Mrs. Bradley's Class Kindergarten: Where Learning Is An Adventure 

Dear Parents,

Our Valentine’s Party will be February 14th @ 11:00-12:00. Thank you Caitlin Hasley for helping to plan this party. Here is a link to a few more things we are needing for the party. Please sign up if you are able to send in the needed items or if you are able to help at the party. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0445A8AC29A6FE3-valentines

A note will be going home tomorrow that will include a class list of names. Please help your child fill out a Valentine card for each student in our class.

We will also be decorating a “Valentine’s Day sack” to hold all of our Valentines cards.  We need your help with decorations!  If you have any stickers, hearts, glitter (anything that would be fun to decorate a bag), we would LOVE to use it to decorate our bags.

Thank You,

Stephanie Bradley

We had such a fun filled day! All of the kids were surprised to be greeted by Granny Bradley who turned 100 today! We enjoyed visiting other classes to build towers using 100 cups and dance to music while doing 100 exercises!

In our class:

• we made crowns and ties to wear throughout our 100th day celebration
• drew a picture of what we would look like when we are 100 and wrote about what we would to do when we are 100 years old
• built a large 100’s chart floor puzzle
• flipped a coin 100 times and recorded our findings
• made a necklace using 100 fruit loops
• colored a 100’s day mystery picture
• listened to the 100th Day Worries story
• shared about our 100s day posters
• made a 100 piece trail mix snack

Whew! We were busy but had oh so much fun!! I just love this sweet group of kids and enjoyed celebrating our 100th day of learning today! Here are some pictures of our day:

It was a beautiful weekend! I hope you all were able to enjoy some of the pretty sunshine. We were able to fit in a picnic at the park and some baseball practice.

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song: You Have Ten Little Fingers
• Sight Words: review of they, was, said, here, with, yes

Morning Activities

• Work on beginning, middle, and end writing
• Journal Writing using sight words
• Make newest sight words with playdough (With, they, here, said, was, yes)
• Winter Fluency Find It Game
• Yes/No Graphing/Question of the Day – Have You Built A Snowman?
• 100th Day Smarter Tie and Crowns

Reading:

• books: 100th Day Worries, 100th Day of School, Sneezy the Snowman, The Hat
• Long A and E chart
• Sort Characters that are in “The Hat”, students will use the retelling the sticks to retell the story.
• Characters in the Hat- alphabet sort
• Rhyming Words in the Hat
• Poems: Friends, Happy Birthday, 100 days
• Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems, locate _ay/-ow, come up with other words that have -ay and -ow

Math:

• our class will predict where we will end up if we take 100 steps, we will take 100 steps and see where we end up
• Play the 100 Hershey Kisses Scavenger Hunt Game, students will find numbered hershey kisses and place them on the corresponding number on our 100s chart.
• 5 Little Ducks Addition
• solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and modeling the action of joining to represent addition, explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using spoken words, concrete and pictorial models, and number sentences
• Number Talk: Quick Images, I will flash this quick image for 5 seconds then students to build a copy of what they saw using inch grid paper and manipulative inch tiles
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

• snowman number toss then build number on ten frame
• Math Activity: MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers
• I have, Who Has, Math Game
• winter counting play-dough mats
• gumball addition game
• domino addition
• Counting by 10s mittens
• build 100 cup towers
• race to 100 dice game
• 100 fruit loops necklaces

Writing

• I Can Write 100 Words Class Chart
• When I Am 100, I Will…
• I’ve Been Told 100 Times…
• Interactive Writing: (with) students will write a sentence about foods they like using the word with, Ex: I want pizza with pepperoni
• Winter Animal Writing
• Introduce Writing a Letter Anchor Chart and talk about Wee Deliver Writing
• Review Writing Time Expectations
• Share writing stories with B/M/E
• Review anchor charts – What do writer’s Do? and I can tell a story!
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• lesson on spaces writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)

• Animal Research-Continue how to research animals using Pebblego.com-Research and make a list: What animals hibernate in the winter?
• Fun Friday – Snow Dough

Feeling Buddies:

• Feeling Buddles lesson 5 Listening to Your Feelings – To learn to listen to the core messages of our feelings, motivating healthy decidsion making and helpful behaviorSing #18 listen to your feelingsPlay game “guess my name”

  Write Feeling Buddies messages on sentence strip

  Play game “do you remember the message” 

  Sing #18listen to tyour feelings

Hope you all have a great week!!

• To show support to Athens ISD during this very difficult time, White Oak ISD invites all students and staff to wear MAROON on Monday, January 28th.
• Tuesday, January 29th, we will celebrate the 100th day of school with many fun activities throughout our day. Please send in items for our 100s day snack if you have not already. Also, please send in your child’s 100s day poster if you are able to make one with them. Thank you for helping to make this 100s day so much fun!

Scholastic Book Orders due on Thursday, January 24th. Our class code is RGQPG and you can order using the following link: https://orders.scholastic.com/RGQPG Every order helps earn free books and materials for our classroom.

We had such a great week! Our class loved making our class snowman in interactive writing and writing sentences to add to it. We are making great strides in writing! We are all using so many sight words in our writing. We are also beginning to add more detail to our stories. I am so proud of all of my kinders!! They are also doing a great job using their math strategies to solve story problems. They are gaining such strong understanding of numbers when they can explain their thinking in math!