Volunteer Appreciation

I am so THANKFUL to my parent volunteers. They have been coming in once a week to read leveled books with my class. They read with each. and. every. student. every. day. Needless to say these ladies are amazing. So here is a small token of my gratitude.

How do you thank a parent for their help and dedication throughout the year? Well another teacher and I  were in charge of the Volunteer Appreciation board this year. Here is the cute board we came up with:) Each student wrote why they were thankful to their parents for helping them succeed. It could be as little as packing their lunch each day or up to volunteering weekly in their class.

Wrapping up the year

I have started the process of ending our year (tear). These kiddos have been awesome this year! Every year I think that there is no way the next class can be as sweet/awesome/wonderful, but some how they always are! Well there are some really cute things that we make through out the year, that I just think that the families should hang on to, and I hate to think of these things going in the trash. So I created a way to keep all the things together, and to celebrate the end of the year. Here are few things I do to make the end of the year just a little more special:)

1. Kindergarten Memory box- I just buy a pack of plain pizza boxes from Gordon's FS ($20 for a box of about 50). They turned out super cute with handprints and fingerprints<3

2. My end of the year bulletin board- each student writes what they want to be when they grow up and I take the picture- it goes in the box.

3. At the end of each student's star student week, they put their handprints on our wall of fame. I have these displayed all year, so now they can just go home in the box!

4. I put their award certificate in the box, and at the awards ceremony I put the medal on them.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-year-Award-Certificatesmedalsinvitesparent-thank-you-card-1203087

5. Everything that I learned in Kindergarten writing 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7yJ9Mr-2JPIdUF3MV8tVW9ZY2s/edit?usp=sharing

Kid-isms

There are so many times when I just laugh out loud during the day while teaching. These little ones crack me up on a daily basis. I'm not talking that forced laugh that everyone does to appease others. I am talking about the take you by surprise, Oh my Goodness- I wasn't expecting that, I wish there was another adult around who could see this too, laugh. So I decided when those moments happen, I now have a section to share them:)

LOL moment #1- Last week we were working on handwriting, and doing the word man. I was walking around the room, making sure kiddos did not have floating letters, were using punctuation, all that stuff we preach all year.  I was reading sentence after sentence of:

I see a man.
The man is in the car.

Then I come to one of my really good students, one who always is doing what he is suppose to do, when he is suppose to do it, one of my role models. His sentence read, with perfect handwriting, grammar and punctuation:

The man went pee outside.

I laughed, and laughed, and laughed. I laughed so loud that the other kids wanted to know what was so funny. I had one of those moments of do I tell them? I know if I tell them they will all write it on their paper, and I do not want to encourage it.  So I did read them his sentence, but no one else tried to copy it- thankfully!

Thanks for reading
*Jessica*