Welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!

This week we start a new theme in Language Arts: On the Farm
We will be making animal mobiles, singing songs, learning about the vowel "Ii", listening for the sound at the beginning of a word, learning the new sight word - "come" and much more.

Our new vocabulary words are: squabble, mischief, uproar, tend, soggy and wobble

Before Thanksgiving K-5 was practicing rotating through our reading stations. We need a little more practice but we had a good start. We will be working in stations on Tuesday and Thursday. There is a Listening Station, Reading Station, Word Work Station, Writing Station and a Letter and Sounds Station.

We will still be reviewing and writing numbers 1 - 10, but we will also be starting Chapter 5: Geometric Shapes

This week will be a short one! We have school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. K-5 will be learning about their stations. We will be learning what we do in each station and how to rotate. We also will be reviewing our letters, sight words and vocabulary words.

Please remind your child to bring back their library books so they can check out a new one for the long holiday weekend!

Thank you all for coming to your child's conference. I enjoyed each one!

The students had some fun making a turkey on Friday. They traced their foot for the turkey's body and their hands for the turkey's feathers.

Today, our class grew! Laniah Jenkins joined our class. Now the class has 13 boys and 7 girls! I was so proud of everyone. They made Laniah feel right at home. What a great class!

****Important Message*******

Parents, tomorrow I will be putting your child's report card in their backpacks. Please look for it. I am sending it home so you have a change to look at it before conferences. See you on Thursday!

This week we are reviewing all the letters and sounds we have learned: a, m, n, p, r, s, and t. We will be working on word blending and making word family books.
Our new sight word is "he".
We will also continue to learn about a story's characters, writing captions and summarizing a story.
We will review our vocabulary words this week too:
proceed, announced, gasped, sly, imaginary, active, apparel, voyage, whimper, precisely, gigantic, glum, complained
In Math we will be finishing Chapter 4: We will be practicing writing our numbers in order and making are own number lines
In Social Studies we will be talking about what makes families special.

Conference are this Thursday, November 19th. Please call if you don't remember what time your conference is. Each conference is 20 minutes. While you are waitIng you can watch a power point show of all the pictures I have taken this fall. I will do my best to keep on schedule.

November 11, 2009

Please look in your child's Friday Folder on Thursday for a reminder of when your conference is on Thursday, November 19th.

Happy Monday to everyone! Monday always seem to go by so fast. We started off the day by learning about the letter "Dd". The class helped write a long list of words that start with the letter "Dd". Ask you child to tell you what sound the letter makes. The class took turns writing the letter and forming the letter "Dd" with play dough. Then we went to computer and worked on the alphabet.

We also talked about numbers on a number line. During transitions, I have been asking the students math questions. Try some at home too. Say, "If you start on the number 7 and take two away, how many do you have left?" We will be working more on the number line this week. We will be practicing writing numbers 0 -10 too.

At the end of the day we went to the library. Please remind you child to bring their library book back so they can check out a new one each week.

This weeks sight word is "like". We will be writing and drawing the things we like. We will be trying to use as many sight words as we can in our sentences. I like to ........ I like my ........ I like to go to the .........

Grandfriend's Day was wonderful!  The class was very excited to see all of their grandfriends.  We made turkeys with our grandfriends and then walked down to perform in the music room.  Three Kindergarten classes performed.  Here's a picture of K-5 singing.

This week we start a new theme in Language Arts: Friends at School. We will be making a classroom book about our friends at school.

Also, instead of focusing on a new letter, the students will be learning phonograms: “at”, "am" and “an”. The class has been working on rhyming and has been doing great! They will use rhyming and letter sounds to help them blend sounds together to create words.

In computer we will be working on the Alphabet. Go to http://www.abcya.com/kindergarten_computers.htm and click on "Put the alphabet in order" to practice at home with your child. Then have fun building a snowman or a face. There are a lot of other fun things to do.

Our sight word for the week is “to”.

Our new vocabulary words are: sly, proceed, apparel, announced, imaginary and precisely

In math we will finish Chapter 3: Numbers 0-9. Have your children show you how they have learned to write their numbers.

The Halloween Party was SO MUCH FUN! A big thank you to Kim Lada (Owen's mom), Rhonda Nelson (Connor's mom) and Becky Steele (Darren and Dakota's mom)! Their plans included four stations: face painting, mask making, pumpkin bowling and Halloween Bingo. Thank you for all the treats you all brought in, too. The students enjoyed the cupcakes Anida's mom brought in. Tirisha Dirks (Ena's mom) is our classroom photographer. She took some great pictures for the yearbook. Scroll down the blog to see some pictures from the party.