Archive | December 2014

Week of December 15th

Wow! These are the last few days before the break! I am so proud of where the children are thus far!

This definitely a review week!

Please review the sight words: the, can, we, see, will, have, help, it, is in, like, a, go, to, I, because (test when we return from break)

Please review all letters and letter sounds (we are working on inventive spelling and this would help if your child knows all the sounds- most of the kids do).

We are reading many holiday, new year and winter stories! We are creating projects that are content related. You should see items coming home this week!

We are practice counting by 5’s to 100. We will explore and use a calculator. Allow your child to find a calculator on the computer, i-pod, i-pads and even your cell phone! We will be graphing and identify missing numbers from 0-40.

We have been discussing the seasons. We created a diagram to go into our science journal. We focused a lot on season changing from fall to winter. We are discussing hibernation and the types of animals that hibernate. We discussed how the season change is a cycle and it repeats.

We reviewed wants, needs, goods, services and trade. We practiced ways of trading with items as well as money.  We also reviewed concepts such as yesterday, today and tomorrow by recalling things that we did. We also started talking about how we can learn from the past by looking at pictures or asking an older family member.

A couple of reminders:

Wednesday, 17th: book checkout

Thursday, 18th: Class celebration before break. Please send in items in the morning.

Friday, 19th: School Sing Along, Locks of Love event and Family Movie Night.

Last day Friday, December 19th. Return to school January 5th.

Have a great break and holiday!

Ms. Mohamed

Week of December 8th

Literacy Unit: What for Dinner?

Reading: We will be reading: Our Special Sweet Potato Pie. Its about a a town coming together to make a dinner We will also read 2 poems: Crusty corn bread and Crunch! Munch! Thanks a bunch! We will read Grandfather bear is hungry and Little Juan and the cooking pot.  Both stories is about using a recipe to make a meal.

Strategy: Comprehension- retelling, sequencing

Sight word: have, because (we are using “because” a lot in our writing for opinion writing)

Letter of the week: Cc

Writing: We will be writing a recipe together. We will also write about  cold foods we like to eat. We will also write why.

Math: We will revisit addends. We will revisit patterns. We will continue to practice counting. We are now counting and writing 0-40. We will also practice counting by 10’s to 100. We will explore the calculator this week.

 

Social Studies: We will review needs, wants, goods, services and trade.

Reminders:

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

  • LATE START
  • Holiday boutique sale
  • Library check out day

Ms. Mohamed

What an eventful week!

We had such a great week! We had a firefighter visit. We have done so much writing. The children are coming along. We started something called math workshops. so here are the details:

Thanks to Firefighter Jason Pelty and his partner coming to Howard and presenting a wonderful Fire Safety presentation for our Kinders! Below are pics:
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Here are some clips:

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Math workshops: It is centers but with different math activities. Below are pics:

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Great job Kindergarten!

Ms. Mohamed

 

 

Welcome back!

Hopefully everyone had a restful break!

The new unit is All about food

We will be reading Annie’s Apple Farm. It is about a girl that is a farmer and she does multiple things with apples. We will be discussing verbs and sequencing the story. We will also read a story called Strawberry Salad. It is about how to make a strawberry salad. We will also read The goat in the chile patch and Pizza Please. Again, all these stories are about food.

Letter of the week: Nn

Sight word: to

Writing: We will be writing sentences with our sight words. We will also  choose our favorite part and write about it. This will guide our opinion writing. We need to write about  our opinions and why.

Math: We will practice writing number 0-30. We will create a favorite color graph. We will explore number lines. We will revisit shapes and discuss how 2 small shapes can make 1 big different shape.

Social Studies: We will review needs and wants. We will discuss and identify goods and services.  We will listen to stories, watch a video and work on a sort. A good is a item you purchase or receive and physically take home with you. A service is a person providing some type of labor.

examples of goods are: books, tv, toys, cake etc.

examples of services: barber, plumber, cashier, teacher etc.

Couple of reminders….

Gleaners food drive is this week

Wednesday- library check out day

Homework was due yesterday . If your child did not turn it in, then please do so as soon as possible. I sent a new reading log home.

Ms. Mohamed