DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Friday, Dec. 9th—Next visit to the Library
-Monday, Dec. 12th—Delayed Start
-Tuesday, Dec. 20th—Christmas Party
THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP:
Thanks for sending in food and supplies last week to make our Stone Soup Feast a success! Special thanks to all of the parent and grandparent volunteers who also came in to lend a hand! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break with your families!
BOOK IT:
Please remember to return you child’s November Book-It Calendar so that I can award pizza certificates. I’m attaching a December calendar if you’d like to participate in Book-It for December.
STUDENT RELEASE FORM:
Attached you will find a yellow student release form. Please read it over carefully, complete it, and return it to school as soon as possible.
READING:
This week we will be working on the letter Tt as well as the sightwords am & like. We will be reading a few books about Trains to correlate with the letter T and we will also be reading Dinner at the Panda Palace as we work on predicting, comprehension, and vocabulary. We will be introducing a new Beanie Baby Comprehension Strategy this week: Questioning Owl. Questioning Owl reminds us to stop and ask questions while we read to help us understand what we are reading. We also have a full week of literacy stations; students will be busy sequencing and retelling stories, working on recognizing color words, rhyming, and sightwords, as well as handwriting grocery lists. During strategy groups, students will be working on sightwords, reading leveled readers, and segmenting words into individual sounds.
WRITING:
This week we will use the text The Relatives Came for a couple of mini-lessons on Word Choice and Organization. We will complete a couple of journal entries related to families: relatives we like to visit and how we help our families. On Thursday, we will complete a Type 3 Writing as we draw and write about the people who live in our house. On Friday, we will introduce Voice as we read Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse and students will complete a ‘free choice’ journal entry expressing Voice through their writing and drawings.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will begin our Social Studies Unit on Families. We will be reading several books about Families and practice using our Comprehension Strategies: Spinner Spider, Picturing Penguin, & Questioning Owl. Our focus text will be My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits by Hanoch Piven.
MATH:
This week we will begin learning about money as we introduce the penny and practice identifying and counting pennies. We will also continue to work on identifying and writing the numbers 1-20 and counting orally 1-50. The students will be finishing up their ‘Countdown to Christmas’ chain so that they can bring it home on Wednesday.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Newsletter Updates for the Week of November 21
DATES TO REMEMBER:
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
-Monday, Dec. 12th—Delayed Start
STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Our student of the week is Camden Powell. Camden enjoys playing football and basketball and his favorite color is blue. Camden also enjoys hunting with his dad and he would like to be a Forest Ranger when he grows up. Congratulations to Camden on being student of the week!
THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP: This week will be a busy week for us in Kindergarten. Here’s what we have planned for each day:
Tuesday, November 22nd: Cutting Up Vegetables
Parent Volunteers: J. Bell & Nana Alice
Wednesday, November 23rd: The Feast
Supplies Needed:
-24 Paper Plates—Maisie
-24 Bowls—Kaden
-24 Spoons—Baylie
-24 Napkins—Claydon
-24 Cups—Taylor
-2 2 Liters of 7-up—Ryan
Parent Volunteer: G. Cook
Thank you for donating supplies to make our Thanksgiving Celebration a success!!!
WINTER CLOTHING: Looks like we can’t hold Old Man Winter off any longer. With Winter upon us, please be sure to label all of your child’s items with their name, as we have several duplicates in the class and it becomes very difficult to sort out who’s is who’s. Students will still be going outside for recess 3 times each day, unless the office deems it too cold. I always dry their mittens on the heater between recesses so that they have dry mittens, but this can also lead to confusion when determining which mittens belong to whom. Also, please consider sending your child with slip-on or Velcro shoes for the winter as laces make the transition before and after recess more time consuming for the students. Mrs. Kelley asked me to remind parents to please be sure to send tennis shoes on gym days and also that Speed Stack orders are due by Wednesday, Nov. 30th.
READING: Due to our short week, this week we will review the letters B, M, & S and introduce the letter T as we will be reading several books about Turkeys. We will be working on the sightwords: see & am. At strategy groups, students will practice identifying beginning sounds and reading their Thanksgiving Colors booklets so that they can bring them home over the long weekend to read to their families.
WRITING: This week we will be writing about Thanksgiving. We will be reading the book Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving and writing about where a good place for a turkey to hide might be. We will also be composing a class letter to Farmer MacNugget regarding his missing turkeys. On Wednesday, we will be completing a Type 3 writing about what we’d like to eat for Thanksgiving.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will learn the difference between wants and needs and make a list of our ‘needs’ for making Stone Soup. The students will determine what a ‘fair trade’ is and practice making ‘fair trades’ with the other kindergarten classes in order to acquire all of the needed ingredients for our Stone Soup. We will work together as a ‘classroom community’ to prepare our Stone Soup and in the spirit of the very first Thanksgiving, on Thursday, the students will dress up like Pilgrim children and feast together on Stone Soup and corn bread.
MATH: This week we will be acting out some story problems involving ‘adding’ and ‘taking away’ objects. We will also practice sequencing the days of the week and on Wednesday, we will graph our favorite food from our feast.
Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Break!!!
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
-Monday, Dec. 12th—Delayed Start
STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Our student of the week is Camden Powell. Camden enjoys playing football and basketball and his favorite color is blue. Camden also enjoys hunting with his dad and he would like to be a Forest Ranger when he grows up. Congratulations to Camden on being student of the week!
THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP: This week will be a busy week for us in Kindergarten. Here’s what we have planned for each day:
Tuesday, November 22nd: Cutting Up Vegetables
Parent Volunteers: J. Bell & Nana Alice
Wednesday, November 23rd: The Feast
Supplies Needed:
-24 Paper Plates—Maisie
-24 Bowls—Kaden
-24 Spoons—Baylie
-24 Napkins—Claydon
-24 Cups—Taylor
-2 2 Liters of 7-up—Ryan
Parent Volunteer: G. Cook
Thank you for donating supplies to make our Thanksgiving Celebration a success!!!
WINTER CLOTHING: Looks like we can’t hold Old Man Winter off any longer. With Winter upon us, please be sure to label all of your child’s items with their name, as we have several duplicates in the class and it becomes very difficult to sort out who’s is who’s. Students will still be going outside for recess 3 times each day, unless the office deems it too cold. I always dry their mittens on the heater between recesses so that they have dry mittens, but this can also lead to confusion when determining which mittens belong to whom. Also, please consider sending your child with slip-on or Velcro shoes for the winter as laces make the transition before and after recess more time consuming for the students. Mrs. Kelley asked me to remind parents to please be sure to send tennis shoes on gym days and also that Speed Stack orders are due by Wednesday, Nov. 30th.
READING: Due to our short week, this week we will review the letters B, M, & S and introduce the letter T as we will be reading several books about Turkeys. We will be working on the sightwords: see & am. At strategy groups, students will practice identifying beginning sounds and reading their Thanksgiving Colors booklets so that they can bring them home over the long weekend to read to their families.
WRITING: This week we will be writing about Thanksgiving. We will be reading the book Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving and writing about where a good place for a turkey to hide might be. We will also be composing a class letter to Farmer MacNugget regarding his missing turkeys. On Wednesday, we will be completing a Type 3 writing about what we’d like to eat for Thanksgiving.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will learn the difference between wants and needs and make a list of our ‘needs’ for making Stone Soup. The students will determine what a ‘fair trade’ is and practice making ‘fair trades’ with the other kindergarten classes in order to acquire all of the needed ingredients for our Stone Soup. We will work together as a ‘classroom community’ to prepare our Stone Soup and in the spirit of the very first Thanksgiving, on Thursday, the students will dress up like Pilgrim children and feast together on Stone Soup and corn bread.
MATH: This week we will be acting out some story problems involving ‘adding’ and ‘taking away’ objects. We will also practice sequencing the days of the week and on Wednesday, we will graph our favorite food from our feast.
Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Break!!!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Newsletter Updates for the Week of November 14
DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Tuesday, Nov 15th—No School—Deer Day
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP: Next week will be a busy week for us in Kindergarten. One of the concepts that we need to teach in Kindergarten is the idea of a ‘fair trade’ in a market economy. To address this standard, we will be making stone soup. All of the Kindergarten classes will bring in 1 or 2 of the ingredients needed for the soup. Then each class will have to ‘trade’ some of their surplus ingredients with the other classes, in order to obtain all of the ingredients needed to make stone soup. Here’s what we have planned for each day
Monday, November 21st: Thanksgiving Activities
We will rotate through all of the Kindergarten classrooms to do several Thanksgiving-related activities. This is the day that students will be trading our surplus of celery & cabbage, for other ingredients that we will need.
Supplies Needed:
-1 Bag of Red Apples—Taylor
-1 Bag of Red Apples—Ali
-1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Clara
-1 Pkg of 100 small paper plates—Ryan
-1 Bunch of Celery—Mattalyn, Lauran, Tyler,
Blayn, Logan, Xavier, Brenden, Kasey,
Aiden, Baylie, Claydon
-1 Head of Cabbage—Kaden, Emerson,
Mariah, Camden, Abby, & Maisie
Parent Volunteers: D. Pluger, R. Eisenga, & J. Ouwinga
Tuesday, November 22nd: Cutting Up Vegetables
Parent Volunteer: J. Bell
Wednesday, November 23rd: The Feast
Supplies Needed:
-24 Paper Plates—Maisie
-24 Bowls—Kaden
-24 Spoons—Baylie
-24 Napkins—Claydon
-24 Cups—Taylor
-2 2 Liters of 7-up—Ryan
Parent Volunteer: G. Cook
Thank you for donating supplies to make our Thanksgiving Celebration a success!!!
CONFERENCES: Thank you for taking the time to come in and meet for parent teacher conferences. I firmly believe that parents and teachers working together is what brings about success in students! Please continue to reinforce letter names and sounds, sightwords, and counting while working with your child at home.
READING: We will finish up with the letter Ss this week and work on the sightwords can, at, & see. We will be reading Growing Vegetable Soup as we work on vocabulary, comprehension, and predicting. We will also be reading several books about vegetables as we practice using our first 2 Comprehension Strategies for Reading: 1) Spinner Spider—reminds us to make connections as we are reading & 2) Picturing Penguin—reminds us to make a picture in our mind as we are reading.
WRITING: This week we will be drawing and writing about turkeys. We will also write in our journals about what we are thankful for and what we’ve learned about the Pilgrims.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will continue to reinforce safety as we read Officer Buckle and Gloria; afterwards, students will choose a safety tip to illustrate and write about in their journals. We will also revisit Eddie Eagle and reinforce what to do if we ever find a gun: Stop! Don’t Touch! Leave the Area! Tell an Adult! We will also be reading several stories about Pilgrims and The First Thanksgiving; we will track the Pilgrims Voyage on the Mayflower as they traveled across the sea.
MATH: This week we will continue to work on number recognition 0-10 and counting 1-30. We will be playing Number Bingo and practice ordering numbers 1-30 on the calendar.
-Tuesday, Nov 15th—No School—Deer Day
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP: Next week will be a busy week for us in Kindergarten. One of the concepts that we need to teach in Kindergarten is the idea of a ‘fair trade’ in a market economy. To address this standard, we will be making stone soup. All of the Kindergarten classes will bring in 1 or 2 of the ingredients needed for the soup. Then each class will have to ‘trade’ some of their surplus ingredients with the other classes, in order to obtain all of the ingredients needed to make stone soup. Here’s what we have planned for each day
Monday, November 21st: Thanksgiving Activities
We will rotate through all of the Kindergarten classrooms to do several Thanksgiving-related activities. This is the day that students will be trading our surplus of celery & cabbage, for other ingredients that we will need.
Supplies Needed:
-1 Bag of Red Apples—Taylor
-1 Bag of Red Apples—Ali
-1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Clara
-1 Pkg of 100 small paper plates—Ryan
-1 Bunch of Celery—Mattalyn, Lauran, Tyler,
Blayn, Logan, Xavier, Brenden, Kasey,
Aiden, Baylie, Claydon
-1 Head of Cabbage—Kaden, Emerson,
Mariah, Camden, Abby, & Maisie
Parent Volunteers: D. Pluger, R. Eisenga, & J. Ouwinga
Tuesday, November 22nd: Cutting Up Vegetables
Parent Volunteer: J. Bell
Wednesday, November 23rd: The Feast
Supplies Needed:
-24 Paper Plates—Maisie
-24 Bowls—Kaden
-24 Spoons—Baylie
-24 Napkins—Claydon
-24 Cups—Taylor
-2 2 Liters of 7-up—Ryan
Parent Volunteer: G. Cook
Thank you for donating supplies to make our Thanksgiving Celebration a success!!!
CONFERENCES: Thank you for taking the time to come in and meet for parent teacher conferences. I firmly believe that parents and teachers working together is what brings about success in students! Please continue to reinforce letter names and sounds, sightwords, and counting while working with your child at home.
READING: We will finish up with the letter Ss this week and work on the sightwords can, at, & see. We will be reading Growing Vegetable Soup as we work on vocabulary, comprehension, and predicting. We will also be reading several books about vegetables as we practice using our first 2 Comprehension Strategies for Reading: 1) Spinner Spider—reminds us to make connections as we are reading & 2) Picturing Penguin—reminds us to make a picture in our mind as we are reading.
WRITING: This week we will be drawing and writing about turkeys. We will also write in our journals about what we are thankful for and what we’ve learned about the Pilgrims.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will continue to reinforce safety as we read Officer Buckle and Gloria; afterwards, students will choose a safety tip to illustrate and write about in their journals. We will also revisit Eddie Eagle and reinforce what to do if we ever find a gun: Stop! Don’t Touch! Leave the Area! Tell an Adult! We will also be reading several stories about Pilgrims and The First Thanksgiving; we will track the Pilgrims Voyage on the Mayflower as they traveled across the sea.
MATH: This week we will continue to work on number recognition 0-10 and counting 1-30. We will be playing Number Bingo and practice ordering numbers 1-30 on the calendar.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Newsletter Updates for the Week of November 7th
DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Thursday, Nov 10th—No School—Conferences
-Monday, Nov 14th—Delayed Start
-Tuesday, Nov 15th—No School—Deer Day
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Our student of the week is Taylor Agar. Taylor loves to color and draw and she enjoys watching movies and playing with her Barbies. Her favorite place to eat is Duane’s Restaurant and when she grows up she wants to get married and be a mom. Congratulations to Taylor on being Student of the Week!!
REPORT CARDS & CONFERENCES:
I’m planning to send report cards home on Tuesday of this week so that you will have time to look them over before our conference. We will have an opportunity to discuss your child’s strengths and challenges and talk about things we can do both at home and at school to strengthen their skills. I will also have sign up sheets for our Thanksgiving Celebration, Christmas Party, and Valentine’s Party. In addition, you’ll have an opportunity to read a few of our class books that we’ve authored and illustrated and see some pictures of our year so far. I’m looking forward to meeting with you on Thursday!
READING: We will finish up with the letter Bb this week and begin our new letter: Ss. Our sightwords for the next couple of weeks are: can, at, am, & see. Later this week, we will be reading Growing Vegetable Soup as we work on vocabulary, comprehension, and predicting. We will also be reading several books about Scarecrows to correspond with the letter S. Over the next couple of weeks we will be introducing the CAFÉ menu board for Reading and learn about our first 2 Comprehension Strategies for Reading: 1) Spinner Spider—reminds us to make connections as we are reading & 2) Picturing Penguin—reminds us to make a picture in our mind as we are reading. We will be practicing both of these strategies so that students are confident with using them independently when we start book boxes in a couple of weeks.
WRITING: This week we will introduce ‘Writing Folders’ as students will be using them to write about their families. We will reinforce that names always begin with an uppercase letter. We will also introduce the FCA that reminds us that our pictures and words should always match. In their journals, students will write about bats and how to be a good friend to others. We will also practice using Picturing Penguin while reading the book My Many Colored Days and then write about what color our day is on Friday.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will read a few more books about bats and complete our KWL chart. We will also be comparing bats and birds to see how they are alike and how they are different. With the opening of deer season right around the corner, we will be talking about Gun Safety this week. We will meet Eddie Eagle who teaches children what to do if they ever find a gun lying around: Stop, Don’t Touch, Leave the Area, Tell An Adult! We will also discuss what it means to ‘vote’ and practice exercising our democratic ‘right to vote’ by voting for a special snack and then graphing the results.
MATH: This week we will sort buttons a variety of ways and practice ordering the numbers 1-10. We will also be working on identifying ordinal positions (first, second, third . . . ). Please continue to practice counting at home, those teens are tricky and it’s easy to skip over some of the numbers, also transitioning from 29-30, 39-40, etc. is difficult for many kindergartners.
-Thursday, Nov 10th—No School—Conferences
-Monday, Nov 14th—Delayed Start
-Tuesday, Nov 15th—No School—Deer Day
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Our student of the week is Taylor Agar. Taylor loves to color and draw and she enjoys watching movies and playing with her Barbies. Her favorite place to eat is Duane’s Restaurant and when she grows up she wants to get married and be a mom. Congratulations to Taylor on being Student of the Week!!
REPORT CARDS & CONFERENCES:
I’m planning to send report cards home on Tuesday of this week so that you will have time to look them over before our conference. We will have an opportunity to discuss your child’s strengths and challenges and talk about things we can do both at home and at school to strengthen their skills. I will also have sign up sheets for our Thanksgiving Celebration, Christmas Party, and Valentine’s Party. In addition, you’ll have an opportunity to read a few of our class books that we’ve authored and illustrated and see some pictures of our year so far. I’m looking forward to meeting with you on Thursday!
READING: We will finish up with the letter Bb this week and begin our new letter: Ss. Our sightwords for the next couple of weeks are: can, at, am, & see. Later this week, we will be reading Growing Vegetable Soup as we work on vocabulary, comprehension, and predicting. We will also be reading several books about Scarecrows to correspond with the letter S. Over the next couple of weeks we will be introducing the CAFÉ menu board for Reading and learn about our first 2 Comprehension Strategies for Reading: 1) Spinner Spider—reminds us to make connections as we are reading & 2) Picturing Penguin—reminds us to make a picture in our mind as we are reading. We will be practicing both of these strategies so that students are confident with using them independently when we start book boxes in a couple of weeks.
WRITING: This week we will introduce ‘Writing Folders’ as students will be using them to write about their families. We will reinforce that names always begin with an uppercase letter. We will also introduce the FCA that reminds us that our pictures and words should always match. In their journals, students will write about bats and how to be a good friend to others. We will also practice using Picturing Penguin while reading the book My Many Colored Days and then write about what color our day is on Friday.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will read a few more books about bats and complete our KWL chart. We will also be comparing bats and birds to see how they are alike and how they are different. With the opening of deer season right around the corner, we will be talking about Gun Safety this week. We will meet Eddie Eagle who teaches children what to do if they ever find a gun lying around: Stop, Don’t Touch, Leave the Area, Tell An Adult! We will also discuss what it means to ‘vote’ and practice exercising our democratic ‘right to vote’ by voting for a special snack and then graphing the results.
MATH: This week we will sort buttons a variety of ways and practice ordering the numbers 1-10. We will also be working on identifying ordinal positions (first, second, third . . . ). Please continue to practice counting at home, those teens are tricky and it’s easy to skip over some of the numbers, also transitioning from 29-30, 39-40, etc. is difficult for many kindergartners.
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