Friday Fun Day!

We spent most of this week reviewing our first unit of letters, sounds and words. Several fun activities made the review so enjoyable the kids forgot we were learning! Oohs and aaahs were heard as the kids came back in the room from music and there were crayons posted all over the ceiling with our sight words on them. We turned off the lights and took turns finding words with a flashlight.

Another review hit was Super Speed reading! We took turns reading rows of words and then used dot markers to highlight all the words on our pages in different colors.

The last several years I have named Friday as "Friday Fun Day." We try to do fun things throughout the day with one special "fun day" activity that they have to earn during the week with good behavior as a class. These kids work HARD all week long. I expect a lot out of them, so on Fridays we relax a little and have a lot of fun!

Our fun today included our "mystery" reader and a special outdoor review game. We reviewed numbers 1-10, with each correct answer earning a toss of the beanbag at the target.

We ended our day with a few more review games and--gasp!--didn't even lay down for our rest time! We were too busy working on ordinal numbers! It was a super end to a super week! (And I'm ready for a nap and a couple days off to gear up for next week!)

Field Trip Frenzy!

Our very first field trip of the year...I'm so glad it was right on our own soccer field. I'm not quite ready to take these kinder kids off campus yet! The WVU Hospitals medic helicopter landed on our very own soccer field yesterday.

We all watched in great anticipation as the copter landed!

The excitement mounted all day..and I mean ALL. DAY. LONG. We enjoyed a lunchtime pizza party for being the class to see the most pizzas for our fundraiser and the control I like to think I have over the class went downhill from there. By the time we got to the soccer field the kids were dizzy with enthusiasm for the impending helicopter landing. Of course, the helicopter was about 20 minutes later than expected! They had some trouble getting cleared for takeoff, but once the kids heard the sound coming over the trees there was no calming them down. The kids watched in great anticipation as the copter circled around the soccer field...and I held my breath as the copter came closer and closer to the beloved soccer field...praying the entire time that the soccer field would not be ruined smack dab in the middle of soccer season! (Boy would my name be mud...sorry Coach Hobbs!)

My son, Jared, was so proud to have his picture next to the helicopter!

Each and every child got a chance to get inside the helicopter and ask as many questions as they wanted. It was a wonderful end to a wonderful week, but boy was I tired by the end of the day! Good thing these things are planned for Fridays!

(And for those of you who are wondering...the soccer field is still in top condition. Whew! Coach Hobbs can take me off his doghouse list!)