Practice Makes Perfect!

This week we will be taking our Unit 2 math test – so any extra practice you do at home would be awesome! We will be reviewing this week in preparation for our test! I know all of my friends will do great!

We will also be starting our science unit – Sink or Float! Please be prepared to test things at home – I just know that my friends will love experimenting and making predictions about what objects will sink to the bottom and which objects will float! I can’t wait to see all of the fun we have during this unit!

In Literacy we will start Week 3 of Unit 3. We will be reading “Please Take Me For A Walk” and “Field Trips” and will be talking about the different places we go during the week and also focusing on the character, setting, and events that happen in the stories. In our crabby books we will be reading “We Go To See Nan” and “Can We Go?” We will be focusing on the letter c and learning how to read and write the word go! Our vocabulary words will be neighborhood, routine, intelligent, local, and volunteer. During guided reading your child will either be reading “We Can Go” or “Going by Cab”. During writer’s workshop we are continuing to write stories from our lives and are working hard on sounding out words that we don’t know how to spell using turtle talk.

Please have your child wear red, white, and blue on Wednesday – because we will be observing Veterans Day and will be making a few things for our Veterans and of course taking some pictures for this special day. Last week I had so many friends bring in candy for the Veterans and this week we will be bagging it up and making a special gift for the Veterans! Please let me know if you have a veteran or veterans you would like to have a bag of candy and card for and I will send it home with your child. This week we also started our Food Drive here at Meadow Lane and it is our goal to bring in 100 items of food for the Food Drive - and so far we have 25 items so I am hoping that we can continue to bring in some more food for this very worthy cause! Friday was “Hats for Hunger Day” and we had quite a few fun hats in our room!

Also this week a turkey will be coming home with your child – don’t worry it is just a paper turkey - this is a fun family project that you can do together and send back to school. All of the directions and turkey will come home in your child’s kindergarten folder! I can’t wait to see what the turkeys look like when they come back!

Speaking of kindergarten folders – your wonders online access sheet was added in on Friday as well as a practice sheet for spelling words and kindergarten words. Please know that any extra practice you can do at home will only benefit your child! Remember you will now be seeing two literacy homework sheets that will need to be done with a homework helper! Please let me know if you have any questions! 

Also a BIG thank you to all of you that were able to come to reading night last week. I hope you all had fun and learned a little about our kindergarten literacy curriculum! It really is crazy what kindergarteners do now and how much it has changed! Please mark down Thursday, December 3^rd from 5:30-6:30 on your calendar because that is Math Night and I hope to have some more fun activities planned for that evening as well and hope you all can come. Please check out the video we made for reading night with a few more pictures added in! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

                   

King Nolan

Nolan was our King of the Jungle this week and he had a fabulous week! We all found out that he LOVES Star Wars! He loves the movie and the theme song and he even brought in his super cool lightsaber to show us that was awesome! His favorite book is called "Goodnight Darth Vader" and his favorite animal is a wookie! Nolan also likes the color red, football,  and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He is a special kid because he has a family that loves him very much! Something Nolan likes to do at home is collect baseball cards and when he grows up he wants to be a teacher! I know that Nolan will be able to do whatever he sets his mind to! He is a great student who works hard every single day and he had a wonderful week as the King of the Jungle! Here is a video of him as our King!

                  

First week of November!!!

The time has changed and hopefully you all enjoyed your extra hour of sleep as much as I did! This week we will be trying to get back into our normal routine after the super fun week we had last week! Although we will be gearing up for Veterans Day and Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. Last week you should have gotten a "candy challenge" paper in your child's Wednesday Folder - we will be collecting candy this week to give to the Veterans - I am hoping we will be collecting a lot... my friends always say "sharing is caring"!

In Literacy we will be starting Week 2 in Unit 3. Our essential question is “What are the different sounds we hear?” and we will be reading a super fun book called “Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City” and also “The Turtle and the Flute”. We are learning about different genres of books and also strategies that readers use – we are getting really good at visualizing the pictures in our mind.  In our crabby books we will be reading “Nat and Tip” and “Tim and Nan”, and let me tell you we really enjoy reading those crabby books! We will be focusing on the letter “Nn” and learning how to read, write, and spell the word “and”. Our vocabulary words this week are listen, volume, chat, exclaimed, and familiar.  We are continuing to work on finding words that rhyme and sorting words by the beginning and ending sounds. We are getting really good at blending words with turtle talk and like writing down the sounds we hear in our sound boxes!

In Math we will be practicing writing the number 10 as well as making patterns and showing numbers 1-10 on our counting mats. We will continue to solve addition and subtraction story problems and try and come up with our own problems. We are getting really good at repeating story problems so we know what the problem is asking us. We will also be looking at addition and subtraction equations closely to see what patterns we find.

In writing we will be go over what we should do if our friends try to help us spell words (we are working very hard on becoming independent writers) and also talking about how sometimes we spell the same words differently and how that is okay! We will learn that good writers touch(point) to their words and reread while they are writing their sentences to make sure that they make sense and also remembering to use punctuation marks at the end of each sentence.

During Unit Studies we finished up our drug safety unit and will now be starting our science unit – Sink or Float! Be prepared to test things at home – I just know that my friends will love experimenting and making predictions about what objects will sink to the bottom and which objects will float! I can’t wait to see all of the fun we have during this unit!

Last Wednesday you also should have received your child's report card.  Please let me know if you have any questions about your child’s report card – you get to the keep the actual report card but please send back the envelope so we can reuse it. I told my friends that 3’s are what we are looking for and that 2’s just mean we need to keep working hard and trying our best every day!

This Thursday is our Family Reading night from 5:30-6:30 in our classroom and you should have received information on that as well! It should be a great night to learn more about the literacy activities we do everyday! I hope to see you all there! Hopefully this week I will also be getting a video up of our fun Fall Party! Also please be on the lookout for the November calendar and quarter 2 skills that will be put in your child's kindergarten folder! We have another fun week ahead of us!

Even Monsters Need Haircuts!

Today Nolan's mom came in and read us a wonderful story called "Even Monsters Need Haircuts" and we all loved it so very much! It was a funny story with silly monsters! It was so neat to have her come in and read to us! We sure do love having parent readers! Here are a few pictures

 Nolan and his mom!

 They checked the book out from the library!

 Nolan thought it was pretty awesome!

 We all loved the story!

 Nolan was so excited to have his mom come and read!

His mom even stayed to eat lunch with him and his twin sister, Caroline!

King Dennis

Dennis was the King of the Jungle this week and he loved every minute of it! Dennis's favorite color is blue, and his favorite book is "If You Give A Mouse a Cookie". Dennis loves minions and even brought one in to show his friends and he loves the Minion movie and the song! His favorite sport is soccer and his favorite food is McDonalds and his favorite animal is an elephant. He is a special kid because his smile lights up the room. When he is at home he likes to play on the internet. When he grows up he wants to be a police officer! He really did have a wonderful week, please check out his video!

             

Our First Parent Reader!

Last Friday we had our very first parent reader and it was wonderful!!! Devin's mom came in and read us "Alphabet Mystery" and all of my friends loved it! We always get super excited when we have specials guest in our rooms! Please know we welcome parent readers to come in on Fridays before lunch- just let me know and we can get it scheduled if you are free to come in and read. Here are a few pictures of Devin's mom reading to us!

 Devin was so excited to have his mom come in!

Devin and his mom!

King Diego

Diego was our very first King of the Jungle and he loved every minute of it! Diego's favorite color is light blue, he loves the Minions movie, his favorite sport is basketball, and his favorite food is pizza! He also likes cheetahs and his favorite book is "Jesse Bear What Will You Wear" which all of his friends loved when we read it! His favorite song is See you Again Wizk. He is a special kid because he likes to share and help people. Something Diego likes to do at home is play with his little brother, Santi, and watch tv. When he grows up he wants to be a scientist! I know that all of his friends and I loved learning a little more about Diego and he had a great week! Here is a video featuring King Diego!