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!

Monday, May 4

Monday, May 4 

White Day (No computer class or library.) 

Happy Birthday, Davis! 

 

 Irish Pride Celebration Today at 8:30 

 Students of the month for April will be recognized as well as new students to our school. The new character word for the month will be introduced: courage. We will end the celebration by singing our Irish Pride song.  

Big Book: Plants Feed Me By: Lizzy Rockwell Genre: Informational Text

Connect and Teach: Steps in a Sequence

  

Big Book: Planting Seeds  By: Kathryn Clay 

Connect and Teach: Make and Check Predictions  

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Initial l-Blends

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Pronouns

 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 today and tomorrow to read the story they wrote and illustrated.

 KinderMath: Sort by an Unknown Rule

We will look closer at how things can be sorted by more than one rule and "unknown" attributes. For instance, without telling the kids what the rule is (wearing shoe laces or not), I will put them in two groups to see if they figure out what the rule is. We will do this same activity with animals that fly and those that don't. Sometimes things have more than one way it can be sorted so we'll use overlapping hula hoops (like the picture below) to demonstrate how it works. For instance, if we want to sort blocks that are red into one group and triangles in another, we might find a block that is red AND a triangle. What do we do?

In this lesson, the kids make observations of plants in order to identify their needs and that they are, in fact, living things. In the activity, Plant Dance, the kids will engage in a kinesthetic activity in which they observe and then model the appearance of plants when their needs are and aren’t met.
Music Today     
We now have a flower shop play area for the children to be creative in!

~ If you haven't done so, please sign and return the Track & Field Day form.
~ An important list of details will be in your child's folder today regarding our field trip on Wednesday.

Friday, May 1

 

Friday, May 1

Big Book: Plants Feed Me By: Lizzy Rockwell Genre: Informational Text

Power Words: bloom, root, seed

Connect and Teach: Make and Check Predictions

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Initial s-Blends

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Possessive Pronouns

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: Down the Steps Uppercase A

 KinderMath: Sort and Classify

We begin a new unit on graphing data. To begin today's lesson on sorting, the kids will hear the story, Elmer by David McKee, to see how we could sort the elephants in the story. Next, they will find a couple of items in our classroom to bring back to the whole group for sorting by color. Lastly, they will sort and then glue colorful tissue paper squares on an elephant shape. 

Phy Ed Today

Project: Happy May Day!
The kids will be making a May Day basket to bring home today. 

Project: Ant

~ If you haven't done so, please sign and return the Track & Field Day form.
~ Monday is Irish Pride Day. Have your child wear their Irish Pride shirt!
Have a nice weekend!