Happenings With Hemme

Our Fall Party

11/4/2019

I was informed, by the kids, the day before Halloween that our room needed decorations.
We made candy corn and strung them all over our room. It might have been last minutes but we were very festive.

Spider Hoop Toss
was FUN!

We balanced eyeballs on spoons and had to hand off to our partner.
There were lots of bouncing eyeballs on the gym floor.

We decorated our own pumpkins. Each one was very unique.

THANK YOU to the Mom's and Dad that helped!!
(Avery and Brady's Mom & Dad, and Brody's Mom)

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A Little of This, A Little of That

10/30/2019

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Generations Together Day was a HUGE success! I was in the game/puzzle room. Unfortunately these are the only pictures I snapped all day.
There was so much fun had by all.

Our 3rd and 4th grade book buddies helped us order our letters.
ABC order can be fun with friends.

We read/watched "Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins", then made our own structure to hold 5 pumpkins. I did not help them. Their job was to work with their partner and make a plan together.

Look at all these pumpkins and gourds donated by Pete and Dana Melies.
THANK YOU! The students had fun sorting them.

Crazy hair and sock day calls for a CRAZY picture.

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Letter People, sight words, and more!

10/24/2019

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Our Funny Feet Mr. F was found frolicking in the fan.

These kiddos not only know their sight words but they can write them.

We love practicing our letters by putting them in alphabetical order.

We learned about CAPITAL and lowercase letters.
Lesson #1- only our first letter in our name is CAPITAL. The others have to be lowercase.

Shaving cream is always fun! Plus it cleans our desks and makes our room smell good.
One students said, "It smells like my Grandpa!"

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Another FUN week in Kindergarten

10/16/2019

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We've had some sickness floating around the classroom. Brady was gone for about a week. He was very missed. When he returned he brought with him an Oximeter.
This was so exciting. Every classmate was able to test their oxygen levels.
We even charted and compared our numbers.

The Letter People have invaded our classroom. WE LOVE THEM!
This week Tall Tooth Ms. T surprised us. She taught us all about good dental hygiene.

Show and Tell continues to be a favorite time of the day. Willow spiced it up a bit and brought two of her kittens. Thanks Willow's Mom for coming with them and helping out. The kids are STILL talking about them.

This is such a kind class. This week we gave our friends compliments in the form of writing. They did great and everyone left feeling good about themselves.

I am SO proud of this next project, for several different reasons. Mrs. Meyer and I thought it would be a great idea to partner up the kindergartners and the 8th graders. They will graduate together in the Spring, so we thought it was a good idea for them to get to know each other. When we started discussing it we discovered it was meant to be. We both had 13 students. We BOTH had 8 boys and 5 girls. Coincidence? I think not.

We strategically partnered them up, boys with boys and girls with girls. We are hoping that these partnerships will be together all year long.

For our AWESOME project...
Each pair got to cut out leaves. (those fine motor skill are very important)
I loved to sit back and listen to the conversations while they were cutting.
"What's your favorite movie?" "What's your favorite color?"
"I like your name." "Wow, your shoes are cool!"

What you need:
-shaving cream
-paint
-knife/straw

*cover the bottom of a pan with shaving cream. Squirt the paint in lines. Use a knife or straw to make a marble effect. Place your leaf down in the mixture. Press. Pull up. Let dry.

These turned out great. They will be our table decorations for the chili/soup dinner on Sunday, October 27th. We hope to see you there!!

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October is Here

10/7/2019

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We read the story, "I like Me". Then we charted as a class our favorite thing about us. After our together time we independently made a page for our class book. This book is floating around in backpacks. I hope it makes it to each home.
This book is worth reading.

Jay's favorite part of him is his heart because it makes him kind, like when his friends get hurt, he can help them up.

We focused on the sight word TO. They were blown away at the many spellings of to/too/two. In this chart activity we were going somewhere.

Fall and fine motor activity. The students tore up paper for this art project. Tearing up paper is a great fine motor practice skill. It can build those finger muscles that help up write our name and cute with scissors.

Our Letter Person began this week! This was one of my sons' favorite things when he was in Kindergarten with Mrs. Bredehoeft. I figured I would continue the tradition. Just as I suspected, these kids LOVED it too. We started with the letter M. Munching Mr. M had a catchy song too. I hope some of you got to hear it.

Matching our Moses cards

Mr. M sent us mail. He had us go on a marching hunt to find him.

We found him. He left us marshmallows and M&M's.

Our Kindergarteners LOVE their book buddies. They spend the first 15 minutes reading and the last 15 minutes playing with tub toys. They are building great relationships.

THANK YOU to the mystery parent who bought books for every student in the class.

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The 1st Week of Fall...

9/26/2019

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Since our season changed along with the weather, we made it look a little more like fall in the classroom. In art, we rubbed leaves with wax crayons and then watercolor painted over the top. Together as a class we made a giant tree.
This was a great team building activity.

Our Bible story this week talked a lot about feelings. We wrote down some that we have frequently. Bored and SUPER bored were ones the class thought was HILARIOUS.

Why not use shaving cream to practice making Ww's! It is WHITE.

Another snack masterpiece brought to you by the Meyer family. Those are black olives that you see. This was a BIG hit!

In Social Studies we discussed jobs. This sparked a huge topic of discussion.
We charted all about our grown-up jobs.

When I Grow Up I Want to Be A...

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Week #5

9/19/2019

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Our sight word of the week has officially started. I think they're having TOO much fun. I like to make games out of them and they love that. We've done lots of partner work and one day I wore the word on my name tag ALL DAY. They thought it was hilarious.

It looks like my tactics are working. I am randomly finding sticky notes with our sight words on them.
I love it.

Social Studies this week has been about where we live. Their homework was to memorize their address. These kiddos knew their addresses by Tuesday.
Good Job Parents!!

Art

Never did I imagine that I'd be teaching ART. I have trouble drawing a stick person. But I have really come to love art with the students. I am able to be creative and incorporate other subjects into art class.

Our Field Trip

The corn husking field trip was so much fun and definitely worth going to.
We learned all about things in the olden days. The students were surprised about how much muscle it took to do the chores.

The bees were a favorite.
They immediately spotted the queen bee and fought over the bee keeper outfits.

This is an animal loving group of kindergartners, so of course they loved the horses.

Old time kitchen and jail. Uh oh, these three somehow ended up in jail.

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Week #4

9/11/2019

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We begin our day with yoga. This helps set the mood for our entire day. These kiddos love having their own quiet time to belly breathe and relax.

Journal time is another favorite of mine.
I give the students a broad topic and let them draw/write. I am doing a lot of the writing now, but I'm hoping to have them writing more soon. We discussed our feelings this week. We learned that it's okay to feelings. Adults have feelings too. It's what we do with those feelings that really make a difference in our day and those around us.

Look at these SUPER writers!! Now it's a competition to see who can write the most.
I love it!

Another fun snack picture. This is completely student made without any adult initiation.

These boys are the best of friends. "Mrs. Hemme, take a picture."

In social studies we are learning about maps. We made a map of our school and took a tour. They had fun figuring out my codes. We even went to the tornado shelter on our school tour.

We were sitting so quietly on the carpet when I heard a booming sound. My first thought was that it was a student making the noise against the wall. Then the noise got louder and louder and the kids started to notice. Lucky for us, the Santa Fe marching band was practicing. We marched ourselves outside and watched. We loved it. Happy Friday!

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Week #3

9/5/2019

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I want to start this week by saying THANK YOU!! Parents, I know your job is tough. Then to remember everything that goes along with having kids in school; homework, reading, important dates, and on top of all that...SNACK. I'm just as guilty. I had moments where I rolled my eyes thinking about what I had in the cabinets for snack. But let me tell you...being a teacher and being with these kiddos during their snack time has made me rethink my mindset.

Snack time isn't just kids eating somewhat healthy things.

It goes like this...
prayer, passing out snack (one-to-one), opening snack/milk (fine motor skills), and practicing manners while eating. The real fun begins while the kids are digging in. I sit back and listen to their conversations in awe. Today the conversations were everything from why they did or didn't like coconut...to how coconut flakes are made from an actual coconut...to Jesus bringing coconuts on Noah's Ark. (Thanks Lucy and Mom for making protein balls with coconut.)

I was reminded today of this verse
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." -Mark 10:14

If you can't tell I am NOT a worksheet teacher. I know kids need to be kids and a lot can be learned by playing and doing things hands-on. Now there are instances where paper is necessary to accomplish a task. In this case, we are writing in all different places. The kids love to draw pictures of things. Why not? They are still learning letters and sounds. Plus, it's WAY more fun!

They always have the best answers.

In math we made patterns. We started with a simple ABAB pattern.
Look at how well they are working.

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Week #2

8/30/2019

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For some reason these students already dread writing. I have started getting creative. They GET to write on the white board. Little do they realize that they are actually writing and working on their fine motor skills.

During math time we use A LOT of manipulative. The students love to have "free time". It's interesting to see what they do with their things. They have HUGE imaginations and stories to go along with them.

The boys outnumber the girls in our class. It's funny how everything is a competition to them. These boys thought they won something.

Our religion series has great discussion questions. Instead of just talking about it, it's fun to chart and draw. I'm glad the kindergartners don't mind my horrible art skills.

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Our Fall Party

A Little of This, A Little of That

Letter People, sight words, and more!

Another FUN week in Kindergarten

October is Here

The 1st Week of Fall...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be A...

Week #5

Art

Our Field Trip

Week #4

Week #3

Week #2

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