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

What we will be learning the week of April 15-18:

• I Love You Ritual song: our song selector will choose a favorite I Love You Ritual each day this week
• Sight Word Review: review all sight words, go over sight word movement card

Morning Activities

• continue Grandparent’s Day writing (a favorite memory with your Grandparent)
• edit/revise zoo writing (favorite thing at the zoo)
• continue Fairy Tale writing
• Sight Word Concentration
• What Is Your Favorite Weather Graph
• Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance, when music stops students write down sight word called out

Morning Message:

• Daily Star Student – share something with class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capital, spacing, punctuation)
  • stretching sounds to write words, beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, rhyming words

Reading:

• Identify story elements of a fairytale, discuss main idea of fairytale  and connect it to their own personal experience. Compare/contrast fairy tale versions of the same story and retell the fairy tales
• books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar
• Have students complete sequencing page for the Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
• Noun Sort
• Poems: Spring is Here, I’m an Easter Bunny, The Funny Man
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

Math:

• Introduce new game – Rollin, Rollin, Rollin, Numbers Undercover, and Doubles Undercover
• Measurement: Chart – How Tall am I? (using yarn)
• Measuring Shoes using square tiles
• Whole Group Eye Color Graph
• I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game (teen numbers)
• 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. (teen numbers)
• Make Tally marks using pretzels
• 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?
• Youtube: Subitizing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwUtg6O6H3k

Math Centers:

• Sort and Graph Jelly Beans (math by self)
• osmo math
• Cover up the sum or difference with a post-it that has a number sentence on it  and Problem Solving (horseshoe)
• Coin Rubbings and counting by 10’s headbands (Journals)
• Goldilocks Roll and Record with Teen Numbers (math with a partner

Writing

• Grandma/Grandpa Acrostic Poems
• Ways To Be Kind/Ways to be Unkind T-Chart
• Finish Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
• journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Use Story Dice to roll different settings, character, and events. Continue writing fairy tales

Social Studies/Science:

Hope you all have a great week!!

Parents,

Here are a few reminders about our Easter party!

• Our party begins at 11:00 this Thursday, April 18th! We will hunt our Easter eggs first and then return to our classroom for refreshments.
• Please send 24 fully taped eggs and a basket to school by Wednesday, April 17th. Make sure the candy inside the eggs is individually wrapped. Also, please do not send any peanut butter products.
• Students can be signed out in the classroom if you choose to take your child home after the party.
• I will send a reminder note home tomorrow of items to send in for the party.

I will have a sub in my room on the day of the party. I am on the interview committee for our new Primary Principal and the first round of interviews has been scheduled for that day. I am so sad that I will miss our party but am so thankful for all of the parents that have volunteered to help! Please take lots of pictures! I know the kids are going to have a lot of fun!

Mrs. Bradley

Our class is looking forward to our field trip to the zoo on Tuesday, April 9th.

• On Tuesday, please send your child to school in a White Oak shirt and tennis shoes.
• I will send home a labeled gallon size bag with your child tomorrow. Please pack their lunch in this bag.
• Please send two water bottles labeled with your child’s name (no juice, it attracts bees at the zoo).

If you are going to meet us at the zoo, we encourage you to purchase your ticket online ahead of time. You will still have to go through the main entrance to get into the zoo, but if you purchase your ticket online you will not have to wait in a long line to get into the zoo. Many schools will be at the zoo on this day.

After you have entered the zoo, please walk through the zoo and meet our class by the group entrance (near the rhino’s). Thank you to all of the parents that have volunteered to help out at this field trip. I will divide our class into small groups to walk with parent volunteers. This makes navigating the zoo a lot easier.

We are going to have so much fun!

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Hope everyone has had a great weekend! Please remember to send in your stamped and addressed envelopes so your child can mail an invitation to their Grandparents for our upcoming Grandparents Day performance. Also remember to send in the Grandparents Day T-shirt size form and $10.

We are going to have a fun filled week! Tomorrow students will see how well their leprechaun traps worked. They left them on their tables over the weekend in hopes of catching a leprechaun or at least some gold he may have dropped.We will also be starting our study on the lifecycle of a butterfly by observing real caterpillars each day.

What we will be learning the week of April 1-5:

• I Love You Ritual song: This Little Finger
• Sight Word Review: and, am, are, do, can, Introduce 1st grade words: about, how
• Letters: Review letters:Vv, Ww
• Numbers: Review numbers 0-20 and continue practicing counting to 100 by 1s and 10s

Morning Activities

• Emergent Readers: Three Little Pigs and Where Are We?
• Write about the steps you took to build your Leprechaun trap
• Journal Writing (yes), write yes 3 times, use yes in a sentence, rainbow write yet, build the word yes
• Sight Word Concentration
• Finish Last Name Graphing, how many letters in your last name
• What Is Your Favorite Weather Graph
• 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

Morning Message:

• Daily Star Student – share something with class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capital, spacing, punctuation)
  • stretching sounds to write words, beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, rhyming words

Reading:

• Identify story elements of a fairytale, discuss main idea of fairytale  and connect it to their own personal experience. Compare/contrast fairy tale versions of the same story and retell the fairy tales
• books: The Three Little Pigs (different versions)
• Complete Story Elements of The Three Little Pigs
• Venn Diagram: The Three LIttle Pigs and The True Story of the Three Pigs
• Who Do You Believe? (The wolf or the pigs) Graph
• Retell the story of The Three Little Pigs using puppets 
• Have students complete sequencing page for the Three Little Pigs
• Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
• Poems: Spring is Here, I’m an Easter Bunny, The Funny Man
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

Math:

• Identify U.S. Coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
  • Youtube Coin Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3tVrTFcKk
  • Money Anchor Chart
  • Coin Bingo
  • Continue learning about coins, review using magnetic coins and money songs
• Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories
  • create a domino sum graph
• PowerPoint: What Does Not Belong? Students will share which item does not belong and justify why.
• I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game (teen numbers)
• 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. (teen numbers)
• QR Code Math Game
• 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!
• 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?
• Youtube: Subitizing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwUtg6O6H3k

Math Centers:

• Sort and Graph Jelly Beans (math by self)
• ABCYA.com – Money
• Sorting Money, Tic Tac Teen (horseshoe) and Problem Solving
• Coin Rubbings and counting by 10’s headbands (Journals)
• Flower Sum Dominos (math with a partner)

Writing

• Create a Large Story Map of The Three Little Pigs students can take turns walking down the path and retelling the story
• Finish Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
• journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Use Story Dice to roll different settings, character, and events. Continue Using story map to write beginning, middle, end story.

Social Studies/Science:

Hope you all have a great week!!

What we will be learning the week of March 25-29:

• I Love You Ritual song: Walk and Stop
• Sight Words: had, yes
• Letters: Review letters: Tt, Uu
• Numbers: Review numbers 0-20 and continue practicing counting to 100 by 1s and 10s

Morning Activities

• Emergent Reader for sight word, had
• Sight Word Concentration
• Journal Writing (yes), write yes 3 times, use yes in a sentence, rainbow write yet, build the word yes
• Sight Word Concentration
• 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

Morning Message:

• Daily Star Student – share something with class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capital, spacing, punctuation)
  • stretching sounds to write words, beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, rhyming words

Reading:

• books: Little Red Riding Hood (different versions), Caps For Sale
• Soft/Hard C anchor chart
• Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
• Poems: Leprechaun, I’m an Easter Bunny, The Funny Man
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

Math:

• Identify U.S. Coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
• Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories
• PowerPoint: What Does Not Belong? Students will share which item does not belong and justify why.
• Money Anchor Chart
• I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game
• BrainPop Jr. : Pictographs, Tally Charts, Bar Graphs
• How To Make  A Graph Anchor
• Caps For Sale –  students will  graph hats by color.
• 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.
• 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 Lucky Charms cereal  (math by self)
• ABCYA.com – Fuzz Bugs Graphing (technology)
• Sorting Money, Coin Rubbings, Tic Tac Teen (horseshoe)
• Ten Frame Matchup (journals)
• Flower Sum Dominos (math with a partner)

Writing

• Finish Interactive Chart, Oh The Places You’ll Go! (I want to be a…)
• Finish Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
• journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Use Story Dice to roll different settings, character, and events. Continue Using story map to write beginning, middle, end story.

Social Studies/Science:

• Sing #12  I Have A Choice
• practice being helpful to our friends when we see their feeling signals on their fave, hear it in their voices, or see it in their bodies.
• Create Class Book, I Can Be Helpful, students will illustrate and write about how they would choose to be helpful

In Conscious Discipline, children learn how to wish each other well. Wishing well happens when we take a deep breath, put our hands over our heart and send out loving energy.

Hope you all have a great week!!

• Monday, March 18th – (no school) is a student holiday. I hope you have enjoyed your spring break!
• Tuesday, March 19th – we will be having our spring student led parent conferences. This is a time that your child, you, and myself will get to spend 15-20 minutes showing off their amazing work and setting a few goals with you.

Please sign up for a time to come hear your child talk about his/her progress! Click the link to sign up:

Mrs. Bradley’s Class Spring Student Led Parent Conferences Sign Up

• Friday, March 22nd – Our class will be leading the CHAMPS assembly over PERSEVERANCE. We will be practicing in class but need your help practicing speaking at home each night this week.

We would LOVE for you all to be there. We are looking forward to an AWESOME performance! The assembly will be from 8:00-8:30 on Friday, March 22nd in the cafeteria.

Thank You,
Mrs. Bradley

 

On March 19th we will be having our spring student led parent conferences. This is a time that your child, you, and myself will get to spend 15-20 minutes showing off their amazing work and setting a few goals with you.

Please sign up here for a time to come hear your child talk about his/her progress!

click the link below to sign up:

Mrs. Bradley’s Class Spring Student Led Parent Conferences Sign Up