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!

Monday, October 19

                                                   

Monday, October 19

Happy Birthday, Hazel S.! (October 18)

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: I Like Myself!  By: Karen Beaumont
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding
Introduce Vocabulary Words: bother, change, same

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Counting Syllables, Deleting Words

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

GRAMMAR
Prepositions

Handwriting: Upper and Lowercase U Turn Review

Writer's Workshop: Drawing a Shape Person with Clothes

 KinderMath: Read and Write 9

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. 

 STEAM with Mr. Brown 

 
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

PLEASE vote here and vote everyday until October 25!

~ Thank you for visiting with me at conferences...I enjoyed visiting with all of you and share your child's growth so far!
~ National Hot Lunch Day...