Week of December 1

 

Our Resources for the week are:Tuesday P.E., Wednesday ART and Friday MUSIC. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Friday is Scarf Day!!

Handwriting/Writing

We will be discussing Complete Sentences. We will make sure our sentences have a WHO (noun) and a WHAT (verb). We will review spaces between words and having an uppercase letter at the beginning of our sentences. We will be working on making 3*** (star) Sentences.
All of our writing this far has ended with a period. :) Our Grammar Lesson on Friday is about to change all of that... we will be discussing periods (.), questions marks (?) and exclamation marks (!).

Math

K.MD.1.1 – Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

K.MD.1.2 – Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/”less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.

We move on this week as we continue to work on measurement standards. Our focus is on weight. We will use our knowledge of scales and work with the terms lighter and heavier. Here's a fun video that ties in with these concepts.

Science

We have fun this week using paper and playdough to explore and master the science standard below. I am sure our little scientists will enjoy this week exploring these 

two forms of matter!

SC.K.P.9.1 Recognize that the shape of materials such as paper and clay can be changed by cutting, tearing, crumpling, smashing, or rolling.

Reading

Sight words for the week are: made, into, that and they. Our Word Family is the -an family. Practice having your child make words that would belong in the family~ pan, tan, man, Jan etc.

We are beginning our new Module on Farms. :) Through out the module we will discuss several farm animals and well as crops that people grow on farms. We will visit a K-W-L chart a little through out each lesson. (This is a chart telling what we Know- Wonder- Learn about the topic of farms.) We will complete graphic organizers on different farm animals (telling how they look, what they eat, how they move, etc.) and then we will compare & contrast one animal to another.

Here are examples of the graphic organizers we will be using in class.


  

Fun Friday Snack Dates!!

If you would like to sign up for a Fun Friday Snack please leave a comment letting us know. Then we will add your child's name next to the date you choose.  Also, we wanted to remind everyone we have 29 students in class. :)

Thanks so much, the students love Fun Friday's!!

 
Here are the dates we have available: 
 Jan. 8,  Jan. 15,  Jan. 29,  
Feb. 5,  Feb. 19,  Feb. 26, 
 Mar. 4,  Mar. 11, 
 Apr. 15,  Apr. 22, 
 May 6,  May 13,  May 20,  May 27,  
and June 3.
 

Week of November 23

 

We are having FUN this week!!

The students have worked hard and we want to reward them with a few fun activities. :) Make sure to ask your child what things we are learning about in class. :)  Also, make sure to be reviewing the work we send home and studying all the different items that are being tested during the Second Quarter. 

Our Resources for the week are:Monday #1-18 P.E. and #19-36 Guidance. Tuesday we will be celebrating with a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. :) Below is the video off of Youtube, enjoy watching it with your child. 

Week of November 16

Our Resources for the week are:Monday #1-18 Guidance and #19-36 ART, Tuesday P.E., Wednesday ART and Friday MUSIC. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Friday is Hat Day!! Juelz will be bringing in snacks for the class on Friday. And... we have another student joining the Six-Year-Old Club: Reese joins on November 21st.
 *Please send your child's hat to school in their backpack. We will be wearing them outside during Recess.Thank you!*


Our Fall Festival was a huge success!! Thanks to everyone that showed up and supported Chimney Lakes. We loved seeing all of our students. :) Also, thanks to everyone that sent in donations for our Dog Basket. In case you didn't see it... here is a picture of the front and back.

Handwriting/Writing

We will review how stories have a Beginning, Middle and End by writing our very own stories about our hand print turkey's. :) The students made the turkey's last week when Ms. Lori came to visit. (They are adorable!!!) We are really stressing to the students that they can use the sounds and sight words they know to write. Make sure when completing the writing homework you are not having your child copy your adult writing. Students are not expected to spell every word the adult way. Their writing uses a lot of invented spelling and that is OKAY! :)
Our Grammar Lesson is on spaces~ making sure we put spaces in between words and not just individual letters.

Math

This week we begin exploring comparisons of Length, Weight, and Capacity. This unit will continue all the way into January when we will begin comparing numbers. This is a very "hands-on" unit which Kindergarteners always enjoy! The focus vocabulary will include: longer than, shorter than, equal to, compare, length, height, heavier, lighter, and enough. Our topic this week is length and height. This "Texas-sized" song was too fun not to share!

Science
Our question to explore this week: What is matter? To answer this question we will be sorting, observing and learning about the properties of matter. Our focus standard is : SC.K.P.8.1
Sort objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light), and texture. Our little scientists will be busy exploring their world this week!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: all, will, this and had. Our Word Family is the -ad family. Practice having your child make words that would belong in the family~ had, sad, mad, etc.

We are reading a story about George Washing Carver and his love of plants and then we are taking our Module Assessment!!! Woohooo it is time to see how much our Kindergarteners have learned. :)

They have worked very hard throughout the Module and we want to reward them with two fun Culminating Activities. We will read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zwebel. If you aren't familiar with these stories, enjoy the Youtube video's below. The stories are both adorable!

Mrs. Thomas' Library Visit!

Mrs. Thomas came and the class LOVED her!! (Of course, we knew they would!)

She informed the students she works as the Children's Librarian at the Wesconnet library off of 103rd St, but she added that she does fill in at other libraries. So the students may see her at one of the other ones. :)

She discussed the different libraries around Jacksonville and how easy it was to get a library card and borrow books. Then she got in to some FUN activities!

She had the students out of their seats playing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." Singing songs and playing game. She also read three different books and the students made an apple craft. At the end of her lesson, everyone got a chance to go "Apple Picking!!" They were adorable!! 

Enjoy watching the slideshow. :)

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Science Experiment!

We completed our experiment on absorbing water and of course we had to share it with all of you!! :)

The students were to make a guess about which material would absorb water. The materials were foil, wax paper and paper towels. Fifteen people thought the pieces of foil would absorb water... oooh were they in for a surprise! :) Watch the slideshow and enjoy seeing the smiles on the students faces.

 

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Fun Friday Pictures!!

I went away last weekend (with my camera) and completely forgot to make the post for Sunglasses Day... so sorry!! So I put two groups of pictures into one slide show! :)

Enjoy looking at the pictures from Sunglasses Day and Character T-Shirt Day!! 

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