Learning About Stress

Mr. Lane came in today and spoke with us about stress and how to identify it. He read a wonderful book... I have to get the name of it. (Once I do I will share it with you.) The book used animals to describe the different ways stress can manifest. Mr. Lane also talked about how stress can spread through a group of people.

Mr. Lane read the book and the talked about the animals.

Then students got into partners, picked an animal (stress) and practiced a scenario to act out in a situation.

These are the animals and their description. They will be posted in our classroom for students to reference.

Just within a day we have become experts in identifying our stress and what animal we are being. Super awesome!

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REMINDERS:

Report Cards- were sent home today. If you have any questions or comments please let me know. I placed them in backpacks while students were at afternoon recess.

Winter Gear- please make sure your child comes to school with hat, mittens/gloves, jacket, snowpants and boots. We have snow! It is a beautiful winter wonderland in our playground!

Scholastic Book Order- are due today! You can still order online using our classroom code PCR8P. The orders will be placed tomorrow evening. They will arrive before Thursday, December 22nd.

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Busy, busy week in kindergarten!

Love,

Miss Brehm

Comments

First Day Fun!

Today was a wonderful day! We had fun exploring our classroom, learning different expectations and just getting to know one another! We enjoyed our first special today LIBRARY! Mrs. Burroughs is so nice and we enjoyed our time together. As a class we read the book Shh We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton. It is a wonderful book that we will be creating our first classroom book about! In the whirl of the end of day I forgot to send home the first day letters with our schedule. I will make sure to get them home tomorrow in Thursday folders. I am so happy that we are all together! I can't wait to see what this year has in store for us! Love, Miss Brehm

Reminders

There are just a few things I would like to remind you about! Tomorrow we are skyping with Dianne White author of Blue on Blue. We have brainstormed questions together and have even started to write our own poem inspired by the book. It is sure to be amazing! Here is a taste of our poem inspired by Dianne White... Fluffy snow On winter night. Green on green White on white. Skating, sledding Snowy day. Silver on white On golden day. If you are able to please donate to our classroom PIE (Partners in Education) themed basket raffle fundraiser. Our classroom theme is Summer Fun ! I have set aside a bin in our classroom for donations. The items must be in by Thursday, March 9th. Thank you for supporting our class and school. Scholastic Book Orders are due this Friday, February 17th . Our Flynn field trip is Tuesday, March 21st . We will leave JES at 8:30 am and return at 11:15 am. We will have snack before we leave and be back in time for...

PAINT DAY!

Paint is READY! We are SO excited to meet Mary and paint our elephant!! ____________________________ Today was AMAZING! It surpassed all my wildest dreams! As a group we had SO much fun creating and painting our elephants! What an amazing experience it was to end our year together on! I hope you enjoy the pictures and are able to come and check out the wonderful elephants we created with MARY! Our morning started with Mary sharing what she does and different murals she has done throughout the US. Then we watched a quick video of her time in Chester, PA painting elephants! Then we started to PAINT! Here is the evolution of our elephants! To the finished product! One elephant will be hung in our classroom and the other will be hung somewhere in the school for everyone to enjoy! A truly AMAZING day! I wish you well! Love, Miss Brehm

Miss Brehm's Kindergarten Classroom

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