Happenings With Hemme

Mr. Dancing D

1/13/2020

Our letter person this week led us on a hunt. We followed the dominoes on the floor to a DANCE PARTY in Mrs. Wells' classroom.
We danced the Hokey Pokey, The Chicken Dance, and The Cupid's Shuffle.

We also found donuts and dirt there.

January is Here!

After reading the book, "Snowmen at Night," we wrote stories of our own.

We began adding our last name to EVERY paper this week. Some of these kiddos have longer last names. They are doing awesome though.

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This may look like an ordinary picture, but it's far from ordinary for me. As I sat down to input my attendance, students were busy at work. One asked for "Jesus Music". This is a picture of the students working and singing their Jesus Music. As I held back tears I was reminded that God knew exactly where I would be at this very moment. Last year at this time, I was unhappy with my job and stressed to the max.
Wow, how things change. Trust God and his timing.

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Christmas- Part 2

1/6/2020

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Our Christmas Party was SO much fun! Thank you Mom's and brother that came to help. The kids has a great time and are still talking about it.
I didn't get many pictures because of all the excitement, but I bet I know where I can get some copies of pictures.

I was able to attend the Christmas service in Marshall.
It put me in the Christmas spirit for sure.

I hope everyone had a Merry CHRISTmas and enjoyed time with family, I know I did.

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Christmas- Part 1

12/13/2019

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We had a special delivery from the North Pole. Santa sent us an Elf to make sure we are being good. Our Elf, Nickelson, is quite the ornery little guy.

Students from St. Paul High School caroled right into our classroom.
The kids were in SHOCK. Thanks for bringing the Christmas spirit.

This was a fun activity to do. I loved their reasoning.
"Elves get to play with all the toys!"
"Reindeer fly in the sky."

We made Christmas trees, I called them puzzles. The students had to put the trees together in order from smallest to biggest. It was a bit of a challenge for some.

I love being festive and transforming our room/door/hallway into Christmas!!

Our 2nd Flat Stanley returned. Sena's!!! It visited Maine, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C. We even have pictures of the ocean.

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Thanksgiving

12/3/2019

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We are a thankful bunch of kids. They could've talked for an hour.

We listened to the story, "Turkey Trouble," then we charted what we would eat instead of turkey. I loved their answers.

Pilgrims and Indians generated quite the conversations. They were very headstrong about who they would want to be.

The day before Thanksgiving break we met with the 8th graders and had some fun/bonding time. First we cut out our Thanksgiving dinner out of magazines.
Then we made miniature pumpkin pies.

We love the relationships we are building and look forward to the next time we get to spend time with the 8th graders.

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Almost Thanksgiving...

11/21/2019

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We are learning so much our brains hurt. A kindergartner actually told me that this week. I guess I'm doing my job. The students loved these magnetic letters. We put them in ABC order, then we made words by sounding them out.

These kids are SO smart. I know I say that a lot but they are constantly making me challenge them. That's a great problem to have.

Our FIRST Flat Stanley arrived! They were very excited, especially Reese. Her Aunt Linda and Uncle Jim took Flat Stanley to Bass Pro, Dogwood Canyon, Ha Ha Tonka, and College of the Ozarks. It's not too late to send in your addresses.

I present to you the SIGHT WORD KINGS and their QUEEN!
Anything to encourage learning. We played a sight word game. These were the winners. Of course I had to make a BIG deal about their title. I'm hoping it will encourage others to practice their sight words at home.

I had to hold back tears today, happy tears that is. Our students stuffed 64 boxes for Operation Christmas. That means 64 kids around the world will have Christmas presents. This warms my heart.

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Lots of Learning

11/12/2019

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Letter recognition and letter sounds are the building blocks for reading. We still review our letters every couple days. Our favorite way to review is playing games.
In this game the students draw the card of a capital letter and then find the lowercase letter that matches on their paper.
Then the student has to check with their partner and color if they agree.

Jack Hartmann is one of my favorite YouTube channels to subscribe to. He's a silly older man that the kids love. We learn and review our sight words with Mr. Jack.

This is a new, harder activity that we've started doing. I try to find two of their sight words that make the beginning of a sentence. This week our words were "You are". As the student wrote the words with their partner they had to tell them a "You are" sentence.
This is what I heard...
"You are pretty" (giggles)
"You are smart"
"You are strong"
"You are really fast like Flash"

Good ol' shaving cream to clean the desks and practice our sight words.
*This is a great Christmas present idea for me.
I can never have enough shaving cream.

I fail to post anything about science because I don't teach it. Mrs. Wells does and she does an AMAZING job. This week they've been discovering animals,
specifically pets.

This past week was Red Ribbon Week. We had fun dressing up and decorating our door. We HAD to include Pete the Cat. You're looking at the door contest WINNER!!
Our reward=ICE CREAM PARTY!

Shapes, shapes, shapes. I absolutely LOVE geoboards. Maybe I'm a dork, but I think there are so many possibilities with them.
Instead of worksheets we created our own shapes.

Veteran's Day

Our Veteran's Day celebration was a great reminder for our kiddos. They all had stories about a family member in the military. I loved hearing them all.

Even though it was snowy and slick there were still 22 veterans that attended.

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Our Fall Party

11/4/2019

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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.