{"id":1157,"date":"2015-09-21T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2015-09-21T19:14:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:14:33","slug":"week-of-september-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2015\/09\/21\/week-of-september-21-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of September 21 &#038; 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short, but busy, week this week. \u00a0Today we had Picture Day, PTA Book Fair, and a Peace Assembly. \u00a0My class&#8217;s agenda today was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pledge of Allegiance<\/li>\n<li>Group Time<\/li>\n<li>Story \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Jazz Baby<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Work Time<\/li>\n<li>Media<\/li>\n<li>Recess<\/li>\n<li>Story<\/li>\n<li>LUNCH<\/li>\n<li>Recess<\/li>\n<li>Calendar Time<\/li>\n<li>Math<\/li>\n<li>Work Time (Pattern Blocks)<\/li>\n<li>Centers<\/li>\n<li>Group Time (to discuss our day and mention things for tomorrow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew! \u00a0Keep in mind that we have only been in school for 10 days! During Calendar Time, we not only add today&#8217;s date, we talk about how what numerals we need to make the date (&#8220;21&#8221; \u00a0needs a\u00a0<strong>2\u00a0<\/strong>and a\u00a0<strong>1<\/strong>), we add a number to our 100&#8217;s chart, and we add a straw to our Place Value Chart. \u00a0Since today is the 10th day of school, we banded up the 10 straws in the\u00a0<strong>ONES<\/strong> pocket and moved the bundle of 10 to the <b>TENS<\/b> pocket. \u00a0Now they can see that\u00a0<strong>10\u00a0<\/strong>really means\u00a0<strong>1\u00a0<\/strong>ten \u00a0and\u00a0<strong>0\u00a0<\/strong>ones.<\/p>\n<p>We will be finishing up our Smart Start Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Next week we will start UNIT !.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<strong>THEME<\/strong> for the next 3 week will be\u00a0<strong>FAMILIES. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unit 1 theme is\u00a0<strong>My Family and Me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WRITING-Shared List<\/p>\n<p>WORDS-<strong>We \u00a0we<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LETTER-<b>M \u00a0m<\/b><\/p>\n<p>MATH-Number Awareness 0-10<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t wait for me to start on the above items. \u00a0Introduce the <strong>letters<\/strong> and <strong>words<\/strong> now. \u00a0Talk about your <strong>family.<\/strong> \u00a0What other kinds of <strong>families<\/strong> are there?<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>9\/23-25 \u00a0NO SCHOOL<\/p>\n<p>Kindergarteners will be taking the NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association) Reading and Math tests this year. \u00a0These measurements of progress are given 3 times a year, Beginning, Mid-Year, and End. \u00a0They measure student growth and \u00a0learning needs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short, but busy, week this week. \u00a0Today we had Picture Day, PTA Book Fair, and a Peace Assembly. \u00a0My class&#8217;s agenda today was: Pledge of Allegiance Group Time Story \u00a0 Jazz Baby Work Time Media Recess Story LUNCH Recess Calendar Time Math Work Time (Pattern Blocks) Centers Group Time (to discuss our day and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}