Chapter 5: It's Fall, Y'all!

We had a week full of fun!

This week's letter was S, and here's our poem:

"S says /s/

spider in the soup

/s/, /s/, /s/"

Our list of letter learning is growing fast!

We continued learning about numbers 1 through 5, how to make numbers in a ten frame, and how to model and write them.  We also started studying spiders...yuck!

Our week started out by one of the sweeties, T, telling us that she had some pizza and french fries in her backpack.  Of course, Mrs. Henson and I were very concerned, and wanted to make sure we kept them refrigerated if needed, so we asked her to get them out and show us.

"See, it's my pizza and french fries!"

Since we celebrated the first day of Fall this week, we decided to make some pumpkins and decorate our classroom door!  The directions were for the students to create their own pumpkins with only paper, scissors, and glue.  I gave them the pumpkin cutout, and they had to create the rest.  It was so much fun to see what they came up with!
Here are some pictures for you to enjoy! (excuse the blurriness - privacy is important)

Our finished door!  "Happy Fall, Y'all!"

 Ok, now here's a story for you.  We have a problem with wasps somehow making their way into our classroom.  Mrs. Henson is allergic and of course the children are terrified.  So, Mrs. Murphy has to wear her "brave hat" to get these pesty bugs!  ("pesty" was one of our vocabulary words this week!)  Last week, we had some administrators come in to observe us during Writing instruction, and one of these little guys landed right on Mrs. Henson's sweater.  She froze, and I literally leapt over the children sitting on the carpet to swat it off and kill it.  Of course, I saved the day!

Well, this week, we had another unwelcome visitor.  I chased this little stinker around all morning on Thursday, and the kids kept a close eye on wherever he flew.  In summary of me trying to get this guy, I pulled down the curtains, knocked down the display board behind my desk, and lost my shoes! No worries, I didn't give up.  See....?

On Fridays teachers can wear jeans to school.  I usually wear my jeans rolled up since it's still warm outside.  After breakfast I was sitting in the rocking chair getting ready to start the day, when I noticed one of my boys trying to roll up his jeans.  I asked him what he was doing.  He doesn't talk much, so he just looked down at his jeans and looked back up at me.  I said "Are you trying to roll up your jeans like Mrs. Murphy?"  He shook his sweet little head "yes".  So, of course, I helped him!  (We eventually unrolled them, but he just wanted to be like me for a few minutes!)

My sweet girl, T, would not got to sleep at rest time on Friday.  She was restless and kept calling my name.  Finally, I gave in and asked her what she needed.  She said "Mrs. Murphy, can you rock me in that chair?"  "Have you never been rocked in a rocking chair, sweet girl?", I asked.  T said, "No. Can you please?"  I could not pass up this opportunity to love on her and rock her as long as her little heart desired.  So we rocked for about 10 minutes with our music playing and all of the other children snoring, and she fell right to sleep.  My eyes filled with tears while I rocked this sweet angel, and I prayed that she would always remember what it feels like to be rocked in arms of love.

Kindergarten Funnies:

The school gives us a fruit or vegetable for snack on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays - and we love it!

T: "Mrs. Murphy, I want a pinch." (peach)

JW: "I like your braces, Mrs. Murphy!" (bracelets)

JL: "What that is?"

A precious little girl had on some cute shoes, so I asked her to find out where her mom got them from.

Me: "Did you ask your mom where she bought your shoes from?"

J: shook her head yes.

Me: "Oh good! Where?"

J: "The sto'."  (store)

We were working on 10 frames, and somehow the kids kept losing their numbers...

JL crawled under the table and all I could see was his hand pop up holding a number and he shouted "I got me a ten!"

In my attempts to kill that pesty wasp...

JL: "Mrs. Murphy, don't get stinged by that wast..."

Practicing the number word EIGHT:

"eighk".... "eighch".....

(We will keep working!)

T: "Mrs. Murphy, can you fix my belp?  It has come a loose."

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