Pilgrims and "Kinder"ians

Let me start by telling you that we did not have a typical week this week in kindergarten. We continued our unit on Thanksgiving and learned about the Pilgrims.

 As you can see, there are many benefits to being in 5K.

 Our classroom was temporarily turned into a

tee-pee and my students transformed into

Native Amerians.

   We read many stories about the Pilgrims and their journey to America. We learned about the trip on the Mayflower and their first winter. Finally we talked, created, read, drew, and acted out how the Pilgrims and Indians met and worked together.

   And yes, if you were wondering, this day was as fun as it looks.

 After giving thanks to God, we sat down and enjoyed our Thanksgiving feast in our room.

   It was not a "typical" Thanksgiving meal but we did the best we could with what we had.....and isn't that what THEY did too?

    Our turkey centerpiece turned out sooooo cute!

    All in all it was a good day. We are thankful for ... 
        ....good friends, good food, a great school, a place to live,....

    ....good laughs, healthy children, our family , a free country,...

..great parents, and the love and forgiveness of our Lord and savior.

Have a Happy Thanksliving!

Book Fair

Guess who we saw at the PDS

Book Fair

 CLIFFORD!

A BIG THANK YOU to all of the kids and

their parents who bought books at the book

fair for our class. He have enjoyed reading

some of them already.

Thankfulness....

 This week we started our unit on Thanksgiving.

We began talking about the Native Americans

who lived here and about their culture. (Pictures next week)

We will continue to discuss this unit next week as we learn about

the Pilgrims and their journey to America.

This week's blog is dedicated to the men and women who

served in the military to help preserve our great nation.

Our Veterans Day program during chapel on Friday

was very moving and top notch.

 New Song sang "American Tears" and did an awesome job.

 Some of our PDS boy scouts presented the colors.

 Mrs. Burd talked about Veterans Day and why we should honor our veterans.

 Mr. Lamar Taylor was our guest speaker. He is the father of Bradley Taylor

who served in Afganistan. You could tell he is very proud of his son and

we are very thankful that he came and shared his story.   

 New Song sang a medley of the Armed Services Songs. As each branch was acknowledged, we

could stand in honor or in memory of a veteran.

 At the end of the program, we took pictures of all the veterans and their

grand or great grandchildren. PDS is extremely proud of our veterans.

Thank you for your service.

One Nation Under God

                                                                   by Roger Robicheau

One Nation Under God we live Think about all some had to give We the people share freedom’s life In a world of ever present strife Be grateful to those who keep this true Warriors of our red, white, and blue They're trained by those of great skill Honed to perform, so strong their will They show what love is all about They’ll fight for us, there is no doubt Defending bravely what we are No holding back each heartfelt star Highly praise these men and women Giving thanks time and again Those in uniform will always be The golden pride of this country



MISSISSIPPI

What a wonderful state to live! We started the week reading the book "M is for Magnolia" .We learned so much about our state. We even learned how to spell it. M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-hump back-hump back-I.

Several of the kids brought in facts about our state too. We learned that our state toy is the teddy bear, our state drink is milk, our state flower and tree is the magnolia, our state water fowl is the wood duck and our state stone is petrified wood.

Thank you Walker for bring in the magnolia leaves and a clay dish of Mississippi and thank you

Lane  for letting us hold a piece of petrified wood. (Try explaining petrified wood to a bunch of 5 year olds. I know they really think I made that up.)

I would like to take a moment a brag a little about my kinders.

They are doing an awesome job on writing sentences each day

and their coloring skills are WONDERFUL.

Just color me proud!!!

 Well, we had a little lesson in patience these past couple of weeks.  Our leaf hunt was postponed a couple of times due to rainy weather :( but we got to go today.

Our mission was to find different fall leaves. We looked for a red leaf, a yellow leaf, an orange leaf, a brown leaf, a green leaf and even a purple leaf. We also put on our list a PDS leaf (green and gold, of course) and a magnolia leaf.

          Purple.....check   well, Magenta ....check

           Yellow....check  

        Orange ....check

         Red.....check

        Brown.....check

            ......did you find the PDS leaf?

Now we said they could not pick any leaves off of the trees but we helped a few magnolia leaves that were "just about ready to fall anyway"...

                                                                   FALL

 During the hunt we stopped long enough to check out the bark of the trees. It was very interesting to see how different tree trunks can be.

 Finally we made it back to the room. After a mini lesson on magnifing glasses, we were ready to examine our treasures.

       We talked a little about the leaves different shapes, sizes, and textures.

We found all the leaves on our list and some extra surprises too. Some had sweet gum balls, cypress balls, acorns, and one spider.

The grass withers and the flowers fall

but the Word of God stands forever!

Isaiah 40:8