**Once again--WELCOME NEW KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS and FAMILIES!! I am so glad you are a part of the Irving school family. I was very happy to meet all of you. We are going to have a great year!
**Thanks to all of you who have signed up to help at LUNCH for the next 3 weeks. The students are learning about the lunch routine and about recycling the paper products like trays and milk cartons. Because of our large class size, we now have 2 tables for our students to sit at. We can enjoy eating lunch with our friends Kaya and Emma from Ms. Von Hagel's class. Please keep reinforcing--HOME LUNCH or SCHOOL LUNCH?--MILK?--WHAT KIND? Our volunteers and myself are encouraging the students to eat their MAIN ENTRE first, whether it is a sandwich, salad, noodles etc. and then eating fruit, granola bars, pudding etc. Thanks for sending such good choices in their lunches and for snacks. I will always have either Veggie Straws or fruit on hand if your child forgets a snack.
**If you have not sent in head sets, don't worry about it. I was lucky enough to purchase lots from the Dollar Store. Our lab time for LEXIA READING, which is the computer companion to our Treasures Reading Series will be scheduled after MAP testing of older students. I will need 2 parent troubleshooters to help out in the lab. I am hoping to sign up for two-30minute periods twice a week in the afternoon. Stay tuned. LEXIA will also be available online for home use.
**I will be setting up SPELLING CITY, XTRAMATH and TREASURES online sites hopefully next week. These are skill building activities for your child to access at home. STARFALL.com is up and running. It is located on the left side of this blog under resources. Also check out the great sites on our Irving Parents Resource Wikispaces.com also located in resources.
**Please remember GYM SHOES and SOCKS on GYM DAYS. Check the specials schedule on left side.
**BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY was Friday, August 24th beginning at 5:30 pm at Barrie Par.k. I arrived later than expected but still enjoyed seeing many of my new students as well as old friends. Fun, Pizza, Band, Movie and Community!!!
**NO SCHOOL on Monday, September 3rd--Labor Day.
This week:
It was all about routines and expectations! Yes, I talked a lot! Our daily schedule is slowly taking shape. The students are meeting their special area teachers. We are getting to know each other and fostering new friendships. The students learned how to earn EAGLE SLIPS and class EAGLE WINGS as part of our PBIS Behavior Initiative.
Reading: This week students began a 3 week prep in our Treasures Reading Series called START SMART. The students are using their language skills by responding to a Daily Warm Up question. They worked on their listening comprehension and making predictions and connections by listening to the big book story, "Animals in the Park-An ABC Book." The students worked on identifying a sequence of sounds using the nursery rhyme, "Hey Diddle Diddle." We reviewed the letters Aa, Bb, Cc, and the sounds they make. The sight words, I, am, yes, no, can, red, blue were introduced. We learned how to play Hands Up, Hands Down game to help reinforce our new sight vocabulary. The students were introduced to a wordless pre-decodable story, "We Go to School." They took turns telling the about the pictures on each page. The students learned about book handling, locating the title, author's name, illustrator and making predictions about what they think the story is about using the title and cover pictures. We retold the story together as we looked at each page. Then the students partnered up and retold the story to each other. The students listened to a fable in our read aloud book. In the fable, "You are Beautiful as You Are," the students created a picture in their mind about what was happening. There were no pictures. They thought about what the lesson of the story might be and give their ideas. In our Haggerty Blue Book exercises, the students worked on recognizing rhyming words, segmenting words, adding and taking away word parts and counting how many words are in a specific sentence.
Math: The students were introduced to our calendar and weather chart routines. We are adding a number each day to our worm. When we get to 100--PARTY!!!! The students did an activity called "Partner Match," where they found a partner who had the same length of paper that they did. We compared the lengths and ranked them from shortest to longest. The students worked on recognizing numbers from 0-12, counting backward from10-0 and recognizing basic shapes. We learned to play, "Got It." During choice activity time, the students explored unifix cubes, pattern blocks, geo boards and gears. We worked on the positional words--top and bottom.
Writing: The students discussed what a school journal was. They used the writing prompts from our Treasures series, drew a picture of themselves and wrote their name. The students began to explore the types of lines used to make a letter.
Literature: "David Goes to School," "Wemberly Worried," "How Will I Get to School this Year," "Splat the Cat," "Muse Loves School," "Peanut Butter and Homework Sandwiches," "Kindergarten Rocks."
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