Eric Carle Celebration

Today was a GREAT day as we celebrated our favorite author, Eric Carle. As you enjoy the pictures below from our day, make sure to ask your child about his favorite Eric Carle book and why!

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Today the children came dressed in green (even green hair!) with a little skip in their step and gleam in their eye! Each child brought in a leprechaun trap designed with his or her family. As the traps came in this morning the children were a'buzz with excitement. A couple even looked behind doors and under tables to see if they could catch sight of one of those elusive little green men! The children took their traps to their tables and shared with their table group how the trap worked. Enjoy some of our prize designs below!

As the children went to lunch, they set their traps hoping to catch one of the wee little men, because we had word that their had been a leprechaun sighting at Chets Creek! Lo and behold! - when we came back from lunch those pesky little leprechauns had turned over chairs and played tricks all over the room. They had taken all of the gold from our traps and left a gold candy chocolate coin instead, but we didn't catch a single leprechaun! Our wee ones enjoyed the fun and fantasy of the day! Now those little green men are gone for another year!

We're Going to the Zoo!

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo! How about you, you, you?

Click on the eyes below to view this picture book of animals. See how many animals your child can identify? After our visit to the zoo, ask them how many they saw because... we're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo!

100 Days Smarter

On Friday, February 1, 2008, our Timmonte Kindergartners celebrated the 100th Day of School. After a day full of fun learning centers, a special visit to see "Zero the Hero" and a yummy cupcake treat (thanks to Hunter's family), they can now proclaim that they are officially 100 Days Smarter!

Field Trip to See The Jungle Book

A BIG thank you to all our volunteers who chaperoned our field trip to see The Jungle Book play at the JCA. What a fun time!

Happy Birthday Chets Creek!

We celebrated Chets Creek Elementary's 10th Birthday with a week full of fun birthday activities. Here are some photos!

Birthday Bash!

As Chets Creek is celebrating it's 10th birthday, we have had many exciting adventures this week. On Tuesday the class toured the contents of the time capsule and then joined Mrs. Frizzle on the Magic School bus just like the very first classes that came to Chets Creek ten years ago. On the bus our class got to enjoy a videotape looking back at that first day and then we saw photos of students and teachers throughout the years.

On Wednesday we invited some of the teachers and students that have left Chets Creek to return and read some of the previous Books of the Months to the class. We had many of Mrs. Conte and Mrs. Timmons' former students read to the class, but the highlight was having Parker's big sister read! Peyton brought her friend Ashley with her, and they read a favorite Book of the Month, Picky Miss Pickle. Wow - maybe some of the kindergarten students sitting and listening today will come back in ten years to read to another class! thanks to all our readers!

We ended the week at a flag raising where a new time capsule was buried. Maybe some of our students will come back in ten years and open the time capsule!