This week in:
Reading Workshop-We will learn that super readers talk about books, too! Students will learn and practice introducing their book to their partners before they read.
Writer's Workshop-We are practicing and producing personal narratives as well as doing a little non-fiction writing about native americans and pilgrims.
Math Workshop-We are practicing using all our addition strategies and working on becoming fluent with our 0-5 addition facts.
Concepts-We had so much fun learning about life long ago with Native Americans last week! This week we will learn about the Pilgrims. We are looking forward to our class skit on Tuesday, November 20th at 9:00. We are changing the location from the cafeteria to our classroom. Please practice your child's lines with them at home. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you all! :)
Reminders
*Thanksgiving skit November 20th at 9:00in our classroom.
*No school November 21-23. Happy Thanksgiving!
*Reminder to send in a new or slightly used plain white shirt for your child to paint for reindeer week by Monday, November 26th.
*Gingerbread Play (you do not want to miss this!) Friday, December 14th at 8:30 in the cafeteria.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Friday, November 2, 2018
Native Americans!
This week in:
Reader's Workshop-We are working on our reading fluency by paying attention to bold print, punctuation, using the patterns in the book, and trying to sing our books. We even act out the characters emotions to bring our books to life!
Writer's Workshop-Our 5th grade buddies in Mrs. Church's class are coming next week to listen to us read our published personal narratives! We are so excited to show off all our hard work!
Math Workshop-We are continuing to practice addition by learning new strategies to make us more fluent with our facts. The class has learned how to add plus 0's, plus 1's, doubles, doubles plus 1, number lines, ten frames, the 100's chart, word problems, drawing, counting on, and fast 9's! whew! We are soooo busy in kindergarten!
Concepts-We will learn about Native Americans and life long ago. We will have a short Thanksgiving skit on Tuesday, November 20th at 9:00. More information to come home soon!
Reminders
*No school Tuesday, November 6th for election day
*Thanksgiving skit at 9:00
*No school November 21st -23rd for Thanksgiving holiday
*Gingerbread play Friday, November 14th at 8:30
*1/2 day of school Friday, December 21st. Dismissal at 11:00.
Reader's Workshop-We are working on our reading fluency by paying attention to bold print, punctuation, using the patterns in the book, and trying to sing our books. We even act out the characters emotions to bring our books to life!
Writer's Workshop-Our 5th grade buddies in Mrs. Church's class are coming next week to listen to us read our published personal narratives! We are so excited to show off all our hard work!
Math Workshop-We are continuing to practice addition by learning new strategies to make us more fluent with our facts. The class has learned how to add plus 0's, plus 1's, doubles, doubles plus 1, number lines, ten frames, the 100's chart, word problems, drawing, counting on, and fast 9's! whew! We are soooo busy in kindergarten!
Concepts-We will learn about Native Americans and life long ago. We will have a short Thanksgiving skit on Tuesday, November 20th at 9:00. More information to come home soon!
Reminders
*No school Tuesday, November 6th for election day
*Thanksgiving skit at 9:00
*No school November 21st -23rd for Thanksgiving holiday
*Gingerbread play Friday, November 14th at 8:30
*1/2 day of school Friday, December 21st. Dismissal at 11:00.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Bats!
This week in:
Reader's Workshop-We are working on using our voices to bring books to life by using the pattern to sing out books, using punctuation to figure out HOW to read, & changing their voices to show they understand the book.
Writer's Workshop-We are using rubrics to self assess our writing. We will begin our new genre of writing Information writing in January.
Math Workshop-We are continuing to learn new strategies to make us fluent with our addition facts. We have been working on plus zero, plus one, using counters, drawing pictures, and doubles. This week we will begin learning how to use a number line to help up add.
Concepts- We will study bats! We will learn words like mammal nocturnal, echolocation, and more!
Reminders
*The 50th day of school is this Friday! We will celebrate by dressing up like girls and boys from the 50's and doing a lot of fun activities with the number 50. :) We can't wait to see everyone!
Reader's Workshop-We are working on using our voices to bring books to life by using the pattern to sing out books, using punctuation to figure out HOW to read, & changing their voices to show they understand the book.
Writer's Workshop-We are using rubrics to self assess our writing. We will begin our new genre of writing Information writing in January.
Math Workshop-We are continuing to learn new strategies to make us fluent with our addition facts. We have been working on plus zero, plus one, using counters, drawing pictures, and doubles. This week we will begin learning how to use a number line to help up add.
Concepts- We will study bats! We will learn words like mammal nocturnal, echolocation, and more!
Reminders
*The 50th day of school is this Friday! We will celebrate by dressing up like girls and boys from the 50's and doing a lot of fun activities with the number 50. :) We can't wait to see everyone!
Friday, October 19, 2018
Spiders!
This week in:
Readers Workshop- We are combining our reading powers and learning to use the first sound of a word to help you read a tricky word.
Writers Workshop-We are working on self assessing our own writing by using a rubric. We will begin publishing soon!
Concepts-We will continue to be scientist and study spiders next week!
Math Workshop-We are beginning addition and the kids are loving it! We will begin with plus zero and plus one. We have been working on learning our doubles up to 5 and will begin learning our doubles to 10 soon. If you have an opportunity ask your child their doubles facts!
Reminders
*No school on Monday, October 22nd. It is a teacher workday.
*Our storybook carnival will be this Friday, October 31st. Please go ahead and send in your child's book that they will be dressing up as. Please put your child's name in the book. This will be a super fun day for our kindergartners! :)
*Report Cards will go home on October 31st. Please keep the report card but sign the envelope and send it back to school. :)
*A zero on the report card indicates that standard has not been assessed at this time. :) There will be a rubric on the report card for the number evaluation of 1, 2, or 3. :)
*Due to the hurricane day our 50th day celebration has been moved to Friday, November 2nd. Your child may dress up from the 50's error on this day.
*November the 5th we will have a special guest Kate the Chemist
*No school on Tuesday, November 6th for election day
*We still need help filling up our sign up genius for our storybook carnival. Below is the link:
http://signup.com/go/rRBrdFF
*If you have not signed up for a conference I would love the opportunity to share all the wonderful things your monkey is doing. :) If the dates and times do not work for you please let me know. :)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4ca5aa29a1fe3-conferences1
Readers Workshop- We are combining our reading powers and learning to use the first sound of a word to help you read a tricky word.
Writers Workshop-We are working on self assessing our own writing by using a rubric. We will begin publishing soon!
Concepts-We will continue to be scientist and study spiders next week!
Math Workshop-We are beginning addition and the kids are loving it! We will begin with plus zero and plus one. We have been working on learning our doubles up to 5 and will begin learning our doubles to 10 soon. If you have an opportunity ask your child their doubles facts!
Reminders
*No school on Monday, October 22nd. It is a teacher workday.
*Our storybook carnival will be this Friday, October 31st. Please go ahead and send in your child's book that they will be dressing up as. Please put your child's name in the book. This will be a super fun day for our kindergartners! :)
*Report Cards will go home on October 31st. Please keep the report card but sign the envelope and send it back to school. :)
*A zero on the report card indicates that standard has not been assessed at this time. :) There will be a rubric on the report card for the number evaluation of 1, 2, or 3. :)
*Due to the hurricane day our 50th day celebration has been moved to Friday, November 2nd. Your child may dress up from the 50's error on this day.
*November the 5th we will have a special guest Kate the Chemist
*No school on Tuesday, November 6th for election day
*We still need help filling up our sign up genius for our storybook carnival. Below is the link:
http://signup.com/go/rRBrdFF
*If you have not signed up for a conference I would love the opportunity to share all the wonderful things your monkey is doing. :) If the dates and times do not work for you please let me know. :)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4ca5aa29a1fe3-conferences1
Friday, October 12, 2018
Pumpkins!
This week in:
Reader's Workshop-We will practice our pointer power and our partner power to make us even stronger readers!
Writer's Workshop-We will begin to learn how to use a rubric to self assess our writing/personal narratives.
Math Workshop-We will continue to learn about place value.
Concepts- We will continue being scientists this week and study pumpkins!
Reminders
* Conferences start this week
*Our first field trip is Wednesday, October 17th. Please wear your class shirt that was sent home earlier in the year and pack a lunch with a drink. Please pack their lunch in a disposable bag with a disposable drink so they do not have to keep us with lunch boxes. Please write your child's first and last name and my name on the lunch bag. Please dress your child appropriately for the weather we will be outside all day.
*Our first weather make up date is Friday, October 19th. We will have school on this day.
*No school for students on Monday, October 22nd. Teacher workday.
*Kindergarten will have their story book carnival on Friday, October 26th. Students are asked to dress up as their favorite storybook character on that day.
Reader's Workshop-We will practice our pointer power and our partner power to make us even stronger readers!
Writer's Workshop-We will begin to learn how to use a rubric to self assess our writing/personal narratives.
Math Workshop-We will continue to learn about place value.
Concepts- We will continue being scientists this week and study pumpkins!
Reminders
* Conferences start this week
*Our first field trip is Wednesday, October 17th. Please wear your class shirt that was sent home earlier in the year and pack a lunch with a drink. Please pack their lunch in a disposable bag with a disposable drink so they do not have to keep us with lunch boxes. Please write your child's first and last name and my name on the lunch bag. Please dress your child appropriately for the weather we will be outside all day.
*Our first weather make up date is Friday, October 19th. We will have school on this day.
*No school for students on Monday, October 22nd. Teacher workday.
*Kindergarten will have their story book carnival on Friday, October 26th. Students are asked to dress up as their favorite storybook character on that day.
Friday, October 5, 2018
Dinosaur Week!
This week in:
Readers Workshop: We are learning about our reading powers. This week we will talk about our pointer power. We will practice touching each word, the number of words on the page are the number of taps, even long words only get one tap, and using our sight words to help us keep track!
Writer's Workshop: We are making books! We are so proud and excited! The students are writing personal narratives (stories that really happened to them) We are learning to make our writing come alive by adding labels and speech bubbles!
Math Workshop: We are working on place value. We are learning about the tens place and the ones place. We are learning about rods and units and how to count them!
Concepts: We are going to be scientist (paleontologists) this week and study dinosaurs! We will make hypothesis, do research, observe fossils, make fossils, make a volcano, and so much more! Lots of great science vocabulary this week! Thank you so much for sending in special items so we can make learning fun and engaging for your little monkey!
Reminders
*We are doing awesome in the Read-A-Thon! Keep reading and logging in each night. :)
*Library check out on Wednesday. :)
Readers Workshop: We are learning about our reading powers. This week we will talk about our pointer power. We will practice touching each word, the number of words on the page are the number of taps, even long words only get one tap, and using our sight words to help us keep track!
Writer's Workshop: We are making books! We are so proud and excited! The students are writing personal narratives (stories that really happened to them) We are learning to make our writing come alive by adding labels and speech bubbles!
Math Workshop: We are working on place value. We are learning about the tens place and the ones place. We are learning about rods and units and how to count them!
Concepts: We are going to be scientist (paleontologists) this week and study dinosaurs! We will make hypothesis, do research, observe fossils, make fossils, make a volcano, and so much more! Lots of great science vocabulary this week! Thank you so much for sending in special items so we can make learning fun and engaging for your little monkey!
Reminders
*We are doing awesome in the Read-A-Thon! Keep reading and logging in each night. :)
*Library check out on Wednesday. :)
Friday, September 28, 2018
Fall
This week in:
Readers Workshop- We will reread books and notice the characters expressions and body language to help us read like the character and make reading come alive! We will also pay close attention to the print and look for bold print, exclamation marks, ellipses, etc... to help us become better readers and comprehend the story.
Writers Workshop- We will continue to learn how to write a personal narrative (A story that really happened to us).
Math Workshop-We will begin learning about place value.
Concepts-We will study the season of fall by reading non-fiction books and discussing weather.
Reminders
*Monday we will go to an assembly to learn about Read-A-Thon. Information is coming home Friday and Monday.
*Tuesday wear your favorite sports team for Read-A-Thon.
*Wednesday wear pajamas to school! You may bring slippers to change into but please wear regular shoes to school. You may also bring in a stuffed animal as along as it fits in your bookbag. :)
*Wednesday is library check out day. Return your books please. :)
*Thursday is picture day and crazy socks day for Read-A-Thon.
*Friday is hat day for Read-A-Thon.
Readers Workshop- We will reread books and notice the characters expressions and body language to help us read like the character and make reading come alive! We will also pay close attention to the print and look for bold print, exclamation marks, ellipses, etc... to help us become better readers and comprehend the story.
Writers Workshop- We will continue to learn how to write a personal narrative (A story that really happened to us).
Math Workshop-We will begin learning about place value.
Concepts-We will study the season of fall by reading non-fiction books and discussing weather.
Reminders
*Monday we will go to an assembly to learn about Read-A-Thon. Information is coming home Friday and Monday.
*Tuesday wear your favorite sports team for Read-A-Thon.
*Wednesday wear pajamas to school! You may bring slippers to change into but please wear regular shoes to school. You may also bring in a stuffed animal as along as it fits in your bookbag. :)
*Wednesday is library check out day. Return your books please. :)
*Thursday is picture day and crazy socks day for Read-A-Thon.
*Friday is hat day for Read-A-Thon.
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