Baby Schroeder

Hello everyone!!!
I wanted to let everyone know that Presley Jo Schroeder was born today at 12:35 pm. She weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and was 19.5 inches long!! We love her to pieces!!

Daddy and big brother with Presley!!

Baby Presley!!

End of September!!!

We are having so much fun in kindergarten and learning so much – I can’t believe that the first quarter is almost over! These next two weeks we will be doing a lot of assessments to get ready for report cards!

In Literacy we finished up Unit 1 and are ready to start Unit 2 – Let’s Explore! Our new essential question is “How do tools help us to explore?” I can’t wait to hear the conversations we will have about tools that we use! The vocabulary words we will discuss are tools, discover, defeated, fetch, and rumble. We will be learning the word “a” which hopefully we will all already know! We will also be focusing on the letter “p” and the sound it makes. We will be reading “The Handiest Things in the World” and “Discover with Tools”. In guided reading we will either be reading “We Need Tools” or “A Trip”.

In writing we will be talking a lot about sentences and what makes a good sentence! We will learn about spaghetti and meatball spaces and move into using finger spaces. We will also talk about punctuation marks and how at the end of every sentence we have to use either a exclamation mark, question mark, or a period. My friends have been doing a great job labeling their pictures and using turtle talk to sound out words.

We took our Unit 1 math test and it went great! We will be starting Unit 2- Explore 5-groups! We will be talking about groups of 5 and finding groups of numbers – we will look at a park scene and discuss what we see and we will be learning about problem-solving strategies to solve math story problems. We will even get to act our story problems together. This week we will also be using nickel strips when we do our counting mats. I think on Monday we will also meet the “Five Finder” – a special math superhero who loves the number 5! Make sure to ask your kindergartener about the “five finder”!

We started talking about our five senses this past week in Unit Studies. We have read some wonderful stories about our senses and have talked a lot about our sense of hearing! This week we will explore our other senses and work on our Five Senses book. We even learned a few fun songs about our senses, and know that our senses are pathways to our brain!

Don't forget we have library on Fridays and this Tuesday is a PLC day so we will be getting out of school at 2:18.

I am looking forward to another fun week in kindergarten! 

Love- Mrs. Schroeder

Rock Star & Birthday!!

Hello everyone!!
I wanted to blog about our rock star Ariauna and our birthday boy Kalai this weekend. However, my toddler decided to toss mom's phone into a tub of bath water:/ I am trying to rescue it right now and I hope I can get all of my pictures off of it. As soon as I can do that (fingers crossed) I will blog! So sorry!!!!!! A reminder that Miss Mach will be taking over for me tomorrow as Baby Schroeder is expected to make her debut. I will post pictures as soon as I can!!!

Love- Mrs. Schroeder

Rock Star Alycia!!!

Our Rock Star of the Week last week was Alycia and we had such a GREAT time learning about her!! Her favorite color is purple and she loves the movie Frozen…can you guess her favorite song???  Let It Go , of course!! Her favorite book is Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons. She loves the sport soccer and her favorite food is spaghetti. She loves unicorns and when she grows up she wants to be a nurse. If she could go anywhere she would go to Lost in Fun. She is a special kid because she loves babies and likes to help people. We EVEN got a chance to sing, “Let it Go!!” You ROCK Alycia!!!

Happy Birthday Kailyn!!!

Today Kailyn celebrated her 6th birthday!!!! We had so much fun and spotted Isis the Elf right away!!

We brainstormed words to describe Kailyn and we had SO many wonderful ideas and I know Kailyn felt super special :)

Kailyn even got a special surprise in the office at the end of the day and she LOVED it!!!

Happy Birthday Kailyn!! You ROCK!!!

Isis the Elf with a birthday crown!!

Kailyn with her SPECIAL frame!!

Kailyn celebrating with her class!!

We can READ!!!

We are moving right along in the literacy department! We are starting week 2 of Unit 1 and our essential question is “How do baby animals move?” We will be reading and listening to some great stories called “Pouch”, “Baby Animals on the Move” and we will also read a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. For shared reading (in the crabby book) we will read “We Can” and “I Can, We Can” and then during guided reading when your child comes over to me at the rainbow table they will be either reading “Hop!” or “We Hop!” Remember you can go online to the wonders website at anytime and check out the books we are reading - I bet your kindergartener would love to read you a story!

We are also going to be learning the word “we” this week and focusing on the letter “a” and the sound it makes and where we hear the “a” sound in words! We will continue to work on blending sounds together to make words! Our new vocabulary words that we will be learning are: adventure, movement, arrived, exciting, and exhausted.

During writing we will continue to talk more about nouns and will keep finding nouns in sentences. I know it is crazy -  nouns!! Your kindergarten will soon be able to tell you that a noun is a person, place, or thing or even an animal if they can’t already! This week is actually a very big week in writing because up until now your child has been telling stories orally and drawing pictures to go with their story – but this week we are going to learn how to label our pictures and use turtle talk to sound out the words we want to write and also how to use our alphabet chart to help us during writing time! I am very excited to see what writing has in store for our classroom this week!

In Math this week we will continue to explore numbers 1-10 with our counting mats and daily math routines. We will also learn how to dot-to-dots with straight lines to make an object (the tricky part about this is starting at the number 1 and going in counting order).   We will also be practicing drawing groups of numbers and learning more about shapes and how to make them! We are really enjoying learning about 2 and 3 dimensional shapes! I am also so happy to see all of the homework coming back to school – the kids get super excited every time I hand homework out so I am sure hoping the enthusiasm to do homework is still there when your child gets home! A homework routine is a great thing to start in kindergarten when they enjoy it! Even on days when there is not an actual paper homework please utilize the resources you have at home to keep practicing the skills we are working on!

We are continuing to learn more about our American Symbols – we still have the White House and Bald Eagle to read about. But this Wednesday, Sept. 17^th is a super fun day for our country – it is Constitution Day! We will be learning about what the constitution is and why we have it and we will also be making our very own Kindergarten Constitution and I am hoping all of my friends will agree to it and sign it so we can have a successful school year. On this day we will be doing lots of fun crafts and you will be getting home our first family project where you will have the opportunity to create your own Family Constitution – so please look for this on Wednesday! We are really enjoying learning about our country and we are very proud to live here!

I can really tell that my friends have been practicing their address and phone number at home – please continue to work on this!  Remember your child will get a special treat when they can tell me their important information that will help them stay safe and can use in case of an emergency. We will also be adding to our list of things to earn this week. I have some patriotic pencils and once your child can recite the Pledge of Allegiance they will earn their American Flag pencil!

Picture Day is Wednesday, Sept. 17^th – please turn in your papers if you would like to order pictures!

Also, thank you so much for all who attended parent teacher conferences last week! I enjoyed telling you all the wonderful things your child is doing!!

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! It is going to be another fun week in kindergarten!

Rock Star Lizzie

Lizzie was our very FIRST rock star of the week this last week! She had such a great time sharing all of her things and important facts. The kids LOVED hearing about her!! Lizzie loves the color purple!! Her favorite book is Curious George (although she brought Pete the Cat to share at school and we had a GREAT time singing the song!! She loves the movie Frozen (I have yet to find a kindergarten girl that doesn’t!) And of course, her favorite song is “Let It Go!” Her favorite sport is volleyball and she loves to eat grapes. The animal she loves most is a monkey and when she grows up she wants to be a doctor!! If she could go anywhere it would be to her classroom (I am glad you like it!) and she is super special because she gets to go to her classroom every day!! We had a great time hearing about her family and seeing her stuffed unicorn! Thanks for being such a rock star Lizzie!!

You really DO ROCK!!!

Please enjoy Lizzie's video from her special week!!!

Love- Mrs. Schroeder