Mrs.Schrooten's Kindergarten Class

All About Mrs. Schrooten

Mrs.Schrooten is one of the teachers at Bayshore Elementary School. She teaches kindergarten in room 7. Mrs.Schrooten has 11 girls and 11 boys in her class. She started to teach because she enjoyed working with little kids. She would love to get e-mail from other kindergarten classes especially on the east coast.

 

Current News

The kindergartners have been busy in the past week. In addition to our weekly "letter of the week" activities we had a visit from a full size "parrot." "Salty the Parrot" is one of the characters from our big book called The Animal Island. He came to our class during the "letter P week." We also celebrated Read-In Day by having a pajama party with popcorn to top it off. Our next letter of the week will be "Q"

We have had one field trip to the fire station this year. We are looking foward to having a teddy bear picnic since we will be starting a bear unit next month.

We are having a lot of guest speakers like a geologist, police officers, and wildlife rangers.

We started a unit on penguins that will last two weeks. We are studying where penguins live, what they eat, how they take care of their young, and other interesting facts. The students will be learning penguin songs, finger plays, graphing and estimating penguins in math. We will also be doing a penguin cooking project and art project.

 

 

Our language arts programs now includes "sight words" such as i.e , and, the, a, I, you. These are words the students recognize and they will be words we call "sight words". At the beginning there are only a few but by the end of the year we should have about 20 new "sight words."

IMPORTANT DATE:

March 27-31 is SPRING BREAK!!!!!!

 

Our class made Valentine glasses with our sixth grade buddy class.

Mrs. Miller, a visiting geologist from the Anchorage area brought rock samples, tools, and clothing to share with our class. She explained a geologist's job using a slide show, and she had several trays of hands on materials for the class to touch.

 

Our class enjoyed learning about the tools and rocks brought in by Mrs. Miller.

Science News

Our Class is starting to study rocks and earth science. We are observing pebbles, gravel, sand, silt, and clay. The children will be learning by comparing, observing, and communicating what they learn through their own experiences. We have currently started a class rock collection. You could help us by finding rocks with your children to add to the collection.

 

 Health News

Dr. Koropp and his staff came to talk to our class about dental health.

A Charlie Brown video shared information about dental care.

Then we broke up into small groups and rotated into six centers. We were able to get impressions of our thumbs to simulate getting a tooth's impression. There also were centers with information about orthodontics, a flossing role playing center, a frog puppet sharing good dental hygiene, and a healthy versus bad snacks center. We learned so much from their visit. .  

This page was created and will be updated by Logan and Malary in Mrs.Kajikawa's fifth grade class.

updated: March 2000

Please send e-mail to Mrs. Schrooten. She would love to hear from you.