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

**Important Information**

We are celebrating Dr. Seuss this week. He is a beloved children’s author and two of his books that we will read next week are, Fox in Socks and There’s A Wocket In My Pocket. We are inviting children to wear:

• Tuesday, March 5th – Wear Crazy Socks with your school shoes
• Wednesday, March 6th – Wear clothing that has pockets
• I will have a substitute March 5-7, I will leave instructions for her to check planners each day for any notes or lunch money.
• Spring Break is March 11-15. There is also a student holiday on March 18th.
• I sent home information about our upcoming Champs Assembly on March 22nd. Please have your child practice their line and our group song over the next couple of weeks to prepare. We would love for you attend our Champs Assembly on March 22nd. It will start at 8:00 and end around 8:30.

This week we will be learning:

What we will be learning March 4-8:

• I Love You Ritual song: Oh Mr. Sun
• Sight Words: to, not, home

Morning Activities

• Journal Writing (home), Draw a picture of your home and write a sentence about it.
• Journal Writing (not) Draw two animals, one little and one big, write sentence beside each animal. I am not little. I am little.
• Say it, spell it, write it sight words
• Last Name Graphing, how many letters in your last name
• Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance to music, when music stops students write down sight word called out
• Continue working on beginning, middle, and end writing
• create a Dr. Seuss creature like the ones seen in the book, There is a Wocket In my Pocket

Morning Message:

• Dr. Seuss word families – op, ed, at, am
• stretching sounds to write words, counting backwards, complete twenty frames using teen numbers
• beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, use number bonds to create a number sentence
• match pictures to words, complete the sentence using the word that sounds the best, adding one more
• rhyming words
• sight word bingo
• Self control song

Reading:

• books: Green Eggs and Ham, Fox in Socks, There is A Wocket in My Pocket, And to Think That I saw it on Mulberry Street
• Graphs: Are you Wearing Silly Socks Today? How Many Pockets Do You Have?
• Prediction: Will you like green eggs and ham?
• Long U Song and Sounds of Y Song
• Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
• Poems: I Have, EEKK (Elbow to Elbow, Knee to Knee), focus on (-ow words for long o and -ee/-ea for long e words)
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

 

Math:

• solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10
• model the action of joining to represent addition
• explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using words, pictures, and number sentences
• Dr. Seuss Math Mimeo
• I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game
• Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham Graph
• Clear the Deck Game -Review addition and subtraction with this game. Children work in pairs and split one game board. Each child starts with 10 cubes on their ten frame. They roll a +/- 1,2, or 3 dice to determine how many cubes to add or subtract from their side. The first to “clear their deck” wins!
• Continue learning about coins, review using magnetic coins and money songs
• students will work in small groups. Each group has to come up with all of the ways to make the number on their chart paper.
• Finish using the Pete the Cat Work Mat to model subtraction situations using buttons. write subtraction equations
• Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

• Sort and Graph Colored Goldfish crackers and Subtraction Smash (math by self)
• Mimio Addition, Dice Addition (technology)
• Tic Tac Teen (horseshoe)
• Ten Frame Matchup (journals)
• Race to Twenty Number Line and Piggy Bank Addition: Have students pick some items from around the room (pencils, crayons, markers, books, etc…) to put price tags on. Allow the students to price items (1 cents, 10 cents etc…). Students will then pick 2 items to buy and add up their total using the piggy bank addition sheet. (math with a partner)

Writing

• Class Interactive Chart, Oh The Places You’ll Go! (I want to be a…)
• Create Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
• Write about making green eggs and ham and your opinion of how it tasted.
• journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
• Students will continue to write letters to friends in our school
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Continue Using story map to begin new beginning, middle, end story.

Social Studies/Science:

• To learn connecting strategies as tools for turning your thinking brain on in preparation to manage challenges
• Sing #14 Important Messages and Discuss the feelings messages in the song.
• Review steps for getting ahold of our feelings instead of our feelings getting ahold of us.
• Practice Breathing Arms with I Love You Ritual Partner and add that as a breathing strategy.
• Practice Story Hand and Bye Bye Crankies Ritual with partner
• Sequence steps of the Safe Place

Hope you all have a great week!!

 

 

 

Good Morning,

I hope you all had a great weekend! We tried skating for the first time with the boys. They had a blast but definitely need some more practice. We also enjoyed the beautiful weather yesterday while playing at the park.

What we will be learning February 25-March 1:

• I Love You Ritual song:  The Cat and The Bunny
• Sight Words: have, of, was

Morning Activities

• Sentence Scramble. Students cut words and glue in order. Students write the sentence and illustrate.
• Journal Writing (of) – A ____ hatches out of an egg. (glue picture in blank)
• Last Name Graphing, how many letters in your last name
• Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance to music, when music stops students write down sight word caled out
• Continue working on beginning, middle, and end writing
• Our Foods We Like Class Book

Morning Message:

• Sneaky E words, counting backwards
• sh, ch, th digraphs, using number bonds to write number sentences
• stretching sounds to read words, complete number bonds
• sight word bingo

Reading:

• Students will identify the topic and details in expository text referring to the words and/or illustrations.
•  Talk about the different features and why we read informational texts. Students will explore some nonfiction books.
•  Informational Books Chart
• What is fiction? What is nonfiction? Charts and Song
• Nonfiction Text Scavenger Hunt
• Pick a nonfiction topic such as polar bears. Make a kWL chart.  Start charting details learned from the book. Have them keep a KWL chart that they can record on.
• Use Pebble Go to learn more information about chosen class animals
• books: non fiction animal books and Green Eggs and Ham
• Long U chart and Sounds of Y Chart
• Poems: I Have A Little Frog
• Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems, op word family, review the sounds of y poster and apply to poem to assist in reading
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

 

Math:

• solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10
• model the action of joining to represent addition
• explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using words, pictures, and number sentences
• Number Talk: I have ____ I wish I had ___. Use a post-it to cover up part of the dots. Say: “I have 4, I wish I had 8. How many are covered up with the post it? How did you see it?
• Read Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar: model subtraction using cookie jar, white board, and play cookies.
• Read Minus Sign, Activity: create subtraction story problem on chart paper then students will create their own subtraction story problem
• Fining Using foam hearts to create addition number sentences.
• Finish using the Pete the Cat Work Mat to model subtraction situations using buttons. write subtraction equations
• Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

• Candy Heart Graphing and Subtraction Smash (math by self)
• Mimio Addition, Dice Addition (technology)
• Math assessment (horseshoe)
• Heart Counting – number sequencing 1-20 and Story Problem (journals)
• Race to Twenty Number Line and Piggy Bank Addition: Have students pick some items from around the room (pencils, crayons, markers, books, etc…) to put price tags on. Allow the students to price items (1 cents, 10 cents etc…). Students will then pick 2 items to buy and add up their total using the piggy bank addition sheet. (math with a partner)

Writing

• Begin Animal Research as a class, make a list of animals students are interested in, vote as a class
• KWL chart for chosen animal
• Make a list of animal research questions.
• Discuss Animal Habitats and write about chosen animal’s habitat
• Discuss facts about chosen animals and record
• Continue Interactive Writing – Discuss what a noun is (person, place, or thing)
  

  Sing Song: What is noun? What is a noun? A person, place or thing, A person place or thing. (repeat) Or animal! Throughout the week we will chart nouns we love on hearts: Things we love…, People we love…, Places we love…

• Finish Love Acrostic Poem
• Students will continue to write letters to friends in our school
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Use story map to begin new beginning, middle, end story.

Feeling Buddies: Connecting With Others Lesson

• To learn connecting strategies as tools for turning your thinking brain on in preparation to manage challenges
• Sing #14 Important Messages and Discuss the feelings messages in the song.
• Review steps for getting ahold of our feelings instead of our feelings getting ahold of us.
• Practice Breathing Arms with I Love You Ritual Partner and add that as a breathing strategy.
• Practice Story Hand and Bye Bye Crankies Ritual with partner
• Sequence steps of the Safe Place

Hope you all have a great week!!

 

Happy Presidents Day! I hope you are enjoying this long weekend. I am looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

On Friday we sure enjoyed making chalk shadows. The weather was perfect, giving us plenty of sun to see our shadows. I’ll post pictures of our chalk shadows and other fun activities from last week.

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song:  Where are those Hands
• Sight Words: have, of, was

Morning Activities

• Sentence Scramble. Students cut words and glue in order. Students write the sentence and illustrate.
• Journal Writing (was) – Draw a bear and write the poem, Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear
• Winter Fluency Find It Game – middle sounds
• Yes/No Graphing, Does your first name have more letters than your last name?
• Continue working on beginning, middle, and end writing

Morning Message:

• Sneaky E words, 20 frames
• sh, ch, th digraphs, using number bonds to write number sentences
• stretching sounds to read words, complete number bonds
• sight word bingo

Reading:

• Students will identify the topic and details in expository text referring to the words and/or illustrations.
•  Talk about the different features and why we read informational texts. Students will explore some nonfiction books.
•  Informational Books Chart
• BrainPopJr: Reading Nonfiction
• What is fiction? What is nonfiction? Charts
• Pick a nonfiction topic such as polar bears. Make a kWL chart.  Start charting details learned from the book. Have them keep a KWL chart that they can record on.
• Use Pebble Go to learn more information about Polar Bears
• books: Polar Bears, Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, Hamilton Duck
• Long O chart and Sounds of Y Chart
• Poems: Hippity-hop to the Candy Shop, Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear
• Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems, op word family, review the sounds of y poster and apply to poem to assist in reading
• compound word match
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

 

Math:

• solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10
• model the action of joining to represent addition
• explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using words, pictures, and number sentences
• Number Talk: I have ____ I wish I had ___. Use a post-it to cover up part of the dots. Say: “I have 4, I wish I had 8. How many are covered up with the post it? How did you see it?
• Read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Activity: use carrots to act out subtraction problems. While some students are acting out the problems, other students will model problems on their Bunny Work Mats and record answers on whiteboards.
• Read 5 Little Speckled Frogs, Activity: act out story and write subtraction problems using frog/log printables:
• Use foam hearts to create addition number sentences.
• use the Pete the Cat Work Mat to model subtraction situations using buttons. write subtraction equations
• book: The Mission of Addition, activity: make, act out, and solve story problems
• Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

• Candy Heart Graphing (math by self)Lesson: MIMIO: Five Little Monkeys Subtraction (technology)
• Math assessment (horseshoe)
• Heart Counting – number sequencing 1-20 (journals)
• Piggy Bank Addition: Have students pick some items from around the room (pencils, crayons, markers, books, etc…) to put price tags on. Allow the students to price items (1 cents, 10 cents etc…). Students will then pick 2 items to buy and add up their total using the piggy bank addition sheet. (math with a partner)

Writing

• Complete making I Can Write 100 Words Class Chart
• Continue Things I Love Interactive Writing
• Continue Interactive Writing – Discuss what a noun is (person, place, or thing)
  

  Sing Song: What is noun? What is a noun? A person, place or thing, A person place or thing. (repeat) Or animal! Throughout the week we will chart nouns we love on hearts: Things we love…, People we love…, Places we love…

• Love Acrostic Poem
• Students will continue to write letters to friends in our school
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Use story map to begin new beginning, middle, end story.

Feeling Buddies:

Hope you all have a great week!!

 

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: