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We are learning about ROCKS!

We're on a ROCK HUNT!!

Check out my rocks!

Aren't these rocks cool?

Look what I've found!

Do you like my rock collection?

We ROCK!!!

Join me at the Light the Night Walk!

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A NON-SCHOOL RELATED ACTIVITY. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY WAY. THIS IS AN ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY EVENT.

One of the things I teach my young students is to help others. One of my passions in life is just that. During my college years, I helped start a community service organization, Alpha Phi Omega Co-ed Service Fraternity, at the University of Alaska Anchorage and currently serve as their Alumni Advisor. We are participating in the Light the Night Walk this Friday at the Delaney Park Strip at 5:30 (for registration, food, and festivities) and walk begins at 7pm.

I welcome you and your family to join us in supporting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The walk is approx. two to three miles.

Light The Night is the nation’s night to pay tribute and bring hope to thousands of patients battling blood cancers and to commemorate loved ones lost.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) funds lifesaving cancer research that has contributed to major advances in the treatment of blood cancers and many other types of cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and stem cell transplants, that have helped patients live better, longer lives. New targeted therapies that kill cancer cells without harming normal tissue are providing drugs and procedures that are improving the quality of life.

But more research is critically needed:

Every five minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every 10 minutes, someone dies.

Leukemia causes more deaths among children than any other cancer.

Nearly 20,000 Americans died from lymphoma in 2007.

The survival rate for myeloma is just 34 percent.

If you'd like to join our team, please email me with the following information:
Name, address phone, email, and fundraising goal.

To donate to Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, visit http://www.active.com/donate/ltnWA-AK/2300_Write2manD

More information: www.lightthenight.org/wa

First Week of Kindergarten...

Come and watch our puppet show!


Using our NEW computers to explore Google Earth!


Welcome to the Drama Center where we can play house!


This is our writing center.




Painting's a lot of fun!









Playing "Can of Worms" Game


It's Puzzles and Games time - these are Unifex Cubes!



Yeah for puzzles and games!













I finished this puzzle by myself!


Can of Worms is FUN!

First Day of Kindergarten!

Kindergartners and their families enjoyed a story told by Mr.Hanley, our principal, called the "Kissing Hand." This story was about a raccoon who was starting kindergarten.
After the story, parents said good-bye to their child and gave them a kissing hand, a paper hand with a hershey's kiss in the middle!

My class did an excellent job; no tears were shed by my students but I did see a few teary-eyed parents out in the crowd! :-)

We started our morning routine and quickly moved on to the story of the "Gingerbread Man." As we were reading, a gingerbread man clue popped out of our book! We were then off on our gingerbread hunt! On our hunt we met all kinds of important people and places in our school. We didn't find the Gingerbread Man but in his last clue, he said next time he's back, he'll leave us a snack!

This is Mr. Povolo, our K-2 PE teacher reading us a clue the Gingerbread Man left behind!

Welcome to Kindergarten!

Hi! Welcome to Miss Yan's Kindergarten Class Blog! I am very excited to start a new school year and have another wonderful class! I hope you all had an excellent summer (despite the lack of sunny weather!) and are ready to start kindergarten.
Kincaid will be hosting a back-to-school night on Aug. 18th from 5-7 for students to meet their new teacher. Please stop by and say hello!