Week of September 8

  

Our Resources for the week are: Wednesday=MUSIC and Friday=1-18 in the classroom & 19-37 have P.E.

Friday is Character T-Shirt Day. :)  (Wear clothes to show everyone who your favorite character is!!) Jackson will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks. :)
Also, Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Thursday evening we have Open House beginning at 6:30. 

**Any parents wanting to sign up for Fun Friday Snacks, please email us letting us know what date you would like and we will type your child's name in next to that date. We do not need to know what snack you will be providing. That can be a surprise for all of us. :) Here are some snack ideas: cookies, chips, popsicles, popcorn, apple slices.**

Handwriting/Writing:

We will continue to practice letter formations for our first and last names. Along with letters Pp, Bb and Ff. We will be learning what Kindergarten writing is and what it is not. Ex. Kindergarten writing is drawing with a pencil, coloring with a crayon, fixing mistakes and writing letters and words that match our pictures. Kindergarten writing is not scribbling, coloring everything with one color and getting upset saying, I can't!"  Discuss different things with your child that they could draw and write about~ shopping at Walmart, eating at Chuck E.Cheese, flying in an airplane, going to the park, etc.

Here is one of the letter video's we will be watching this week. Remember, Story Bots has a short video for every letter of the alphabet! :) 

Math: 
We will dive into the foundations of addition this week, learning about numbers 0-5 and how we can break them apart. Here is a short video clip that will give you an idea of what we are working towards when I refer to “break apart numbers” Share it with your child and talk about the work we are doing in class breaking apart numbers! 

Science:

What do scientists do? How do they observe? What are our 5 Senses? Theses are some of the questions we will explore this week! We also learned about hand lenses last week. I found this cute Sid the Science Kid clip! A magnifying glass is a fun tool for kids to use! My own children always enjoyed using one. I am hoping the weather cooperates next week so we can explore our school courtyard using our hand lenses!

 

Reading:

Sight Words for the week are: orange, brown, I, the. We will review the Nursery Rhyme Humpty Dumpty and discuss the rhyming pairs in it. We will also read the fable The Tortoise and the Hare. We will practice retelling the events of the fable in the order that they happen. After reading stories to your child, make sure to ask them "What happened first? What happened next? What happened last?" I searched again for a video and there were a lot of great ones, but none were just right. So I typed up the fable again and turned the title into a link.  

*Thursday we will be having a test on Nursery Rhymes and Fables.*

If your child is having trouble with rhyming, check out this Hooked on Phonics "Rhyme Time" video. :)

Scholastic Reading Club

 

Your child will be bringing home Scholastic Book Flyers this week. Look through the flyers and if you wish to order any books go to https://clubs2.scholastic.com. Set up an account with a username and password. Then use our Class Activation Code- GLPLP and let the fun begin!!

Every time an order is submitted online... we get a free book for the classroom! Plus a ton of smiles handing your child their book order. :)

All orders need to be submitted online or sent to school in your child's blue folder by Friday, September 18. If you have any questions about ordering books, please let us know.

Week of August 31

 

Our Resources for the week are: Tuesday=MUSIC, Thursday=1-18 has P.E.,19-37 has MEDIA and Friday=ART.

Friday is Sports Day. :)  (Wear clothes to support your favorite team of sport!!) Sydney will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the whole class. :)
Also, we do not have school on Monday, September 7.

**Any parents wanting to sign up for Fun Friday Snacks, please email us letting us know what date you would like and we will type your child's name in next to that date. We do not need to know what snack you will be providing. That can be a surprise for all of us. :) Here are some snack ideas: cookies, chips, popsicles, popcorn, apple slices. Please provide enough snack to feed 36 students.**

Handwriting/Writing:
We will continue to practice letter formations for our first and last names. Along with letters Ss, Rr and Ii. We will complete our self portraits by adding color details. Then we will discuss the difference between Kindergarten Writing and scribbling. Students will learn to take a risk and write letters/words/sentences to match their picture.
Here is one of the letter video's we will be watching this week. Remember, Story Bots has a short video for every letter of the alphabet! :) 


Math: 

We are working on sorting and classifying this week. The Sesame Street clip gives you an idea of what sorting is! As we get to know each other and learn the routines of the classroom this week, students will learn how to use math centers and work in their math journals. Math centers allow students to work on skills we are acquiring in class. Some centers we will explore this week are: sorting bears, playdough numbers, number writing, and computers. A goal for the end of the year is counting to 100. We are having each student count for us so we can determine what level they are on for this skill. The goal for the first nine weeks is counting to 29. Practice counting daily! If your child already counts to 100 have them count by 10's!

Science:
We will continue our discussion of germs from last week. We will also review the CHAMPS signs for tissues and bathroom emergencies while we are at the carpet in a lesson.  Then how we quickly wash our hands and return to the lesson at the carpet. :)

Reading:
Sight Words for the week are: red, green, of, a. We are still reading Nursery Rhymes and discussing rhyming words in them. :) This week our Nursery Rhymes are Hickory Dickory Dock; Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling; Baa Baa Black Sheep and Humpty Dumpty. Students will be asked to recite a Nursery Rhyme to a teacher. (We can't wait to hear which one they choose! :) They can choose any Nursery Rhyme to share with us.)  We will also read two fables and practice retelling the events in the order they happen. Our fables are The Lion and the Mouse & The Dog and His Reflection. 

I searched for a Youtube video to post, however the versions of the fables do not match up to ours... So click on the Fable Titles above, they are links to read the versions we are reading in class. :)