Adventures in Kindergarten

Friday, February 8, 2019 No comments

We had so much fun on Global School Play Day! Though we didn't do any academic learning, we learned lots of things through play. We practiced our cooperation skills, problem solving, what to do when we are bored, creativity skills and many more. I was so impressed with how well they handled the no tech day. We had media and they played in there too! By the end of the day, we had been so active that all of us (including me) were tired. I bet the slept well on Wednesday night!

Thank you to all who donated to our classroom basket! It turned out really cute! Tomorrow is the BEU circus. We hope to see all of you there! This is a great event and a wonderful fundraiser for our school.

Here are our learning objectives for the week:

Reading: Non-Fiction text features, retelling facts, fluency with uppercase and lowercase alphabet

Writing: Writing non-fiction books to teach about what we are experts on

Math: Understanding the equals symbol, number recognition fluency particularly the teens

Fundations: segmenting and blending three letter words

Social Skills: Being respectful to others and property

Our Week in Pictures

We had Mrs. Wright's hair salon. Don't worry moms we didn't share brushes and I used water! :)

These kiddos were going into the wilderness.

We had open art and they loved it!

By the end of the day we all needed a rest!

We played a game to help us recognize teen numbers and compare quantities.

Career day was a success! I didn't even get a picture of everyone that was dressed up!

Let's all cross our fingers for good weather! I want to see our kiddos every day next week!!!

Things to remember:

Saturday, February 9 - BEU Circus
Friday, February 15 - No School Teacher Work Day
Monday, February 18 - No School Presidents Day
Friday, February 22 - Progress reports come home
Monday, February 25 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Thursday, February 28 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday, March 1 - No School

My how we've aged!

Friday, February 1, 2019 No comments

We had a super fun day celebrating the 100th day of school. We did lots of fun activities surrounding the number 100. We made hats with 100 things on them and we made necklaces with 100 fruit loops. But the most fun of all was having Mrs. Wrong come to teach that day! No one was quite sure what to make of 100 year old Mrs. Wrong. :)

There will be no reading bags this week. In our reading groups, we've focused heavily on skills the past couple of weeks. Once we get through a week with no late start or snow day we will be able to get both skills and books into a week!

On February 14 we will be passing out valentines. This is a great way for kids to practice writing and reading each others names. Everyone enjoys being the mailman and passing them out. In the Friday folder, you will find a list of kids names. It might be a good idea to have your child fill them out a few each night until then as to not overwhelm him/her. We will make valentine bags here so you won't need to make a box at home.

Next Wednesday is Global School play day. This will be an awesome experience for our kiddos. We will play the whole day! The only catch is that there are no electronic toys. your child may bring a game or toy from home as long as it isn't electronic and it isn't a weapon type toy. I am so excited to enjoy the day with our kids!

Here are this week's objectives:

Reading: Cross checking the picture and the word, learning the sight word can, tapping to read

Writing: Tapping to spell, looking at non-fiction books to see how they are different from fiction. Next week we will begin writing our own non-fiction books.

Math: Solving story problems and showing how you know on paper.

Fundations: segmenting and blending words, (we call this tapping because we tap our fingers for each sound)

Our week in pictures

PTA came to tell us about the Circus on February 9. We hope you can come!

These friends won 5 flash bucks!

Trying out our new "classroom" literacy center

Learning about first grade's service learning project. They are collecting pull tabs for Ronald McDonald House. Thank you to everyone who sent them in already!