Storyteller: Toni Simmons

This week, we had a special treat. Storyteller, Toni Simmons, visited us for a time of traditional oral storytelling. She used rhythms, songs, and audience participation, to pull us into her stories and to take us to different places around the world.





You can learn more about Toni Simmons and purchase her products at Toni Simmons.

"Pop" into the Library

In honor of the 100th day, our librarian had students "pop" into the library to check out a new book and to eat some popcorn. The first 100 students that went to the library for open check out got a small prize and a ticket for a drawing. What a great idea! Our students had tons of fun with it!

"Donut" Forget to Read Party

Over Christmas break, our school took part in a reading challenge called "Donut Forget to Read." Students who read over the break and filled out their reading log got to go to a donut party in the library with Mrs. Tricoli.

students go to eat donuts in the library


Mrs. Tricoli read the book Arnie the Doughnut by Lauri Keller.


students made their own Arnie the doughnut

snowflake story time

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Story Time with Ms. Tricoli

For story time this week, Ms. Tricoli read the book Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry. They created a bubble map of other words that mean "big," looked at problem and solution, and sequenced the animals in the story.

Going Bananas Over PTA

Our class won the PTA membership drive for the entire school. We had the highest percentage of parents join for our class. Ms. Tricoli dressed as a banana and served us banana splits in honor of our winning.
















Our class won, thanks to Ameer's family who had 4 family members join PTA. Thanks Ameer!!

The Cutest Peas in the Pod

This week, we celebrated the letter "R" so Ms. Tricoli chose Amy Krouse Rosenthal as the author of the week. Ms. Tricoli read the book Little Pea and the kindergartners had a pea flinging contest.

Each student took a turn at flinging a frozen pea off of a spoon.








After each flinging, Ms. Tricoli helped the students measure how far the pea went.





After measuring how far their pea went, each student made a little pea out of construction paper and recorded their distance on a number line graph.





Ms. Tricoli displayed each class's graph in the hallway for everyone to see. Mrs. Larremore's pea went farther than anyone else's!

Smart Cookies!

This week, Ms. Tricoli, our librarian introduced us to rebus stories. We made our own rebus book by putting a paper cookie we made in place of the word "cookie." We can all do lots of things and that makes us all smart cookies!