Thursday, January 31, 2019

All School Reading Celebration


Tomorrow, February 1st, we are having an all school reading reward. A reading camp out!

The students can bring a small blanket or towel, a flashlight, and 2 or 3 of their favorite books. 

They will also receive a s'mores snack to eat while they read! 

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Valentine's Day



Dear Families,

It is time to spread love and friendship in Kindergarten!  Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching!  If your child plans to deliver valentines, they must send
one to EVERY child in the class.  Students are able to start bringing in their valentines on Monday, February 11, 2019.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me!

Love,
Mrs. Kuck

Mrs. Kuck’s 2018-2019 Class List

1.     Elise
2.     Nathan
3.     Margaret
4.     Sam D
5.     Avery
6.     Nolan
7.     Noelle
8.     AJ
9.     Kalina
10. Sam M
11. Ethan
12. Evan
13. Oscar
14. Susannah
15. Coralyn
16. Micah
17. Mason
18. Emilija
19. Jocelyn
20. Ellie

Monday, January 21, 2019

January 14-18


Our poem this week was "Arctic Animals". We made movements to our poem, sorted words by their ending sound, sorting O and I words, and looked for sight words. 

Our read aloud was "A Snowy Day". We worked on visualizing, retelling, making connections, making inferences, answering comprehension questions, and telling our favorite weather. 

For word work, we looked at the O sound and the O__E sound. We sorted words, colored word chunks, and then colored pictures that had O or O__E. 

Our big book this week was "The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". We thought this story was VERY funny!

For handwriting, we learned lower case T, A, D, G, and U. 

For writing, we wrote what we knew about an octopus, planes, and web writing.

For math, we practice adding one more or one less.

For guidance, we practiced how to calm down when we are upset. You take a big belly breath and breath in/out through your nose.

Our special person this week was AJ. We were excited to learn more about AJ and have his dad come read to us!

Kindergarten was in charge of Jaguar Jump Start this week. We focused on forgiveness and some kindergartners even read at Jaguar Jump Start!












Friday, January 11, 2019

How Many Mitten's Tall Are You?

We practiced some measuring this week and we all measured how many mitten's tall we were!




















January 7-11


Our poem this week was "My New Friend". We made movements to our poem, completed a syllable sort, completed an O or U sound sort, practiced rhyming, and learned about vowels. 

Our big book for the week was "The Sleeping Giant".

Our read aloud was "The Mitten". We read our story, retold key events, made connections to our own lives, answered comprehension questions, and told our favorite part. 

For work work, we looked at the O sound verses the OLD sound. We sorted our words, colored our word pattern, and colored pictures depending on if they had the O sound or the OLD sound.

For handwriting, we moved into our lowercase letters. We did lowercase C, O, S, V, and W. 

We have started our informational writing unit. We did a planning sheet for bears and then wrote all about bears. We also did a planning sheet on dogs and wrote all about dogs. 

For math, we started unit 4! We practiced putting numbers 1-10 in order. We played a more/less game. We played match me +/- 1. We also played mix it, fix it, and flip it with our number cards! This is when they mix up all their number cards, put them back in order, and flip them over to reveal the dot side. Then they repeat. 

In science, we talked about the parts of a plant and compared plants to animals. 

For guidance we learned about managing our frustration and what to do when we are frustrated.

Our special person of the week was Noelle! We loved learning more about Noelle and her family. A big THANK YOU to Mr. Kriegel for coming to read to us!

We also got to meet Iron and Officer Schiller. Office Schiller, a Mequon Police Officer, and his dog Iron answered a lot of our questions and taught us about being a police officer/dog. We learned that Iron is from Germany and flew here on a plane. We learned that Iron speaks German and we even got to practice some German commands!







Monday, January 7, 2019

Celebrations!

Quarter 2 testing has started and I am so unbelievable surprised by our phonemic awareness scores! 

The phonemic awareness tests include rhyming, finding initial sounds, blending sounds to make words, and pulling apart sounds in words.

As we saw some lower scores in quarter 1, we changed some of our instruction to include 15-20 minutes of phonemic awareness practices into our day. 

The amount of growth in every single one of your students is huge and a reason to celebrate! 

Please help your child celebrate their huge accomplishments!