The week of Nov. 27-30.

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving break with your family and friends!  After six days off, it will take a little time to get back in the swing of things at school.

Please visit with your child about being a responsible kindergartner by being a good listener when others have raised their hands to talk or when Mrs. Scott is teaching.  Thank you for your help at home!

Fall Picture Retakes--are this Thursday, Nov. 29. 

Winter Party!  I have one volunteer signed up for our Winter Party on Dec. 18.  Would one more person be able to help out Jessica Robinson?  It's much easier when two minds work together!  

Nov. Book it calendars!  Please send in book it calendars by Monday, Dec. 3rd signed by both parent and child.  

This week in reading we are reading a story called, Ungalala.  Ask me if it's a nonfiction or fiction book, who the characters are in it, and is there a problem and solution in the book.  Can your child tell you where the story takes place too?  (hint:  it's a continent where it's hot)

Context Clues:  This is a new skill that we will learn about this week!  We will figure out what a few words mean by reading the sentence they are in.

Letter of the week:  Hh
sight words:  mom, dad (again)

Social Studies: We began our Economics Unit that we will work on until Christmas Break.  
This week we are learning about Community Helpers.  We are reading books and making bubble map organizers about: nurses, veterinarians, fire fighters, and police officers.  Then the kids will choose which one they would like to be and we will make a class graph.

Job Day!  I will be sending home a note on Friday about Job Day.  It will explain what it is and hopefully entice you to share what you do at your job on Dec. 14!  Your kids may not know what you do and it's a great time for them to learn about your job and enjoy having you teach their friends too!

Math this week!
We are finishing up our math lessons on 2D Flat shapes and beginning to learn about 3D solid shapes.  Can your child describe how a circle, square, rectangle, triangle, and oval/ellipse look?
They will need to say: circle--is round, square--has 4 equal sides and 4 corners, rectangle--has 2 long and 2 short sides with 4 corners, triangle--has 3 sides and 3 corners, oval--is round and long.  Your child will be tested over describing the shapes so please review these with your child.  They need to also be able to tell what the shape is when described to them.  Thank you for working on this at home!

Handwriting this week:  We have finished writing the uppercase letters, so we will practice writing them all before moving on to lower case.

Coming up!
Nov. 29      Fall picture retakes

Dec. 1        Winter Wonderland

Dec. 14      Job Day--info. coming home soon

Dec. 18      Winter Party

Dec. 19     Last day before Christmas Vacation

The week of Nov. 12-16.

More snow today!  These days are a little rowdier than others.  The kids get so excited to see it.

Happy Bear will be on Friday, so your child may talk about seeing a person in a bear costume talking about wanted and unwanted touches.  This would be a great time to elaborate at home if you haven't visited with your child about this yet.

This week we are finishing up our map unit by sharing our bedroom maps each day.  The kids did a good job adding details so we could picture their room.

Reading this week!
We are reading two fiction stories about animals and will be discussing more about conversations in stories.  The kids are quick to see the quotation marks and know that a character is talking in the book.
Today we made turkeys and wrote what our turkey is saying on a speech bubble!  They had fun coming up with ideas!

We have talked about nouns and verbs, and will look for words with -ed on the end in the stories.
Ask your child if they remember what a noun and verb is!

Sight word:  in
Letter of the week:  Hard C, Soft C

We finished our colors!!  Did your child tell you we made rainbow cookies on Thursday and got to eat them on Friday?  See the pictures below!

Math this week!
We have finished our Topic 5 over numbers 11-20.  Most of the class can identify and write the numbers.   Please review the numbers with your child tonight!  Ask them what they are and have them write them.  We have a test tomorrow.  

We reviewed today with the worksheets in their folders.  It would be good if you went over them with your child and made sure they understand the concept of finding a ten-writing 1 down, then counting the leftovers (ones) and writing them.  The test is real similar to the review sheets.


Coming Up!

Nov. 16     Happy Bear presentation

Nov. 21-25   Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 1        Winter Wonderland
Dec. 14      Job Day--info. coming home soon
Dec. 10     Last day before Christmas Vacation

Rainbow Cookies

They were amazed how big their cookies grew when they were baked!

The week of Nov. 5-9.

Whew!  What a crazy week of fun!  I'm ready to get back to a "normal" school week!  See pics below from Halloween and our field trip.  There's lots of them!

We are learning about the globe and flat map of the world this week.  Today we learned about the 7 continents and 4 oceans.  Ask your child what continent we live on to review.  We are zoning in on where we live each day. Tomorrow, we will learn that we live in the U.S.A.  Wednesday we will learn about Kansas, Thursday we will learn about Johnson County, and Friday, we will learn about Shawnee and write our address.

The map of your child's bedroom is due next Monday.  Please make sure to help them but not do the whole map for them.  Don't forget to show them how to add N, E, S, W on the compass.

We are already 5 days in November.  Please make sure to fill out the Book-it calendar for Nov. The most important part of the calendar is making it a routine of reading each day with your child.  I know busy nights occur which is why we are looking for 20 out of 30 days.  Treasure these days that your child wants you to sit with them as they enjoy listening to you or you enjoy listening to them read!  I sure miss it!  Hopefully you have found a safe place that works for you for the calendar!

Istation--We tested on Istation last Thursday, so your child may have moved up a level or may be working on the same level depending on how they did on the test.  Please try to make this a priority over games.  Sit with your child at times and see how they are doing on Istation.  If they aren't understanding a concept, it might be good to work on it separate from Istation.

Reading this week!
This week we are reading two short stories and retelling them to practice our comprehension.  We are also making predictions about what we think the title tells us about what's going to happen in the story.  Transition words will be introduced--first, next, last

Our letter is short and long "o".
Our sight words are: on, he, love
Our color is:  rainbow  colors--Mrs. Scott has the rainbow snack!
The kids can wear as many bright colors as they can find on Thursday.

Social Studies:  Veteran's Day will be our topic this week as we read stories about it. 

Math this week!  
Our topic is over 11-20.  Today we learned how to count, read, and write 13, 14, 15.  On our assignment we are circling a ten, writing one down for a ten, then counting the ones or left overs and writing them down to make our number.

Help at home--I am sending home a note with 2 ten frames attached for you to practice filling in the ten frames and writing the number.  The sheet is not laminated so you will want to use and object from home like cheerios to fill in the ten frame.  They can write the number on something else.  This is just for practice at home.  Place value-tens and ones, is a difficult concept and several do not know the numbers 11-20.  Let me know if you have any questions please.

Coming up!

Nov. 8       Rainbow  snack--Mrs. Scott

Nov. 16     Happy Bear presentation

Nov. 21-25   Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 1        Winter Wonderlans
Dec. 14      Job Day--info. coming home soon
Dec. 10     Last day before Christmas Vacation

Orange Day

Halloween Pictures

Field Trip