Kindergarten is off to a great start.  We are settling into routines and learning the ways of the classroom.  The kids and I are having a lot of fun together as we learn new things and forge relationships.  This week we learned the letter sounds /m/ and /a/.  Next week we will be learning /s/ and /d/.  In math we will continue sorting and counting groups of objects to find a total number.  We will begin learning how to write narrative stories and explore different ways to write to convey a message.

Our Freedom Walk will be Friday, September 9.  Please have your child wear comfortable shoes this day and patriotic colors.  We will begin the festivities at 1:30 in the gym.  You are more than welcome to join us for this event.

Please mark your calendars for September 22 which is our STEM night.  It is a night where we invite our students and families into the classroom to do a science, technology, engineering, or math activity with their classroom teacher.  This helps give families an idea what their student is learning in school and allows for your family to have fun learning together.  Look for more information to come home on that soon.

Below, I've included some pictures from the first few days of school.  I hope you enjoy!

Happy Labor Day!  See you on Tuesday.

Yours in Education,

Mr. Scruggs

Eating Snack!

Learning how to walk in the hallway with a "Hand on our hip, and a finger on our lip!"

Enjoying some parachute time for our bucket part

Practicing sorting and setting the table in math.

Discovering pattern blocks.

Welcome to Kindergarten!

I know I'm a bit late, but:  Welcome to Kindergarten!  It is my esteemed pleasure to welcome you and your child to Room 5B.  Kindergarten is an exciting year of important milestones and I am so glad to be a part of it!  This year will be my 11th year at Ware Elementary as a kindergarten teacher.  I have a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a masters degree in Educational Leadership from Kansas State University.  I absolutely love what I do and I strive to create a caring classroom environment where children feel safe and where they love to learn.    The intent of this blog is to provide you with the most current, up-to-date information about the goings on in our classroom.  I plan to update this blog each week with our current learning objectives and pictures of our kindergarten adventures.  As always if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via my email address or school phone number.  Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to work with your child this year, it's going to be great!

Yours in Education,

Mr. Scruggs

Welcome Back!

 Kindergarten Families,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  It is 2016 and we are half way (can you believe it) trough your child's kindergarten year!  It goes by in the blink of an eye.  I have not done well at keeping up on our classroom blog this semester.  Things got busy, as they tend to do, and the blog was something I let slip.  It was a wonderful semester so I didn't want to go into the new year without first making sure I finished sharing 2015 with you.  I have compiled some pictures from October, November, and December for your enjoyment.  Be sure to look at them with your kindergartner-their memories of last semester will surely get them excited for coming back to school on Tuesday!

Enjoy the pictures and I will see you bright and early on Tuesday!

Working together to inventory our Lego science kits.

Partners work together to make sure they have all the right pieces in their Lego science kits.

Miss Morgan helps us with our inventory.

One of our bucket parties!  We moved ALL the furniture and played with the parachute!

The parachute is one of our FAVORITE bucket parties!

Look closely!  We are playing popcorn with one of our finger puppets.

It was fun watching our puppet (almost) touching the ceiling.

Miss Morgan demonstrates how our digestive system works...I'm just a prop holder. 

The stomach breaks our food into teeny tiny pieces and turns it into a kind of soup that our body uses to keep us healthy.

Each kindergartner got to drop a piece of bread down the "esophagus" into the "stomach."  We squeezed the "stomach" to demonstrate how digestion happens inside our bodies.

Miss Morgan demonstrates how our stomach muscles move our stomach to aide in digestion.

The contents of the "stomach" were pretty GROSS!

Miss Morgan teaches kids about positional language and the importance of our sense of sight by completing an obstacle course on the carpet!

Each student had to get their blindfolded partner through the course by guiding them with the sound of their voice.

It was a lot of fun!

Beginning to learn about shapes with play-doh.

Two dimensional and three dimensional shapes were made with play-doh.

Our trip to the Beach Art Museum at K-State.

Ms. Jennifer read us a story about prairie fires.

We acted out what it would be like to be a part of the prairie landscape.

Learning about art in the gallery.

Ms. Jennifer had us point out little things we noticed in some of the art work.

We even made our own art!

So much FUN!

For those of you that don't know...Mr. Scruggs adopted a puppy in November.  Her name is Frankie and I talk about her all the time.  So, if your kindergartner comes home talking about someone named Frankie, this is who they're talking about. 

Our gift to Miss Morgan on her last day.  Thank you SO much for all of your donations...she was overwhelmed by all of your generosity!

Miss Morgan was quite surprised!!

We made a special book about Miss Morgan that she read on her last day.