Wednesday, March 4

 
Wednesday, March 4

Green Day: Library 
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

~Wacky hair and wacky wear day!
Some wacky things will be happening around here including but not limited to...
~Our names start ing with 'W' all day long.
~Walking backwards in the classroom and hall.
~Our daily routine happening out of order.
~Sitting on a chair backwards.
~Taping your worksheet to the bottom of a table and work from the 'ceiling'
~Reading a story from end to beginning.
~Getting to do their paperwork wacky all day long!

Read Aloud: Take Me Out to the Yakyu By: Aaron Meshon
Social Studies Connection: History and Symbols Baseball is a cherished tradition in America. It’s popular in Japan too. This delightful story shows how going to a ball game in the two countries is the same and how it’s fascinatingly different.

Genre: Fiction
Connect and Teach: Make and Check Predictions

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowel u

Irregular Words: Review

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Gg
  KinderMath: Find Differences of Sets to 20 
In today’s lesson, the kids will be working on stating how many the difference between two sets of 20 is. For this activity, each pair will need two baggies of items-each filled with a different number of items. We will model dumping out a bag of bears and a bag of tiles where the tiles can be “matched” to the bears. We will demonstrate lining them up and determining how many FEWER is seen of one set. This will be modeled 2-3 more times and then the partners will do the same, but record their answers on the recording sheet as shown below.

Zero the Hero visits today...Day 110! 

Time for Kids: Growing Tall

 Phy Ed Today
~Wear green tomorrow!

The Book order is due Wednesday, March 11.
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC
~Dr. Seuss dress up days...

Tuesday, March 3

 
Tuesday, March 3
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20.   
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

Wear a crazy hat and/or red & white day!
 Project: The Cat in the Hat

Big Book: In Our Country  By: Susan Canizares

Genre: Informational Text

Review Power Words: America, plain, sea Review Big Idea Words: belong, country, right

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime (n-eat, t-ate)
Isolating Phonemes (medial), Blending/Segmenting Phonemes
 Substituting Phonemes (quote: change /long oō/ to /short iĭ/: quit ) WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Irregular Plural Nouns  Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Qq
KinderMath: Find Differences of Sets to 10
In today’s lesson, the kids will be going further than simply comparing two sets as more or less. They will be working on stating how many the difference between two sets is. For this activity, each pair will need two sets of number cards 1-10 and 20 snap cubes. Each partner will pull a card and build that amount of cubes. Students will then “make friends” with their cubes so they can easily see how many more/fewer. Again, the kids will focus on stating the amount that the difference is. 
Music Today
~Mrs. Tongen will not be in school today but The Cat in the Hat will be...hehe...
~Any tickets/gift certificate/treats you can donate toward the PTA Baskets of Chance fundraiser is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
~Wacky Wednesday tomorrow! Have your child dress in any wacky way...including their hair!
~Library day tomorrow...
~Dr. Seuss dress up days...

Monday, March 2

 
Monday, March 2
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

It's Pajama Day!
Project: Sleepyhead...zzz...

Gold Day (No computer class or library.)

Big Book: In Our Country  By: Susan Canizares

Genre: Informational Text
Print Concepts: Concept of a Word

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowels e and o

Irregular Words: two, who

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Oo
It was just too busy to get to this last Friday!
KinderMath: One More, One Less
Most of the children are confident with one more but less confident with one less. This lesson will help increase their confidence with this concept.
• Activity One: Pairs will work together ordering numeral cards (9-20) needed for activity two.
• Activity Two: Commands will be said like, “Find the number that is one more than 12. Find the number that is one less than 20.”
• Activity Three: Pairs will need these number cards and 40 snap cubes. The kids will place a number in the middle. One partner will show the set that is ONE LESS using cubes, and the other partner will show a set that is ONE MORE with cubes. 
 Phy Ed Today
~Wear a crazy hat and/or red & white tomorrow!
~Angie Weber (Isabelle's Grandma) was our final guest reader on Friday...

~The kids were "glowing" with excitement to attend the Glow Party!

~Dr. Seuss dress up days...

Friday, February 27

 
Friday, February 27
White Day (No computer class or library.)

*Mr. Meyer's College English class will be visiting us one more time as Reading Buddies from 8:20-8:50 this morning. 

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: America the Beautiful: Together We Stand  By: Katharine Lee Bates
GENRE: Poetry/Song
Connect and Teach: Describe Connections
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowels e and o

Irregular Words: two, who

Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction
WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Signal Words

Big Book: In Our Country  By: Susan Canizares

Genre: Informational Text
Social Studies Connection: History and Symbols Using gorgeous photographs, this book highlights the many different landforms and bodies of water across the United States. The simple text ends with a call to care for our country.

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Oo

KinderMath: Compare Numbers 11-20 

Today’s lesson will focus on students comparing numbers 11-20 again. However, this time the kids will also be focusing on the numeral itself. We will use the same counting book How Many Snails?  to count sets of objects, and write the matching numeral that goes with each set. For example...How many star fish are there? {17} How many dogs are there? {15} Both numbers will be written on the board. The kids will explain their thinking with question probes like, How do you know? and Can you prove that? 
 Phy Ed: The kids will not have phy ed today so they can attend the Glow Party at that time.

Spanish Class

Today's focus is body parts and a review of the abc's, numbers and colors.

I Love to Read Month Glow Party Reward Day!

Our class WON the ice cream party for the most minutes read in our grade level...5,360!
The ice cream will be served sometime in March...
~Thank you for your participation in such an awesome I Love to Read month! 

~Marie Halloran (substitute paraprofessional/secretary) read to the children yesterday...

~They were also lucky to have Jen Rasset (School Board member) read too!

~Kindergarten has a Dr. Seuss theme planned for all of next week. Your child is bringing home a list of dress-up days to coordinate with Dr. Seuss books that will be featured. Monday's book is The Sleep Book so all the kids can wear their pajamas to school!

Have a super weekend!