Thursday, May 9

 Thursday, May 9

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: fine, these, spoke, skate
  Segment: eve, gave, code, shine
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: o (short, long), i (short, long), a (short, long) nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) u, e 

Auditory Drill

 Phonemes: o (long), a (long), i (long), nk, ng, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e
Blending Drill 

sun to stun to stunk to stung to strung to strong to string to sting to sing to sink to sank to sunk to chunk to chunks to hunks to honks to honk to Hank to thank

New Concept   

 Reading and spelling with the VCe/E_E pattern.

KinderLiteracy: Butterflies
The kids will sequence the events in the butterfly life cycle.

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

   Math: Analyze Graphs

Today's lesson is for the kids to analyze pre-made graphs. Done as a whole group, the kids are presented the information on the SmartBoard and write the answer on their personal whiteboard. In addition, we will do interactive graphing games from various websites.

Literacy Jobs 

Phy Ed Today

~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 8

 

Wednesday, May 8

Look out Wheel & Cog Museum and Elks Park, we have some SUPER excited kindergarteners ready to have some fun!

~The Wednesday envelope will be sent home tomorrow. 
~Again, all kindergarteners will participate in Track & Field Day for about 1 1/2 hours that morning. We will resume our normal day after. 
~Although our kindergarten graduation (May 20) is in the morning, the kids will remain at school for the remainder of the day. Be sure to RSVP if you haven't done so!
~The rest of that week will be filled with a lot of fun activities until our last day, May 24. 

Tuesday, May 7

 Tuesday, May 7

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

rod to rode to rope to hope to hop to mop to mope to mode to code to cope to nope to note to vote 

 Irregular Words: there, where, who, by, my

                Read: The rope fell in the hole.

                                       Cole is on the phone with Dave.

                                        My home is close to those lakes.

Spell: We rode the bikes home.

                                           Do you see a note from Hank?
                                          The phone rang and woke them up.

KinderLiteracy: Butterflies

We'll discuss these vocabulary words (nectar, chrysalis, migration, instinct, generation) and answer these questions:

1) Who is the author? What is their job?

2) What is one fact we heard from the book?

Writer's Workshop: Then or Next
The kids continue to work on their story by focusing on the next part of their story which is labeled "then or next". It is important to write either of those words first in the sentence.

Math: Circle Graphs

The kids will be introduced to this type of graph today. The idea is for the kids to continue analyzing and understanding what the data shows no matter what type of layout it is in.

Literacy Jobs 

Phy Ed Today

~The kids have a flower shop play area now!

~ The kids will be wearing their purple tie-dye shirt tomorrow. I have them at school. 
~Be sure to have them wear shoes with socks for the museum. They will need an extra water bottle as well.

Monday, May 6

 Monday, May 6

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: rode, note, woke, stove
 Segment: home, rose, stone, globe
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: i (short, long), a (short, long) nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) u, e, 
Auditory Drill

 Phonemes: a (long), i (long), nk, ng, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e, o

BlendingDrill 
slid to slide to slime to lime to chime to dime to dim to rim to ram to rams to rats to rat to rate to rave to shave to Dave to dive to chive to chide
New Concept   
 Reading and spelling words with the O_E pattern.

KinderLiteracy: Butterflies

The kids will listen to Butterflies by Laura Marsh to build an interest in the topic for this week: Butterflies

The comprehension strategy this week is Visualizing.

 Literacy Jobs 
For the remainder of the year, I will be taking kids for individual assessments during Literacy Jobs. Book bags will not be sent home however, the kids will be reading books from their book boxes every day in addition to their daily literacy work. 

 KinderMath: Reading Bar Graphs
The kids will collect data about fruit and place the results in a bar graph to analyze.

~We will walk through the sixth grade wax museum this morning. In addition, Ms. Malwitz's 6th graders will spend the afternoon with our class to help with some writing activities for your child's memory book and a special gift your child is working on for Mother's Day!

Music Today

~~Thank you to Mrs. Ergers 1st graders for reaching their Irish Pride ticket goal and choosing Pajama Day for tomorrow!

Friday, May 3

    
   Friday, May 3

Writer's Workshop: Personal Word Wall
Today, the children will write the heart words displayed in our classroom into their Writer's Folder so they can access these words more efficiently. 

   Math: Graphing Continued...
We will work together to collect data about a pile of smooth and rough rocks and organize the data to analyze the results. The kids will also work on collecting data and analyzing the results on another graph about animals.

Computer class this afternoon.

 Project: Speckled Frog
Phy Ed Today

~If you haven't done so, please return the requested info for Track & Field Day. Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday, May 2

Thursday, May 2

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

rip to ripe to ride to rid to hid to hide to hike to bike to bite to bit to kit to kite to site to white to while to whine to shine

 Irregular Words: or, for, there, where, who  NEW: by, my

    Read: Mike likes to ride his bike. 

                        I will get my white kite for Beth. 

                         Jake likes to dive by the tall slide.

Spell: We drive for six miles.

                                             The five kids are not on time.
                                             This is where my mom likes to dine.

KinderLiteracy: Frogs
The kids will sequence the life cycle of a frog. 

Writer's Workshop: First
**We did not get to this yesterday.

Today's focus is only on the "first" part of our story. It is important at the beginning that the character and setting is illustrated and the word first is written in the sentence.

Literacy Jobs 

   Math: Survey and Graph
**We did not get to this yesterday.

Today's lesson will have the kids continuing to graph and analyze data. However, today they will also learn how to survey their classmates by asking them what animal is their favorite from a group of four choices. After collecting the data, they will analyze the results.
Music Today

~All library books are due tomorrow.
~Thank you to Mrs. Skay's 2nd graders for reaching their Irish Pride ticket goal and choosing Dress like an MLE Teacher for tomorrow!