Our New Classroom

Sorry I have not posted in awhile, packing and moving took it out of me.  Here are some sneak peeks of our new room.  It will look so much better when the kids come and do some work to add to the walls.  I absolutely love it!  It is going to be so nice.

View from back corner of room

View from other corner facing activ board

View from classroom door.  I made desk islands of 10.  We will
see how that works out.  

looking in from the door.  We have a view of the basketball
 court from our windows.

The kids backpack cubbies.

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Kindergarten News

Week of Dec 7^th-11th, 2015

Remember to keep all library books at home until after we are back in the new building. The library is packed!  If your child brings a jacket/sweatshirt, please make sure his or her name is inside it. Also, NEXT week we have three early dismissal days on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Our class party is on Thursday of next week at 10:00.  We hope to see you there! J

Theme: Happy Holidays!!

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds about holiday themes, making predictions, re-telling the story, recalling the sequence of events and discussing the characters, the rising action in a story that forms a story arc.

Writing:  Writers Workshop!  Shared, Interactive and Modeled writing and Independent writing. We will be continuing to use a book format to write our own stories.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, like, see, in, and, can, I, the, you, for, it, go, to, was, on, if, that, into, said, me

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the word.  They need to be able to read them quickly by sight (not sounding them out). J

Word Family:  This we will explore the word family of AG. 

Math: Review: tally marks, graphing, counting aloud, counting sets, counting objects with one to one correspondence, and determining more/less (Focus is numeracy to 20).

Science:   Continuing Weather

Social Studies:  Holiday Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday:  Ask your family what their favorite holiday symbol is:  dreidel, Christmas tree, or a candy cane?  Record their answers with tally marks!

·        Tuesday:  Write a sentence using the word SAID and a sentence using the word into.

·        Wednesday:  Put five toys in a line.  Practice describing them using your

ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.)

·        Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·        Friday: Enjoy family time, read a story, and/or play outside!

THE AN FAMILY | Sound Blending Songs

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Kindergarten News

Week of Nov.30-Dec.4, 2015

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  The next three weeks will go quickly, as we have a lot to cover.  We will be packing, as well as doing mid year reading assessments. 

For this week, please note:

THIS WEEK:  Early Release on THURSDAY at 1:30 p.m.

Theme: Holiday Time!

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy the many versions of a favorite tale, The Gingerbread Man, focusing on retelling using story arcs!  Creating story arcs will aide us as we write our own narratives. 

Writing:  The children are doing a wonderful job making their own books. We continue to focus on use of capitals, periods, and spacing!  We will continue to add details to make our writing more interesting. As we enjoy read alouds, we notice things we can add to our own stories such as, illustrations that show movement, sound words, speech bubbles, and pictures that spread across two pages- to name a just a few!

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, like, see, in, and, can, I, the, you, for, it, go, to, was, on, if, that, into

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK: SAID, ME.

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the words J

Word Study: The week before Thanksgiving, we explored the word family AT.  With those two little letters, we read and wrote so many words (cat, fat, bat, attack, etc.).  This week, we will work with the word family AN (can, man, fan, than, chant, etc).  Look out…we are readers/writers!

Math: During math workshop, we will reinforce the skill of more and less.  Specifically, we will use this concept to help us solve story problems.  We will also create numeral sets to 20, count aloud to 75, and back/forth to 30.  We will tally and graph! Our main focus continues to be a strong numeracy to 20.

Science: Weather!

Social Studies:  Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of AN words. 
• Tuesday: Visit www.raz-kids.com 

• Wednesday: Write 3 simple sentence using any of our sight words.    Do you have a capital and a period? 
• Thursday:  Using a deck of cards, play War with a parent.  While playing, say, “I have more” or “I have less”

This is easier if you don’t play with the face cards (Jack, Queen, etc.)

• Friday:   practice your home reader!  Send your bag on Monday.

AT Song--Short Vowel Word Families

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Kindergarten News

Week of Nov.16th-20th

We are looking forward to seeing you on Friday, November 20th  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 in the café, as well.  If you are able, please join your child for this special time.

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, my, is, like, see, in, and, can, I, the, it, go, to, was, on, if, for, into

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  THAT, YOU

Word Study: We will read and write words using the AT word family (at, fat, cat, chat, attack, etc).

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to explore numeracy to 20 while we count forwards/backwards, explore ten frames, dot cards, more/less, ordinal numbers, tally marks, and number writing.

Social Studies:  Native Americans, Pilgrims, Family Traditions

Science:  Continue with Patterns of Movement

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! 

SL Song