Blogging is back in action!

Thank you for being so patient with me, parents! I will be uploading lots of pictures and videos as we venture into some exciting units.

This week we are starting our Olympics 2010 unit. We will be visiting each country through google maps, investigating the winter Olympic Games sports and athletes, graphing medals, and reading lots of books about the Olympics. Please watch the opening ceremonies this Friday, February 12th at 6:30 on NBC. Each Kinder class has chosen a different country so next week our class will start to cheer on Canada! Join us as we track the amount of medals Canada wins!

There are many activities on the Olympic Committee website: http://www.vancouver2010.com/.

Next week we will be tracking the Olympics AND starting our Chinese New Year Unit! More to come on that! Here is a great website to get a head start learning about the Chinese New Year: http://www.theholidayspot.com/chinese_new_year/.

Finally, Valentine's Day is on Sunday so we will be having a sweet, Valentine exchange on Friday. We will be doing a Valentine writing project, graphing candy hearts, and enjoying our loving classroom. Some kind vocabulary words we are learning are: love, friendship, "excuse me," "please," "thank you," and respect. Help you student think of other kind words so we can add to our kind word chain!