Mrs. CN Chamblee/Onofre's Class: I is for Ice Cream!!

Mrs. CN Chamblee's and Mrs. Onofre's class made homemade ice cream for the letter I. The kids each made their own ice cream in their own zip lock baggie. They mixed together the ingredients in a bag and then put that bag in a big baggie with ice and ice cream salt. They shook their baggie up until it froze and made ice cream. The kids had a great time and really enjoyed making ice cream for the letter I.

Mrs. C. Chamblee's Class: Reader's Theater

Mrs. Chamblee's class has been learning how to do reader's theater and they recently entertained us with a short play.  As Mrs. Chamblee read the book The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything, the students used props to act out what was happening in the story.  The rest of the class made the sound effects to go along with the book.  They did an outstanding job!!

Mrs. Cavannah's Class: ESL

The ESL students at Big Spring Lake have been very busy this year! In addition to learning their ABC’s, sounds and numbers in their classrooms, in the ESL classes they have been learning a lot of vocabulary and expressions to describe things around them and daily routines.  Some of the topics we have studied are: school vocabulary (for survival in their new environment), their body (so they can tell someone what hurts them), and what they do to get ready in the morning to come to school.  Pictured is one of the classes with the big book that is used to introduce the unit on “Getting Ready”.

Mrs. Bryant's Class: Downtown Field Trip

Mrs. Bryant's class and the rest of BSLK went on a field trip downtown.  They got to play on the playground at the park.  While there, they got to pet Conrad and Fluffy, two sheep being kept in the community garden (thanks Mr. and Mrs. Penney!).  After the playground, Mrs. Bryant's class got to visit the library.  There they listened to a few books and met the three library guinea pigs.  The students also got to visit the bakery at Foodland and learn about food prep.  Thanks Foodland for the yummy cookies!  At the post office, the kids got to check out the mailboxes and learn all about how to post office works.  Finally, everyone got to visit the fire station. There we learned about the firemen's gear, the fire truck, and explored the fire station.

Mrs. Bouldin's Class: All about M

September was a fun and exciting month in Kindergarten!  Mrs. Bouldin's class learned all about the letter M.  Her students loved using macaroni noodles to glue on the letter Mm and charting their favorite color of m&ms.  

Mrs. Baugh's Speech class: P is for Pirate!

Students enjoyed a pirate theme in speech this week. They have been practicing articulation sounds, following directions and using sentences to identify objects in the classroom.

Kindergarten Vision Screening

Our yearly school-wide vision screening took place on September 19th and 20th. There were 395 children screened this year. This is always a great opportunity for our students to get a first-time vision screening. We have many students each year that are found to have vision problems that may not otherwise be recognized. Best of all, this a FREE service provided by Vision Research Corporation. We’ve had an amazing screener for the past three years, Mary Jones. She is always patient and kind to our kindergarteners. We are very fortunate to be able to receive this service for our students.