College Week January 27 - 31, 2014

In the spirit of Allen ISD’s mission to create lifelong learners, Bolin Elementary will celebrate the pathway to continuing education the week of January 27^th. Each day, students may participate in an activity to increase interest in higher education and explore information about institutions of higher learning. Students and teachers may wear a college shirt each day that week.

Monday’s Theme – College Suits Me to a “T.” 

Wear your favorite college T-shirt or sweatshirt.

Tuesday’s Theme – Dream Big…College is possible for Everyone!

Wear your favorite  PJ’s.

Wednesday’s Theme – Allen ISD Makes My Future Bright!

Wear Allen/Bolin spirit wear & sunglasses.

Thursday’s Theme – Giddy Up & Go to College

Wear a bandana & cowboy hat.

Friday’s Theme – Dress for Success

Dress up like what you want to be when you grow up.

Upcoming Kindergarten Events...

Thursday, January 23 – Chili’s Night

•        Kindergarten is hosting Chili’s Night! Come out and support Kindergarten! Teachers will be there at 5:00 until ????  Don’t’ forget to tell your waiter/waitress that you are with Bolin! 

 

Friday, February 7 – 100th Day of school
•        100th day snack: our class has been asked to provide Teddy Grahams, Cheez-It crackers, and Skittles for all the kindergarten classes.  Please email me if you are able to donate any of these items to kindergarten.

 •        100th Day t-shirt (see newsletter) There are a lot of cute and easy ideas on Pinterest.

Tuesday, February 11 – PTA Performance

•        Kindergarten students will be performing a few songs at 7:00 pm. Please wear your class t-shirt or a green

         shirt.

Character Book Parade

Science fun...

Today we saw a chemical reaction with our Rainbow Milk Science Experiment!  It was really cool! We learned about what happens when you have a chemical reaction!

1st we put food coloring in warm milk. Then we dipped dish detergent into the food coloring. 

The colors EXPLODED! Here's why: Milk has vitamins, minerals, protein, and fat.  Mixing detergent with milk causes a chemical reaction to occur.  The soap molecules race around the milk trying to catch up with the fat molecules.   After our experiment, we drew a picture of what we observed! 

It was a pretty fun day in kindergarten!

Wow! We have been so busy...

We have been very busy in kindergarten!  We have gotten to do so many cool things! Last week we went to the Science lab and learned about lab safety!

Then this week we got to go to the computer lab and learn how to use the laptops and the computers!

Mrs. Mirkes came to visit us today and told us all of the ways she can help us!

The library was so much fun!  Mrs. Hainlin read us Mr. Wiggles and taught us how to treat our library books! Then we got to check out our very own library book!

One of the most exciting things we have learned this week is Read to Self!  Right now we are building our STAMINA and we are up to 4 mins of reading by ourselves.  

We also learned that there are 3 ways to read a book: 

1. Read the pictures 

2. Read the words 

3. Retell the story

I hope everyone is having a GREAT week! :)

Welcome to Kindergarten!

Thank you to everyone that came to Meet the Teacher Night!  It was so fun getting to meet everyone!  I hope you are as excited as I am about starting school tomorrow!  I have a lot of fun activities planned for this week!  Get lots of rest tonight and I will see you in the morning! :-)

Kindergarten Bootcamp

I am so excited for my new class of Creatures!  I have been working hard to get our classroom ready for you to see!  I hope that everyone will get to come to "Kindergarten Bootcamp"!  This will be a fun time to meet new friends! 

On Monday, August 19^th, from 4:30-6:00p.m, you are invited to come to Bolin for “Kindergarten Bootcamp” for parents and students. 

-        4:30-5 – Join us for “Popsicles with PTA” in our multi-purpose room.  PTA representatives will be available to answer questions and take memberships.

-        5:00-6:00 - Parents will be meeting in our cafeteria and students will get to go to classes and meet new friends.  Parents will be provided an overview of a kindergartner’s day at Bolin.  You will receive information about our curriculum, goals and objectives that each teacher will teach during the upcoming school year.  This will be a great time to ask general questions and receive information about your child’s daily schedule.  Unfortunately, your child’s class list will not be available on this date.

I hope to see you there!!!

Last Week of Kindergarten!

Wow!  We have had a fun week and only 1 day left!  On Monday, we went to Mrs. Jaska's class to learn how to survive 1st grade! The first graders gave us some great advice!

Today we had a BLAST at FIELD DAY!!!!!

Thank you so much for a great year!!  Have a fun summer!