Friday, February 26

                   

                                                                                                                                        Friday, February 26

Late Start

 Congratulations to all of kindergarten who had 12,117 minutes read in February! The entire elementary achieved their reading goal and to celebrate, they will have popcorn, pizza, and a movie!

~There will be lots of drawings for prizes today as well!
          Music Today

~Again, thank you for participating in our reading challenge this past month!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Thursday, February 25

  

Thursday, February 25
Sight Word Focus: but

Phonemic Awareness: Manipulating Medial Sounds 
fix to fox, bun to bin, etc.
Long Vowel u: Our focus will be on long vowel u words with Bossy e at the end.
Literacy Jobs 
Book Club will resume next week.
 Writer's Workshop: Using Details-The 5 W's
Who is there? Where are they? What are they doing? Why are they doing that? When are they doing that?
  
Math: Numbers 30-49 
The kids will watch as I build THREE ten sticks with cubes. Do we need to count each of these ten sticks? No, we know there are 30 because we can count by 10’s...10, 20, 30! I'll lay down 6 additional cubes and ask, Now how many do I have? 30 and 6, 36! Did we have to count each cube? No! Boys and girls, we know that there are 10 cubes in our ten sticks. There is also another math tool we have used to help us with ten...a TEN frame! The kids will use ten frames to count up to 49. Boys and girls, I need help building these numbers. Turn over a number card. I see a 4 and 2...I know the first number tells me how many TENS I need. How many do I need? Yes, four tens which means four ten frames. Lay down ten frames. I know the second number tells me how many “extras” I need. I see I need 2 extras. Lay down 2 extra cubes. We just made the number 42! They will continue practicing this skill with various numbers between 30-49.PhyEd Today

Dental Health: The children will meet Tommy & Terry Tooth who will help them understand the importance of taking care of their teeth. After hearing their story,  the kids get to make them!

~Late start is tomorrow...Pajama Dress-up Day!

Wednesday, February 24

   

Wednesday, February 24
Sight Word Focus: how

Phonemic Awareness: Segment Phonemes Within Words
It may seem like we do this a lot...and we do. 
Long Vowel o: I will state a long vowel o word and the kids will write it.   Writer's Workshop
It's Bus Driver Appreciation Week so the children will be writing to the employees of
M & M Bus Company here in Maple Lake to show our gratefulness for all they do to keep us safe.

Literacy Jobs  

*No Book Club this week so I can do individual assessments for report cards.  Math: Numbers 20-29

Today’s lesson focuses on the first of a few lessons that will seem to be duplicates of each other. Kindergarten students need A LOT of hands-on work to understand numbers to 100. We want to make sure the kids have a FIRM understanding of a “ten” so when they see 45 they see 4 tens and 5 extras.  

 Build Numbers to 29: For this activity, the kids need 29 snap cubes. I will start by having students build TWO 10 sticks as they will use these for each number I will give them to build. After they have built their cube sticks, I will have them build:
 28, 26 23, 22, 29, 27, 25, 21, 20, and 24.

          Music Today

Time for Kids: A Powerful Predator

 
~Tomorrow is the last day to turn in your reading minutes!
~We had fun celebrating Sabrina's summer birthday yesterday...

Tuesday, February 23

  
Tuesday, February 23
Happy Summer Birthday, Sabrina! (June 21)

Sight Word Focus: not

Phonemic Awareness: Manipulating Medial Sounds 
rat to rot, tip to tap, etc.
Long Vowel o: Our focus will be on long vowel o words with Bossy e at the end.

   Writer's Workshop: Sequential Words
Today we are focusing on words that help put a story in order: first, next, then, and last.
Literacy Jobs 

~Book Club will not be in session this week as I will be assessing for report cards during this time. Your child will be able to read books from their book box throughout the week.
   Handwriting

   Computer class today

  Math: Counting By 10's

To begin the lesson, I will read the story Toasty Toes by Michael Dahl to focus on counting by 10’s. I will have 10 kids come to the front of the room and put out their hands and start counting by 1’s. I will act frustrated and say that this is too tedious. Is there an easier way we can count all these fingers? Hopefully the kids will encourage me to count by 2’s, 5’s, or 10’s. Next, the kids will have time to explore counting to 100 by 10’s in a hands-on way. They will count out 10 objects onto their ten frame, then transfer their ten frame to a small paper plate. They will continue counting out the 10 sets of objects until all 10 paper plates are filled. They will then go back through and count the plates by 10’s to 100.

PhyEd Today

 
~Wahoo! Our class logged 1,104 reading minutes this past week!
~Wellness Wednesday is tomorrow