Morning Meeting-We had Cooper share his Star Suitcase. We also did Surprise suitcase and letter bucket. Mrs. Milow opened some of her presents from the kids.
We had art today.
We read the Peef story. We are going to create our very own Peef bear tomorrow.
Steve,Sophia's dad, came and sang Christmas songs with us. He also played his guitar. He showed us all of the parts of his guitar. He sang us a silly song called "I'm Getting Nothing for Christmas". The kids all laughed and laughed. He even used some of the kid's names in the song.
Party Time-We opened gifts. Everyone was excited to give and get their presents. After opening gifts, we had station time. We had a candy cane bead station, a snack station, a thank you card station, a pin picture station and an ornament station. Thank you to all of the parents who helped today!!! You made the party so fun for the kids and so relaxing for me!!! Thank you!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Dec. 18
Today we started our day by cleaning and organizing our tool boxes. Many tool boxes were missing many items. We had our morning meeting right after that. We did Surprise Suitcase and the Letter Bucket.
Specials-We had phy. ed. and library today. We wished Mrs. Hasti a happy birthday today!
Read Aloud-We read "A Wish to be a Christmas Tree".
Shared Reading-We read "Lunch at the Zoo".
Partner Reading-We read "Lunch at the Zoo" and we reread three other books together.
Writer's workshop-We wrote in our books. We are making our own little books. We finished our covers and we are starting to write and illustrate the pages in our books.
Rest Time-We watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".
Special Activity-We had a full rehearsal in the band room on the risers getting ready for tomorrow.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar books.
See you tomorrow for our Winter Program!
Specials-We had phy. ed. and library today. We wished Mrs. Hasti a happy birthday today!
Read Aloud-We read "A Wish to be a Christmas Tree".
Shared Reading-We read "Lunch at the Zoo".
Partner Reading-We read "Lunch at the Zoo" and we reread three other books together.
Writer's workshop-We wrote in our books. We are making our own little books. We finished our covers and we are starting to write and illustrate the pages in our books.
Rest Time-We watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".
Special Activity-We had a full rehearsal in the band room on the risers getting ready for tomorrow.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar books.
See you tomorrow for our Winter Program!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Dec. 16
We have been working hard singing and decorating our classroom for our big program on Friday.
Morning Meeting-We had surprise suitcase, letter bucket and star suitcase. Ben shared star suitcase today.
Specials-We had music today. We sang some of our program songs for Mrs. Engbloom.
Read Aloud-We read "Who Will Help Santa This Year?" and "Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?"
After reading the stories, we had a quick share. We shared who we thought should guide Santa's sleigh. Then we drew a picture to go with our ideas.
Shared Reading-We read "Cat Sat" for our shared reading. We read them with partners. We put them in our blue reading pouches and we are bringing them home today. Please listen to your child read the story. Most of the students can read it easily. Help them put it in their enveloped called "My Mini Book House" to read later. We talked about what good readers we are becoming. In the beginning of the year, most students could not read the story we read today. We were excited about all of the things we are learning.
Rest Time-We read from our story "Dinosaur Detectives" a Magic School Bus book.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar books. We had work jobs.
Special Activity-We practiced our whole program in Mrs. Leaman's room. Tomorrow we are performing in Day 5 Alive. We are very excited.
Morning Meeting-We had surprise suitcase, letter bucket and star suitcase. Ben shared star suitcase today.
Specials-We had music today. We sang some of our program songs for Mrs. Engbloom.
Read Aloud-We read "Who Will Help Santa This Year?" and "Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?"
After reading the stories, we had a quick share. We shared who we thought should guide Santa's sleigh. Then we drew a picture to go with our ideas.
Shared Reading-We read "Cat Sat" for our shared reading. We read them with partners. We put them in our blue reading pouches and we are bringing them home today. Please listen to your child read the story. Most of the students can read it easily. Help them put it in their enveloped called "My Mini Book House" to read later. We talked about what good readers we are becoming. In the beginning of the year, most students could not read the story we read today. We were excited about all of the things we are learning.
Rest Time-We read from our story "Dinosaur Detectives" a Magic School Bus book.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar books. We had work jobs.
Special Activity-We practiced our whole program in Mrs. Leaman's room. Tomorrow we are performing in Day 5 Alive. We are very excited.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Dec. 11
Morning Meeting-We sang our Reindeer songs. We did Surprise Suitcase and Letter Bucket.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. and library. We played hockey in Phy. Ed. today.
Read Aloud-We read "The Three Bears Christmas". It was about Santa visiting the threes bears' cottage in the woods. He ate their gingerbread men (Baby Bear's all gone), he sat in their chairs, he messed up their beds and then he left them presents.
Shared Reading-We read "Hickory Dickory Dock". We also did a movement activity with it. We found the rhyming words. We played the clap, clap, pat game with some of the words in the rhyme. (ex mouse clap "m" clap "ouse" pat "mouse"). This helps the students hear different parts of the word. This skill will help them learn to sound out words by sounding out different parts of the word.
Reading Activity-We finished our stations we started yesterday. We wrote Aa's, found Aa's in the room, independent reading, and shared reading.
Rest Time-We started our new chapter book "The Magic School Bus Dinosaur Dectivtives".
Math-We read a wordless counting book with the numbers 1-12. We did actions for each of the numbers 1-12. We started making a counting book. We did pages 1-4.
Listening Check-We have had a hard time with listening skills lately. This afternoon, I used a checklist to monitor our listening skills. After each direction I gave, I marked down if the student did the direction right away without reminders. I told them I was watching for good listeners. I gave very specific one or two step directions. I was very specific about expectations. After math, I told the kids about my checklist. Then, as a surprise, the students who used good listening skills for all of my directions got to go over to Mrs. Jurek's room for a special playtime. The other students stayed with me and we did a listening activity to practice our listening skills. We also talked about the importance of good listening in school. Some of the kids who did not get to go to Mrs. Jurek's class were sad. I do not want my students to be sad, but I do want them to realize that in order to learn and have fun in kindergarten, you need to listen and follow directions.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. and library. We played hockey in Phy. Ed. today.
Read Aloud-We read "The Three Bears Christmas". It was about Santa visiting the threes bears' cottage in the woods. He ate their gingerbread men (Baby Bear's all gone), he sat in their chairs, he messed up their beds and then he left them presents.
Shared Reading-We read "Hickory Dickory Dock". We also did a movement activity with it. We found the rhyming words. We played the clap, clap, pat game with some of the words in the rhyme. (ex mouse clap "m" clap "ouse" pat "mouse"). This helps the students hear different parts of the word. This skill will help them learn to sound out words by sounding out different parts of the word.
Reading Activity-We finished our stations we started yesterday. We wrote Aa's, found Aa's in the room, independent reading, and shared reading.
Rest Time-We started our new chapter book "The Magic School Bus Dinosaur Dectivtives".
Math-We read a wordless counting book with the numbers 1-12. We did actions for each of the numbers 1-12. We started making a counting book. We did pages 1-4.
Listening Check-We have had a hard time with listening skills lately. This afternoon, I used a checklist to monitor our listening skills. After each direction I gave, I marked down if the student did the direction right away without reminders. I told them I was watching for good listeners. I gave very specific one or two step directions. I was very specific about expectations. After math, I told the kids about my checklist. Then, as a surprise, the students who used good listening skills for all of my directions got to go over to Mrs. Jurek's room for a special playtime. The other students stayed with me and we did a listening activity to practice our listening skills. We also talked about the importance of good listening in school. Some of the kids who did not get to go to Mrs. Jurek's class were sad. I do not want my students to be sad, but I do want them to realize that in order to learn and have fun in kindergarten, you need to listen and follow directions.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Dec. 10
*Library day tomorrow.
Morning Meeting-We did the Hip Hop Tooty Ta and the Reindeer Pokey for our movement. We voted on our favorite song "Tooty Ta" or "Silly Pirate Song". The Tooty Ta won.
We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Dad and I". We found patterns in our book. There were repeated sentences. Also the dad and son took turns teaching each other different skills.
Shared Reading-We read "Monster Sandwich".
Reading Stations-We had 4 stations set up. We practiced writing the letter Aa. We searched for the letter Aa. We did independent reading and shared reading. We got through 2 stations so far. We will fiinish tomorrow.
We practicing singing our 3 songs for our winter program.
Rest time-We read the story Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We also picked a new chapter book to read.
Math-We did calendar. We also played number memory. After finding the matches, the students had to add the two numbers. We also played a greater than or less than game.
Kindergarten group practice-We practiced singing the songs with the other kindergarten classes with Mrs. Petersmeyer and the piano.
Morning Meeting-We did the Hip Hop Tooty Ta and the Reindeer Pokey for our movement. We voted on our favorite song "Tooty Ta" or "Silly Pirate Song". The Tooty Ta won.
We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Dad and I". We found patterns in our book. There were repeated sentences. Also the dad and son took turns teaching each other different skills.
Shared Reading-We read "Monster Sandwich".
Reading Stations-We had 4 stations set up. We practiced writing the letter Aa. We searched for the letter Aa. We did independent reading and shared reading. We got through 2 stations so far. We will fiinish tomorrow.
We practicing singing our 3 songs for our winter program.
Rest time-We read the story Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We also picked a new chapter book to read.
Math-We did calendar. We also played number memory. After finding the matches, the students had to add the two numbers. We also played a greater than or less than game.
Kindergarten group practice-We practiced singing the songs with the other kindergarten classes with Mrs. Petersmeyer and the piano.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Dec. 9
Morning Meeting-We practice our songs. For our quick share we voted on which was their favorite song that we are practicing for the Winter Program. Rudolph is the favorite.
Specials-We had music today. They practiced their high and low sounds.
Read Aloud-We read "Fat Cat". We listened for the "at" words.
Shared Reading-We read the book "I Can". We used the pictures in the book to help us sound out words.
Game-We played the game a circle in the circle. The students in the middle of the circle held word cards with "at" words and sight word cards on them. The other students read the word and then moved around the circle until they came all around the circle. Then we switched spots.
Reading Activity-We had independent reading for 10 minutes. We practiced using pictures to help figure out unknown words.
Writer's Workshop-We are starting a lesson on writing across pages. We are going to pick an event or activity to write about and try to extend that idea across pages with more details. Today I read a story about a porcupine written by 7th grade students. It is called "Little Prickles". Tomorrow we are going to continue our lesson by talking about how they wrote the story across many pages instead of just one or two pages and how it made the story better with more details. More to come!
Rest Time-We finished our 3rd chapter book called "The Magic School Bus and the Shark Escape." We learned about many different kinds of sharks along the way. Tomorrow we are going to talk about the sharks and then pick a new chapter book.
Math-We had work jobs today.
Specials-We had music today. They practiced their high and low sounds.
Read Aloud-We read "Fat Cat". We listened for the "at" words.
Shared Reading-We read the book "I Can". We used the pictures in the book to help us sound out words.
Game-We played the game a circle in the circle. The students in the middle of the circle held word cards with "at" words and sight word cards on them. The other students read the word and then moved around the circle until they came all around the circle. Then we switched spots.
Reading Activity-We had independent reading for 10 minutes. We practiced using pictures to help figure out unknown words.
Writer's Workshop-We are starting a lesson on writing across pages. We are going to pick an event or activity to write about and try to extend that idea across pages with more details. Today I read a story about a porcupine written by 7th grade students. It is called "Little Prickles". Tomorrow we are going to continue our lesson by talking about how they wrote the story across many pages instead of just one or two pages and how it made the story better with more details. More to come!
Rest Time-We finished our 3rd chapter book called "The Magic School Bus and the Shark Escape." We learned about many different kinds of sharks along the way. Tomorrow we are going to talk about the sharks and then pick a new chapter book.
Math-We had work jobs today.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Dec. 8
*Aa homework came home today. They need to read the words and draw pictures to go with the words.
*Gift Exchange note came home today. If you did not get it, let me know.
Morning Meeting-We did our 3 songs we are practicing for the winter program. We did Surprise Suitcase and letter bucket. We introduced our new Alpha Friend - Andy Apple. Charlie shared the Star Suitcase.
Specials-We had art today.
Special project-We are making reindeer with our hands and our feet.
Read Aloud-We read the story "Santa's Letter."
Shared Reading-We read the book "Snow".
Reading Activity-We had independent reading today. We also had shared reading. We read the story "Snow". We also reread "Nat at Bat" and "lunch" and "School".
Writing-We wrote letters to Santa today.
Math-We made symmetrical trees today. We did it as a listening lesson. We had to be quiet and use our ears and eyes to listen. I gave one direction and then the students did that direction. We started with a large green triangle, folded in half, drew 2 dots and a line. We cut on the line to make a big triangle. We folded it back again and then cut triangles out of the side to make it look more like an evergreen tree. When we were done cutting our tree, we used 2 dice to put dots "ornaments" on the tree. The students added up the dice and put that many dots on his/her tree. Tomorrow we will add glitter.
Program Practice-We went into Mrs. Leaman's room to practice for our winter program. Mrs. Petersmeyer was there to play the piano.
*Gift Exchange note came home today. If you did not get it, let me know.
Morning Meeting-We did our 3 songs we are practicing for the winter program. We did Surprise Suitcase and letter bucket. We introduced our new Alpha Friend - Andy Apple. Charlie shared the Star Suitcase.
Specials-We had art today.
Special project-We are making reindeer with our hands and our feet.
Read Aloud-We read the story "Santa's Letter."
Shared Reading-We read the book "Snow".
Reading Activity-We had independent reading today. We also had shared reading. We read the story "Snow". We also reread "Nat at Bat" and "lunch" and "School".
Writing-We wrote letters to Santa today.
Math-We made symmetrical trees today. We did it as a listening lesson. We had to be quiet and use our ears and eyes to listen. I gave one direction and then the students did that direction. We started with a large green triangle, folded in half, drew 2 dots and a line. We cut on the line to make a big triangle. We folded it back again and then cut triangles out of the side to make it look more like an evergreen tree. When we were done cutting our tree, we used 2 dice to put dots "ornaments" on the tree. The students added up the dice and put that many dots on his/her tree. Tomorrow we will add glitter.
Program Practice-We went into Mrs. Leaman's room to practice for our winter program. Mrs. Petersmeyer was there to play the piano.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Dec. 3
*Report cards came home today. They are folded in half and stapled with your child's name on the front. Please review, sign and return to school. I will mark it on my list and return to you to keep. Please read the report card information letter. It will help explain the report card. If you have any questions, please call or email. If you would like a conference before January, please let me know. I am available on Friday, Dec. 5th. I have some meetings, but I would have some time open.
Morning Meeting-We sang some of the songs we are working on for our Winter Program. Nicolle shared her star suitcase today. We also did letter bucket.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. and library today
*We went to the book fair this morning. Your child wrote down a name of one book they liked. The book fair is open if you choose to send money tomorrow.
Read Aloud-We read the story "Rude Giants". A girl and her pet cow helped the giants learn to use good manners. It was a funny way to learn about the importance of being nice to others.
Shared Reading-We learned about the "at" family of words today. We added letters to the "at" sound to make new words...cat, sat, vat, mat, rat...We read the story "Nat at Bat" together as a whole class and then again with partners. It came home today in the pouch. Please read with your child tonight and keep in a safe place so it can be reread again.
Rest Time-We read another chapter from "The Magic School Bus, the Shark Escape". Today the Magic School Bus shrunk and went inside the stomach of a Tiger Shark
Math-We did calendar and calendar book. Yesterday was a Zero Hero day. We have already had 61 days of kindergarten! WOW ! We then played the Monster Squeeze Game in math. We played it as a group. The students are now making their own monster games to play with a partner tomorrow.
We finished the day practicing our songs with all of the other kindergarten classrooms.
Morning Meeting-We sang some of the songs we are working on for our Winter Program. Nicolle shared her star suitcase today. We also did letter bucket.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. and library today
*We went to the book fair this morning. Your child wrote down a name of one book they liked. The book fair is open if you choose to send money tomorrow.
Read Aloud-We read the story "Rude Giants". A girl and her pet cow helped the giants learn to use good manners. It was a funny way to learn about the importance of being nice to others.
Shared Reading-We learned about the "at" family of words today. We added letters to the "at" sound to make new words...cat, sat, vat, mat, rat...We read the story "Nat at Bat" together as a whole class and then again with partners. It came home today in the pouch. Please read with your child tonight and keep in a safe place so it can be reread again.
Rest Time-We read another chapter from "The Magic School Bus, the Shark Escape". Today the Magic School Bus shrunk and went inside the stomach of a Tiger Shark
Math-We did calendar and calendar book. Yesterday was a Zero Hero day. We have already had 61 days of kindergarten! WOW ! We then played the Monster Squeeze Game in math. We played it as a group. The students are now making their own monster games to play with a partner tomorrow.
We finished the day practicing our songs with all of the other kindergarten classrooms.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Dec. 1
Morning Meeting-We met our new AlphaFriend today-Hattie Horse. We shared our favorite thing we did over Thanksgiving break. Sophia was lucky enough to get a new brother over break-William. We also started practicing our songs we will be singing for the Winter Program on Dec. 19th.
Specials-We had music today
Read Aloud-We read "Friends at school". We shared what we like to do with friends at school.
Reading Activity-We wrote and drew in our Kindergarten Memory books about friends at school.
Writer's Workshop-We reviewed writing a story and stretching words. We wrote for 20 minutes.
Rest Time-We read a chapter from our new book "Magic School Bus and the Shark Escape." Today we learned about the angel shark and the goblin shark.
Math-We finished our November calendars in our calendar books. We started our new December calendar. We made a Christmas countdown chain. We counted 12 red and 12 green strips. We made them into an ABAB pattern. We practiced counting and patterns while making a fun countdown chain.
*The December Book-It came home today along with the Hh homework. The December calendar is updated on line. I will be sending a copy of it home tomorrow. I will also be sending a copy of the December volunteer calendar.
*Workjob-We will have workjobs tomorrow. If you usually come on Tuesdays, I hope to see you around 1:15
Specials-We had music today
Read Aloud-We read "Friends at school". We shared what we like to do with friends at school.
Reading Activity-We wrote and drew in our Kindergarten Memory books about friends at school.
Writer's Workshop-We reviewed writing a story and stretching words. We wrote for 20 minutes.
Rest Time-We read a chapter from our new book "Magic School Bus and the Shark Escape." Today we learned about the angel shark and the goblin shark.
Math-We finished our November calendars in our calendar books. We started our new December calendar. We made a Christmas countdown chain. We counted 12 red and 12 green strips. We made them into an ABAB pattern. We practiced counting and patterns while making a fun countdown chain.
*The December Book-It came home today along with the Hh homework. The December calendar is updated on line. I will be sending a copy of it home tomorrow. I will also be sending a copy of the December volunteer calendar.
*Workjob-We will have workjobs tomorrow. If you usually come on Tuesdays, I hope to see you around 1:15
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Nov. 25
Morning Meeting-We shared our plans for Thanksgiving. We also sang our Thanksgiving song.
Specials-We had art today. We are making life size people in art.
Read Aloud-Plump and Perky Turkey
Shared reading-Thanksgiving Dinner
Table Activity-We finished our Thanksgiving Turkey cards. We wrote the uppercase and lowercase abcs. We drew or colored turkeys.
Rest Time-We watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
Math-We did calendar and workjobs.
Special Activity-We at pumpkin pie with the rest of the kindergarten classrooms. We also acted out our Thanksgiving Poem using our Pilgrim hats with Mrs. Jurek's Native Americans.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Specials-We had art today. We are making life size people in art.
Read Aloud-Plump and Perky Turkey
Shared reading-Thanksgiving Dinner
Table Activity-We finished our Thanksgiving Turkey cards. We wrote the uppercase and lowercase abcs. We drew or colored turkeys.
Rest Time-We watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
Math-We did calendar and workjobs.
Special Activity-We at pumpkin pie with the rest of the kindergarten classrooms. We also acted out our Thanksgiving Poem using our Pilgrim hats with Mrs. Jurek's Native Americans.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Nov. 24
Morning Meeting-We did the Turkey Pokey (Hokey Pokey) for our movement activity. We shared our favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal. The winner was turkey. We shared the Surprise Sack, the Letter Bucket and Torrey shared the Star Suitcase.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Special Event-We made pumpkin pie as a class. We put it into a big pie crust with Mrs. Jurek's class and we will eat it with them tomorrow. Thank you for sending in all of the ingredients.
Fun Activity-We made hand and feet turkeys. We traced our hands for the feathers and our feet for the body. We also made Pilgrim hats. We colored a picture in our Kindergarten Memory Books.
Read Aloud-We read Thanksgiving Day. It is about the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and the Indians.
Thanksgiving Poem-We learned a poem that we sang as a song. We wore our Pilgrim hats and Mrs. Jurek's class wore Native American headbands. We acted out the song together while we were singing the song. We are going to do it again tomorrow before sharing our pumpkin pie together.
Math-We did calendar. We graphed our favorite Thanksgiving food. We did a graph for the food a turkey would eat.
*I am sorry that I have not done my Blog lately. My computer crashed last week. I have a new computer now and I will get back on schedule.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Special Event-We made pumpkin pie as a class. We put it into a big pie crust with Mrs. Jurek's class and we will eat it with them tomorrow. Thank you for sending in all of the ingredients.
Fun Activity-We made hand and feet turkeys. We traced our hands for the feathers and our feet for the body. We also made Pilgrim hats. We colored a picture in our Kindergarten Memory Books.
Read Aloud-We read Thanksgiving Day. It is about the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and the Indians.
Thanksgiving Poem-We learned a poem that we sang as a song. We wore our Pilgrim hats and Mrs. Jurek's class wore Native American headbands. We acted out the song together while we were singing the song. We are going to do it again tomorrow before sharing our pumpkin pie together.
Math-We did calendar. We graphed our favorite Thanksgiving food. We did a graph for the food a turkey would eat.
*I am sorry that I have not done my Blog lately. My computer crashed last week. I have a new computer now and I will get back on schedule.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Nov. 19
Morning Meeting-We did Nyle Noodle for our movement activity. We voted on our favorite chapter book-Flat Stanley or Stanley, Flat Again. It was a tie-11 to 11.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "The Great Turkey Race".
Shared Reading-Thanksgiving Dinner
Reading Activity-Illustrating and coloring a turkey book
Writer's workshop-We continued working on our letters and booklets. Some great letters are coming home!
Rest Time-The Magic School Bus and the Great Shark Escape-We voted on a new chapter book to start today.
Math-We did calendar and calendar books. We talked about symmetry. We had symmetry stations. We made dot painting symmetrical pictures. We made symmetrical patterns. We made symmetrical pictures with peg boards and we made symmetrical pictures with pattern blocks.
Social-We read "A House is a House for Me". We worked on our house drawings we started on Monday. We made a map of our rooms.
**PJ Party-Friday, Nov. 21 in the afternoon. We earned a 100 super stars and we are celebrating with a PJ Party. Please send your PJs and stuffed animals in a bag. We will read books, eat popcorn and watch a short movie to celebrate our STAR behavior. A note will be coming home tomorrow. My group email did not work.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "The Great Turkey Race".
Shared Reading-Thanksgiving Dinner
Reading Activity-Illustrating and coloring a turkey book
Writer's workshop-We continued working on our letters and booklets. Some great letters are coming home!
Rest Time-The Magic School Bus and the Great Shark Escape-We voted on a new chapter book to start today.
Math-We did calendar and calendar books. We talked about symmetry. We had symmetry stations. We made dot painting symmetrical pictures. We made symmetrical patterns. We made symmetrical pictures with peg boards and we made symmetrical pictures with pattern blocks.
Social-We read "A House is a House for Me". We worked on our house drawings we started on Monday. We made a map of our rooms.
**PJ Party-Friday, Nov. 21 in the afternoon. We earned a 100 super stars and we are celebrating with a PJ Party. Please send your PJs and stuffed animals in a bag. We will read books, eat popcorn and watch a short movie to celebrate our STAR behavior. A note will be coming home tomorrow. My group email did not work.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Nov. 18
Morning Meeting-We did the Nyle Noodle song. We are talking about how to earn stars this week. We have been earning stars as a class when we are star students. Now we will be earning stars as individuals. I have introduced the first two star colors. Green is for showing respect. Yellow is for treating each other with kindness.
Specials-We went to art today. We were such good listeners that we earned our last 3 stars for our star student chart.
Star Student Reward-We have earned 100 stars for being Star Students!!! We will be having a PJ party in the afternoon on Friday, Nov. 21 to celebrate our good behavior. Your child can bring pajamas, a stuffed animal and a small blanket. We will be reading books and watching a movie with popcorn! We are very excited.
Read Aloud-We read "Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks." We shared something we were thankful for.
Shared Reading-We read the poem, ""Thanks for...". We found all of the Nn's in the poem. We also found all of the rhyming words. We practiced sounding out words.
Reading Activity-We drew pictures of things we are thankful for.
Writer's Workshop-We learned about writing letters today. Some students are bringing home a letter he/she wrote during writer's workshop. Some kids are still finishing up their booklets.
Rest Time-We finished our 2nd chapter book-"Stanley, Flat Again." Then we drew pictures and shared our favorite part in either book, Flat Stanley or Stanley, Flat Again. We will be voting on a new chapter book to start tomorrow.
Math-We did calendar. Then we did work jobs. All of the kids are now working on the 2nd set of workjobs. Most of the workjobs have to do with counting, and recognizing numbers up to 100. They worked hard today. Thank you to our volunteers, Beth, Dawn and Nicolle.
Specials-We went to art today. We were such good listeners that we earned our last 3 stars for our star student chart.
Star Student Reward-We have earned 100 stars for being Star Students!!! We will be having a PJ party in the afternoon on Friday, Nov. 21 to celebrate our good behavior. Your child can bring pajamas, a stuffed animal and a small blanket. We will be reading books and watching a movie with popcorn! We are very excited.
Read Aloud-We read "Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks." We shared something we were thankful for.
Shared Reading-We read the poem, ""Thanks for...". We found all of the Nn's in the poem. We also found all of the rhyming words. We practiced sounding out words.
Reading Activity-We drew pictures of things we are thankful for.
Writer's Workshop-We learned about writing letters today. Some students are bringing home a letter he/she wrote during writer's workshop. Some kids are still finishing up their booklets.
Rest Time-We finished our 2nd chapter book-"Stanley, Flat Again." Then we drew pictures and shared our favorite part in either book, Flat Stanley or Stanley, Flat Again. We will be voting on a new chapter book to start tomorrow.
Math-We did calendar. Then we did work jobs. All of the kids are now working on the 2nd set of workjobs. Most of the workjobs have to do with counting, and recognizing numbers up to 100. They worked hard today. Thank you to our volunteers, Beth, Dawn and Nicolle.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Nov. 17
Happy Monday!
Morning Meeting-We introduced our new Alpha Friend-Nyle Noodle. We shared our favorite noodles. Sophia shared the Star Suitcase. We did the Nyle Noodle song.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Reading Activity-We read the book "Noodles". It is a pop-up book with lots of different kinds of noodles. We did a shared reading with a book called "Frogs". We did independent reading and shared reading. During shared (partner reading) reading we read "This is My School" and "Frogs".
Writer's Workshop-We wrote in our booklets and organized our folders.
Rest Time-We read 2 chapters in "Stanley, Flat Again." Stanley saved Emma from a building.
Math-We did calendar and calendar books. We reviewed all of the shapes. We made a shape book called "Shape Monster". We then made shape monsters out of construction paper.
Morning Meeting-We introduced our new Alpha Friend-Nyle Noodle. We shared our favorite noodles. Sophia shared the Star Suitcase. We did the Nyle Noodle song.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Reading Activity-We read the book "Noodles". It is a pop-up book with lots of different kinds of noodles. We did a shared reading with a book called "Frogs". We did independent reading and shared reading. During shared (partner reading) reading we read "This is My School" and "Frogs".
Writer's Workshop-We wrote in our booklets and organized our folders.
Rest Time-We read 2 chapters in "Stanley, Flat Again." Stanley saved Emma from a building.
Math-We did calendar and calendar books. We reviewed all of the shapes. We made a shape book called "Shape Monster". We then made shape monsters out of construction paper.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Nov. 13
Morning Meeting-We played a counting by 5's game. We passed the sharing frog as we counted by 5's up to 40. We stopped at 40 and whoever was holding the frog had to sit down. It was a great way to practice our skip counting skills. We shared the letter bucket. We had started using an alphabet book daily to say the letter, a picture that starts with that letter and the sound that letter starts with. We also make the letter in sign language.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Me Too". It was a story about a little sister and a big brother. The little sister always said "me too" to everything the brother did. Afterward we made a venn diagram with hula hoops. One circle was brothers, one circle was sisters, and the middle was both brothers and sisters. We had another hula hoop for no brothers or sisters. We put our check in sticks in the appropriate circle. We found we have 3 kids with no brothers or sisters, 5 kids with only sisters, 7 kids with both and 8 kids with just brothers.
Shared Reading-We read a story called "This is my School." We practiced our reading skills of stretching words and using beginning sounds and picture clues.
Stations-We had 4 stations today. The yellow station was working on two pages of our abc art book. We worked on Xx and Ww. The blue station was making our Tiggy Tiger page for our Alpha Friend book. The red station was printing our letters Ss and Mm. The white station was beginning letter sounds activity and reading the book "This is my School.
Rest Time-We read chapters 2 and 3 in "Stanley, Flat Again." Stanley was the sail on a sailboat. He helped to win a sailboat race.
Math-We did calendar. We illustrated numbers from 1-10. They had to draw the correct number of circles to match the number. We talked about diamonds/rhombus. We made a kite that was symmetrical. We used triangles to make diamonds.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day 5 Alive. We saw some 5th grade students doing a step routine. We saw some 4th grade students with their hat inventions. A few 3rd grade students read poetry.
*Please send snowpants if it is wet out. Our playground is very muddy and wet.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Me Too". It was a story about a little sister and a big brother. The little sister always said "me too" to everything the brother did. Afterward we made a venn diagram with hula hoops. One circle was brothers, one circle was sisters, and the middle was both brothers and sisters. We had another hula hoop for no brothers or sisters. We put our check in sticks in the appropriate circle. We found we have 3 kids with no brothers or sisters, 5 kids with only sisters, 7 kids with both and 8 kids with just brothers.
Shared Reading-We read a story called "This is my School." We practiced our reading skills of stretching words and using beginning sounds and picture clues.
Stations-We had 4 stations today. The yellow station was working on two pages of our abc art book. We worked on Xx and Ww. The blue station was making our Tiggy Tiger page for our Alpha Friend book. The red station was printing our letters Ss and Mm. The white station was beginning letter sounds activity and reading the book "This is my School.
Rest Time-We read chapters 2 and 3 in "Stanley, Flat Again." Stanley was the sail on a sailboat. He helped to win a sailboat race.
Math-We did calendar. We illustrated numbers from 1-10. They had to draw the correct number of circles to match the number. We talked about diamonds/rhombus. We made a kite that was symmetrical. We used triangles to make diamonds.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day 5 Alive. We saw some 5th grade students doing a step routine. We saw some 4th grade students with their hat inventions. A few 3rd grade students read poetry.
*Please send snowpants if it is wet out. Our playground is very muddy and wet.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Nov. 12
Morning Meeting-We did the Bubble Gum song and the Bennie Bear song.
Specials-We went to music
Read Aloud-We read Bubble Bear
Shared Reading-We read the Nursery Rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep
Reading Activity-We went on a Bb hunt. We practiced writing letters. We wrote Bb and Rr. We made our Benny Bear book page.
Special Event-Mrs. Schultz, our school nurse, came to talk to us about germs. We learned what germs are, how they can be spread and how we can get rid of them by washing our hands. We learned a song to help us get all of the germs off of our hands. We talked about good times to wash our hands. We did a science experiment. Mrs. Schultz put "germs" on Mrs. Milow's hands. Then she showed the "germs" with a black light. My "germs" were spread onto Mrs. Schultz. Then I washed using our new hand washing song as my guide. We looked at my hands under the black light again and the germs were gone.
Rest Time-We started our new chapter book-Stanely, Flat Again.
Math-We did calendar and calendar book. We had rectangle day in math. We compared a rectangle and circle and then a rectangle and a square. We went on a rectangle hunt. We made a person with rectangles. We made domino rectangles and practiced addition.
Social-We talked about where we live. We live on Earth. We live on the continent of North America. We live in the country of the United States of America. We live in the state of Minnesota. We live in the town of Rockford (or Buffalo, Corcoran or Greenfield). We looked on a map of the Earth and found our continent and our country. We looked on a USA map to find our state and our town.
*Please send boots and snowpants if it is wet or snowy outside. Please label all outside clothes.
Specials-We went to music
Read Aloud-We read Bubble Bear
Shared Reading-We read the Nursery Rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep
Reading Activity-We went on a Bb hunt. We practiced writing letters. We wrote Bb and Rr. We made our Benny Bear book page.
Special Event-Mrs. Schultz, our school nurse, came to talk to us about germs. We learned what germs are, how they can be spread and how we can get rid of them by washing our hands. We learned a song to help us get all of the germs off of our hands. We talked about good times to wash our hands. We did a science experiment. Mrs. Schultz put "germs" on Mrs. Milow's hands. Then she showed the "germs" with a black light. My "germs" were spread onto Mrs. Schultz. Then I washed using our new hand washing song as my guide. We looked at my hands under the black light again and the germs were gone.
Rest Time-We started our new chapter book-Stanely, Flat Again.
Math-We did calendar and calendar book. We had rectangle day in math. We compared a rectangle and circle and then a rectangle and a square. We went on a rectangle hunt. We made a person with rectangles. We made domino rectangles and practiced addition.
Social-We talked about where we live. We live on Earth. We live on the continent of North America. We live in the country of the United States of America. We live in the state of Minnesota. We live in the town of Rockford (or Buffalo, Corcoran or Greenfield). We looked on a map of the Earth and found our continent and our country. We looked on a USA map to find our state and our town.
*Please send boots and snowpants if it is wet or snowy outside. Please label all outside clothes.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Nov. 10
Morning Meeting-We introduced our new Alpha Friend, Bennie Bear, today. We did the Bennie Bear song for our movement. We shared the letter bucket, Surprise Suitcase and the Star Suitcase. Sara shared the Star Suitcase today.
Bathroom Procedures-We had to spend some time today talking about appropriate times to use the bathroom in the kindergarten room. Lately we have had many students taking advantage of our open bathroom policy. So today we brainstormed the best times of the day to use the bathroom. We made a poster with green light times and red light times. We found out there are many more times in the day that are good times to use the bathroom ("green" light times to use the bathroom). When Mrs. Milow is giving directions or teaching a lesson it is a "red" light time. We still have an open bathroom policy, but we are trying to use better times of the day to use the bathroom so it does not interrupt our learning. Mrs. Milow is giving reminders to use the "green" light times to use the bathroom before we have a learning time at our learning circle.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today.
Special Event-Bob Gasch came to our school today to share a Paul Bunyan story with us. He told the story without using a book. It was very funny. Ask your child what Paul Bunyan ate for breakfast. He will be back in our school tomorrow night for our family literacy night from 6:30 to 7:30. Bring your family and a blanket for a fun night listening to stories about going to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving.
Read Aloud-We read "Arthur's Family Vacation"
Rest Time-We read our chapter book, "Flat Stanley". We read the chapter about Stanley tricking the sneaky thieves at the museum. Tomorrow we will finish our first chapter book.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar book. We had square day in math. We found out a square is different from a rectangle because all four of its sides are exactly the same. Some of our students found 100 or more squares in our classroom during the square hunt. The students used tally marks to keep track of how many squares they found. We made patterns using squares and pictures using squares.
*Please mark all of your child's outdoor clothes if possible. Some of our clothes are already getting lost. Thanks for your help.
Bathroom Procedures-We had to spend some time today talking about appropriate times to use the bathroom in the kindergarten room. Lately we have had many students taking advantage of our open bathroom policy. So today we brainstormed the best times of the day to use the bathroom. We made a poster with green light times and red light times. We found out there are many more times in the day that are good times to use the bathroom ("green" light times to use the bathroom). When Mrs. Milow is giving directions or teaching a lesson it is a "red" light time. We still have an open bathroom policy, but we are trying to use better times of the day to use the bathroom so it does not interrupt our learning. Mrs. Milow is giving reminders to use the "green" light times to use the bathroom before we have a learning time at our learning circle.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today.
Special Event-Bob Gasch came to our school today to share a Paul Bunyan story with us. He told the story without using a book. It was very funny. Ask your child what Paul Bunyan ate for breakfast. He will be back in our school tomorrow night for our family literacy night from 6:30 to 7:30. Bring your family and a blanket for a fun night listening to stories about going to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving.
Read Aloud-We read "Arthur's Family Vacation"
Rest Time-We read our chapter book, "Flat Stanley". We read the chapter about Stanley tricking the sneaky thieves at the museum. Tomorrow we will finish our first chapter book.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar book. We had square day in math. We found out a square is different from a rectangle because all four of its sides are exactly the same. Some of our students found 100 or more squares in our classroom during the square hunt. The students used tally marks to keep track of how many squares they found. We made patterns using squares and pictures using squares.
*Please mark all of your child's outdoor clothes if possible. Some of our clothes are already getting lost. Thanks for your help.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Nov. 6
Morning Meeting-We did the Tiggy Tiger song today for movement. We shared the Surprise Suitcase, Letter Bucket and the Star Suitcase today. Ryan B. shared the Star Suitcase. We learned he has a dog named Thomas, his favorite color is green and he likes dinosaurs. We shared 5 more family pictures.
Specials- We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read Tortillas and Lullabies.
Shared Reading-Rainy Day
Stations-We had 4 stations today. The stations were leaf rubbings, fall trees with dot painters, beginning letter activities and family portraits. The students loved visiting all of the stations. I am going to put up the art projects in the classroom before sending them home.
Reading Activity-We practiced blending words and then had independent reading for 6 minutes.
Rest time-We read chapter 3 of Flat Stanely.
Math-We had circle day today. We made circle puppets. We sang a circle song. We spelled the word circle. We did a circle hunt. We made a picture using circles.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day 5 alive today. Mrs. Jurek's class sang 3 alpha friend songs.
Specials- We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read Tortillas and Lullabies.
Shared Reading-Rainy Day
Stations-We had 4 stations today. The stations were leaf rubbings, fall trees with dot painters, beginning letter activities and family portraits. The students loved visiting all of the stations. I am going to put up the art projects in the classroom before sending them home.
Reading Activity-We practiced blending words and then had independent reading for 6 minutes.
Rest time-We read chapter 3 of Flat Stanely.
Math-We had circle day today. We made circle puppets. We sang a circle song. We spelled the word circle. We did a circle hunt. We made a picture using circles.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day 5 alive today. Mrs. Jurek's class sang 3 alpha friend songs.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Nov. 5
Morning Meeting-We did the "Tiggy Tiger" song for movement along with"Touch your Nose to your toes". For our quick share, we shared 5 more family photos. Sara, Austin, Connor, Tyler and Torrey shared today. They are bringing home their baby clothes and baby photo. The family photo is going up on our bulletin board.
Specials-We played drums in music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Shoes from Grandpa".
Shared Reading-We read a poem called "The Family". We found rhyming words. We looked for words that were the same. We found all of the family words.
Reading Actvities-We introduced family words (mom, dad, brother, sister...). We picked out new books for our independent reading. We had independent reading.
Writer's Workshop-We talked about using a space between words. We also talked about using a period to end our sentence. We practiced using our alphabet chart in our folders to help us spell. Then we had 15 minutes to write independently. We shared our stories in our learning circle. Some of us wrote about our families. Some wrote about Halloween.
Rest Time-We started reading a chapter book together during rest time today. We started reading "Flat Stanely" by Jeff Brown. We read chapters 1 and 2 today. Most of the students were very excited to start a chapter book. Ask your child how Stanley got flat. Ask how Stanely went to California.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar book. We started our November calendar today. We did our family graph as a class and then we made individual graphs to take home. We found out that 8 kids in our class have 4 people in their family. Have them tell you about the rest of our graph.
Specials-We played drums in music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Shoes from Grandpa".
Shared Reading-We read a poem called "The Family". We found rhyming words. We looked for words that were the same. We found all of the family words.
Reading Actvities-We introduced family words (mom, dad, brother, sister...). We picked out new books for our independent reading. We had independent reading.
Writer's Workshop-We talked about using a space between words. We also talked about using a period to end our sentence. We practiced using our alphabet chart in our folders to help us spell. Then we had 15 minutes to write independently. We shared our stories in our learning circle. Some of us wrote about our families. Some wrote about Halloween.
Rest Time-We started reading a chapter book together during rest time today. We started reading "Flat Stanely" by Jeff Brown. We read chapters 1 and 2 today. Most of the students were very excited to start a chapter book. Ask your child how Stanley got flat. Ask how Stanely went to California.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar book. We started our November calendar today. We did our family graph as a class and then we made individual graphs to take home. We found out that 8 kids in our class have 4 people in their family. Have them tell you about the rest of our graph.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Nov. 4
Happy Election Day!
We are excited to announce that we have a new student in our room. His name is Ryan S. His first day was today. The kids were very excited to welcome a new friend to our room.
Morning Meeting-We introduced ourselves to our new student and shared something fun we did over the weekend for our quick share. We introduced our new AlphaFriend "Tiggy Tiger" today. We shared 5 family photos today. If your child shared his/her family photo, then I sent home the baby clothes and picture. Please look for them in their backpacks. Today was Logan, Charlie, Gavin, Rayna and Cooper.
*New homework was sent home today for the letter Tt.
Specials-We had art today. We used clay and we painted with Mrs. Karg.
Shared Reading-We read a poem called "Some Families". We practiced our blending skills and we also looked for rhyming words.
Read Aloud-We read "Arthur Meets the President".
Reading Activity-We reviewed the letter sounds "S-M-R". We took a practice assessment on those sounds. The practice came home today. Then we went to our independent learning spots and took the assessment on the sounds.
Rest Time-We had Independent Reading during rest time
Math-We did calendar and workjobs. Many students have now finished the first set of workjobs and are starting on the second set. The first set had patterns, number matching, number order, number recognition for numbers 1-12. The second set has similar activities, but we are working on numbers 1-100. The first few sets of workjobs are working on numbers 1-31. The last sets go all the way up to 100. Thank you to all of our volunteers who helped today-Dawn, Beth and John.
Social-We talked about the election today. I introduced the presidential candidates. We talked about the voting process. Then we had our own kindergarten presidential election. I set up a voting booth. Each student came up to the voting booth and voted on a ballet and put the ballet in the secret ballet box. Then they got a "I Voted" sticker to wear. We talked about how voting is private and you don't have to tell who you voted for. We also talked about how old they had to be to vote in a real presidential election. We had our secret ballot counter, (Ben's dad), count our votes. Fourteen of our students voted for Barack Obama and 8 voted for John McCain. The students really enjoyed "voting". It was very fun! Happy voting everyone!
We are excited to announce that we have a new student in our room. His name is Ryan S. His first day was today. The kids were very excited to welcome a new friend to our room.
Morning Meeting-We introduced ourselves to our new student and shared something fun we did over the weekend for our quick share. We introduced our new AlphaFriend "Tiggy Tiger" today. We shared 5 family photos today. If your child shared his/her family photo, then I sent home the baby clothes and picture. Please look for them in their backpacks. Today was Logan, Charlie, Gavin, Rayna and Cooper.
*New homework was sent home today for the letter Tt.
Specials-We had art today. We used clay and we painted with Mrs. Karg.
Shared Reading-We read a poem called "Some Families". We practiced our blending skills and we also looked for rhyming words.
Read Aloud-We read "Arthur Meets the President".
Reading Activity-We reviewed the letter sounds "S-M-R". We took a practice assessment on those sounds. The practice came home today. Then we went to our independent learning spots and took the assessment on the sounds.
Rest Time-We had Independent Reading during rest time
Math-We did calendar and workjobs. Many students have now finished the first set of workjobs and are starting on the second set. The first set had patterns, number matching, number order, number recognition for numbers 1-12. The second set has similar activities, but we are working on numbers 1-100. The first few sets of workjobs are working on numbers 1-31. The last sets go all the way up to 100. Thank you to all of our volunteers who helped today-Dawn, Beth and John.
Social-We talked about the election today. I introduced the presidential candidates. We talked about the voting process. Then we had our own kindergarten presidential election. I set up a voting booth. Each student came up to the voting booth and voted on a ballet and put the ballet in the secret ballet box. Then they got a "I Voted" sticker to wear. We talked about how voting is private and you don't have to tell who you voted for. We also talked about how old they had to be to vote in a real presidential election. We had our secret ballot counter, (Ben's dad), count our votes. Fourteen of our students voted for Barack Obama and 8 voted for John McCain. The students really enjoyed "voting". It was very fun! Happy voting everyone!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Oct. 31
Happy Halloween!
Morning Meeting-We sang "What costume will you wear?" for our quick share. We did the Tooty Ta and the Silly Pirate Song.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today.
Read Aloud-Inside a Haunted House
Shared Reading-Jack-O-Faces
Reading Activities-We did our Nursery Rhyme page in our Kindergarten Memory Books.
Writer's Workshop-We wrote independently for 10 minutes in writer's workshop. We shared our stories before lunch. Many kids wrote about Halloween and Trick or Treating.
Nursery Rhyme Party-We did our Nursery Rhyme Rap, We paraded around the building and we recited our Nursery Rhymes. Then we had stations. We had charades, I'm a little teapot puzzles, snack station and an egg drop station for Humpty Dumpty. It was a wonderful party. Thank you to all of the parents who came to help today. The kids had a great time!!!
Morning Meeting-We sang "What costume will you wear?" for our quick share. We did the Tooty Ta and the Silly Pirate Song.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today.
Read Aloud-Inside a Haunted House
Shared Reading-Jack-O-Faces
Reading Activities-We did our Nursery Rhyme page in our Kindergarten Memory Books.
Writer's Workshop-We wrote independently for 10 minutes in writer's workshop. We shared our stories before lunch. Many kids wrote about Halloween and Trick or Treating.
Nursery Rhyme Party-We did our Nursery Rhyme Rap, We paraded around the building and we recited our Nursery Rhymes. Then we had stations. We had charades, I'm a little teapot puzzles, snack station and an egg drop station for Humpty Dumpty. It was a wonderful party. Thank you to all of the parents who came to help today. The kids had a great time!!!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Oct. 30
Morning Meeting-We did all 3 AlpahFriend songs. We shared something we were looking forward to for our quick share. Many kids are very excited about trick or treating.
Specials-We had phy. Ed. and librart today
Read Aloud-We read "Rosie's Red Radish". There were lots of "Rr"s in this book.
Reading Activity-We went on a "Rr"hunt. We found "Rr"s in the Reggie Rooster song. We did a coloring sample in our Kindergarten memory books. We made our Reggie Rooster page.
Math-We did calendar and we finished our October calendars in our calendar books since we will not have time to do math tomorrow with our Nursery rhyme party.
We did candy corn math also. We sorted and counted our candy corn and pumpkin candies. We made patterns with our candy. We measured with our candy. The math sheet and extra candy corn came home today.
Specials-We had phy. Ed. and librart today
Read Aloud-We read "Rosie's Red Radish". There were lots of "Rr"s in this book.
Reading Activity-We went on a "Rr"hunt. We found "Rr"s in the Reggie Rooster song. We did a coloring sample in our Kindergarten memory books. We made our Reggie Rooster page.
Math-We did calendar and we finished our October calendars in our calendar books since we will not have time to do math tomorrow with our Nursery rhyme party.
We did candy corn math also. We sorted and counted our candy corn and pumpkin candies. We made patterns with our candy. We measured with our candy. The math sheet and extra candy corn came home today.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Oct. 29
Tomorrow is library day.
Morning Meeting-We spend most of our morning meeting practicing our Day 5 Alive song.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "My Crayons Talk" and "The Crayon Box That Talked".
Snack-We had our wonderful fruit salad. Thank you for all of the fruit donations. We had a colorful and fun snack today.
Table Activity-We did our favorite color page in our Kindergarten Memory book. We also practiced our cutting skills with a pumpkin puzzle.
Rest Time-We practiced our Day 5 Alive song
Math-We did calendar and workjobs. Thank you to Ms. Aker, Beth and Amie for helping with workjobs today.
Day 5 Alive-We had lots of fun singing our Nursery Rhyme Rap at Day 5 Alive. Thank you for sending the costumes in early. They were great! We look forward to wearing them again on Friday.
Morning Meeting-We spend most of our morning meeting practicing our Day 5 Alive song.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "My Crayons Talk" and "The Crayon Box That Talked".
Snack-We had our wonderful fruit salad. Thank you for all of the fruit donations. We had a colorful and fun snack today.
Table Activity-We did our favorite color page in our Kindergarten Memory book. We also practiced our cutting skills with a pumpkin puzzle.
Rest Time-We practiced our Day 5 Alive song
Math-We did calendar and workjobs. Thank you to Ms. Aker, Beth and Amie for helping with workjobs today.
Day 5 Alive-We had lots of fun singing our Nursery Rhyme Rap at Day 5 Alive. Thank you for sending the costumes in early. They were great! We look forward to wearing them again on Friday.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Oct. 28
Tomorrow is favorite color day! Wear your favorite color. It is also fruit salad day. Please send in the fruit tomorrow.
It is also Day 5 Alive tomorrow. Please send in Nursery Rhyme costume.
Today was white day. We celebrated Gavin's birthday today!
Morning Meeting-We practiced our Nursery Rhyme Rap for Day 5 Alive. We also did Surprise Suitcase, the letter bucket and the Happy Dance
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "The White Book" and "In The Big Blue Sea".
Reading Activities-We picked new books and had Independent Reading.
Special Activity-We had vision and hearing tests today.
Rest Time- We listened to "Never Ride Your Elephant to School".
Math-We did calendar and introduction to subtraction. We used 10 links, a dice and white boards. We shook the dice and then subtracted that number of links, then we wrote a number sentence to go with our math.
Writer's Workshop-We practiced writing some of our sight words of white boards. Then we wrote a sentence on our white boards using our word wall and by stretching out our words. We wrote "I like my cat". Then we spent 10 minutes writing in our writing folders. We finished by sharing our work.
It is also Day 5 Alive tomorrow. Please send in Nursery Rhyme costume.
Today was white day. We celebrated Gavin's birthday today!
Morning Meeting-We practiced our Nursery Rhyme Rap for Day 5 Alive. We also did Surprise Suitcase, the letter bucket and the Happy Dance
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "The White Book" and "In The Big Blue Sea".
Reading Activities-We picked new books and had Independent Reading.
Special Activity-We had vision and hearing tests today.
Rest Time- We listened to "Never Ride Your Elephant to School".
Math-We did calendar and introduction to subtraction. We used 10 links, a dice and white boards. We shook the dice and then subtracted that number of links, then we wrote a number sentence to go with our math.
Writer's Workshop-We practiced writing some of our sight words of white boards. Then we wrote a sentence on our white boards using our word wall and by stretching out our words. We wrote "I like my cat". Then we spent 10 minutes writing in our writing folders. We finished by sharing our work.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Oct. 27
Today was brown day. Tomorrow is white day.
*Reminders-
*Please send Nursery Rhyme costumes of Wednesday for Day 5 Alive. We will be using them for our performance at 2:10
*Favorite color day/Fruit Salad Day is Wednesday
*Library Day is Thursday
*Nursery Rhyme Party is Friday
Morning Meeting-We practiced our Nursery Rhyme Rap for Day 5 Alive. We also did the Reggie Rooster song. We shared exciting things that happened over the weekend. We had some stitches and some lost teeth this weekend. Along with Surprise Suitcase and Letter Bucket, we had our first person share the Star Suitcase. Rayna shared the book she made along with two of her favorite toys. We learned a lot about Rayna today.
Learning Goals-I met with half of the class to write learning goals today during free choice time. Each student had to tell me something he/she wanted to learn in kindergarten. I helped guide them in their decisions.
Specials-We had art today
Read Aloud-"Brown at the Zoo"
Shared Reading-"I See Brown" book
Reading Activity-I introduced Reggie Rooster today. We also had Independent Reading. We introduced Shared Reading (partner reading). We talked about the guidelines for Shared Reading and we modeled the behavior. Then we practiced Shared reading with a partner. We read the book "School" together.
Rest Time-We listened to "Froggy Plays T-ball".
Math-We did calendar and calendar book today. We measured things with our body parts. We measured with our hands, fingers, feet and arms. We recorded our measurements and shared what we measured after we were finished.
We ended our day by practicing our Day 5 Alive song and having a short playtime.
*Reminders-
*Please send Nursery Rhyme costumes of Wednesday for Day 5 Alive. We will be using them for our performance at 2:10
*Favorite color day/Fruit Salad Day is Wednesday
*Library Day is Thursday
*Nursery Rhyme Party is Friday
Morning Meeting-We practiced our Nursery Rhyme Rap for Day 5 Alive. We also did the Reggie Rooster song. We shared exciting things that happened over the weekend. We had some stitches and some lost teeth this weekend. Along with Surprise Suitcase and Letter Bucket, we had our first person share the Star Suitcase. Rayna shared the book she made along with two of her favorite toys. We learned a lot about Rayna today.
Learning Goals-I met with half of the class to write learning goals today during free choice time. Each student had to tell me something he/she wanted to learn in kindergarten. I helped guide them in their decisions.
Specials-We had art today
Read Aloud-"Brown at the Zoo"
Shared Reading-"I See Brown" book
Reading Activity-I introduced Reggie Rooster today. We also had Independent Reading. We introduced Shared Reading (partner reading). We talked about the guidelines for Shared Reading and we modeled the behavior. Then we practiced Shared reading with a partner. We read the book "School" together.
Rest Time-We listened to "Froggy Plays T-ball".
Math-We did calendar and calendar book today. We measured things with our body parts. We measured with our hands, fingers, feet and arms. We recorded our measurements and shared what we measured after we were finished.
We ended our day by practicing our Day 5 Alive song and having a short playtime.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Oct. 24
Today was black day. Monday is brown day.
Morning meeting-We practiced our Nursery Rhyme Rap. We share our Halloween costumes during our quick share.
Specials-We had phy. ed. today.
Read Aloud-We read "Black Batty Bat" and "Monkey's Miserable Monday".
Shared Reading-We read our mini black books
Reading Activities-We found the "Mms" in the Mimi Mouse song. We made a Mimi Mouse page for our Alpha Friend book. We went on a Mm hunt around the classroom. We had independent reading for 6 minutes with 4 new booksof our choice in our book bags.
Rest Time-We listened to "Llama Llama Mad at Mama".
Math-We did calendar. We also measure classroom items with a balance or rocker scale. We predicted which object would be heaviest and which would be lightest. Then we measured the items. We put them in order from heaviest to lightest. Then we measure the items with links. We found out if our predictions were correct. After doing this activity as a group, we split up into smaller groups to measure an object individually.
Science-We did a movement activity for color mixing. Each student got a primary color streamer (red, yellow, blue). When I held up a secondary color (purple, orange, green), the students that had a color used to make the color got up in the circle with their streamer and "mixed" their color with the other primary color. This was a fun way to review color mixing.
Have a great weekend.
Morning meeting-We practiced our Nursery Rhyme Rap. We share our Halloween costumes during our quick share.
Specials-We had phy. ed. today.
Read Aloud-We read "Black Batty Bat" and "Monkey's Miserable Monday".
Shared Reading-We read our mini black books
Reading Activities-We found the "Mms" in the Mimi Mouse song. We made a Mimi Mouse page for our Alpha Friend book. We went on a Mm hunt around the classroom. We had independent reading for 6 minutes with 4 new booksof our choice in our book bags.
Rest Time-We listened to "Llama Llama Mad at Mama".
Math-We did calendar. We also measure classroom items with a balance or rocker scale. We predicted which object would be heaviest and which would be lightest. Then we measured the items. We put them in order from heaviest to lightest. Then we measure the items with links. We found out if our predictions were correct. After doing this activity as a group, we split up into smaller groups to measure an object individually.
Science-We did a movement activity for color mixing. Each student got a primary color streamer (red, yellow, blue). When I held up a secondary color (purple, orange, green), the students that had a color used to make the color got up in the circle with their streamer and "mixed" their color with the other primary color. This was a fun way to review color mixing.
Have a great weekend.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Oct 23
Tomorrow is black day!
Morning Meeting-We did the Shape and Freeze movement song. We shared our favorite fruit-many students like strawberries. We also worked on our Nursery Rhyme Rap for Day 5 Alive.
Specials-We went to Phy. Ed. and library.
Read Aloud-Pink Takes a Bow
Shared Reading-I See Pink
Reading Activities-We made the pink mini book. We also practiced our Independent Reading. We read for 6 minutes today. We reviewed the rules and expectations. Tomorrow we are picking new books for our book bags. We reviewed 4 of our sight words-I, see, my and like. The four words came home in our learning to read bags. Please practice them at home. Knowing these words will help during reading and writing activities.
Writer's Workshop-We looked at our mini-word wall in our writing folders. We highlighted all of the letters. We found some of our sight words on our little word walls. We talked about how we could use the word walls during writer's workshop.
Rest Time-We listened to "The New Bear at School".
Math- We did calendar and calendar book. We explored the penny today. We looked at it closely with our magnifying glass. We found the date and some words including one cent. We found the heads side and tails side. We played a flip the coin game. We flipped the coin and marked tally marks for heads or tails.
Science-Color Mixing-We did a color mixing center using color paddles. We also ate ice cream to celebrate earning 50 super stars for Star Behavior. We used food colors to explore mixing colors while we ate our ice cream. It was a fun and yummy way to mix colors.
Morning Meeting-We did the Shape and Freeze movement song. We shared our favorite fruit-many students like strawberries. We also worked on our Nursery Rhyme Rap for Day 5 Alive.
Specials-We went to Phy. Ed. and library.
Read Aloud-Pink Takes a Bow
Shared Reading-I See Pink
Reading Activities-We made the pink mini book. We also practiced our Independent Reading. We read for 6 minutes today. We reviewed the rules and expectations. Tomorrow we are picking new books for our book bags. We reviewed 4 of our sight words-I, see, my and like. The four words came home in our learning to read bags. Please practice them at home. Knowing these words will help during reading and writing activities.
Writer's Workshop-We looked at our mini-word wall in our writing folders. We highlighted all of the letters. We found some of our sight words on our little word walls. We talked about how we could use the word walls during writer's workshop.
Rest Time-We listened to "The New Bear at School".
Math- We did calendar and calendar book. We explored the penny today. We looked at it closely with our magnifying glass. We found the date and some words including one cent. We found the heads side and tails side. We played a flip the coin game. We flipped the coin and marked tally marks for heads or tails.
Science-Color Mixing-We did a color mixing center using color paddles. We also ate ice cream to celebrate earning 50 super stars for Star Behavior. We used food colors to explore mixing colors while we ate our ice cream. It was a fun and yummy way to mix colors.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Oct. 22
Tomorrow is Library Day. It is also Pink Day!
*Just a reminder...Our Nursery Rhyme party is Friday, October 31. Please have your child pick a nursery rhyme and practice saying it. Help them to make or find an easy costume to go with the Nursery Rhyme.
Morning Meeting-We did the Color March for our movement activity. We shared what Nursery Rhyme we are going to say at the party.
We had Music today.
Read Aloud-Mouse Paint-it is a story about mixing colors
Shared Reading-"Purple" book...I see a purple balloon
Reading Activity-Today we started Independent Reading. We talked about 3 ways to read a book-read the words, read the pictures or retell the story. We then talked about what our room should look like when we are having Independent Reading time. Our three rules were 1.Reading 2. Quiet 3. stay in spot. Each student got a "book bag" with 4 books inside. Each student went to their own special Independent Reading spot and "read" the books inside the bag. The students did a great job reading independently today.
Writer's Workshop-We reviewed stretching out words to hear the sounds and write the words. We spent 20 minutes writing individually.
Rest Time-We read our class books-"Lunch Box Book", "I Went Walking" and "Favorite Color" book.
Math-Calendar and workjobs. We had Ryan's mom, Beth, and Charlie's mom, Maggie, came to help today. Workjobs are math centers. The centers were patterns, matching numbers, counting numbers and ordering numbers. Each student has a card. After he/she finishes an activity, an adult checks and marks it on his card.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day Five Alive in the gym. We saw Mrs. Johnson's 1st grade class do a movement activity for the seasons of an apple tree. We saw some 4th graders play the piano. We all sang the Rockford Elementary song and the Happy Dance
*Just a reminder...Our Nursery Rhyme party is Friday, October 31. Please have your child pick a nursery rhyme and practice saying it. Help them to make or find an easy costume to go with the Nursery Rhyme.
Morning Meeting-We did the Color March for our movement activity. We shared what Nursery Rhyme we are going to say at the party.
We had Music today.
Read Aloud-Mouse Paint-it is a story about mixing colors
Shared Reading-"Purple" book...I see a purple balloon
Reading Activity-Today we started Independent Reading. We talked about 3 ways to read a book-read the words, read the pictures or retell the story. We then talked about what our room should look like when we are having Independent Reading time. Our three rules were 1.Reading 2. Quiet 3. stay in spot. Each student got a "book bag" with 4 books inside. Each student went to their own special Independent Reading spot and "read" the books inside the bag. The students did a great job reading independently today.
Writer's Workshop-We reviewed stretching out words to hear the sounds and write the words. We spent 20 minutes writing individually.
Rest Time-We read our class books-"Lunch Box Book", "I Went Walking" and "Favorite Color" book.
Math-Calendar and workjobs. We had Ryan's mom, Beth, and Charlie's mom, Maggie, came to help today. Workjobs are math centers. The centers were patterns, matching numbers, counting numbers and ordering numbers. Each student has a card. After he/she finishes an activity, an adult checks and marks it on his card.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day Five Alive in the gym. We saw Mrs. Johnson's 1st grade class do a movement activity for the seasons of an apple tree. We saw some 4th graders play the piano. We all sang the Rockford Elementary song and the Happy Dance
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Oct. 21
Today was orange day!
Morning Meeting-We sang the Mimi Mouse song. We shared about our pumpkins for our quick share.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Pumpkin, Pumpkin" and "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever".
Shared Reading-We read a poem called "Orange Pumpkin"
Reading Activity-We made our orange mini book. We finished our color book today with our orange page. The students brought home the color book.
Writer's Workshop-We spent some time practicing stretching out our words to sound them out and write them on white boards. We spent 15 minutes independent writing. I am meeting with individual students to go through the work they have done so far. If I have met with your child, he/she brought home some of their writing. I saved 3 to 4 pieces for conferences and to show how their work is growing and progressing.
Rest Time-I read the story "Big Pumpkin" and we listened to the story "Yes We Can!".
MATH-We did calendar. Then we did patterns. We first did number counting patterns (1-2, 1-2, 1-2 is an abab pattern 1-1-2,1-1-2 is an aab pattern 1-1-2-2,1-1-2-2 is an aabb pattern). then we did patterns with our bodies (clap, tap, tap is an abb pattern and a turn, turn, jump is an aab pattern). Then we used attribute blocks to make patterns. We made two, three and four color patterns. We chose our favorite pattern to draw on paper. We also labeled our patterns with the letters (ABABAB).
Social-We talked about caring today. We brainstormed ways we could be caring and helpful at school. We talked about how that makes us feel good to help others. We read the story "Heartprints" by P.K. Hallinan. I am going to be looking for heartprints in kindergarten. A heartprint is a kind and caring act to another person. If I catch someone giving a heartprint to another student, I will give them a little red heart. If your child comes home with a heart, s/he did something kind at school. We talked about me not always seeing the heartprints. Eventually, I would like to have the kids give each other heartprints. I hope this starts highlighting all of the good things that kids do for others and hopefully downplaying all of the negative things.
Morning Meeting-We sang the Mimi Mouse song. We shared about our pumpkins for our quick share.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Pumpkin, Pumpkin" and "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever".
Shared Reading-We read a poem called "Orange Pumpkin"
Reading Activity-We made our orange mini book. We finished our color book today with our orange page. The students brought home the color book.
Writer's Workshop-We spent some time practicing stretching out our words to sound them out and write them on white boards. We spent 15 minutes independent writing. I am meeting with individual students to go through the work they have done so far. If I have met with your child, he/she brought home some of their writing. I saved 3 to 4 pieces for conferences and to show how their work is growing and progressing.
Rest Time-I read the story "Big Pumpkin" and we listened to the story "Yes We Can!".
MATH-We did calendar. Then we did patterns. We first did number counting patterns (1-2, 1-2, 1-2 is an abab pattern 1-1-2,1-1-2 is an aab pattern 1-1-2-2,1-1-2-2 is an aabb pattern). then we did patterns with our bodies (clap, tap, tap is an abb pattern and a turn, turn, jump is an aab pattern). Then we used attribute blocks to make patterns. We made two, three and four color patterns. We chose our favorite pattern to draw on paper. We also labeled our patterns with the letters (ABABAB).
Social-We talked about caring today. We brainstormed ways we could be caring and helpful at school. We talked about how that makes us feel good to help others. We read the story "Heartprints" by P.K. Hallinan. I am going to be looking for heartprints in kindergarten. A heartprint is a kind and caring act to another person. If I catch someone giving a heartprint to another student, I will give them a little red heart. If your child comes home with a heart, s/he did something kind at school. We talked about me not always seeing the heartprints. Eventually, I would like to have the kids give each other heartprints. I hope this starts highlighting all of the good things that kids do for others and hopefully downplaying all of the negative things.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Oct. 20
I am back from Jamaica! We changed our trip from Mexico to Jamaica because of the hurricane hitting Mexico on the same day we were supposed to arrive.
I missed the students and am excited to be back. I got lots of hugs today. Hope all of you had nice long weekends
Morning Meeting-We introduced our new Alpha Friend today-Mimi Mouse. For our movement activity we did actions to the Mimi Mouse song. For our quick share, we shared something fun we did while Mrs. Milow was gone. We did Surprise Suitcase and Letter Bucket
specials-We had art today
Reading Activity-It was green day today. For our shared reading, we "read" Go Away Big Green Monster on sentence strips while showing the pictures using the flannel board set. We made our mini green books. We read it to 2 friends. We are making a color book and made the green page today. We made "Big Green Monster" headbands.
*Mimi Mouse homework went home today. It is due on Friday. Everyone turned in the Sammy Seal homework! Thanks for helping your child with their homework!
Rest Time-We read "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Little Green Snake".
Math-Calendar and Calendar book. We played the domino addition game. We rolled the dice and wrote the numbers on the domino play mat. Then we wrote addition sentences to match our dominos.
*We spent some time reviewing classroom rules. The sub had some trouble with kids listening and following directions. We reviewed the rules and talked about how these rules apply even when Mrs. Milow is gone.
I missed the students and am excited to be back. I got lots of hugs today. Hope all of you had nice long weekends
Morning Meeting-We introduced our new Alpha Friend today-Mimi Mouse. For our movement activity we did actions to the Mimi Mouse song. For our quick share, we shared something fun we did while Mrs. Milow was gone. We did Surprise Suitcase and Letter Bucket
specials-We had art today
Reading Activity-It was green day today. For our shared reading, we "read" Go Away Big Green Monster on sentence strips while showing the pictures using the flannel board set. We made our mini green books. We read it to 2 friends. We are making a color book and made the green page today. We made "Big Green Monster" headbands.
*Mimi Mouse homework went home today. It is due on Friday. Everyone turned in the Sammy Seal homework! Thanks for helping your child with their homework!
Rest Time-We read "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Little Green Snake".
Math-Calendar and Calendar book. We played the domino addition game. We rolled the dice and wrote the numbers on the domino play mat. Then we wrote addition sentences to match our dominos.
*We spent some time reviewing classroom rules. The sub had some trouble with kids listening and following directions. We reviewed the rules and talked about how these rules apply even when Mrs. Milow is gone.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Oct. 9
Morning Meeting-We did a song similar to "Wheels on the Bus" but used fire truck words. Our quick share this morning was our favorite part of our field trip yesterday. We also made a thank you to the fire fighters.
Specials-We had art today with Mrs. Karg
Read Aloud-Silly Seal Sandwich-There were lots of "Ss" words in this story
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes
Reading Activity-We started our Alpha Friend book. We made our Sammy Seal page.
Computer-We took our last MAPS test-Math 2.
Rest Time-We listened to The Magic School Bus Inside the Bee Hive. We only did half of the story since it is so long. We will finish tomorrow.
Math-Calendar and Calendar Book. We also made a little graph of our class graph about favorite colors. We made a class graph on our birthdays.
Social/Science-We read a book about fire safety called "Fire, Fire". We made our scrapbook page about our fire station field trip.
Reminder-I will be at a workshop tomorrow. I will be stopping in after school and then I will be gone next week. Please send notes and make phone calls. I won't be checking my email after Friday. I will be back Oct. 20.
Specials-We had art today with Mrs. Karg
Read Aloud-Silly Seal Sandwich-There were lots of "Ss" words in this story
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes
Reading Activity-We started our Alpha Friend book. We made our Sammy Seal page.
Computer-We took our last MAPS test-Math 2.
Rest Time-We listened to The Magic School Bus Inside the Bee Hive. We only did half of the story since it is so long. We will finish tomorrow.
Math-Calendar and Calendar Book. We also made a little graph of our class graph about favorite colors. We made a class graph on our birthdays.
Social/Science-We read a book about fire safety called "Fire, Fire". We made our scrapbook page about our fire station field trip.
Reminder-I will be at a workshop tomorrow. I will be stopping in after school and then I will be gone next week. Please send notes and make phone calls. I won't be checking my email after Friday. I will be back Oct. 20.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Oct. 8
Today we went to the Fire Station. We had a great time. We talked about smoke detectors, getting out of the house, having a meeting place at home. We also talked about practicing a fire drill at home. We had a chance to spray the fire hose. We saw the fire suits that fire fighters wear when going to a fire. We got to try on a helmet. We went inside 2 fire trucks. We learned all about the different fire trucks at the Rockford Station. We saw the ladder on the ladder truck to up in the air. One of the fire fighters even went up on the ladder and took our picture. Thank you to all of the fire fighters for taking the time to teach up about fire safety.
Morning Meeting-We did a fire truck song. We shared another baby outfit. We shared the Surprise Suitcase and the Letter Bucket.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. with Mrs. Lingo.
Read Aloud-We read the story "The Fire House". We talked about fire safety rules after reading the story. We also talked about what we were going to see on the Fire Station Field trip.
Reading Activity-We talked about 3 ways to read a book. We talked reading the words, retelling the story and looking at the pictures to tell the story. I reread a book we read earlier this week called Fire House. It is an easy reader. Then we read the book all 3 ways. The students were put in partners to read the book in one of the 3 ways.
Writers Workshop-We talked about being independent writers. We talked about writing the words the best we could by listening to the sounds in the words. We practiced together. We also reviewed what to do when a student finishes a piece of writing. He/she can add to the pictures, add to the words or start a new piece.
We did not have rest time because we were at the fire station.
Math-We did the calendar after returning from the fire station.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Oct. 7
**Field Trip Tomorrow! Please wear a jacket, part of the field trip is outside.***
Morning Meeting-We shared six more baby outfits and pictures. Our bulletin board is almost full. We added a new sharing bucket today. It is our letter bucket. Each day a student will take the letter bucket home and fine objects around the house that start with that letter sound. This week students will be looking for objects that start like Sammy Seal and have the "Ss" sound. We will share the letter bucket during our morning meeting. Movement-Sammy Seal song
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. and Library today.
Snack-Thank you for preparing the students for no milk at snack. It was no bit deal. Most of them said that they already knew about no milk.
Read Aloud-We read "Sammy Seal" by Syd Hoff
Reading Activity-We circled the "Ss" in the Sammy Seal song. We also went on an Ss hunt around the classroom. Have your child go on an Ss hunt at home. Look for all of the Ss in your house.
Rest Time-Rain, Rain Everywhere
Math-Calendar and Calendar book
We also made a favorite color graph as a class. We made comparisons and talked about greater than and less than. We also added up different colors for addition problems.
Special Event-Mrs. Petersmeyer and Mrs. Wharram sang songs and read with the students in the story book room in the library while the teachers had a writer's workshop meeting.
Morning Meeting-We shared six more baby outfits and pictures. Our bulletin board is almost full. We added a new sharing bucket today. It is our letter bucket. Each day a student will take the letter bucket home and fine objects around the house that start with that letter sound. This week students will be looking for objects that start like Sammy Seal and have the "Ss" sound. We will share the letter bucket during our morning meeting. Movement-Sammy Seal song
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. and Library today.
Snack-Thank you for preparing the students for no milk at snack. It was no bit deal. Most of them said that they already knew about no milk.
Read Aloud-We read "Sammy Seal" by Syd Hoff
Reading Activity-We circled the "Ss" in the Sammy Seal song. We also went on an Ss hunt around the classroom. Have your child go on an Ss hunt at home. Look for all of the Ss in your house.
Rest Time-Rain, Rain Everywhere
Math-Calendar and Calendar book
We also made a favorite color graph as a class. We made comparisons and talked about greater than and less than. We also added up different colors for addition problems.
Special Event-Mrs. Petersmeyer and Mrs. Wharram sang songs and read with the students in the story book room in the library while the teachers had a writer's workshop meeting.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Oct. 6
Happy Monday!
Today we started our day with free choice playtime. Last week we didn't get to do it as often since we were busy searching for our gingerbread man.
Morning Meeting-For our movement activity, we went on a gingerbread man hunt...we went up a tree, over a bridge, jumped over an alligator and across a river on the back of a fox until we got to a gingerbread house. We "chased" him and caught him and ate him. We shared our favorite color today because we are starting our new theme on Colors. We also shared 5 more baby outfits and photos.
Specials-We had music today
Read Aloud-We read "The Cookie Girl" and a special talking Gingerbread Man story.
Shared Reading-"I Love Colors" poem
Reading Activities-I introduced our new AlphaFriend-Sammy Seal. We listened to his song and brainstormed other "Ss" words. I introduced the homework. We wrote "Ss" letters and words on white boards. We added another page to our Kindergarten Memory books. We did the Gingerbread man page.
*Mrs. Seig was a substitute teacher for the afternoon. I was getting ready for Day 5 Alive with the other members of the ACE team.
Rest Time-We listened to"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" story and song.
Math-Calendar and introduction to clocks. We learned about O'clock. We practiced as a whole group and then used dice to play a partner game with the clock.
Science/Social-Fire Saftey-We read the story "The Fire House" as in introduction to fire safety. We spent time brainstorming all of the fire safety rules we already know.
Special Event-Day Five Alive-We had a whole school get together in the gym at the end of the day. Day Five Alive is a way for our school to celebrate all of the learning that is going on. We will see performances by different groups of kids at different grade levels. Today we had a skit performed by the ACE team about how to be a good audience for Day Five Alive. We also watched some 4th grade students perform on the world drums. We learned the Rockford Elementary song along with the Happy Dance. It was a fun time.
See you tonight at the parent meeting-6:30 in my classroom.
Today we started our day with free choice playtime. Last week we didn't get to do it as often since we were busy searching for our gingerbread man.
Morning Meeting-For our movement activity, we went on a gingerbread man hunt...we went up a tree, over a bridge, jumped over an alligator and across a river on the back of a fox until we got to a gingerbread house. We "chased" him and caught him and ate him. We shared our favorite color today because we are starting our new theme on Colors. We also shared 5 more baby outfits and photos.
Specials-We had music today
Read Aloud-We read "The Cookie Girl" and a special talking Gingerbread Man story.
Shared Reading-"I Love Colors" poem
Reading Activities-I introduced our new AlphaFriend-Sammy Seal. We listened to his song and brainstormed other "Ss" words. I introduced the homework. We wrote "Ss" letters and words on white boards. We added another page to our Kindergarten Memory books. We did the Gingerbread man page.
*Mrs. Seig was a substitute teacher for the afternoon. I was getting ready for Day 5 Alive with the other members of the ACE team.
Rest Time-We listened to"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" story and song.
Math-Calendar and introduction to clocks. We learned about O'clock. We practiced as a whole group and then used dice to play a partner game with the clock.
Science/Social-Fire Saftey-We read the story "The Fire House" as in introduction to fire safety. We spent time brainstorming all of the fire safety rules we already know.
Special Event-Day Five Alive-We had a whole school get together in the gym at the end of the day. Day Five Alive is a way for our school to celebrate all of the learning that is going on. We will see performances by different groups of kids at different grade levels. Today we had a skit performed by the ACE team about how to be a good audience for Day Five Alive. We also watched some 4th grade students perform on the world drums. We learned the Rockford Elementary song along with the Happy Dance. It was a fun time.
See you tonight at the parent meeting-6:30 in my classroom.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Oct. 3
WE FOUND HIM!!!! We wore our good luck Gingerbread man hats. We used our magnifying glasses. We went to the Galaxy room. We met 3 of the teachers, Darcy, Cheryl and Stephanie. We saw all of the kids playing. Logan found our clue. It told us to go to a room where we like to sing. We figured out it was the music room. We went to the music room and he was there! Sophia found him behind the piano. We were very excited to find him! One of the student's said that his "magic" must have run out. We took a class picture with him before bringing him back to class. We took turns having our picture taken with the giant Gingerbread Man. We also shared our favorite part of gingerbread man week. Most kids liked finding him, a few liked making him and someone said they liked putting the "magic" in him. We finished our activities up by eating him! He was delicious! We also finished our gingerbread man books. Look for our books and hats to come home today. It was an exciting week.
Morning Meeting-We shared 5 more baby clothes and pictures. Tyler, Ryan, Kyle, Ben and Nicolle shared today.
*Maps testing-We took our first math test today. The kids really enjoyed working on the computers.
**Rest Time-We earned all 25 stars before lunch today! Our class is working very hard to use their "STAR" behavior. The kids voted to watch a short video during rest time to celebrate their "STAR" behavior. We watched "The Magic School Bus Eats Lunch". It goes well with our Science theme-Human Bodies.
*Math-We did the calendar and our calendar books. We also played a partner game. We rolled the dice and wrote that many numbers (We rolled a 4...we wrote 1,2,3,4) . On our next turn we rolled and wrote that many numbers (rolled a 2...we wrote 5,6). We played until one person wrote numbers all the way to 30.
*Social-We made maps of our gingerbread man hunt. We brainstormed all of the places we looked for the gingerbread man. Then we made sure our maps included those places.
Have a great weekend!
Morning Meeting-We shared 5 more baby clothes and pictures. Tyler, Ryan, Kyle, Ben and Nicolle shared today.
*Maps testing-We took our first math test today. The kids really enjoyed working on the computers.
**Rest Time-We earned all 25 stars before lunch today! Our class is working very hard to use their "STAR" behavior. The kids voted to watch a short video during rest time to celebrate their "STAR" behavior. We watched "The Magic School Bus Eats Lunch". It goes well with our Science theme-Human Bodies.
*Math-We did the calendar and our calendar books. We also played a partner game. We rolled the dice and wrote that many numbers (We rolled a 4...we wrote 1,2,3,4) . On our next turn we rolled and wrote that many numbers (rolled a 2...we wrote 5,6). We played until one person wrote numbers all the way to 30.
*Social-We made maps of our gingerbread man hunt. We brainstormed all of the places we looked for the gingerbread man. Then we made sure our maps included those places.
Have a great weekend!
Oct. 2
Greetings a day late! Better late than never I always say!
We continued our search for the Gingerbread man, but we did not find him. We even used our little magnifying glasses to help us look for clues. We checked in the nurses office and met Mrs. Schultz. She told us all about what happens when we visit the nurse. We found a clue to go to the speech office. We met Mrs. Faust. She told us all about the activities that happen in the speech room. We found a clue that told us to check Galaxy Kids Club on Friday. We are excited to find and eat him!
*We decided to make special gingerbread man hats to use for good luck on Friday. Some of us wanted to write the gingerbread man a note. We taped them up outside our door, hoping he would see them and come back to our room.
*Morning Meeting-We did the cheer "We're the Rockets" to get ready for our pepfest this afternoon. For our quick share we predicted where we would find the gingerbread man if we ever find him. Many students predicted we would find him at the Galaxy Kids room. Some said in our room or the kitchen. Some thought maybe the library. *We also started sharing our baby clothes. Grace, Ellie, Evan and Sophia shared today. They showed their baby clothes and baby picture. They also told something they could do now that they are a kindergartener. I took their picture holding up the baby clothes. Tomorrow we will share 4-5 more.
*Read Aloud-We read the "Gingerbread Boy".
*Reading Activities-We illustrated the next two pages in our Gingerbread Man Book.
*Rest Time-We listened to a story/song about the Gingerbread Man. I also read another version of the Gingerbread man.
Math-We did calendar. We also played a partner game-write the next number.
*Special Activity-We went to the pep fest. We saw the high school band, the cheerleaders, the homecoming king and queen and many high school athletes. We listened to songs and cheers. We also participated in a cheer. The kids seemed to really enjoy it!
**Star Students-We spent a lot of time today talking about "STAR" behavior. We did lots of practicing using the appropriate behavior in different situations. We role modeled the "STAR" behavior and the "unSTAR" behavior. I will talk more about this at the parent meeting. We are earning stars for "STAR" class behavior. We earned 13 already today! Our goal is 25 stars.
We continued our search for the Gingerbread man, but we did not find him. We even used our little magnifying glasses to help us look for clues. We checked in the nurses office and met Mrs. Schultz. She told us all about what happens when we visit the nurse. We found a clue to go to the speech office. We met Mrs. Faust. She told us all about the activities that happen in the speech room. We found a clue that told us to check Galaxy Kids Club on Friday. We are excited to find and eat him!
*We decided to make special gingerbread man hats to use for good luck on Friday. Some of us wanted to write the gingerbread man a note. We taped them up outside our door, hoping he would see them and come back to our room.
*Morning Meeting-We did the cheer "We're the Rockets" to get ready for our pepfest this afternoon. For our quick share we predicted where we would find the gingerbread man if we ever find him. Many students predicted we would find him at the Galaxy Kids room. Some said in our room or the kitchen. Some thought maybe the library. *We also started sharing our baby clothes. Grace, Ellie, Evan and Sophia shared today. They showed their baby clothes and baby picture. They also told something they could do now that they are a kindergartener. I took their picture holding up the baby clothes. Tomorrow we will share 4-5 more.
*Read Aloud-We read the "Gingerbread Boy".
*Reading Activities-We illustrated the next two pages in our Gingerbread Man Book.
*Rest Time-We listened to a story/song about the Gingerbread Man. I also read another version of the Gingerbread man.
Math-We did calendar. We also played a partner game-write the next number.
*Special Activity-We went to the pep fest. We saw the high school band, the cheerleaders, the homecoming king and queen and many high school athletes. We listened to songs and cheers. We also participated in a cheer. The kids seemed to really enjoy it!
**Star Students-We spent a lot of time today talking about "STAR" behavior. We did lots of practicing using the appropriate behavior in different situations. We role modeled the "STAR" behavior and the "unSTAR" behavior. I will talk more about this at the parent meeting. We are earning stars for "STAR" class behavior. We earned 13 already today! Our goal is 25 stars.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Oct. 1
I am sure you have heard by now that our Gingerbread man is missing. We went to the kitchen to get him out of the oven and he was gone. The little gingerbread men were there. The big gingerbread man left us a note where he was supposed to be. He said "Run, run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man. Look for me in the office." While we were in the kitchen, we met the kitchen staff, Char, Cheryl and Frieda. We looked at all of the large kitchen equipment...the ovens, the huge pot, the sink, the dishwasher. The kitchen staff told us they make food for 400-500 students everyday! At the office, we met Mrs. Larsen, Mrs. Hedelson and Mrs. Friedrich. We saw the workroom with the copy machine and the teacher's mailboxes, but we didn't see the gingerbread man. We found a note, it said "Run, run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man. Look for me in the nurse's office tomorrow." The students were very disappointed that they had to wait until tomorrow.
Morning Meeting-We did the "Months Macarana" because it is a new month today!
Read Aloud-We read the Gingerbread Girl.
Computer-We took our second test-Reading 2 today.
Rest Time-We listened to "Shoo-Fly" story.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar books. We used our leaves in math today. We counted our leaves, we sorted them and we made patterns with them.
Gingerbread Man book-We started illustrating our Gingerbread Man Story. We drew the cover. We also did the first and second pages. The first page is about looking in the kitchen. The 2nd page is about looking in the office.
We ended the day with a little outside time.
Morning Meeting-We did the "Months Macarana" because it is a new month today!
Read Aloud-We read the Gingerbread Girl.
Computer-We took our second test-Reading 2 today.
Rest Time-We listened to "Shoo-Fly" story.
Math-We did calendar and our calendar books. We used our leaves in math today. We counted our leaves, we sorted them and we made patterns with them.
Gingerbread Man book-We started illustrating our Gingerbread Man Story. We drew the cover. We also did the first and second pages. The first page is about looking in the kitchen. The 2nd page is about looking in the office.
We ended the day with a little outside time.
Sept. 30
Sorry this it so late! Gingerbread day is crazy!
We had a very busy day! We had Phy. Ed. and library. We cooked our very big gingerbread man. The kids insisted that we put the "magic" in him. I hope he doesn't run away. He is as big as the pan. We put an "M" on him for "Milow". He has some hair. then we brought him down to the kitchen to bake.
Read Aloud-We read another version of "The Gingerbread Man"
Rest Time-We watched a movie of the Gingerbread Man. During this time we made our little gingerbread men.
Kathryn Beich kick-off-We went to the gym to learn about the Kathryn Beich fund raiser.
We had a very busy day! We had Phy. Ed. and library. We cooked our very big gingerbread man. The kids insisted that we put the "magic" in him. I hope he doesn't run away. He is as big as the pan. We put an "M" on him for "Milow". He has some hair. then we brought him down to the kitchen to bake.
Read Aloud-We read another version of "The Gingerbread Man"
Rest Time-We watched a movie of the Gingerbread Man. During this time we made our little gingerbread men.
Kathryn Beich kick-off-We went to the gym to learn about the Kathryn Beich fund raiser.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sept. 29
Morning Meeting-We sang our sunflower song again. We also chanted and acted out the Gingerbread man rhyme. This week is Gingerbread man week. For our quick share, we shared our favorite part of sunflower day. Overall the kids liked picking seeds out of the sunflowers.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom in the keyboard lab.
MAPS test-We had our first MAPS test today. We will have our next one on Wednesday. Todays test was on reading skills.
Read Aloud-The Sunflower and The Gingerbread Man
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Uu and Vv.
Writers Workshop-We didn't have any time since we had MAPS testing.
Rest Time-We listened to 5 LIttle Sharks Swimming in the Sea
Math-Calendar & Calendar Book
We also made a large age graph as a class and then made a small graph to take home. As students have birthdays, our graph will be changing. Students will be moving their square to the next age. Right now we have 14 students who are 5 and 7 students who are 6.
Science-We read a book called "Leaf Man". Then the students who brought leaves shared their favorite 2 leaves. Tomorrow we are going to use our leaves for math...sorting, counting, patterns. We will also put them in order from biggest to smallest. We will be making leaf creatures tomorrow too.
***Please have your child bring some leaves tomorrow if they haven't already.***
*Fire Station Field Trip permission slip came home today. Please return it as soon as possible. There is no fee for this field trip.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom in the keyboard lab.
MAPS test-We had our first MAPS test today. We will have our next one on Wednesday. Todays test was on reading skills.
Read Aloud-The Sunflower and The Gingerbread Man
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Uu and Vv.
Writers Workshop-We didn't have any time since we had MAPS testing.
Rest Time-We listened to 5 LIttle Sharks Swimming in the Sea
Math-Calendar & Calendar Book
We also made a large age graph as a class and then made a small graph to take home. As students have birthdays, our graph will be changing. Students will be moving their square to the next age. Right now we have 14 students who are 5 and 7 students who are 6.
Science-We read a book called "Leaf Man". Then the students who brought leaves shared their favorite 2 leaves. Tomorrow we are going to use our leaves for math...sorting, counting, patterns. We will also put them in order from biggest to smallest. We will be making leaf creatures tomorrow too.
***Please have your child bring some leaves tomorrow if they haven't already.***
*Fire Station Field Trip permission slip came home today. Please return it as soon as possible. There is no fee for this field trip.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sept. 26
Sunflowers! Sunflowers! Sunflowers!
We had a very fun and busy sunflower day.
Morning Meeting-We shared our sunflowers during morning meeting along with our sunflower stories. We took pictures with our sunflowers too. If someone didn't have a sunflower, another student shared their sunflower. We sang the Sunflower song that we learned last year at Round-up.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom in the keyboard lab upstairs. The students got to play music on a keyboard. They were very excited.
Read Aloud-We read "The Sunflower House" and "A Sunflower Grows Up".
Reading Activities-We were illustrators for our own sunflower book. We practiced reading the words using our illustrations to help us if we couldn't remember a word. Then we read the book using partners.
*We also painted a sunflower. We are going to add real sunflower seeds to our painting on Monday.
Writer's Workshop-We wrote about our own sunflower stories. We could write what we know about sunflowers or write our own planting story.
Rest Time-We listened to "A Sunflower as Big as the Sun".
Math-Calendar
We made sunflowers as big as us. We measured how tall we are with a string and then we made our sunflower the same height as us.
We also picked out seeds from our sunflowers to use in math later. They loved doing this.
We ended the day with a podcast that Sophia made with her dad, Steve. It told the story of them planting and growing Sophia's sunflowers. It was great! Thanks for sharing with us. We hope to watch it again-the projector didn't work today. Steve got it working after the students left for the bus, so we are going to try again
***Find Leaves for Monday!!!***Please have your child bring in some fall leaves.
We had a very fun and busy sunflower day.
Morning Meeting-We shared our sunflowers during morning meeting along with our sunflower stories. We took pictures with our sunflowers too. If someone didn't have a sunflower, another student shared their sunflower. We sang the Sunflower song that we learned last year at Round-up.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom in the keyboard lab upstairs. The students got to play music on a keyboard. They were very excited.
Read Aloud-We read "The Sunflower House" and "A Sunflower Grows Up".
Reading Activities-We were illustrators for our own sunflower book. We practiced reading the words using our illustrations to help us if we couldn't remember a word. Then we read the book using partners.
*We also painted a sunflower. We are going to add real sunflower seeds to our painting on Monday.
Writer's Workshop-We wrote about our own sunflower stories. We could write what we know about sunflowers or write our own planting story.
Rest Time-We listened to "A Sunflower as Big as the Sun".
Math-Calendar
We made sunflowers as big as us. We measured how tall we are with a string and then we made our sunflower the same height as us.
We also picked out seeds from our sunflowers to use in math later. They loved doing this.
We ended the day with a podcast that Sophia made with her dad, Steve. It told the story of them planting and growing Sophia's sunflowers. It was great! Thanks for sharing with us. We hope to watch it again-the projector didn't work today. Steve got it working after the students left for the bus, so we are going to try again
***Find Leaves for Monday!!!***Please have your child bring in some fall leaves.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sept. 25
***Sunflower Day Tomorrow!!! Send in your biggest sunflower head in a bag!****
Morning Meeting-We did Touch your nose, touch your toes for our movement activity. We shared our favorite computer game for our quick share.
Specials-We went to art with Mrs. Karg.
Read Aloud-Our Jobs- I used it as a mini-lesson about using pictures to help figure out the words in the book.
Computer-We went to the computer lab for our practice MAPS test.
Rest Time-We listened to "Alligator Smile"
Math-Calendar
Picture Taking
Special Event-Sarah came to visit. We did Bear Hunt, Humpty Dumpty, Partner Shapes, Partner Sculptures and Shake and Freeze.
Morning Meeting-We did Touch your nose, touch your toes for our movement activity. We shared our favorite computer game for our quick share.
Specials-We went to art with Mrs. Karg.
Read Aloud-Our Jobs- I used it as a mini-lesson about using pictures to help figure out the words in the book.
Computer-We went to the computer lab for our practice MAPS test.
Rest Time-We listened to "Alligator Smile"
Math-Calendar
Picture Taking
Special Event-Sarah came to visit. We did Bear Hunt, Humpty Dumpty, Partner Shapes, Partner Sculptures and Shake and Freeze.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sept. 24
**Picture Day Tomorrow***Please send in picture money.
Morning Meeting-We did the Bubble Gum song we learned with Sarah yesterday. We also did Icky Sticky Bubble Gum.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today. Each of the kids brought home a note from phy. Ed. class. Mrs. Lingo watched them do a few activities and assessed them on these skills.
Read Aloud-Mice Squeak, We Speak and If Your Happy and You Know It
Reading Activities-I introduced the letters Oo and Pp. After reading our stories, we looked at the pictures again and decided which animals were bigger than us and which animals were smaller than us. Then we brainstormed a list on animals that were bigger and list of animals that were smaller. We then drew a picture of an animal bigger than us, we drew a picture of ourselves and we drew a picture of something smaller than us. Ask your child about their bigger, smaller picture.
Writer's Workshop-In our mini-lesson, we talked about drawing and writing words that are hard for us. I was writing my story and thinking out loud. I said that a tractor is too hard to draw so I am not going to write my story now, I am going to write about something I know I can draw. We decided that wasn't a good idea. I should just try my best and see what happens. I also encouraged that with writing words. Even if it is hard, try your best and listen for th sounds. We shared one story at the end .
Rest Time-We listened to the Alphabet Rescue
Math-Calendar and calendar book. We also did a number scavenger hunt. I gave them a number board. They had to walk around with a partner and count different things around the room. If they counted 8 posters, then they crossed off the 8. The kids loved this activity. I told them that I would make copies of the number board so the students could take them home to do a number scavenger hunt at home.
Science-Our topic today was "We are alike/we are different". We read the book "We are Alike/We Are Different. It was written and illustrated by kindergarteners. Then we talked about being alike and different. I said we are all alike because we like to play on the playground, but we are all different because we like to do different things on the playground. We made a graph of favorite playground activities. The tunnel was the winner with the slide and monkey bars coming in a close second.
Morning Meeting-We did the Bubble Gum song we learned with Sarah yesterday. We also did Icky Sticky Bubble Gum.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today. Each of the kids brought home a note from phy. Ed. class. Mrs. Lingo watched them do a few activities and assessed them on these skills.
Read Aloud-Mice Squeak, We Speak and If Your Happy and You Know It
Reading Activities-I introduced the letters Oo and Pp. After reading our stories, we looked at the pictures again and decided which animals were bigger than us and which animals were smaller than us. Then we brainstormed a list on animals that were bigger and list of animals that were smaller. We then drew a picture of an animal bigger than us, we drew a picture of ourselves and we drew a picture of something smaller than us. Ask your child about their bigger, smaller picture.
Writer's Workshop-In our mini-lesson, we talked about drawing and writing words that are hard for us. I was writing my story and thinking out loud. I said that a tractor is too hard to draw so I am not going to write my story now, I am going to write about something I know I can draw. We decided that wasn't a good idea. I should just try my best and see what happens. I also encouraged that with writing words. Even if it is hard, try your best and listen for th sounds. We shared one story at the end .
Rest Time-We listened to the Alphabet Rescue
Math-Calendar and calendar book. We also did a number scavenger hunt. I gave them a number board. They had to walk around with a partner and count different things around the room. If they counted 8 posters, then they crossed off the 8. The kids loved this activity. I told them that I would make copies of the number board so the students could take them home to do a number scavenger hunt at home.
Science-Our topic today was "We are alike/we are different". We read the book "We are Alike/We Are Different. It was written and illustrated by kindergarteners. Then we talked about being alike and different. I said we are all alike because we like to play on the playground, but we are all different because we like to do different things on the playground. We made a graph of favorite playground activities. The tunnel was the winner with the slide and monkey bars coming in a close second.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sept. 23
Morning Meeting-Back by popular demand, we did "Going on a Bear Hunt" for our movement activity. This time we went to different places on our way to the bear cave...a bridge, the mud, a deep, dark forest, a big lake and a volcano. The kids love it when we find the bear in the cave and have to run back to our house. They want to do it again right away. For our quick share we shared the favorite gym activity they did today.
Specials-We went to Phy. Ed. and library today. In Phy. Ed., we had a choice day. The students got to choose from basketball, football, frisbee along with a few other options.
Read Aloud-Now I Am Big
shared Reading-Little Bo Peep and a poem "Once I was a baby..."
Reading Activity-I introduced the letters Mm & Nn. The students brainstormed ideas of things they could do when they were babies and things they can do now that they are big kids. Then we drew pictures of our ideas in our kindergarten memory books.
Writers Workshop-We didn't have time today
Rest Time-We listened to "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and "Clifford goes Apple Picking".
Math-calendar
Special Activity-Sarah, an instructor from ACE, visited our classroom today. She did movement activities with us. First we did name clapping. Then we did the Bubble Gum song. The kids loved this one. I lead four verses of Hickory Dickory Dock using different movements up the clock. Then we did a Shake and Freeze song. Sarah introduced five different instruments. She picked 5 students to be musicians to play the instruments. She was the conductor. She would start the instruments playing and the other students would shake different parts of their body. Then we switched to all students got a chance to be musicians. Last, we played a partner game. We made body sculptures. The students really enjoyed having Sarah visit. She will be visiting again on Thursday.
We ended our day with some free choice time.
***Picture day is Thursday, September 25th. Please send in picture money.
***Sunflower Day is Friday, September 26th. Please send in your biggest sunflower head.
Specials-We went to Phy. Ed. and library today. In Phy. Ed., we had a choice day. The students got to choose from basketball, football, frisbee along with a few other options.
Read Aloud-Now I Am Big
shared Reading-Little Bo Peep and a poem "Once I was a baby..."
Reading Activity-I introduced the letters Mm & Nn. The students brainstormed ideas of things they could do when they were babies and things they can do now that they are big kids. Then we drew pictures of our ideas in our kindergarten memory books.
Writers Workshop-We didn't have time today
Rest Time-We listened to "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and "Clifford goes Apple Picking".
Math-calendar
Special Activity-Sarah, an instructor from ACE, visited our classroom today. She did movement activities with us. First we did name clapping. Then we did the Bubble Gum song. The kids loved this one. I lead four verses of Hickory Dickory Dock using different movements up the clock. Then we did a Shake and Freeze song. Sarah introduced five different instruments. She picked 5 students to be musicians to play the instruments. She was the conductor. She would start the instruments playing and the other students would shake different parts of their body. Then we switched to all students got a chance to be musicians. Last, we played a partner game. We made body sculptures. The students really enjoyed having Sarah visit. She will be visiting again on Thursday.
We ended our day with some free choice time.
***Picture day is Thursday, September 25th. Please send in picture money.
***Sunflower Day is Friday, September 26th. Please send in your biggest sunflower head.
Sept. 22
Morning Meeting-We did the song Macarana Months. We did the movements while we sang the months of the year. Our quick share was our favorite months. Winter was the winner-interesting.
Specials-We had music
Read Aloud-Three Little Kittens
Shared Reading-LIttle Miss Muffet & Hickory Dickory dock
Reading Activities-We introduced the letters Kk and Ll. We did a rhyming words activity.
Writer's workshop-We talked about using more detail in our drawings. I told a story and then drew pictures to match my story and then I wrote my words. This time my story had more ideas on it. I encouraged the students to add more details and ideas into their drawings. This would help them tell their stories better. At the end we shared our stories.
Rest Time-We listened to the story Marsupial Sue.
Math-Calendar with calendar books. We played a partner game called "feel and count" . I put blocks in lunch bags. The students had to feel and count the blocks without looking and then write the number on their white board. Then their partner did the same thing. They compared numbers and then dumped out the blocks and counted them to see if they were correct. After counting 5 or 6 bags we discussed which bags were easier and which were harder. We decided that the bags containing the smallest amounts of blocks were easier than the ones with lots of blocks inside.
Science-We started talking about different parts of the body today to go along with our reading theme "Look at Us" . We found many different parts of our bodies and then talked about what we use them for. We read the book "Let's Look at Bodies". Then we made our own body book to take home. It included our hands, our fingerprints and a picture of our feet. We also tried to write the words for these parts.
**Picture Day- Thursday, September 25-Please remember to return your picture money by Thursday.
Specials-We had music
Read Aloud-Three Little Kittens
Shared Reading-LIttle Miss Muffet & Hickory Dickory dock
Reading Activities-We introduced the letters Kk and Ll. We did a rhyming words activity.
Writer's workshop-We talked about using more detail in our drawings. I told a story and then drew pictures to match my story and then I wrote my words. This time my story had more ideas on it. I encouraged the students to add more details and ideas into their drawings. This would help them tell their stories better. At the end we shared our stories.
Rest Time-We listened to the story Marsupial Sue.
Math-Calendar with calendar books. We played a partner game called "feel and count" . I put blocks in lunch bags. The students had to feel and count the blocks without looking and then write the number on their white board. Then their partner did the same thing. They compared numbers and then dumped out the blocks and counted them to see if they were correct. After counting 5 or 6 bags we discussed which bags were easier and which were harder. We decided that the bags containing the smallest amounts of blocks were easier than the ones with lots of blocks inside.
Science-We started talking about different parts of the body today to go along with our reading theme "Look at Us" . We found many different parts of our bodies and then talked about what we use them for. We read the book "Let's Look at Bodies". Then we made our own body book to take home. It included our hands, our fingerprints and a picture of our feet. We also tried to write the words for these parts.
**Picture Day- Thursday, September 25-Please remember to return your picture money by Thursday.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Sept. 19
Morning Meeting-We did the Silly Pirate Song for our movement. For our quick share we shared our favorite activity we did this week-some favorites were playing on the playground and writers workshop.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Here Are My Hands"
Shared Reading-Hickory Dickory Dock
Reading Activities-We introduced Ii and Jj. We have been learning the letters in sign language as we introduce them. We made itty bitty dots for our letter Ii page in our ABC book we are making. We will do Jazzy Js on Monday. We started our Kindergarten Memory books. We drew our self portraits.
Writer's Workshop-We did an interactive story. I told the story and the students helped me spell my words. We brainstormed new writing ideas. We talked about what to do when we were finished with a story. We had time to write and share. We had stories about places we are going this weekend, along with things we like to do. We had some pet and family stories. The kids are very excited about their writing. Ask your child what he/she wrote about today.
Rest Time-We listened to the story Follow That Bear
Math-We did our calendar books. We also made block towers with 20 blocks. We compared them with a neighbor. We then took blocks off one by one and counted backwards from 20 to 0. We counted back up to 10 and then made a 2nd tower of 10. Then we decided that 10 blocks plus 10 blocks equals 20 blocks.
We finished our day with some outside time. Have a great weekend.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Here Are My Hands"
Shared Reading-Hickory Dickory Dock
Reading Activities-We introduced Ii and Jj. We have been learning the letters in sign language as we introduce them. We made itty bitty dots for our letter Ii page in our ABC book we are making. We will do Jazzy Js on Monday. We started our Kindergarten Memory books. We drew our self portraits.
Writer's Workshop-We did an interactive story. I told the story and the students helped me spell my words. We brainstormed new writing ideas. We talked about what to do when we were finished with a story. We had time to write and share. We had stories about places we are going this weekend, along with things we like to do. We had some pet and family stories. The kids are very excited about their writing. Ask your child what he/she wrote about today.
Rest Time-We listened to the story Follow That Bear
Math-We did our calendar books. We also made block towers with 20 blocks. We compared them with a neighbor. We then took blocks off one by one and counted backwards from 20 to 0. We counted back up to 10 and then made a 2nd tower of 10. Then we decided that 10 blocks plus 10 blocks equals 20 blocks.
We finished our day with some outside time. Have a great weekend.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Sept. 18
Free Choice Time-We finished with our elbow painting. Check for yellow elbows -I tried to get them clean. We also had golf ball painting for the letter Gg. For dramatic play, I set up a 3 Bears area with a big bowl, medium bowl, and small bowl along with 3 chairs and 3 "beds" (towels). I had the 3 bear headbands and a Goldilocks headband. The kids took turns acting out different parts of the story. It was very fun.
Morning Meeting-We did "Going on a Bear Hunt" for our movement activity. They loved it. We went on a bridge, swam a river, up a tree, through a wheat field until we got to the cave...we found the bear!
Specials-We went to art with Mrs. Karg. We painted with water color paints. Mrs. Karg would like a paint shirt for art. A couple of students have one at school. Please send an old shirt labeled with your child's name if you can.
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes-Jack and Jill, Hey Diddle, Diddle and Humpty Dumpty.
Read Aloud-Our Classroom and When Dinosaurs Go To School
Reading Activity-Introduction to Gg and Hh. We also made a face to go in our big bus we painted this week. We each have a rule to go with our bus painting.
Writer's Workshop-Today during our mini-lesson, we learned about adding onto a story...adding more to the picture and adding more words. We also talked about starting a new piece. We learned when I am done, I can add to the pictures, add more words or start a new story. At the end, we have a quick share. It has been fun seeing all of their ideas for stories. Today a couple of kids wrote about the Vikings, someone wrote about a dolphin he saw on a cruise with his family, someone wrote about their fish. Ask your child what he/she wrote about today during Writers Workshop.
Rest Time-Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Math-Number Grid and the Dice Game with partners
We went outside for 5 minutes before dismissal.
Morning Meeting-We did "Going on a Bear Hunt" for our movement activity. They loved it. We went on a bridge, swam a river, up a tree, through a wheat field until we got to the cave...we found the bear!
Specials-We went to art with Mrs. Karg. We painted with water color paints. Mrs. Karg would like a paint shirt for art. A couple of students have one at school. Please send an old shirt labeled with your child's name if you can.
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes-Jack and Jill, Hey Diddle, Diddle and Humpty Dumpty.
Read Aloud-Our Classroom and When Dinosaurs Go To School
Reading Activity-Introduction to Gg and Hh. We also made a face to go in our big bus we painted this week. We each have a rule to go with our bus painting.
Writer's Workshop-Today during our mini-lesson, we learned about adding onto a story...adding more to the picture and adding more words. We also talked about starting a new piece. We learned when I am done, I can add to the pictures, add more words or start a new story. At the end, we have a quick share. It has been fun seeing all of their ideas for stories. Today a couple of kids wrote about the Vikings, someone wrote about a dolphin he saw on a cruise with his family, someone wrote about their fish. Ask your child what he/she wrote about today during Writers Workshop.
Rest Time-Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Math-Number Grid and the Dice Game with partners
We went outside for 5 minutes before dismissal.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sept. 17
Morning Meeting-We did our movement activity from yesterday-touch your nose, touch your toes. Our quick share was favorite story-the 3 Pigs or the 3 Bears.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Read Aloud-Big Book-The Three Bears-This was a more traditional version.
Shared Reading-The Elephant Poem-We found all the Ee's. The Five Fingers Poem-We found all of the Ff''s.
Reading Centers-We had six centers-We did elbow painting for the letter"Ee". We did feather painting for the letter "Ff". We had a find the letter center-we used the poems from our shared writing. We had white boards out to practice writing our letters. We had the listening center open along with the book corner for a book look.
Rest Time-I read another version of The Three Little Pigs. In this version the pigs made waffles and at the end the wolf became a wolffle and all of the meanness was steamed out of him.
Writing-We started writer's workshop today. I introduced our writing folders. I modeled writing a story about something we know a lot about. I modeled sounding out words to spell words. We talked about being authors and illustrators. Everyone is working on writing their first story. Some kids finished and others are going to finish tomorrow. We had a lot of pet stories, a few dolphin stories, a princess story and a dragon story. Ask your child what story he/she wrote today. At the end of writers workshop, we did a quick share. Anyone who wanted to share could show and share.
We played outside for a few minutes at the end of the day.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Read Aloud-Big Book-The Three Bears-This was a more traditional version.
Shared Reading-The Elephant Poem-We found all the Ee's. The Five Fingers Poem-We found all of the Ff''s.
Reading Centers-We had six centers-We did elbow painting for the letter"Ee". We did feather painting for the letter "Ff". We had a find the letter center-we used the poems from our shared writing. We had white boards out to practice writing our letters. We had the listening center open along with the book corner for a book look.
Rest Time-I read another version of The Three Little Pigs. In this version the pigs made waffles and at the end the wolf became a wolffle and all of the meanness was steamed out of him.
Writing-We started writer's workshop today. I introduced our writing folders. I modeled writing a story about something we know a lot about. I modeled sounding out words to spell words. We talked about being authors and illustrators. Everyone is working on writing their first story. Some kids finished and others are going to finish tomorrow. We had a lot of pet stories, a few dolphin stories, a princess story and a dragon story. Ask your child what story he/she wrote today. At the end of writers workshop, we did a quick share. Anyone who wanted to share could show and share.
We played outside for a few minutes at the end of the day.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sept. 16
Morning Meeting-Movement Activity-Touch your nose, Touch your toes
Specials-Phy. Ed. and Library
Read Aloud-The three Bears
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Cc and Dd today. When we introduce a new letter, we learn how to make that letter in sign language. We also practice writing the new letters with our "magic" marker. We also started our word wall today. We are adding words under our Alphabet letters in the front of our room that we know. As we introduce the letters, we are adding the first names of the students in our room to our word wall. We have also added the word "bus" and "pig" because we learned how to spell these words last week. We added "is" and "today" because we see those two words everyday in our morning message.
Reading Centers-We are making an Abc book with art. Today we made Aa for ants, we used our fingers to make the ants. We made Bb for blueberries. We used our fingers and dot paints to make blueberries. Cc for cotton ball creations. Dd for dot paint designs. We also had coin rubbing with crayons for the letter Cc. We did a letter find. We read a poem and then highlighted all of the Cc words we found.
Rest time-We listened to Baa Baa Black Sheep
Math -We started using our calendar books today. We wrote the numbers on a calendar up to 16. We colored the pattern on our calendar to match the pattern on our classroom calendar. We colored 11 squares on our days of school page. We colored on our weather graph. We made tally marks. We wrote the month "September" on our tally and weather graph pages. We will be using these books daily with calendar. Today we spent a long time on them because it was our first day. Now it will go quickly when we are just adding todays information to our books. The students are very excited about them.
We played outside at the end of the day.
*Please return the Learning to Read bag everyday. We will put 2 new letters in them daily. If your child already knows these words, have them write words or find words that start with that letter.
Specials-Phy. Ed. and Library
Read Aloud-The three Bears
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Cc and Dd today. When we introduce a new letter, we learn how to make that letter in sign language. We also practice writing the new letters with our "magic" marker. We also started our word wall today. We are adding words under our Alphabet letters in the front of our room that we know. As we introduce the letters, we are adding the first names of the students in our room to our word wall. We have also added the word "bus" and "pig" because we learned how to spell these words last week. We added "is" and "today" because we see those two words everyday in our morning message.
Reading Centers-We are making an Abc book with art. Today we made Aa for ants, we used our fingers to make the ants. We made Bb for blueberries. We used our fingers and dot paints to make blueberries. Cc for cotton ball creations. Dd for dot paint designs. We also had coin rubbing with crayons for the letter Cc. We did a letter find. We read a poem and then highlighted all of the Cc words we found.
Rest time-We listened to Baa Baa Black Sheep
Math -We started using our calendar books today. We wrote the numbers on a calendar up to 16. We colored the pattern on our calendar to match the pattern on our classroom calendar. We colored 11 squares on our days of school page. We colored on our weather graph. We made tally marks. We wrote the month "September" on our tally and weather graph pages. We will be using these books daily with calendar. Today we spent a long time on them because it was our first day. Now it will go quickly when we are just adding todays information to our books. The students are very excited about them.
We played outside at the end of the day.
*Please return the Learning to Read bag everyday. We will put 2 new letters in them daily. If your child already knows these words, have them write words or find words that start with that letter.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sept. 15
Morning Meeting-Used our "magic" marker (finger) to write Aa's and Bb's in the air, on the ceiling and on the floor-we also used our tongues as a "magic" marker. We made an "a" and a "b" in sign language. Then we did the hokey pokey using our sign language letters-"put your "a" in, put your "a" out..." Our quick share was favorite clap. So far the students seem to like the fireworks clap and the cheerleader clap. Have your child show you both of those claps.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom.
Special Event-We had bus safety with Mrs. Myers from the transportation department. We reviewed the rules and evacuated from the back of the bus.
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Aa and Bb today. We also introduced the "Learning to Read" bags and the Alphabet boxes. The learning to read bags need to be returned everyday to school(blue pouches). The alphabet boxes stay at home. Every time a new letter comes home, your child should put it in his/her alphabet box (checkbook box)
Rest Time-Three Bears CD
Math-Dice Throw Game-The students roll both dice, count up the dots (intro to adding) and then put an X on the correct number on the game board.
Science-Our caterpillar turned into a cocoon today. We added our cocoon drawing to our caterpillar book.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom.
Special Event-We had bus safety with Mrs. Myers from the transportation department. We reviewed the rules and evacuated from the back of the bus.
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Aa and Bb today. We also introduced the "Learning to Read" bags and the Alphabet boxes. The learning to read bags need to be returned everyday to school(blue pouches). The alphabet boxes stay at home. Every time a new letter comes home, your child should put it in his/her alphabet box (checkbook box)
Rest Time-Three Bears CD
Math-Dice Throw Game-The students roll both dice, count up the dots (intro to adding) and then put an X on the correct number on the game board.
Science-Our caterpillar turned into a cocoon today. We added our cocoon drawing to our caterpillar book.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sept. 12
Morning Meeting-We did the Silly Pirate Song for our movement activity. We love it! For our quick share we shared our favorite part of the Silly Pirate Song.
Read Aloud-The Three Little Pigs-This was a different version-at the end the wolf had to apologize and help the pigs rebuild their houses.
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes-Jack & Jill and Hey Diddle, Diddle
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom
Reading activity-We were illustrators for our own versions of the 3 Little Pigs. We retold our story to an adult before putting it in our cubbies. Please have your child retell their story to you. Many of them were very excited to add a little bit of a twist...an extra house...
Rest Time-We listened to The 3 Little Pigs. This was the same version we read this morning, but the cd added songs to the story.
Math-Eating to Zero-Each student got 20 pieces of popcorn. We practiced counting forward and back to 20. Then we started eating one piece at a time. I introduced subtraction and the phrase "taking one away". After eating one piece, we wrote the new number on our whiteboards. We practiced counting, writing numbers and introduced subtraction...all while eating a little popcorn.
Science-We have had a little visitor in our room a couple of times this year-my caterpillar, Inchy. Today we took a closer look at Inchy. We are making a caterpillar book. Today we made our cover. We also looked closely at Inchy and drew his picture and wrote his name (some of my kids told me that they can tell he is a boy). Then we predicted what Inchy will look like when he changes. They are very excited about our little class pet.
*On Monday, I will have a substitute teacher in the afternoon from 11:30 until 2:40. If you have a change in dismissal, make sure you call and talk to a person because my sub will not have access to my voice mail or email. I will be in a meeting at the Community Center.
Have a great Weekend!!!
Read Aloud-The Three Little Pigs-This was a different version-at the end the wolf had to apologize and help the pigs rebuild their houses.
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes-Jack & Jill and Hey Diddle, Diddle
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom
Reading activity-We were illustrators for our own versions of the 3 Little Pigs. We retold our story to an adult before putting it in our cubbies. Please have your child retell their story to you. Many of them were very excited to add a little bit of a twist...an extra house...
Rest Time-We listened to The 3 Little Pigs. This was the same version we read this morning, but the cd added songs to the story.
Math-Eating to Zero-Each student got 20 pieces of popcorn. We practiced counting forward and back to 20. Then we started eating one piece at a time. I introduced subtraction and the phrase "taking one away". After eating one piece, we wrote the new number on our whiteboards. We practiced counting, writing numbers and introduced subtraction...all while eating a little popcorn.
Science-We have had a little visitor in our room a couple of times this year-my caterpillar, Inchy. Today we took a closer look at Inchy. We are making a caterpillar book. Today we made our cover. We also looked closely at Inchy and drew his picture and wrote his name (some of my kids told me that they can tell he is a boy). Then we predicted what Inchy will look like when he changes. They are very excited about our little class pet.
*On Monday, I will have a substitute teacher in the afternoon from 11:30 until 2:40. If you have a change in dismissal, make sure you call and talk to a person because my sub will not have access to my voice mail or email. I will be in a meeting at the Community Center.
Have a great Weekend!!!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sept.11
Morning Meeting-The Letter on the Bus interactive song-Each student got a little bus with a letter on it. We sang this song for each letter "The letter on the bus says __,__,__ repeat then ___ is it's name."
Specials-We had art with Mrs. Karg. After art, the kids said they looked in a mirror to draw their face and they did rubbings.
Read Aloud-The Three Little Pigs
Shared Reading-Jack and Jill
Reading Project-Scenery and puppets for the 3 pigs story. After reading the story one time. I used puppets to retell the story. Then the students helped me retell the story using puppets. We then made our own scenery for the puppet show. We talked about all of the parts needed for our show (3 houses-1 straw house, 1 stick house, 1 brick house). Then, after lunch, we made the stick puppets to go with our scenery. When our puppets and scenery were complete each student picked a spot in the room either alone or with a partner to retell the story using their puppets. It was lots of fun! I took some pictures. We have some great story tellers in our room-I heard different voices for different characters. After we were finished we read another version of The Three Little Pigs and compared both stories.
***Please have your child retell the story to you using their puppets and scenery. We talked about making changes to the story and telling it their own way. They were very excited to bring home their puppet play.
Math-Listen and Count-We first practiced writing our numbers on white board paddles from 1-10. Then we took our links and put them in our cup one by one and while listening to them we counted them. Then we wrote the number on our white board. We sorted them by colors and counted each color individually and wrote that number on our white boards. At the end of the lesson, we took two colors and made a simple addition problem.
*I have been taking lots of pictures since school started and am hoping to update my website with new pictures.
*I will be sending home my Kindergarten Updates by paper and linking it to my webpage.
*My calendar is also now linked to my webpage. So far I just have September's dates up on the web. Check it out
Specials-We had art with Mrs. Karg. After art, the kids said they looked in a mirror to draw their face and they did rubbings.
Read Aloud-The Three Little Pigs
Shared Reading-Jack and Jill
Reading Project-Scenery and puppets for the 3 pigs story. After reading the story one time. I used puppets to retell the story. Then the students helped me retell the story using puppets. We then made our own scenery for the puppet show. We talked about all of the parts needed for our show (3 houses-1 straw house, 1 stick house, 1 brick house). Then, after lunch, we made the stick puppets to go with our scenery. When our puppets and scenery were complete each student picked a spot in the room either alone or with a partner to retell the story using their puppets. It was lots of fun! I took some pictures. We have some great story tellers in our room-I heard different voices for different characters. After we were finished we read another version of The Three Little Pigs and compared both stories.
***Please have your child retell the story to you using their puppets and scenery. We talked about making changes to the story and telling it their own way. They were very excited to bring home their puppet play.
Math-Listen and Count-We first practiced writing our numbers on white board paddles from 1-10. Then we took our links and put them in our cup one by one and while listening to them we counted them. Then we wrote the number on our white board. We sorted them by colors and counted each color individually and wrote that number on our white boards. At the end of the lesson, we took two colors and made a simple addition problem.
*I have been taking lots of pictures since school started and am hoping to update my website with new pictures.
*I will be sending home my Kindergarten Updates by paper and linking it to my webpage.
*My calendar is also now linked to my webpage. So far I just have September's dates up on the web. Check it out
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sept. 10
Morning Meeting-Movement Activity-Pass the clap, pass the silly face, pass the ball; Quick Share-Favorite lunch
Read Aloud-Wheels on the Bus & our class book-Animals on the Bus
Specials-We had phy. ed. today. We played run rabbit run.
Shared Reading-Hello Bus poem
Reading Activity-Wheels on Bus mini-book. We talked about using picture clues to read books. By looking at the pictures you can tell a story. We colored a little bit on each page to help us "read" and sing our books. For example, we colored the wheels on the first page to remind us that this page is "Wheels on the Bus". After looking and coloring all of the pictures, we "read" it as a class then we read it with partners.
Writing-We practiced writing the date in numbers (9-10-08). We will be writing the date alot in writing. We also wrote our first name sample to compare with later in the year.
Rest Time-We listened to When I Grow Up..."
Math-Calendar & Review of coins. Pattern blocks were introduced today. We learned about the triangle, square, rhombus(diamond), trapezoid, and hexagon. We explored with the different shapes. We also made patterns and counted the pattern blocks. We ended the lesson by making pictures with the pattern blocks. I took pictures of their creations and then gave each student a piece of paper to draw their creation. It was very fun.
We ended the day with another free choice playtime so I could do some more assessments.
*Book Order-Our first book order was sent home today. Please return on Sept. 19
Read Aloud-Wheels on the Bus & our class book-Animals on the Bus
Specials-We had phy. ed. today. We played run rabbit run.
Shared Reading-Hello Bus poem
Reading Activity-Wheels on Bus mini-book. We talked about using picture clues to read books. By looking at the pictures you can tell a story. We colored a little bit on each page to help us "read" and sing our books. For example, we colored the wheels on the first page to remind us that this page is "Wheels on the Bus". After looking and coloring all of the pictures, we "read" it as a class then we read it with partners.
Writing-We practiced writing the date in numbers (9-10-08). We will be writing the date alot in writing. We also wrote our first name sample to compare with later in the year.
Rest Time-We listened to When I Grow Up..."
Math-Calendar & Review of coins. Pattern blocks were introduced today. We learned about the triangle, square, rhombus(diamond), trapezoid, and hexagon. We explored with the different shapes. We also made patterns and counted the pattern blocks. We ended the lesson by making pictures with the pattern blocks. I took pictures of their creations and then gave each student a piece of paper to draw their creation. It was very fun.
We ended the day with another free choice playtime so I could do some more assessments.
*Book Order-Our first book order was sent home today. Please return on Sept. 19
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sept. 9
*Today the students walked down to class on their own. If your child arrives at school before 8:05, he/she will still need to meet at the meeting place sign until the bell rings. After the bell rings, the staff will dismiss students by grade levels. If your child arrives after the 8:05 bell, he/she can walk to class.
Specials- Phy. Ed with Mrs. Lingo & Library with Mrs. Hasti
Morning Meeting-Movement activity-Couch Potato Pokey; Quick Share- How did I get to school?
Read Aloud-Animals on the Bus (interactive story) Each student got an animal. When the animal was called, he/she brought the animal up to the book.
Class Book-After reading the Animals on the bus, each student got a class book page to illustrate. We put all of our pages together to make our own class book called "Animals on the Bus".
Rest Time-We listened to "The Kissing Hand"
Math-Calendar
We also introduced coins. We talked about the penny, nickel, dime and quarter. We played a penny game using the plus and minus signs on a dice. If the student got a plus, she/he put a penny in the ice cube tray. If the student got a minus, she/he took a penny out. The player with their side of the ice cube tray filled won that game.
Social-Bus Safety-We reviewed all of the bus safety rules today. The kindergarteners already knew lots of the bus safety rules. We made bus safety posters after discussing all of the rules. We will meet with Mrs. Myers from the transportation department to go over bus rules on Thursday.
We finished our day with playing on the playground. We got out some new playground toys-jump ropes, chalk, balls, footballs.
Specials- Phy. Ed with Mrs. Lingo & Library with Mrs. Hasti
Morning Meeting-Movement activity-Couch Potato Pokey; Quick Share- How did I get to school?
Read Aloud-Animals on the Bus (interactive story) Each student got an animal. When the animal was called, he/she brought the animal up to the book.
Class Book-After reading the Animals on the bus, each student got a class book page to illustrate. We put all of our pages together to make our own class book called "Animals on the Bus".
Rest Time-We listened to "The Kissing Hand"
Math-Calendar
We also introduced coins. We talked about the penny, nickel, dime and quarter. We played a penny game using the plus and minus signs on a dice. If the student got a plus, she/he put a penny in the ice cube tray. If the student got a minus, she/he took a penny out. The player with their side of the ice cube tray filled won that game.
Social-Bus Safety-We reviewed all of the bus safety rules today. The kindergarteners already knew lots of the bus safety rules. We made bus safety posters after discussing all of the rules. We will meet with Mrs. Myers from the transportation department to go over bus rules on Thursday.
We finished our day with playing on the playground. We got out some new playground toys-jump ropes, chalk, balls, footballs.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sept. 8
Our new themes this week are bus safety and Nursery Rhymes.
Center Time-We had a pop-up bus and a bus game out for free choice time today. The kids could pretend to ride in the bus. During center time I started doing the kindergarten pre-assessments. I am assessing letter recognition- upper and lower case, rhyming words, beginning letter sounds, sight words, number recognition, counting to 50 and counting by 10's. The students will have more free choice playtime this week while I am individually testing each student. We will use these results to plan curriculum. It will help me plan mini lessons for our reading time. It will also help the kindergarten team to determine which students qualify for Title 1 services.
Morning Meeting-movement-Wheels on the bus Quick share-fun thing he/she did over the weekend.
Read Aloud-Seals on the Bus
Special Visitors-Mrs. Petersmeyer and Mrs. Wharram visited and talked about important school wide rules for the hallways, lunchroom and playground. They also talked about being a Star Student. They talked about being kind to others. They did the broken heart activity-they talked about how words can hurt hearts.
Project-Animals on the bus-Each student made a bus out of construction paper and drew animals peeking out the windows to go along with our Seals on the Bus story.
Math-Calendar
*We had extra play time today so I could work on individual assessments.
We had music with Mrs. Engbloom.
Center Time-We had a pop-up bus and a bus game out for free choice time today. The kids could pretend to ride in the bus. During center time I started doing the kindergarten pre-assessments. I am assessing letter recognition- upper and lower case, rhyming words, beginning letter sounds, sight words, number recognition, counting to 50 and counting by 10's. The students will have more free choice playtime this week while I am individually testing each student. We will use these results to plan curriculum. It will help me plan mini lessons for our reading time. It will also help the kindergarten team to determine which students qualify for Title 1 services.
Morning Meeting-movement-Wheels on the bus Quick share-fun thing he/she did over the weekend.
Read Aloud-Seals on the Bus
Special Visitors-Mrs. Petersmeyer and Mrs. Wharram visited and talked about important school wide rules for the hallways, lunchroom and playground. They also talked about being a Star Student. They talked about being kind to others. They did the broken heart activity-they talked about how words can hurt hearts.
Project-Animals on the bus-Each student made a bus out of construction paper and drew animals peeking out the windows to go along with our Seals on the Bus story.
Math-Calendar
*We had extra play time today so I could work on individual assessments.
We had music with Mrs. Engbloom.
Sept. 5
Morning Meeting-We did the pop-up song and the Pirate song. Our quick share was our favorite colors.
Read Aloud-Kindergarten Countdown
Shared Reading-Hooray for School
Project-We started our kindergarten scrapbooks today. We decorated our covers. We drew a picture of our favorite kindergarten activity for our Sept. page. Our high school helper glued our first day of school picture and our drawing on our Sept. page.
Rest Time-The Munching Crunching Caterpillar
Math-Fish cracker math- We used the fish to count, sort, and make patterns. We played shake and eat with a dice. After rolling the dice, the students could eat that many fish.
Social-We talked about kids around the world going to school. We found Mexico, France, China and Africa on the map. We saw pictures of kids from these different places.
Read Aloud-Kindergarten Countdown
Shared Reading-Hooray for School
Project-We started our kindergarten scrapbooks today. We decorated our covers. We drew a picture of our favorite kindergarten activity for our Sept. page. Our high school helper glued our first day of school picture and our drawing on our Sept. page.
Rest Time-The Munching Crunching Caterpillar
Math-Fish cracker math- We used the fish to count, sort, and make patterns. We played shake and eat with a dice. After rolling the dice, the students could eat that many fish.
Social-We talked about kids around the world going to school. We found Mexico, France, China and Africa on the map. We saw pictures of kids from these different places.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Sept. 3 & Sept. 4
Sept. 3
We had another fun day in kindergarten. We are spending lots of time learning all of our kindergarten procedures.
*Morning Meeting-We always do the "Hello Song", Morning Message, Surprise Suitcase and the Happy Dance. We also try to do a fun movement activity and a quick share. We did the "Freeze" song and we tapped and clapped our names. Our quick share was "kindergarten is fun because..."
*We had Phy. Ed. with Mrs. Lingo.
*Reading-Our read aloud was "I Love School". Our shared reading was "Hooray for School". We drew ourselves with crayons and added the words "I Love School". We hung them up above our lockers. They are too cute!
*Rest Time- We listened to the story "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom".
*Math-Partner Match-Each student go a piece of paper of different lengths. Each student had to find the student that matched their paper and they became math partners. Then they played the game Race to Trace.
We also had free choice time and outside time.
Sept. 4
*Morning Meeting-Movement activity "Silly Pirate Song" and Roll the Ball game. Our quick share was favorite food.
*Reading Activities-Our Read aloud story was "Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come". Our shared reading was a song-I Like to Come to School. We made a kindergarten student out of construction paper.
*We had art today with Mrs. Karg. They read the story "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and then made a little book with their purple crayon. Some students still need to share their drawings next week and will bring them home then.
*Rest time-We listened to the story "Pirate Pete's Big Adventure".
*Math-Today we had an introduction to measurement. We looked at a yard stick, a ruler and a tape measure. Then we used a crayon to measure with. We measured together first. We did some estimating. Then each student used a crayon to measure their school box, pencil, chair, a friend and themselves. At the end, they had a chance to measure other things in the room. Some kids measured doors, toys, blocks...It was a fun first measuring experience.
*We went outside and had free choice time.
We had another fun day in kindergarten. We are spending lots of time learning all of our kindergarten procedures.
*Morning Meeting-We always do the "Hello Song", Morning Message, Surprise Suitcase and the Happy Dance. We also try to do a fun movement activity and a quick share. We did the "Freeze" song and we tapped and clapped our names. Our quick share was "kindergarten is fun because..."
*We had Phy. Ed. with Mrs. Lingo.
*Reading-Our read aloud was "I Love School". Our shared reading was "Hooray for School". We drew ourselves with crayons and added the words "I Love School". We hung them up above our lockers. They are too cute!
*Rest Time- We listened to the story "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom".
*Math-Partner Match-Each student go a piece of paper of different lengths. Each student had to find the student that matched their paper and they became math partners. Then they played the game Race to Trace.
We also had free choice time and outside time.
Sept. 4
*Morning Meeting-Movement activity "Silly Pirate Song" and Roll the Ball game. Our quick share was favorite food.
*Reading Activities-Our Read aloud story was "Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come". Our shared reading was a song-I Like to Come to School. We made a kindergarten student out of construction paper.
*We had art today with Mrs. Karg. They read the story "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and then made a little book with their purple crayon. Some students still need to share their drawings next week and will bring them home then.
*Rest time-We listened to the story "Pirate Pete's Big Adventure".
*Math-Today we had an introduction to measurement. We looked at a yard stick, a ruler and a tape measure. Then we used a crayon to measure with. We measured together first. We did some estimating. Then each student used a crayon to measure their school box, pencil, chair, a friend and themselves. At the end, they had a chance to measure other things in the room. Some kids measured doors, toys, blocks...It was a fun first measuring experience.
*We went outside and had free choice time.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
1st Day of School
We had a great first day of school. We had center time(play time) in our room right away. We went to phy. Ed. and met Mrs. Lingo. We ran around the gym. We had lots of fun. We had library with Mrs. Hasti. Each student picked out one book to take home. You may keep the books for one week. We will have library next Tuesday. At morning meeting we did our Hello Song, our morning message, a name song (If your name is Mrs. Milow won't you pop right up), and our Happy Dance. Mrs. Milow did Surprise Suitcase. The students guessed that it was a ball-our sharing ball. Evan got to take the Surprise Suitcase home to put something inside.
We read the story Miss Bindergarten Gets REady for Kindergarten. We shared what we did to get ready for kindergarten. Each student drew a picture of what she/he did to get ready for kindergarten. We are going to add the words and a photo and make it into a class book.
We had lunch and indoor recess. During quiet time we listened to Roaring Rockets and I read The Night Before Kindergarten.
During math, we did calendar and explored with math manipulatives.
**The bus tag note was sent home today. Please make it tonight if you have not made one already. This will help me get all of the kids to the right place at the end of the day.
School picture order forms went home today. Our pictures are Thursday, September 25.
We read the story Miss Bindergarten Gets REady for Kindergarten. We shared what we did to get ready for kindergarten. Each student drew a picture of what she/he did to get ready for kindergarten. We are going to add the words and a photo and make it into a class book.
We had lunch and indoor recess. During quiet time we listened to Roaring Rockets and I read The Night Before Kindergarten.
During math, we did calendar and explored with math manipulatives.
**The bus tag note was sent home today. Please make it tonight if you have not made one already. This will help me get all of the kids to the right place at the end of the day.
School picture order forms went home today. Our pictures are Thursday, September 25.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Open House
Welcome to Kindergarten!
Thanks for coming to open house. I am looking forward to the first day of school. Here are a couple of things to remember on the first day...
1. Make sure your child is wearing his/her bus tag.
2. Send a snack labeled with your child's name.
3. I will meet your child at the "Meeting Place" by the bus doors. If your child is not riding the bus, please bring him/her to the "Meeting Place" instead of the classroom.
4. Please send paperwork back in the open house envelope-it is very important that we have your child's emergency card on file on the first day of school.
5. Have your child wear comfortable shoes and clothes-we will be active and busy all day. Your child will be going on the playground after lunch everyday.
This is an exciting day for your child. Your child may be happy, excited, nervous or sad on the first day. Please reassure them that I will be there to greet them right off the bus. I will give them lots of hugs, smiles and support. We will be busy with many fun activities. We will have a super first day of school together!
If you have any questions for me, you can reply to this blog (everyone will be able to see your reply) or you can email or call me at school.
I am very excited to have your child in my kindergarten class and look forward to working with all of you this year.
Mrs. Milow
Thanks for coming to open house. I am looking forward to the first day of school. Here are a couple of things to remember on the first day...
1. Make sure your child is wearing his/her bus tag.
2. Send a snack labeled with your child's name.
3. I will meet your child at the "Meeting Place" by the bus doors. If your child is not riding the bus, please bring him/her to the "Meeting Place" instead of the classroom.
4. Please send paperwork back in the open house envelope-it is very important that we have your child's emergency card on file on the first day of school.
5. Have your child wear comfortable shoes and clothes-we will be active and busy all day. Your child will be going on the playground after lunch everyday.
This is an exciting day for your child. Your child may be happy, excited, nervous or sad on the first day. Please reassure them that I will be there to greet them right off the bus. I will give them lots of hugs, smiles and support. We will be busy with many fun activities. We will have a super first day of school together!
If you have any questions for me, you can reply to this blog (everyone will be able to see your reply) or you can email or call me at school.
I am very excited to have your child in my kindergarten class and look forward to working with all of you this year.
Mrs. Milow
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