Tag: kindergarten
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August 20, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
We have been talking about this day for a while now and it finally arrived on Wednesday. My five year old daughter started kindergarten. There were many mixed emotions as I'm sure there are with every . . .
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June 16, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
Young bodies are full of kinetic energy. They need to jump, leap, run, skip and slide into new beginnings. Over the years, I have used a sandhill near the school for just this very purpose. . . .
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July 21, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
This photo is my kindergarten picture. I was four when this was taken. This is my inner child. This is the image that is in my minds eye when I think of myself. I don't know when I get to Heaven what . . .
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January 30, 2008 12:35 AM EST --
I don't know about you, but I have fond memories of new snowfall. Most of the time during the actual storm, as a child, we are not allowed access to the outdoors. But once the blizzard is over, . . .
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June 01, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago, Lena and I were sitting outside on my porch and she mentioned that she had a collection of instruments that she thought might be fun to bring into class. The kids might really . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:24 AM EDT --
Oh, Spring, it comes every year in kindergarten. And like the irises now blooming in my garden, my children open up and express their own individuality, by self selecting a piece of literature that . . .
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August 29, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
Ok I have 3 1/2 year old twins. They "might" be going to preschool if they qualify... and I believe there is only one class so they will be together if they do go.
So I told . . .
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September 14, 2008 09:25 AM EDT --
By it's very nature, a kindergarten classroom is full of worthwhile activity. During Free Activity, I encourage the children to make individual choices. I love watching as the children . . .
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September 28, 2008 08:02 AM EDT --
In class we read the book, Red Day, Green Day by Edith Kunhardt. It is an effective variation on the idea of a color concept book. In the book, Mrs. Halsey, the kindergarten teacher, conducts . . .
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September 30, 2008 08:37 PM EDT --
Yesterday afternoon when I was leaving school, I noticed that the cranberry bog behind our school was being flooded from the lake nearby. That could only mean one thing...on the morrow, cranberry . . .
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August 14, 2009 01:39 PM EDT --
Ok first let me say my daughter is in Kindergarten, in my days that meant a Backpack and an old shirt for a paint smock, that's all they asked for. Today this is what is required for Kindergarten . . .
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September 18, 2009 11:31 PM EDT --
Butterflies in the stomach, sweaty palms, . . .
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November 04, 2009 12:00 PM EST --
Yesterday we got Maddie's kindergarten photos back. I was actually presently surprised when I saw her photo. I am not big on school pictures in the first place, probably because mine were terrible . . .
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September 24, 2007 08:33 PM EDT --
As my young kindergarteners came in off the bus today and joined me at circle time I was met with some very overwhelming positive responses to the dress I was wearing:
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September 10, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
"All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer."
~ Vincent De Paul~
Last . . .
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June 03, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
I am so excited that he will be attending Pre Kindergarten. He has had a lot of problems with his ears and hearing, so he needs this before going to kindergarten. I am hoping he loves it!! . . .
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November 25, 2009 05:18 PM EST --
Today in Katies Kindergarten class the kids dressed up as either Pilgrams or Indians. Katie choose to be a Pilgram.
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August 19, 2007 07:48 PM EDT --
Tomorrow is the first day of Kindergarten for my youngest boy Jacob. He is so ready to go and he is very excited, but I am a nervous wreck! I am doing a good job of hiding it though. . . .
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March 31, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
As I explained in my article "Jump into Spring", Lynne M. is the mother of one of my kindergarten students in the A.M. class. She takes incredible portraits and I wanted to share some . . .
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May 28, 2008 07:27 AM EDT --
Last week we started Unit 6, our last unit in our literacy curriculum. Over the next several weeks we will be exploring habitats around the world. Today in the morning class, I took the children . . .
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