Color Week!

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will be studying colors. Each day we will wear the colors we are studying. Monday is yellow and purple. Tuesday is brown and pink. Wednesday orange and brown. Thursday red and blue. Friday black and white. You do not have to wear both colors. :) Have fun this weekend looking around your house for color items to send in to school on Monday. You should have received a letter and a gallon ziplock bag to send items in. These items will be displayed in our room for the school year.

Daily 5 Reading-We are still working on building our reading stamina! We have made it up to 8 minutes as a class! Wow! Last week we read the book The Three Bears and learned how to pick good books for us! We also watched a clip from Cinderella that showed the ugly step sister trying to fit into the glass slipper. It looked painful. We discussed the importance of picking just right books. This week we will learn how to read to someone and disscuss EEKK. Elbow to elbow. Knee to knee. Please read every night with your child. Just right books will come home in September.

Daily 5 Math-We are continuing our study on Counting and Carnality working on numbers 1-10. The boys are girls are thinking of numbers deeply and representing numbers in different ways for example: 2 could be the word two, 2 tally marks, the word an (because it's 2 letters), February (because it's the 2nd month), etc...

Writers Workshop-Wow! We are so impressed with the children! We are learning to get our ideas on paper. The boys and girls are starting to write sentences using their sounds in motion. Writer's Workshop is an exciting time in our classroom!

We had so much fun walking to school as a class! We will have the walking school bus every Friday unless it rains.

Our sunny students! 

Charlie working hard in his math journal! 

What does a monkey have for snack on yellow day? Bananas of course! 

Looking royal in purple! 

William had fun with his yellow snack! He is a monkey! 

Sally is doing a great job reading and highlighting her one poem! 

What a cute queen of the jungle! 

Mr. Johnson came to read to us! 

We have a secret monkey handshake! This is not easy and it takes a lot of brain power!

Sounds in Motion!

All About Me!

This week in:

Daily 5 Reading- We are continuing to build our reading stamina! We are up to 4 minutes as a class! This week we will also learn how to pick good fit books for ourself! Please read to or with your child every night. Reading bags will start coming home in September. :)

Daily 5 Math-We are having so much fun in math! The students learned last week how to correctly form the numbers 1 and 2. They also can spell one and two! This week we will learn how to correctly form and spell numbers 3, 4, & 5. Ask you child how to spell these numbers!

Writers Workshop-We are all writers! We are still learning how to think of an idea and get it on paper. Please encourage your child to write for you at home. I am so proud of them!

Concepts/Shared Reading-This week we are studying All About Me!We will read lots of great books and discuss. We will learn lots of new things about our friends! Please look for a letter to come home on Monday about your child's All About Me bag due on Thursday. :)

Sounds in Motion-We have learned how to identify and make the sound for the letters: Aa, Bb, Pp, Mm, Kk, Gg, Ii, and Ww. This week we will learn to identify and make the sounds for Hh, Oo, Ff, Vv, Tt, Dd, Nn, Ss, Zz, and Th. Please ask your child to do sounds in motion for you! Here are some words they can now spell with sounds in motion: cab, gab, pam, map, wig, pig, gig, big, cap, bag, wag....

Reminders
*Friday is our first walking school bus! We will meet at 7:10 on Market Street in front of the park. We will begin walking at 7:15. You may drop your child off when you see me, Mrs. Hunt, or Mrs. Blum or you are welcome to walk with us!
*All About Me bags are due Thursday. Look for a letter with instructions to go home on Monday in your child's folder.
*Family Recess Night hosted by the PTO this Friday at the school from 5:30-7. Mrs. McMillan will be there! :)
*If you have not sent in your child's extra white one inch 3 ring binder with a clear plastic sleeve on the front please do so as soon as possible. Thank you for making our classroom great!

Our First Week of Kindergarten! Hooray!

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts: We will be talking about the Orchard Park PRIDE matrix. P stands for personal best, R stands respect, I stands for integrity, D stands for dependability, and E stands for encouragement. Each day we will discuss a character trait.

Writer's Workshop: We are learning how to come up with ideas and get those ideas onto paper.

Daily 5 Reading:We are learning that there are 3 ways to read: Read the pictures, Read the words, and Retell the story. We are learning how to read to self. Please check out the video of us reading to self. While we are reading to self we are working on our class reading stamina and graphing it!

Daily 5 Math:We are adding number poems to our poetry notebook

Reminders
*If you have not sent in your framed 4x6 photo of your family please send that in as soon as possible.
*You should have received an email from me/shutterfly inviting you to our class shutterfly page. If you did not receive this email please email me at mcmillane@fortmillschools.org and I will add you or the correct email to that page.
*We have a few classroom wishes if anyone is out and would like to send these items in we would appreciate it!
-wooden clothespins
-large bag of skittles
-large bag of m&m's
-googly eyes
-large kitchen size trash can with flip lid
-silver 4x6 picture frame plain
-fat glue gun sticks

Here the monkeys are listening to Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Rhodes talk about PRIDE.

Our first day of kindergarten! We had so much fun!

Math with Someone!

Grandma came to teach writing during writers workshop! We were really engaged!

Sally working hard on her number poem!

A little yoga to help us focus and relax.