Nov. 12-16

Language Arts: The letter of the week was C and our sight words were "in" and "it." Be sure to practice reading and writing popcorn words at home, learning the sight words is a very important part of Kindergarten. Last week and this week, much of our read aloud time was spent learning about the Five Senses. We enjoyed fun experiments on the senses smell, hear, and touch.  We talked about both the hard sound (k) and the soft sound (s). We sorted c words into hard c and soft c categories, we brainstormed and worked on spelling words that start with c, and we will of course practice the correction formation of the letter. In Language Arts, we will read the books, Cookie's Week, Bunnycakes, Little Cloud and Yes, We Can! We will work on sequencing events from the stories and discuss events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the stories. We played a fun listening game called Draw a Rhyme.  Everyone was very creative in drawing their clowns!  Next week we will create a book called Gobble Gobble.

Math: We continued to practice teen numbers when we learn a game called Nearby Teens. (That's the game I showed you at conferences.We also practiced sequencing numbers with the In the Clouds game. The class will also look more closely at the hundred chart. We will looked for patterns and practice reading larger numbers. We practiced our numeral writing and sequencing birthday cakes. Colorful corn is decorating our room after we created patterns on our Indian corn project.  Students worked together in a small group to solve a story problem from the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They used their cooperative skills to discuss and record what they did to solve the problem. Remember to use math talk at home. Ask your child to explain to you their thoughts about math and how they solve problems. Next week we will play a math attribute game using turkeys.  we will also practice addition problem using turkey manipulatives.  They will bring the pieces home.  You can play with your children by asking them to show number problems (Ex:  Show 4 turkeys on the top and 3 turkeys on the bottom.  How many all together?)  We will also be learning the Flash Game with Five Frames.
Social Studies:  Our Cool Tool this week was Anti-Bullying.  This is a hard concept for kindergartners.  When someone bothers you once, he or she is not a bully.  A bully is someone who repeatedly teases, bothers, or hurts another person.  We will be discussing what to do if someone is bullying. 

Science: We finished up our senses unit this week.  Next week we will begin our nutrition unit.

Notes:  Mrs. Ashish was a guest reader this week. Thank you! Please note that I have added a sign up for art awareness on the left side of this blog post. I would love to have someone come in during December to share the Grant Wood presentation.  Please let me know if you are interested.  It is a favorite with the kindergarten students.(The date for that presentation is past but we can work it out.) With Writer's Workshop beginning, I have two favors to ask: If you would like to donate reams of white copy paper, we use a lot of it for small books. If you would like to fold and staple small books at home, I would love and appreciate your help. Just email me and I'll send home supplies! Thank you!!!!

Our Treasure Box items are getting low!  That's a good thing because that means our students are earning yellow tickets for good behavior!  If you have anything to donate:  extra Happy Meal toys, small party favor toys, dollar store items...the kids would love it!!!  Thank you!

It was fun seeing May Watts families at our Culver's Night.

Remember, there is no school Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week.  Enjoy your time with family and friends!!!

Have a great weekend!