Morning Meeting-Our quick share was about bowling today. We had surprise sack, letter bucket and Evan shared the Star Suitcase.
Phy. Ed.-We are bowling in phy. ed. this week. The kids loved to bowl. We even had some strikes!
Read Aloud-We read "Hello Snow" today. We also read "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow" and "One Winter's Day" this week.
Shared Reading-We read " Cat Sat". Before reading today, we highlighted the words in the book. We used yellow to highlight out star "sight" words. We found "go" in our book. We used orange to highlight the "at" words. We found "cat" "sat" and "Pat". We used the green to highlight the "an" words. We found lots!
Reading Activities-We had read to partner today. We read "Cat Sat" along with other books that we can read easily.
Writer's Workshop-We practiced stretching words and listening for sounds to spell words in our writing. We practiced whole group with white board paddles. We are learning lots of new words.
Rest time-We finished our book "Dinosaur Detectives" today. We voted on a new book to start tomorrow, "Dinosaur Cove Attack of the T-Rex".
Math-We did calendar and calendar books today. We read a book about the number 3 called "Three Bouncing Balls". We practiced writing the word three and the numeral 3. We also talked about symmetry and matching. We made matching mittens for an art project today.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Jan. 9
It has been a busy week! Sorry I have not been keeping up with my blog this week. I will summarize what we did this week.
Morning Meeting-This week we did the Pippa Pig song for movement activities along with winter songs. We shared fun things we did over break and our favorite unthinkable. We did Surprise Sack and Letter Bucket daily.
Specials-We had stations in Phy. Ed. We made a clay pot in art this week.
Read Aloud-We read many books this week including "Puppies in the Snow", "The Snowy Day", "The Stranger in the Woods", The Twelve Days of Winter.
Shared Reading-We read lots of winter poems this week including; The Snowman, Snowflakes Falling Down, and Hickory Dickory Dock. We do different things with our shared reading. One day we found sight (star) words in the poem. One day we picked words out of the poem and practicing sounding out letter sounds and blending words.
Literacy Activities-We had read to self almost every day this week. Our students are getting to be such good readers. We read between 5-10 minutes a day. I try to meet with 2 students each time we read to listen to their reading. We had read to a partner one time this week. We also had stations one day this week. Our stations included: writing the letter Pp, finding the letter Pp in the Pippa Pig song and around the room, completing a journal page and a cutting activity.
Writer's Workshop-I am amazed with the writing happening in our room! WOW! This week we had writer's workshop 4 out of the 5 days. Our mini lessons included adding sound words, adding feelings to our stories, writing in sequence, writing more ideas, using a period and putting spaces in between our words. After our mini lessons, we write fro 15 minutes in our independent working spots. I conference with 2 students a day during that time. Then we try to take a few minutes to share. This week we had the students who sit on the red and yellow tape share along with a few other students who did such a good job writing that I wanted to shared their work too!
Rest Time-We are still reading our chapter book "The Magic School Bus and the Dinosaur Detectives."
Math-We did calendar every day and our calendar books three days this week. On Wednesday we played the disappearing train game. We practiced counting, adding, subtracting and number writing. On Thursday we talked about sequence and temperature. We did a snowman sequence project. We also read a story about the number 0. We practiced writing the word and making the numeral zero. On Friday we read a book about the number 1. Then we practiced writing the number and word one.
Social Skills-We finished learning about all of the unthinkables this week. Then we read the story Superflex. The super hero, superflex, saved the citizens of Social Town from Rockbrain. Rockbrain is the unthinkable that makes people get stuck on one idea. The kids are loving this unit! It is a fun way to learn about social skills.
Other-Today we made a "Winter Window". We drew a picture on a square piece of paper and then we framed it with construction paper to make a window. They will be up at conference time for you to enjoy.
Have a good weekend!
Morning Meeting-This week we did the Pippa Pig song for movement activities along with winter songs. We shared fun things we did over break and our favorite unthinkable. We did Surprise Sack and Letter Bucket daily.
Specials-We had stations in Phy. Ed. We made a clay pot in art this week.
Read Aloud-We read many books this week including "Puppies in the Snow", "The Snowy Day", "The Stranger in the Woods", The Twelve Days of Winter.
Shared Reading-We read lots of winter poems this week including; The Snowman, Snowflakes Falling Down, and Hickory Dickory Dock. We do different things with our shared reading. One day we found sight (star) words in the poem. One day we picked words out of the poem and practicing sounding out letter sounds and blending words.
Literacy Activities-We had read to self almost every day this week. Our students are getting to be such good readers. We read between 5-10 minutes a day. I try to meet with 2 students each time we read to listen to their reading. We had read to a partner one time this week. We also had stations one day this week. Our stations included: writing the letter Pp, finding the letter Pp in the Pippa Pig song and around the room, completing a journal page and a cutting activity.
Writer's Workshop-I am amazed with the writing happening in our room! WOW! This week we had writer's workshop 4 out of the 5 days. Our mini lessons included adding sound words, adding feelings to our stories, writing in sequence, writing more ideas, using a period and putting spaces in between our words. After our mini lessons, we write fro 15 minutes in our independent working spots. I conference with 2 students a day during that time. Then we try to take a few minutes to share. This week we had the students who sit on the red and yellow tape share along with a few other students who did such a good job writing that I wanted to shared their work too!
Rest Time-We are still reading our chapter book "The Magic School Bus and the Dinosaur Detectives."
Math-We did calendar every day and our calendar books three days this week. On Wednesday we played the disappearing train game. We practiced counting, adding, subtracting and number writing. On Thursday we talked about sequence and temperature. We did a snowman sequence project. We also read a story about the number 0. We practiced writing the word and making the numeral zero. On Friday we read a book about the number 1. Then we practiced writing the number and word one.
Social Skills-We finished learning about all of the unthinkables this week. Then we read the story Superflex. The super hero, superflex, saved the citizens of Social Town from Rockbrain. Rockbrain is the unthinkable that makes people get stuck on one idea. The kids are loving this unit! It is a fun way to learn about social skills.
Other-Today we made a "Winter Window". We drew a picture on a square piece of paper and then we framed it with construction paper to make a window. They will be up at conference time for you to enjoy.
Have a good weekend!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Jan. 5
Welcome Back!
We started our day drawing and coloring pictures of something fun that happened during our winter break. During our morning meeting we shared our pictures and told our stories about break. We were great listeners!
Specials-We had music today. We earned 3 stars today for being good listeners!
We had snack and free choice time after music.
Reading Activities-We reviewed the "h" "v" "c" sounds. Then we did the "hvc" assessment sheet. I introduced the new Alpha Friend, Pippa Pig. We sang the song and brainstormed "Pp" words. I introduced our new theme "Lets Count". We read the story "Benny's Pennies". We completed the page in our Kindergarten Memory book about the story "Benny's Pennies". Ask your child what he/she would buy with 5 pennies.
Rest Time-We read the story "Scaredy Squirrel". It was a story Grace gave to our class. We all thought it was funny.
Math-We did calendar. We played a penny and nickel partner game.
Social Skills-We are starting a new social skills unit. It is called Superflex. It is about a superhero that tries to help against the unthinkables. Today I just introduced our superhero, Superflex. We talked about what a superhero is. Then I introduced 4 of the unthinkable characters. The first character was "Rockbrain". He says, "I make people get stuck on their ideas." The next one was Glassman. He says, "I make people have huge reactions." Mean Jean was the next character we met. She says, "I get people to act mean and bossy". The last one we talked about today was Brain Eater. He says, "I distract people." After introducing these 4 unthinkable characters, I gave examples of each. Then the students each picked one to draw and color. We are going to talk more about them tomorrow. There are 10 more unthinkables to introduce. We are going to spend time on each unthinkable character and talk about how "Superflex" can stop these behaviors. My goal is to get kids thinking about others. I will give more information as we move through this program.
**We need more snack.***
*I will send home conference letters this week.
We started our day drawing and coloring pictures of something fun that happened during our winter break. During our morning meeting we shared our pictures and told our stories about break. We were great listeners!
Specials-We had music today. We earned 3 stars today for being good listeners!
We had snack and free choice time after music.
Reading Activities-We reviewed the "h" "v" "c" sounds. Then we did the "hvc" assessment sheet. I introduced the new Alpha Friend, Pippa Pig. We sang the song and brainstormed "Pp" words. I introduced our new theme "Lets Count". We read the story "Benny's Pennies". We completed the page in our Kindergarten Memory book about the story "Benny's Pennies". Ask your child what he/she would buy with 5 pennies.
Rest Time-We read the story "Scaredy Squirrel". It was a story Grace gave to our class. We all thought it was funny.
Math-We did calendar. We played a penny and nickel partner game.
Social Skills-We are starting a new social skills unit. It is called Superflex. It is about a superhero that tries to help against the unthinkables. Today I just introduced our superhero, Superflex. We talked about what a superhero is. Then I introduced 4 of the unthinkable characters. The first character was "Rockbrain". He says, "I make people get stuck on their ideas." The next one was Glassman. He says, "I make people have huge reactions." Mean Jean was the next character we met. She says, "I get people to act mean and bossy". The last one we talked about today was Brain Eater. He says, "I distract people." After introducing these 4 unthinkable characters, I gave examples of each. Then the students each picked one to draw and color. We are going to talk more about them tomorrow. There are 10 more unthinkables to introduce. We are going to spend time on each unthinkable character and talk about how "Superflex" can stop these behaviors. My goal is to get kids thinking about others. I will give more information as we move through this program.
**We need more snack.***
*I will send home conference letters this week.
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