End of the Year Fun!

Bucket Filler Theme Day

 This year the whole school participated in the Bucket Filler Program in order to improve school climate and promote kindness.  As an end of the year celebration, the whole school participated in a Theme Day full of different center activities to practice team work and working together... and an awesome assembly!

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Field Day

Field Day was a wild day filled with all sorts of fun physical activities.  It was run by Mr. Reid, our physical education teacher, and we had lots of parent volunteers to help make it a success!

 

 

Turtleback Zoo Field Trip 2013

Kindergarten Class Trip to the Turtle Back Zoo

 

For our field trip this year we returned to the Turtle Back Zoo in Essex County, NJ.  The sun came out this year and we all had a FABULOUS time on our class trip!  I would like to say a special thanks to the wonderful parents who volunteered their time to supervise the children.  As you can see below, we all had a great time running around, seeing the animals, pretending to be prairie dogs, and playing!  We also learned a lot about animals and their natural habitats!

Male Peackock

Getting ready to feel the sting rays

Snow Leopard

Sea Lion

Red Panda

Condor

Cougar

Jaguar

Big Pig!

Emma pets sheep.

Jenna & Ariel pet the sheep.

 

Emma, Jenna, & Ariel

Joe checking out the jaguar.

Max checking out the jaguar.

Charlie, Miles, & Christopher

 

Erik, Erin, & Kayla

 

Katie & Layla

Dylan, Tommy, Alfi, & Ethan

Lauren, Brent, & Addison with the bison.

Kayleigh, Joe, Satyam, Dalton, Max, Jaden, & Maguire

Grace, Nick D., Alexis, Christina, Hana, Amira, Lexi, Tina, & Damian

A big group!

Then more came!  This is almost everyone. :)

Don't Let Pigeon Drive The Bus Reader's Theater

Our classroom is a balanced literacy classroom, with plenty of engaging opportunities for students to read with and to other students.  We recently reread on of our favorite books: Mo Willem's Don't let Pigeon Drive the Bus!  It was exciting to see things like speech bubbles and exclamation points used so effectively, since we have been working on using those features in our Writer's Workshop.  We really got a feel for the emotions of the characters and interpreted them through a Reader's Theater based upon the book. Below are videos of our final performances: enjoy!

AM

Addison, Ariel, & Erik

Charlie, Max, & Emma

Erin, Kayleigh, & Miles

Addison, Brent, & Katie

Jenna, Lauren, & Jaden

Joe, Maguire, & Layla

Satyam, Chris, & Kayla

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Alexis, Tommy, & Nick D.

Alfi, Giovanni, Hana, & Tina

Amira, Dylan, & Damian

Carlton, Dalton, & Mikayla

Ethan, Lexi, & Christina

Grace, Nicholaas H., Colin