Literacy
This week we are working on the letter Nn and our alphafriend is Nyle Noodle. Talk with your child about words that start with the /n/ sound as we will be making a list on Friday!
Our word wall words this week are: yes, no. Work with your child on how to spell these words.
In writing this week we are really focusing on writing words. We are counting the words in our sentences and using the word wall to help spell words correctly.
Math
In math we are continuing to make patterns. When working with your child on homework encourage them to create patterns beyond an AB pattern. Challenge them to create a pattern using three different shapes. We are also going to keep working on the numbers 6-10 by making 5-groups to show them with pattern blocks.
Health
We are talking about drug safety in health this week. We'll talk about how to keep your body healthy by:
1. only taking medicine from a trusted adult
2. only taking medicine that is for YOU
3. alert an adult if you find medicine
4. drugs and alcohol are bad for your body!
This week is also Red Ribbon Week, so don't forget the themes of the rest of the week:
Wednesday ~ Stomp Out Drugs = wear boots or slippers
Thursday ~ Hugs, Not Drugs = bring a SMALL stuffed animal
Friday ~ Put a Cap on Drugs = wear your favorite hat!
Book Order
Remember, the book order for October is due on Monday, October, 31st. You can return the order forms to me or fill it out online!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
October 10-14
With conferences last week and other personal things in my life I didn't even get around to doing a blog update! Last week Mrs. Becher, my student teacher, was teaching full time so I was actually out of the room quite a bit. This week is her last week and so I'll be taking over everything again by the end of the week. It was nice to get some stuff done last week, but I'm looking forward to teaching the kiddos again! Here's what we're doing this week!
Literacy
We are starting a new theme this week about family. We read a story today about grandmothers and discussed how they can be called different names. We are also really trying to focus on retelling a story by using the story structure of the story window. They're getting pretty good at it!
Our letter friend this week is Tiggie Tiger. We will be focusing a lot on the sound /t/ and comparing to the sounds of s,m, and r.
We have two new sight words this week. They are: my, mom. We will be doing lots of activities working on these words throughout the week.
In writing we are starting to try and add words to our stories. We've talked about how to "turtle talk" or sound out words using the sounds we know from the alphafriends.
Math
Last week we started Unit 2. This unit continues to focus on the numbers 6-10, as you've seen from the homework! It also starts to incorporate the use of money (pennies and nickels so far) and patterns. It also starts the kids thinking about how math is all around us and we can always tell a story and somehow make it into a math story. Try this at home. When your child tells you a story have him/her think about how to use that story to create an addition or subtraction problem! I think they will surprise you! :-)
Intervention Week
Instead of integrated studies, this week we have an intervention week. This allows us to focus on the skills that some kids are still missing and push forward those who already have the skills mastered. We have groups doing different things: letter identification, beginning sounds, rhyming, and sight words. Ask your child whose classroom they were in today at the end of the day and what they worked on!
Book Order
I sent home a book order today in the manila folders. You have until the end of the month to return it, or go online and order. I will send a reminder at the end of the month.
Literacy Homework
Just a reminder that the literacy homework sheets (the apple sheet) will be due next Wednesday. Please be getting those finished up so we can celebrate all the great work the kids have done!
As always, please let me know if you have any questions!
Literacy
We are starting a new theme this week about family. We read a story today about grandmothers and discussed how they can be called different names. We are also really trying to focus on retelling a story by using the story structure of the story window. They're getting pretty good at it!
Our letter friend this week is Tiggie Tiger. We will be focusing a lot on the sound /t/ and comparing to the sounds of s,m, and r.
We have two new sight words this week. They are: my, mom. We will be doing lots of activities working on these words throughout the week.
In writing we are starting to try and add words to our stories. We've talked about how to "turtle talk" or sound out words using the sounds we know from the alphafriends.
Math
Last week we started Unit 2. This unit continues to focus on the numbers 6-10, as you've seen from the homework! It also starts to incorporate the use of money (pennies and nickels so far) and patterns. It also starts the kids thinking about how math is all around us and we can always tell a story and somehow make it into a math story. Try this at home. When your child tells you a story have him/her think about how to use that story to create an addition or subtraction problem! I think they will surprise you! :-)
Intervention Week
Instead of integrated studies, this week we have an intervention week. This allows us to focus on the skills that some kids are still missing and push forward those who already have the skills mastered. We have groups doing different things: letter identification, beginning sounds, rhyming, and sight words. Ask your child whose classroom they were in today at the end of the day and what they worked on!
Book Order
I sent home a book order today in the manila folders. You have until the end of the month to return it, or go online and order. I will send a reminder at the end of the month.
Literacy Homework
Just a reminder that the literacy homework sheets (the apple sheet) will be due next Wednesday. Please be getting those finished up so we can celebrate all the great work the kids have done!
As always, please let me know if you have any questions!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
September 26-30
I spent Monday filling my brain with new knowledge on how teach math more effectively! I'm a little overwhelmed, but determined to learn all I can! Here's what you kids will be learning this week!
Literacy
We're working on the letter Mm this week. The alphafriend is Mimi Mouse and has a pretty fun little song! Ask your child to share it with you! :-) Help your child find thing that start with the letter m as you go through your day!
In writing we'll do some more talking about how to draw pictures. We will also start talking about how we can add labels to our pictures. If you have any books at home with labels in them, point them out to your child!
Our new word we are learning this week is "see". See if your child can write an "I see" sentence for you!
Math
We are finishing up our unit 1 this week. We will be doing some reviewing tomorrow and Thursday, and taking the TEST ON FRIDAY!!!!! So please make sure your child is at school Friday afternoon for that! Things that you can practice at home would be:
-writing numbers 1-5
-recognizing numbers 1-5
-counting objects 1-5
-drawing a group of objects 1-5
Health
We have started a unit on safety. We started by talking about fire safety and will discuss how to stop, drop, and roll! We will also talk about street safety and how to watch for traffic and safely cross a street!
SCHOOL PICTURES
On Friday morning we will have school pictures. Every student will have his/her picture taken, but if you would like to purchase pictures you need to return the order form WITH money by the time we have our pictures taken on Friday morning!
If you have any question please let me know!
Literacy
We're working on the letter Mm this week. The alphafriend is Mimi Mouse and has a pretty fun little song! Ask your child to share it with you! :-) Help your child find thing that start with the letter m as you go through your day!
In writing we'll do some more talking about how to draw pictures. We will also start talking about how we can add labels to our pictures. If you have any books at home with labels in them, point them out to your child!
Our new word we are learning this week is "see". See if your child can write an "I see" sentence for you!
Math
We are finishing up our unit 1 this week. We will be doing some reviewing tomorrow and Thursday, and taking the TEST ON FRIDAY!!!!! So please make sure your child is at school Friday afternoon for that! Things that you can practice at home would be:
-writing numbers 1-5
-recognizing numbers 1-5
-counting objects 1-5
-drawing a group of objects 1-5
Health
We have started a unit on safety. We started by talking about fire safety and will discuss how to stop, drop, and roll! We will also talk about street safety and how to watch for traffic and safely cross a street!
SCHOOL PICTURES
On Friday morning we will have school pictures. Every student will have his/her picture taken, but if you would like to purchase pictures you need to return the order form WITH money by the time we have our pictures taken on Friday morning!
If you have any question please let me know!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
September 19-23
Oops! Time got away from me this week! Here's what's going on this week:
Literacy
We're starting a theme on colors this week. On Monday we read a story called I Need a Lunchbox. It had many different colored items in it! We are also reading a story called, I Went Walking, will read My Favorite Colors, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. You could be asking your child what colors he/she sees as you go through your day!
Since we have previewed all the letters, we are starting our more intense look at the letters. We are now going out of order! This week's letter is Ss and our alphafriend's name is Sammy Seal. Ask your child to sing Sammy's song and look for s's!
In writing we are talking about how to use shapes to draw pictures. Today we talked about how to draw houses and will be talking about people and other hard to draw things!
Math
As you may have seen we have been doing some dot-to-dots this week, working on connecting the dots in order. We will also be working with our graphs with numbers 6-10 and we will also be drawing pictures of ourselves and graphing those!
Interventions
This week is an intervention week instead of correlated instruction. This is a time when we are grouping kids together by what skills they need to work on. Right now we have two groups: those who need to work on letter identification and those who need to work on letter sounds. The kids are doing a great job switching rooms and playing some fun letter games!
If you have any questions please let me know!
Literacy
We're starting a theme on colors this week. On Monday we read a story called I Need a Lunchbox. It had many different colored items in it! We are also reading a story called, I Went Walking, will read My Favorite Colors, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. You could be asking your child what colors he/she sees as you go through your day!
Since we have previewed all the letters, we are starting our more intense look at the letters. We are now going out of order! This week's letter is Ss and our alphafriend's name is Sammy Seal. Ask your child to sing Sammy's song and look for s's!
In writing we are talking about how to use shapes to draw pictures. Today we talked about how to draw houses and will be talking about people and other hard to draw things!
Math
As you may have seen we have been doing some dot-to-dots this week, working on connecting the dots in order. We will also be working with our graphs with numbers 6-10 and we will also be drawing pictures of ourselves and graphing those!
Interventions
This week is an intervention week instead of correlated instruction. This is a time when we are grouping kids together by what skills they need to work on. Right now we have two groups: those who need to work on letter identification and those who need to work on letter sounds. The kids are doing a great job switching rooms and playing some fun letter games!
If you have any questions please let me know!
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 12-16
What a wonderful weekend full of noise and planes! I hope some of you were able to make over or see some of the airshow from your house! My family and I thought it was pretty awesome! Here's what happening in our classroom this week:
Literacy
We will finish talking briefly about the rest of the letters of the alphabet. The stories this week are a couple different versions of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Talk to your child about what kinds of things they might see in the city as compared to the country.
In writer's workshop we will continue to work on drawing picture stories that are focused on things that have really happened to us.
Math
This week we will continue to look at numbers 1-10. We will be working on writing the numerals 4 and 5. There will be homework on a few of the days, depending on how the lessons go. Your child will now be bringing that homework home in a homework folder so you know when they have something they need to return to school. I hope this helps!
Social Studies
This week we will be talking about American Symbols. Today we talked about the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Bald Eagle, and the White House. See if your child can remember any of these! :-)
CURRICULUM NIGHT!!
Remember that Thursday night, September 15th, is kindergarten curriculum. It is very important you try to make it to this. We will answer a lot of questions about the kindergarten curriculum and hand out our literacy homework bags. I hope to see you all there from 6-7pm!
As always, please email or call if you have any questions!
Literacy
We will finish talking briefly about the rest of the letters of the alphabet. The stories this week are a couple different versions of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Talk to your child about what kinds of things they might see in the city as compared to the country.
In writer's workshop we will continue to work on drawing picture stories that are focused on things that have really happened to us.
Math
This week we will continue to look at numbers 1-10. We will be working on writing the numerals 4 and 5. There will be homework on a few of the days, depending on how the lessons go. Your child will now be bringing that homework home in a homework folder so you know when they have something they need to return to school. I hope this helps!
Social Studies
This week we will be talking about American Symbols. Today we talked about the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Bald Eagle, and the White House. See if your child can remember any of these! :-)
CURRICULUM NIGHT!!
Remember that Thursday night, September 15th, is kindergarten curriculum. It is very important you try to make it to this. We will answer a lot of questions about the kindergarten curriculum and hand out our literacy homework bags. I hope to see you all there from 6-7pm!
As always, please email or call if you have any questions!
Monday, September 5, 2011
September 6-9
I hope everyone had a great Labor day with this wonderful weather!
Last week we had a student teacher, Mrs. Becher, start in our classroom. This week she will begin doing some teaching in literacy. So, here's what will be going on this week:
Literacy
We will continue previewing the alphabet this week focusing on the letters Pp-Tt.
We will be reading a couple stories this week. One will be the Gingerbread Man, the other is called These are My Hands. We will be making a couple class books from these stories to have in our classroom!
In writing we will be learning how to use our writing folders, what to do when we finish a story, a new way to share our stories, and that we need to tell a story through our pictures.
Math
This week we will be looking at numbers 1-10. Showing numbers with manipulatives, graphing numbers to see which is more or less and learning how to write the number 3. If the lessons go as planned we will have homework on Tuesday and Thursday.
Social Studies
We are beginning our social studies unit Me and My Country this week. We will be talking about why we have rules and laws and what the symbols of America are.
Book Order
I will be sending home a book order home tomorrow. Please take time to look it over and return it or order online by Friday. If you have any questions, please let me know!
Last week we had a student teacher, Mrs. Becher, start in our classroom. This week she will begin doing some teaching in literacy. So, here's what will be going on this week:
Literacy
We will continue previewing the alphabet this week focusing on the letters Pp-Tt.
We will be reading a couple stories this week. One will be the Gingerbread Man, the other is called These are My Hands. We will be making a couple class books from these stories to have in our classroom!
In writing we will be learning how to use our writing folders, what to do when we finish a story, a new way to share our stories, and that we need to tell a story through our pictures.
Math
This week we will be looking at numbers 1-10. Showing numbers with manipulatives, graphing numbers to see which is more or less and learning how to write the number 3. If the lessons go as planned we will have homework on Tuesday and Thursday.
Social Studies
We are beginning our social studies unit Me and My Country this week. We will be talking about why we have rules and laws and what the symbols of America are.
Book Order
I will be sending home a book order home tomorrow. Please take time to look it over and return it or order online by Friday. If you have any questions, please let me know!
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