How can it be the last day of school already?  We spent some time playing with friends, outside on the playground, playing BINGO and writing in our Friday Journals.  In the afternoon, we... Read More

This morning we pretended to be first graders.  We spent a portion of our morning in a first grade classroom.  We did a first grade scavenger hunt, compared a 1st grade classroom to our... Read More

We got to spend one more afternoon with our buddies from Mrs. Knisley's class.  We met out on the big playground!  Kindergartners are very excited to be 'moving up' from our... Read More

We had a surprise celebration this afternoon for Mrs. Herkenhoff.  She will be retiring at the end of the school year.  Mrs. Herkenhoff has been one of our afternoon paraprofessionals... Read More

It was a little on the warm side, but we still had fun outside having a picnic lunch.  The most exciting part was having recess on the 1st grade playground!

This morning, our buddies from Mrs. Knisley's class came down to our classroom.  First, we made bird kites.  Then we took them outside to test them.  After, we played with... Read More

On Friday morning, we headed upstairs to the Imaginarium.  While we were exploring and creating, we got to make SLIME with Mrs.  Huikko.

We had a GREAT time on our field trip!  Thank you to all the volunteers who came with and helped.  I think there will be some very tired kindergartners, volunteers, and teachers tonight!

We colored Charlie Brown/Peanuts pictures, learned about Charles Schulz, watched "The Peanuts Movie" and created our own cartoon puppets.

Congratulations to Emma for being our Tiger Way Award recipient for Sportsmanship & Teamwork.  We are proud of you!

This afternoon we headed outside to interact with our chicks one more time and color with sidewalk chalk.  We ended up a little dusty so we had to roll down the hill a few times to get some... Read More

After Field Day we headed to our playground to do a class photo together.  Of course, we had to include a few silly ones!

We had a fabulous morning outside at Field Day.  It started a bit chilly, but once we started running around, we were great.  We played Tail Tag, ran through an inflatable obstacle... Read More

Here are a few photos of our chicks from the week.

After two exciting days in our classroom, we have successfully hatched 11 chicks.  We will watch them grow throughout the week.  We got to pet them today and will hold them later in the... Read More

We had a very active incubator today.  There were two chicks this morning.  Throughout the day, five more chicks hatched and two have hatched after school.  We still have a couple... Read More

This morning, I came into the room to see 2 chicks had hatched.  There are multiple eggs with pecks is them as well.  Stay tuned for more photos and updates!

At 1:45, 2 pecks were spotted in the incubator!

This week, we read the story,  One Dog Canoe  by Mary Casanova.  We practiced retelling the story with our puppets for a partner.  After, we read the story,  Mr.... Read More

This morning we went to Gale Woods Farm.  Farmer Scott showed us all around the farm.  First, we went to the chickens.  We got to pet a brown chicken.  Then, we saw the bull... Read More

This morning, we had the honor of hosting, Katie Shatusky, author of  Ladybug Hug .  She presented to our class about how she got her idea for the book and how it took a long time to... Read More

Congratulations to all the artists who participated in the DES Art Fair last night.  Our classroom went upstairs to tour the art fair.  They were excited to see all the different... Read More

Wow - our recycling bag collection is certainly growing.  We counted our bags this morning during Morning Meeting and we have 604 bags!  We have one week to go as we will be collecting... Read More

Our Spring Science Unit is all about animals.  Yesterday, our shipment of bugs and worms came in.  We spent the morning exploring and learning about two different kinds of isopods: pill... Read More

We started our first day back to school in April by meeting with our buddies.  First, we read our completed All About Me books to our buddies.  Then we talked with our buddy to find out... Read More

Congratulations to Arlo, our Tiger Way Award recipient for Growth Mindset.  Arlo always tries his best and keeps working hard.  We are proud of you!

This past few weeks we have been learning about force, especially pushes and pulls.  Last week we went up to the multi-purpose room to explore balloon rockets.  We used the force from... Read More

We reviewed our shapes by creating shape robots.  The shapes needed to touch, but not overlap.

This morning, while we were upstairs for science, we had the opportunity to meet Getty.  Getty is a therapy dog.  Her job is to listen to students read a loud.  We happened to be in... Read More

Today, we headed up to the multi-purpose room to have a bit more space for our science.  Yesterday, we explored pushes and pulls.  Today, we participated in a variety of experiments with... Read More

We ignored the snow outside and enjoyed an indoor beach day at DES.  We wore our beachy outfits, sat on our beach towels and enjoyed a picnic on the beach for lunch!  Let's find the... Read More

Claire, a current Delano Royalty Ambassador (and former kindergarten student of Mrs. Huikko's) came to read to our classroom.  She shared a few books and answered questions about what she... Read More

DES was fortunate to have author, Lauren Olsem, come to share her story with us.  Her story is titled,  What Makes a Home ?  She shared a bit about her family and how they moved a... Read More

This morning, our classroom got to go up to the art room to work with an artist.  She taught us how to draw and paint our own colorful lions!  We look forward to displaying them in the... Read More

On Friday, students at DES got to participate in the I Love to Read Month Reading Carnival as a reward for turning in their reading slips and reading all month long.  There were lots of games... Read More

Thank you to Mrs. Knisley (our third grade buddies' teacher and Emma's mom) for volunteering to come read to our classroom during I Love to Read month.

Congratulations to Teighan for being selected as our Tiger Way Award recipient for the character trait of Acceptance.  We are proud of you!

It was back to back celebrating in kindergarten this week!  On Wednesday, kindergartners celebrated the 100th Day of Kindergarten!  We made 100 bead necklaces, made 100 do-a-dot... Read More

On Tuesday, we celebrated Valentine's Day.  A HUGE thanks to our parent volunteers for helping!  We made and flew airplanes, created Love Bugs, completed candy heart challenges,... Read More

To celebrate I Love to Read Month, Mrs. Schultz read to our class on Thursday, February 9th.

This afternoon, I could see the benefits of our Global School Play Day in action!  Students were working collaboratively in groups (by their own choice) to build and create with the marble... Read More

On Wednesday, February 1st, kindergartners at DES participated in Global School Play Day.  This is a day meant to put aside electronics and engage in creative play with others.  We... Read More

Today, we were fortunate to have the Climb Theater come to our school.  We saw a great presentation called, "The Polka-Dot Shoes."  It shared the great message of having... Read More

Congratulations to Mason!  He was our January Tiger Way Award recipient.  In January we focused on Grit!  Grit is never giving up even with things get hard.  Mason is always... Read More

Monday, we had school-wide DEAR time.  DEAR stands for D rop E verything A nd R ead!  After our morning announcements, we got out our book boxes, found a reading buddy (small stuffed... Read More

This week, Ms. Graham took our class sledding for phy. ed.  With all our new snow we received the past few weeks, it was a perfect time.  Today, I put my snow gear on and went outside... Read More

We had a great morning with our friends doing several winter and holiday activities.  We threw noses (ping pong balls) at snowman, played with pretend snow, made holiday jingle bell... Read More

This morning, we met in the Media Center to participate in a holiday sing along.  We listened to Sound Revolution and then the third graders led the school in various holiday songs.

On Tuesday morning, we went upstairs with Mrs. Scanlon's class and participated in our Winter STEM stations.  We built with Legos, IO Blocks, Keva Blocks, and gumdrops, marshmallows and... Read More

Kindergarten was lucky today to have a visitor from the North Pole - Santa!  Students were extremely excited to tell him what we have been doing in our classroom.  Santa walked in with... Read More

This morning (rescheduled from yesterday) we went to the multipurpose room with our buddies from Mrs. Knisley's 3rd grade class to turn ourselves (or at least a picture of us) into... Read More

This week, we have some more elves join our classroom for a day as their student shared about their family tradition.  We also saw some beautiful ornaments, family pictures in pajamas and a... Read More

We have been having a great time learning about the holiday traditions of our friends from our class.  We've learned about cookie making, tree trimming, Elves, hats, special ornaments,... Read More

Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and snow and came to see our artwork displayed at Dairy Queen on Wednesday evening.  Our kindergarten artists worked so hard earlier in the week to... Read More

Congratulations to Rosie!  She was selected from our classroom to receive November's Tiger Way Award.  The focus this month was Gratitude!  We are grateful to have Rosie in our... Read More

This morning we were busy completing three different stations: Painting Turkeys Making Plywood and Particle Board Coloring/Writing Thankful Books

On Monday, we met with our 3rd grade buddies from Mrs. Knisley's class.  Together, we made Gobble Wobblers.  After making the Gobble Wobblers, the 3rd graders helped us play Stuff... Read More

Wow!  We had a great morning participating in our Tiger Fun Run celebrating the completion of our Boosterthon - Grand Land Adventure!  We learned about gratitude, stewardship, bravery,... Read More

One of our Boosterthon class rewards was time in the Imaginarium.  On Thursday afternoon, we went upstairs and created with Strawbees, IO Blocks, Zoobs and Legos.  This is a very... Read More

On Thursday, we headed outside to wave to our girl's swimming and diving team on their way to the state tournament.  Delano is proud of you all!  Good luck!

One of our classroom rewards we earned for reading $20 per minute as a class for the Boosterthon was to have lunch in the classroom.  We literally, WALKED our walking tacos back to the... Read More

Our kindergarten scientists have been exploring wood for the past few days.  We learned that wood will ABSORB water, but it won't sink.  Their job today was to use the supplies given... Read More

On Friday, kindergarten learned about Veterans Day through a presentation in the multi-purpose room.  We were honored to have several Veterans join us for the presentation.  Thank you to... Read More

We went outside Friday afternoon to wish the Delano High School Boys and Girls Cross Country Teams GOOD LUCK as they headed to the state tournament on Saturday.  They represented our school... Read More

On Thursday, we attended a concert of the Delphia Cello Quartet.  We learned about the cello, the name of some of its parts and different sounds that it can make.  Many of the songs that... Read More

We learned about warm colors (red, orange, yellow) and cool colors (purple, blue, green).  Then we created our own Pop Art by using the warm and cool colors to design our pumpkin picture.

We met with our buddies from Mrs. Knisley's 3rd grade class this morning.  First, we were given a bag of supplies (Model Magic, pipe cleaners, beads, googly eyes) and we had to design our... Read More

Today, Mrs. Schultz came to our classroom to present Wesley AG with the Tiger Way Award from our class for the month of October.  Wesley was selected for showing kindness all month... Read More

More photos from Friday's parade and party!

Wow!  This morning was so much fun!  We started in the cafeteria with a kindergarten parade, went outside and took some class photos in our costumes and then headed back inside for our... Read More

Today, we read the story,  The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin  by Joe Troiano.  After reading the story and seeing how Spookly's uniqueness saved the pumpkin patch, the... Read More

It was a chilly morning, but we headed outside on October 17th to draw and write messages of kindness on our sidewalks.  With the little rain we have had, many of our messages can still be... Read More

These photos are from our community helper day, but too cute not to share!

Nurse Crista was our last helper visitor.  She read us a story about germs.  Then, she passed around her 'germ' ball.  The 'germ' ball left a powder on their... Read More

Our next Community Helper was the librarian from the Delano Public Library.  She told us about all the awesome things we can do at the library and all the books that are there.  We can... Read More

We started our morning outside with the Delano Fire Department and Wright County Deputy.  We talked about what to do in an emergency, how both are helpers in our community and a bit about... Read More

On Monday, we practiced created patterns with different objects.  We have been focusing on AB, ABC, and AABB patterns, but have created other patterns such as AAB or ABCD as well.  What... Read More

We seriously had the BEST DAY EVER today!  Mrs. Schultz came to our room after lunch to present every single student in our classroom with a Tiger Paw Award.  We got to add a ping pong... Read More

This morning, we read our magazine about backyard critters and their senses.  We used our senses as we headed outside to look, listen and feel for different objects.  We successfully... Read More

We have been practicing "Read to Self."  During this time we have 4 requirements: voices quiet, eyes on the book, in our own space bubble, and reading the whole time.  This was... Read More

On Monday, we explored creating different numbers using a variety of tools: Legos, whiteboards, wiki sticks, Keva blocks, hexabits, and our Clevertouch Board.  Students could represent the... Read More

We were SUPER excited to meet our third grade buddies from Mrs. Knisley's class last week.  We will be meeting with them approximately once a month.

We used our tiny finger muscles to tear little pieces of paper to create our names.

Mrs. Schultz came to introduce herself to our class and read us a story about kindness.

Congratulations to Caroline!  She was our Tiger Way Award for displaying awesome Citizenship during the month of September.  She has been a respectful, responsible, safe and kind friend... Read More

We had a great morning celebrating Homecoming!  We had our pepfest in the gym where we heard the band play, saw the cheerleaders and danceteam perform, and learned about the different... Read More

This morning, the kindergartners did and AWESOME job following the directions to make tiger cubs.  They were definitely all showing the Tiger Way and following our listening rules to work... Read More

On Tuesday, we enjoyed the really warm day by going on a number hunt in our school and outside.  We found numbers on the walls, doors, signs, chromebooks and even outside!

This week we have been doing many activities with the book  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom  by  Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault.  We did the CCBB greeting, we made eye spy... Read More

Mr. Ludwig came into our classroom to talk to us about the Tiger Way.  The Tiger Way is: Be Respectful Be Responsible Be Safe Be Kind Mr. Ludwig also showed us about Tiger Way... Read More

We are off to a great start in our first FULL week of kindergarten.  Today was filled with lots of Bus Safety.  Yesterday, we started the day sharing toys with our friends and then we... Read More

Wow!  We had a very busy day in Kindergarten.  We learned a bit about our room, learned where to go for lunch and recess, wrote our name, drew a picture, explored our markers and pencil... Read More