September 13-17

This week in Kindergarten! 

This week in Kindergarten we had a new poem every day. Each day we learned a new nursery rhyme, glued the nursery rhyme into our poetry notebooks, and colored a nursery rhyme book. The kids especially loved the songs and videos that went along with the nursery rhyme. We learned Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Little Bo Peep, and Little Miss Muffet. You might have heard your student sing these all week long! 

During center time, we have been working on completing our word work center each day. This center is on your child's chromebook and posted to their seesaw account when complete. This center will be a daily chromebook center so make sure you're connected to your child's seesaw account so you can see their awesome work! We also worked on moving from one center to the next. Next week we will try three centers. 

In reading, we read Recess Queen. We practiced making predictions, retelling, making inferences, telling our favorite part, and answering comprehension questions. 

In writing, we have been so busy! Your child has already made huge leaps in their writing abilities. On the first day of school, we could only draw a picture together, then we moved to labeling the picture, and now we are writing a sentence with each picture. They are doing such a great job and will soon bring all their beginning writing home- you are going to be so proud of them! 

In math, they are practicing number formations and making 5. They use whiteboards, chalkboards, cubes, and 5 frames to help them practice their math skills. 

Pete the Cat Day

 

Pete the Cat Day Centers

1. Ducky Shapes (pulling ducks out of a pool and looking for the shape glued to the bottom) 

2. Colorful Shoes (matching the color shoe to the color word) 

3. Magic Sunglasses (using 3-D sunglasses to see mystery numbers)

4. Rockin' the Syllables (Strumming a guitar for to match how many syllables we hear in words) 

Welcome to Kindergarten!

 

Welcome to my blog! I am so very excited for the start of the school year. This will be my fourth year teaching Kindergarten at Thorson Elementary School.

I am glad that you found my blog because this blog is very important! I use my blog as a way to communicate easily with each and every one of you. At the end of each week, I will make a post about all the learning and activities that happened as well as some pictures from our week. I will also post reminders, field trip information, and any other information that you may need to know.

I am looking forward to meeting you and all my new students. I am very excited for the school year and all the fun we have planned in Kindergarten. I can't wait to see how your child grows and develops throughout the year. 

If you have any questions or concerns for me, you can reach me by email at akuck@cedarburg.k12.wi.us

Mrs. Kuck



If you are looking for something to work on with your child before the first day of Kindergarten; here is a video about letters and letter sounds you and your child can practice! This will prepare them for the first day of Kindergarten!

November 9-13

Wow! Was it a crazy week! The students did so great with welcoming back with open arms! They have been so nice and well behaved. 

This week, for read aloud, we read "Wemberly Worried". We practiced predicting, retelling the important parts of our story, studying our main character, connecting to our main character, answering comprehension questions, and telling our favorite part. 

Our poem was called "Out in the Garden". We made movements to our poem, practiced our movements, wrote words that rhyme with rake, and found vowels in our poem. 

Our big book was "Not Quite Right". We enjoyed trying to guess why Carly's playhouse was just not quite right yet. (she was missing her friends). 

For community writing, we thought of ways to make our worries go away just like Wemberly did in "Wemberly Worried". 

For writing, we finished up our writing unit and had an authors celebration where we shared 1 writing piece with the whole class. We have worked so hard on writing. We learned how to tell a true story, what details to add, how to write sentences, and how to edit our writing to get it ready to share. 

For handwriting, we practiced lowercase O and S. 

Our new word wall word was "is". "Is" is a tricky word wall word because it sounds like there should be a Z at the end but it is an S. 

In math we have been practicing counting by 2's. We have also been practicing writing equations. 

Red Squirrel vs. Gray Squirrel

 

Yesterday, we went outside into Thorson's outdoor classroom with Miss Rachel. We broke into 2 groups and pretended we were squirrels hiding our nuts for the winter! One group was red squirrels and they hid their nuts in one spot. The other group was gray squirrels and they hid their nuts all over. We found out that it is hard to find the nuts you have hidden if you are a gray squirrel because you may have forgotten where you put them. If you are a red squirrel, your whole stash of nuts could be taken all at once. Being a squirrel in wintertime is hard work!