Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Charlie Brown thanksgiving feast!
Thanks to our room mom Mrs. Watson, we celebrated thanksgiving the way Charlie Brown and his friends did, with jelly beans, toast, popcorn and pretzels! Thank you so much! We had a blast!
Sunday, November 23, 2014
It's a short week this week!
Since this week is the week of Thanksgiving, I would like to say how thankful I am to get to work with such a fun and dynamic group of students. They come to school eager to learn with smiles on their faces. They try their best, they work hard and they love each other as family. Thank you for sharing your child with me each and every day. I'm such a blessed teacher and am thankful for the opportunity to educate and enjoy your child. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
Friday, November 21, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Sight words for the year
In case you have lost or misplaced the sight word schedule, here it is again!
The Kindergarten Team expects that you practice your child’s sight words daily.
Sight words are frequently used and repeated in text. Young children are
encouraged to memorize them in order to allow them to concentrate more on
less familiar words while reading as well as the text's meaning. They are critical
to your child’s reading success!
September 8 – 12: I, a, January 26 – 30: yes, run
September 15 – 19: is, to February 2 – 6: was, big
September 22 – 26: like, me February 9 – 13: not, where
September 29 – October 3: it, am February 16 – 20: day, out
October 6 – 10: come, and February 23 – 27: down, of
October 13 – 17: in, here March 2 – 6: are, from
October 20 – 24: up, go March 9 – 13: little, who
October 27 – 31: see, my, because March 16 – 20: her, then
November 3 – 7: you, look March 30 – April 3: get, away
November 10 – 14: the, said April 6 – 10: came, could
November 17 – 21: we, on, has April 13 – 17: why, again
December 1 – 5: can, one, got April 20 – 24: first, do
December 8 – 12: his, with April 27 – May 1: eat, mother
December 15 – 19: she, want May 4 – 8: saw, what
January 5 – 9: for, have May 11 – 15: after, there
January 12 – 16: went, he May 18 – 22: make, did
January 21 – 23: will, they May 26 – 29: father, night
The Kindergarten Team expects that you practice your child’s sight words daily.
Sight words are frequently used and repeated in text. Young children are
encouraged to memorize them in order to allow them to concentrate more on
less familiar words while reading as well as the text's meaning. They are critical
to your child’s reading success!
September 8 – 12: I, a, January 26 – 30: yes, run
September 15 – 19: is, to February 2 – 6: was, big
September 22 – 26: like, me February 9 – 13: not, where
September 29 – October 3: it, am February 16 – 20: day, out
October 6 – 10: come, and February 23 – 27: down, of
October 13 – 17: in, here March 2 – 6: are, from
October 20 – 24: up, go March 9 – 13: little, who
October 27 – 31: see, my, because March 16 – 20: her, then
November 3 – 7: you, look March 30 – April 3: get, away
November 10 – 14: the, said April 6 – 10: came, could
November 17 – 21: we, on, has April 13 – 17: why, again
December 1 – 5: can, one, got April 20 – 24: first, do
December 8 – 12: his, with April 27 – May 1: eat, mother
December 15 – 19: she, want May 4 – 8: saw, what
January 5 – 9: for, have May 11 – 15: after, there
January 12 – 16: went, he May 18 – 22: make, did
January 21 – 23: will, they May 26 – 29: father, night
Sunday, November 16, 2014
This week in our AWESOME kindergarten class...
Academics:
Literacy- We will continue to work on learning all about syllables. We will also be adding a few more reading strategies to our cafe board
Writing- We will begin to learn about opinion writing
Math- We will continue our study of more and less
Social Studies- We will continue our unit on wants and needs
New News:
This Tuesday is Literacy night from 6-7pm. Kindergarten will have our own sessions, so please come out and learn about some great strategies that you can use when you are reading with your child. Session one will be from 6-6:30. Session two will be from 6:30-7. Don't forget to bring your raffle ticket to get signed off! The boys and girls will also receive a homework pass.
This Friday is dress like your favorite book character day! I can't wait to see everyones participation in this fun day! (you can get some great ideas off of pinterest if you are stuck)
Things to remember:
Practice your sight words daily. The boys and girls are beginning to become better readers and they MUST know their sight words!!! Practice a bunch. I can easily tell who is working on them at home ;)
Please make sure your child is coming to school dressed appropriately for colder weather. Please make sure they bring a jacket to school to wear when we are outside. We don't want anyone getting sick!
Thank you to those who have sent in old magazines and "treasures" for our treasure box. We are always grateful for the help.
Important Dates:
November 17- Book Fair is here!
November 18- Literacy Night 6-7pm
November 21- Dress like your favorite book character
November 26-28 Thanksgiving Break
Literacy- We will continue to work on learning all about syllables. We will also be adding a few more reading strategies to our cafe board
Writing- We will begin to learn about opinion writing
Math- We will continue our study of more and less
Social Studies- We will continue our unit on wants and needs
New News:
This Tuesday is Literacy night from 6-7pm. Kindergarten will have our own sessions, so please come out and learn about some great strategies that you can use when you are reading with your child. Session one will be from 6-6:30. Session two will be from 6:30-7. Don't forget to bring your raffle ticket to get signed off! The boys and girls will also receive a homework pass.
This Friday is dress like your favorite book character day! I can't wait to see everyones participation in this fun day! (you can get some great ideas off of pinterest if you are stuck)
Things to remember:
Practice your sight words daily. The boys and girls are beginning to become better readers and they MUST know their sight words!!! Practice a bunch. I can easily tell who is working on them at home ;)
Please make sure your child is coming to school dressed appropriately for colder weather. Please make sure they bring a jacket to school to wear when we are outside. We don't want anyone getting sick!
Thank you to those who have sent in old magazines and "treasures" for our treasure box. We are always grateful for the help.
Important Dates:
November 17- Book Fair is here!
November 18- Literacy Night 6-7pm
November 21- Dress like your favorite book character
November 26-28 Thanksgiving Break
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wants and needs!
Today in social studies we used magazines to help us figure out things we want and things we need! We had fun!
Sunday, November 9, 2014
New week, new opportunities to learn and grow!
What's up this week in room 3143?
Literacy- We will be meeting new letterland friends this week. We will also begin to talk about syllables. We will be learning to count, produce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words.
We will also continue to work on asking and answering questions about text that we read in class and of course we are ALWAYS practicing our sight words. I hope the boys and girls are practicing them at home as well! In order to be the best readers possible, we need to know our sight words!
Writing- We will be working more on making sure our sight words are spelled correctly and phonetically spelling our other words. We will be talking about capitalization and punctuation in our stories.
Math- This week we will be working on the -1 pattern. For example, you have 3 dogs, one dog ran away. How many dogs do you have now? We will also be digging in to our teen numbers. We are working on multiple strategies to solve our problems and continuing to work on our math talk to make sure we truly understand why and how we get our answers.
Science- We are wrapping up our unit on 5 senses. Our next unit will be all about weather!
Social Studies- We are talking about wants and needs. We will be talking more this week about what it means to "need" something and what it means to "want" something.
Things we need in our classroom:
- old magazines that we can use to cut out pictures of wants and needs
- treasure box items (stickers, fast food happy meal toys, erasers, dollar store items
Don't forget, NO SCHOOL on Tuesday. We will be observing Veteran's day.
Some Healthy Tips for this week:
- Make sure your child is going to bed early and getting plenty of sleep
- Make sure your child gets a nutritious breakfast that will hold them over until lunch.
- I hope the boys and girls are getting at least 30 minutes of play when they get home. Burning off energy is good for our brains :)
Friday, November 7, 2014
What fun early release day!
Today was filled with fun art, pizza to celebrate and pretty princesses and handsome princes. We had a fun Friday!
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
What’s going on this week?!
Literacy- We are working on Phonemic Awareness. We are working on
hearing the beginning sounds and using our roller coaster arms to break apart
words (C-A-T, cat), we are working on discussing the author and illustrator and
continuing to work on our Daily 5 components.
Writer’s Workshop- We are working on writing true stories
about events that happen in our lives. In order to be good writers we make sure
we think, we draw, we label, we write and we go back and add details.
Math- We are working on learning the +1 pattern. For example: You
have 3. You add 1 more. How many do you have now? How do you know you have that
many?
Science- We are wrapping up our 5 senses unit.
Social Studies- We will begin talking about wants and
needs.
Important
information and dates
Wednesday November 5- PBIS assembly 10:15, report cards also go
home on this day.
Friday November 7- Early Release Day. We dismiss at 1:15. We
will also be having an art collaboration and our pizza party that we earned for
dragon fire! This day is also school
spirit day, dress like a princess or prince!
Tuesday November 11- No school
November 26-28- Thanksgiving Holiday