Exciting things!

For kindergartners (and for Kindergarten teachers), every little thing can become an incredibly exciting event. We've had lots of exciting events in the classroom lately.

This week we started integrating our adapted version of The Daily Five, which has caused a certain amount of excitement, especially since we are working to become better readers. That is something we are all very excited about!

Thanksgiving is next week (although a few of my friends shared today that they were very excited for Valentine's Day next week!). As if that in itself weren't exciting enough, my kinderfriends have discovered that we get 5 days in a row off from school!

Today, we counted to 100. When I announced that we were going all the way to 100 today, I had 17 cheering students!

And the most exciting thing by far: we will have 2 new students join our class starting in December. They came to visit today. Some of my kinderfriends already know them, and have voiced that they are excited because they "missed their best friend." While our new students were visiting, I had a few friends very willing to share (one friend exclaimed that they could take the Star Wars toy out of his backpack if they wanted to), and everyone was very eager to share the important aspects of our classroom ("We have Show and Tell every Friday!").

Oh, yes, very exciting things are happening in kindergarten! Let me leave you with a knock-knock joke I overheard today:

"Knock, knock!"
"Who's there?"
"Orange!"
"Orange who?"
"Orange aren't you glad it's your birthday?!"

:)