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=)