Don't Forget...

-Field Trip money is due tomorrow--$20!

-Christmas Craft Donation--$5 due by Wednesday!

-White sweatshirt is due Wednesday so we can make Rudolph shirts Friday!

An early visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus!!!

Neal Thomas must have been a good boy because we got a quick visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus over the Thanksgiving Holiday! He was really surprised to see them! They will be back in Tuscaloosa this Saturday for the Breakfast with Santa!!! Order forms are going home tomorrow!!! We can't wait to see them again!!!!

We Are Thankful!

What are you thankful for?

"I am thankful for my mom, dad, sisters, and brother!" -Hope
"I am thankful for my food to eat!" -Layla
"I am thankful for my family and my doggie!" -Micah
"I am thankful for my parents!" -Connor
"I am thankful for my brother, sister, family, and food!" -Kylie
"I am thankful for Thanksgiving!" -Chante'
"I am thankful for playing games with my brother Drew!" -Matthew
"I am thankful for my whole family!" -Sarah
"I am thankful for Thanksgiving and God!" -Katlyn
"I am thankful for my cat Allie, my dog, and my mommy, and my dad--his name is Keith!" -Alyssa
"I am thankful for my granddaddy, my mom, and my dog!" -LaDarius
"I am thankful for being able to ride my four-wheeler and my dirtbike!" -Deacon
"I am thankful for my fabulous family and these precious children I get to spend every weekday with!!! I am also thankful for a vacation!!!! HA! I love all of these children so much!" -MM

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Here are your precious little Indians! Each child got to choose their own "Indian name" by thinking of an action word and a animal! Then we all made head-dresses! Here are the names they chose...

Alyssa became "Dancing Wildcat!"

Kylie became "Dancing Horse!"

Layla became "Running Tiger!"

Katlyn became "Dancing Eagle!"

Chante' became "Running Tree!" --no animal for her!

Micah became "Flying Bird!"

Deacon became "Sleepy-Boy Fox!" --he had his own action word ideas!

LaDarius became "Sleeping Bear!"

Hope became "Flying Butterfly!"

Sarah became "Running Horse!"

Connor became "Running Coyote!"

Matthew became "Sleeping Wildcat!"

MM is the CHIEF! HA!

We missed Zachary and Jaelyn today!

Can you tell we are getting pumped up for the Christmas Season?!?!

I know it is a little early for the Christmas background...but I just can't wait for December to start!!! I hope you have heard about the "magic work box" Santa left at my house...if not ask about it! I also have magic Rudolph and Santa carpets...Kindergarten is magical!!!.


-I am planning some precious crafts during the month of December and we need your help to purchase supplies! I need every child to send $5.00 to pay for their crafts and a Christmas gift for you!


-We will also be making “Rudolph Sweatshirts” to wear on our field trip December 9th. Please send a white sweatshirt to school no later than Wednesday, December 2nd! We will be painting shirts Friday afternoon (the 4th) at 1:30 if you would like to come and help us!

Lunch menu...

The December lunch menu is on the back of this week's Primary Bulletin. The office is trying to save paper. I hope that you did not miss November's menu...so, be looking for the next month's menu on the Primary Bulletin!!!

Breakfast with Santa!!

My mom is a sponsor of the Tuscaloosa Civinettes, a high school service organization, and they are hosting a BREAKFAST WITH SANTA December 5th! The pancake breakfast will be at FIG, and tickets will be $5 per pancake breakfast. All proceeds will go to benefit PROJECT BLESSING--an organization that helps families in Tuscaloosa! There will be vendors selling PRECIOUS crafts and gifts, and it should be a fun morning! Plus, it will be one more time your child gets to see Santa! I will be the contact person for Taylorville Primary, and there will be a flyer going home Monday, November 30th. All ticket orders will be due Thursday, and tickets will be delivered/sent home Friday, December 4th. I hope you will consider coming and helping this organization and having some fun as well! Our class is getting the "heads-up," so mark your calendars for December 5th!

Thanks, Deacon!

Deacon is bringing us a Christmas tree for the classroom! YAY! We are excited!!

Information not on your weekly page...

-Flu immunization forms are due THURSDAY!!! We do not know when they will come with the spray, but you have to have your form in by Thursday morning!

-PTO SPECIAL DAY--Friday...TCBY Yogurt and a tattoo for $1.25. Send money!

We need a new Christmas Tree!!

Does anyone have access to someone who can get a discount on a new Christmas tree for our class? Last year I decided to retire my class tree of 6 years...it truely looked like "Charlie Brown's" tree...pitiful!! If you have an old one that still looks great or would like to send a new one, I would really appreciate it! If you work in a store or have access to a discount, I will be happy to buy it. The kids always LOVE decorating the tree (and you will love their school-made decorations for your tree at home) but we need a tree to decorate!!! Thanks!

When I think about THANKSGIVING, I think about...

Connor thinks about "eating turkey!"
Zachary thinks about "not having to go to school and getting to play his Wii."
Hope thinks about "going home to see all of her family."
Chante' thinks about "chicken on Thanksgiving."
Alyssa thinks about "eating turkey with her MAMA!"
Layla thinks about "playing with her cousin and Simon."
Micah thinks about "making a heart for his mom."
Katlyn thinks about "going to her room and playing with her cousin and Nesha."
LaDarius thinks about "ham."
Matthew thinks about "playing with his cousin, Devin."
Deacon thinks about "playing with his friends and brothers while his Mom is cooking the chicken."
Sarah thinks about "eating turkey."
Kylie thinks about "playing with my brother and sister and eating turkey."
Jaelyn thinks about "loving her MAMA!"
MM thinks about"seeing family I have not seen in a long time!!"
Mr. Greene thinks about "spending time with his family and watching the Thanksgiving Parade!"

A Picture Scavenger Hunt for MATTER!!!

This morning we went on a scavenger hunt looking for different kinds of matter! The class was divided into pairs, and each pair looked for a specific kind of solid. We went all over the school looking for items to take pictures with. Here are the pictures we took!

Connor and Hope found a "ROUGH" hornets' nest.

Sarah and Matthew found a "SHINY" spider.

Katlyn and Laya found a "WET" water fountain!

Alyssa and Zachary found a "COLORFUL" display in the library!

Jaelyn and Micah found a "FUZZY" bobcat in the library!

Sarah and Matthew found several more "SHINY" items--trophies and a skimboard!

LaDarius and Kylie found a "HARD" turtle shell in the library...the library is full of cool matter!

LaDaius and Deacon found some "SOFT" and "FUZZY" fringe around Ms. Tingle's sign.

Jaelyn and Micah found more "FUZZY" feathers on the wall outside Ms. Tingle's room.

Connor and Hope found that all of the walls in our school are "ROUGH!"

Kylie and LaDarius found a "HARD" column in the main hallway.

Matthew and Sarah found "SHINY" stars outside of Mrs. Bowen's office!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Layla and Katlyn found a "WET" playground!!!

Alyssa and Zachary found a very "COLORFUL" wall display on the Square Hall!

Chante' and Deacon found a soft turkey outside of Mrs. Sullivan's doorway!

We have had a great time learning about solids and liquids the past two weeks!!!

The Window Clings...

The window clings did dry and become solid, but they did not cling to the window. Your child will bring home their experiment today. They do look really cool!!! Here is what the class had to say about solids and liquids...



Matthew said, "Water is a liquid. Chalk and a house is a solid."
Hope said, "A liquid is like chicken noodle soup." After I asked, she told me the nooldles are solid!
Zachary said, "We turned the glue different colors to make the window clings."
Layla said, "Juice is a liquid."
Sarah said, "People are solid."
Micah said, "Hearts are solid."
Chante' said, "Our window clings became solids."
Katlyn said, "We made window clings, but they did not stick to the window."
Brooklin said, "Solids are food."
Connor said, "Liquid spreads out."
LaDarius said, "Blood is a liquid."
Alyssa said, "Care Bears are solids."



Jaelyn, Deacon, and Kylie were absent today. We will add their comments Monday!



Here are some snapshots of the kids after they peeled their window cling off of the wax paper. I only had a chance to get a picture of the kids who got here first this morning...the day gets busy quickly!!!




Homework...have your child tell you about the differences between solids and liquids this weekend. They can get some extra practice sorting solids and liquids with you this weekend!!!

Matter: Solids and Liquids

We did several "Matter" activities today. Every child got to make a "window-cling" out of glue. We added food coloring to two bottles of glue, and the kids got to design a window cling with the liquid glue on wax paper. Hopefully, the glue will have dried by tomorrow and we can pull the solid window-cling off of the wax paper and attach them to our window. (This is the first time I have done this experiment, so my fingers are crossed that it will work!!) If it does, the kids can see how some matter changes from a solid to a liquid, and from a liquid to a solid!

Because of the potential mess this experiment could make, I pulled students up in pairs to create their window-cling. During this time, each table was responsible for finding examples of solids and liquids in magazines, cutting them out, and adding the pictures to their table's t-chart. This was the first "group project" we have done, and the kids really did well. They worked together, and I overheard several conversations where they were deciding which column the pictures fit into...I am so impressed that they can work together this way!!

The Red Table: Connor, Layla, and Micah

The Green Table: Zachary, Kylie, Katlyn, and Matthew

The Blue Table: Chante', Brooklin, and Alyssa

The Yellow Table: LaDarius, Sarah, Hope, and Deacon

**If you have any magazines at home that we can use for projects like this, please send them!! Thanks!

Pumpkin Patch Fun!!

We had a great time at The Grand Old Pumpkin Patch last Friday, October 30, 2009!!

A "Good-Looking" bunch of kids and pumpkins...don't ya think!!!Fun on the Tractor Train Ride!! We love each other!!

Fun from the top of the slides...the slides are always a class favorite!!Brave kindergarteners fed the animals at the petting zoo...some even let the animals eat out of their hands!!

Letting off some extra energy on the way to our picnic lunch! The kids took off running through this field...and we just let them go! As soon as I said, "Let's go eat!" they came running back to us! What a cooperative bunch!!

After lunch, we got to go on the hayride down to the pumpkin patch! The woods were decorated for Halloween. It was really fun!

Riding past the field of sunflowers...Layla and Kylie were taking it all in!

Alyssa could not decide between her pumpkins!!

Micah and Brooklin in the pumpkin patch looking for a pumpkin.

YAY! We all have a pumpkin to take home!

Silly fun at the tee-pees! What a funny bunch!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!

I have copied the "Upcoming Events" from the side of our blog to make sure you are checking it out!! There is a lot going on...

November 6th--Scholastic Book Order is Due!!
**Food Drive Ends Nov. 6th also!

November 10th--Book Fair in the Library! It will actually be all that week, but our class time is on Tuesday, 11/10 from 11:15-11:45. Please come shop with your child if you would like to!!

November 11th--No School! Celebrate Veteran's Day!!

November 13th--Square 1 ART orders are due!!

November 23-27--Thanksgiving Break! We have so much to be thankful for!!!

December 9th--Field Trip to The Birmingham Galleria with Miss Mixon and Mrs C. Foster's classes...Build-A-Bear, Visit Santa, Ride the Carousel, lunch in the food court...SO MUCH FUN! Details coming soon!!!