A Big Fat Turkey!

To teach our kinders about Thanksgiving, we put on a program each year that tells the story of how the Pilgrims came to America. The students begin practicing lines and scripts immediately after Halloween. It is a LOT of work! This year, I had more Indians than Pilgrims, so I had to do a little costume creating. I also made myself a new costume. It all looked a bit like this...

This is what all the Indian costumes looked like before.
Now they are the Indian boy costumes.

Supplies...yes, those are chocolate drops with vanilla creme...necessity.

The basic shape. The fabric was this great fuzzy stuff...no clue what it was called!

Finished!!! They were so cute!

A few of the wild Indian Boys!

And the adorable Indian maidens!

I had plenty of Pilgrim costumes for the boys and the girls. They don't change much anyways, so I couldn't spruce them up any. My cute lil' Pilgrim kids looked like this...

Finally, there was a Turkey Hunt in our play. The Big Fat Turkey was one of my sweeties! Wouldn't you love to catch this Turkey?

The kinderbabies did such a fantastic job! We performed twice, once for the school as a dress rehearsal and again for the parents in the evening. They all did great on their lines, songs, and motions. It might have been the best year for our Thanksgiving play yet!

Fabulous Fall FUN!!!

Fall is officially here! Well, it has been for a good bit, but on Thursday of last week, those terrific Agri students at the high school hosted "Kindergarten Fall Fun Hour." They had set up a petting zoo...

They also had sliding ducks...

And the kiddos got to meet 'Llama, Llama' while they listened to "Llama, Llama Red Pajama," by Anna Dewdney...

There was also a pumpkin hunt...and the kinders (and the teenagers) drew faces on the pumpkins they found!

I truly am thankful for the Agri teacher and these awesome 'big kids' who so often take time out of their day to teach and show our 'little kids' a thing or two!

Sorry it's so dark...and some kids are cut out of the shot...one of the kinders took the pic for us!

It was definitely a long walk back to kindergarten! Thankful for beautiful weather!!!

Fall Carnival!

Last night, our school put on its annual fall carnival. There were lots of kiddos there, of all ages! Different activities were a Pickle Walk, Prize Walk, Hair Painting, Bingo, a Silent Auction, various raffles, an indoor Bump-N-Jump, and of course...the Kindergarten Cake Walk. Parents of kindergarten students donated a variety of baked goodies for the event...and it looked something like this...

Three tables loaded down! Thanks, thanks, and more thanks to our wonderful bunch of parents!!! We definitely could not pull off something like this without your help!

Recess!

All kids love recess! Well, most do. I never did. I remember asking if I could stay in to help the teacher...filing papers, straightening books, cleaning the chalk boards, etc. Every now and again, one of my kinders will ask if he/she can stay in with me, but for the most part...

Even a broken arm can't slow this one down! :-)

Monkeying Around

The awesome thing to do these days in kindergarten is to conquer the monkey bars. Those kinderbabies will line up 10 deep to wait for their chance to cross those treacherous bars. At 8 weeks into the school year, several of them have reached their goal, while others still struggle! You would not believe the number of blisters on palms that I see every day from the metal rungs on the good ole' monkey bars...  

Almost there!!! Those blisters were so worth it!