Every week for the remainder of October, we have something big happening. Make sure to keep track of upcoming events.
Thursday is picture day. The children may dress out of uniform. No tank tops, spaghetti straps, sandals...etc. In the ideal world, we would take pictures as soon as school starts so that everyone is neat and tidy. However, nothing is ever ideal, especially when we leave at 8:30 for Coach Grant. You may send a comb/hairbrush to school if you want me to straighten up hair. Please label any brushes or combs sent to school. There will be no sharing of hair grooming items.
Friday is the final day to purchase Fall Festival tickets at the early bird price. If your flyer about purchasing tickets at the early bird price did not make it home last week, please let me know and I will resend it. Prices will be higher the night of the fall festival so save a little money and buy your tickets by Friday.
Friday is also the deadline for paying for the pumpkin patch field trip. Let me know if you need an extension.
Our poem last week consisted of only two words yet it taught all three punctuation marks. We learned that a period means stop for just a second to take a breath and then keep on reading. A question mark means your voice goes up at the end of the sentence. An exclamation mark means to use emotion in your voice (happy,scared, nervous, shy...) when reading aloud. Make sure poetry journals are returned every Monday and look in backpacks for them on Friday afternoons. Check out photos of poetry notebook practice by clicking here.
Monday is library day and Nancy's Italian Ice for $1.00.
In reading we will working with the letter Tt. We will be looking for initial, middle and ending Tt sounds. Sight words are: we, my , like, he, for, a, to, have, is the, little, I, am. Our story this week is about big trucks so I know there will be a few students in our class very excited about the literature this week.
In math, we are working on numbers 6, 7, 8, 9. This week we will begin to understand different combinations we can to make these numbers. For examle: 4 and 2 make 6 but so does 3 and 3. This is not a mastery concept at this point in Kindergarten, rather noticing how numbers can be created.
I will be assessing phone numbers and birth dates on Tuesday. I will be assessing report cards all week so reading groups and math groups will be abbreviated. Report cards are issued on Thursday, October 16.
Class need: Please send in empty toilet tissue rolls. Keep sending them until I say we have enough.
Last week was full of learning to celebrate the letter Mm. We use a lot of different math manipulatives in math but the children would probably say the day we used M&Ms was the best math tool yet. We began the lesson by sorting and recording the data. Then we worked with ten frames to make sets. Then the children had free exploration where anything was acceptable. We worked so hard that we threw our handled M&Ms away and treated ourselves to M&Ms that were meant to be eaten. Check out the M&M math time by clicking here.
Do you want to watch your child's creativity in action? Grab a bag of marshmallows and a box of toothpicks. We did marshmallow exploration focusing on making letters of the alphabet. That was morphed into making words. Then the creation of three dimensional shapes made an appearance. Then of course once everything was cleaned up and thrown away, it was time to eat a few marshmallows. The children could have explored and created all morning. Check out the marshmallow learning by clicking right here.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse items came to school on Friday. We shared, sorted, graphed and had time to play with our items. Check out the mouse learning fun by clicking here.
There is no school on October 13 due to a teacher in-service day. Have extra fun for me because I will be in meetings all day. Contact me with any questions or concerns you may have.
Upcoming Events:
10.9 Picture day
10.10 Last day to purchase Fall Festival wristbands at an Early Bird price
10.10 Final day to pay for pumpkin patch field trip
10.13: No school for students. It is a teacher in-service day.
10.16: Report cards are issued at 3:10 pm
10.16: Blount Fall Festival 4:30-7:30 (ball park across the school)
10:24 Room 114's Miss Spider's Tea Party Crafternoon
10.30: Kindergarten field trip to the Pumpkin Patch (wear yellow field trip t-shirt)
11.11: No school in observance of Veteran's Day
11.24 - 11:28: Thanksgiving Break - no school
Thursday is picture day. The children may dress out of uniform. No tank tops, spaghetti straps, sandals...etc. In the ideal world, we would take pictures as soon as school starts so that everyone is neat and tidy. However, nothing is ever ideal, especially when we leave at 8:30 for Coach Grant. You may send a comb/hairbrush to school if you want me to straighten up hair. Please label any brushes or combs sent to school. There will be no sharing of hair grooming items.
Friday is the final day to purchase Fall Festival tickets at the early bird price. If your flyer about purchasing tickets at the early bird price did not make it home last week, please let me know and I will resend it. Prices will be higher the night of the fall festival so save a little money and buy your tickets by Friday.
Friday is also the deadline for paying for the pumpkin patch field trip. Let me know if you need an extension.
Monday is library day and Nancy's Italian Ice for $1.00.
In reading we will working with the letter Tt. We will be looking for initial, middle and ending Tt sounds. Sight words are: we, my , like, he, for, a, to, have, is the, little, I, am. Our story this week is about big trucks so I know there will be a few students in our class very excited about the literature this week.
In math, we are working on numbers 6, 7, 8, 9. This week we will begin to understand different combinations we can to make these numbers. For examle: 4 and 2 make 6 but so does 3 and 3. This is not a mastery concept at this point in Kindergarten, rather noticing how numbers can be created.
I will be assessing phone numbers and birth dates on Tuesday. I will be assessing report cards all week so reading groups and math groups will be abbreviated. Report cards are issued on Thursday, October 16.
Class need: Please send in empty toilet tissue rolls. Keep sending them until I say we have enough.
There is no school on October 13 due to a teacher in-service day. Have extra fun for me because I will be in meetings all day. Contact me with any questions or concerns you may have.
Upcoming Events:
10.9 Picture day
10.10 Last day to purchase Fall Festival wristbands at an Early Bird price
10.10 Final day to pay for pumpkin patch field trip
10.13: No school for students. It is a teacher in-service day.
10.16: Report cards are issued at 3:10 pm
10.16: Blount Fall Festival 4:30-7:30 (ball park across the school)
10:24 Room 114's Miss Spider's Tea Party Crafternoon
10.30: Kindergarten field trip to the Pumpkin Patch (wear yellow field trip t-shirt)
11.11: No school in observance of Veteran's Day
11.24 - 11:28: Thanksgiving Break - no school
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