Fourth Week in October

What a busy month we have had!

Our calendar shows off 5 birthdays, holidays & conference days!

Our pattern this month: AABB

pumpkin, pumpkin, ghost, ghost

Celebrating our 5th class birthday at morning meeting.

Happy Birthday!

Writing: Creating a birthday page for the birthday girl.

Using our alphabet chart to help write the letters for the sounds he hears.

Writing: Practicing labeling.

Sounding out words and labeling pictures.

We read the above story to help get our minds ready for our science task.

We watched a slides about scientists, their roles and the tools they use.

Science

Lesson: What is a scientist? 

I am a zoologist.

doctor

nurse

                                                                                                                       I am an entomologist.

I am a volcanologist.

 architect

                            

I am a zoologist.

We are singing this song as an activity at our morning meeting.

Kindergarten year end goal: count backwards 15-0.

Right now we are trying to secure 10-0 for some students.

Birthday children lead our group for the day.

The children are on their way to health.

The health room is upstairs.

Next week: gym (wear sneakers)!

Reading

Phonics work:

"Pumpkin pumpkin big and round

Pick a pumpkin and make it's sound."

A new addition to our Nature Land.

This kiosk is in the green zone.

Outdoor pretend play.

 

Practicing correct formation of numbers on our chalkboard.

Transferring what we have learned about top to bottom formation to a small book.

Please keep the Counting Book at home in your child's remote learning space.

I will be assigning a little at time after the instruction has happened at school.

Dry Try

wet try

                                                                                                                               

We enjoyed several fun Halloween stories this week.  

     Working on letter formation with our names.

Tall letters, low letters and tail letters.

Reading Work:  We are practicing reading left to right, top to bottom.

We are looking closely at print and working to keep match.

We are looking at patterns in books.

We are focusing on 2 strategies right now:

Getting our lips ready to make the first sound in the word

and

Using the picture to help solve the unknown word

This chart work was made into a paper book that your child will bring home to practice read.

When the book makes it home, please let your child practice these skills when reading their book to you.

Remote learning: practicing detailed pictures and labeling to tell a story.

Saying the word aloud & listening for the sounds in words is a very important part of our writing program,

practice when you can at home.

We have been singing this song at morning meeting.

Ask your child if they can sing it for you & show you some of the movements we have been doing.

The gold crew!

Morning work

In the morning after the children have completed their daily jobs they have morning work.

Working on securing recognition of color words.

Looking to make these words "snap words" 

which means they can recognize and read them in a snap!

Having had fun Thursday and Friday with the story

Where's My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimmi.

We also had fun Thursday and Friday with the story 

Creepy Pair of Underwear by Aaron Reynolds.

We made a pair of creepy underwear to bring home.

We practiced many skills: tracing, cutting, gluing, details, creativity & sharing!

Lots of fine motor practice!

Creepy Underwear!

Science

Conducting and experiment!

Question: Will the pumpkin sink or float?

Predicting, observing, recording & making conclusions.

Individual recording sheet.

I hope you found your child's recording sheet in their Home/School folder and 

could take a few minutes to talk about our science experiment.

The gold groups whole class recording sheet.

Math

Learning about recording on a horizontal graph.

Counting and recording carefully.

Working on fine motor skills.

Choice Time

At the end of each day the children have choice time.

Q-tip pumpkin painting.

Also working on fine motor while having some fun with tempera paint.

It is fun to see what each child chooses for their choice time activity.

Closing Circle

We try to have closure everyday before dismissal.

This popular poem by Jack Prelutsky was shared.

I hope your children found enjoyable moments this weekend even with all that is going on that keeps us from enjoying some of what we typically might wish top be doing!

Things to remember:

1. Clean out your child's Home/School Folder after each in person learning day.

2. Pack sneakers for gym.

3. Pack warmer clothes for our outdoor time.  We go outside twice daily weather permitting.

Thanks for your support!