Saturday, December 18, 2010
Estes Extras...
We have made it to Winter Break! This week was filled with so much Christmas activity! We definitely got into Christmas spirit in our classroom! :)
On Tuesday and Wednesday we has Christmas around the world. We learned lots of new traditions from around the world! In Mrs. Bell's class we learned about Kwanzaa. In Mrs. Cronan's class we learned about the USA. In Mrs. Porters class we learned about Germany. In Mrs. Allen's class we learned about Mexico. In Mrs. Moten's class we learned about Sweden. In Ms. Smith's class we learned about England. In Mrs. Van Hout's class we learned about Hanukkah. In my room we learned about the Caribbean Islands. It was two days filled with goodness!
This past Thursday was our holiday party. It was awesome. The kids had a blast! Thank you to all the parents who came! They loved having you in the classroom! The book exchange was fun! I hope all the ornaments made it home safely! :) A big thank you to my sweet students for the gift card to Michaels and to those who remembered me this Holiday season!
We had a blast on Friday watching the Polar Express! We drank hot chocolates and rang our jingle bells. I gave each student a jingle bell with a polar express ticket attached to it. It was so much fun playing in our PJs!
Michael celebrates a birthday over break. He was picked for student of the week and has Max the Moose. Have fun! Elianna is taking care of our class pet, Tom-Tom the turtle over the break!
We return back to school on Tuesday, January 4th. Monday is teacher workday. The specials for next week are: Tuesday: P.E., Wednesday: Media, Thursday: Music, Friday: P.E.
Keep reading as much as you can, working on sight words and numbers up to 30. Count to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's. We are only 5 days away from being half way done with Kindergarten!
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! If you are traveling, be safe! My husband and I will be celebrating our 2nd anniversary over break! Stay warm and see you in 2011!
On Tuesday and Wednesday we has Christmas around the world. We learned lots of new traditions from around the world! In Mrs. Bell's class we learned about Kwanzaa. In Mrs. Cronan's class we learned about the USA. In Mrs. Porters class we learned about Germany. In Mrs. Allen's class we learned about Mexico. In Mrs. Moten's class we learned about Sweden. In Ms. Smith's class we learned about England. In Mrs. Van Hout's class we learned about Hanukkah. In my room we learned about the Caribbean Islands. It was two days filled with goodness!
This past Thursday was our holiday party. It was awesome. The kids had a blast! Thank you to all the parents who came! They loved having you in the classroom! The book exchange was fun! I hope all the ornaments made it home safely! :) A big thank you to my sweet students for the gift card to Michaels and to those who remembered me this Holiday season!
We had a blast on Friday watching the Polar Express! We drank hot chocolates and rang our jingle bells. I gave each student a jingle bell with a polar express ticket attached to it. It was so much fun playing in our PJs!
Michael celebrates a birthday over break. He was picked for student of the week and has Max the Moose. Have fun! Elianna is taking care of our class pet, Tom-Tom the turtle over the break!
We return back to school on Tuesday, January 4th. Monday is teacher workday. The specials for next week are: Tuesday: P.E., Wednesday: Media, Thursday: Music, Friday: P.E.
Keep reading as much as you can, working on sight words and numbers up to 30. Count to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's. We are only 5 days away from being half way done with Kindergarten!
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! If you are traveling, be safe! My husband and I will be celebrating our 2nd anniversary over break! Stay warm and see you in 2011!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Estes Extras...
What an awesome week! It was packed full of goodness! Next week is a BIG week. Here's what is happening... Tuesday and Wednesday is Kindergarten's Christmas around the world. Our class will be visiting 8 different countries learning all about how they celebrate Christmas! It's going to be awesome! On Thursday is our class Christmas Party! If you have not sent your form back what you are bringing, please do so on Monday! The party starts at 1:00. Don't forget about the book swap. Two students have already sent in their wrapped book already! The limit on the book exchange is $5.00! Make sure it's wrapped! :) On Friday, we are watching the Polar Express! The kids can wear Pajamas on Friday. NO SLIPPERS.
Thank you to Camille's mom for coming to Literacy centers, Sofia's dad for coming to Math centers, Elianna's dad for teaching us a science lesson on gravity, Michael's mom for being our Mystery Reader and to Aijah's mom for coming and cooking with us. We had our first cooking in the classroom experience this week... and it was a messy one. We make "Reindeer Tracks". It was very yummy!
Congrats to our Chick-Fl-A students of the month: Aijah and Nicholas!
Meghana was picked for student of the week, she has Max the moose this weekend! Have fun!
Library books were due today. If you have them at home, please send them back on Monday!
Specials next week: Monday: Media, Tuesday: Music, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Spanish, Friday: Art.
Academic Update:
Literacy: We continued our literacy unit on counting. We have really been working on sounding each sound out in a word. We are still having difficulty on seeing a word we don't know and then trying to figure it out. We are really working on sounding each sound out. If we saw the word cat and didn't know it, we would break it apart /c/ /a/ /t/ then put the sounds together and try to make the word. We also are working on hearing sounds from a word and being able to put them together.
Math: We didn't have a chance to have our math test today, so our math test will be on Monday! Keep practicing numbers to 30, breaking the numbers up by 10s and then seeing how many more are needed to make the number. If the number is 24, we would break items up into two sets of 10 and then count how many more is needed to make 24 and it needs four more. Also, we worked on number word recognition. It was hard to recognize the number words, write the number then draw the amount. Practice number word recognition.
Science: We learned about night and day this week. We also learned more about Christmas traditions. Elianna's dad taught us a great lesson on gravity!
Santa was a big topic of this week. If your child believes or doesn't believe in Santa, that is totally fine. We do have a majority of our class still believing in Santa. The kids are having lots of conversations on whether there is or there isn't a Santa. Please talk to your children about it's OK that some believe and some don't. However, we don't need to argue and tell them they are wrong for what we believe. I told them that I still believe... :)
Have a great weekend! Looking forward to seeing everyone at our class Christmas party on Thursday!
Thank you to Camille's mom for coming to Literacy centers, Sofia's dad for coming to Math centers, Elianna's dad for teaching us a science lesson on gravity, Michael's mom for being our Mystery Reader and to Aijah's mom for coming and cooking with us. We had our first cooking in the classroom experience this week... and it was a messy one. We make "Reindeer Tracks". It was very yummy!
Congrats to our Chick-Fl-A students of the month: Aijah and Nicholas!
Meghana was picked for student of the week, she has Max the moose this weekend! Have fun!
Library books were due today. If you have them at home, please send them back on Monday!
Specials next week: Monday: Media, Tuesday: Music, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Spanish, Friday: Art.
Academic Update:
Literacy: We continued our literacy unit on counting. We have really been working on sounding each sound out in a word. We are still having difficulty on seeing a word we don't know and then trying to figure it out. We are really working on sounding each sound out. If we saw the word cat and didn't know it, we would break it apart /c/ /a/ /t/ then put the sounds together and try to make the word. We also are working on hearing sounds from a word and being able to put them together.
Math: We didn't have a chance to have our math test today, so our math test will be on Monday! Keep practicing numbers to 30, breaking the numbers up by 10s and then seeing how many more are needed to make the number. If the number is 24, we would break items up into two sets of 10 and then count how many more is needed to make 24 and it needs four more. Also, we worked on number word recognition. It was hard to recognize the number words, write the number then draw the amount. Practice number word recognition.
Science: We learned about night and day this week. We also learned more about Christmas traditions. Elianna's dad taught us a great lesson on gravity!
Santa was a big topic of this week. If your child believes or doesn't believe in Santa, that is totally fine. We do have a majority of our class still believing in Santa. The kids are having lots of conversations on whether there is or there isn't a Santa. Please talk to your children about it's OK that some believe and some don't. However, we don't need to argue and tell them they are wrong for what we believe. I told them that I still believe... :)
Have a great weekend! Looking forward to seeing everyone at our class Christmas party on Thursday!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Estes Extras...
We came back from Thanksgiving break and hit the ground running learning lots of new stuff! We had such a great week. We only have 2 weeks left until Winter Break. Next week is a normal school week packed with lots of learning. The following week (week before break- 12/13-17) is a big week. I'm giving lots of heads up in advance. Tuesday and Wednesday 12/14-15 is our Christmas Around the World Brainstorm. We will be visiting lost of awesome countries around the world. 12/16 is our Holiday Party from 1:15-2:15. Parents are welcome. I will be sending notes home about these events next week too. At the holiday party on Thursday 12/16, we will have a student book swap. The cost of the book limit is $5.00. Please do not spend over $5 for the book. If you need help with the book swap, e-mail me- I will help you out! Friday, 12/17 is Polar Express day and we can wear our pj's.
Specials next week: Monday: Music, Tuesday: P.E., Wednesday:Spanish, Thursday: Art, Friday: P.E.
We visited the library today. All library books are due FRIDAY, 12/11! Please remember to bring them back by next Friday!
Carla celebrated a birthday this week! Happy Birthday!
A note to the parents of the boys: The boys in our class seems to really like to play with "shooting noises" and a motion with their hands or another object that resembles a gun. This is completely NOT tolerated and definitely NOT allowed in school. I'm afraid the boys got the ideas from TV, video games, etc. These playful actions are getting out of control. I have written notes home already and talked to a few parents, but it's still happening. Please talk to your child again about this action.
The cold weather is upon us. Please dress your child in appropriate attire. We will be going outside for recess until it get way too cold. We can not go out now, if we have bare arms or legs showing.
We are have trouble buttoning, zipping and fastening our pants. I have buttoned every student's pants at least once or twice this year. Please practice this skill on pants and shirts. Their fine motor skills are still being developed in their hands, which makes unbuttoning and buttoning pants hard for their little fingers.
Academic Update:
Literacy: We started a new unit on counting. The first few books of our unit is about counting food. So, we talked about the food groups. We learned about the an family. The an family is all the words ending in an (can, man, ran). We are not really working on sounding out the sounds within the word, then putting them together. Our school librarian, Ms. Udall, has a tree in the library, where if you read a book to her as a first time read, she adds a leaf to the tree. We had 3 leafs added to the tree this week! Congrats to Meghana, Michael and Aylin. Keep working on sight words and keep reading!
Math: We started working on ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd). The first five numbers are the hardest to remember. Line more than 10 items up and ask in random order, what is the fourth item, what is the ninth item, etc. We also started learning which hand is right or left. Also, in this chapter, we are learning the numbers 11-20. Make flash cards of the number and quiz them. They often know it in their head, but will say the number backwards. For example the number 16, they sometimes say 61. We are having our chapter test next week.
Science: We learned about the food groups and about day and night sky.
We have started talking about Christmas since we will be doing a lot of Christmas activities the next two weeks. We learned about Hanukkah and made a Menorah, since this week Hanukkah started. If your family heritage is from another country and y'all have special Christmas traditions, I would love for you to come in on Monday 12/13 and come in, share with us about them. We would love to hear all about the traditions. Please e-mail me if you are interested!
The school's e-mail was down all week. I'm sorry, if you tried to e-mail me. We were not getting any incoming mail and were not able to send any out mail.
Thank you to the parent volunteers this week: Sofia's mom at Literacy centers, Carla's mom for math centers and Camille's mom as our mystery reader.
Have a great weekend. Stay warm and if you are going to watch the SEC Championship, pull for South Carolina to beat Auburn! :)
Specials next week: Monday: Music, Tuesday: P.E., Wednesday:Spanish, Thursday: Art, Friday: P.E.
We visited the library today. All library books are due FRIDAY, 12/11! Please remember to bring them back by next Friday!
Carla celebrated a birthday this week! Happy Birthday!
A note to the parents of the boys: The boys in our class seems to really like to play with "shooting noises" and a motion with their hands or another object that resembles a gun. This is completely NOT tolerated and definitely NOT allowed in school. I'm afraid the boys got the ideas from TV, video games, etc. These playful actions are getting out of control. I have written notes home already and talked to a few parents, but it's still happening. Please talk to your child again about this action.
The cold weather is upon us. Please dress your child in appropriate attire. We will be going outside for recess until it get way too cold. We can not go out now, if we have bare arms or legs showing.
We are have trouble buttoning, zipping and fastening our pants. I have buttoned every student's pants at least once or twice this year. Please practice this skill on pants and shirts. Their fine motor skills are still being developed in their hands, which makes unbuttoning and buttoning pants hard for their little fingers.
Academic Update:
Literacy: We started a new unit on counting. The first few books of our unit is about counting food. So, we talked about the food groups. We learned about the an family. The an family is all the words ending in an (can, man, ran). We are not really working on sounding out the sounds within the word, then putting them together. Our school librarian, Ms. Udall, has a tree in the library, where if you read a book to her as a first time read, she adds a leaf to the tree. We had 3 leafs added to the tree this week! Congrats to Meghana, Michael and Aylin. Keep working on sight words and keep reading!
Math: We started working on ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd). The first five numbers are the hardest to remember. Line more than 10 items up and ask in random order, what is the fourth item, what is the ninth item, etc. We also started learning which hand is right or left. Also, in this chapter, we are learning the numbers 11-20. Make flash cards of the number and quiz them. They often know it in their head, but will say the number backwards. For example the number 16, they sometimes say 61. We are having our chapter test next week.
Science: We learned about the food groups and about day and night sky.
We have started talking about Christmas since we will be doing a lot of Christmas activities the next two weeks. We learned about Hanukkah and made a Menorah, since this week Hanukkah started. If your family heritage is from another country and y'all have special Christmas traditions, I would love for you to come in on Monday 12/13 and come in, share with us about them. We would love to hear all about the traditions. Please e-mail me if you are interested!
The school's e-mail was down all week. I'm sorry, if you tried to e-mail me. We were not getting any incoming mail and were not able to send any out mail.
Thank you to the parent volunteers this week: Sofia's mom at Literacy centers, Carla's mom for math centers and Camille's mom as our mystery reader.
Have a great weekend. Stay warm and if you are going to watch the SEC Championship, pull for South Carolina to beat Auburn! :)
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