The Gingerbread Man

After reading The Gingerbread Man Big Book

 we decorated a large Gingerbread Man and took him to the cafeteria to be baked.  We returned to the cafeteria the next day and much to our surprise Miss Sandy told us the Gingerbread Man had jumped out of the oven and run away.  He left us a note which took us to the Library where we met Mrs. Graph.  She told us that she saw him but she could not catch him.  He left another note that led us to the clinic where we met Miss McKenna.  She also let him get away but had another note telling us to go to the office the next day.

 On Friday we made our way to Mr. Dragon's office.

 He had found the Gingerbread Man running in the halls, caught him and put him right back on the pan.  We thanked him for catching The Gingerbread Man for us and told him we were going to eat him!

 And we did!

 We also made Gingerbread Men with Fruit Loops.  Some children decided to make patterns with their Fruit Loops.

 We added faces and buttons

We read and compared 6 different versions of the Gingerbread Man

 and learned that folktales have basically the same story but some characters and events may be a little different.  In the end the fox usually got to eat the Gingerbread Man by tricking him, except for The Gingerbread Girl version.  This was more of a sequel but, she outfoxed the fox!

Mrs. Windom is Ready for Kindergarten

Take Home Folders are ready to go.  Please remember to send these back with your child EVERY day!

 Here is our classroom, ready and waiting for Monday morning!

 Some of our Center Areas.  These will open gradually as we learn our new routines.

 The Housekeeping Area

 Computers.  We have 4 new computers in our room!

Math Tubs!

The Science Center

Pocket Charts!

The Writing Center

Books, Books and more Books.
the ActivBoard

Listening Center
I love these new chairs that I got from Pottery Barn Kids...it was hard to buy them without my discount, but I still love them!

Sand Table

The Easel will open later in the week.  I am ordering more paint, (washable, of course).

The Block Center

The Tracing Center

Puzzles and another Listening Center

The Art Supply Shelf and another Listening Center



Building Toys



It all looks so neat and clean...I should probably take a few pictures tomorrow, before clean up time so you can see what our "lived in" classroom looks like!

Classroom Pictures...Before

So here are some pictures of our classroom before I started setting it up!

I have a little work to do!!

I will post more pictures tomorrow.  The room is more put together than these pictures show.  I took these before I arranged the furniture.

Last Day of Summer Vacation

Oh my goodness, is it really the last day of my summer vacation! 
What I have done so far on my last day...

• run journal pages
• covered book boxes
• planned out Math Problem Solving activities

I still need to...

• make nametags
• make journal covers
• update the info letter
• make Star Charts
• go see my parents (and drop off the big numbers for my mom to trace)
• float in the pool!!!

Supply List

Since parent letters are arriving today or tomorrow and this weekend is the tax free shopping weekend, I thought I would post our supply list.  I am going to send this out to a few parents and hopefully others will find us.  I know phones will be ringing as soon as letters start arriving.

1. Small Rest Mat:   These can be found at Target and Walmat.  Please do not send in yoga or exercise mats, these tend to be bulky and we have limited storage space.

2.  Glue Sticks:  at least 6 small and 2 large, more would be greatly appreciated!

3.  2-3 boxes of 24 Crayola Crayons:  Target and Walmart have these for 40 cents

4.  2 Hardcover Composition Books:  These are also 40 cents at Target and Walmart.  You don't need to get the fancy covers, I will be putting a "fancy label" on it.  Make sure they are wide ruled!   I am taking these off the supply list.  Office Depot had them for 25 cents and I got all that we needed! 

5.  1 box of Crayola Markers:  thick or thin, 99 and 97 cents at, you guessed it, Target and Walmart

6.  Change of Clothes:  These need to be uniform colors and will be kept in backpacks.  (underwear and socks too!)

7.  Backpack:  no wheels please!  These should be big enough for children to fit their folder and papers inside.

I am pretty well stocked on tissues, baby wipes, zip loc bags and hand sanitizer and will ask for those if needed later on in the year!

Please feel free to bring supplies to Meet Your Teacher day.  It helps if all supplies are in a bag with your child's name on the bag.  You do not need to write their names on the idividual supplies.

I would strongly suggest that in addition to these items you also

purchase a pencil box to keep at home and set it up with homework

supplies. Your child will need pencils, crayons, gluesticks and scissors

(strongly recommend Fiskars brand).

Happy Shopping!

A new year, a new blog

Well, I have done it now...I have finally started a blog.  I have wanted to do this for a while.  I am going to take this one step at a time and see how it goes.


The first step was trying to decide what to name this blog, so I put it out on Facebook and asked for some ideas.  I always had the fallback of Mrs. Windom's Kindergarten Class.  I chose Mrs. Windom's Window because parents always want to take a peek and see what is happening in the classroom.   This might change but for now I am going with it!


Step two...figure out how this blogging thing actually works.  I get the adding posts and all that but now I need to figure out how to make it look the way I want it to look.  There are a lot of teacher blogs out there and they look wonderful, but for right now I am going to stick to the basics while I figure this out and, oh yeah, start the school year!