Happy winter break!!

We hope everyone has a relaxing and enjoyable winter break!!!! See you next year! 

Sweet friends during indoor recess yesterday!

Look at the awesome tower they built!!! 

couple reminders!

This Thursday is Frozen Day in honor of the Frozen Themed skate night! Come dressed as your favorite frozen character or your favorite kind of ice ;)

Friday is pajama day and polar express! Wear your comfy jammies, slippers and bring a change of shoes for recess.

Shape ornaments!

Gingerbread day!

We had so much fun today listening to Mrs. Pauleys dad read us a story and then decorating gingerbread houses! 

So sorry I haven't been on my game keeping this blog up the past few days. I have been home with the flu. Yuck.

I should be back tomorrow to school and will start to update this back with lots of information.







Until then,

We will be decorating gingerbread houses this friday (please send in materials if you have not already)

This Friday’s spirit day is wear your favorite holiday attire!  As a team we would like to have a winter wonderland day where you can wear your favorite winter/ holiday clothes.  This would include clothes with snowflakes, snowmen, reindeer, Santa, presents, elves, etc.  Feel free to get as creative as you would like with your child’s outfit!  We can’t wait to see all the fun winter outfits on Friday!  If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Next Friday (the 19th) will be pajama day and polar express. The Kindergarten team will all have a pajama day and watch the polar express to get in the spirit for the holidays!

Snowmen all year!

If you had a magic snowman what would you do with him?

Teen number fun! 

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! 

Happy thanksgiving from room 3143!!!

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!!! 

Book character day!!!

Way to get creative kiddos!!! 

Some fun brain break dances, songs and activities that we love to do in our class!

What do the letters say?!

ABC rap

Count to 100 EVERDAY!

Go Noodle- Silly Dances to get the wiggles out

Subitizing flash cards

The sight word rap

Count by 10s

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

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

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!

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 :)

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! 

Reminder

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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

What a fun farmers market day!!!

Today we took our field trip to the farmers market to explore using our 5 senses! When we got back to school we had fun painting pumpkins and eating homemade applesauce!!! If any parents that joined us on our field trip have any pictures to share, please email them to me and I will post them on our blog!!! 

Don't forget!

Tomorrow is our Field Trip to the Farmer’s Market!!! If you could please dress your child in a yellow, green or Douglas Elementary T-shirt that would be greatly appreciated!

It's also "Shade out bullying" day! The boys and girls can wear sunglasses to school if they wish! 

Mustache Monday!!!

NEXT WEEK IS SPIRIT WEEK!!

Monday, 10/27: Mustache Monday - I mustache you to be bully free (wear a mustache - get creative!)

Tuesday, 10/28: Let's shade out bullies (wear your sunglasses)

Wednesday, 10/29: Teacher workday

Thursday, 10/30: Being bully free is no sweat (wear sweat suit attire)

Friday, 10/31: Hats ON to being bully free (wear any kind of hat)

This Friday!!!

Is 80s day at Douglas!!! Come dressed to impress!!! 

Friends are wonderful things.

Reader fingers make reading fun!