Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on October 13, 2018
October 15-19
I hope everyone has had a good weekend! I am looking forward to a fun week next week as we begin learning about bats!
*Reminders*
- Please view our Kindergarten Parent Orientation Slideshow posted on my blog
- Please make sure you have signed up for a Parent Conference time. Please click on this link to sign up: Mrs. Bradley’s Student Led Parent Conferences Sign Up
- No School for Students October 19th (this is a teacher workday)
- Send in 3D shapes if you haven’t already, our class loves presenting and sorting these shapes, it is such a fund way to learn our 3D shape names!
- Watch D.O.G.S. kick-ff pizza party at the school cafeteria, Monday, October 15th 6:30-7:30
- Continue sending in Sonic Limeades for Learning stickers and voting everyday for our project
- Vote, Vote, Vote for our project: Wiggle and Wobble in Kindergarten
- We want Sonic to choose our project to help fund so we need as many votes as we can get!
This week we will be learning:
- I Love You Ritual song: Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Letters: Dd, Vv, Pp
- Sight Words:, continue learning all words and sight words: little, in
- Reading: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, Bats, Yuck Soup, Little Red Hen
- describe characters in story and discuss reasons for their actions
- sequencing
- rhyming picture match
- erase a rhyme
- focus on sight words (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in), capital letters, punctuation
- discuss the topic and details of nonfiction book
- Poems:
- Rainbow Hair (focus on color words)
- Colors (focus on color words)
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Math:
- number talks using ten frames, rekenreks, and dot cards
- number of the day and discuss counting strategies
- problem solving – which 3D shapes roll, stack, or slide?
- sort 2D/3D shapes by attributes, graph 3D shapes, begin creating 3D shape Halloween House
- continue Measurement (measurement cards using objects to measure)
- Introduce New Game: Match numerals on cup to dots on gameboard
- What does not belong? (shape attributes)
- Counting Jar (counting items in a jar in 2 different ways and then creating that quantity using other items)
- Match Dominoes to Correct Numbers
- math rotation:
- math by myself – QR code math write the room, In the Bag (pick bag, count objects inside, record amount)
- math with a partner – 2D/3D Shape Sorting
- math in writing- finish How Many Apples Tall are You? measure and then draw in journal, number map of #6
- math in technology – shape and number osmo and math mimio, number sense games
- Meet with Teacher – Dice to Ten Frame Bump game
- Writing
- Why do writers write? Make a chart discuss and list different reasons for writers to write
- Use heart maps and journal covers to draw and write about something you love and know about.
- Halloween Story: Discuss adding detail to our pictures. Draw a picture of halloween costume, write about where you will go on Halloween and write about what you will do. Discuss what makes a 3 Star Picture
- journals – use sight words (color words and other sight words I, see, we, go, on, the, go, am, like, can, me, at, little, in)
- writing about personal experiences (focus on starting sentences with a capital letter, spacing between words, punctuation), reference our heart maps to get ideas of what to write about
- make our personal word wall in our writing folders
- Use sentence frames to help us write
- Halloween sticker stories
- letters/numbers sort
- Social Studies/Science:
- sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
- Bat Facts
- Drawing and Labeling a bat
- KWL Bats
- parts of a pumpkin
- Fun Friday – free centers and 3D shape graphing
- Feeling Buddies: Lesson on breathing strategies to help us calm – pretzel
