Jan.16th- Keep Movin !!!!

Mr. Grant gave our class pedometers to record our weekly steps at school- these 3 were really on the move gaining the most steps in our class- all three were over 18,000 steps!

 

Girl power!-

                                       It is fun getting points for walking!- Nola

Game face on Henry!

                                               I had alot of steps- Henry

Connor takes exercise very seriously!

                                     I liked wearing a pedometer- Connor

We always back the home team and the BEST team!

                          I like Aaron Rodgers- Cooper

                          I really, really love my pink Packer shirt- Abbie

                          The Packers are the best at the game- McKenna

We love you Jackson, BUT we don't know about that Jersey!!!!

Seattle is going to beat Green Bay by alot!- Jackson

The Packers will beat Seattle- Collin
The Packers are number one!

Jan. 14th- Our Chinese New Year's parade made the news!!!!!!

McKenna's pic is on the Mukwonago
Chief's website photo gallery- check it out and more at LakeCountryNow.com

Jan. 13th -

It Fell in the City 

By: Ms. Johnson's Kindergarten Students

It fell in Big Bend,

It Fell through the night

and Christ Lutheran all turned white,

St. Joe's Church all turned white,

Crossroads pizza all turned white,

Busy Bee's restauraunt all turned white,

Jerome's gas station all turned white,

Big Bend Elementary School all turned white,

When it fell in Big Bend all through the night!

Our snowy Big Bend scenes!- Snow beautiful!

Like snowflakes- we are all special- we are all unique!

Cold outside- but sticking together we keep warm!

Look at this snow angel!

Jan. 8th- Gong Hey Fat Choy!- Happy Chinese New Year!

What a festive day as we brought in 2015 Chinese style!

Things we learned about the Chinese New Year:

Red is the Chinese lucky color- Abbie

Dragons are good luck- Nola

The Chinese zodiac has 12 animals- Violet

It is year  of the sheep/ goat- Elizabeth

We saw the lion dance- Jackson

We saw a monkey dance- Braden

Jan. 7th- adding up to a great day!

Today we worked with number lines to help us solve and create our own addition problems.  We are careful to write number sentences which include the addition symbol and equals sign.  Using number lines enabled many  students  to do addition problems all the way up to 30!

Addi and Nola working hard!

Jackson busy adding into the teens!

Mason and his number line.
Math buddies Braden and Henry solving some tricky ones!

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Jan. 6th- Keeping warm with Jan Brett's story of "The Mitten!"

We worked on sequencing the story of the Mitten.
We put the animals in order- Cooper
We put the animals in the bag which we pretended was a mitten- Abbie

It was fun putting the animals in the mitten- Elizabeth
You had to be a good listener- McKenna

Miss Schmidt works at the bank- Nola
Miss Schmidt  is volunteering in our class through early February as part of the Junior Achievement program- Ms. Johnson
Her story was about a farm- Collin

Samantha's vest really keeps her warm- Maddie
I loved petting it- Ms. Johnson and Quinn

Oh What Fun!

We are happy to be back together although, we miss - Miss Bales who is now teaching at Section Elementary and Zoey (lucky) who is in Florida. 

We enjoyed sharing our 2014 Christmas break highlights.


Collin got new games.

Violet went to the Zoo.

Nola got two American Girl Dolls.

Addi got a Barbie Mansion.

Henry and his mom built a fort.

Cooper got two Nerf guns.

Mrs. Teeter's spent two nights with her family at Mt. Olympus.

Abbie got a Frozen Pillow.

Maddie loves her new tablet and keyboard.

Connor played  with his new racetrack.

Olivia saw Night  at the Museum 3.

Elizabeth went to Illinois.

Quinn spent 4 days in Arizona.  She took our class mascot Danny on his first out of state trip!

Samantha got new clothes.

Gianna got a girls bow and arrow.

Jackson went swimming in Florida.

Braden got a stuffed animal tarantula.

Mason likes his new disney Infinity game.

Ms. Johnson went to special Christmas lights in LaCrosse- they were beautiful.

Makenna went up North and saw Santa!

Cheyenne likes her new Barbie.

Happy New Year- we are going to make 2015 Awesome!!!