Raffle Tickets: race to the finish!

I just learned this afternoon from Sarah Guthrie that we continue to trade places with another kindergarten class for the most number of raffle ticket sold at the Cherry Campus. So, if you have that competitive gene or you're tired of being bugged about the all-year pizza party, DIG DEEP & KEEP SELLING!! :)  

Cartes de remerciement aux équipes de foot - UMKC

    

Students collaborated to make thank you cards for UMKC men's and women's soccer teams for autographed class soccer ball...si gentil! We will send to be delivered next week!

Fall Meet & Greet

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, October 3 at 10:00am.  We will meet outside of room 215 at the playground equipment at the northeast side of Loose Park for an informal gathering to get to know our class community better!  This is a drop-in/drop-out event with no formal structure or expectation.  We hope everyone can attend, even for a few minutes!

Un cadeau des deux équipes de foot à UMKC

We received a very cool gift from both the women and men's soccer teams at UMKC - a soccer ball signed by all members of both teams! And it's meant to be played with, for sure.

We will begin thank you cards tomorrow.

It got a lot of use today and is well on its way to being well broke in! See photos below. Very cool!

La Bibliothèque avec Mme Lyons

Learning how to access information and literacy skills is what it's about in Mme Lyon's class. 

Les Mathématiques: 1-1 correspondence; counting and cardinality 0-12 and and back; groups of 0-12; number shapes

   

Today, Lucy works on representing quantities with corresponding numeral while beginning to learn the 'shapes' of numbers, example seeing two rows of 4 objects and understanding without counting that this represents 8. Nice job!

 

Similarly, Connor and Cleo work on recognizing that certain patterns or groupings of objects will equal the same quantity regardless of orientation in space; representing a quantity with a numeral; identifying 2-D/plane shapes; recognizing and naming the properties of each shape; guided practice and review of colors, among other foundational math skills.

Bienvenue M. Alix

We want to extend a warm welcome M. Alix to our classroom community! When not interning at AL in Kansas City, Alix is a university student in Nantes, France. Nantes is located in Northwestern France on the Loire River, approximately 30 miles from the Atlantic coast. Nantes is the sixth largest city in France, with a population of about 300,000 and metropolitan area near 900,000 - not too much different from the size of Kansas City. Nantes is also the capital city of the Pays de la Loire region and the Loire-Atlantique Département. It is the largest city in traditional Brittany and in all the Grand-Ouest (Northwestern France).

Although Alix has only worked with us one full morning so far, he has been very well received. He rolled up his sleeves and jumped in from the very start. He immediately set out learning all the kids names by heart. More telling were the student's questions he was peppered with this morning in the hallway: "Are you coming back today M. Alix?" Followed by a collective and disappointed sigh by his response: "non, pas aujourd'hui, mais je serais dans ta classe lundi matin (no, not today, but I'll be in your class Monday morning)...". This response plus expressions on the students in the photos below are even more telling.

We have a couple of friends - not purposefully - left out of photos who weren't feeling so photogenic this afternoon. I've included a few to provide at least a glimpse of almost all their faces, rather than backs, or hidden behind someone else. Enjoy. 

We look forward to getting to know Alix better in the weeks ahead! Right now, and cross your fingers, we hope to have Alix in class with us at least some part of each MWF mornings - maybe not the entire morning, but at least a portion of those mornings.