Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter J and the letter Q. Only 6 more letters to go! For writing this week we wrote about our star student, Louisa. We also wrote about our new class pet! While writing, we check for a capital letter at the beginning and punctuation at the end.
Math: We continued with our math centers and spent some time talking about how to use number lines in order to help us find the missing number.
Here are a few pictures of us at work during math centers:
Science: For weather, we continue to talk about what the weather is each day. Next week we will be doing science experiment rotations throughout all the kindergarten classrooms. They will get to make a cloud, shadows, a raining cloud, and dress for the seasons in each different room. We will finish up our weather unit on Tuesday by watching “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”!
Other: Meet Lulu & Tiny – our new classroom pets! We have some hermit crabs in our room now that we get to observe daily and occasionally let out of their cage to roam around on the carpet. 🙂 We learned some facts about hermit crabs, and wrote about hermit crabs this week!
Thanksgiving feast- We will be having our Thanksgiving feast on Tuesday, thank you everyone for donating!! As a reminder, this is for students only, no parents.
Upcoming Events:
November 21st- Up, Up, and Away Assembly
November 22nd-26th- NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
Tomorrow marks our 50th day of school in kindergarten!! It is going by fast, and we have grown so much since the beginning of the year! Just for a fun celebration, your child may come to school wearing a hat.
On another note: parents can not attend our Thanksgiving feast. I know you all want to, but this is a time for us to be together as a class. 🙂 Thanks for your understanding!
A note and permission slip were sent home about our Thanksgiving feast – if you are interested in bringing in a food item, please sign up by clicking here.
REMINDER: We have book fair tomorrow – if your child plans on buying something please send their money in a baggie with their name AND how much money is in it and place it in their green folder. Thanks!
Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter I and the letter R. Only a few more letters to go! For writing this week we wrote about our star student. Each week we will make a book about our star student for them to take home on Friday to keep and read with their families.
Also, we read a few Thanksgiving books, then we made Turkey Tracks as we learned some fun facts about Turkeys!
Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 19 and 20.. We practiced some more with addition to five.
Here are our math centers for the month of November:
Counting with “Top the Pie!”
Counting with “Count the Room” (I tape pictures of Thanksgiving related items around the room and they take a recording sheet and walk around to count the images!)
Filling in Missing Numbers with “Caterpillar Counting”
Making 5 with “Flower Petal Addition”
Counting with Tally Marks using clip cards
Science: For weather, we read a few non-fiction texts about weather and spent some time talking about the different types of weather that there can be. They kids were fascinated to learn that tornadoes can spin up to 200 mph. 🙂
Other: We now have big buddies! We have teamed up with Miss Vuichard’s 3rd/4th grade class to do big buddies. We will meet with them on Friday’s to practice reading and do some fun activities! This week they met and interviewed each other. Ask your child about their big buddy!
Book Bags:
Book Bags will be sent home on Monday. There is a note in the bag outlining how these will work. Just to reiterate, these bags come home and come back to school every single day. We use these during small group instruction. Please read these books at home with your child, and have them work on reading independently. We are working on one-to-one finger pointing. This mean that they should be pointing to each word as they read it.
Upcoming Events:
November 14th– Book Fair!
November 15th- Late Start – arrival is at 9:35
November 15th– Parent Teacher Conference Day (4-7pm).
November 16th– Parent Teacher Conference Day (4-7pm).
November 16th- Sight Word Test over List 2
November 17th- NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten only!
November 21st- Up, Up, and Away Assembly
November 22nd-26th- NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
It has been a crazy week – We had 9 kids missing on Thursday. Our room has been hit hard with an assortment of illnesses. Be sure to wash those hands and stay healthy! We will be back in the groove next week. 🙂
Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter H and the letter S. For writing this week we wrote about what we were going to be for Halloween, what we were most excited for for our party, and what our favorite candy was that we got from trick-or-treating!
We also worked on recognizing syllables, and practiced with our names!
We took our test on sight word list one – these came home in your child’s green folder. The highlighted words were the ones that your child did not know. Keep practicing these at home, these are words they will be seeing in their books starting in a few weeks! The next sight word test, which is over list 2 will be Thursday, November 16th. In case you lost the list, you can access it below.
Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 17 and 18 and we started simple addition. We worked on making five. We put 5 counters in a cup, shook them, and dumped them out to see what gave us 5! Below is a chart we made together.
Math centers will be back next week when we have more time!
Science: We have moved on to weather – this week we talked about what weather is and what weather watchers do!
Other: We had a blast on Halloween! During our Halloween party, we….
Made a ghost craft
Made monsters
Decorated and ate sugar cookies
Decorated our trick-or-treat bags
The PTA calendar stated that there is no school on November 10, but there IS school on the 10th. There is NO school on November 17th. Also, our book fair time has been changed. Our book fair time is now Tuesday November 14th, at 9:00am.
Field Trip money is due Monday November 6th!!
STAR Student:We have officially launched STAR STUDENT of the week in Kindergarten! Each Friday, I will choose one child to be selected for star student. That child will come home with an ALL ABOUT ME poster to be completed over the weekend and returned Monday morning. All week we will talk about the star student, look at his/her poster and also write about that student in class. At the end of the week, the star student will come home with a published book to keep and read with the family! Star student is a great way to highlight all of the amazing kids we have here in Kindergarten! It’s a feel good activity and makes the kids really excited about writing and learning new things about their friends! Be as creative as you want with the Star student poster. Add pictures, drawings, crafts, stickers, objects to the board…there is no wrong answer! If you have any questions about the Star Student Poster, please feel free to email me at any time!
Upcoming Events:
11/6 Field trip money and permission slip due! We cannot take this late!
11/6 School Shirt Order Due
11/7 NO SCHOOL! Election Day
11/9 Parent Teacher Conference Day
11/10 Picture Re-take Day
11/14 Scholastic book fair at school (Family night 15th and 16th)
Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter G and the letter T. We practiced spelling words with these letters, and stretching out the other sounds too. In addition, we continue to grow with our writing. This week we wrote about monsters and things we can do! Check out some of our work below!
Our test over LIST ONE for the sight word list is next week. Your child should be able to read all of the words.
Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 15 and 16 and we continued working with 3D shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism and cone)!
For our math centers we…
Played shape bingo, made and counted monsters with eyes, sorted 2D and 3D shapes, and practiced counting ‘how many?’ with different fall pictures.
Science: We have been learning about push and pull and tested our knowledge on Friday! With a new month comes new science – we will be moving onto weather next week!
Social Studies: As always, we are working on being good friends. Next month we will begin to learn about needs and wants.
Other: We had indoor recess on Monday, which meant puppet time!
A note was sent home about our next field trip! Yes, time is flying by! The permission form and money is due by NOVEMBER 6TH. Please give EXACT change, I do not have time to be counting out the change – thank you!!
Halloween:
A note was sent home about information regarding Halloween next week. A few reminders
No candy with peanuts or milk – instead candies like starbursts, sweet tarts, nerds, etc. can be brought in to pass out. We have 23 kids! Otherwise you can send in non-edible treats.
No weapons, masks, or any other accessories
Make sure your child can get in and out of their costume!
The parade is at 2:30pm
Upcoming Events:
October 31st- Halloween Parade at 2:30 p.m.
November 1st– Parent Teacher Conference Reminders will be sent home! Be on the look out for your day and time!
November 3rd– Sight word test: List ONE!
November 3rd– ½ day for students
November 7th– NO SCHOOL!
November 9th– Parent Teacher Conference Day (4-7pm).
Make sure your child has their library book with them tomorrow in order for them to get a new one! A couple of them did not get to check out last week, but will this week. 🙂
Hello – just a heads up – an important note about Halloween will be coming home today! Please read it so you are aware of how the day will run. Thank you!
Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter F and the letter U. These are the letters we have learned thus far: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff and Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy and Zz. Make sure to focus on these letters at home to observe if your child has mastered each letter that was taught in class. Also, please make sure to go over LIST ONE for the sight word list; make it a part of their homework routine. We also have started writing some sentences! This week we wrote what kind of food we like. We spelled “I like” together, and they stretched out the food on their own. We are all in different stages of inventive writing – check out some of work below!
“I like pepperoni pizza”
“I like french fries” (We hear the prominent consonant sounds here!)
“I like chicken nuggets.”
Today, we practiced our sight words with a game called “Whack-a-word!” Some students LOVED it and requested that they be able to play at home. For the game, there are whack-a-word mats, and a PowerPoint that has a timer with a sight word. Your child must ‘whack’ the sight word before the timer runs out! If your child is interested in playing the game, send me an e-mail and I can send you the materials that are needed. 🙂
Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 13 and 14 and we learned what 3D shapes are (cube, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism and cone)! We had fun with 2D and 3D shape Bingo in preparation for next week’s positive behavior party!
Science: We have been learning about push and pull and we did an experiment with magnets! The kids loved seeing the magnets push and pull. Try it out at home again. 🙂
Social Studies: We are still working on how to get along with others by using the words like, “please,” “thank you” and using words to express their feelings.
Halloween:
Halloween is right around the corner and what an exciting time it is for our Kindergartners! The costume parade will start promptly at 2:30p.m. The students will walk around the school in their costumes; this is a great time to bring a camera and snap some pictures of the cute costumes! Mr. Short has outlined the parade details on his blog post. Here is where you can get the information.
As for costumes, I ask that you do not put your child in a costume they don’t know how to get out of. Please practice, practice, practice with your child how to properly take off and put on their costume to ensure no accidents will happen in the classroom. Of course, we will do the best we can to help the students, but sometimes we can’t get to the student fast enough, etc. We also ask that you do not dress your child in scary costumes, bring any weapons and or masks. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter!
Also, if you would like to bring in one bag of wrapped candy or non editble treats for your child to pass out to his/her friends, that is welcomed as well! We have 23 friends in the classroom! I just ask all candy is gelatin free (NO pork products)! With our celebration fund money we were able to purchase fun games for the kids to play during our halloween centers and also yummy treats for the kids to enjoy (yum, yum)! Again, thank you for your donation to our fund! I will make sure to post pictures on our blog of the day!
Housekeeping items:
We have library on Friday – a library book should have come home in your child’s backpack. This needs to come back by next Friday so we can return them and check out a new book. 🙂
WEDNESDAYS we have a special until 3:25 – this is why we are always running behind. My apologies! We try to leave and get to dismissal as fast as possible, we appreciate your patience on those days!
Upcoming Events:
October 24th– PBIS school wide bingo! The students who have earned green this month, will participate in a fun game of bingo!
October 26th- Pumpkin Patch pick up (Thank you PTA)!
October 27th- Savory Fundraising order form due today!
October 31st- Halloween Parade at 2:30 p.m.
November 1st– Parent Teacher Conference Reminders will be sent home! Be on the look out for your day and time!
November 3rd– Sight word test~ List ONE!
November 7th– NO SCHOOL!
November 9th– Parent Teacher Conference Day (4-7pm).
