Happy Mother's Day!

As we ended our last social studies unit on recycling, the kindergarteners decided to make a special gift for our mothers, aunts and grandmothers!  Thank you to all of the special mothers in our lives for helping us to "bloom" into who we are!  Here are a few pictures of the children doing some gardening and recycling.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I would also like to say a huge THANK YOU to my own mother who continues to amaze me everyday.  Thank you, Mom!

Night of the Arts

Join us on Wednesday, May 16 from 5 -7pm!

During the Night of the Arts, each of the kindergarteners will have a piece of their original art on display!  This is wonderful opportunity for families and friends to see all the hard work the children have been doing this year with Ms. Seikaly in art class!  I hope to see everyone there!

Rainbow Weaving

Here is our class with our finished rainbow weaving!  We practiced weaving as a way of strengthening our fine motor skills!  This was very difficult at first, but after some practice, we all started to get the hang of it.  Check out our finished products!

Spring Concert

Last week, the kindergarteners did an amazing job in their first school concert!  They sang, they danced, some of them even played instruments!  I think my favorite part was their hip hop cover of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, complete with some break dancing!  What a wonderful job the children and Ms. Ritter did!

Here the kindergarteners are as they performed in the concert.  Donovan was chosen to play an instrument during the performance!  He can be seen standing next to Ms. Ritter

I am so proud of each one of you!  You are all super stars and born to be on stage!

Teachers Go Bananas!

Have you ever seen your teacher go bananas before?  On March 1st, every teacher in the building dressed up like a character from one of their favorite books!  We then took turns "going bananas" and running into different classrooms to read our books to other children!  Here are the Lighthouse teachers after a long day of GOING BANANAS!!

Mr Kefgen ( from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), Ms. Mirjah (from the Cat in the Hat), Ms. Standard (from Where the Wild Things Are), Mrs. Woolsey (from Clifford the Big Red Dog), Ms. Josephson (from Ms. Nelson is Missing) and Ms. Demsky (from Fancy Nancy)

One of the silliest parts of the day was the song that played on the PA to signal the teachers to go bananas - Banana Phone by Raffi!

Shining Light

Last week, we had two Shining Lights!  I explained to the kindergarteners that I was looking for someone who does an excellent job of sharing.  Congratulations, Anthony and Jarvis!  Both of the boys showed what excellent shares they are, sharing both materials and taking turns!

Lighthouse Book Walk

To finish March is Reading Month, Lighthouse Village celebrated our love of reading by presenting a book walk for friends and family.  Each child chose a book and learned all of the story elements present in the book - characters, setting, plot, problem and solution.  Here we are presenting our information!  They all did such a wonderful job!

A great big CONGRATULATIONS goes to Anthony, who read the most books for our classroom contest - 50 books!  I am so proud of all the children who participated!