Snowflakes

Mrs. Leach's class joined us today and we made snowflakes for the Sandy Hook students.  We will be sending them to the PTA in Connecticut next week.  The PTA will be decorating the school with snowflakes so when students attend school it looks like a winter wonderland.  We are hoping it puts lots of smiles on the students faces!

Friday

During Morning Meeting, we brought our class together on the carpet to discuss the events that occurred on Friday in CT.  We started by asking the students if they knew what happened and then directed our conversations from that.  We talked about our practice drills that we have done this year and how they will help prepare us incase a dangerous stranger were ever to get in the building.  We told students that we were here for them and that we cared for them very much and would keep them safe when they came to school.  The students compared the lockdown drill to hide-n-seek.  We kept the conversation very short and did not add any details.  We were very careful about using kindergarten appropriate language so that students would not be frightened.  We really just wanted to know they are safe at school.

Coin Contest

Thanks to everyone who participated in Coins for Books!!!  The kindergarten team won and each kindergarten class received $85.21 to spend in books for their classroom.  WOW - how exciting! The students were SUPER excited to see all of the new books that they will get to read.