Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hello everyone!!!
I am so THANKFUL to be back in kindergarten with all of my friends!!! I was sad to leave Presley, but I have loved seeing how much my kindergarten friends have learned!! They are SUPER smart. We were busy during our short week, but we talked about a lot of important things! We really focused on things that we have in our lives that we are so thankful for...and I heard some amazing responses! We did a lot of turkey activities, along with reading some funny stories and singing some fun songs!

I just want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU for letting me work with all of your wonderful children every day!! I feel so blessed to have 23 AMAZING students in my room.

I am also reflecting on all of the things I am thankful for these days. I feel blessed to have a healthy family, a job I LOVE, and these days I am REALLY thankful for sleep:)

I know your kindergarten kids are thankful for all of you...and they should be...they are so lucky to have you in their lives.

I hope you have a wonderful day spent making memories with family and of course LOTS of yummy food!!!

Please enjoy our video!!

Practice Makes Perfect!!

Your child brought home a packet of papers on Friday and I explained that all of these papers will help us practice the skills we have been working so hard on in kindergarten! I showed them all how to put the papers in our binders so we can practice over and over again J

Please continue to use the alphabet chart to practice the letters and sounds, we have been working hard to blending sounds together to make words, especially in writing.

We are continuing to work hard on making all of the letters correctly – if you notice your child is consistently writing letters or numbers backwards please use these strokes to help your child!

The blue sheet of words are all of the words we are learning in the 2^nd quarter – remember my friends need to be able to read and write these words! Please ask your child to tell you the chants we use for each word.

This yellow sheet is full of activities to use with the colored boxes. Of course you can always make up your own activities. We use something very similar to this everyday during daily math routines to practice writing our numbers in isolation.

We are focusing on our numbers 1-10 and it is so important to be able to write them – please use this sheet to have your child practice.

This week we will be taking our Unit 2 math test – so any extra practice you do at home would be awesome! We will be reviewing this week in preparation for our test!

We are having soo much fun experimenting with different objects to see if they will sink or float. We did our own experiments and watched a video of Cookie Monster testing out different objects. We learned words like hypothesis, displacement, and density – geez we are sure learning lot in kindergarten! We will continue to learn more about why objects sink or float. I sure hope you had fun experimenting at home!

In Literacy we will start Week 3 of Unit 3. We will be reading “Please Take Me For A Walk” and “Field Trips” and will be talking about the different places we go during the week and also focusing on the character, setting, and events that happen in the stories. In our crabby books we will be reading “We Go To See Nan” and “Can We Go?” We will be focusing on the letter c and learning how to read and write the word go! Our vocabulary words will be neighborhood, routine, intelligent, local, and volunteer. During guided reading your child will either be reading “We Can Go” or “Going by Cab”. During writer’s workshop we are continuing to write stories from our lives and are working hard on sounding out words that we don’t know how to spell using turtle talk.

Please have your child wear red, white, and blue on Tuesday – because we will be observing Veterans Day and will be making a few things for our Veterans and of course taking some pictures for this special day. What a busy week we have ahead of us!

Fall Fun!!

Last week  my friends had a SUPER fun time celebrating the fall season. I was really jealous that I had to miss out on all of the fun:) They carved a pumpkin (a MAGIC pumpkin!) and played lots of fun games. Please enjoy a couple videos of the fun!!

A BIG THANKS to Mrs. Woita for arranging all of the fun:)









Here is some photo booth fun!!

Time is FLYING!!!

I was SO happy to see my friends SUPER quick this morning! It looks like they are learning a lot!! It is hard to believe that I will be back in 3 short weeks!! I am ready to see them every day, but not sure about leaving sweet Presley at daycare!! I am sure there will be lots of tears!!

The time has changed and hopefully you all enjoyed your extra hour of sleep as much as I did! This week we will be trying to get back into our normal routine after the super fun week we had last week! Although we will be gearing up for Veterans Day and Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. Last week you should have gotten a "candy challenge" paper in your child's Wednesday Folder - we will be collecting candy this week to give to the Veterans - I am hoping we will be collecting a lot... my friends always say "sharing is caring"!

In Literacy we will be starting Week 2 in Unit 3. Our essential question is “What are the different sounds we hear?” and we will be reading a super fun book called “Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City” and also “The Turtle and the Flute”. We are learning about different genres of books and also strategies that readers use – we are getting really good at visualizing the pictures in our mind. In our crabby books we will be reading “Nat and Tip” and “Tim and Nan”, and let me tell you we really enjoy reading those crabby books! We will be focusing on the letter “Nn” and learning how to read, write, and spell the word “and”. Our vocabulary words this week are listen, volume, chat, exclaimed, and familiar. We are continuing to work on finding words that rhyme and sorting words by the beginning and ending sounds. We are getting really good at blending words with turtle talk and like writing down the sounds we hear in our sound boxes! This week I will be sending home a few things to put in your binders for you to practice with at home!

In Math we will be practicing writing the number 10 as well as making patterns and showing numbers 1-10 on our counting mats. We will continue to solve addition and subtraction story problems and try and come up with our own problems. We are getting really good at repeating story problems so we know what the problem is asking us. We will also be looking at addition and subtraction equations closely to see what patterns we find.

In writing we will be go over what we should do if our friends try to help us spell words (we are working very hard on becoming independent writers) and also talking about how sometimes we spell the same words differently and how that is okay! We will learn that good writers touch(point) to their words and reread while they are writing their sentences to make sure that they make sense and also remembering to use punctuation marks at the end of each sentence.

During Unit Studies we finished up our drug safety unit and will now be starting our science unit – Sink or Float! Be prepared to test things at home – I just know that my friends will love experimenting and making predictions about what objects will sink to the bottom and which objects will float! I can’t wait to see all of the fun we have during this unit!

On Friday your child should have given you their report cards along with the pumpkins, toys, and snacks! I heard it was a very busy day but full of fun! Please let me know if you have any questions about your child’s report card – you get to the keep the actual report card but please send back the envelope so we can reuse it. 

Hopefully this week I will be getting a video up of our fun Fall Party! We have another fun week ahead of us! Here are some pictures of my sweet baby girl...she loves to eat and is growing quickly!! Her brother is growing up right along with her!!

Minne Mouse on Halloween!!

Getting big!!