This Week:

This week we start a new theme in Language Arts: On The Farm

We will be making animal mobiles, singing songs, learning about the vowel "Ii", listening for the sound at the beginning of a word, learning the new sight word - "come" and much more.

Our new vocabulary words are: squabble, mischief, uproar, tend, soggy and wobble

We have been working in our Literacy Centers and doing great! This week we will have a Reading Center, Word Work Center, Writing Center, Letters and Sounds Center, Math Center and an Art Center.

In Math we will be finishing up Unit 2 and taking the Unit Test.

AM an PM Stars of the Week 12/2nd - 6th

Anneliese is the AM Star of the Week!

Gwendolyn is the PM Star of the Week!

Grace's picture

Centers!

The students are working great in their centers!  Adding, sounding out words and more!

Rhyming with the Itouches!

Science - Learning to work together and solve a problem!

Luke shared his vacation journal with the class!

Luke and his family must have had a great time!

Here are some pictures of Adeline as the AM Star of the Week!

Ryon had a great time as the Star!

Learning about benchmarks in Math!

How many Kindergarteners does it take to measure how wide our room is?

Loved Giana's outfit today!

Danica is the first PM Technology Helpers!

Here are Danica's pictures she took and emailed today!

Anneliese's is the first AM Technology Helper!

Here are her pictures she emailed!

This week: 11/18 - 11/22

This week (November 18 – 22)

Reading: Lesson 9 (Continuing with this lesson next week too)

• Phonological Awareness: onset/rime blending
• Word Building: -ap and -an words 
• High-Frequency Word: he
• Reviewing characters in a story and summarizing a story
• Robust Vocabulary: proceed, announced, gasped, sly, imaginary, active, apparel, voyage, whimper, precisely, gigantic, glum, complained
• Writing caption sentences
• Working on word choice in our writing

Lesson 9 Reading Homework

During Centers we will be reading:

Lesson 9 Red : focuses on -ap and -an words

Lesson 9 Blue : sentences containing -ap and -an words, along with our new sight word (he).

Lesson 9 Green: if you're ready for the challenge, go for it!

Math:

• 2.14: More Repeating Patterns
• Objectives: make repeating patterns, visualize rectangles as sides of boxes,
• Vocabulary: rectangle, square, pattern
• 2.15: Numbers 1 through 10
• Objectives:  identify and order numbers 1 through 10, count out and make t5 through 10 with 5-groups; identify and order numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; make repeating patterns
• Vocabulary: equal, not equal, more, fewer, rotate, turn

• 2.16: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Garden Scenario
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; write the numeral 9, draw 9 objects
• Vocabulary: in total, left, altogether
• 2.17: Numbers 1 through 10: the +1 pattern
• Objectives: build concepts of numbers 1 through 10; explore the +1 relationship between numbers; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: plus sign (+), equal sign (=)
• 2.18: Find and Make New Patterns
• Objectives: make repeating patterns; visualize rectangles as sides of boxes
• Vocabulary: growing pattern

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 2.15
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 2.17
• Friday:

• Math Challenge Homework: (optional)
• Monday: 2.14 challenge
• Tuesday: 2.15 challenge
• Wednesday: 2.16 challenge (this is the last challenge sheet for this unit)
• Thursday: 
• Friday: 

Ryan is the PM Star of the Week!

Lillian is the AM Star of the Week!

Educreations

Ms. Rasicot's lesson on patterns using Ipads and educreations

Farmer Dan's first video the classes saw!

Farmer Dan explained how to grow winter wheat.

Collin, Wyatt and Elijah being creative!

Sarah is the AM Morning Meeting Helper

Decorate your turkey!

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Check your child's backpack for this turkey!  Have some fun decorating!  Have your child think of fun things to use to decorate the turkey.  Please have your Kindergartener bring their decorated turkey back to school by November 18^th so we can display their artwork.

Letter D song!

3-D Shapes Song!

November 12-16

November 12-16

Reading: Lesson 8

• Phonological Awareness: onset/rime blending
• Letter: Dd
• High-Frequency Word: like
• Working on recognizing the beginning, middle, and end of a story
• Robust Vocabulary: active, gigantic, voyage, gasped, glum, whimper
• Writing caption sentences
• Working on organizing our ideas in writing
• Reading I Love School by Philemon Sturges and Sparky and Eddie: The First Day of School by Tony Johnston

Guided Reading Books:
Red focuses on the letter D
Blue focuses on the word like
Green is a challenge if you feel like you're ready! :)

Lesson 8 Red
Lesson 8 Blue
Lesson 8 Green

Reading Lesson 8 Homework

Math:  Unit 2:

• 2.10: 2- and 3-Dimensional Shapes: Rectangles and Boxes
• Objectives: write the numeral 7; draw 7 objects; visualize rectangles as sides of boxes; order numbers 1 through 10
• Vocabulary: before, after, slanted, rectangle, light, heavy, long, short, thick, thin
• 2.11: Practice with 5-Groups
• Objectives: identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 1 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; write the numerals 1 through 5
• Vocabulary: before, after, equal, not equal, more, fewer, tiny, little, medium, giant
• 2.12: Investigate Shapes in Our World
• Objectives: Recognize shapes in real-world objects
• Vocabulary: square, triangle, rectangle, circle, cone, cylinder, sphere, cube
• 2.13: Explore Number Patterns
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world, write the numeral 8, draw 8 objects
• Vocabulary: partners, zero, teens, tens, ones

• • Math Homework:

  • Monday:  No School
  • Tuesday: 
  • Wednesday:  2.11
  • Thursday: 
  • Friday:  2.13 
   
• Math Challenge Homework: (optional)
• Monday: No School
• Tuesday: 2.10 challenge
• Wednesday:2.11 challenge
• Thursday: 2.12 challenge
• Friday: 2.13 challenge

Welcome to our classroom's blog!

Last year I had a blog and decided not to this year.  Well, I changed my mind!!!!!  So here we go!  I will still put pictures out on the picasa sight, but you can see what your child is doing each week right here on the blog!  You can comment on anything!