Friday, October 23

   

Friday, October 23
Pumpkin Day
We have a few pumpkin activities scheduled for today!
~ Where is the Pumpkin? Book: An interactive prepositions activity
~ Paint a pumpkin (Thank you to Addie's family for donating them!)
~ Pumpkin stories
~Pumpkin life cycle (We didn't get to this yesterday.)

The picture above shows our Pumpkin Jack that will be with us. It will be fun for the kids to watch what happens to him all year!

Mrs. Marsicek will be here teach the children about the Unthinkables, Rock Brain and Was Funny Once.
 

KinderMath: Read and Write 9-10

Partners will work on building sets of 9 and 10 using a 10-Frame and comparing with each other who has more/less. Next, the children will hear the story, Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews and see how sets of 9 and 10 dots can be made into different things. The story will be used again on Monday so the children can create their own picture using up to 10 black dots.

What Should My Teacher Be For Halloween?

The kids will each decide what they think I should be for Halloween and create my costume. Oh, my...

 STEAM with Mr. Brown 

 
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

PLEASE vote here until Sunday. Thank you so much if you were able to vote!

~ The Halloween Carnival sponsored by the MLE PTA is from 3-5 tomorrow in the elementary cafeteria.

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, October 22

                                                   

Thursday, October 22

READING AND VOCABULARY
Big Book: ABC I Like Me!  By: Nancy Carlson
Response to Text: Connect Reading and Writing

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Review Segmenting/Blending/Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Review Nn & Dd
Irregular Words: to, do
Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Corrections

 GRAMMAR
Prepositions

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.

Handwriting: Down the Steps Stroke
Letter A is the only letter that begins with this stroke.

~Library time with Mrs. Thomas is from 9:50-10:20.

Kindermath: Read and Write 10
A number of activities will support the skills in today's lesson. The kids will roll a dot cube to fill in a 10-Frame, make cube towers of 10, and play the game, Guess My Number. In this game, each pair has a number path from 1-10. Partner A covers one number on the path while Partner B guesses which number is covered.
  
(Last names A-K: PE, L-Z: Music)

 Science: Pumpkin Life Cycle
The story, Pumpkin Jack written and illustrated by Will Hubbel, will start the lesson off about the life cycle of a pumpkin. This story tells about the life cycle of a pumpkin and how a boy discovers Jack can grow again another year. The kids will get a chance to dig into a pumpkin and experience the smell, touch the "guts" and seeds before we carve a face on our own Jack.  We are going to save Jack in a jar for the entire school year and observe how he changes during the year. To conclude the lesson, the kids will cut and glue pieces to show the life cycle of a pumpkin.

Only a few days left...vote here until October 25!

PTA Halloween Carnival
We are looking for help setting up the night before & others to lead games at the carnival. Adults or high schoolers are accepted and can work in pairs! Dressing up optional... but FUN ;)
SIGN UP HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EAFAB23A0FDC07-59478198-ptahalloween

~ No extra news for today.

Wednesday, October 21

  
Wednesday, October 21

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: ABC I Like Me! By: Nancy Carlson

Genre: Alphabet Book

Print Concepts: Concept of a Word

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant d

Irregular Words: to, do

Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction

 GRAMMAR

Prepositions

Handwriting: Upper and Lowercase Down the Slide Review

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. This is helping the children gain ideas for illustrations when making their stories.

 KinderMath: Read and Write 6-8
The kids will do a few activities that reinforce accurately counting and writing the numbers 6, 7, & 8. 

 Time for Kids: Community Helpers

 STEAM with Mr. Brown 

 
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

PLEASE vote here and vote everyday until October 25!

PTA Halloween Carnival
We are looking for help setting up the night before & others to lead games at the carnival. Adults or high schoolers are accepted and can work in pairs! Dressing up optional... but FUN ;)
SIGN UP HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EAFAB23A0FDC07-59478198-ptahalloween

~ Library day tomorrow. 

Tuesday, October 20

                                                   

Tuesday, October 20

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: I Like Myself!  By: Karen Beaumont
Connect and Teach: Character Clues

Big Book: I Like Myself!  By: Nancy Carlson
Genre: Alphabet Book
Listening Comprehension

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant d
Irregular Words: to, do

 GRAMMAR
Prepositions

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."  

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

 KinderMath: Read and Write 9 (Day 2)

In addition to focusing on number 9, the kids will work on identifying the missing number in a counting sequence (7, _ , 9) as well as counting on from 5 using a Ten Frame as shown. 

We want the children to see that within the ten frame, the top row has 5 and one more below it. We count: "5,6". There is no need to count each dot if we train our brain to see "5" automatically. They will continue counting on with numbers 7-9. 

It's the 30th day of school...Zero the Hero will be here again!
  
(Last names A-K: PE, L-Z: Music)

Project: My Pumpkin 
The kids will cut/assemble/glue a pumpkin buddy. They will be guided in writing three descriptive words about a pumpkin we will be working with later this week.
PLEASE vote here and vote everyday until October 25!

PTA Halloween Carnival
We are looking for help setting up the night before & others to lead games at the carnival. Adults or high schoolers are accepted and can work in pairs! Dressing up optional... but FUN ;)
SIGN UP HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EAFAB23A0FDC07-59478198-ptahalloween

~Tomorrow is World Unity Day...have your child wear orange.
~Tomorrow is picture retake day.
~ We had fun celebrating Hazel S. yesterday!