Headline Reads: Breaking News from K - 5!

We learned about how a newspaper reports the news to us. K - 5 HAS BREAKING NEWS! We are reviewing our sight words and letters because report cards will be sent out in a few weeks. Lance pretended to be a reporter and the rest of the class showed all the sight words and letters!

The video is great, but for some reason it won't upload. The students will be watching themselves and practicing along in their stations next week. I will keep on trying to upload the video so you can see it.

Today we worked on blending sounds to read words with /a/"a" and /t/"t". The students then worked independently. They copied a sentence and completed it by writing a word and drawing a picture.

We also are reviewing our sight words. The class was put in pairs and worked together to review the words by rolling a die with the words the, a, I, go and my.

In Social Studies today we learned all about what firefighter do. They have to be physically fit to do their job. Sometimes they live at the fire station. They cook, clean and take care of their equipment. Jake told the class that his dad is a firefighter!

At the end of our day we learned how to write numbers 6 - 10. Ask your child to show you how!

Remember: Our Halloween Party is on Friday!!!!!!!! The class is very excited!!!!!! Your child should wear their costume to school. Ms. Rasicot is wearing hers!!!!!!!!!!

This week, October 26 - 30, we will be learning:

We will be learning about the letter "Aa".

We will review the sight words we have been studying: I, a, my, the and go.

In math we will continue practicing writing our numbers correctly.  We will also be talking about graphs.  Our vocabulary will include: graph, row, more, fewer, one, two, three, four, five, one less, less than, one more.

FRIDAY is our HALLOWEEN PARTY: Wear your costumes to school on Friday. The class will get to enjoy a band concert, learn about Halloween safety from Officer Niccum and then have our party from 10:00-11:00.

The class was so excited to start roller skating with Mr. Halverson! Watch and see how they did!

Today in class we practice writing the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5:
0:  Round and round just like an "O".  Now you've made the number
     zero.
1:  Start at the top and down you run.  That's the way you make a one.
2:  Make a candy can and give it a shoe.  That's the way you make a two.
3:  Around and around just like a "B".  That's the way you make a three.
4:  Down and over and down some more.  That's the way you make a
     four.
5:  Short neck, belly fat.  Mr. Five wears a hat.

Jesse, our Star of the Week, shared more of his treasures he brought
from home.  The students love all his beautiful rocks, stones, rings and jewels!

The class is great at rhyming.  We wrote a huge lists of words that
rhymed with hat and dad.  They have been learning that the ending
sound is what makes the words rhyme.

hat/cat/mat/bat/at/fat/nat/sat

dad/mad/glad/fad/bad/had/sad

     Wow!  What a great day today!  The students learned what Bee-bim Bop meant.  We read the story and they found out that Bee-bim means "Mix-mix and Bop means Rice in Korean.  They were great finding rhyming words too.  Bryce raised his hand up right away and told the class his name rhymes with rice!  Everyone tried to find words that rhymed with the words from our story!
     We also used sign language when we had our bathroom break.  Some signing was the traditional sign language and a lot was Ms. Rasicot's sign language.  The main point was trying to be quiet when we are in the halls.  The class did a great job.  The class is working on their expectations.
     On Monday, we talked about the student's, the teacher's and the parent's expectations.  Look at what we are working on:

     The sight word "go" was introduced today.  A few of the students wore the word "go" on their chests.  We had "go 1" (Owen), "go 2" (Karina), "go 3" (Connor), and I changed my name to Ms. Go.  It was a fun and different strategy to see and learn the word.
     In math the students learned about equal amounts.  Some of the students sat on X's.  The students learned that there was a certain amount of X's on the floor and an equal number of students that sat on them.

Today we talked about the letter Cc.  Ask your child how to write a UPPER CASE "C" and a lower case "c".   I know they will tell you something like this for the "C":  First you have to start a little below the sky and then curve and touch the sky.  Then curve down and pass the fence.  Then curve down and land on the ground and then curve up.  Yay!

For a lower case "c" they might say, "Start a little below the fence, curve up, and touch the fence, then curve down and head for the ground.  Curve down and hit the ground and then curve up.  Yay!  K-5 doesn't like floater!

__________________________Sky
--------------------------------------Fence
________________________ Ground

Jesse is Star of the Week!

Week of October 19 -23:

The class will be learning about the letter "Cc". Work together to see how many words that start with "Cc" you can come up with! Can you come up with any that end in "Cc"?

We will also be working on recognizing rhyming words, talking about who the characters are in the story, "Bee-bim Bop!" (Ask your parents if they know what Bee-bim Bop means!), introducing the robust vocabulary words (appetite, savor, urgency, aroma, surround, tradition), we will be moving on to Chapter 3 in math. The students will be working on the numbers 0 - 5. We will be writing the numbers, using one-to-one correspondence and identifying groups that have more or less.

In Science we will see how this colder weather is changing our tree. Our class tree is just to the north of the main entrance to Shirley Hills.

Week of Oct. 12 - 16

I hope everyone is having a great week off! See you on Monday!

October 8th:

Wow! Our Field Trip to Deardorff Apple Orchard was so much fun. We saw rabbits, goats and horses. We learned great facts about bees and honey. We even got to pick apples. Each student got to pick 5 apples in the orchard. Mr. and Mrs Deardorff told the class all about their orchard. Mr. Nelson (Connor's dad) and Mrs. Stanton (Sam's mom) came with us and Mrs. Lada (Owen's mom) met us there. Thank you for all your help!

K-5 has been very busy in the classroom too. We have been working on syllables, the letters Nn and Pp, patterns, our sight word "the" and we have been talking about our families. We have been discussing the different characters in the story "Bear's Busy Family". This week we have also been working in stations.

The week of October 12th through the 16th there is no school. Grades 1st - 4th have teacher/parent conferences. Kindergarten conferences are on November 19th. If you haven't signed up for a conference, please call me at 952-491-8429.

Here is my conference sign up sheet:
12:20 pm - Owen Lada
12:40 pm - Anida Naovaraj
1:00 pm - Ingrid Aufderheide
1:20 pm - Sam Stanton
1:40 pm -
2:00 pm - Tony Smiley
2:20 pm -
2:40 pm - Dakota Tabaka
3:00 pm - Darren Tabaka
3:20 pm -
3:40 pm
4:00 pm - Grace Goralczyk
4:20 pm - Jesse Hom
4:40 pm - Ena Dirks
5:00 pm - Bryce Berkey
5:20 pm - Lance Nemecek
5:40 pm - Dinner
6:00 pm - Jake Mass
6:20 pm - Connor Nelson
6:40 pm - Hannah Smith
7:00 pm - Kalkidan Hagen
7:20 pm - Eathon Williams
7:40 pm - Karina Kebernik