Oct. 29-Nov. 2

Hello Families,


Another month is almost come to an end!  These students are so amazing.  Their growth in academics is simply incredible.  As I  assess them for our conferences and report cards , I am very impressed with the strides they made!


This week, we have Halloween on Wednesday.  We will have centers and party starting at 11:00.  If you are helping, please come around 10:45  to help set up centers and food.  Thank you for the support for the party and thanks to our room moms, Kristi and Theresa for planning the Halloween party!  Students can not wear scary costumes with blood or weapons.  Please keep those for Trick or Treating at home. Halloween parade is at 8:30 am.

Conferences are next week Nov. 5-9.  We have our regular schedule.  However, we do not have centers that week. 

This week, we will be starting our Butterfly theme.  We will be discussing the life cycle of a butterfly and create art projects that will help us remember the stages.  Students will measure with butterflies on non-standard measurement activity. 

Reading: The class has starting reading books with short vowels please practice at home. In RTI, we will be reading the book The Lion and the Mouse.  Students will be asked to talk about characters and setting and cause and effect. 

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Math: We still are using number lines for counting on and back.  We introduced the number bond to organize our thinking.  We will be finishing up Unit 2.  You may do unit 2 in your math book.

Reminders:
Conferences are Nov. 5-9, please contact me if you don't have a time. 
No centers conference week
Picture retake Friday, Nov. 2
No school Monday, Nov. 12  in observation of Veterans Day.

Have a great week and safe Halloween!!
Ms. Werner

Kindergarten Update - 10/ 22 - 10/26

Hello Kindergarten Families,

This week, we will be finishing up our "Wild Things theme"as well as our spiders, pumpkins, and bats.  I hope you enjoy playing the games with the pumpkin number line that we will make on Monday.  There are many other games you can find with a number line on Pinterest or other websites.
The next couple weeks, we will be getting "Career & College" ready theme. This is a school-wide/district wide theme that will be discussed  throughout each grade.  We will be reading Oh the places We Go by Dr Suess.  This will open up discussions on what we want to do in the future and what we need to do now to prepare for our future careers.  We will talk about different careers and paths such as schools that are focused in one area like "engineering" or "glazier".  This is great time to talk to your child at home about the path you took  to get the job you have too.

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Writer's workshop:  We will be finishing up our "Launching Workshop" writing piece this week and have a celebration on Friday.  Please have your child bring in a small stuffed animal for them to read their story.

Math: In math, students are coming up with many strategies to solve math word problems.  We have talked about drawing a picture, number bonds, using a number line or a ten frame and at the end we want the "dessert" which is the number sentence that explains what we did to solve it.  In counting collections, we are starting to group our collection in 2's, 5's, and 10's besides counting by 1's.  You can have them practicing counting collections at home.  If they have a collection have them put them into groups and count them in their groups.

Star of the Day: Bring in book or something that represents "Fall".  Please do not bring in a stuffed animal.  You can have  make up 3 clues if you want the class to guess.

Halloween:  We will have Halloween parade on Wednesday, Oct. 31.  It will start at 8:30am.  It goes quick so be here early.  Costumes should not have blood or any weapons.  Please keep the weapons at home.  Our centers and party will start at 11:00.  Our room mothers Kristi and Theresa send out a sign up. We need a couple parents to help prep the art projects for that day.  Please let me know if you can help  with party prep or centers.

Conferences Nov. 5-9 _ We will not have centers that week.  Also, we will have the same schedule as normal.  School will start at 7:52 and ends at 11:25 on Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Friday.  On Wednesday we will have restructured and will get out at 12:20.  I will send out the conference time for you next week.  If you don't have a conference time, please sign up or email me.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Ms. Werner

10/15 - 10/19

Hi Kindergarten Families,    

Hope to see you at the  Harvest Festival tonight from 5-9!

The new "Star of the Day", this round is about "Fall".  You can bring in any books, things from nature, but please no stuffed animals.  You can put it in a bag with the child's name and return to school.

Here is what’s going on in Kindergarten this week:

Reading:  In centers,  we have one more book with sight words and then we will be starting short vowel sounds.  The first book is "Nat at Bat".  Again, please read at home.  Also, when you read at home find books that are at your child's comfort level (Please practice reading paper books until they reading them accurately ). If they aren't reading yet, have them look at a book and tell their own story using the pictures.  Many scholastic books have books that are easy readers you can find them on their website. As you read together at home, students can locate sight words in books that you read together and talk about characters and settings.  

New Theme: “Monsters and Wild Things”! We will be reading “Where the Wild Things Are”.  This theme is a great way to discuss the concepts of “Fiction” vs. “Non-Fiction” which we will be comparing through a variety of books and charting the differences between each genre. We will also talk about the “characters”, “setting”, “problem” and “solution” in each book that we read. While reading with your child at home, please ask them to identify these story elements in their favorite stories. 

Art/Music/Science: Students  will be talking about fiction and non-fiction.  We will be making our own "Max" from the book Where the Wild Things Are.  We will be finishing up our facts on bats and spiders.  Last, we will be making our own bat. Students will be making a pumpkin number line and I will send it home and include ideas for games that you can play with using the number line.

Writer's Workshop: Our hard working writers have almost finished their first narrative book. We have been learning about creating a story with a  beginning, middle and end.  Soon we will  celebrate our first book being published.

The students have been enjoying all of our Halloween inspired songs and chants in class such as "5 Little Pumpkins", "" and "Halloween Cat"- ask your child to sing these songs to you at home!

Word of the Week: “is, look”. 

Math: Students will practice counting forwards and backwards within 20 using the number line and “counting collections”. They will continue to practice a variety of math strategies with partner collaboration to solve word problems and number sentences.  They will begin using a number line to tell addition/subtraction stories in class. 

Have a great week!

Ms. Werner

Oct 8-12

Hi Kindergarten Families,    

Here is what’s going on in Kindergarten this week:

 

We will continue our unit on pumpkins, spiders and bats.  We didn't get to do the experiment last week with pumpkins and will do it this week.  Students will continue to learn about spiders and bats.  We have tons of art projects all over our room.  Please stop by and check them out when you get a chance.  Please ask questions about what they have learned about pumpkins and spiders.

    

Art/Music/Science: Students will learn songs and create art that is focused on classic Halloween animals such as black cats, bats and spiders!

Reading: We are almost done reading our readers with sight words.  Please continue to read these books and others at home and have them locate sight words in the books you read together.  We will begin short vowel words.

Math: Our math centers will focus on number sense to 10. Math games will include number lines, ten-frames and a “race to five” game.  We will start word problems next week in which students will use different strategies to solve addition problems.  They will explain their reasoning with the class.  Please continue to practice writing numbers 1-10 correctly at home.  

Word of the Week: “here”.  By now your child should be able to read and write the following sight words: I, like, see, a, go, the, to, my, and, at, it. Please review these words daily at home with your child if needed.

Our school's Harvest Festival is this Friday, October 12^th from 5:00-9:00. This is SUCH a fun event! I hope to see you there!

If you need a conference time, please email me.

Have a great week, 

Mrs. Werner