12-16-13

Happy Monday to everyone! Sorry my post is running late this week.

Focuses for this week are:

Literacy:

·       I can blend my sounds together to make a word. (The students are doing AMAZING with this! I hope you are seeing this at home as well. I am very proud of their progression in reading!)

Math:

·       I can write my numbers to 20 (For some reason this is harder=( We practice A LOT at school, but this is definitely something easy you can do at home with your children.)

·       I can count to 50!

Bible:

Isaiah 9:6

“For to us a child is born, for to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.”

Social Studies:

·       Birth of Christ

Important Info:

·       Our Program is Friday at 9:30 and we will have cookies and refreshments afterwards in the class. You may either take your child home, or if they can stay for the rest of the day and we will probably play games.

·       If you are able to bring cookies or refreshments that would be great! If not that is okay too=) Home baked goods are welcome.

·       If one or two parents would like to help the day of the program to get students dressed please let me know. Thank you!

~Mrs. Lee

Pictures! and weekly focus

Finally our pictures from the field trip! 

Weeks focus:

Literacy:  I can blend my sounds together to make a word.

   I can segment a word into its sounds.

Math:      I can count to 50!

               I can write my number 1-20.

Bible:       Isaiah 9:6 "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace." (I know this is really long! We practiced the first half last week, so hopefully it won't be as hard. This is the verse we will be doing at our program.)

Social Studies: Attributes (size, shape, color)

Special Notes:

*This Friday is our family field trip! Students will be going with their own family. We will meet at the church to leave at 4:00, then go to McDonalds for dinner, and then drive up to Long View for our Journey. I have heard it a wonderful sight to see. I hope everyone can make it!

-Mrs. Amber Lee

I hope everyone enjoyed their time off! 3 more weeks and then we will have another 2 weeks off!

Focuses for this week:

Literacy:   I can blend my sound together to make a word.

                I can break up words into their sounds.

Math:       I can count to 50.

                I can write my numbers 1-20.

                I know the meaning of more than and less than.

Social Studies: 2-D Shapes

Bible Verse: Isaiah 9:6 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.”

Also, I have pictures from last week, just have to figure out how to upload them from my phone! They made it harder to do, but I will figure it out=)

Important notes:

*I sent home a note from Miss Jones today asking for students to send home ornaments for our ornament exchange on the last day of school before break. She asked for it to be back by the 6^th, but since you received the note this week we can turn them in next week.

Thank you,
Mrs. Lee

11-18-13

I hope everyone had a great weekend. The Thanksgiving fest was so fun today, and it was so nice to see all of the families.

Next week will be REALLY easy. Monday afternoon we will be doing our thanksgiving party. We are going to do four fun crafts, Indian shirt making, cookie frosting, bead making, and sewing stockings (and I know stockings are not really Thanksgivingish! I am kind of killing two birds with one stone though by teaching them how pilgrim kids sewed and they get Christmas stockings=)). We decided not to do any food since we had such a big harvest fest today.  On Tuesday we have our field trip to the Portland Children’s Museum. The kids will have so fun here, we get to have our own clay class with an art teacher. For the field trip, students only need to a lunch and an extra snack for the morning. I recommend them not bringing any extra money.  After Tuesday we have three days off!

Last Friday was a lot of fun too. Here are some pictures.

Here are the students pppartner reading

 Here are the students PPPartner Writing

Here is our cozy room during our movie. The kids look so comfy!

11-12-13

Parents, I am sorry I did not have a chance to post this weekend. My family and I went to Seattle this weekend for my Nieces first birthday! But I figure better late than never=)

The Week Focus Wall:

Literacy: I can blend sounds to make a word.

Math:   I can write my numbers 0-20

         I can cou:nt to 50

Bible Verse: Psalm 118:28 You are my God and I will give you thanks’ you are my God and I will exalt you.

Social Studies: Pilgrims, Indians, and the Mayflower.

We just finished our Unit 1 test in Literacy and took our big test on Friday. It took about 45 minutes! That is a long time for our little kinders, but they did great! You should have seen the test sent home in their take home folders. We are now beginning our second unit.

Ways to help at home:

1.    Help students with sounding out and blending words. For example I might ask what word is /c/ /a/ /t/? and see if they can come up with cat. Or I might do it backwards and say what are the sounds in dog? /d/ /o/ /g/.

2. Ask questions when reading with your children? For example: what was the story about? What happened first? Who was this story about?

3.  Practice counting. Our goal is to be able to count to 50. We practice every day before math but still only about ½ can do it.

Important info:

·       Please remember to bring in a white shirt for our Indian unit, I only have 2 as of now! If you do not have one and cannot get one please let me know and I can provide one.

·       Please send back field trip permissions slips by tomorrow for our Tuesday trip to the Portland Children’s Museum.

·       Harvest Dinner is Sunday. We practiced our songs today and the kids did great! I am excited to watch them.

·       Would any parents like to volunteer for our Thanksgiving party? It will be next Monday from 1:00-3:00. We will be doing craft rotations.

·       This Friday is our P-Party! Our class earned enough points to get a party. The P is for P.J.’s, popcorn, pizza, and a P movie.

·       I have math homework packets for students who would like them for extra practice. I told them if they want to, and finish it and bring it back they get to pick something from our treasure box. The homework is based on the chapter we are currently doing.

My, this time of year is sooo busy! And fun. I hope everyone enjoys their week!

~Mrs. Lee 

I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend!

Focus wall for next week:

Literacy: I can identify beginning sounds.

            I know the S sound.

            I can sound out words.

Math:      I can count to 50!

            I can read and write my numbers 1-10.

            I know my ordinal numbers first-fifth.

Social studies:  Pilgrims, Indians, and the Mayflower

Bible Verse:    Luke 6:31: Do to others as you would have them to you.

           

Here are some things we did last week.

This is a picture of our 3-D collage that we worked together to make.

 

Our pumpkins are growing! I can’t believe they have sprouted so fast. I am excited to see them flower and grow a pumpkin. What a great way to teach students about the life cycle.

These are our adorable pilgrims that we made on Tuesday to kick off our pilgrim unit. The learning target last week was that students would know that the boat they sailed over on   was the Mayflower, and that the pilgrims left Europe because they could not worship the God they wanted to.

 

Notes:

-Thank you parents who have brought in extra snacks! We are still getting low, if anyone else would like to donate some crackers, pretzels, or fruit snacks.

10-28

10-28-13

Even with our short week we had a lot of fun! Here are some things that we did.

This week we finished our unit on pumpkins by planting our own pumpkins! The students did an amazing job. I opened the top but they are the ones that took all of the pulp and seeds out. It was fun getting dirty and being real scientists! Each student helped put one spoon full of soil into the pumpkins and then I showed them how to plant the seeds inside. I am hoping next week we can see the sprouts start to grow!

We finished our pumpkin unit by going to the Pumpkin Patch! Here are some of the pictures.

We have been practicing our writing skills a lot lately. Right now we are focusing on sentences, and sounding out words. Here is a shared writing we did as a class together.The students took turns writing a word and they helped each other spell the words out.They were very proud of this and so was I!=)

It says, "We went to the Fire station. We seen a fire truck."

Focus Wall:

(I was writing the prior weeks focus, but I thought maybe it would be more helpful if I wrote the next weeks focus)

Literacy:

·         I can identify beginning sounds.

·         I know what a verb is.

·         I can write a sentence.

Math:

·         I can count to 40

·         I can read and write my numbers 1-10

·         I know my ordinal numbers (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, ect…)

Bible Verse:

·         1 Samuel 12: 24a – But be sure to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully

Social studies:

·         I know who pilgrims are and how they came to America.

Next week we will start our unit on pilgrims, Indians, and the first Thanksgiving. I will be sending home a little note about the different things we will be doing and some ways that parents can help next week sometime.

This just made my heart smile. It says Jesus loves you and God loves you too. I didn't even help them spell any words!They wrote this by themselves then showed me and I had to take a picture=)

10-21

I hope everyone is enjoying their three day weekend! I am happy to say I have all of the report cards done, and am looking forward to seeing everyone next week. I will be sending a reminder home on Monday for the dates and times for conferences.

Focus Wall:

Literacy:     Beginning Sounds

Math:    I can count to 25

           I can recognize and write my numbers 1-8

Bible: Psalm 119:10 – I will seek the lord with all my heart.

Social Studies: Pumpkins

This last week I tested all of the students on their reading levels so I can begin sending home books with students that is at their right level. Most students are starting at a level A. By the end of the year our goal is to be at a level D.

As well, as most of you seen I have begun to send home decodable readers that we practice at school. These are great to practice sight words and to build fluency. We practice about 2-3 a week and I will continue to send these home. If students read it 5 times to someone they can earn a pint for our class. Last week we earned 7 points towards our party! We need 50 more to earn the party.

In math we will start working with teen numbers and beginning concepts of addition.

In social studies we are learning about pumpkins, which will go great with our field trip next week! We started using our science journals this week. We measured how big around our pumpkins were, weighed them, predicted if they float or sink, and labeled the parts of a pumpkin. I wish I would have taken pictures of this! Science is one of my favorite subjects to teach, the children get so excited over it.

Important notes for next week:

Field trip: we will be leaving at 8:30ish and return around 11:00ish. Please dress students based on the weather. You can bring an extra change of clothes if they are staying for after care as well. Please send students with at least $5.00 to get in and get a pumpkin.

Parent Conferences: Thursday and Friday are conferences. I look forward to seeing everyone!

Tuesday volunteer: If anyone would like to help in the classroom on Tuesday afternoon we will be cutting open our pumpkins and taking the seeds out. We will be attempting to grow our own pumpkins inside of the old ones. I have not done this before but have heard it works well.  It should be a fun experience.

P.s. I am sorry for not having any pictures this week. I will make sure to have some next week. 

10-21

We had such a fun week! We baked cookies, had grandparents day, Learned about colors, and more.

Our focus wall this week included:

Literacy:     I can identify beginning sounds.

Math:         I can count to 25

                I can recognize the number s 1-8

                I can write my numbers 1-8

Social studies: I can name the rainbow Colors and prime colors

Our Grandparents day went wonderful. It was so fun having the grandparents in our class, the students were sad to see them leave at lunch.

During the morning grandparents read to their grandchildren, did a fun fill-in-the-blank, and did some writing in their grandchild’s writing journal. Grandparents were also able to see what students are learning in library, music, and Bible.

In math grandparents had the chance to sit with the children and work at math workstations.

We ended our morning wonderfully with pizza and pictures, and a gift thanks to Shelly at Umpqua Bank. Thank you Shelly! The pictures will be printed off and one will be sent home with each child.

Here are some pictures of the students making cookies for our grandparent’s day.

In social studies we explored colors. Here are some pictures of the stations students went to while learning about colors. 

Just a reminder that picture day is coming up on Wednesday! You can send the picture form back anytime this week.

Another reminder is that there will be no school on Friday. This is a teacher work day.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend. I hope you enjoyed the pictures! (My next purchase is a new camera though! my pictures are very blurry=( )

~Mrs. Lee