Email me to sign up for a Fun Friday Snack date. The dates that do not have a student name are available. Please remember to send in enough snacks for 21 students.
Every student in class is part of the Sound Club!!! WOOHOO!!
That means everyone knows sounds in isolation. Now we just need to practice blending the sounds in words, so that we become better readers. Along with the blends and word families. They all go together... :)
This week is going to be even better than most thanks to Dr. Seuss!! We have Resources on Monday~ COMPUTER LAB, Tuesday~ P.E., Wednesday~ P.E. and Thursday~ MUSIC. Noah is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the Class. Also, we have a visitor coming in Thursday to see the class participate in the Learning for Life Lesson. The lesson is on Life Skills-using non-verbal communication to communicate with others.
We also have a few students joining the Six-Year-Old Club this week!! Kingston (March 1) and Joey (March 2).
MATH
We will decompose 6, 7 and 8 to get us ready for subtraction. This is basically a review of number bonds, so I think the class will do great!! We are also having a Mid-Module Test. It is a 6 question story problem test, along with a 20 question equation assessment on addition. (The 20 equations have totals of 5 or less, with two of them being more than five.
Here is a fun Jack Hartmann Youtube video on Subtraction:
SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS & MORE!!
In Saxon we are continuing to focus on the y sound. We are reviewing rhyming words and omitting/ substituting sounds at the beginning of words. We are also word building with blends at the beginning and ends of words.
Our Sight Words this week are: very, give, new & take. **Make sure you are practicing sight words! The expectation this quarter is 60 words. **
Our blend this week is SP-. Practice having your child think of words that begin with SP-. If your child does this with ease, have them think of words that have -SP at the end of words. Here is the slideshow that we will be watching in class:
Our Word Family this week is -ing. I believe the students will have an easy time coming up with words for this family and my goal is the ing ending will carry over to their writing. Here is the Youtube video for -ing.
READING
I did a post last week of all the Dr.Seuss Books we will be reading this week. If you didn't see it, you'll want to go back and check it out! The skills we will be reviewing are: finding rhyming pairs, discussing character development (how the character changes from the beginning of the story to the end), meanings of unknown words, sequencing of events and retelling stories.
Also, we will be watching the following Youtube video for our Learning for Life Lesson on Communication.
WRITING
We are writing lessons this week to Theodor Geisel on our opinions of his Dr.Seuss Books. This will help close up any trouble students had with Opinion Writing, but also allow them to practice friendly letter writing.
Please remember to have your child do their writing homework. DO NOT do it for your child, nor tell them how to spell all the words "the adult way." In school the students are expected to participate in independent writing without adult help.
SCIENCE
Woohoo- it makes me smile to know that we are getting to more science as the year goes on.
These lessons help produce great discussions in the class. Our lesson this week is on Sound and Vibrations.We will read a Capstone Book: Loud, Soft, High and Low. Also, we will watch a Youtube video on Sound. Check it out below:
There weren't many students participating in Gloves and Mittens Day. Then we went outside to Recess and it was so warm, many of the students didn't want to put them on for pictures. So I only have five that were willing to pose for the photos. Enjoy!!
To celebrate the end of our Module, we painted crowns from Burger King (Thank You Ms.Sutherland for getting them for us and Thank You Mrs.Goode & Mrs.Edwards for helping the class paint.) Then as if they couldn't get any better... we decorated them with foam stickers and glitter. (Thank You Ms.Williams for coming in and doing the glitter. )
DISCLAIMER: Sorry this post is sooooo long, but I felt these were too cute to be put into a slideshow. :) Plus the pictures get bigger if you click on them!
We wrote letters to the Cafeteria Manager, Mrs.Sally Fipps. :) I am going to deliver the letters to her tomorrow, so I wanted to share them on here with you. There's something about Kindergarten writing, it's the BEST!
(If your child's work is not pictured, they were not ready to share the piece.)
(I wanted to send these fliers home today, but I messed up my Copy Folder.
So they are going home tomorrow- Friday. Be on the lookout for them! :)
We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss Week with some of the Kindergarten Classes! Here is the schedule of events... Ooh no one has signed up for Fun Friday Snacks yet. If you want to sign up let me know and maybe you'll want to send in a Dr.Seuss style treat!
Here are the Books we will be reading, along with the fun activities for next week...
MONDAY- Wear red and/or blue
We will read One Fish, Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
TUESDAY- Wear green.
We will read Green Eggs and Ham.
WEDNESDAY- Get wacky with sill hair! Wear your clothes backwards, inside out or mismatched.
We will read Wacky Wednesday.
THURSDAY- Theodor Thursday; Wear your favorite hat.
We will discuss the life of Theodor Geisel. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a video clip that we could watch in it's entirety, so I am not able to post one.
FRIDAY- FUN FRIDAY
Bring your favorite stuffed animal to school! We will read The Cat in the Hat.
You also have a chance to participate in the Reading Challenge. :)
If you fill in one row from the Challenge, your child earns a Treasure Box Toy. If you fill in every box from the Reading Challenge, your child gets to eat lunch outside with me!!
Although I am sending a copy of this home, I thought I'd add it on here in case you wanted to share it with anyone. :)
Our Resources for the week are: Tuesday:GUIDANCE, Wednesday:MUSIC and Friday:ART. Wednesday is an Early Release Day. Thursday morning we have a visit from the Zoo.
Noelani is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the class. :)
MATH
We have been working away at listening to Story Problems and adding up the groups to find the total. Please make sure to review your child's problem sets and remember to complete the Homework. Your child should figure out the parts of the equation by listening to the story. If you need to read the story problem again do it, I'd rather you do that and have them listen to find out the parts on their own.
On Thursday we begin subtraction! The students will hear me say "How many are left?" very often!! We begin subtraction with pictures and X-ing out the items taken away. Here is a fun youtube video get the students excited!
SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS AND MORE
The letter we focus on this week is Y. We will only be discussing words that begin with y- yellow, yo-yo, yolk, yard, etc. We are also going to be drilling into changing/substituting beginning sounds. Make sure to practice with your child if it was highlighted on the Progress Report Paper.
Our Sight Words this week are: would, over, him & did.
We are focusing on the _est word family and our blend is SL-. Below is information for both.
READING
We are reading Sing a Song of Sixpence and rereading King Midas and the Golden Touch. Then we will be take the Module Test.
Here is a link to Sing a Song of Sixpence.
**The module Test is only 6 questions. So once the test is done, we will review it and then begin making our CROWNS!I can't wait to show the pictures of hoe cute the "princes and princesses look!**
WRITING
Last week we wrote a letter to Mrs. Gordon (our P.E. Teacher). We were supposed to have P.E. but it got cancelled and the students were wondering about her. Here is a picture of the letter we wrote. (You'll notice I did the majority of the writing, but the students were involved by telling me the parts of the letter and what to write in the body.)
This week we will be writing a class letter and individual letters to the Cafeteria Manager, Mrs. Fipps. We will let her know what entree's we like, along with the fruits and vegetables. Then we will add in another sentence telling her an entree she could add.
SCIENCE
We will be discussing near and far. The goal is for the students to know what the words mean and begin to have an understanding that the items far away are not small, but it's the distance that plays a trick on the eye and makes the items appear to be. We will take a walk outside and go right up to the flag pole so that the students can see just how tall it really is.
