Our Map Book- April Family Project

Here is an example completed by Mrs. Latarte of the My Map Book students will be completing this month:

(Sorry! The pictures wouldn't go on to the website in any other direction!)

Our Map Unit

Thank you all for your contribution to our map unit! As you can see below, we were able to recieve over 35 postcards from friends and family members around the country!  The children really enjoyed recieving mail at school and looked forward to hearing their special messages each day.  I will be sending the postcards home with students at the end of this week. I would encourage you to ask your student to respond to their postcards, as many who wrote asked the students questions.  They can always practice their letter writing skills!

We also had a visit from the Easter Bunny this week. Oh wait! No....that's just our students!

Click on the below movie clip to hear a special greeting from our students. Have a great Spring Break!

Celebrating Reading Month!

Our Fourth Grade Buddies from Mrs. Clay's classroom were able to come visit  this week!  Each child paired up with their buddy to listen and help them read a Spring or Fairytale story.  After reading together, our buddies helped our students fill out a book story map.  Our reading theme is "Reading Takes You Places!"  On the story map, each child had to share where the story and characters took them.

Our Library helper, Mrs. C., surprised the students with an extra special Easter surprise!  After reading an Easter Bunny story during library, she gave our class hand-made oragami bunnies.  Thank you Mrs. C!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We have had an exciting week celebrating St. Patrick's Day! Here are a few of the activities below:

 Working on our Leprechaun Puppets with our Boulan Buddies!

A Math Graphing Activity using Lucky Charms! They're magically delicious!

What happened to our room?!?!  Mickey and Patrick, the Leprechauns, visited our room and took us on a Scavenger hunt. 

Look! We found treasure, but the Leprechauns were too quick for us! Maybe we'll find them next year!

Will Ryan LaTarte

Hello there families!  I hope everyone is doing well!  I wanted to thank you for all of the nice emails and well wishes that I have received since delivering our little boy.  Today I even received a little package with cards that your kiddos had made for me.  I loved seeing their little drawings and then seeing pictures of all of the fun they are having on the blog.   We are loving our little guy Will and feel very blessed.  We brought him home from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon and are getting used to being parents!  Here are a few pictures for you!  I miss all of the kiddos, please tell them I said hello and give them a hug from me.  Maybe when he is a bit older I can stop by so the kiddos can meet him.  Take care everyone!
Jen LaTarte

Boulan Buddies & the Three Little Pigs!

Our Boulan Buddies from the middle school come to visit our classroom nearly every Tuesday.  This week, I was able to set up a rotation of educational games for the Kindergarten students to complete with their buddies.  Each Boulan buddy was able to explain and assist the children with the activities, giving our buddies the chance to practice their leadership skills too!  The games ranged from Sight Word Bingo to Counting out Money using our classroom play money.

We also begin a fairy tale unit this week, beginning with The Three Little Pigs. There are several different versions of the story, varying from the original to those told from the Wolf’s perspective as well as the complete opposite books such as The Three Little Wolves and the Big, Bad Pig  Students had the opportunity to hear several versions of this fairy tale, which helped when making connections through our activities.  Each child made finger puppets, a cover page illustration for the story during Computers, a Three Little Pigs story map, and even wrote a letter to Mr. Wolf!   Here are some pictures of students acting out our story with the help of Character Masks during our week: