Indians

I am not sure if their stuff will make it home on this very rainy day so here are a couple pics.  

Gotta let them do a silly one!

Happy Thanksgiving

We are finishing off the week as Indians.  We will be making indian vests, pattern necklaces and headbands today. Here are some indians we made yesterday and finished off this morning. 

Thanksgiving Program

Thank you to everyone who came to watch our little pilgrims today.  They did a fantastic job...and looked cute too!  Special thanks to the moms who helped set up their feast!!  

"Bang Bang"   "Mercy Me"

News

Kindergarten News

Week of Nov.17th-21st, 2014

We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday, November 19th  for a Thanksgiving program.  Please come a little before 10:00 to sign in at the office.  Then come to the cafeteria for our program.  Our program will begin at 10:00!  Afterwards, the children will have a feast.  Please join your child for this special time. Thank you to those that sent in a $5.00 donation.

Theme: Fall and Thanksgiving!

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy fall and Thanksgiving stories!  We will identify characters, setting, and problem.  We will retell using story arcs.  We will continue to utilize the cognitive skill of mental imaging while listening to stories.  This skill will help us add details to our writing!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to Thanksgiving stories while using these stories as a basis for our own individual book making/writing. The children will focus on use of capitals, periods, and appropriate spacing as we write about Pilgrims, Native American, and traditions!  We will continue to add details to make our writing more interesting.  We will also use letter sound knowledge to make lists.  For example, we will make a list of what we want to eat on Thanksgiving!

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, the, in, you, on, a, is, to, can, it, and, see, like, he, she, NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  an, of

Word Study: We will review all consonant sounds this week.

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to collect/read data, measure (length and width), create/extend patterns, create numeral sets, count aloud to 65 and back/forth to 20, and problem solve. We will to explore ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.). 

Social Studies:  The First Thanksgiving

Science:  Continue Magnets

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Write a list of what you are thankful for J 
• Tuesday: Line up ten toys.  Tell your mom what is first, second, third, etc. 

• Wednesday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com 
• Thursday:  Write a list of what you want your family to make for Thanksgiving dinner.
• Friday:  Return your library books and practice your home reader!

Graphs

We have been working on graphing this week in Math.  Each day we discussed how to tally, then graph information in a bar graph or pictograph, and then to collect data from our graph.  

We surveyed our friends and tallied their answers.  Then we turned our tallies into a bar graph and wrote about what we learned.

Thanksgiving Feast

   

  You are invited to a

Thanksgiving Program & Feast

on Wednesday, November 19, 2014

at 10:00 a.m., in the cafeteria.

Please allow time to stop in at the office   and receive a visitor’s badge.

Pattern Block Turkeys

Today for math we made turkeys using pattern blocks.  When we finished we counted up the different shapes we used to make our turkey feathers.  Some were really creative!