Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
This week in kindergarten
Please note that Wednesday, October 14th is a late start. Everything (bells and buses) should run exactly 2 hours behind,
Be sure you are signed up for conferences (most of you are). There is no school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week (the 21st, 22nd and 23rd) to accommodate conferences.
Thank you to Lea Walker who has volunteered to be our class parent. Lea is mother of Stevie (as well as 2nd grader Poppy). She will be helping with a variety of things including communication, organizing and being a sounding board for everyone. Please feel free to contact her at leakwalker@gmail.com.
Thank you to the many volunteers who have helped in the classroom and on our field trip last week to Kruger's Farms. This volunteer help has been invaluable. We will be needing volunteers to help us with out auction project (to be announced soon), as well as to help us with centers and math in the classroom.
As the weather grows chillier, be sure your child has a coat at school every day. With the differing temperatures, many students are taking off their coats while out at recess. Be sure to mark your child's coat with their name and Room number (2). If they are found, they will usually make their way back to our classroom.
This Monday and Tuesday afternoon we will be starting "switch". Both days, our students will do some dance with Ms. Leveille (and some extra music in Room 2). Next week students will be doing social studies with Ms. Aksay and science with Ms. Forst.
This week we are working on the complexities of the letter Aa (vowels are, indeed, complex), and beginning to blend letters together to make words -- especially the letters m, a, and t to make words like at, mat, am and the name Tam.
Here are some themes for the week:
Theme Book: Life in an Ocean
Comprehension skill: Compare and Contrast
New words: is, have
Words we know: I, am, the, little, to, a
Letter focus: Aa
Letters we know: m, t, a
Writing: family words, /th/ sound
Math: Tally marks, numbers & number sense
Song: Dinah
Be sure you are signed up for conferences (most of you are). There is no school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week (the 21st, 22nd and 23rd) to accommodate conferences.
Thank you to Lea Walker who has volunteered to be our class parent. Lea is mother of Stevie (as well as 2nd grader Poppy). She will be helping with a variety of things including communication, organizing and being a sounding board for everyone. Please feel free to contact her at leakwalker@gmail.com.
Thank you to the many volunteers who have helped in the classroom and on our field trip last week to Kruger's Farms. This volunteer help has been invaluable. We will be needing volunteers to help us with out auction project (to be announced soon), as well as to help us with centers and math in the classroom.
As the weather grows chillier, be sure your child has a coat at school every day. With the differing temperatures, many students are taking off their coats while out at recess. Be sure to mark your child's coat with their name and Room number (2). If they are found, they will usually make their way back to our classroom.
This Monday and Tuesday afternoon we will be starting "switch". Both days, our students will do some dance with Ms. Leveille (and some extra music in Room 2). Next week students will be doing social studies with Ms. Aksay and science with Ms. Forst.
This week we are working on the complexities of the letter Aa (vowels are, indeed, complex), and beginning to blend letters together to make words -- especially the letters m, a, and t to make words like at, mat, am and the name Tam.
Here are some themes for the week:
Theme Book: Life in an Ocean
Comprehension skill: Compare and Contrast
New words: is, have
Words we know: I, am, the, little, to, a
Letter focus: Aa
Letters we know: m, t, a
Writing: family words, /th/ sound
Math: Tally marks, numbers & number sense
Song: Dinah
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Kruger's Farm Writing
Please check out all our fine writing about Kruger's Farm, posted on the green bulletin board just inside the classroom.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Monday, October 5, 2015
This week in kindergarten
This is a compressed week, with our field trip on Tuesday and no school on Friday. Most of our academics take place Monday and Wednesday. Thursday, as always, is filled with specials such as P.E., library and "guidance" with Ms. Cox.
Thank you to John and Victoria who volunteered to help with the first day of "real" centers. Students worked at the writing center, the "reading for meaning" center, the art-science-discovery" center or the math center today. Over the next three center days, the young scholars will rotate though all the centers.
Math: We will be learning about 10-frames. These are new since I was a kid. Basically it is a rectangular box with 10 squares inside -- five on top, five on the bottom. Some may be filled with objects. This is a great way of visualizing different numbers, and of making sense of how each number interacts with 10. In other words when a student sees 7 bugs within a ten frame, they may see the top five squares filled, two filled on the bottom, and three empty squares. We begin to learn about 10-frames on Wednesday.
Don't forget -- next Wednesday the 14th is a late opening, and we will have conferences on October 21st and 22nd. There is no school on the 23rd or 30th.
Here are some themes for the week.
Theme Book: Dig, Dig Digging
Literacy Theme: Classify and Catagorize
New Letter: Tt
Letters we know: Mm
Words we know: I, am, the, little, to, a
Math: 10 frames
Weekly song: The Old Chisholm Trail
Thank you to John and Victoria who volunteered to help with the first day of "real" centers. Students worked at the writing center, the "reading for meaning" center, the art-science-discovery" center or the math center today. Over the next three center days, the young scholars will rotate though all the centers.
Math: We will be learning about 10-frames. These are new since I was a kid. Basically it is a rectangular box with 10 squares inside -- five on top, five on the bottom. Some may be filled with objects. This is a great way of visualizing different numbers, and of making sense of how each number interacts with 10. In other words when a student sees 7 bugs within a ten frame, they may see the top five squares filled, two filled on the bottom, and three empty squares. We begin to learn about 10-frames on Wednesday.
Don't forget -- next Wednesday the 14th is a late opening, and we will have conferences on October 21st and 22nd. There is no school on the 23rd or 30th.
Here are some themes for the week.
Theme Book: Dig, Dig Digging
Literacy Theme: Classify and Catagorize
New Letter: Tt
Letters we know: Mm
Words we know: I, am, the, little, to, a
Math: 10 frames
Weekly song: The Old Chisholm Trail
Friday, October 2, 2015
Friday Notes
Your child should be bringing home leveled readers today. Please take some time to have your child read to you from these books. I am excited to see the growth in reading skills within the classroom.
We will be rolling out our new "real" centers on Monday. If by chance, you have any time to spare, it would be wonderful to have a volunteer in the classroom from 9:30 to 10:30 Monday morning.
Our field trip to Kruger's Farm is Tuesday. I will be sending out more information Monday, but here are a few important items. Volunteers should plan to be at Chapman by 9:15. Have your child dress for the weather (rain or shine) and be sure to wear shoes that can handle mud. As you pack a lunch - please bring it in a paper bag and be sure everything is disposable. We hope to not bring any lunch stuff back to Chapman.
Be aware that there is no school next Friday, October 9th.
We will be rolling out our new "real" centers on Monday. If by chance, you have any time to spare, it would be wonderful to have a volunteer in the classroom from 9:30 to 10:30 Monday morning.
Our field trip to Kruger's Farm is Tuesday. I will be sending out more information Monday, but here are a few important items. Volunteers should plan to be at Chapman by 9:15. Have your child dress for the weather (rain or shine) and be sure to wear shoes that can handle mud. As you pack a lunch - please bring it in a paper bag and be sure everything is disposable. We hope to not bring any lunch stuff back to Chapman.
Be aware that there is no school next Friday, October 9th.
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