Friday, May 8

Friday, May 8 

                                        Black Day (No computer class or library.)

Read Aloud: Up and Down in the Garden and in the Dirt By: Kate Messner Genre: Informational Text 

 Science Connection: Plants: Basic Needs and Life CycleThis informational text explains what happens both above ground and underground

to help a plant grow, including the role of people, bugs, and animals, over the 

course of one year. 

Connect and Teach: Make and Check Predictions

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Initial r-Blends

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Possessives

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Intro to Graphing

After hearing The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy, the kids will learn how to use a graph using these four steps: Pose a question, collect data, record the results on a graph, and analyze the data.   

 Time for Kids: Turtle Time

This is the last time my class will visit the library this year. Mrs. Thomas has some fun activities planned for the kids! 

Music Today        

~Happy Mother's Day to all of you wonderful ladies...Enjoy your very special day! 

Thursday, May 7

Thursday, May 7

Green Day: Library  (We will go tomorrow.)

  

Big Book: Planting Seeds  By: Kathryn Clay  

Review Power Words: bloom, root, seed 

 Review Big Idea Words: garden, harvest, plant  

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS 

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes (Initial Sound), Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Onset and Rime (st-ill, bl-ing, etc.)

Phonics Focus Skill: Review

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Pronouns 

Writer's Workshop: Field Trip
The kids will be writing about their trip yesterday. Where did we go? What did you do there? What was your favorite thing to do? 

 Handwriting: J Hook Uppercase J

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Sort and Analyze Data (Day 2)
We will sort which month our birthdays are in then find out which month has the most/least. How many more/less in one month vs. another, etc.

Phy Ed Today 
Project: Mother's Day Gift 
That's all I will tell you. 💚😄

~ Library day is tomorrow.
~The Wednesday envelope will come home with your child today.
~We sure had fun yesterday! A BIG thank you to all our volunteers who were able to help!

Wednesday, May 6

Wednesday, May 6
Orange Day

Look out Great River Children's Museum and Wilson Park, we have some SUPER excited kindergarteners ready to have some fun!

~The Wednesday envelope will be sent home tomorrow. 
~ All kindergarteners will participate in Track & Field Day for about 1.5 hours that morning. We will resume our normal day after we complete our events.
~Although our kindergarten graduation (June 2) is in the morning, the kids will remain at school for the remainder of the day. Invitations will come home in next week's Wednesday envelope. The rest of that week will be filled with a lot of fun activities until our last day, June 4. 

 

Buddy Reading: Students from Mrs. Sutter's Creative Writing class from the high school visited our classroom yesterday to read the story they wrote and illustrated.

Tuesday, May 5

Tuesday, May 5 

Gold Day (No computer class or library.)  

  

Big Book: Planting Seeds  By: Kathryn Clay 

Print Concepts: One-to-One Correspondence

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Initial l-Blends

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Possessive Pronouns

 Handwriting: Down the Steps Uppercase A 
We didn't get to this last week.

 Literacy Jobs 

 

Buddy Reading: Students from Mrs. Sutter's Creative Writing class from the high school made children's books and will be visiting our classroom again today to read the story they wrote and illustrated.

KinderMath: Sort and Analyze Data
Using items from our classroom, the kids will sort them into categories and analyze the data. For example, the kids have a mixture of 8 bear counters, 5 crayons and 3 paperclips. First, they sort their mixture and place the items in vertical columns. Next, they write the total under each column. Last, the analyzing happens...
Which do we have more of? How do you know? How many more crayons are there than paperclips? And so on...  

How Do Plants and Trees Grow?
In this lesson, students investigate what plants need to grow. In the two-part activity, Sprout a Seed, the kids plant radish seeds in paper cups. When the seeds sprout, students notice that the leaves of the young plants lean toward the light. We will also make one classroom root viewer made from a Ziploc bag and paper towels to let the kids observe root growth.

Phy Ed Today 

~ Have your child wear their purple tye-died shirt tomorrow!
~Parents who are volunteering, please arrive by 8:15 tomorrow to sign in and get a name tag...thank you!
~ We enjoyed celebrating with Davis yesterday!