Gretchen brought in a Create and Color Enchanted Castle! The class will love decorating it with colors and we'll add some numbers and words and............we will brainstorm and think of a lot more things!

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

We have been working in our Literacy Centers and doing great! This week we will have a Listening Center , Reading Center, Word Work Center, Writing Center and a Letters and Sounds Center.

Malia's Mom came in to celebrate Malia's birthday! She read one of Malia's favorite books. It was a Fancy Nancy Book!

K - 5 is thankful for you!

Click on the picture to see all of the classes artwork!

When I was taking attendance, I noticed something that one of my students was wearing. It was a great time to talk about symmetry! Gavin, who makes me smile with some of his comments, was not symmetrical today! I explained what the word symmetrical meant and then asked the class to look around and see if they could guess who was not symmetrical. Then I asked who was. Sam guessed that Jasmine was symmetrical. Look and see! Oh, Gavin told us that one shoe just didn't feel good with a sock and the other did!

K - 5 is thankful for:

Sam's brother, Jack, read to the class today for Star of the Week. Thanks Jack! You were great!

EVERYONE tried the Kiwi Fruit today and Luke ate it like an apple (skin and all)! Ask your son or daughter where they are grown, how they grow and what other fruits Kiwi reminded them of.

Week of November 12th - 19th:
I hope you all got outside and played in the snow! Did anyone make a snowman? Did you put a cap on it?

This week the class will be rereading stories from the theme "Friends at School." When we reread a story, we encourage children to chime in on familiar words or phrases, to ask question and to make predictions. The students will be writing and illustrating what happens at the beginning, middle and end of a story.

We will be working with words ending with -an and -ap this week.

Our new sight words it "he". You can help you child learn our sight words by making flash cards and you can look for them together in a magazine or newspaper! So far we have learned:

I, a, my, the, go, to, like

In Science, we will be looking at how our tree is still changing and we will be learning about different foods.

Our vocabulary words are: sly, proceed, apparel, announced, imaginary, precisely, active, gigantic, voyage, gasped, glum, whimper

It was great talking to all of you at teacher parent conferences. Thank you for coming!

Today we worked on the letter "Dd" and wrote a sentence in our November Journals using our new sight word "like". We are working on always starting a sentence with a capital letter, spacing our words in a sentence and ending it with a punctuation mark.

I like my ________.

In math we will continue to work on writing numbers 1 - 10. We will be working on number lines and I will introduce different 3-dimensional shapes. Today we talked about a sphere and a cylinder. I asked the students to find the shapes in the room. They found the globe and the kickball. Jasmine also said the Earth is shaped like a sphere. Luke said a baseball. Sam said a can of soup is like a cylinder. Jasmine held up a glue stick and said, "This looks like a cylinder." Adeline and Jessiah found things in the room too!

Wow! The students were so excited to see their Grandparents or Grandfriends walk through the classroom door! The Kindergarten Program was wonderful. The students enjoyed performing and I know the Grandparents and Grandfriends loved watching! Thank you all for coming! Check out all the great pictures.

Here is Gavin with his Grandmother and Great-Grandmother!

The students are practicing their songs for their Grandfriends! If you haven't let me know if your child's grandparent or grandfriend is coming please put the information in their backpack tomorrow.

Tomorrow each student will get to work on an I-Touch. We will be working on writing words and writing our numbers. We will end with a fun game! I can't wait!

The students are working well in their literacy centers. I set up 5 centers and we made it through all of them. I was able to listen to each guided reading group read. I told the students at the end of the day that they gave me goosebumps!

Adeline's Mom, Dad, and sisters, Lilly and Emma, came to celebrate the Star of the Week! They read a funny book to the class and showed some wonderful photographs of Adeline.