This year our class is participating in Pizza Hut's reading program Book It! to promote reading. :) Your child has many opportunities from now until March (or when we run out of mini-certificates) to earn a FREE Personal Pan Pizza just for reading!!
To earn a mini-certificate you will want to read with your child at home and log the books on our classroom Book Log. When the book log is returned your child will still receive the Treasure Box toy like they are used to... but they will also receive the mini-certificate. Below you will see two pictures, one is of the front of the mini-certificate and the other is of the back. :) ooh I want to stress that the mini-certificate expires 30 days after the date it was earned, so make sure to not forget about them.
NOTE: I will always fill out the mini-certificate before sending it home. If your child brings one home that is not filled out, please know they did not earn it from me.
You can see from the Book It! poster that 4 people in class already earner a mini-certificate this week. Congrats goes out to Brendon, Keith, Miranda and Samantha!!Great job reading Guys!!
Yesterday was a great day!! The students were so happy to see each other and they remembered all the classroom rules. I LOVED IT!! :)
It'd been awhile since I took pictures of them. So while they worked on their detailed drawings, I took pictures of them. They were able to choose one pair of silly glasses. I tried getting everyone to wear the Buccaneers football glasses.., but they LOVED the green ones and minions ones so much!! So lot chose those. :)
I hope everyone weathered the storm safely and is doing well. I am fine and ready to return to school! However I need to be honest and tell you I don't bring my laptop home during breaks. Hurricane breaks are no exception... So I'm not able to do a regular weekly post and explain what we are doing. Ummmm, thats because I'm not exactly sure. Sorry, but it's the truth! (I wouldn't lie to all of you!)
Here is what I do know:
* We are going to continue testing and classwork for Progress Reports grades.
* The students are going to go to Centers so that I can complete the 1on1 Testing. (This is how most testing in Kindergarten is done. It's time consuming, but it helps ensure that the students do the best job possible!!)
* We are going to have FUN!! I'm sure the students have all missed each other and we need to establish the "Classroom Family" feeling again.
The Resources for the week are MONDAY-Art w/Ms.Schmidt. (This will be the students first time going to Art and having Ms.Schmidt as the teacher.) TUESDAY &WEDNESDAY-Computer Lab and FRIDAY-Media. Also, Friday is Sports Day. Make sure to dress and support your favorite team or sport. Go Bucs!! :) Makayla will be brining in Fun Friday Snacks for the whole class!!
**I'm not sure if the Compuer Carts will get passed out, so make sure to get your child on i-ready Math and Reading at home this week! Remember the districts goal is 45 minutes in both every week.**
I am starting i-Ready Usage Charts in the classroom. :) At the beginning of every week, I will check the students usage time in Reading and Math. The students who have met the 45 minute requirement will earn a Treasure Box and an X on the chart. When the whole row is filled in with X's, your child will earn lunch in the classroom with me!
Here is a picture of the Charts hanging in our classroom library.
Last week Lucas and Caleya met the requirement in Reading. :) Go guys!!!
No one met the requirement in Math. So keep working at it!
It may be a four day week, but we are going to be busy learning as if it was a LONG ONE!! :) If you haven't checked out the post on Center Groups, please do. It'll give your child a heads up on who is in their group.
Our Resources for the week are~ Tuesday- ART, Wednesday- MUSIC and Thursday- P.E. (Make sure your child wears sneakers or they may have to sit out during certain party of P.E. for their safety.) Friday is Patriotic Day. Wear as much red, white and blue as possible!! Brendon is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the whole class. :)
MATH
This week we are doing more group counting. The students will be counting groups in different types of configurations~ lines, arrays, circular or scattered. Sometimes students have trouble with this concept because they are only used to counting groups in an array. So make sure to practice at home!! Also, if your child is unable to count the group in their head- MAKE THEM use their pointer finger and count the objects. 1-1 correspondence fixes simple counting mistakes. :)
We will also be discussing "Hidden Partners/ Part of a Group." This is a beginning stage to decomposing numbers. It allows the students to see the whole group, but also a small part of the group.
Here is a short Youtube video for counting groups practice.
WRITING
We are continuing to practice drawing detailed people. The students are getting better every day!! We will discuss different settings we can draw for our people and the clothing to match each setting. The beach~ bathing suits, a snowball fight~ jackets, pants and gloves, their bedroom~ pajamas, etc. Together we will draw and then we will write simple I like or I am at sentences to match the pictures.
Here is a detailed setting video for a house and it's front yard. There is no talking, just simple background music and childhood songs. It allows your child to see that drawing takes time and there are LOTS of things to draw on the house and around it. Plus it's a reminder that everything is NOT the same color. There are a ton of different colors all around!
SAXON/ SIGHT WORDS
Saxon will review how the alphabet is made up of 26 letters, vowels and consonants. We will review all the letters and sounds. Make sure to practice at home so your child can join THE LETTER CLUB & THE SOUND CLUB!! We will focus on the letter Ff and discuss rhyming.
Below is a ton of Youtube videos and the sight word slideshow!
READING
We will be enjoying a few more Nursery Rhymes and we will end the week with a Fable. :) The Nursery Rhymes are Hickory, Dickory Dock; Diddle, Diddle Dumpling; Little Bo Peep; Little Boy Blue; Baa, Baa Black Sheep and Humpty Dumpty. Our Fable is The Lion and the Mouse. If you want to read it to your child or check it out yourself CLICK HERE. Also, our standard is asking and answering questions. Here are the ones I've listed for the fable. I divided them by level= LOW: What does the characters? Which one learns a lesson? MODERATE: What happened at the beginning? At the end? How
did the lion change? HIGH: Explain
what real life lions and mice are like. Why do you think the mouse was willing
to help the lion? Why do you think the lion decided to not eat the mouse at the
beginning of the story?
SCIENCE
Since we do not have a Resource on Friday, I decided to dedicate some time to Science!! We will discuss the Five Senses and work in our Science Journals.
Here is a catchy Youtube video from Mr.R. He also has individual ones for each of the Five Senses. Check them out!!
These are the Center Groups for the first quarter of the school year. Your child will be in this group for Reading and Math Centers. Talk with your child about their group shape and who else is in their group. This will help ease the transition from knowing their Table Group to knowing their Center Group. :)
For those of you wondering how I split up the groups... Let me explain, there are boys and girls in each group. There are quiet kids and chatty kids. There are shy kids and confident kids. And all the besties are SPLIT apart too! haha I believe the mixture of students in each group will be great for learning!!
Sunglasses Day was great! The students loved wearing them at their tables, the carpet and during Art time. However they were sad, because we didn't get to wear them outside during recess. :( So next week, please allow your child to bring their glasses once to recess.
Enjoy the slideshow!!
Make sure to check out the dance videos from Indoor Recess at the end of this post. Watching the students dance around is too cute!!
This free digital slideshow personalized with Smilebox
