DGE celebrates Veteran's Day

November 11th was a special day at DGE. We honored our veterans with a special program. The chorus sang, soldiers from the Army Reserve presented to us the correct way to fold a flag and explained to us what each fold represents, and our school was presented a flag that was flown on the USS Sterrett! Then, we went outside to watch our new flag being raised in front of the school. It was an amazing day!



Watching our new flag being raised...

Some of our own family members are veterans and they came to share a special lunch with us.


Our own, Mr. Gerald is a veteran. We love you Mr. Gerald! Thank you for everything you do for us!

Scarecrows

With signs of fall all around, we have been appreciating the season with studying about things that we see around fall time. Last week, we studied about scarecrows. We made a classroom scarecrow, which we named Edward. As a class, we wrote about our scarecrow. Then, each student helped make their own scarecrow so that they could use it in a descriptive writing. They wrote about their scarecrows...what color eyes, buttons, patches, etc. that it displayed. We had so much fun studying about scarecrows and we are still enjoying having Edward be a part of our class!


Mrs. Cass, our ESOL teacher, helped us label the parts of a scarecrow.

Here we are making our classroom scarecrow.

This is our interactive classroom writing on Edward.

Then we wrote about our own scarecrow that we helped design.

Fall Party 2009

What better way to celebrate fall than with a party?!? We made creepy witch hands, spooky spiders, scary ghosts, painted our faces, and played pin-the-nose on the pumpkin!! Can you say FUN?? Thank you to all the parents who came and made it possible. We couldn't have done it without you! The kids had so much fun and I think the adults did too!

Our wonderful families who came to help...THANK YOU!!!

 

PARTY FUN!!

 

Our Classroom Jack-O-Lantern

We had fun making a classroom jack-o-lantern. Everyone stuck their hands in and felt the yucky insides...ewwww! We baked the seeds and tasted them. Some of us really like them and some didn't. Here is a picture of it. Isn't it cute!

 

Be Cool About Fire Safety!

We also got to visit Fire Station #8. Firefighter Chris Dempsey taught us some important fire safety tips. We got to look at the firetruck and hear the siren. It was really loud! Thank you Fire Station #8 for letting us visit you!

My Birthday Buddy...we got to celebrate our birthdays with a field trip!

CiCi's Pizza

On Thursday, we went on a field trip to CiCi's Pizza. We learned how to make our own pizza and then we got to eat it. YUMMY!! Thank you CiCi's Pizza for letting our Kindergarten classes visit you!

Red Ribbon Week

Dug Gap is celebrating Red Ribbon Week!

Tuesday was Hands Off Drugs Day. We wore our gloves to school to say that we are keeping our hands off drugs!


Wednesday was Put a Cap on Drugs Day.

Friday was Sock it to Drugs Day. We wore CRAZY socks to school.

In math, we are learning about shapes and how to recognize shapes in the world around us. Today in class we talked about each each shape and counted the sides they have. We played a game where we had to guess the shape on our back. Our friends traced the shape and gave us hints to help us discover what shape was hiding on our backs! Math is so much fun!

We love to exercise!

We have been learning about nutrition. We talked about how it is important to eat healthy foods and exercise regularly. We had fun on Friday by doing exercises in the room! The kids loved it!

 

Having Fun with Bus Safety

Our bus safety teacher...

Listening carefully to the bus driver. She is telling us how to be safe on the bus.

We got to get on the school bus!

 

We also got to practice how to get off the back of the bus in case there is an emergency. The kids did a great job!

 

Open House

We had a wonderful Open House night in Benson's Beehive! Thank you to all of the families that came out to visit our classroom.







We got to show off some of our work to our families.


We met up with our Kindergarten Friends too!

A Good Bunch of Apples

Last week, we studied about apples. We had fun sorting apples and making patterns with apples. We also tasted different colors of apples and made a graph of our favorite color. Our class liked the yellow apples best! On Friday, we made apple pies...YUMMY!!!

 

 

This week we have been learning to sort in math. Sorting is putting things together that are alike in some way. We had fun with a sorting relay. We sorted by shape and color. As you can see from the picture we had tons of fun!

Visitors and Volunteers in Kindergarten

On Friday morning, Tanner McCutchen, my nephew and a senior at Southeast High School came to volunteer in our classroom. Thanks Tanner for the help!

Mr. Wagnon's fourth grade class came to read to us on Friday afternoon. This is something that we plan on doing the rest of the year. Right now the fourth graders are reading to us, but give us a month or two...WE WILL BE READING TO THEM!! Thank you Mr. Wagnon's class! We had so much fun listening to you read to us.

Having Fun with Shapes

This past week, we learned about shapes and recognizing them in the world around us. We discussed different shapes each day and had fun activities that went along with each one. Here are some pictures from our fun week of shapes!

Triangle


Square


Rectangle


Oval


Circle

Diamond