Part 2 of Thankful statements from our kiddos-

I am thankful for...

Lateef "My mommy and for chips."

Trellmon " chicken and for my whole family."

Samuel "My mommy and some chips."

Cing "My mommy and daddy and they make dinner for me."

We will post more tomorrow.  :)

Hello everyone.  Long time no see...or write.  I have every intention to blog each day with our kids but time slips by so quickly at the end of our day.  So, at this moment, while the kids are all working on a sight word search, I thought I would get our blog in early.

First of all, you should have received two sheets of card stock with sight words in the blue take home folder yesterday.  These are for you to keep and use however you see fit to help your child learn the sight words.  I will send an additional strip today that has number words.  If you wish to have an additional set, let me know.

 Also in  the folder is the 3rd Parent and Child magazine.  In this magazine there is a promotion for Small Business Saturday which is November 29th.  There is an offer from scholastic in this promotion that will earn two books for your child.  All you have to do is fill out the form and tell scholastic about 1 or 2 small businesses you like to use and why.  You don't even have to put a stamp on the postcard when you mail it in.  WOW!!!


Finally, we are talking about the first Thanksgiving and what we are thankful for.  Here are some of the answers I received from those who finished their work first. :)

Sadie "I am thankful for my toys."
Camryn- "I am thankful for making friends."
Kimberly- "I am thankful for my family and making dinner."
Angel - "I am thankful for my family."
Immanuel -"I am thankful for my mom and my dad."
Suri- "I am thankful for having a house."
Emma- "I am thankful for having a family."
Sung Sung- "I am thankful for a house."
Adrienne- "I am thankful for my cat."
Sui- "I am thankful for my dad."
Case- "I am thankful for my friends."

I am thankful for the opportunity to teach your wonderful children and Jenks East Elementary.  I can't imagine a better place to teach.

Look for more thankful statements from the rest of the class in the days to come.

Happy Thursday.  We have been quite busy and lost track of time on most days.  We want to blog more often.
Donuts with Dads is tomorrow.  Cousins, Uncles, Grandpas, Great Grandpas, brothers, or any other male family member who is 18 or older is able to join us for this event. We have this event on the first Friday of each month. We hope to see lots of you men folk tomorrow morning.

Next week is the 1st Annual Kindness Week at Jenks East Elementary.

Monday is going to be a bright day for us all.  Have your child wear neon colors.  It will be a flash back to the 80's for sure.  :)

As part of the kindness week observance, we are accepting cans for the Jenks Public Schools can food drive.  Jenks East Elementary is chosen as the sight for green beans.  We are just that cool.

Finally, if you are still looking for a pumpkin to purchase for your child to decorate, I was informed by one of our parents that Walmart Neighborhood Market South of 91st on Delaware has the perfect sized pumpkins for $1.50 each.

Have a great weekend!

-Mrs. Alcorn

Case- "Yesterday we went on a hike."  Emma- "We went on the trail."  Suri- "The trail is in the forest."  Sadie- "The forest is at school."  

Yesterday Mrs. McCourt and I walked the students to Rentie Grove which is a nature preserve on our school property.  We walked them along the trail in search of signs of Fall.  

Some of the things we saw are-

Camryn-  "Squirrels"

Kimberly- "Spider"

Angel - " Spider webs"

Lateef- "Spider web"

Sung Sung - " log"

Immanuel- "trees"

We saw many trees that are still green.  However, a few of the trees have started showing off their beautiful colors.  

We also picked up persimmons from the playground and near the parking lot.  Some of the students helped wash the sticky goop off of the seeds and we let them dry.  Today we cut them open to see if there were spoons, knives, or forks in the middle.  According to the seeds and the farmers almanac, we are in for a colder than average winter with more snow than usual.  YIKES!

We made applesauce in class today.  The students helped Mrs. Easter cut  the apples into chunks (they used plastic butter knives) and put them in the crock pot.  We added cinnamon, sugar, and water and let them cook for 4 hours.  We ate warm applesauce with half of a doughnut for our afternoon snack.  We copied the recipe down for our writing lesson.  Some students are able to copy from the board but most have a little trouble with this type of task right now, so we decided to share the recipe on our blog.


Crock-pot Applesauce-
10 large apples- cored, peeled, and cut into chunks
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar

Place all of the ingredients  in the crock-pot, stir, and cook on high for 4 hours, stirring occasionally.  You can also cook it on low for 8 hours if you prefer.
Stir and mash the apple chunks until you get the desired consistency.

This keeps in the refrigerator for up to a week, if it lasts that long.  :)

To start off our Fall learning, we are starting with Apples.  Today we watched a video about John Chapman- also known as Johnny Appleseed.  We will read about the life cycle of apple trees, how to grow an apple tree, and the different things we can make using apples.  We will finish up this week with an apple taste test.  The students will each need to bring an apple to school as well so that we can make applesauce.  If you are free this Thursday or Friday, please let me know.  We would love to have volunteers and guests helping us with our apple studies.

Tomorrow is our Jog-A-Thon.  I asked the students what we should wear/ bring for the jog-a-thon.

Case said "money."  Emma said  "the class who brings the most money gets to have a pizza party or go to Bounce U."  Trellmon said " if you don't have money you get to go."  Suri said " wear tshirts and shorts and tennis shoes, like running gear." Semaj said "Or basketball shorts or basketball shoes and a red t-shirt."  (We will have a jog-a-thon tshirt for every child to wear.)
Cameron said- "Eat cereal or pancakes or waffles (for breakfast before you come to school)."

Please send any donations you have collected in an envelope tomorrow.  Tomorrow is the last day for us to collect money for the jog-a-thon.  If you are able to come out and join us for the jog-a-thon, we will go down to the track at 9:45 and return to our classroom at 10:30.  We would love to see you.

Today we learned about our 5 senses.  Here is what we know so far-

Alieonna- We listen with our ears.
Samuel- Ears- We have two
Suri- Mouth - It helps us taste.
Case- Eyes- We can see with them.
Kimberly- Ears- We hear.
Adrienne-Ears - We listen.  We hear stuff.
Emma- With our skin can feel if it's hot or cold.
Sadie- Mouth- It tastes with our taste buds.
Sung Sung- Ear- You can tell if it is loud.
Immanuel- We smell with our nose.
Sui- Mouth- We eat and taste.

We will learn more about our senses over the next two weeks.  We will have a taste test in a few weeks to test our taste buds.

Have a great evening.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Next Friday is our Jog-A-Thon.  The kids have some information to share.

Case- You can skip, run, or jog.  Whoever raises the most money wins.
Suri- If our class wins we get to have a pizza party or something like that.
Trellmon- The Jog-a-thon is where we have fun.
A.J.-  We can hop scotch.  We are trying to get a lot of laps.

Your child should have a folder with a donation sheet attached.  If you have not already turned in your envelope you have until the day of the Jog-A-Thon to do so.  Every donation helps and all proceeds go right back into our school via PTA.

We talked about the Constitution yesterday-  I asked the kids to tell me what the Constitution is and these are a couple of the answers;

Camryn- To follow the rules
Semaj- The constitution is to follow the rules.

We are also learning about coins.  So much to learn and so little time. :)

We will write more tomorrow.

Highlights from our day :)

Lateef- In the morning I went to the bus.
Finley- We wrote the number 3.
Case- We learned how to speak Spanish.

Mrs. Alcorn- We learned Maestra , Maestro, Hola and Adios.

Trellmon-  There are 6 apples on our tree.

Mrs. Alcorn- It is the 16th day of school so we have one basket of 10 apples and 6 apples on the tree.

Tonight is Chic-fil-a night for our PTA.  Tell them you are with Jenks East Elementary when you order and they will donate a percentage of tonight's sales to our PTA.

When you ask your child "What did you learn today?," you may prompt the typical I don't know response with one of the following-

Emma- We learned our numbers- the number 2 and wrote them to 6
Suri- We learned that we are not supposed to fight in school.
Finley- We moved the cupcakes over for our birthday on a birthday graph.
Immanuel- We told when our birthday is.
Samual- We learned about birthday cake and we moved the birthday cake over and we colored in our number journal.

We are working on stating our birthdays, odd or even numbers, shape review, and color words still.  Have your child practice writing their name or stating their birthday.

Have a great Wednesday

Happy Friday Families!  The students and I have been quite busy this week and haven't blogged as much as we have wanted.  We would like you to know that

Finley- We learned about coloring and writing and had fun outside.
Emma- We wrote a book.
A.J.- I don't want to get in trouble even when I go to my grandmas and I don't want to be mean to my friends.
Semaj- This weekend I am going to my Mimi's and going to spend the night.
Kimberly- We learned about following procedures and do not run in the classroom and help other people who hurt themselves and be nice to people and do not punch or hit.
Alieonna- We learned about computers.
Lateef- I spell my name L A T E E F.
Suri- We learned to be good.
Camryn- We colored our own book today and we played outside.
Case- I had a good day.
Trellmon- I like to play with books and libraries.
Selah- Happy Friday!
Sadie- My favorite thing is going to the Jenks Parade!

Have a great weekend everyone.  The Hometown  Huddle is this evening.  More information can be found on the Jenks website at www.jenksps.org.

Best wishes!
Mrs. Alcorn's Class

     Good Morning Families!  I hope you are on your way to Jenks East and having a smooth go of it.  We visited the library yesterday at the end of school.  Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Beam hope to have the kids ready to check out their own library books in 2 weeks.  We are all excited for this to happen and can't wait to practice our library procedures.  We will let you know when we have passed the 'ready to check out books' test.

Have a great Thursday!

Good afternoon.  I thought I would write early since I am leaving early for a funeral.  The kids all have their Thursday folders in their backpacks and a note on their backpack strap for you.  I hope you all have a great 4 day weekend and that you are planning on joining us for Back-to-School night on Tuesday at 6:30.

About our day-

Cing- It was a good day.
Finley- We had lots and lots of fun and we read and colored 'Brown Shark."
Camryn-  We read the book to Mrs. Alcorn.
Emma-  We danced.

Reminders!!

Back To School Night - Tuesday, September 2nd  6:30-7:30-  Child care will be available.

No School Tomorrow or Monday (August 29th and September 1).

     Good Morning and Happy Wednesday!  I wanted to remind you, while I remembered to do so :), that we will not have school on Friday, August 29th nor on Monday September 1st.  The teachers have professional development on Friday and Monday is Labor Day.  I hope you all take advantage of this last bit of Summer with your four day weekend.

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With kind regards,
Mrs. Alcorn's Class

Hello all.  We wanted to share with you all of the things we did in class today.

Suri-  We learned a lot of things today.
Emma-  We learned things that are blue.
Semaj-  We learned to be good in school.
Camryn-  We made towers with cubes and told which was bigger.
Case- We colored a blue book and we learned about blue.

Ask you kids to show you something shorter or taller than another object.  We also used the terms same as, smaller, and bigger.

Have a great evening!

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Kindergarten Class of 2014-2015

I would like to welcome each of you to our blog page.  This is the place where we will share tidbits about our day, remind you of upcoming events, and let you know what all is happening at Jenks East Elementary.  You can also find tabs with the daily class schedule, newsletters, and curriculum related links and information. This is going to be a great year and we invite you to enjoy every moment with us through our daily blogs.  

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