Dear River Families, This week in Kindergarten, we continued our author study on Jan Brett! We compared Jan Brett’s illustrations to illustrations in other books and identified characteristics of her work. We watched a video about Jan Brett and a …

Dear River Families, This week in Kindergarten we wrapped up November units and welcomed December by working on our holiday gifts to our families. The children are creating something very special to take home as a gift to you! We …

Dear River Families, We had a busy week in Kindergarten as we continued studying Southwest and Plains Native Americans. The children worked hard on beautiful thankful book for their families that they will take home this week! We started a …

Dear River Families, This week in river we continued learning about Native Americans and focused on the Navajo, Arapaho and the Ancestral Puebloans. Along learning about the Pilgrims Voyage, we have learned about the Wampanoag Native Americans. We did a …

Dear River Families, We had a blast celebrating Halloween at school on Monday! We played Halloween bingo with beginning sounds and ending sounds. We wrote in our journals about our costumes and did Halloween art! Tuesday was our 50th day …

Dear River Families, This week in River we continued studying owls and bats! Centers this week included listening to a silly story about monsters and then worked to build our new sight words with magnetic letters and the moveable alphabet. …

Dear River Families, This week in River we had a blast at Isabelle Farms on our first field trip! The children picked out their own pumpkins, did a pumpkin patch hunt and enjoyed playing a game of hide and seek …

Dear River Families, Thank you for those of you met with me this week for conferences! Conferences will continue into next week. We had a busy week in Kindergarten. Just to clarify, we follow BVSD academic calendar, meaning that days …

Dear River Families, This week in River we had our 30th day of school and welcomed October! The children completed a writing sample that I will keep to compare growth in later months. We wrapped up our apple study and …

Dear River Families, We had another busy week in Kindergarten!  We welcomed Ms. Kira back to River and began our unit on apples and autumn! Centers this week included making a book of colors and creating A-M letter sound books. …