Miss Todd's Terrific Team: June 2018

Happy Summer! :)

Wow! What a fun last day of Kindergarten we had! We celebrated with a popsicle party and a "Happy" Dance! Here is a video that we hope makes you very "Happy!" We also included pictures from our popsicle party. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think. We hope you all have a very Happy Summer! :)

https://vimeo.com/274319427

Sidewalk Chalk Fun

Music Around the World Celebration Night

I was blessed this school year to be able to host our fourth year of Music Around the World with our Kindergarten-Second Grade students here at Watson MST. Together with sixty-five of our talented students, we learned about the different songs and instruments that countries around our world have to offer. After enjoying our Music Around the World Club together for two eight week sessions, we had the opportunity to present everything that we had learned to our parents and school family at our Music Around the World Celebration Night. I was so very proud of our boys and girls! They did a fantastic job! I want to thank our school family, our friends, and our wonderful Watson families for joining us in this celebration by attending our performance and showing us all such great love and support. In conjunction with our Music Around the World Club, we participated in a service project benefiting Josh Groban's Find You Light Foundation. Working together for a special cause, my Kindergarten class and my Music Around the World Club, sold "Cookies for Quarters" at all of our music events here at Watson this year. My Music Around the World Club also sold dvds of their performance to help raise funds for this important service project, and in an effort to increase our funds, we hosted monthly events for our Watson Wildcats which benefitted our service project, as well. These included a movie night, Winter Wonderland Art Adventure afternoon, Sing-a-Long Sundae party, Find Your Light Skate Night, and a Magic Show. I am excited to announce that we made $5,000! That means in the five years that we have partnered with Josh's Find Your Light Foundation, we have made a total of $15,000! I can not wait to see how Josh Groban's Find Your Light Foundation can use this money to help students around the world who might not be blessed with the music opportunities that we have experienced here at Watson. You might also have noticed our super cool Find Your Light t-shirts that we wore during our performance. Find Your Light Foundation did an amazing job of creating these for us again this year. We could not be more grateful for the shirts. My sweet kids love them and have been wearing them on Fridays ever since they received them! Thank you for allowing me the great privilege of working with your wonderful students and celebrating the universal language of music together. I had a wonderful time, and I look forward to watching our students as they continue to "Find Their Light" and "Shine On"! Here are some pictures from this exciting event and a highlight video of our 2017-2018 Find Your Light Foundation Service Project.

Find Your Light Foundation Service Project

Find Your Light Foundation Service Project 2017-2018 Highlight Video

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_PTTG5IAff4MwFIG3_C8Dci3AWSJmAPH/view?usp=sharing

Find Your Light Foundation t-shirt reveal

Music Around the World Celebration Night

Find Your Light Skate Night and Magic Show

During the month of May, we enjoyed two exciting events that helped to raise funds for our Find Your Light Foundation service project. One night our local skating rink, Westlake Skate, allowed us to join them for a rolling good time where we skated the night away all for a good cause. The other afternoon, we were treated to an awesome magic show by one of our former P.E. teachers, Mr. Marty. Thank you to everyone who attended our amazing events and helped us to reach our goal this year for our Find Your Light Foundation service project! We appreciate you all! Here are some fun pictures and videos from these events.

Skate Night

Magic Show

Kindergarten Awards Ceremony

What an amazing day! I could not be more proud of my sweet students today. They have worked so very hard to learn so much this year. From reading and writing to solving math problems and learning to be good friends, this year has been full of wonderful experiences that we will never forget. We have had so much fun together this year going on field trips, participating in project based learning experiences, and helping others through service projects. It is so hard to let my kids move on, but they are ready! I know that they are going to be fabulous First Graders! You have all been such a wonderful blessing to me this year! I wish you the best in First Grade! :)

Today we celebrated our accomplishments, our friendships, and our Watson Kindergarten family! Here are some pictures from our exciting day and a link to our slide show from the year:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EgaLlOyK1g_ccALWVX8qsFupPKO7ZsmF/view?usp=sharing