Order Your Taylor Yearbook!

The yearbook is a fun keepsake for the children to have pictures of their kindergarten friends.  Our school yearbook is available for purchase online only this year.  It costs $15 and can be ordered now at

http://www.myyear.com/school/index.htm?id=2148

It's Time for a Kindgergarten Safari...

Where: The Dallas Zoo
When: November 19
Cost: $5.00

Permission slips and money are due by Friday, OCTOBER 22. Please put money in an envelope labeled with Zoo Field Trip and your child’s name. We are in need of parent volunteers to visit the zoo with us. Please let your child’s teacher know if you are interested. Chaperones will also need to pay the $5.00 entrance fee. Money can be sent in your child’s envelope.

The First Day of Fall!

One of our friends shares a fall leaf on the first day of fall.  I uploaded our First Day of Fall video using a service that automatically offers "related" videos at the end of the clip.  None of these videos have anything to do with me or our class and shouldn't be associated with our kindergarten blog.  Enjoy the kindergarten video show and tell!

Multicultural Night

Taylor Elementary Multicultural Night

We’re so excited to host our Fifth Multicultural Night at Taylor Elementary!  On Monday, October 4th from 6:30-8:00, We will celebrate the many different cultures that represent our school and community!  We invite you to participate in this unique event by sharing  your culture with us! 

Please contact Mrs. Snyder for further information if you are interested in participating!  You can email her at: Snyderm@friscoisd.org., or you can call her at (469) 633-3625.

We are the KEYS Award Winner this Week!

Our class was chosen during GMT (Good Morning Taylor) to be the KEYS award winner for the yellow pod this week.  The KEYS award is given to a class who demonstrates KEYS behavior in the hallway:
K - Keep your hands down
E - Eyes forward
Y - Your voices off
S - Slow and steady walk
This year our KEYS award is a super glittery rock guitar!  Here are some pictures of us with our KEYS award.  Mrs. Gallagher is in some of the pictures and our student teacher, Ms. Pusl is in some of the pictures.

Congratulate your child on his great behavior in the hallway that helped us earn our award! :)

Sally Foster Fundraiser

Sally Foster Fundraiser

Kindergarten teachers and the PTA would like to remind you that you have one more weekend to sell cookie dough and passport books.  The LAST DAY is Monday, September 20^th.  It is very important that your fundraiser kit is returned to school no later than Monday, September 20th, even if your child did not sell anything.  If you know that you will not be selling anything this weekend, please return the passport book along with the rest of the kit TOMORROW, Friday.

Teachers would like to start accounting for all of the books.  Thanks for all of your help making this a successful fundraiser for Taylor.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

We have been having a great time with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!  Here are a few pictures of the kids having fun learning in the literacy centers.  Some friends are matching upper and lower case letters on Chicka Boom tree shapes, some friends are acting out the book with our very own Chicka Boom tree, other friends are making the letters in their name march up a Chicka Boom tree, and still other friends are matching friends' names and pictures to complete our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom poem.  We also have friends practicing Word Wall words on the dry erase board, or learning letter sounds on the computer.  If your child would like to visit http://www.starfall.com/ at home, it is a great ABC site.  Be sure to talk to your child about the fun activities he has been doing at school with letters and names.

Curriculum Night, Thurs., September 2nd

Curriculum Night . . .


We would like to extend an invitation to each Kindergarten parent to join your child’s teacher in the cafeteria for information regarding what your child will be learning in Kindergarten this year! Curriculum night will begin promptly at 6:00 and will last until approximately 7:15 on September 2nd. We look forward to seeing you this Thursday!

Ms. Pusl Observed Today

Hooray!  We will get to have a student teacher in our room starting September 13th.  She came to observe our classroom today and will return tomorrow for another day of observation.  Her name is Ms. Pusl (pronounced Poo-zel; not Ms. Poodle as some of our friends thought!).  We are so fortunate to have her as a student teacher.  I have known her personally for over five years and she has taught preschool for five or six years.  We had a great day learning today in kindergarten!

First Day of Kindergarten - HUGE Success!!!!!

I love your kids!!!!  We had an amazing first day of school together.  What an amazing group.  They did such a great job listening as we practiced all of our procedures.  They drew a great picture about what they did to get ready for school today after we read the book Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten.  The picture is in the pocket of their STAR binder.

Today our class got to go to PE for specials and their specials schedule is in their STAR binder.  That might be a fun conversation starter for "dinner talk" tonight.  There is also a class list in the STAR binder so you can ask your child if he/she remembers some friends from today.

I can't wait for tomorrow! :)