Ms Kristin

i is for instrument chair

complete spontaneous play (during J week) during work time resulted in an instrument chair: they used the rubber bands from our rubber band boards and said, “we should have done this during i week!” next year.

i is for initial

here is a reason to name your pet using a letter we learned back in september: the satisfaction of writing his name!

f is for feast

throughout the week, children were invited to bring their favorite food to show us, tell us about, and even taste. our feasts definitely grew in size over the week. eating our ice milk from i week and tasting ms. vilia’s indonesian food was a special treat. after reading and counting along with feast for ten,Continue reading “f is for feast”

c is for candlestick

i didn’t even realize that we had over 50 candlestick holders (i thought they were just random wood knobs, etc) in the box from the thrift shop. so i threw out the project plans i had and we decorated candlestick holders for our thanksgiving feast table. we colored them with crayons and painted them withContinue reading “c is for candlestick”

T + H is for THanksgiving

My own son, Micah, a first grader, thought since we didn’t have a letter of the week, i should teach the kids the chunk TH. good idea. for chunks and compound words, we use our fists and chant: this is T, this is H, pound them together TH (here we make the sound) in honorContinue reading “T + H is for THanksgiving”