Alphardy!

Alphardy is a song by Dr.Jean, one of our favorite kindergarten inspirations!  Take a look. We will be learning this song over the next few days.  I will be sending home a book that goes along with this song. ENJOY!!

We Love School!

Well, we made it through the first two days of Kindergarten with flying colors!  The days have been mighty busy, but the boys and girls in Cottage 2 are Kindergarten rock stars!

We have spent a lot of time learning our rituals and routines.  It will take some time to become a well-oiled machine, but we will get there soon enough.  The structure and repetition will allow the classroom to feel like "home". 

We are focusing on a letter a day for the first 26 days, going in order from A-Z.  This is just a brief review before we begin to dive deeper into letter/sound relationships.  We are so proud of our friends that know their ABCs! We have been celebrating all week with fun alphabet songs and dances!

Our Kindergarten friends also learned that everyone is a writer.  Through pictures we can tell information that we want a reader to know.  On Monday, we drew self-portraits to tell our friends a little about what we look like! 

How lucky are we? We were able to go to Music with Mr. Millan yesterday.  The boys and girls learned a "wild" chant and dance...I wonder if they can show it to you.  This afternoon, the students met Coach Hollingsworth and had a blast at P.E.

All in all, our week has been fabulous.  There is still so much more to come!  Thank you for helping make the first two days AMAZING! 

A New Start for Us All!

Hello there, my new kindergarten friends!  My name is Ms. Isaacs and I am soooo excited to meet you and be your teacher this year!  I hope that all of you have had an awesome summer!  I know that you are all anxious and excited to start elementary school.  This will be a new time in your life where you will make new friends and grow into amazing learners.

This school year is also a new beginning for me.  This is my first year teaching at Seabreeze.  I taught Kindergarten and 1st grade at Parkwood Heights for 7 years.  I was ready for a change and to be closer to home, so I came out to Seabreeze! I am super excited to be here at our school and get to know the students and families in the community

I cannot wait to get to know each one of you.  I want to tell you some things about myself, too!  I grew up in Atlantic Beach and went to Fletcher High School.  After graduating, I studied Primary Education at the University of North Florida. I  enjoy reading, bike riding, traveling and going to the beach.  I have a dog named Miller that you will hear A LOT about this year. :)  I wonder if any of you have pets?

We are going to be doing so many fun things in Kindergarten.  You will all have a great time and be busy bees in our classroom.  I hope you are as excited about what the year has in store for us as I am.  You will begin to bloom into the readers and thinkers you are all meant to be!

Well, August 22 is just around the corner! Enjoy your last days of summer and I will meet you soon!

   XOXO, Ms. Isaacs