THIS WEEK IN KINDER

ThisWeek In Kinder

3/1

It is March! I can't believe we are already into the third month of 2020! Tomorrow is Dr. Seuss' birthday! We will read all day so let's wear our pajamas to school tomorrow. If you have any Dr. Seuss books at home will you send them to school with your child? We will return them tomorrow afternoon. Please make sure they are marked with your child's name on them.

This week we will work with the sound that or makes. We will continue to use a number line to solve math problems. We didn't finish discussing the Lincoln Memorial so we will add that to this week's agenda. The sight words we will focus on are were, little and more. I will be testing the last set of sight words and sending home the results along with a new set to work on at home. I am so impressed with the reading that is happening! Keep working on it at home!!

2/23

I hope you all had a wonderfully relaxing week! This week we will get right back into the swing of things. It will go by fast and before we know it summer will be here! This week we will continue our study of the Presidents. We will study our national symbols, The Washington Monument, The Lincoln Memorial, and The White House. We will be studying the sound that ar makes. We will be working on the sight words who, four, made, and revisit day and way. We will continue working on word problems which includes addition, subtraction, and missing addends. Please make sure your child is reading for at least 10-15 minutes each night from the bag of books that comes home each night. This will go far in helping with fluency!

2/9

What a fun weekend!! I hope you all enjoyed the snow as much as we did! This week we will celebrate Valentines Day on Friday. If your child would like to give out cards to friends, please send in 25 cards. No need to address them, just write who the card is from. We will be passing them out on Friday. Send them in any time on or before Friday. If you have decorated the white bag that was sent home, please send it back in sometime this week also. If you decided to make your own Valentine holder, please make sure it has your child’s name on it and send it into school this week.

We earned the most Due West Dollars in our team competition. Remember we were team purple. The entire class has earned DQ blizzards! We will be having them after lunch on Monday. YIPPIE!

Muffins with Mom is before school on Tuesday morning. If you would like to have a muffin with your child the café will be open at 7:15. Then you both are welcome to head over to the media center to check out the Book Fair. We went to visit the Book Fair last week and the children wrote down some books that were interesting. The wish list came home last week as well as a flyer from the book fair.

Thursday is picture day! We will be taking class and individual school pictures in the morning. I like it in the morning! We tend to look a little rougher by the end of the day – teacher included! 😊

Content this week includes studying the word family -all. We will be discussing a handful of Presidents. We will be working on the words there, day, and way. We have introduced the number line and will be using it as a strategy to help us solve math problems. We will start to discuss living vs non-living and probably argue about which category things that used to be living fall into. It always is a very interesting discussion. We will also be adopting a book buddy to encourage us to keep reading at home. This book buddy will be a stuffed animal that stays with your child’s bag of books. This post is already too long!! Hope you read it to the end.. HAHAHAHA Have a great week.

2/2

It continues to be busy in kindergarten. I am seeing a lot of success in sounding out words, writing what we hear, and in Math!!! I am very proud of all those who are working so hard! You may be hearing some murmurs of trying to get to 100 DUE WEST Dollars. The school is doing a school wide buy in. They have planned fun activities for students to do but they need to earn 100 DUE WEST Dollars to participate. A couple of them have already made it to 100 and others are so close! Remember they earn DUE WEST dollars for following the school rules and working hard. They have until this Wednesday to earn those $100. Each student has a 100 chart in their “bank” so they know exactly how many more to get to 100! We will have our class store open for those that choose to spend their dollars instead of participate in the buy in activities. It is going to be fun!

This week we will continue studying rocks. We will investigate dirt and design a dirt shifter to separate rocks from the soil. We will study the suffix -ed. We will study about dental health. In math we are become more fluent with our math addition facts and we will start practicing subtraction facts. Sight words we work on this week are have, from, and his. BINGO night is Friday night. PTA sent you some information about BINGO night. It is always a lot of fun.

1/26

This week is all about ROCKS and SOIL! In phonics we will study how to spell /k/ after short vowels - ck! We will continue to work on word problems and number sense. Sight word focus is into and some. We will continue practicing writing our opinion and how to support what we believe. Our field trip is Wednesday. A mining truck will come to school and we will each have a bag of rocks to bring home. We will be using the bag of rocks to study so they will come home next week!

1/20

We enjoyed studying Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., last week and celebrating 100 days of school! We will continue to practice the c or k rule this week. We will be reading and studying the similarities and differences in the Snowman books by Caralyn Buehner. In Health, we will talk about Fire Safety. In Math, we are working on word problems and making pictures to represent what is happening in the problem. At this point they should be able to distinguish if the problem is addition or subtraction. Some of us are working up to 5 and others can work up to 20. We will continue to practice and try to get quicker at answering the problems! We are writing our opinions and learning how to support opinions using the word “because.” Sight words we will introduce are purple and now. We will continue to review out, five, was, and has. The new list of words will come home this week but I will also attached them to this email so you can start working on them. We will test them close to the end of February. This Saturday is Pjs and Pancakes at Longhorn. The flyer explaining it all went home last week. Next Wednesday – 1/29 is an in house field trip on rocks. If you haven’t returned the permission slip, please do so ASAP. Look for another form to come home if you have not returned it yet.

1/12/20

This week will be learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will finally learn the rule of when to use a "c" or a "k". We will practice this A LOT! We will end the week with our 100th day celebration! Can you believe it is already the 100th day of Kindergarten? It is a fun day. On Friday, come to school dressed like you are 100 years old! In Science, we will begin a lengthy discussion on rocks and how to group them. For this week's sight words, a few of the students need a review on some of the words from the last set of sight words. You will get an individual email going over what we are reviewing with your child. Some of you will get the new set of sight words. Others will review the previous set until they have mastered them. We will test again on Friday.

1/5/20

I know you all are anxiously awaiting my weekly email so here it is!! I hope you all had a wonderful break and are ready to get back to normal life. My break was calm, restful and full of much needed family time. I hope yours was also. I am looking forward to seeing your child tomorrow!

This week will be learning about germs and how to avoid them. We will continue to work and review on the s blends, sp, sw, st, sh,. We will focus on word problems and using multiple strategies to solve them. Our words for this week are brown and was. I can’t remember if I sent home a new sight word list but look for it come home this week. It doesn’t hurt to have two sets. I will be testing the previous 3 sets this week. Report Cards will come home on Friday.

12/1/19 - Full Month PREVIEW

Merry December! This month we will be learning about the s blends! We will focus on sl, st, sw, and sp. We will be learning about the American Traditions celebrated in December. This includes Hanukkah, Kwanza, and Christmas. We will be exploring non standard measurement and comparing different attributes of objects. We will learn new vocabulary related to measurement! We will focus on the sight words could, would, should, no, her, so and of. You should have received the next list of sight words in the folder before the holiday. We will have grinch day on 12/17 and our holiday party will be on 12/18. Be on the lookout for the sign up genius this week so that you can help donate some of the items we will be using! More info will follow. You are welcome to come to our holiday party. It will be from 11:15-12:15 on 12/18.

11/17/19

This week should be pretty busy! Content wise, we will be working on adding s to the end of words to make them plural. We will continue to learn about the traditions and customs for Thanksgiving. We will be working on measurement. We will continue working on writing How To stories. We will also be discussing the day and night sky and how and why they are different. The sight words for the week are one and two. You will find the sight word test results coming home in in the blue folder! The standard is that they know 25 words at this point and most of them know more than 30! Progress reports go home this Wednesday. Grandparent Lunch is THURDSAY at 11:29. If they are going to be checked out early by a grandparent, please make sure you send in a note that says you give permission for the check out to happen. 😊 If no one is coming to eat lunch with them, please let me know so we can bring them back to the classroom on Thursday. On Tuesday and Wednesday anyone who is buying lunch will receive a sack lunch instead of a hot lunch. A sack lunch is a ham sandwich, chips, and carrots. Because other grades will be hosting grandparents on Tuesday and Wednesday we ask that we don’t have any guests for lunch on Tuesday and Thursday. We will be eating in the room and our lunch time will vary depending on what we get done. 😊 I am sure I missed something! If you have any questions let me know!

Monday- Art

Tuesday-PE

Wednesday-Science

Thursday-PE -STEM NIGHT!!!

Friday – Super specials, art music, PE and Science!

11/10/19

This week we will learn the suffix ing! We will work on the sight words down and what, even though we worked on what last week with wh. We will continue to work on writing our teen numbers correctly. We will be discussing Thanksgiving customs and traditions. We will explore Pilgrim children's life and how it is different than our life today. We will test sight words this week. So keep practicing and look for the new set to come home. We will continue to be authors of How To Stories. We will be writing how to make an eagle snack and who to do a fire drill! As usually we will be having a TON OF FUN!! Don't forget our Grandparents Lunch is 11/21 at 11:29!

10/27/19

This week is the TRAILBLAZER TROT. We will be doing the fun run at 12:25 on FRIDAY. You are welcome to come watch us!! It maybe inside or outside depending on the weather! Thursday is PUMPKIN stem day. You can join us from 9-10. We will be doing outdoor games and activities if the weather allows. 😊 This week we will be learning “sh” and “th”. We will learn the sight words said and are. We will continue to work with motion. We will also discuss our national bird, the bald eagle. In math we will continue working with number sense and how to talk about numbers in parts. All those who have donated to the TRAILBLAZER TROT will be able to wear a costume to school on THURSDAY. So get your donations in!! Have a great night!!

Tues – ART

Wed – PE

Thurs – Science

Friday – TRAILBLAZER TROT – fun run!!

11/3/19

I hope you had a great weekend. There is no school on Tuesday due to the election. You can wear Pajamas tomorrow (MONDAY) if you donate a $1. All donations with go to the Center for Children and Young Adults!! You can check out their website here http://ccyakids.org/.

This week we will be discussing Veteran’s Day. We will be learning the diagraphs wh and ch. We also need to review from last week the th, and sh! We have starting writing How To stories! We will learn how to add transition words as we write steps across pages. We will focus on the sight words will and come. We will be writing numbers up to 20 practicing how to write them correctly. We will continue to discuss motion and review our new vocabulary – friction, gravity, position, zig zag, motion, and circular. We will also design and build a marble rollercoaster that will contain a loop! We will see how many of us can design something that will keep the marble on the track until the end! Here are our specials this week:

Mon – PE – Pajamas and Tennis shoes with $1 donation

Tues – NO SCHOOL

Wed – Music

Thurs – Art

Fri – Recess x2

Thanks for all who donated to the TRAILBLAZER TROT. We had so much fun on the fun run on Friday! I am sure you heard all about it. Pictures are on SEESAW.

10/20/19

Thank you so much for meeting with me last week at conferences! I enjoyed getting to chat with you, but I am ready for a normal week! We will start our school-wide fundraiser this week. It is called the TRAILBLAZER TROT. You will get all the information you need coming home in the folder on MONDAY! So be looking for it. We will do a fun run and get friends and families to donate. In class, We have learned all the consonant letter sounds as well as all the short vowel sounds! This week we will introduce the welded sounds am and an. We will work on the sight words make, brown, and black. We will be discussing motion and the pattern in which objects move. You need to know:

Monday - TRAILBLAZER TROT pep rally and PE.

Tuesday - Science

Wednesday - The counselors would like everyone to wear orange to promote Unity. We will also have an author come to visit.

Thursday - PE

Friday - PE, Science, Art, and Music!!

Also next week is Pumpkin Stem day. Sign up to help using the link below!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0545a4ac28a1f49-kindergarten

10/13/19

It is early release every day this week! School gets out at 12:30. I look forward to seeing you at our conference. We will not introduce any new letters this week but take time to review all letters we have worked on so far, especially qu!!! We will begin to discuss motion and the patterns things travel. We will also discuss push and pull. The sight words for this week are by, do, and find. Last week we had fun designing Christopher Columbus' boat out of foil, testing if it would sink or float, and counting how many passengers (pennies) the boat could hold. The pictures are on Seesaw. THURSDAY is our 50th day of school. We will dress like we live in the 50's!! Jeans and t-shirt will do :)

10/6/19

The end of the first 8 weeks is here! Report Cards will be given out next week at conferences. If you have not signed up for a conference time, please do so! We will have an early release day this THURSDAY and every day next week. School will dismiss at 12:30! This week we will work on the letters x, and qu. We will work on learning greater than and less with sets of 10. We will focus on the sight words here, as, and has. We will study about Christopher Columbus. We did not sort by materials last week so we will catch up on that this week and review next week!

9/29/19

I hope you had a fantastic Fall Break. This week we will start a new special rotation. You will see the entire month's schedule under the specials tab. I will email you what we will do each week so that you will know when to wear tennis shoes! The letters we will work on this week are w,e, and y. The sight words we will focus on are can, am, and look. We will be sorting things by what material they are made of. We will be comparing number sets and using the vocabulary greater, less, and equal to. We will continue to decode three letter words! We will start our sight word test so make sure you are practicing the words! Monday afternoon at 2:45 we will send out our conference week sign up genius. Look for that email on Monday!

9/16/19

This week we will focus on the letters u ,v, and z. We will continue to play with number sense as well as perfect our number formation. The sight words we will study are play, can, am, and and! We will be discussing what sinks and what floats. We are writing stories that contain up to 3 pages! One sentence on each page with a picture. We continue to expand our vocabulary and are starting to talk about words with multiple meanings. For example, we discovered there are 3 different meanings of lap this week! We will continue to build teams and understand the different roles each person plays on a team. This really helps us when we are building and designing STEM projects. This week we will build a boat and see whose boat can hold the most plastic bears without sinking! Stay tuned and check Seesaw for the pictures.

9/8/19

This week we will focus on the letters i, j, and k. We will continue to learn and understand number sense. We will begin to work with numbers on a rekenrek. The sight words we will learn are me, he, be, and she. In Social studies, we will discuss the American Flag and the Georgia Flag. We will compare and contrast them. We will continue to decode CVC words and write stories with more than one page! We will also have a safety lesson from a firefighter. As always it will be a fun week in Kinder!

9/1/19

This 4 day week we will focus on the letters h, l, and r. The sight words we will work on are in, it, and red. We continue to decode and sound out CVC words. CVC words are three letter words with one short vowel sound. In math, we are working on the different ways we can sort and classify. We are also continuing to work on counting to 10 and recognizing the numbers! In Social Studies, we are finishing up studying Labor Day and learning the words income, needs, and wants. In Science, we will be discussing textures and using our senses to classify and sort!

8/24/19

This week we will focus on the letters d and o. The sight words we will work on are for, you, and get. You will also receive a list of 20 sight words for your child to be working on over the next couple of weeks. We will be discussing Labor day and community helpers. We did not get to pyramid or prism last week so we will continue working on those two 3D shapes this week. We loved our 3D snack so much some of it had to come home with us!! So check for the left overs in the book bag! Let's keep counting and understanding number sense under 10. In Science we will begin to explore textures and discuss relevant vocabulary - smooth, rough, bumpy, scratchy, and soft.

8/18/19

This week we will focus on the letter m, s, g, and the sight words like, my, and see. We will be reading all three letter words you can make with the letters we have studied so far. In math, we will move to learning the 3D shapes and how they are different than the 2D shapes. The 3D shapes we will focus on are sphere, pyramid, cone, prism, and cube. We will be on the look out for those shapes in our environment! Help us by looking for them at home also! We will continue to count to 50 and beyond! In Social Studies, we will continue with maps and globes and learning what a compass is! We will practice moving north, south, east and west. I was talking to Mr. Howerton and he said in Physics class he was also talking about location. HAHAHA! In Science we will continue building and engineering with a specific focus in mind.

8/11/19

We are still learning all about procedures and how to work with our new friends. This week we will be working on the letters c,p, and a. We will learn the words is, to, I, and a. We will practice how to count to 50 and begin to start recognizing numbers up to 10. We have started literacy centers and math centers! We are also practicing writing! We will be writing sentences that include the sight words we have learned so far. In Social Studies we will explore the differences of maps and globes and why they are important. We will continue to enjoy all the Pete the Cat books!

8/18/19

3/8

The sunshine distracted me today. Sorry this is getting out late. Please note Wednesday is an early release day and school will get out at 12:20. Basically two hours early. Car line will start at around 12:20 and the bus will drop off at the stop basically two hours early. Wednesday is also the Writing Gallery Walk. I will post the details at the bottom. This week we will continue our bossy r study and learn the /er/ sound spelled er, ir, and ur. We will discuss living vs. non-living characteristics. We will be designing and building a worm garden! Our sight words are they and nine. Each child had a sight word test last week and I will send a separate email to let you know how they did. The new list of words are attached. You will get the flash card sheets this week. In math we are moving up to word problems up to 10. The students will be able to make 10 quickly and use making 10 to help them solve word problems. That should do it! It is going to be a great week!

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