Morning Meeting
Share: Pass the apple stuffy. An opportunity to share about your weekend.
Morning Meeting
Monday's message.
I will pop the message in a different child's Home School Folder each day.
I hope it helps you connect with your child about their school day.
As the year progresses see how much your child can read to you independently!
AB pattern
green, blue, green, blue
Math
Colored Bear Patterns
ABCDE pattern
ABC Pattern
Red, yellow, blue, m red, yellow, blue
AB Pattern
red, blue, red, blue
AB pattern
green, yellow, green, yellow
AABB pattern
yellow, yellow, blue, blue
Two AB patterns
red, yellow, red, yellow
blue, purple, blue purple
ABCD pattern
Two ABC patterns
Enjoying the slide at recess!
Read Aloud
Designing her own school shoes!
Designing his school shoes!
These are displayed in our classroom!
How To
A Fire Drill short story.
A Fire Drill Poem.
We practiced exiting the building and going to our safe spot as a class.
Cafeteria
Several have tried school lunch.
Practicing her school lunch number by reading to the staff member at the register.
Eventually if your child can memorize their number it would be most helpful.
This number will be used grades k-4, so worth memorizing, thanks!
Quiet Time Choices:
1. rest on the carpet
2. enjoy a book
3. coloring
Let's Find Out
Completing the Scholastic New together at the carpet.
Centers
Library and Listening
Listening to Pout Pout Fish Goes to School!
Dramatization
Reastaurant
pizza
Baking a cake
Here is the cake for sale!
Enjoying her first day of kindergarten!
Many children wanted free explore time with the colored bears, so they came out again at centers!
Proud of her patterns and symmetry!
A different child in the bus line is picked to carry the bus sign each day. He is quite happy to be selected!
Everyday Math (EDM) lesson Measuring Shape Lengths
Partner Match, comparing lengths
Ordering the rectangle shapes by size.
Pass Pete the Cat
Sharing the best thing in kindergarten so far!
Big Book Read Aloud
Learning about classmates names.
Practicing writing the first capital letter and the rest lowercase.
Drawing self portraits and sharing with classmates what they are good at and can help with!
Mrs. Orlando is helping. She is an Educational Technician that will spend time
in our classroom two days a week during the literacy block.
I am good at soccer. I am playing with Mrs. Cornell.
I am good at biking. At school I am an expert at opening snacks. I can help."
"I am good at biking. I am good at sharing."
Everyone's work is hung in the kindergarten hallway for others to see and read!
Quiet Time Choices on Tuesday:
1. a book
2. rest on the carper
3. a pear Dot-To-Dot (0-10)
Kindergarten Goal: Count to 100 by ones.
Read Aloud
Wednesday
Arrival
The children are coming right inside now on their own
They greet Mrs. Cornell, hand her their Home/School Folder, hang up their things,
bring in their water bottle and wash their hands.
When their morning jobs are done they look for what they can do at their spot.
Transportation vehicles on this day!
They play util morning announcements (daily at 8:45 am).
The children had a How To about the Omni Spinner before recess and we gave it a try at first recess.
Wednesday we had our first school wide fire drill. There was no alarm, but the whole school practiced evacuating safely to their safe spot and checking in. The children did well.
Read Aloud
26 letters and their sounds
Writing
Making birthday book for our first class birthday.
The birthday boy works on the cover for the next birthday book.
Each child produces page for the birthday child's book!
Our first class birthday!
Thursday morning we heard his name announced over the intercom wishing him a happy birthday!
Ms. Karnes came down and invited him to the office to choose a book and receive a certificate and sticker!
He choose a nonfiction story!
In our classroom we also celebrate.
The birthday book, crown, sticker, birthday card/bookmark, a pencil and a bracelet.
The children pick their treats.
Handwriting
Tear Art
Concentration on capital letters formation starting at the top.
Each child worked with their small muscles to glue paper top to bottom.
Glue sticks were introduced.
They each worked on the first letter in their name!
Handwriting Without Tears is the program we use.
The children have been hearing songs to remind them of the letter formation taught.
This one was a song and video!
These are proudly hung in the hallway for everyone to enjoy!
The children's first regular Spanish!
Self Portraits
Thursday's Math
Focus was 2D Shapes: Circle and Squares
Kindergarten Goal: Name 2D shapes
Pick, name, and sort.
Movement activity to reinforce basic 2D shapes and their features.
Recess
The option to play on the Omni Spinner is popular.
We use a timer.
Rock exploration
Climbing
🧁 Happy 6th Birthday! 🎉
Quiet Time: Whiteboards
How to
Scissors
Practicing using scissors correctly.
Trying various lines.
Zig Zag cut
Glue
Fancy
These went home.
Practice cutting when you can.
Trying school lunch.
When your child is having school lunch for the first time let me know and I will teach them the process.
A Quiet Time Choice on Thursday: Cosmic Yoga!
Enchanto
Handwriting
Learning about curves and lines,
Big curve
Little Curve
Big line
Little line
Magic c turns into an a,
a g,
a d,
an o etc.
Read Aloud
Partner reading
Independent reading
Center Time Choice Board
Several children wanted free exploration with the attribute blocks, so they were available at Center Time.
Sorting by shape and size.
She ordered her circles from smallest to largest!
Centers
Puzzles: A pirate ship was added!
Writing & Drawing
Centers
Dramatization
He has organized several of the spices in the kitchen on a plate
and turned it into a Lazy Susan, very creative!
Arrival
Free exploration with the animals.
Friday's Math
Teaching number formation 1-6.
Top to bottom
Kindergarten Goal: To be able to recall and write 0-30.
Playing Roll It. Trace It with a soft die.
If practicing number formation at home, please encourage top to bottom formation.
Kindergarten goal: To recall and write 0-30.
Recess
Excercising the big muscles.
Moving the log across the playground for play.
Imaginary outdoor play.
Read Aloud
Kindness is a school focus.
This great bulletin board was created for the Pond Cove lobby!
Completing the graph together.
Completing their own individual copy.
A new Quiet Time choice on Friday: Sketch Books
Friday was Gym with Mr. Purin!
The parachute was a hit!
The children were tired.
I hope they had a chance to relax and rest up!
To remember:
To put in your Kindergarten T-shirt Order(s).
Please let me know if you could use financial assistance for this.
I wish to be sure every student has one.
Next week:
Beginning K For Me Our Community Unit
Beginning Heggerty Phonemic Awareness & Phonics
On Friday I plan to send home A Peek At Our Week which will explain the instruction and work that was completed in the week.
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