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

Thank you for all of the stickers you have sent to school and votes you have put in for our project. Limeades for Learning 2017 will end tonight at midnight. Please make sure you log in and vote tonight if you haven’t already today. If you have any extra sticker codes please enter those into the project, OSMO for Kindergarten!. This is a group project that will provide one OSMO for each kindergarten teacher at White Oak if it gets funded by Sonic.

1. Go to limeadesforlearning.com
2. Click on “EXPLORE” tab at the top of the website.
3. In the search box, type “OSMO for Kindergarten!”
4. Vote for this project

This project is an exciting experience for all the students as we work as a team to earn something special for our kindergarten classrooms.

Thank you for ALL that you do!

If you have any stickers leftover that you aren’t able to enter in, please send these to school this week.

Thank You,

Mrs. Bradley

If you would like to place an October Scholastic book orders, please enter it today. Our class code is RGQPG and you can order using the following link:
https://orders.scholastic.com/RGQPG

Thank you to everyone who ordered in September. We earned a book for every student to take home! Every order helps earn free books and materials for our classroom.

*Reminder* No school on Friday, October 20th

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: little, in, and color words):

• M – I see a little ____.
• T – We can go in the ____. (students will glue pictures of vehicles to go with their sentence)
• W-Th – Color Word Book (students will draw and write about each color)

Morning Message:

• M – Students will use letter/word monster to find letters and words in message
• T – Students will name the sight that have been left out of the message. Students will name the numbers that are missing.
• W – Discuss words with the beginning sound (m), students will write an uppercase and lowercase Mm
• Th – Students will stretch out sounds to write three letter words

Writing:

• M – Continue Bat KWL chart, use sentence frames to write about Halloween Stickers.
• T – Continue Labeling a bat, Review Writer reference folder, students will write about an idea they have in their head in their journals.
• W – Th – Continue with students sharing writing and heart maps with class in authors chair

Reading:

• Books – Stellaluna, Orange Pumpkin, The Day The Crayons Quit, Scaredy-Cat, Splat
• Focus – color words, sight words, punctuation, characters, make predictions from the title and cover, discuss author and illustrator
• Questions – Who is the main character?  What are some things she likes to do? What is a setting? Who is the book about?  What did character do?  How did the book end? How the story could be made better?
• Sight words: little, in, is, my, color words
• Poem:  One Little Bluebird
• Activities- Students will make flip book of character, setting, main idea
• Phonics Lessons – Hearing Words in Sentences and Hearing Syllables

Math:

• M – Counting Jar: Recording
  • Count items in counting jar. Students will make their idea on a post it and place it on a counting jar chart.
  • Create a Real Life Graph using 3D shapes students have brought in

• T – Students will sort pattern blocks by attributes. Students will work in partners using attribute cards.
• W –Roll and Record 2 (#s 2-9) students will roll dice and can write number in correct column.
  • Activity: Sort shapes by how many sides they have.
• Th – Students will use a balance scale to measure different items around the classroom to see what is heavier.
  • Activity: Using cups of different sizes, students will see which containers can hold the most
  • end of 9 weeks benchmark
• F – Predictions – students will grab a handful of cubes. Make a prediction of how many they might be able to grab. Discuss: Why do you think they grabbed that many? Why weren’t they able to grab the same amount?

Science – continue study on bats and community helpers

• M – Bat fact videos, add to KWL chart, brainpop community helpers
• T – Label a bat
• W –  Make bat facts picture
• Th – Name differences between bats and birds

We loved reading the book, Caps For Sale. We found all of the color words in the book and retold the story using props.