Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive

With Christmas right around the corner, our Student Council is having a Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive.  They will be collecting new toys from Dec. 3 through December 14th. Please see the flyers below for special $1 collection dates.  Thank you in advance for your support for families in need this holiday season! 

Field Trip Reminder

Our Field Trip to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is on Wednesday, December 5th.  Please remember to send a cold lunch to school with your child.  We will not be able to purchase hot lunch.

November 26-30

Our poem this week was, "Winters Here". We made movements to our poem, looked for word wall words, completed a SN/SK/ST/Sp sort, completed a season sort, learned about hibernation, and learned about vowels. 

Our big book was, "CoCo Steps Out". We talked about the story and the characters. We made connections and learned about hibernation. 

Our read aloud this week was "Bear Snores On". We practiced predicting, retelling important parts, and answering comprehension questions. We also learned a lot about bears and talked about what they have, what they are, and what they can do. We talked about what we already knew about bears and what new information we learned. 

For word work, we focused on CH and SH. We sorted our words and pictures together and then individually, we colored words, and colored pictures. 

For handwriting, we focused on letters C and O. We practiced these on our chalkboards. 

For writing, we finished our pattern book unit. The students shared their favorite book with their partners. 

We also wrote letters to my brother who is at Ranger School for the United States Army. We wanted to encourage him to keep up all his hard work and to keep protecting our country. 

In math we practiced finding different ways to make 10. We also started started about part/part whole. They rolled dice and put that number of cubes on a paper and then found 2 ways to make that number. 

Emilija was our special person of the week! We enjoyed learning more about Emilija and meeting her mom and sister. 

Snow Gear

As we begin to get more and more snow, please practice putting on and taking off winter gear!

I will help them but we also want them to be pretty independent with putting everything on themselves. 

They should put snow pants one first, then boots, then their jacket (and zip it), then hats and gloves!

Please practice this at home so we can get to recess quicker and have more time to play!

Sight Word Lists

I was not able to test on sight words today because we had a very busy day in Kindergarten today! 

I will test tomorrow and send home new lists!

Thank you for understanding!

Baby Wipes

Our classroom is in need of more baby wipes. We use these wipes to clean our hands and our mouths after snack. We also use them to clean off our tables at the end of every day!

Thanksgiving Feast

WE ARE GRATEFUL GOBBLERS

November 19-20

Our read aloud this week was "The Relatives Came". We read the book, answered comprehension questions about the book, and retold key parts of the story. We also talked about our families and if our relatives come to us for Thanksgiving or if we go to them. 

Our big book was "A Bear and His Honey". We read this book, talked about the pictures and the story. 

Our word work for this week was "IP" or "IT" words. We sorted some words, colored words, and colored pictures. 

Our new word wall words are "SO" and "NO".

For math, we worked on our counting skills. We added a challenge this week of using two 10-frames and two dice. The students rolled the dice, counted the dots, and then used cubes and their two 10-frames to show the number they rolled. 

Our second grade buddies came this week. We worked on a "I am Thankful" project with them. 

Book Fair and Book Orders

Today is the last day to visit Thorson's Book Fair! 

If you haven't had a chance to visit the book fair you can also order books online. I sent home the book catalogs a couple of weeks ago. Our class code is listed on the side of this blog!

These orders are due tomorrow! I will submit them before I go home for the Thanksgiving Break!

November 12-16

Our poem this week was "Five Fat Turkeys". We learned the words to our poem, made movements, looked for word wall words, did a short/long I sound sort, did a short/long A sound sort, and we talked about quotation marks. 

Our big book this week was "Goldy". We learned the words in this book and read the book together! We also talked about the story and the characters. 

Our read aloud this week was "Turkey Trouble". We worked on predicting, retelling important events, and answered some comprehension questions. We also took a closer look at Turkeys. We talked about what we already knew, what we wanted to know, and what we learned. We also talked about what turkey's have, are, and can do. 

For word work, we focused on UN and UG words. We sorted these words, colored pictures, and colored words with UN and UG in them. 

For handwriting, we focused on X and Y. We practiced these on our chalkboards and completed our handwriting page. 

For math, we worked on our counting skills. We practiced pointing and counting, crossing off and counting, and using check marks to count. We also used our ten frames to help us count objects.

Sam was our special person of the week. We were excited when his Dad came in to read a book to the class that was about Sam and his sister!

We also had Officer Fitting come into our classroom. He talked about his job at Thorson and answered some of our questions! He was very happy to see our Police Station!

Book orders are due next week, November 20th.