Spring Break is here... Can you believe it? Let's hope the weather is good all next week. I wish y'all a restful week off. I'm planning on resting up and doing some deep cleaning here in the classroom and at home. We had a great week. We dove right into our spring unit! I love this unit! We will be continuing this unit for the rest of April. Doughnuts for Dads was awesome on Wednesday! Thanks for all they dads who came! We had a great Brainstorm. In Mrs. Cronan's class, we learned about art through motion. In Mrs. Bell's class, we learned about art and made a coffee filter flower. In Mrs. Porter's class, we learned about the parts of a flower and made a cute diagram of a flower with actual sunflower seeds! In my room we learned about mountain math and made a clock! Oh so fun!
I did not send home an April homework packet yet. The kids have worked so hard, I wanted to give them a week off. But keep reading and working on your sight words, rhyming words, word families, writing, blending sounds and math facts. I will send home a new homework packet/reading log and behavior chart on next Monday.
Specials for next week: Monday: Music, Tuesday: P.E., Wednesday: Spanish, Thursday: Art, Friday: P.E.
A date to remember: APRIL 19th 5:00-9:00pm at Yogo-ono, off Chastain Road! KCSMA is having a fundraiser night. The class with the most class participation gets a prize! See you there! :)
Academic Update:
Literacy:
We started a new unit this week called: Spring! We made the cutest rain boots and kites to get our room ready for spring!
Math: We are still in our chapter on graphing. We will have our math test at the end of next week.
Science: Elianna's dad came and taught us an awesome lesson on magnets. Some of his magnets were bigger than our little hands! The class LOVED it! Pictures will come soon! We have also been talking a lot about plants and parts of a plant.
Have a great week off, rest up and enjoy your time off! :)
Friday, April 1, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
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What a week! We only have one week until Spring Break! I can't believe it's already here! Spring is in the air! Report Cards went home this week. The signature cards are due on Monday!!f you have any questions about them, please let me know. I am always available to meet with you or to answer questions over e-mail. Just a reminder, we need to be meeting all the standards going into first grade! Next week is a big week. We will be having Brainstorm next Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 30 7:30-8:10 in the lunch room is DOUGHNUTS FOR DADS! Don't miss out! It's going to be so much fun. Please let me know if you are coming. :)
Specials next week: Monday: P.E., Tuesday: Spanish, Wednesday: Art, Thursday: P.E., Friday: Media. Library Books are due on Thursday.
Academic Update:
Literacy:
We completed our farm/animal unit. It was so much fun. Keep reading at home, working on sight words, working on blending sounds together and breaking syllables up.
Math: We have started our new chapter on graphing. Keep counting to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. The next chapter is addition. We have been doing addition worksheets already, but it never hurts to practice more addition.
Science: After retesting GKIDS this week, we still don't know our address, or our county, city, country or continent. Keep reviewing this at home.
Thanks so much for your at home support. Have a great weekend.
Wednesday, March 30 7:30-8:10 in the lunch room is DOUGHNUTS FOR DADS! Don't miss out! It's going to be so much fun. Please let me know if you are coming. :)
Specials next week: Monday: P.E., Tuesday: Spanish, Wednesday: Art, Thursday: P.E., Friday: Media. Library Books are due on Thursday.
Academic Update:
Literacy:
We completed our farm/animal unit. It was so much fun. Keep reading at home, working on sight words, working on blending sounds together and breaking syllables up.
Math: We have started our new chapter on graphing. Keep counting to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. The next chapter is addition. We have been doing addition worksheets already, but it never hurts to practice more addition.
Science: After retesting GKIDS this week, we still don't know our address, or our county, city, country or continent. Keep reviewing this at home.
Thanks so much for your at home support. Have a great weekend.
Friday, March 18, 2011
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We sure were LUCKY this week! We celebrated St. Patrick's Day all week long! Thursday was SO much fun. If you didn't hear, the sneaky leprechaun came, messed up the room and took our class pet, Tom-Tom! After a Leprechaun hunt and five clues of searching around the school, we ended up in our room with gold coins, a cupcake and with Tom-Tom back in his tank. He even had plastic coins in his tank too! Oh what fun we had!!
I sent home a Doughnuts For Dad form this week. It is Wednesday, March 30th 7:45-8:10. Please either send in in the form or e-mail me and let me know you are coming. You don't want to miss you. It's going to be so much fun!
Specials next week: Monday: Spanish, Tuesday: Art, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Media, Friday: Music
Library Books are due on Wednesday!
Academic Update:
Literacy: St. Patrick's Day all week. We had a great time this week. Keep working on your sight words and keep reading at home!
Math: We are finishing up our chapter on measurement. Our test is on Monday. You can lay out items and ask questions about what is longer/shorter, etc. Also in this chapter, we are talking about weight. What is heavier/lighter. We will be starting a new chapter next week.
Have a great weekend, it's suppose to be beautiful weather! :)
I sent home a Doughnuts For Dad form this week. It is Wednesday, March 30th 7:45-8:10. Please either send in in the form or e-mail me and let me know you are coming. You don't want to miss you. It's going to be so much fun!
Specials next week: Monday: Spanish, Tuesday: Art, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Media, Friday: Music
Library Books are due on Wednesday!
Academic Update:
Literacy: St. Patrick's Day all week. We had a great time this week. Keep working on your sight words and keep reading at home!
Math: We are finishing up our chapter on measurement. Our test is on Monday. You can lay out items and ask questions about what is longer/shorter, etc. Also in this chapter, we are talking about weight. What is heavier/lighter. We will be starting a new chapter next week.
Have a great weekend, it's suppose to be beautiful weather! :)
Friday, March 11, 2011
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We had a great week! We will be moving into full swing St. Patrick's Day stuff all next week. We finished our week off with our Chick-Fil-A celebration. Kayly and Nadia were picked for students of the month! Congrats!
I posted pictures of Dr. Seuss week before this post, so make sure you check them out!
If you are still in need of volunteer hours, check the tab "Volunteer Hours" and sign up. I changed it where, there is no password needed- so sign up. If you are unable to come in, I am also looking for someone who is willing to "print" out their hours. There is a wonderful website called reading a-z and it has tons leveled books on it. We use these books in our book boxes in literacy centers and in guided reading. If you have a printer and are willing to just print all the books out to a certain level let me know. There would be no cutting/coloring/stapling involved. I would love to give you the hours. Contact me. :)
Specials next week: Monday: P.E., Tuesday: Media, Wednesday: Music, Thursday: P.E., Friday: Spanish. Library Books are due: Monday!
We read some really great books this week about being nice to our friends ant not being a bully. We talked a lot and even did some role playing about being a bully and what we can do if we have people being mean to us. If the word "bully" starts coming home, it's because we talked about it at school and how to prevent it and what not to become one. Thanks to continuing this conversation at home too!
Remember we only buy ice cream on Fridays, so if you want your child to eat ice cream, send it on Fridays.
Academic Update:
Literacy: We are still continuing our farm unit. Don't stop reading. This week we started talking about word that have double meaning, like fly/fly and bat/bat. We are still working on breaking up the words into the sounds we hear: /c/ /a/ /t/.
Math: We have started our unit on measurement. We have jumped right in our length and shortest to longest. We measured our huge classroom it's 11 kindergarten students by 4 kindergarten students. I think we figured it's about 33 steps by 12 steps. Oh the fun of measurement!
Have a great weekend. I think it's going to be great weather! :)
I posted pictures of Dr. Seuss week before this post, so make sure you check them out!
If you are still in need of volunteer hours, check the tab "Volunteer Hours" and sign up. I changed it where, there is no password needed- so sign up. If you are unable to come in, I am also looking for someone who is willing to "print" out their hours. There is a wonderful website called reading a-z and it has tons leveled books on it. We use these books in our book boxes in literacy centers and in guided reading. If you have a printer and are willing to just print all the books out to a certain level let me know. There would be no cutting/coloring/stapling involved. I would love to give you the hours. Contact me. :)
Specials next week: Monday: P.E., Tuesday: Media, Wednesday: Music, Thursday: P.E., Friday: Spanish. Library Books are due: Monday!
We read some really great books this week about being nice to our friends ant not being a bully. We talked a lot and even did some role playing about being a bully and what we can do if we have people being mean to us. If the word "bully" starts coming home, it's because we talked about it at school and how to prevent it and what not to become one. Thanks to continuing this conversation at home too!
Remember we only buy ice cream on Fridays, so if you want your child to eat ice cream, send it on Fridays.
Academic Update:
Literacy: We are still continuing our farm unit. Don't stop reading. This week we started talking about word that have double meaning, like fly/fly and bat/bat. We are still working on breaking up the words into the sounds we hear: /c/ /a/ /t/.
Math: We have started our unit on measurement. We have jumped right in our length and shortest to longest. We measured our huge classroom it's 11 kindergarten students by 4 kindergarten students. I think we figured it's about 33 steps by 12 steps. Oh the fun of measurement!
Have a great weekend. I think it's going to be great weather! :)
Friday, March 4, 2011
Estes Extras...
We were ObSEUSSed this week! :) We had a great time reading and talking all about Dr. Seuss. We had a very exciting week overall. I'm sure you have heard all about Mrs. Porter's quail eggs. We had 1 that hatched. Our class does a lot with Mrs. Porter's class. We have loved watching these quail eggs rotate in the incubator for 17 days and finally 1 has hatched! The quail baby is so cute. I took pictures of it.
Specials for next week are: Monday: Media, Tuesday: Music, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Spanish, Friday: Art. LIBRARY BOOK ARE DUE MONDAY!!!
So check out this blog! I have really been working on making it nice for y'all. Please take the time to look around it. I will keep adding things to it.
We are excited to have Paris join our class! She will fit in just great!
Academic Update:
Literacy: Dr. Seuss is all we did this week and rhyming galore. We had lots of students read to the class Dr. Seuss books. Dr. Seuss books are a great way to help with reading sight words. We are starting a new unit about the farm.
Math: We completed our chapter on Calendar this week. We will be beginning a new chapter on Monday.
Science: Beginning started talking about plants. I bought a planter and I put soil and we planted seeds in it. We tied it in with the Dr. Seuss book Oh Say Can You Seed. The pictures are cute! Can't wait to watch our flowers grow!
The language that is coming into the classroom that is being heard from the tv/radio/video games is starting to be not kid friendly. Things like "What the...", "booty", "sucks".. etc is not appropriate classroom talk. Please continue to talk to your child about appropriate classroom talk. That is very much appreciated. :)
Have a great weekend. Try to stay dry from all the rain that is coming our way!
Specials for next week are: Monday: Media, Tuesday: Music, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Spanish, Friday: Art. LIBRARY BOOK ARE DUE MONDAY!!!
So check out this blog! I have really been working on making it nice for y'all. Please take the time to look around it. I will keep adding things to it.
We are excited to have Paris join our class! She will fit in just great!
Academic Update:
Literacy: Dr. Seuss is all we did this week and rhyming galore. We had lots of students read to the class Dr. Seuss books. Dr. Seuss books are a great way to help with reading sight words. We are starting a new unit about the farm.
Math: We completed our chapter on Calendar this week. We will be beginning a new chapter on Monday.
Science: Beginning started talking about plants. I bought a planter and I put soil and we planted seeds in it. We tied it in with the Dr. Seuss book Oh Say Can You Seed. The pictures are cute! Can't wait to watch our flowers grow!
The language that is coming into the classroom that is being heard from the tv/radio/video games is starting to be not kid friendly. Things like "What the...", "booty", "sucks".. etc is not appropriate classroom talk. Please continue to talk to your child about appropriate classroom talk. That is very much appreciated. :)
Have a great weekend. Try to stay dry from all the rain that is coming our way!
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