Our Public Service Announcements

Today, we created and recorded our own PSA's to convince you about which community helper is most important to us.  Prior to recording, the students wrote an opinion piece telling me which community helper was most important to them.  After writing, we transferred our opinions into public service announcements.

Please enjoy the following 5 PSA's:

Bella, Chase L., Sarah, and Callie

Kendall, Sam, Brooke, and Mason

Emily, Ethan, Triston, Cameron, and Austin

Macie, Jake, and Brooklyn

Emary Kate and LJ

Visits from our Community Helpers

This week, we had the privilege of having 5 different community helpers visit the entire kindergarten at OES! Last week, we created know and wonder charts that listed the things we already knew about each community helper and anything we were wondering about. Prior to our visit, we used those I Wonder statements and turned them into questions. This is an example of two of our charts:

Below are a few pictures as the students recorded the questions that they wanted to ask each community helper.

Fire Fighters:

Police Officer:

Air Force Officer:

Contractor: 

Our wonderful OES Custodian:

If you can't tell, we have been very busy in kindergarten! Thank you all so much for taking time out of your day to visit with the kindergarten classes at OES!

What does our administration do all day??!

Good afternoon!  We are right in the middle of learning about different community helpers in our area!  Today, we learned about our administration.  We had such a fun time composing a list together of what we thought Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner do throughout the day.  Below is the list that we came up with:

What does Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner do all day?

• They talk and write (Callie)
• They write messages (Brooklyn)
• They watch the kids (Triston)
• They take people to the office if they are mean in school (Austin)
• They work on stuff for teachers (Bella)
• They work on the computers (Emary Kate)
• They have cameras and watch kids (Jake)
• They take pictures of your writing and drawing (Sam)
• If you are good, they may give you a sticker (Cameron)
• If you do something wrong, they will call you out on the speakers because they have cameras that they watch us with (Chase L.)
• They watch tv (LJ)
• He works to make money (Brooke)
• Writes messages on his computer. (Kendall)
• He rides the bus home (Taegan)
• They sit in their chairs for the whole day so they don’t have to walk around and they help kids up when they fall. (Ethan)
• They help people when they get hurt (Brooklyn)
• They have to do the cold water challenge (Ethan).

I can tell that they have really been watching and observing Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner these first few weeks of school!

Our Public Service Announcements

Today we recorded our very own Public Service Announcements.  We began by watching example videos and discussing the things we noticed.  Next, we used our opinion writing on community helpers to guide our commercials.  Students were asked to write about which community helper is most important to them.  Today, they spoke on camera to convince you to agree that their community helper is most important!  I hope you enjoy watching these videos!



Thanks for viewing our PSA's!

Our second Mystery Reader and a Contractor visited us today!

Today was a very exciting day here in room 201!  This morning, we had a Contractor visit our class.  His name was Mr. Ray.  Below are a few pictures and videos from our exciting morning.

Thank you so much for coming to speak to the kindergarten classes at OES!  We loved learning from you!  Thanks for building houses and for serving our schools!  

After Mr. Ray left, we were excited to find out that we had a Mystery Reader here at school.  Sage's dad surprised our class and read the book, My Lucky Day.  Below are a few pictures of our time with Mr. Barber.

Thank you so much for coming to read to us Mr. Barber.  We had such a great time!





Fire Fighters visited us!

We had the privilege of having a fire fighter come visit the entire kindergarten today!  Last week, we made a chart that listed the things we already knew about fire fighters and anything we were wondering about.  This morning we used those I wonder statements, and turned them into questions.  This is our list:



Below are a few pictures as the students wrote down the question they wanted to ask the fire fighter.

After that, our class traveled down the hall to Mrs. Black's room to hear the fire fighter speak.  Below is a picture as he first began sharing with us. 

After he was finished sharing with us, he gave us time to ask any questions we had for him.  Below are a few recordings of the wonderful questions we asked.  I wanted you to be able to hear how inquisitive your kindergartener's were because I was very impressed!



We had such a wonderful day and I am so glad that we can share it with you!



Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner visited our class!

Good afternoon!  We are right in the middle of learning about different community helpers in our area!  Today, we learned about our administration.  We had such a fun time composing a list together of what we thought Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner do throughout the day.  Below is the list that we came up with:

What does Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner do all day?

·       Fix People (Katelynn N.)

·       Help people open their milk and drinks (Austin)

·       Give people spankings (Hayden)

·       A lot of paperwork (Jaylen)

·       When people fall they help them up (Emma)

·       Read books to the kids (Katelyn)

·       Make sure the kids do the right thing (Lake)

·       Watch TV in the office (Lexi)

·       Ride in the ambulance (Landon)

·       Get a pie in their face (Jayden)

·       Work on the computers (Joshua)

·       If we are late, we have to talk to them (Daniel)

·       When kids are lost, the principal’s find them (Nicholas)

·       Help kids (Cecilia)

·       If kids are real bad, they go to the principal’s office and they call their mom and dad and tell them what they did mean. (Jaylen and Landon)

·       Eats popsicles (Emma)

·       Give hugs (Lexi)

·       Listen to your heart (Landon)

·       If you have an accident they give you new pants (Katelynn)

·       They protect us (Katelyn)

Later in the day, we had a surprise visit from Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Skinner. They came to share with us the truth about what they really do each day at school. We were so lucky to have both principals come visit us together! Below is a picture as Dr. Patterson was talking with us!