Ms. Mercer's Class Zips

By Emma S.

Every week, Ms. Mercer’s DLP class visits the school library to read a story with Ms. Linss, and do a project relating to the story. This past week, the students listened to Zippy Zebra, the story of a zebra in a zoo who loves things that start with the letter ‘Z’. Ms. Mercer’s students did an exciting art project about Zippy Zebra in the zoo. For this project, the students pasted cutouts of zoo animals onto a piece of paper, pasted brown paper shaped like cages onto the animals, and then creatively decorated the zoo animals and the background. The students also had fun acting out a puppet show of Zippy Zebra. Ms. Mercer’s students can’t wait to see what fun and educational activity they will do next week!

Kindergarten Oceans

By Emily M.

All eighty kindergartens recently went on a field trip to the Lake Theatre in downtown Oak Park. They went to see Disney’s Oceans during its opening week so, they helped raise money for preserving our oceans. Disney has promised to donate one dollar per ticket towards preserving the worlds’ oceans when anyone goes to see the movie on opening week. The movie used wonderful camerawork and followed the lives of certain underwater creatures. The kindergarten got to experience life as if they were living under the water. They helped the earth by walking, not taking the bus. In total they donated about eighty dollars.

Ms. Richardson's Class

By Emily H.

Ms. Richardson’s class has recently been making a lot of spring projects. “We are making a project to go with the book, “The Five Little Ducklings.” They are preparing a song to go with it.

One of her students was very excited about Spirit Week. Kenai loved Spirit Week and was excited about the basketball game. During Spirit Week we had Career Day, Crazy Hair Day, Clash Day, Spirit Day we ended spirit week with the legendary Student vs. Staff Basketball Game.

Pets at Home and at School

By Emmy M and Emma S

The kindergarteners told us about class pets and pets at home. Dominic from Ms. Saliny’s class said he had pets at home. We learned that he has a responsibility of feeding his two ferrets named Max and Stall. He told us that he never forgets to feed them. Dominic must be very responsible!

Lucy informed us that Ms. Saliny’s class doesn’t have a class pet. Lucy has two cats at home, but she does not have the responsibility to feed them yet.

Isabel told us that Ms. Bernstein’s class has an exciting pet turtle named Shelly. Isabel has two pet goldfish at home named Rector and Jessica. Isabel confessed that she sometimes forgets to feed her pets and her mom has to remind her.

Jude is also from Ms. Bernstein’s class and informed us that he has a pet cat. Jude said, “I only give my cat food but I remind my mom to fill it [my cat’s bowl] up with water.”

It seems like these Kindergarteners have many responsibilities for their pets. Pets are fun to own but it’s important to remember to take care of them.

Ms. Saliny's class enjoys a book read to them by Ms. Sullivan.

A Slow Race

By Emily M.

Some Kindergarten classes have class pets and love them very much. Mrs. Bernstein and Mrs. Rose have pet turtles. One is named Shelly and the other Pokey. Even though turtles are known for being quite slow, the classes know they can be very exciting! On Thursday, March 25^th a turtle race took place between Shelly (Mrs. Bernstein’s turtle) and Pokey (Mrs. Rose’s turtle). Both classes attended this exciting event. Shelly won the race by a lot. Mrs. Rose’s class were really good sports about their loss. Thank you to Mr. Bishop for making the race track for the race!

Kindergarten Fun in Ms. Kelly's Class

By Mary B.

In Ms. Kelly’s class they have been doing some art projects lately that Lauren really enjoyed. They have been working on making snowflakes. Cole said that they made snowflakes cutting shapes out of a sheet of paper. Lauren and Cole thought that the snowflakes were super fun and exciting. In Ms. Kelly’s class they have been learning how to read. Lauren thought the best thing about learning how to read is that you get to read new fun and exciting stories. Lauren thought the worst thing about learning how to read is that the stories did not have any princesses in them. Lauren, Cole and the rest of the children in Ms. Kelly’s class have lots of fun while learning new exciting things.

Two of Ms. Zielinski's students enjoying a class dance party.

Joke Day in Ms. Berenstein's Class

By Emmy M. and Emma S.

In November, the kindergarten class had a joke day. They were encouraged to bring in their best jokes. They had a lot of good ones! Here a few that were mentioned:

Jude had a joke and it went like this: Q: “What clothes does a house wear?
A: A dress! (Address)”
Brody said Q: “What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
A: Rrrr.”
Nina also had a joke: Q: “Why did the girl throw the clock out the window?
A: To see if time flies!”
Ben’s joke was: Q: “Why did the vampire look in the freezer?
A: He was looking for frost bite.”
Kathy said Q: “Why do cows cross the road?
A: To go to the moooovies.”
Harry had a joke too:

Joke-teller: Knock, knock
Response: Who’s there?
Joke-teller: Apple
Response: Apple who?
Joke-teller: Apple (I pull) on the
door but nothing happens.

Wonder Works Field Trip

By Emily M. , Emma S., and Mary B.

On Monday, December 14, the kindergarteners went to a children’s museum called Wonder Works. This is a hands-on environment that lets children not only build on their imagination, but build on their social skills with other children from different classes. Wonder Works has puzzles, games, and activities for younger children. They liked playing in the tree houses and tents. The kindergarten also enjoyed dressing up and going on the stage! They had almost 80 children together on the field trip.

Ms. Zielenski's Class

By Emma S.

Ms. Zielinski’s class learned about different kinds of apples, earlier in the year. The most popular type was the red apple. In December, the class learned about types of cookies. The class had a taste test and voted for which cookie they liked best. The two highest-scoring cookies were Oreos and gingerbread men.The students enjoy playing in their classroom’s dramatic play area. In December, their play area was set up as a bakery. Currently, the play area is a clothes store. Recently, they have started learning about clothes. They now know about hats, mittens, and other clothing items that people use to keep warm. Ms. Zielinski’s class seems to be having a fun time learning at school.

Holidays In the Class

Article by Emmy M. and Photograph by Emily H.

For the winter break, the kindergarten classes are learning about all the different holidays people celebrate. In the picture to the right, Ms. Saliny is painting the hands of one of the children. The children then make two hand prints on paper. They then washed their hands and paint one candle above each finger on the paper like a menorah. Each child got to do this project. They also did many other arts and crafts projects for other holidays too. The kindergarteners seem to be having fun learning and getting ready for break!