7th grade buddies

Today we met with our 7th grade buddies for board games-I apologize!!  I forgot to send an email out to let you know.  Luckily the 7th graders all had one.  There were a lot of fun games. 

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!  Enjoy the extra time with your family and friends. 

What's Happening

This is another busy week learning in kindergarten.   In Language Arts, we are learning how to form and the short sound of Oo.  This is the third vowel we have learned already.  We will also learn the popcorn word do. We will learn what an adjective is and encourage adding them to our writing.   In Writer's Workshop we are using Thanksgiving sentence starters to write in our writing journals.  In Math, we will continue to focus on addition.  We will find addition sentences using number pairs for the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9.  We will continue with our Thanksgiving unit this week as well.  Today we will chart all the things we are thankful for that God gave us and  make Thanksgiving crosses.  It's hard to believe but we are approaching the  end of the first trimester.  Report cards will be coming home next week.  Have a wonder ful week.

Here are the letters we have covered so far:
Aa, Cc,  Oo,  Ii,  Ss, Tt, Pp, Nn, Mm

These are the popcorn words we have learned to date as well:
I  can  the  see  you  to  we  and  go  like  number words and color words. 

Literacy stations

One of our favorite times of the day is at the end of the day when we do literacy stations. Literacy stations are independent learning activities that the students work on to reinforce skills taught in the classroom.  They are typically hands on and manipulative in nature.  Some examples include puzzles, write the room, games, library, listening to books and manipulatives that work on letter knowledge, phonemic awareness skills, phonics, and so much more.  I typically change them once a month.  Here are some pictures of the students engaged in these learning activities.

Happy Veteran's Day!

We had a wonderful Veteran's Day Celebration this morning!  The kindergarteners did a wonderful job singing to the military and veterans.  Before the ceremony, we had a couple of retired military talk to us as well as some cadets from UC.  Here are some photos of the day.

 

I was also able to take a very short video of them singing on stage.  Enjoy!

Pilgrims

We have been learning a lot about the Mayflower and Pilgrims this week.  Today we learned how life of the Pilgrims was different then ours.  We made fun pilgrim portraits too! Here they are. 

We also enjoyed learning more about Pilgrims and the Mayflower by visiting this website:

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/

Dem Bones

Here is a really fun Halloween song I found on youtube. We had a great time listening and dancing to it.   It's great for differentiating left from right!

What's Happening this Week?

We have a full week of learning in store and are always doing many many things!. I will be out of the building on Thursday and Friday of this week for a workshop and my Professional Learning Community class on Friday, but the stdents will be well taken care of and have the same sub for both days.


In Language Arts, we will be reading books all about the sounds we hear around us.  We will learn the letter Nn, the popcorn word and, and blend together words using all the letters we have learned so far.  We will also be talking about what makes a sentence.

In Math, we are starting addition and discussing what it is, what a plus sign and are equal sign are and how to solve addition problems.

In Religion, we will talking and discussing all the things we are thankful for the God has given us.

We will start our month long thematic unit of Thanksgiving.  This week we will focus and the Mayflower, Pilgrims and the differences between what they had then and what we have now. 


Here are some great photos of the Halloween party from Thursday.   Thanks so much to the moms and dads who organized it and helped.  The kidnergarteners had a great time!