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

We had such a fun time building our 3D Spooky House and completing our pumpkin investigation last week! Please enjoy the pictures below:

**Reminders**

• Kindergarten parent conferences are on Monday, October 29th!

Parents will enter through the lower car drop off/pick up entrance for parent conference.

• Wednesday, October 31st is Halloween. This is not a party day, but students may dress as their favorite book character. This is also an early release day at 11:30.

  We are planning lots of fun activities for this upcoming week. Tuesday the kindergarten teachers will do a read a round/activity rotation so the kiddos can have some FUN! We will do a fun experiment where we make a jack-o-lantern throwup.

• Friday, November 2nd = NO PEP RALLY

• November 15th: Fall Picture Retakes

• November 19th-23rd: Thanksgiving Holidays!

With our busy schedule, your child may have to pick a book on their level on some days themselves. Thank you for understanding and making this upcoming week memorable for your child.

I am so excited to share the great news that our class project, Wiggle and Wobble in Kindergarten, was funded today. Our wiggle cushions and wobble stools will be sent to our classroom soon! Thank you so much for your help in meeting this project goal, we had 2400 votes!!

There is still one week left in the Limeades for Learning Sonic campaign. I was able to get another project approved through Sonic so that we can enter our remaining stickers and votes into that project in hopes that we get the new project funded as well!

 Continue sending in Sonic Limeades for Learning stickers and voting everyday for our new project:

Math, Science, Literacy and Sensory Play in Kindergarten

These materials will provide hands-on learning in math, science, and literacy while meeting my students sensory needs. Our class loves learning about 2D and 3D shapes. The shape books (The Greedy Triangle, The Perfect Square, and Shapes, Shapes, Shapes), the 3d Geometric shape blocks, and the Tumble Trax Magnetic Marble set will provide them engaging materials to further their understanding of shapes and how they work in the world around us. The math games will provide further exploration of the math concepts we cover in kindergarten. The large beanbag chair and Tactile Alphabet Sandpaper Letters will help meet the sensory needs of my students. The fine motor kit will allow my students to build their fine motor muscles while exploring in our sensory and science center.

We are needing close to 3000 votes for this project to get funded! Please go by sonic if you can and ask them for any extra stickers or rolls of stickers they may have. I appreciate your help and am excited for the new materials for our class!!

October 22-26

Tomorrow kicks off our Red Ribbon Week festivities! Here is the daily schedule for the week.

Monday: Wear Red.
Support the Red Ribbon Awareness campaign.

Tuesday: Wear your favorite team jersey or t-shirt.
“Team up against drugs!”

Wednesday: Wear dress-code appropriate pajamas. 
“Stay healthy, and have sweet dreams!”

Thursday: Wear crazy socks.
“Healthy habits help you stand out!”

Friday: Wear Roughneck spirit colors.
“Roughnecks stand strong against drugs!”

**Reminders**

• Continue sending in Sonic Limeades for Learning stickers and voting everyday for our project. This is the last week to vote and send in stickers.
  • 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!
• Send in one mini pumpkin for your child to use for our pumpkin investigation science lessons this week.
• I will send a reminder note home for the Student Led conferences on October 29th with your time on it this week.
• Students can dress up on Halloween day as their favorite book character.  Remember this is a half day for students.

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song: Here’s The Bunny
• Penmanship: Review letters we have learned so far, review numbers 1-10
• Sight Words: is, my, put, continue learning all color words
• Reading: Spookly the Square Pumpkin, The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything
  • describe characters in story and discuss reasons for their actions
  • Discuss what Spookly did to help others. Students will draw a picture of something they have done to help others.
  • retelling the story, sequencing and story elements
  • rhyming picture match
  • erase a rhyme
  • focus on sight words (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in, is, my, put), capital letters, punctuation
  • discuss the topic and details of nonfiction book
  • discuss connections readers have to books, students will tell about their personal connections with our book this week
  • make your own Spookly!
• Poems:
  • Little Bluebird
  • 5 Little Pumpkins
• Math:
  • number talks – Pips on a Dice
  • Discuss different ways of counting
  • 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
  • lesson on ways to make 5 using ten frames.  
  • Introduce New Game: race to twenty, review one more, one less
  • Pumpkin Emotion Graph
  • Graph – Are you Afraid of spiders?  Yes/No, recreate graph using objects
  • Counting Jar (counting items in a jar in 2 different ways and then creating that quantity using other items)
  • lesson on finding numbers throughout our world
  • math rotation:
    • math by myself – Pumpkin Seeds Counting Story, QR code math write the room,
    • math with a partner – 2D/3D Shape Sorting, problem solving in journal
    • math in writing- finish How Many Apples Tall are You? measure and then draw in journal
    • math in technology – shape and number osmo and math mimio, number sense games
    • Meet with Teacher – Dice to Ten Frame Bump game
• Writing
  • Continue – 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.
  • Continue – 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, is, my, put)
  • 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
  • continue adding to our personal word wall in our writing folders
  • Use sentence frames to help us write
  • Boo! Writing
  • My Fun Day Writing
  • lesson on writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)
• 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
  • 5 Senses Pumpkin
  • Pumpkin Investigation using the mini pumpkins from each student
  • Fun Friday – Walking Spiders!
  • Feeling Buddies: I Can Calm Myself class book

Mrs. Bradley’s Kindergarten Student Led Parent Conferences on October 29th

On October 29th we will be doing student led conferences. This is a new way we are doing conferences!  This is a day that your child, you, and myself will get to spend 15-20 minutes showing off  their work, explaining how our day works, and setting a few goals with you.

Please sign up here for a time to come hear your child talk about his/her day and what they are most proud of.

click the link below to sign up:

Mrs. Bradley’s Student Led Parent Conferences Sign Up