Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:

We are finishing up our first reading unit. This week we will cover:

- Question of the week: "How do machines help people work?"
- Oral Vocab: scooping, swooshing, squelching, gobbling, spinning, rubbling
- Initial and final /t/ sound
- Review initial and final /m/ sound
- Sight words: a, to
- Listening Comprehension: Classify and Categorize, review setting
- Readers Workshop book: Dig Dig Digging
- Nouns for places and things
- Writing: Writing process

Common Core Standards We will Cover:
      - Foundational Skills 2.e; 2.c; 3.a
      - Informational Text 7
      - Language 5.a
      - Speaking/Listening: 1.a; 4
      - Writing 3; 5
      - Language 1; 1.b

Math:

- Unit 2: Comparing and ordering 0-5
- Vocab: more, fewer, same as, same number of, column, row, 1 more than, 2 more than
- More, fewer, and same as
- Partner Game: "Win with Five"
- 1 and 2 more
- Partner Game: "Try Together"
- 1 and 2 fewer
- Partner Game: "Helping Hands"
- Math journal- problem solving addition and subtraction

- Students will each receive their own calendar binder! In October:
     - Fill in the calendar
      - Graph the letters in our names
      - Tally Marks
      - Fill in the days in school
      - Weather graph
      - Zero the hero
      - Birthday graph

Common Core Standards we will cover:
      - K.CC.6 (curriculum)
      - K.CC.3 (curriculum)
      - K.OA.1 (math journal)
      - K.MD.3 (calendar)

Seasonal
- Bats, Owls, Spiders

Religion:

- Mass Monday
- God Gives Us Light

Field Trip Pics

We had a blast at the field trip! Thanks to all of the parents who chaperoned... you played a huge part in making this day such a success!

 

Public Library

 

 

Fire Station

 

 

 

 

 

Lake Eola Park

 

 

 

 

Boosterthon Day 4

WOW!!!! We are still at the top of the leader board for pledges! We had an awesome weekend! Today we earned a picnic lunch and an ice cream party! We are at $125/lap. If we get to $150/lap we earn crazy hair day!! They want it SO bad! Tonight is the last night to earn pledges. Don't forget to enter them online! If you need help please let me know!

 

So, currently the standings are:

1.Garner

2. McDonald

3. Danner

 

HELP US STAY IN 1ST PLACE!!

 

We're almost there!!!!

 Picnic Lunch!

Ice Cream Party!
 

 

Peek at the Week

This week in...

 

Reading:

 

- Review Letters A-Z

- Phonemic Awareness - Letter Sound M

- Readers Workshop Story - "Smash Crash"

- Amazing Words- signals, dud, proper, pirates, perfect, fabulous

- Readers Workshop- Character

- Conventions - Nouns for people and animals

- Segmenting words into syllables

- Sight Words: the, little, a, to

 

Common Core State Standards We Will Cover:

- CCSS Foundational Skills 1.d; 2; 2.d; 2.e

- CCSS Literature 3

- CCSS Speaking/Listening 4

- CCSS Language 1; 1.b

 

Math:

 

- Numbers 6-10

- More, fewer, same as

- 1 and 2 more

- Comparing data from a graph

 

Common Core State Standards We Will Cover:

- K.CC.6

 

Science:

- Finish up apple unit

- Apple taste testing Monday

 

Boosterthon Fun Run Wednesday!!

 

 

 



Boosterthon Day 3!!

I am SO excited to share that we sold the most pledges in the school on Thursday night... and we are currently in FIRST PLACE!! Great job everyone! Keep 'em coming! Don't forget to enter your pledges online each night.

 

Choice Challenge Day 3: I Choose Learning!

 

 

Each morning, Scott comes in to talk with us about our choice challenge for the day. He calls up each student who has earned pledges the night before and we say a few nice things about them!

Since our class brought in the most pledges on Thursday night, we got to have lunch with the Boosterthon leaders on Friday!!

 

 

 

 

 

Boosterthon Day 2!

Wow... we had an AWESOME second night of pledging... Great job everyone!

 

Look at our Pledge-o-Meter! As a class we jumped from $20 a lap to $66 a lap in just one night!

 

 

We earned a new pencil, free time, NO REST TIME, and a picnic lunch!!!!

Today's choice challenge: I choose character!

Boosterthon!!

 

Boosterthon is in full action this week!

We are ON THE ROAD TO GOOD CHOICES with this year's Boosterthon! For two weeks we will focus on LEADERSHIP * CHARACTER * LEARNING * FITNESS * A GOOD ATTITUDE.

 

We are LOVING our team leaders Scott and Julie! Each day they come and talk to us for a few minutes.

 

Today's Choice Challenge: I Choose Leadership!

We already had a few friends who collected pledges last night!! Look at those awesome prizes. Way to go!!

This is our class incentive chart. We've already reached $20/ lap as a class... so today we earned 5 extra recess minutes and a round of freeze dance this afternoon! They want that crazy hair day SO bad, so start collecting those pledges!

 

As a class, if we earn the most pledges tonight, we get to have recess with Scott and Julie tomorrow!!!!

 

Friday we can wear our Boosterthon shirts and PE shorts!

 

 

 

Peek at the Week

This Week In...

Reading:

-Review Letter Recognition: Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz
-Story: "Miss Bindergarten Takes A Field Trip With Kindergarten"
-Readers Workshop: Classify & Categorize
-Sequence
-Storybook Components
-Phonics: Comparing Initial Letter Sounds
-Blending onset and rime
-Sight Words: the, little

Math:

-Numbers 6 - 10
-Reviewing writing numbers 1-10
-Dividing by sharing equally
-Graphing

Science:

All About Apples

Writing:

-Handwriting, handwriting, handwriting! Forming our letters correctly and putting a heading on our papers.

Mystery Reader

Thanks Mrs. Wolszczak for being our mystery reader on Friday!! Please don't forget to sign up! Email me with a few Fridays that you are available!

Sci Fri!

We learned about colors this past week. On Friday we read the story "Mouse Paint" and mixed colors to make new colors. We love Sci Fri!

 

Yellow + Blue = Green

Red + Blue = Purple

 

Red + Yellow = Orange

 

We recorded our findings in our science journal

 

 

 

Literacy Stations

We began literacy stations as a whole class this week. I've introduced each station slowly, and now we are working with our partners and rotating to two stations each day. Literacy staions are a lot like math stations in the sense that I can pull small groups while students work independently or with a partner on previously taught concepts.

ABC Station

Writing Station

Pocket Chart Station

Library

Our new iPad station! So exciting!!