Monday, September 14

                                                                     

Monday, September 14

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS 

Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters V, K, W  
What's the best way to practice phonemic awareness by listening closely to words that rhyme, sounds that match, etc.? Grow big ears, of course! (You might need to zoom in!)

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: School Day! By: Jesus Cervantes

Review Power Words: plan, polite, share 

Review Big Idea Words: discover, dream, partners

 GRAMMAR

Identifying Singular & Plural 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!

How will playdough help us learn? How do we use it in the best way? How do we take care of it? 

 STEAM class with Mr. Brown is from 1:10-1:40.

  
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

Pedestrian Safety

~The kids will learn about pedestrian safety with follow up questions for discussion. 

 I encourage you to view this short video with your child!

https://youtu.be/PzghGxEqBMQ
 
~ The kids have been learning so much about kindergarten and it's nice to see them settling into their new routine!

Friday, September 11

    

Friday, September 11
Picture Day!  😀

Mrs. Marsicek, our school social worker, will be here this morning to read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? By Carol McCloud. This book helps children see how our actions and words can be helpful or hurtful.

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Counting Syllables, Matching Initial Sounds 

Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters A, N, M 

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book Revisit: School Day! By: Jesus Cervantes

GENRE: Fiction 

Print Concepts: Book Orientation, Match Pictures to Text

GRAMMAR

Plural Nouns (Day 2)

Kindermath: Read and Write 5

To introduce today's lesson, I will read Five Little Kittens by Nancy Jewel.

This lesson focuses on recognizing different groups of objects to 5. While it may seem like an easy concept, we are building strong foundational skills for accuracy in counting while developing number sense at the same time. This is also the time they are learning how to make the strokes to write the number 5 correctly.
The kids had fun making some human-size tally groups of 5 yesterday. The giggles and laughs are just the best!

Bus Safety 

Lesson: Stay out of the Danger Zone
Project: If time allows, the kids will make a school bus to hang in our hallway. If not, we will push it out to Monday. 
Take a look at some photos and a video of the puppet show from yesterday...

  Irish Pride Celebration Today at 2:15

It's GREAT to be Irish!

 Bringing our elementary students together builds community and school pride. These celebrations typically last about 20 minutes with music, a quick presentation of the character word for the month, and introductions for new students to Maple Lake. We end the celebration by singing our Irish Pride song.

  
(Last names A-K will have PE, L-Z have music.)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Thursday, September 10

  Thursday, September 10

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Alliteration, Counting Syllables 

Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters T, F, E 

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: Keisha Ann Can! By: Daniel Kirk

GENRE Fiction 

Connect and Teach: Characters and Setting

Big Book: School Day! By: Jesus Cervantes

GENRE Fiction 

What words would you use to describe the main character and setting? Why did you choose those words?

What new activities does the girl discover at school?

 GRAMMAR

Plural Nouns 

Kindermath: Read and Write 4

See today's lesson objectives in the picture below:

  
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

Bus Safety 
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.
              

The kids have STEAM class with Mr. Brown from 1:10-1:40.

~Picture day is tomorrow. If you plan to order photos, please send the form in with your child. Their picture will be taken around 8:25. 😀
~All items that I presented in the green folder are due tomorrow as well. Again, thank you for doing all those tasks for your to enhance everything for your child's learning environment! I appreciate all of you!!

Wednesday, September 9

 Wednesday, September 9

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Matching Initial Sounds 

Phonics Focus Skill: Uppercase Letters L, H, I 
Vocabulary Words: Plan, Polite, Share 

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: Keisha Ann Can! By: Daniel Kirk

GENRE Fiction 

Connect and Teach: Reread to Notice Details 

 GRAMMAR

 Singular Nouns 

 
 KinderMath: Writing 1, 2, 3
See the photo below to see today's lesson overview. 

**Our math time is scheduled for about an hour each day.
Each lesson contains six components for full, hands-on, purposeful and meaningful engagement.  
1) Whole-Group Number Sense
2) Collaborative Number Sense (partner work)
3) Whole-Group Fluency
4) Whole-Group Skill Focus Lesson
5) Collaborative Lesson Follow-Up (partner work)
6) Independent Practice (The math sheet that comes home.)
Bus Safety 
Lesson: Cross in front of the bus safely and obey the bus driver at all times.

 

How do glue sticks help us learn? How do we use them properly? How do we take care of them? The kids will meet "Gary the Gluestick" to help them understand how important it is to To apply what they learn, the kiddos will glue small pieces of paper to an apple shape.

  
(Last names A-K will have PE, L-Z have music.)

~The book order is due today by 8pm.
https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC
~Thank you for folding the empty Wednesday envelope and placing it back on the school side of the green, roundtrip folder!

~Picture day is Friday. 
~All items that I presented in the green folder are due Friday. Thank you!