Swing, Jive and Pop into Dance

We had a cultural arts program this morning provided by our wonderful PTA!  It was dance throughout history starting in the 1920s until now.  It was really good.

What If You had Animal Teeth?

We wrapped up our teeth unit with a fun activity.  We read the book What If You Had Animal Teeth? Then we made our face with animal teeth and wrote about it.

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Kindergarten News

Week of January 30 – February 3, 2017

Wednesday is the 100^th day of school.  Send your child to school in their 100 Day shirt.  If you would like to come see our parade, it will take place right after announcements (8:05 ish). Stop by the office for a visitor badge. You can spread out on Main Street (right in front of the library) or down the hallway by the cafeteria.  After parading around the school, we will end up back in our rooms.

Thursday is the 101^st day of school.  We’ll be doing some fun activities with 101 Dalmatians and having a pajama day!  Please be sure wear real shoes, as we’ll still have recess and, depending on your class, health fitness.

February 13^th – Spring pictures    We will take a class picture and individual Spring pictures.  Order forms will come home in the blue folder.

February 14^th – Valentine Party at 1:00 pm.  Please send Valentine cards on this day.  We’ll pass them out that morning.  We’d love for you to join us for our class party at 1:00 pm…the more the merrier!  Thanks to all to who have sent in their cereal boxes.  We need several more, so keep them coming!

February 20^th – President’s Day  No School

Theme: 100^th Day and Groundhog Day

Reading:  This week, we’ll enjoy reading fiction and non fiction books about the 100^th Day of School and Groundhog Day.  We are working hard to improve our reading skills in literacy stations and guided reading groups.

Writing:  We are completing our non fiction books and will soon start letter writing as we approach Valentine’s Day.  We will focus on the five parts to a letter:  date, greeting, body, closing, and signature.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was, not, she, this, come, you, are

NEW WORDS:   get, some

Word Study:   -ELL and -EST Word Families 

Math: We will learn about all things to do with 100!  We’ll be counting to 100 by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s, making 10 sets of 10 to have 100, and other fun activities!!!

Social Studies:  Mish-mash week:  dental health, 100^th day fun, and Groundhog Day.

Science:  Soil and Rocks

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of 5 –ell and 5 -est words.

• Tuesday: Make 10 piles of 10 things.  Do you have 100?  
• Wednesday:  Write a letter to someone in your family about our 100^th day of school.  Did you use capital letters, periods and spaces between your words?
• Thursday:  Read a story.  Tell someone the important ideas from the beginning, middle and end of the story.
• Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader! 

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Kindergarten News

Week of January 23-January 27, 2017

We are so excited for the upcoming 100^th day of school on February 1st.  Keep working on those 100 Day t-shirts….we are excited to show off at our parade at 8:05 am.  We hope you can join us for the parade. 

Please start saving large cereal boxes as you empty them.  You can send them to school starting January 30^th.  We’ll be decorating them to hold our Valentine cards.  More info on Valentine Day will come as the day gets closer.

To go along with our study of dental health, we will be making a tooth brushing chart.  If the children brush their teeth morning and night (and record it on their chart!), they can return it Monday, January 30^th, for a ticket.  Happy tooth brushing! 

                                   

Theme: Healthy Teeth

Reading:  We are working hard to improve our reading skills in literacy stations.  Now that we’ve completed testing, our guided reading groups will resume. New home readers will come next week, but please continue listening to your child read their library books or books you have at home.J

Writing:  We are reading lots of nonfiction books and noticing the things that nonfiction text has.  For example- we see table of contents, charts, glossary, picture captions, etc.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was, not, she, this come

NEW WORDS:  YOU, ARE

Word Study: Review –IN, IP, New Word Family:  -IT 

Math: We continue to focus on problem solving and counting to 100.  We have been decomposing numbers, which is an early step to addition and subtraction. We have explored the many combinations that make 3 and 4.  For the next two weeks, we will focus on 100!!  After that time period, we will resume our combinations of numbers (5-10)

Science: We will finish up weather topics this week.

Social Studies:  What makes a great school?

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of 6 -IT words
• Tuesday: Tell your parents how you can keep your teeth healthy.
• Wednesday:  Count to 100 to your mom or dad!
• Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com
• Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader!  Send your home reader back to school  with your library books on Monday!

Tiago

We got a message from Tiago today from Colombia.  The kids were so excited to see him!  We made a video back and I am posting here in hopes he can see it.  

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Kindergarten News

Week of January 11-15, 2016

Calendar Notes:

·        Monday, January 16:  Martin Luther King Holiday    No School

·        Thursday, Janaury 26:  Science Fair  This is an optional activity for kindergarten children.  Click here for registration form.

·        Wednesday, February 1:  100^th Day of School!  You should have received a letter this week about the 100^th day.  We can’t wait to see the creative shirts for the parade! 

·        Saturday, February 11:  RCE Goes Gatsby   Auction tickets are on sale now via this link:  https://portal11.bidpal.net/Portal/bpe301953/tickets/preview.html

·        Monday, February 13:  Spring pictures will be taken.  More information to come.

Theme: Winter, Snow, and cold weather

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy stories about winter and cold weather. We are working to improve our retelling by including important details from the beginning, middle and end of the story. 

Writing:  The children continue to make books and develop their writing as they learn to make letter/sound connections and develop their own ideas or writing. This week we are focusing on using illustrations to help tell the story.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was, not, she

NEW WORDS:  this, come

Word Study:  -IP and –IN Word Family 

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to emphasize numeracy and problem solving to 20. Our work to form number sentences with real problems we can act out in class continues as well. 

Science: Weather work continues as we look at the weather experienced in each season.

Social Studies:  We will be reading about and discussing jobs that we do at home.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday: Go on a word hunt around your house.  Make a list of words you find in the -IP and -IN word families. 

·        Tuesday: Roll 2 dice.  Write an addition sentence for the numbers shown.  Practice counting on from the highest dice to find the sum.

·        Wednesday:  Write a sentence that uses quotation marks.  Don’t forget to use a comma, too!

·        Thursday:  Find out what the weather will be tomorrow.  You can watch on TV, look at an app, or check the internet. 

·        Friday:  Pack up your library books and/or home readers to return to school! 

Nonfiction Writing

In Writer's Workshop we have begun to focus on writing nonfiction. Today we each  started a new book. Then we shared with a partner what we had written so far.

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Kindergarten News

Week of January 9-13, 2016

Calendar additions:

·        Monday, January 16:  Martin Luther King Holiday    No School

·        Wednesday, February 1:  100^th Day of School!  More information to come…

·        Saturday, February 11:  RCE Goes Gatsby   Auction tickets are on sale now

Please return your report card envelope.  Sign the envelope on the 2^nd nine weeks line and keep the paperwork that is inside. 

Each day, your child needs a towel, water bottle and ONE snack.  Please label all jackets with your child's name.  Thank you!

Please continue to practice putting on/taking off jackets and tying shoes independently.  It can take a long time for us to get to recess when 20 kids need help to zip or button up their jackets and tie their shoes.

Theme: Winter, snow, and cold weather

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy stories about winter and cold weather.  A major skill for this nine weeks is retelling the story.  We practice including the important events from the beginning, middle and end of the story.   Our reading assessment scores require that a student not only reads the words but can accurately retell/recall what he has read.

Writing:  The children continue to make books and develop their writing as they learn to make letter/sound connections and develop their own ideas or writing. This week we are focusing on writing complete sentences to tell our story. The books we are working on are non-fiction winter books.

Word Wall Words: REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was

NEW WORDS:  not, she 

Word Study:  OP  and OT Word Families  We will be working with both families this week and comparing them as well.

 

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to emphasize numeracy and problem solving to 20. We will begin to explore number sentences (addition and subtraction) with real problems we can act out in class.  This week we will decompose the number 4.  4 can be 2 and 2, 3 and 1, 1 and 3, 4 and 0, and 0 and 4.

Science: We will explore weather!

Social Studies:  Martin Luther King and review of school routines

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·                     Monday: Write six “OP” and six “OT” words. 

·                     Tuesday: Try to count to 100 to mom or dad.  Can you count by 10’s?  How about by 5’s? 

·                     Wednesday:  Write the word not.  Trace over it 4 times using a different color each

         time.  Now do the same with the word she.   Read the word each time you write it.

·                     Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·                     Friday:  Pack up your library books and/or home readers to return to school! 

Vowels

We have been learning about our vowels this week.  Today we listened to some fun vowel songs and made vowel man. We had to come up with 2 words for each vowel.

Vowel Bat

Mystery Reader

Thank you to Lainey's dad for being the first mystery reader of the New Year!  The kiddos were actually a pretty good audience today.

Addition

Welcome back!! We are beginning addition in math. Today we did some gingerbread story problems and practiced with our story mats.  We learned some math vocabulary like addition, add, plus, in all, and sum.  Then we practiced doing some addition on our own.  We will continue working on this for awhile.