Getting ready!

Hey there kinders,  did you get the postcard I sent you this week?  I am so excited to meet you on Wednesday!  We are going to have so much fun this year.  Miss Minardi and I have been very busy getting our classroom ready for you and your pm kinder friends.  I wish I remembered to take some before and after pictures.  It's looks pretty good.  I will take some pictures when I go back and post them Tuesday night :)

We are getting all new chairs and tables this year...woo-hoo!  Mr. Gould and Mr. Duffy had to take ALL of the furniture out of our classroom so that they could put the new stuff in.  Miss Minardi and I had to sit on the floor while we were sorting out your school supplies! And then guess what happened?!  They told us that our new furniture is on back order and wont be here until October :(  So the custodians had to put all of our old furniture back in! No worries....we will have fun no matter what kind of furniture we have next week!

Have fun enjoying the last few days of summer!  See you soon.

XOXO,
Mrs. Corino

Welcome PM Kinders and Parents!

I'd like to officially welcome my afternoon kinders and their families to our blog!

I try to get a blog post in every week to show everyone what we've been doing in class. 

 I hope you will take a little time each week to check it out!

Last Thursday, a few of Mrs. Elliot's 3rd graders came in to read a book to our class.

My kiddos really enjoyed having some "big kids" read to them; 

and the 3rd graders got to practice their fluency.  

It was a win-win situation for everyone! 

 Jon, Alex and Grace listen to Darian reading the book, Soup of the Day.

Josh, John and Jordan listening intently to Stephen reading to his group.

Here's CJ reading to Sarah, Sydney and Aiden.

Brietta and Andrew are enjoying Cody's story.

Ryan kept the attention of Kevin, Victoria and Marcello with his reading.

Very Special Mystery Readers!

Boy did we have a bunch of special mystery readers this week and last!  

We started it all on Dr. Seuss's birthday, March 2nd.

Rhyan's mom came in to read a Dr. Suess book to celebrate!

Rhyan's little brother came to help too :)

Later that day, I pulled some strings and got Justin Bieber

 to read The Cat in the Hat to our class!

I had some extra time in the afternoon class and we also listened to 

Tim Tebow reading Green Eggs & Ham!  I forgot to take a picture though :(

To finish our Dr. Seuss celebration with a treat, we ate green eggs and ham for snack!

Just this past Friday, Dominic's sister Taylor was our mystery reader.  She gave some great clues and was really good and asking the kiddos questions about the story as she read it!

Dom was able to guess that it was his sister once we got to the last clue.  

The kids loved having a "big kid" as the mystery reader this week!

Mystery Reader #9

Last Friday, King's mom came in to be the mystery reader.

She read a really great book about kids who don't like to go to sleep.  

Does that sound familiar in your house?

King knew right away that his mom was the mystery reader

once I started giving the clues!

We also celebrated his birthday with worms in dirt!  

Gummy worms and chocolate pudding covered in crushed cookies, of course.

100 Days!

Wow!  Can't believe how fast those 100 days went!  

Pretty soon my little kinders will be first graders...yikes!

We had a very busy day on the 100th day of school.

  A lot of my kiddos came to school dressed like they were 100 years old! 

 Even our 3rd grade reading buddies got in on the act!

Here are the old kinders and their old buddies!

Dominc, Katrina and Andrew hard at work adding things in groups of 10s to their crazy 100 day hats.

Here Evie and Aaron are at the snack station 

counting out their snacks in groups of 10

 to make our yummy 100 piece trail mix.

Little old lady Lilly and her little old reading buddy 

working on their 100 day book together.

Boy Kindergarten has really aged Chase...look at all those wrinkles and that grey hair!  

During snack time, we made of list of the things that we would like to have 100 of.  Pretty funny!

Mother Goose

I'm sure your kinder came home on Friday and told you all about our incredible visit from Mother Goose.  She comes to Kindergarten every year to teach our children the virtue of kindness.  She has the children help her act out her most popular nursery rhymes and does a bit of magic along the way.

The first rhyme she told us was about the Queen of England and the pussy cat that hid under her chair.  Our very own Lily was chosen to play the queen!

Jaylen and a student from Mrs. Andaloro's class got to play the parts of the King and Queen of Hearts.  Jaylen performed a little magic himself, buy pulling the heart cookies out of the magic bag! 

 We were all very impressed!

King, Katelyn and a student from Mrs. Andaloro's class played 

the three little kittens who lost their mittens.

Keynen helped out with the Old Mother Hubbard story.

Ryan and one of Mrs. Andaloro's girls played Mary, Mary quite contrary. They watered the vase with magic water to try to make the flowers grow.....

 ...and boy, did their magic do the trick!

At the end, Mother Goose picked Lauren and Mara to help count

 Little Boo Peep's lost sheep.

The kids and I really enjoyed her visit.

Mystery Reader #8

Last Thursday, Lily's mom came in to be our mystery reader.

Some of her clues sounded very familiar to a bunch of my kiddos.

I heard a lot of, "hey, my mom has a red car!"

Mrs. Hoang read one of my favorite stories, If You Give a Pig a Pancake.

We all enjoyed her reading.  The kids are becoming very good audience members.  We have learned (mostly) to be good listeners and not to interrupt the person that is reading.

Lily did guess that her mom was the mystery reader,

and she was quite excited to share her Mommy with our class!