**It was a week of reflection for the students and myself. We all thought about what we are thankful for. The students and I are thankful for a number of things, the most important is family. I am thankful for this class of students for their dedication to their education. Our class is thankful for our volunteer, Ms. D., who volunteers her time to work with individual students and small groups. Our class is thankful for each other and all the great budding friendships between students and their families. I am very thankful for the great support and help from my kindergarten families. You truly make a difference! Please enjoy your family time together as I will.
**No School--November 27-29-Thanksgiving Observance.
**PBIS All School BINGO GAME on Monday, November 25th from 2-2:55 pm. Our Book Buddies will be along to help us.
**The students will be making BEAR PAW SNACKS on Monday as part of their culminating activity. We will have regular and gluten free dough. We will also be making butter.
**Our students will be researching a question they developed as a result of their study of BEARS. Our Book Buddies helped them write their question. The research project with explanation and guide lines will be sent home on Tuesday. The students have been working on research vocabulary. Their special words are also in their homework folder for review.
**TEDDY BEAR DAY on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26th. Please have your child bring in their teddy bear or other favorite stuffed animal. We will do a special writing activity with our pals.
**Route to Reading Rotation 3 will begin on Tuesday, December 3rd. At that time, you will receive information on the skill your child will be working on.
**The students were treated to a spectacular program by the African Drummers from Senegal. These talented men played 2 types of drums, danced and shared with the students some facts about Africa and the country of Senegal. A shout out to Anayla and Ethan who were chosen as student dancers!
**The students made signs and cheered on friends and family during the TURKEY TROT last Thursday. It was great fun!
**Hope you had fun at the "JAMMIE JAM" last Friday. Some very smooth moves were observed on the dance floor! I had a great time. My nieces were a little shy at the beginning, but they warmed up to the music by our own, Mr. Williams. I hear Student Council raised more than $1000 dollars!
**New Eagle Extras brochure is in your child's homework folder. Some very cool classes are being offered. There is a brand new Lego class and soccer class.
**The 14th Annual Cookie Crumble and Craft Fair is Saturday, December 14th from 9-12 pm in the lunchroom. See the info sheet in your child's homework folder.
**CALLING ALL COOKS!! We have one volunteer (Thanks, Ms. Wojcik) but need at least 3-4 more for our annual GINGERBREAD COOKIE BAKING on Friday, December 6th from 12:30-2:55 pm. I will provide the dough (regular and gluten free) and all the fixings. Volunteers will provide baking sheets, spatulas and oven mitts. No experience needed. We will roll, cut, decorate, bake and even eat some! The rest will be packed up for home. Please email if you can help!
**REPORT CARDS go home on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th.
**SAVE THE DATE!! The Kindergarten/Grade One Winter Concert is Friday, December 20th. The students will be performing twice--First concert is at 8:15 am--the second repeat performance is at 9:45 am. There will be some kind of reception for family and friends planned. Stay tuned for more details.
**In Friendship Club this week, Ms. Bell Bey worked with the students on staying safe at school strategies.
**In Mr. Packer Math Enrichment this week, Mr. Packer worked on visual /spatial thinking and creativity using dots and the story, "Ten Black Dots" by Donald Crews.
This week:
It was all about research basics for little ones! Ms. Noonan worked with the students on beginning with a question or something you want to find out and then how you find a source to help answer your question. The students will finish up the tutorial next week and begin their project at home. The students photographed their illustration and practiced reading their words for their talking book. It should be ready soon! What fun! We are almost at the end of our Bear Unit. This cross curricular theme provided lots of activities for reading, writing, math and science. Our station day activities included creating bear caves using recyclable materials, think, create, count and record pattern block activity, count, build and record with unifix cubes and creating words with a word family tree.
Reading/Social Studies: The students continue to work in Unit 3 Transportation in our Treasures Reading series. The students built background knowledge on their travels near and far. They listened to the Big Book story,"On The Go." They observed how people travel from one place to another and the vehicles they used. We looked up each country on our world map. The students asked and answer questions about the types vehicles used in other countries. In their comprehension study, the students compared, contrasted and categorized the types of travel and vehicles. The sight words go and see were reviewed. The students worked on their target sound short i. The students continue to review the use of action words in texts. Our Robust Vocabulary this week included TRAVEL, JOURNEY, PREPARE, RELAX, FAMILIAR. The students used their elkonin boxes to segment and blend 3 letter words. The students read their pre decodable story, "Go, Go, Go." They made predictions about story content and sound blended words unknown. During an interactive writing exercise, the students made pop up signs using the word Go to help cheer on kids they knew in the Turkey Trot. We read two poems on transportation--"The Bike," and "Riding the Subway." The students noticed the rhyming in both and track the words as I read them. The students worked with partners to create sentence with their words and pictures. The students also worked on a common core assessment using a Venn diagram to compare two characters in two different stories. Our workstations included creating sentences using Go and See, using post its to graph how they travel to school, reader's response about a story and drawing and labeling illustrations, rainbow writing with target words, change a letter activity to create a new word, leveled reader comprehension and fluency check and fill in the word to complete the sentence with a partner.
Math: The students continue to work on rote counting to 100 and beyond. Our focus counting this week was up to 60. Students are really beginning to see the relationship between using their ten frames and counting by 10's. They worked on activities with partners on counting quantities to 20 using different object. Math workshop activities included pattern block recognition and exploring design, counting on from a random number, naming what comes before a certain number and after it,
working with teen numbers--how many complete ten frames? how many left over?
Writing: The students have finished work on Starting Corner Capital letters-HKLUVWXYZ. They applied what they learned in their orange practice book. They continue to work in their yellow journals. They are beginning to be more aware of where they write their upper and lowercase letters. We had a discussion about tall lowercase letters and lowercase letters that fall below the line. Good questions! Many students are beginning their sentence with an uppercase letter. They continue to work on spacing between words in a sentence and using an ending mark.
Technology: In reading, student small groups and individuals used the apps Sight Words, iWrite Words, ABC Magic 5 and Magnetic Board to practice their sight words. In math, student small groups and individuals used the apps Dot-to-Dot Lite, Animal Count, Easy Match, Monster Squeeze and Number Find in their studies. The students continue to work with the app Sonic Pics to take a picture of their work and record their sentences for our talking book.
Literature: "Hugless Douglas," "On The Go," Chrysanthemum," Wemberly Worried," "Leaf Man," "Bear," "Polar Bear," Hibernation Station," "Bears All Around," "Blueberries for Sal."
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