Happy First week of school!!!

Here are some important dates that you can plan for this week...

• Tuesday- Kindergarten Coffee and Kleenex @ 8:45. Come by the media center after you drop your little one off to meet some other kindergarten parents and grab a cup of coffee to go!
• Thursday- first PTA meeting @5pm. 5:30-6:30 School wide open house. This is a great night to come and ask any unanswered questions and hear about what's going to go on this year in our classroom! If you can swing it, we ask that kids stay home for this evening so that you can have uninterrupted time to ask and answer any questions. Thanks for understanding!

These first two weeks are very busy weeks of learning lots of rules and procedures in our classroom. Don't be surprised if your child comes home tired and wore out, it's a long and busy but FUN day! By the end of the week they are going to be ready for a weekend of sleeping in 😉

Any questions you have, email me! I normally check my email before and after school.

Here's to a FABULOUS WEEK!

Welcome Back!

It's time for school! I hope everyone had a restful and amazing summer. I can't wait to meet all the fresh new kindy's that will be walking in our doors very soon! Your family will become apart of an amazing school family here at Douglas. Before the school year begins, I'd love to tell you a little bit about me!

My name is Katie Pauley. This is my 9th year teaching kindergarten at Douglas. I absolutely love Kindergarten. The love and passion and joy for learning is contagious with these kiddos and it makes teaching so much fun. My goal for your child's kindergarten year is that they fall in love with learning and that it carries with them throughout the rest of their school careers. 

When I'm not teaching, you will most likely find me spending time with my sweet husband Ben. We are welcoming our first baby girl this November and we are so excited. We also have a big fluffy Old English Sheepdog, Bexley who fills our evenings with lots of laughs. We enjoy spending time with our friends and families. We love to cook and try out new foods. We enjoying working out and staying active. I love a good pedicure, good book or good reality tv to wind down at the end of a busy day.

I know you are probably feeling overwhelmed if this is your first little heading off to full day kindergarten. You might be feeling that way if it's your third or your last! Whichever it may be, I want you to know your child is going to be loved and taken care of in a most important way. I treat my Kindy's as my own. 

I look forward to meeting you soon! Enjoy your last few days of summer! We will see you on the first day of staggered entry!



***** Sidenote: As you scroll through this blog, please keep in mind that we used a different form of communication to parents starting the middle of last year, so you won't see much from the middle to the end of the year.  We will be switching back to this blog, which will be our main source of pictures/announcements this year***

Painting without our sense of sight!

Today the boys and girls were blindfolded and given a paintbrush to paint a picture without using their sense of sight! It was really hard and we learned how important our sense of sight is to us! :)

When we have some time at the end of the day, we like to get out shaving cream, play music and draw pictures in the shaving cream!

Do you Agree or Disagree?

Today in math, we introduced the Agree/Disagree cards with our math partners. The boys and girls did great!

WORD WORK!