Jan. 22, 2016

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Lead 21 –Literacy: Outdoor Explorers Unit theme “What can I learn when I explore the outdoors?”  This week we continued to focused on the question, “What can I observe as the seasons change?”

Writing:  This week the students learned about the importance of choosing a topic to write about. When writing the actual story, it is important to think about telling more, continuing to add more words to the story. The students also shared something they liked about their story.

Handwriting: We worked on writing the upper case letters L, T, J, and I.

Math: This week the students had fun finding the sum of two dice rolls.  The children worked with a partner for this activity.  They rolled two dice, found the sum, and recorded the total on a graph.

Jolly Phonics: Please continue to review Tricky Words at home. The children are very competitive when it comes to reading the Tricky Words. Thank you for working with your child on word lists and the books that are sent home in the Jolly Phonics Envelopes.

Important Dates:

         Jan. 25^th NO SCHOOL - TEACHER IN-SERVICE

Feb. 5th – 100^th Day of School Celebration

Feb. 12^th – Valentine’s Day Party

*Parent-Teacher Conferences will be Feb. 22^nd and 25^th

No School Feb. 15^th – President’s Day

No School Feb. 26^th – Parent/Teacher Comp. Day

        

Jan. 15, 2016

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Lead 21 –Literacy: Outdoor Explorers Unit theme “What can I learn when I explore the outdoors?”  This week we focused on the question, “What can I observe as the seasons change?”

Math: This week the children learned about the passage of time and order of events. Each child made a sequencing time line of daily events.  They drew pictures of what they did in the morning, afternoon, and at night. The children also played Bingo to practice reading 2-digit numbers (1-20).

Sharing: This was our final week for sharing.  We are now going to devote our scheduled sharing time to learning Jolly Phonics Tricky Words. 

Science: Our focus this week was on the story The Mitten by Jan Brett.  The children made mittens, which they decorated and display in our room.  We used the mittens to count by two’s during math class.  Check out our mitten snow people also displayed, they look great.

FAST Assessments: Next week the students will be taking FAST (Formative Assessment System for Teachers) assessments.  The Universal Screening materials included: Onset Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, and Letter Sounds. The aReading assessment will be the final component of the Winter FAST for Kindergarten students. It would be beneficial for the students to be well rested and have a nutritious breakfast all next week.  The aReading assessment will be given by the Title I teachers.  The computer lab has been reserved for our class to take the aReading assessment. The FAST results will be shared during conferences with parents.

Jolly Phonics: Please continue to review letter sounds at home. Thank you for working with your child on word lists that are sent home in the Jolly Phonics Envelopes.

Important Dates:

         Jan. 19^th  –Feb. 12^th  FAST Assessments

Feb. 5th – 100^th Day of School

Jan. 8, 2016

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Happy New Year!

Lead 21 –Literacy: Outdoor Explorers Unit theme “What can I learn when I explore the outdoors?”  This week we focused on the question, “What weather can I observe each day?”

Writing:  We read the story titled Feelings by Susan Canizares. We then composed a class story about feelings and drew pictures to illustrate it.  

Please have the children practice writing sentences that go along with their pictures they create at home.  Remind them to use their Jolly Phonics sound sheet when sounding out words.  We have been working on starting a sentence with a capital letter, leaving two finger spaces between words, and using punctuation to stop a sentence.

Math: This week the children had fun in math.  They worked with pattern-block templates to create various creatures.  The children also used calculators to practice reading and entering numbers.

Handwriting: We worked on writing the upper case letters C, O, Q, G, and  S.

Science: We read many books about snow this week. They completed snow related activities. The snow projects are displayed in the hall.

Important Date:

         Jan. 11^th No School