Wednesday, October 1

Wednesday, October 1
Orange Day: Technology   
Technology class at 8:20. 

READING AND VOCABULARY
GENRE: Informational Text
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding
Power Words: city, country, map

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Counting Syllables, Blending Phonemes
Phonics Focus Skill: Short Vowel a
Irregular Words: a, the
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
 Verbs

 Handwriting: Upper and Lowercase Down the Slide Review

Writer's Workshop: Shape House
The children spent a long time building different shape creations yesterday, including a house. Today, they will learn how to draw a house using simple shapes and details.

KinderMath: Same Number

This lesson has the kids working on identifying sets of objects with the same amounts. This will help the kids work on accuracy when counting.

• • Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Counting Syllables
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
• • Handwriting: Manuscript m

• honological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

Time for Kids: Precipitation

PhyEd Today

~The book order is due Wednesday, October 8.
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Tuesday, September 30

   
Tuesday, September 30
Gold Day: (No library, character education, or technology.)

BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE
Oral Language: Determine Word Meaning: Meaning Clues
Listening and Speaking: Follow Directions
READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Schools Around the World By: Clare Lewis
GENRE: Informational Text
Connect and Teach: Features of Informational Text

Engage and Respond: Listening Comprehension

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Blending Onset and Rime

Phonics Focus Skill: Short Vowel a
Irregular Words: a, the

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Introduction to Verbs

Handwriting: Uppercase "Down the Slide"
All slant stroke letters (except uppercase A) start with the "Down the Slide" stroke: V, W, X, and Y.

Writer's Workshop: Building Objects
The kids will use pattern blocks to create objects such as a car, house and bus. Next, they will cut shapes to create either a car or house and glue down. 
KinderMath: Sort By More than One Attribute
The lesson begins with reading, The Button Box by Margarette Reid. I will ask their thoughts on how the buttons are being sorted (size, color, shape, style, etc.) Then we will look at a pile of attribute buttons and talk about how they think we should sort them. More than likely, the kids will focus on color so I will get them to think past that. (Sort by shape, button hole amount, size, etc.) 

                                                           

 Music Class Today

~Have your child wear orange tomorrow. Each Wednesday in October we are wearing orange to remind us to be kind and not bully others! 

• • Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Counting Syllables
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
• • Handwriting: Manuscript m

• honological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

Monday, September 29

  

Monday, September 29
White Day: (No library, technology, or character education.)  

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: School Bus by Donald Crews
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding
Power Words Review: clue, mistake, puzzled

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending & Segmenting Phonemes
Phonics Focus Skill: Consonants m, M, t, T
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
 Identify and Use Adjectives

Handwriting: Upper and Lowercase U Turn Review

Writer's Workshop: Craftsmanship
The best way to explain "craftmanship" to you is to share with you what I will tell the children during the lesson:
"When we draw our stories in kindergarten, we want to be PROUD of our work. Do you think scribble drawings would make us proud? NO! We want to remember to focus on craftmanship when we are drawing. This just means we take our time and pay attention to details in our pictures. We can use craftsmanship when we remember to outline first, then color. We also can use craftsmanship by coloring slowly and trying to get rid of all the white spaces in our pictures. Another way we can use craftsmanship is to think about if our drawing needs accurate or creative colors. Accurate colors are used when we are telling a TRUE story. If you are drawing a picture of you and your grown up at the park, would you color your hair pink (unless you really did have pink hair)? NO! You would color it whatever color is on top of your head. Creative coloring is for PRETEND stories.  

  KinderMath: Sort by One Attribute

The kids will sort items by a specific attribute: Color, size, or shape.
  
Phy Ed Today

~ Permission forms for the walking field trip to the Maple Lake Fire Department are due Thursday.
~ National Hot Lunch Day (October 14) is a BIG tradition here at MLE. Be sure to RSVP soon!

• • Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Counting Syllables
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
• • Handwriting: Manuscript m

• honological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

Friday, September 26

    
Friday, September 26
Black Day (Character Education)

Mrs. Weninger will introduce the children to the superhero character, Superflex like the photo above. He helps children be problem solvers when Unthinkables get into their brains. Some of these may be Mean Jean, Blurting Bob, and more. Mrs. Weninger will teach about these characters in the weeks to come.

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: School Bus by Donald Crews

Genre: Fiction
Print Concepts: Book Parts

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes and Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant t

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
 Adjectives continued..

Writer's Workshop: Drawing a Shape Person with a Facial Expression & Hairstyle

KinderMath: Finding Matches

 The kids will do a variety of activities that help the children notice items that are same/different according to their attributes.

 

Project: Leaf Buddy

                                                           

 Music Class Today

 

Have a nice weekend, everyone!

• • Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Counting Syllables
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
• • Handwriting: Manuscript m

• honological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

Thursday, September 25

    
Thursday, September 25
Green Day: Library  

Your child will bring a new library book home today if their other one is returned. Again, they visit the library from 8:20-8:55.

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Kindergarten Kids Original Rhymes By: Stephanie Calmenson
Connect and Teach: Rhythm and Rhyme

Engage and Respond: Build Knowledge and Language

Big Book: School Bus by Donald Crews

Genre: Fiction
Engage and Respond: Build Knowledge and Language

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes and Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant t

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
More work with Adjectives

Handwriting: Upper and Lowercase U Turn

Writer's Workshop: Drawing a Shape Person with Clothes

KinderMath: Noticing Differences
As we did yesterday, the kids will look at another picture on the SmartBoard and use their 'math talk' to tell what differences they see. Next, I will call pairs of students to stand so that we can see what is different about them. (One is a boy, one is a girl; one has brown hair, one has blonde hair, etc.)

  
Phy Ed Today

~ No extra news for today.

• • Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Counting Syllables
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
• • Handwriting: Manuscript m

• honological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

Wednesday, September 24

   
Wednesday, September 24
Orange Day: Technology   
Technology class with Mr. Brown will be from 8:20-8:55.  

READING AND VOCABULARY
GENRE: Poetry
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding
Power Words: clue, mistake, puzzled

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Alliteration, Blending Onset & Rime

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
 Adjectives: Describing Words

• • Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Counting Syllables
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant m
• • Handwriting: Manuscript m

• honological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

• Phonological Awareness: Teacher’s Choice
• • Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters U, J, S

Handwriting: ez Across/Tall Line Down & Short Line Down Review

Writer's Workshop: Self Portrait
(Using details: hairstyle, facial expression, skin tone.)

KinderMath: Alike and Different 

We begin unit 2 today called Sort and Classify.

The kids will work with matching numbers to dots on a cube. They will then work on the math term 'alike' by playing Copy Cat with objects. I will place objects (snap cubes, bears) in a certain arrangement and the kids will copy my arrangement with their objects. Last, the kids will look at a picture on the SmartTV and tell what they see that is alike or different among the objects.

                                                           

 Music class today

Time for Kids: Stormy Weather

Your child was gifted a subscription to Time for Kids from parents of my kindergarteners last year! Through the magazine and digital lessons, the kids will experience their world beyond our classroom walls! Your child will receive a single copy to help spark their engagement in our discussions and when brought home, the opportunity is there for you to engage in conversation about the content in that particular issue.

~ No extra news for today.