Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on October 7, 2018
October 8-12
It has been such a fun weekend celebrating Homecoming 2018! I loved seeing so many of you at the pep rally, game, and Roughneck Days. I hope everyone had a great time!
*Reminders*
- Please view our Kindergarten Parent Orientation Slideshow posted on my blog
- Please look for a note coming home this week about your upcoming Parent Conference time
This week we will be learning:
- I Love You Ritual song: Dancing Hands
- Sight Words:color poems/songs (purple, pink, black, brown, white), introduce sight words: little, in
- Reading: White Rabbits Color Book, Yuck Soup, Friends, The Day The Crayons Quit, Brown Bear, Brown Bear
- story elements (character/setting/problem/solution)
- rhyming picture match
- erase a rhyme
- focus on sight words (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at), capital letters, punctuation
- Poems:
- Rainbow Hair (focus on color words)
- Colors (focus on color words)
- Math:
- number talks using ten frames, rekenreks, and dot cards
- number of the day and discuss counting strategies
- problem solving – Who Has More?
- sort 2D/3D shapes by attributes
- continue Measurement (measurement cards using objects to measure)
- How many ways can you make the number 10?
- What does not belong? (shape attributes)
- Counting Jar (counting items in a jar in 2 different ways and then creating that quantity using other items)
- math rotation:
- math by myself – 5 in a row game, ten frame write the room
- math with a partner – Measuring Feet, QR Code Math/Ten Frames and 2D/3D Shape Sorting
- 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
- Meet with Teacher – math apple baskets, sort numbers represented in different ways into corresponding basket
- Writing
- create class book, At School
- journals – use sight words (color words and other sight words I, see, we, go, on, the, go, am, like, can, me, at, little, in)
- 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
- make our personal word wall in our writing folders
- Use sentence frames to help us write
- add a sentence to our fall pictures that we created and labeled
- Halloween sticker stories
- 3 Star Pictures and Adding Detail
- Writing Center – take apart and put together sentences
- Small, Tall, Short letters sort
- Social Studies/Science:
- sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
- pumpkin Investigation
- pumpkin lifecycle
- parts of a pumpkin
- Fun Friday – free and centers and finish Leaf Art
- Feeling Buddies: Lesson on breathing strategies to help us calm – draining and ballooning
Please enjoy the pictures of last week below: (the upload photo feature was not working at the time of this post, I will try again later this week to post our pictures from last week)
