Chapter 3: M is for Murphy

This has been a week filled with emotions...

This week, we learned the letter "Mm".  Our letter poem goes like this:

"M says /m/

monkey on a mountain

/m/, /m/, /m/"

The kids like this poem because when saying the /m/ sounds, they rub their bellies (like, mmmm good).  I must say, it's really cute!  As we were practicing identifying words that begin with "m" I saw some lightbulbs go off in their precious minds...

Me: "Children, let's think of words that start with /m/"

Class: "monkey, music, money, man, mop, mouse"

Me: "Very good!  There's another /m/ word...that's very obvious...Mrs. ___"

Class: "MURPHY!!!!!"

All week, they continuously told Mrs. Murphy that her name begins with /m/. 

We also started learning our numbers! yay!  We worked hard on numbers 1 through 4 this week and we reviewed all of the shapes that we have learned.  We learned how to write each number, how to identify each number, how to represent each number, and how to spell each number.  That's a lot for kindergarten, right??

It is really fun to watch their little brains learn.  It is truly miraculous.

Our big learning activity for the week was comparing and contrasting our two stories: Caps for Sale and Straw Hats for Sale.  We worked on these stories all week, and on Friday, we made this Anchor Chart, also called a Venn Diagram.

(please excuse the fact that Mrs. Murphy can not free hand big circles...that's why we turned it into a pumpkin!)

Instead of getting into the emotional stories, let's get to the funny stuff! 

That's the stuff we want to remember anyway, right?!

On the playground at recess one day, there were some locusts on a tree.

Me: "Hey children, what is that on the tree?"

JL: "a crab."

TW: "a peanut."

(They were very serious...)

TW: "Mrs. Murphy, you working on your boputer?"  (computer)

JW: "My skin fell apart on my hand..."  (she had a hang nail)

TW: "Mrs. Murphy, why this fruit cup don't have no shugahs in it?"

TW: "Mrs. Murphy, he's tryin to eat them leaves..."

Me: "What? Leaves?"

TW: "Yeah! You see them leaves on his tray?"

Me: "That's salad, sweet love...."

Even though Mrs. Murphy had an emotional week, I stop myself and look at these sweet children every morning as they come into the classroom, and I can't help but thank God for this opportunity to love them and teach them.  Mrs. Henson and I love these babies so much, even when it can be hard.  I'm sure there will be more emotional days and weeks before this school year is over, but I can always start fresh the next day and show these children love.

That's all for this week, folks!

Please continue to pray for me, my assistant, and all of my sweet kiddos daily.

Believe me, they are much needed and appreciated.  

Until next week,

XOXO