Monday, September 15

  
Monday, September 15
Gold Day: (No library, character education, or technology.)

School Bus Safety Week
To kick off School Bus Safety Week, the kids will see a live puppet show about bus safety from M & M Bus Co. and learn about waiting for the school bus in a safe place.
                   

Read Aloud: A Squiggly Story By: Andrew Larsen
GENRE Fiction 

BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE

Social Studies Connection: Citizenship/Belonging 

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Alliteration, Rhyme

Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters X, Y, Z

READING AND VOCABULARY

Connect and Teach: What is a fiction story?

Engage and Respond: Build Knowledge and Language

WRITING AND GRAMMAR: Common Nouns 

KinderMath: Count to 5 and Back

Again, it may seem like an easy concept, but children need to accurately count orally, count objects, and identify the missing number when counting forward and back. We are building the foundational skills for counting and cardinality.
What better way to teach this than to work with the story, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed!

                                                           

 Music class today.

Here is the video of passing on the Irish spirit from our senior class to our kindergarten students. It was such a special thing to watch!

~I managed to get about half of our class with individual photos with the time we had...my apologies that I couldn't get everyone!

~All items listed on the "To Do" list from Meet the Teacher day are due this Thursday.  Thank you!