We did an interactive math lesson on-line with a pan-balance. The kids loved it! Please refer to this link if you would like to play it on the computer at home. https://illuminations.nctm.org. I have included the math site on my links at the right side under links on my Blog. Go to interactives and under the search location type in pan balance shapes and this activity will come up. Enjoy!
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Monday, December 3 – Math Homework packets
Wednesday, December 5 – PBIS (Positive Behavior Assembly) – all’s students who were on green and had 0-6 yellows for the month of November will be recognized at the assembly. Students of the month – Ali Mazraani, Alissar Ashkar.
Friday, December 7 – Library check-in and check-out.
Wednesday, December 12 – Late start
Friday, December 14 – No school for Kindergarten only.
Thursday, December 20 – Holiday classroom party. The party will be in the afternoon. I will post the time next week and will be sending the donation list home to those on the schedule later. We will be in need of a few volunteers. If anyone is available to help out, please let me know.
Holiday break – No school – December 24- January 4. Students return back to school, Monday, January 7.
Peek at the Week:
Letters of the Week – Ww and Xx
Sight words – come (Come and see my house.) and (I like apples and oranges.)
Math – Measurement – comparing lengths of different objects with linking cubes. Comparing weights of different objects using the pan balance.
Social Studies – Learning about goods and services. A person provides a service (teacher, doctor, farmer) and we purchase goods such as; groceries, books, CD’s).
Writing – New informational unit on reindeer. We finished up on our transportation unit and students did a great job writing about where they can go on a plane, boat or in a car. Students have also been practicing writing a sentence or more with sight words we learn for the week on the back of their morning work. We are really working hard to write the sounds we hear in words and forming sentences.
Literacy/Daily Five – Fiction stories on reindeers. Retelling with a beginning, middle and end. Non-fiction text on reindeer – understanding key details, text features.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Polgar
Back to school on Monday, November 26. I hope everyone had a restful and fun break.
Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, November 28 – Pictures retakes on Wednesday. Library check-in and check-out this week only on Wednesday.
Peek at the Week:
Homework packets/Math – new unit on measurement.
Letters of the Week – Qq (queen, quiet) Vv (violin, vacuum)
Sight Words – play (Sentence to practice – I like to play ball. I like to play soccer.)
Math – new unit on measurement. Comparing lengths using taller than and shorter than with aligned and non-aligned endpoints. Comparing lengths with various objects.
Social Studies – Learning about needs and wants. Comparing needs and wants – what do we need to survive vs. what we want.
Writing – Informational unit on transportation. Learning about different modes of transportation and how we get to places near and far.
Literacy/Daily Five – Learning CVC words – identifying the middle vowel sound in a consonant-vowel-consonant word. Writing and spelling CVC words. Reviewing vowel sounds – Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu. Reading comprehension – understanding informational text – finding key details, main topic, interesting facts.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
We only have school on Monday, November 19 and on Tuesday, November 20 this week. There is no school on Wednesday through Friday. Students return to school on Monday, November 26.
No homework this week. We will begin new units in curriculum when we return from Thanksgiving break. We will be reviewing this week in school.
Thank you for attending parent teacher conferences and thank you for your continued support at home. When we partner together we make a difference in your child’s education.
Don’t forget boots and winter gear for school. Please have your child practice zipping their coats at home, so they can start zipping their coat on their own. It helps at the end of the day and allows for smoother transitions going home.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Tuesday, November 13 – Parent-Teacher Conferences after school 4-7 p.m.
Thursday, November 15 – Parent-Teacher Conferences after school 4-7 p.m.
Friday, November 16 – Library check-in and check-out
Wednesday, November 21 – Friday, November 23 – No school. Thanksgiving Break.
Peek at the Week:
Letters of the Week – Rr (run, rat, rip) Ee ( elephant, eat, end) Sight words – it, is.
Writing – we will start a unit on informational writing on turkeys. Writing facts that we learn from non-fiction text.
Literacy/Daily Five – Reading comprehension – learning to make text-connections. How do you connect with the text? Does the story remind you of anything? Reading strategies – reviewing beginning sounds and ending sounds in words. Stretching sounds and practicing writing the sounds we hear.
Math – Last week we learned about 2D shapes-flat shapes such as; a triangle, rectangle, square, hexagon and a circle. This week we will take a look at 3D Solid shapes such as; cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism and sphere. We will describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using vocabulary – above, below, beside, in front of, behind and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Analyze and compare two and three dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts.
Science – Weather unit – study of seasons. We will finish are drawings of the four seasons and attributes of each season.
As the cold weather approaches us, please remember to have your child dress warm. If your child is wearing boots to school don’t forget their shoes to wear during the day.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Monday, November 5 – Math homework packets will go home and will be due on Monday, November 12.
Tuesday, November 6 – No school. Election day.
Thursday, November 8 – Parent-Teacher conferences start after school. Reminders will go out this week with scheduled conference times.
Friday, November 9 – Library book check-in and check-out.
Peek at the Week:
Letters to focus on for the week: Gg and Uu Sight words – we, in Sight word sentence to practice – We can go to the zoo. We can go in the cave. We can play.
Writing – Personal Narrative. Continuing with writing elements of personal narratives. Planning a beginning, middle and end to stories. Adding characters, setting and events in stories.
Daily Five/Literacy – Continuing to stretch sounds out in words. Reviewing beginning sounds in words and working on ending sounds in words. Working on building independence while rotating stations during Daily Five.
Math – Starting Module 2 – Two-Dimensional Flat Shapes. Finding and describing flat triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons and circles. Classifying shapes into categories using variants and examples. Describe and communicate positions of all flat shapes using the words above, below, beside, in front of, next to, and behind.
Science – we will begin a unit on weather beginning with studying seasons of the year.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Monday, October 29 – Math homework is due. This week there will be no math homework. We will be ‘doing math assessments and review before moving into Unit 2 – Geometry next week.
Wednesday, October 31 – We have a change in time for the Halloween parade and the Halloween party. Mrs. Polgar’s classroom party will take place at 12:30-1:30 p.m. and the parade has been moved to 1:40 pm. Students will end lunch at 11:43 and come back to the classroom and change into their costumes and we will start the party. After the party we will get ready for the parade. I am sorry if this is a conflict for volunteers with the change of time for the parade I thought that would not leave enough time for the party. Please let me know, if you are unable to help with the time change.
Friday, November 2 – Half day of school. Teacher duty day. School dismissal 11:45 a.m.
Peek at the Week
Letters of the week – Nn, Ll Sight words – come, and. Sight word sentence – Come and see the dog.
Writing – we will focus on narrative writing this week. Students will learn to write a story with a beginning, middle and end. We will focus on beginnings and endings at first. We will focus on narrative elements; characters, setting and events.
Social Studies – reviewing social studies vocabulary, concepts and applying them.
Math -Finishing up on Module 1 – Numbers to 10. I will review and assess this week. Next week we will move on to Module 2 – Geometry.
Literacy/Daily Five – This week we will focus on reading strategies; identifying the first sound in a word and identifying the last sound in a word. Reading comprehension strategies; sequencing a story, beginning, middle, end. Making predictions in stories and identifying problems/solution in a story.
Have a great weekend!!
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Monday, October 22 – Math Homework packets will go home and will be due next Monday, October 29.
Tuesday, October 23 – Mrs. Polgar will not be in class. I will have a sub for the day.
Friday, October 26 – No school for Kindergarten only. Teachers will be attending Kindergarten professional development workshop.
Wednesday, October 31 – Howard Halloween Parade between 1:15-1:30. Students will change into costumes after lunch and get ready for parade. Mrs. Polgar’s class will have a Halloween Party from 2-3 p.m. I have enough volunteers for the Halloween party. Thank you to my volunteers that will be helping out at the party.
Peek at the Week:
Letters of the Week – Ii and Kk Sight words for the week – look – at (Look at the bat.) Practice writing sight word sentences at home – Look at the bat. Look at the cat.
Practice drawing pictures of things that begin with Ii or Kk and practice labeling pictures at home. King, Kangaroo, Iguana, Ice Cream.
Literacy/Daily Five – I am finishing up testing this week so I can have assessments ready for report cards. So, I may not be able to meet with reading groups because we have a short week of school. I will not be in on Tuesday and Kindergartners have Friday off. I may put some books in book bags to review. My class loves meeting with me in reading groups!! It makes my heart happy they love to read and want to go home and read too!!
Daily Five – we are working on recognizing when two words rhyme. Rhyming words have the same ending sounds/chunks. Rhyming words such as -bat, cat, fat, sat. We continue to work on syllables in words – how many parts in a word? pump – kin mon-ster re-cess. Also, recognizing first sounds in words. We are practicing sounding out words in reading and writing so recognizing the first sound in a word is where we start when we sound out a word.
Writing – Last week students brought home a book with sentences such as – I can see the bat. We worked on sentence structure and sounding out new words. Are focus was to write the sounds we hear. I was really happy with their work and they were really proud too!! Homework was to read their book to you. This week we will focus on a new sentence pattern – Look at the bat. Look at the ___.
Math – Math homework packets will go home on Monday and will be turned in next Monday, October 29. On Monday we will assess counting and adding one more to a set/fluently. We will also review last week’s homework packet. Students really liked the homework packet and were excited to show me their work. This week we will work on One Less with Numbers 0-10. Focus will be understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. Counting to 10 and making sums and differences to 10.
Social Studies – We continue to work on lessons with our social skills program – Second Step. The lessons have been very helpful for students to understand why it is important to listen, follow directions and follow classroom rules.
Have a great day!!
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, October 17 – Late Start – school starts an hour late.
Thursday, October 18 – School pictures will be in morning. Picture order forms were sent home last week. You can order on-line or pay with cash in picture form envelope.
Friday, October 19 – Howard Halloween Bash 5-7:30 pm. Tickets are $8.00 per person. Turn in money and payment form by Tuesday, October 16. PTA will not accept after this date and will not be selling tickets at door. Information went home last week in take home folder.
Friday, October 26 – No school for Kindergarten. Teachers have a professional development day.
Wednesday, October 31 – Howard Halloween Parade will kick off between 1:15-1:30 pm. Kindergarten students will have lunch at 11:05-11:43 and come back to the classroom to change into costumes to get ready for parade. No play weapons or masks will be allowed for costumes. Make sure the costume is easy to put over your child’s clothing and it is a costume your child is comfortable with.
Later in the day Mrs. Polgar’s class will have a Halloween Party between 2-3 p.m. I will be sending home information regarding the Halloween party and future party/events for donations. We could use a few volunteers to help out at the party. So, if you are available in the afternoon we could use your help. Please let me know, if you are available to help, I will probably need two volunteers. I’m sorry siblings will not be able to attend party.
Peek at the Week:
Letters of the Week – Cc Bb Sight words – the to
Writing – We will be focusing on writing simple sentences with sight words we have learned and will learn about sentence structure. Modeling how to use an ABC chart for sounds and modeling how to sound out a word when writing. Examples; I can see the bat. I can see the cat. I can see the hat. This is a good writing activity to do at home; writing sight word sentences we have learned in school.
Literacy/Daily Five – we will focus on strategies; counting syllables in a word; segmenting sounds in a word. These strategies will help with reading/writing.Hearing the parts of a word/syllables/sounds.
Math – Math homework packets will go home on Monday and will be returned on Friday. We have been focusing on writing numbers 1-10 proficiently, counting and learning different ways to make a number. (5 and 5 are 10; 4 and 6 are 10) This week we will practice story problems with and without equations. Order and match numeral/dot cards from 1-10 and stating 1 more than a given number. Arranging, analyzing and drawing 1 more up to 10 in configurations other than towers.
During calendar we are practicing counting by ones to 30. Counting by ten’s to 100.
Social Studies – we will review social studies vocabulary; fairness, responsiblity, rules, accountability. We will also look at problems and how to resolve problems in school.
For the next two weeks, I will be doing assessments with students in reading groups and math groups. The first report card period will be coming up by November 2. I can’t believe it! Time is flying in Kindergarten!!
Have a great day and enjoy your weekend.
Mrs. Polgar
Dates to Remember:
Monday, October 8 – No math homework packets will go out this week. We have a short week of school.
Thursday, October 11 – Detroit Zoo Field Trip. If you have signed up to be a group chaperone, please meet at school for field trip information and group assignment. The bus will probably leave between 9:00-9:10 am. Students will ride bus and parents will meet at zoo. You can pay for parking at zoo. Parking fee is $8.00 per car. If you are meeting us at the zoo with your family, please meet at the front entrance and we will all go in together for group discount.
Please remember to pack your child a brown bag lunch for the zoo. Also, check the weather for the day so your child is dressed comfortably for cool or warm weather.
Friday, October 12 – 1/2 day of school. Dismissal at 11:45 a.m.
Peek at the Week:
Theme: Pumpkins
Letters of the Week – Pp and Hh Sight word of week – can
Math – Writing numbers 1-10. Focusing writing numbers in correct formation. Working with numbers 8-10 in different configurations. Counting to 10 and recognizing sums and differences to 10. Understanding group formations and array configurations.
Writing – Opinion writing unit. Students did a great job on writing an ” I like” booklet. Students wrote their opinion on their favorite food, color, and what they like about school. We are learning about the structure of a sentence in writing.
Social Studies – We have started a new program on social skills – Second Step. Students are learning about rules in school, fairness and responsibility. We are focusing on listening skills – eyes are watching, voice is quiet, body calm and ears are listening.
Literacy – Reading strategies – we have been focusing on concepts of print strategies; reading from left to right, using pictures to help with unknown words, and matching word to word in text. Reading comprehension – Sequencing a story, asking and asking questions about a story and making connections.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Polgar