Thursday, November 6

    

Thursday, November 6

Black Day (Character Education) 

Mrs. Weninger will be here teach the children about the Unthinkables, Rule Police and Energy Hare-y.

READING AND VOCABULARY
Big Book: My Friends by Taro Gomi
Print Concepts: One-to-One Correspondence

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant c /k/
Irregular Words: was, you
Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses 

 Writer's Workshop: Labeling our Classroom

The kids will have a chance to label one thing in our classroom today! It will be their turn to stretch out the word and write the sounds they hear on a sticky note and place it on the item. For instance they may write pencil as "p, pnsl, or pensl."

Project: Shape Scarecrow

Phy Ed Today

~ The book order is due Wednesday, November 12. There is a coupon attached to this month's order! 
~Reminder: No school tomorrow...teacher workshop.
See you Monday!

Wednesday, November 5

   

Wednesday, November 5

Green Day: Library  

Library from 8:20-8:55.

Big Book: My Friends by Taro Gomi
Social Studies Connection: Individual Development and Identity In this story, a girl learns various skills from her many different friends, like how to march from a rooster and how to nap from a crocodile! Everyone has something different to teach.
Connect and Teach: Author and Illustrator

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Tiny Rabbit's BIG WISH By: Margarita Engle

Connect and Teach: Character Clues

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant c /k/
Irregular Words: was, you

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses 

 Handwriting: Lowercase g
Lowercase c Stroke letters (c, o, a, d, g, q, s, f).

ACTive KINDness
~Cory Greenwood, a motivational speaker, will be presenting a 45-minute assembly to our TK/K-5 students today.
Program Description:
Every student is unique and has gifts and talents that are valuable. We will explore some of those and then students will be challenged and empowered to use what they have to help those around them. To be the heroes in their classrooms, homes, friend groups, etc.-not the villains. 45 minutes will fly by as we cheer, dance, laugh, learn, and grow together.

Kindermath: Same Number

~I show a number and the children count their objects to make it the same.
~Using a variety of number set cards, partners take turns turning over two cards to see if they contain the same number of items. 
   
It's our 40th day of school...Zero the Hero visits again!
Time for Kids: 5 Senses

 Music Class Today

~ The book order is due Wednesday, November 12. There is a coupon attached to this month's order!
~ Labeling the teacher proves to be a crowd pleaser! This activity motivated every kiddo to attempt to write at least the first sound they could hear for the body part they wanted to label.

Tuesday, November 4

    

Tuesday, November 4
Technology class at 8:20. 

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Tiny Rabbit's BIG WISH By: Margarita Engle
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Deleting Words, Blending Onsets and Rime

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant p
Irregular Words: was, you

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses

 Handwriting: Lowercase d
Lowercase c Stroke letters (c, o, a, d, g, q, s, f).
 Writer's Workshop: Labeling
To launch the lesson, the mentor text My Map Book by Sara Fenelli will trigger ideas of how labeling gives us information. A silly way to engage the kiddos is to label me! After stretching out words together on sticky notes, the kids will place them on me! 
As time would have it, we didn't get to finish this lesson yesterday, so we will today!

Kindermath: One Less

The kids will work on this concept by playing the game of Concentration. The picture below tells how they will play but it will be One Less. 

The other One Less activity planned is described below.

 This promotes math skill work of: compare, greater, less, same.

Phy Ed Today

~Please email me if you have a family member in the military and what branch they are in. It is for an upcoming activity we are doing for Veterans Day.
~ A few turkeys in disguise have been coming in...they are hiliarious and I can't wait to see more!
~Library day is tomorrow.

Monday, November 3

   

Monday, November 3
Gold Day: (No library, character education, or technology.)

STEM class with Mr. Brown today.

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Tiny Rabbit's BIG WISH By: Margarita Engle
GENRE: Fables

Tiny Rabbit wishes to be big but only grows a little. Yet, he develops

powerful ears, allowing him to hear every forest sound. When his tall

ears save him from a lion, he learns to be happy just as he is. Social Studies Connection: Individual Development and Identity

Connect and Teach: Fables

A fable is a type of folktale. Fables usually are short, have talking animals, and take place

outside. They also teach a lesson.

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Blending Words

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant p
Irregular Words: was, you

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses

 Handwriting: Lowercase a
Lowercase c Stroke letters (c, o, a, d, g, q, s, f).
(We did not get to this last week.)
 Writer's Workshop: Labeling
Today, we begin a new unit on labeling. To launch the lesson, the mentor text My Map Book by Sara Fenelli will trigger ideas of how labeling gives us information. A silly way to engage the kiddos is to label me! After stretching out words together on sticky notes, the kids will place them on me! 
I will send an introduction letter home in their folder today explaining the unit.

Kindermath: One More

The kids will work on the concept of one more playing the game Dump the Cup and Compare. To play the game, the kids dump a cup that contains 10 two-sided colored chips as shown below and compare who has more/less by lining the chips up one to one.

 Music Class Today

~ The cutest little goblins I've ever seen...wouldn't you agree?

Thursday, October 30

Thursday, October 30
White Day: (No library, technology, or character education.) 

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: Pete the Cat-Too Cool For School By: Kimberly & James Dean

Response to Text: Connect Reading to Writing

Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Review Segmenting/Blending/Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Short Vowel i
Irregular Words: I, is

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Pronouns

Party Activities
~Halloween Bingo
~Draw a Rhyme 
~Lace & Decorate a Pumpkin Shape
~Bead a Bracelet: Halloween Style

~Costume Parade in the Elementary

**The children will assist in making our Boo Brew Snack Mix:
Ghost Poop: Mini Marshmallows
Ghost Guts: Popcorn
Witches Brooms: Pretzels
Colorful Flies: M & M's
Vampire Teeth: Candy Corn
Bat Eyes: Cheerios
Other activities include: Spooky Stories and a Monster Movement.
Phy Ed Today

~Have lots of fun trick-or-treating tomorrow night!

~ No school tomorrow...staff workshop.
Have a fabulous weekend!