucker determines what prize they receive.  Now how easy can that be?  Sign up now!!! There are also a number of items that we are asking you to contribute: An item for out silent auction basket.  I chose the Pamper Me basket.  This could be anything that you would use to pamper yourself; lotions, perfumes, nail polish, even chocolate and Dr. Pepper are a pamper me product in my house.  You will also need to send a bag of individually wrapped candy and a baked item for the cake walk.  The baked item can be store bought and shouldn't be sent to school until the day before or the day of the carnival to prevent spoiling.  Remember, this PTO fundraiser raises money to benefit your students and our school.  Not to mention it is a pretty fun family event for you and your family to enjoy.  Please plan to participate and attend.

Welcome all Kindergarten Grandparents!!!

Join us for a Grandparents’ Day luncheon – Friday 9/9.  Our lunch time is at 11:15.  Check in at the office and meet us in the lunchroom.  After lunch, Grandparents may join their grandchild in the library for free reading time (background checks are required).  Hope to see lots of grandparents joining us.  In years past, we have had a great turn out and I expect we will see it that way again.  Lunch for adults will be $3.00.

Hurray, hurray! You're a kindergartener...at last!

Dear Kinder Kiddos (and families of kindergarteners),

  I was so please to have the opportunity to meet many of you at Meet the Teacher tonight!  I have been waiting all summer long to meet you, and I can't wait to take you on the most wonderful learning adventures this year!  Get excited--we are going to be reading oodles of the BEST books ever written, conducting fun science experiments, writing and illustrating books just like real authors, solving all kinds of puzzling math problems, and all along the way we'll be dancing, singing, laughing, and having a GREAT time learning together!  Some of you may have butterflies flapping around in your little bellies! (Moms and Dads too!) Don't worry.  Kindergarten is going to be a BLAST!  I promise.  I am looking forward to Monday and can't wait to kick off the new year!

 

Love,

Mrs. Dilldine

Page Corner Bookmarks...A must have...

You have got to check out these adorable page corner bookmarks over at I CAN MAKE THAT.

I am so into monsters right now and these are perfect!!

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten Unit!

I can't wait to use this book with my kinders at the beginning of the year.  You can get it free too at Kinder Kraziness!Just follow the directions on her blog and ther you have it.

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Retail Therapy

Wow, it is only June and I am already buying up a bunch of wonderful stuff for my classroom.  This may not be a good sign, since I will probably spend to much money by the time school actually starts.  I found this oh so cute monster decor that I thought I just had to have.  I couldn't decide so I bought it all.  Ooops! hide it from the husband. :-) I also made a trip to the dollar tree and found lots of flashcards for a center.  All you parents out there, this is a wonderful thing to have to practice at home.  They have numbers, shapes, colors, and alphabet.  Go grab you some for just a dollar!

Bug Swat Center Game

Just been blog hopping looking for fun things to put in my centers this next year.  I ran across this cute game that I plan on making.  Found it over at www.ilovekindergarten.com, it is called the Bug Swat Game.
I can't wait to share it with the kid in August and all year long.Bug Game:  This is an adaptation of an idea I got from Dr. Jean.  The children play this in groups of 3's.  One child reads one of the sight words off of a "bug card".  The other two children try to be the first to slap that bug with a fly swatter.  They LOVE this game!  the game board is made on a shower curtain.