February Fun in Kindergarten

February is such a busy month! We have been working on new letters and words. The kids are sounding out words and writing like crazy. We starting off the month with Groundhogs Day. We made our predictions if Phil the Groundhog would see his shadow or not. Then we watched on the Internet to our dismay that we would have six more weeks of winter!!! We decided to enjoy the sun while we had it and went outside to trace our shadows. It kinda looks like a bad episode of COPS or CSI but we traced shadows and played a round of shadow tag. It was a fun day!

Don't move!

Remember to write your name on your shadow! So it doesn't get away!

Soak up that sun while it lasts! Six more weeks of winter is on the way!

It was hard to get the details like fingers!

Guess who!

So proud of our work!

Ta Da!



Hands up!

Strike a pose!

Valentine's Day was a blast. Thank you to all the parents who came to help. Also thanks for the wonderful treats you sent for me. I just finished the treats from Christmas and now I have more to add to my supply! We had fantastic parties in both the morning and the afternoon. Of course my batteries ran out before I got any pictures of the afternoon class. So you'll just have to trust me IT WAS FUN!

The morning class made me a giant card! It was suppose to be a surprise but of course it is too hard to contain. One student told me "Miss Thomas this is a surprise for you, but I'm not going to tell!" I loved it anyway!

We had cookies, doughnuts, and cupcakes. Can you say SUGAR HIGH!

One of the letters we learned about this month was the letter Qq. Our alphafriend for Qq is Queenie Queen. We took turns dressing up like Queenie Queen. We would sing our Queenie Queen song and if Queenie Queen noticed that you were not singing she would stop the song and send you to the dungeon! Then while we practiced writing Qq's, Queenie would walk around to make sure you were writing "quite nicely". If she tapped your paper with the rose you would have to come and show it to me and I would help them fix any mistakes. The kids loved it! We all took turns being Queenie Queen. When Queenie had to go on vacation the King would take over. Even the boys thought it was fun.

Oh no! I hope the king is nicer then Queenie Queen!


The kids thought it was fun to be the teacher for the day!


The original Queenie Queen and one of our Queenie Queens!

Good Times!

I was so excited for this long weekend! We had a fantastic Valentine's Day party at school on Thursday (more to come on that later) and I got alot done on Friday, but I was counting the minutes to get out of school and get on the road! I picked up Cass and Tae and headed to Boise. Not the most tropic of locations but I couldn't wait!

When we finally arrived in Boise the twins came running when they saw the car pull up to the door. There is nothing better then seeing their excited faces when we arrived. They have changed so much!

Lauren had a night stay in the hospital on Monday. She was so sick! She had to have oxygen and she didn't like that much. They had to tape the oxygen tube to her face so she would leave it on. The tape left circles on her cheeks. Sharla calls them her crop circles!

Logan and Lauren give the best hugs and kisses.

Cassidy's only request for the weekend was to get new spring clothes. We ended up spending more time in Build a Bear because it was so busy. At the end of the day she ended up with a David "enchilada" Archuleda t-shirt for her bear. Okay, so I bought her the t-shirt because she wanted it so bad. But, I also bought her several shirts from Aeropostle. Sometimes she is such a teen but every now and then she is the little girl I remember.

Logan made a brown monkey named Coconut and Lauren made a pink monkey named Bananas.


Logan loved his monkey!


Lauren not so much!


We ended the night by going to the USU vs BSU game. We all dressed up of course to represent our team. Lauren supported her dad and wore her cute little cheerleader outfit. It was a heartbreaking game. Even with a lot of USU support they lost the game. It was such a bummer! It would have been so much fun if they would have won. We got a lot of weird stares with our mixed group. Anytime we would walk around we would take Lauren so we wouldn't get beat up by those crazy BSU fans!

Logan unwrapping his valentine gift from his mom and dad.

Lauren kept on saying "I go home" during the game. She wanted to go home and open her gift and play with her balloon.

Logan and Jeremiah were completely out numbered his weekend with a house full of girls. Now Jeremiah knows how George feels!


We decided to have a girls night while Jeramiah watch the Daytona 500. So we relived Sharla's 5 months of bed rest and all piled on her bed and did facials and our nails. It was fun.

Logan and Lauren helped pick out the colors

True beauties!

It was so much fun to spend time with Tae and Cass. The babies were very entertaining. I laughed so much. Thanks Sharla and Jeremiah for the great weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day!