Collier....OWL of the WEEK and Special Thanks!

Collier is our Owl of the Week!  He is 4 years old and has 1 little sister named Marley!  He loves her very much.  You know what else he loves???  Orange Leaf.  He loves that you can make your own and put whatever you want on your ice cream!  I think it is pretty yummy, too! 

Can you believe that it is almost Christmas Break!  I am in shock that we are about half way done with our school year.  Yesterday the PTA sponsored a staff lunch for the teacher and staff and it was amazing.  Thank you to Noelle's mom and big sister, for coming to watch our class!  The kids were napping so there wasn't a lot to do but I appreciate her coming and letting Mrs. Shaide and I go enjoy a special lunch!  Today we made MAGIC REINDEER FOOD!  All the kids have a bag and they can sprinkle it in their yard on Christmas Eve so the reindeer can have lots of energy to fly.  Oh to be a kid again!!! 

Gingerbread WEEK!!

We are having so much fun talking about the GINGERBREAD MAN!  We have been reading different versions of this classic folktale.  So far we have read "The Gingerbread Man" and "The Gingerbread Baby"!  I can't wait to read the other versions.  We are going to vote on which we one like the best!!!

I think so far I like the Gingerbread Baby because he doesn't get eaten.  We are making Gingerbread people as a family project and I will post pics when they all come in!!!

Owl of the Week.....It's Beginning to LOOK a lot like CHRISTMAS!!!

 Doen't our cottage look too cute for words!  I just can't get over the cuteness!

Noelle is our Owl this week!  She is going to turn 5 next week!  I love that she was born in December and her name is Noelle!  Perfection!

Noelle has 2 sisters and 1 brother!  She loves school and has many friends.  I think she is particularly partial to one little boy named Will!!! 

Santa's workshop has nothing on us!!!  We have been working on Christmas goodies!

EAT MORE CHICKIN and STUFF the SLEIGH!!!

All the Pre-K teachers showed up for Chick-fil-a night!  We had so much fun seeing all our kids!!!

We saw this cute little family!  We also so Madisen's family but I didn't think to snap a picture!!  I saw Sabrina and Samantha in the drive-up!

Look at these toys we got for Stuff the Sleigh!  I know it hard to spend money at Christmas, but I am so glad that our parents are bringing toys for kids who are in need!  We are so blessed!  This afternoon we are going to have a surprise!  I will tell you more about that later!!

Chick-fil-a Night for Roberts!!!

Tonight is Chick-fil-A night to support our school!  Hope to see you there!!!

Owl of the Week....Kayden

Kayden if our Owl of the week!  Isn't he so cute!  He is very sweet and has WONDERFUL manners.  He loves playing with trucks, cars, and trains.  He is going to be a great owl this week!  Oh and he is always dressed super cute!!!

Happy Thanksgiving, Go Hog, and Happy Birthday, Mrs. Anderson!!!

Thanksgiving is here and we are so very Thankful for our new school!  It truly is the BEST school!  Today was our Thanksgiving Feast!  Our class were the Pilgrims!  My grandmother made me these Pilgrim outfits my very first year of teaching!  They are a treasure to me and I love that my kids get to wear them year after year!  

As you know each week we vote for who will win the Razorback game!  Well this week is no different and this is a very big game.  Well when it came for James Kemp to vote this is what he said. 

Also this week we celebrated Mrs. Anderson's Birthday!  It was a surprise party!  I think she was very surprised!!!!

 I have a video from the feast that I will post at a later time! 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

We Love Book Characters!!!!

Well today is book charcter day!  Roberts Elementary is the place to be today!  Kids dressed up like book characters is the greatest!!!  We had so many cute book characters!  I hope you enjoy the video!!!!  We had a parade that I can honestly say was the best book character parade I have ever seen!!! 

Here is our class with the books that they chose!  Where's Waldo????  Haha I couldn't resist!  Everyone look just precious!!!!

VIPS Reading Day and Makin' some butter!

 This is our VIPS reader she just so happens to be Megan's Aunt!!  She read us 2 very cute books!

Yesterday we made butter!  I love doing this activity with the kids.  I think I might even enjoy it more than they do!  We talked about how the Native Americans couldn't go to the grocery store to get butter so they had to make it themselves.  We started with heavy whipping cream and 20 minutes later we had this yummy butter!  Below is the video of us making the butter!

Fancy Day Video!!!

Now what you have all been waiting for our FANCY DAY video.  Turn up the volume and kick back and relax you are in for a treat!!!!  ENJOY!!!



HOOT of the Week! SABRINA

Sabrina is our Hoot this week!  She is 5 years old and has a twin sister that is also in our class!  I think it is pretty cool to have your sister in your class!  She loves to eat at Moe's Burritos!  She brought several Toy Story Characters in her Owl bag to school today!  Her snack is Sweet Tea and Saltine Crackers!!!  You know us southern girls like some Sweet Tea!!!!

We are GETTIN FANCY!!! Letter Ff

Here we are getting our Fancy On!!!!



OOOOOOOO-LA-LA

                                                  

We have clothe napkins in our laps!

    
 

Off we go!!

                                               

Paige and James Kemp

Anthony and Naina

Collier and Annalise

                                               

Samantha and Will

                                               

Nicholas and Megan

                                               

Melissa and Gavin

                                               

Jacob, Sabrina and Kayden

                                               

Madisen and Clay

                                               

We had a blast at Fancy Day!  The kids all did wonderful and they had a ball.  Some people may wonder why we do such things in Pre-K, and I can tell you that starting early is the best way to do things.  These kids eat it up and love every second of it....so why wouldn't we have such fun learning experiences!  This was a great way to tie in manners to everyday life.  I hope you enjoy all the cute pictures!!!

Owl of the Week......HAPPY BIRTHDAY....and JACK

 James Kemp is our Owl of the week!  He is 5 years old TODAY!!!  He loves to watch football.  His favorite teams are LSU and the Saints.  We will not hold that against him!  HAHA!  He loves to play with his dog and he can even change his dogs clothes!  He has a little brother named Jack and he loves to come to our room and play! 

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES KEMP!!!!

This is Jack!  He came right in the morning and sat with the other boys and girls!!!!

WATCH DOG DAD!!

Today was a special day because we had a WATCH DOG DAD!!!  At Roberts we have dad's that volunteer their time to come and help at their child's school for a day!  I believe that one sometimes two dads volunteer.  I know that we have enough to make sure that everyday here at Roberts there is at least one dad!  Our Watch Dog Dad was Bryan Salerno, Nicholas' dad!  He came and helped out in our room this morning!  This kids had a ball! 

Today is also election day!  All of the kids know that you have to be 18 or older to get to vote...ask them they really do know!  Since they said that I am the only one who gets to for real vote, I thought it would be fun if they got to VOTE on other things today.  Our first VOTE was how we would walk to the Library.  They picked between fly, tip-toe, hip & lip (that was a conservative pick since that is what we do everyday) and to make a train. 

As you can see from the photo's you can tell what we voted on!  We made a train all the way to the Library!  I think it was a great vote! 

We went to Library again today!  This is our Librarian Mrs. Cantrell.  She read us a book that is a Arkansas Diamond Book!  It was called Duck Soup.  The kids made predictions about what they thought the story would be about!  It was really cute!

HAPPY ELECTION DAY!!!

Teddy Bear Day and A HOT AIR BALLOON!

We saw a HOT AIR balloon today while we were outside for our morning play time.  The kids loved seeing it and it was really pretty.  If you haven't seen the mural in the Library it has this same hot air balloon painted in it.  I know because my Aunt, Betty Sitz,  painted the mural.  Such a talented person...wish some of that had rubbed off on me!!!  

RED RIBBON WEEK, Library, and Happy Birthday, PORTER!!!

 Our Aggie Fans for Team Up Against Drugs Day!

 These friends were representing some pretty cool teams!!!!

 Our RAZORBACKS fans!!!  LOVE IT!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORTER!! 

He brought cookies for us to have for his birthday!  Isn't that sweet??  We know how 4 kids that are 5!  This is a really big deal and we love to count who is 5 in our classroom. 

 We have been going to the Library on Tuesday mornings!  One Tuesday Mrs. Cantrell will do a lesson with us and we will check out books.  It is super fun and the kids love it.  The following Tuesday we get to check out and book and go the the READING LOFT!  The kids can read/look at their books.  I love seeing kids reading!  I loved this picture of Will with his sunglasses on reading his book!

We get very relaxed when we read can you tell???  LOVE IT!

I still can't believe what wonderful learning opportunities ROBERTS ELEMENTARY has for it's students.  We are blessed to be in such an AMAZING environment!!!

Painting at BANKCORP SOUTH!!!

I wanted everyone to know that our class has a painting in the Bankcorp South on Highway 10!  How exciting!  This picture is also hanging in the bank as well!  This is a great bank and a partner with our school.  They made this in ART class with Mrs. West.  Thank you Mrs. West for letting our kids help you with this project!!!

OWL of the Week....MEGAN..enjoy Grandma Jan

This is Megan our owl of the week!!!  She is 4 years old!  She loves to eat at Larry's Pizza!  She has a two year old sister named Lucy!  Megan would like to be a mommy when she grows up!  I think she will make a great mommy someday!  She also loves to play dress up and play with her dolls!!  

How to carve a Pumpkin!!!!

This is absolutely the cutest video!  I tried to email  it to everyone, but it sent it back saying that everyone had a full inbox, so I think the file was just too big!  I hope you enjoy our mini lesson on how to carve a pumpkin!!!  Oh and we voted on his name and it is Mr. Hootie!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY a little bit late!!!

 Gavin and Grace are twins and they celebrated a birthday last Wednesday!  Grace is in Mrs. Bounds class!