Digital Citizenship

We had a lesson with Mrs. Harrell today about digital citizenship.  It taught the kids about using devices safely.

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Kindergarten News

Week of Oct. 10^th-14^, 2016

Important Dates:

October 10^th – No School!

October 13^th - Field Trip to Dewberry Farm.  See below for important reminders

October 28^th - Book Character Parade J

November 5^th - Fall Festival           

Field Trip reminders: 

·        Send a sack lunch and a drink in a large ziplock labeled with your child’s name for the field trip.  We’ll have a snack when we return to RCE.

·        Have your child wear a Rummel Creek t-shirt and tennis shoes to school.  No RCE shirt?  A blue or orange shirt will work just fine!

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: Writer’s Workshop launch and all things Fall.

Reading and Writing:  Writer’s workshop will kick off this week.  We’ll explore the elements of a story, discuss what writers and illustrators do, and begin writing our own books. 

Word Wall Words: 

REVIEW: is, my, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black,

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  and, big

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of F and D.

Math: Number sense work continues.  We will make sets, count, and practice identifying and writing numbers to 10.  We’ll also continue collecting and graphing data with some fun fall activities.   

Science: We will review the 3 states of matter and sort matter by its state. 

Social Studies:  Our work with US symbols continues.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday:  Make a list of things that start with F & D

·        Tuesday: Practice writing numbers from 0-20

·        Wednesday: Do an act of kindness for someone in your family.  

·        Thursday:  Look around your house for solids, liquids and gases.  See if you can find 3 of each state of matter.

·        Friday: Bring back your library books, reading log, and home reader bag! 

U.S Symbols

We learned about the history of the American Flag and made our own.  We are also going to be writing about it as well.  

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Kindergarten News

Week of Oct. 3^rd-7^th, 2016

Important Dates:

October 7 – Staff development day.  No school for RCE kids!

October 13- Field trip to Dewberry Farms.  Permission forms came home recently.  Please be sure to fill out both sides of the form and return to school.

October 28- Book Character Parade J

November 4 – Fall Festival (more details to come)

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

Reading:  We will continue to explore the wonderful world of nursery rhymes and fairy tales.  We will identify rhyming words, characters and setting.  We will also sequence and retell, which are two very important reading skills!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to nursery rhymes and fairy while using these familiar texts as a basis for our own individual book making/writing!

Word Wall Words: 

REVIEW: is, my, like, to, the, can, see, go the, in, it, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black,

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  all, me

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of C and H.

Math: This week we will continue counting objects with one to one correspondence.  Practice continues writing letters in the teens. We will also work on counting/creating/identifying sets to 10.  We will count forwards and backwards to 20, as well as create number lines to 20.  

Science: Our work with matter continues, focusing on how matter can change.

Social Studies:  We begin a study of U.S. symbols and what they mean to us.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·         Monday:  Make a list of things that start with C & H

·         Tuesday: Take a handful of junk/tiny treasures.  Sort them into sets and describe how you sorted to mom or dad.

·         Wednesday: Write a simple sentence using can and see.  Do you have a capital and a period? 

·         Thursday:  Pick a US Symbol.  Tell Mom or Dad what it means.  Why is it important to us?

·         Friday: Bring back your library books, reading log, and home reader bag!  Remember there is no school on Monday!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have read some different versions of the Three Bears this week.  Yesterday we read James Marshall's version and then discussed the beginning, middle, end, events, climax and solution of the story.  

In Science, we are learning about matter.  Today we were learning about mass/weight.  We used the balance scale to measure the weight of some things around our classroom. 

Writers Workshop and Johnny Appleseed

We started Writers Workshop yesterday and making books.  We are learning how to be authors and illustrators!  Each day we will learn about what writers do and work on making books.  When we finish we keep them in our awesome writing folders that they decorated.  

It was also Johnny Appleseed day!  We read about him, watched a short video and made a Johnny Appleseed hat!

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Kindergarten News

Week of Sep.26^th –September 30^th, 2016

Thank you for reading to your child at night and logging those minutes.  We are having excellent participation in our library reading program Most weeks the logs are returned to us before the end of the day on Monday.  If you don’t get your log back on Monday, it will come the next day.  Thank you for understanding!

Mark your calendars:

            Friday, October 7^th is a Teacher Inservice day.  There is no school for RCE students.  Middle and high school students will be in session this day!

            Monday, October 10^th is the Columbus Day holiday.  No school again for RCE students.  Enjoy a nice, long 4 day weekend!

            Thursday, October 13^th is our field trip to Dewberry Farms.  Look for permission forms to come in your child’s folder soon.

Here’s what’s new for next week:

Theme: Nursery Rhymes

Reading:  We will explore the wonderful world of nursery rhymes and fairy tales.  We will identify rhyming words, characters and setting.  We will also practice sequencing and retelling, two very important reading skills

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to nursery rhymes and fairy tales while using these familiar texts as a basis for our own individual writing.  We are looking forward to launching Writer’s Workshop with our AWESOME folders.  Please send the decorated folders back so we can begin.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black. My, is, like

NEW WORDS:  in, it

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of N and P.

Math: This week our focus is on counting forward and backward to 20 (from any location), creating sets to 10, and beginning more/less! We have started working with the skill of estimation (making a smart guess).  We are also working on counting one to one in an organized manner. We will continue to work on numeral writing 0-10.  

Science: We are discussing matter (anything that takes up space and has mass).  We will explore the properties of matter and spend time classifying matter by its properties.  We’ll end the week using balance scales to put objects in order by how light or heavy they are.

Social Studies:  We’ll finish up our work with community helpers. 

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday:  Make a list of things that start with N & P

·        Tuesday:  How many color words can you spell?  Do you remember any color songs?

·        Wednesday:  Tell your mom or dad WHO is in your bedtime story tonight.  These are the CHARACTERS.

·        Thursday:  Grab a handful of junk. Estimate how many pieces you have.  Now count and check.  Was your guess a smart guess? 

·        Friday: Read your library book and return it, along with your reading logs!