Third week in November: November 20 & 21 (2 Days -Thanksgiving Break)

We have been singing this song as an activity at Morning Meeting.

Ask your child to sing Tom, Tom Turkey to you! 🦃

Writing Workshop: Working on the cover of her Thanksgiving Day card.

Turning her painted hand print into a turkey!

Adding a beak, a wattle, and feet.

Proud of the way it turned out!

 

Working on the inside of the card.

Some children added stickers.

The children had to decide who they would give their Thanksgiving Day card to!

 

I hope you saw these cards in your child's Home/School Folder!

Hopefully many were passed along to the recipient.

Writing: Practicing drawing and writing on whiteboards.

Monday's Story

Private Reading: Reading a shape emergent reader.

Using patterns to help read.

He is practicing keeping careful match.

Using the pattern to help her read accurately.

 

Reading: Teacher Time

Listening for the first sound in a word.

Writing the letter for that sound.

Turkey First Sounds.

Kindergarten Literacy Goals:

Able to identify all capital and lowercase letters.

Able to provide all consonant sounds.

Able to provide all short vowel sounds.

Able to write all capital and lowercase letters.

Reading: Personalizing the cover to her reading journal.

The children's name is done with stickers.

Up to six other stickers of her choice to fancy her reading journal cover.

They had fun doing this with my daughter Anna who was home from college.

I will be putting the journals together this week.

Some children will be bringing home books soon to read. 

Reading: Scholastic News 

Completing his Scholastic News.

Some of these readers we put in. the children's reading bins.

Some of these readers go home for the children to read to you.

Math: Counting and writing numbers.

Carefully count (touch count or mark each item).

Math: Correctly form the number (top to bottom).

Math: Shape Graph

Count and record accurately.

He is writing the number for how many of each have he located in the turkey.

Shapes: circle, square, heart, star, and pentagon.

Reading (color words) and math (shapes, counting, and writing numbers.)

Choice Time: Art Table: Painting turkeys with tempera paints.

Choice Time: Pretend: Doll House

Choice Time: Games: Connect Four.

We have begun a new writing unit: Show and Tell.

Writer's write About Things They Love!

Your child brought home an invitation to find something from home that they love 

to bring to school for this unit.

Writer's Workshop: Practicing labeling.

Writer's share.

Mrs. Forrey-Petitt played a name game with the children.

Mrs. Forrey-Pettit was our Guest Reader.

The Squirrels That Squabbled by Rachel Bright and Jin Field.

Reading: Learning about tradition in Scholastics Let's Find Out.

Practicing labeling.

Math: Skip Counting by Tens.

Mix and Fix

Math: Sequencing turkeys by 10s to 100.

Kindergarten Goal: Skip count by 10s to 100.

What is the next 10?

Tuesday's Allied Art was gym class with Mr. Shield's.

Dribbling with a soft ball.

Learning about ball control.

Practicing stopping and trapping.

Choice Time: Art: Watercolor turkey.

Choice Time: Drawing and Coloring.

a robot (Joplynn)

a black ninja (John)

                                          Santa (Tarryn)

a shark (Nico)

a dinosaur (Luciano)

a black ninja (Noah)

a bunny (Amelia)

a Dalmatian (Pierson)

a sunflower (Maren)

a skier (Brixton)

a sunflower (Teagan)

These are hung on a bulletin board in our classroom.

Keep sending them in and we will share them at Morning Meeting.

🥧 I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving Break! 🦃

This week:

Please send dry shoes to change into, so the wet 

(and clunky) boots can stay in the lockers.

Please send to school your child's library book and cloth bag. 

The children have two library classes left!

Wednesday: Picture Retake Day 

Please let me know if your child is doing a retake.

Please send the package in via your child's Home/School Folder.

Thursday: Our class visits the Scholastic Book Fair in the lobby.

Friday: First Health Class