**Come One, Come All to Irving School's OPEN HOUSE/CURRICULUM NIGHT on Thursday, September 22nd from 6:30-7:30 pm. I will be speaking to parents at 6:30 for about 30 minutes on our class routine, classroom management, special area classes, assessments in Kindergarten, Route to Reading specific skills groupings and all curriculum. You can drop off your child in the auditorium for a supervised special feature before you come to see me. I will also have handouts with other information on our year. There will also be SIGN UP SHEETS for PARENT CONFERENCES and other COOL EVENTS on the table outside of my room. Please pick up your child after my presentation and they will become your TOUR GUIDES as they bring you to meet the teachers who will be working with them. I will give you a list with teacher names and room numbers as an assist. Hope to see everyone!
**The ALL SCHOOL FRIDAY PACERS RUNNING/WALKING CLUB began on Friday. The students were really fired up to run around the block and get their card marked. The students each have a bracelet and for each time they run around the block, they will get a foot charm. We will be making a special envelope to keep our bracelet in. The special envelope will go on our PACERS CHART. At the end of the year......each child will have a great bracelet FULL of feet charms.
**All KRT and DIBELS Testing is completed. I will be working on Aimsweb Math Baseline and Phonic Screeners this coming week as I continue planning for your child's academic trimester.
**The students checked out their first book from the Irving Library. It is due next next Wednesday. Please keep the book in your child's back pack when not reading. Next week, the students will be able to check out 2 books!
**Eagle Extra Classes begin on Monday, September 26th. I will be getting a list of the participants from my class. The students will be picked up from my class by an adult supervisor and taken to the auditorium to be picked up by the Eagle Extras teacher. There are some cool after school classes. Check it out!
**Mr. Packer's Thinking Skills Sessions will begin this coming Tuesday. He will use small group and whole group activities and projects to encourage thinking outside of the box.
All lessons will be taught on multi levels to support and to challenge all learners. Stay tuned!
**I continue to work with our Computer Tech to secure usernames and passwords for our Kindergarten students. I am hoping to complete this sometime this week. We can then proceed with iPad Boot Camp for Kinders.
**In Friendship Club this week, Dr. Bell Bey reviewed with students what whole body learning is and began the conversation about the ZONES of REGULATION......or how to regulate your own behavior! I will be sending you some information on this in the coming weeks.
**Fall Class and Individual Pictures will be taken on Tuesday, October 11th. I usually try for an early morning time.
**Our FIRST FIELD TRIP--Morton Arboretum on Thursday, October 27th from 9-1:30. This trip will enhance and support our very first SCIENCE UNIT--TREES and WEATHER. Look for more information soon! I will need some parent volunteers to come with us.
**Our BOOK BUDDIES this year are the students from Ms. Balicki's 5th Grade Class. We are in the process of arranging our first meeting! Each Kindergarten student will be matched up with a 5th grade buddy. We will be meeting roughly every month and sharing stories, writing, projects. So Fun!!!
**Future Events: Irving School's Annual Egg Drop and Academic Fair to be held on Wednesday, October 19th all day and in the evening. I will be sending out information on this very awesome event that even a Kindergarten student can participate in! Also.....Each classroom will be a part of the Fun Run Fundraiser on Friday, October 14th at 8:15 am. It is one of our PTO's biggest fundraising events of the year. Stay tuned!
This week:
It was all about letters and numbers. The students found letters and numbers throughout our classroom and school. What is the difference between letters and numbers? The students began a conversation about consonants (letters that have 1-2 sounds) and vowels ( letters that can have many different sounds.) The students found the consonants and vowels in their name. They then compared that number to the number of consonants and vowels in a friend's name. We are counting everything in sight--chairs, markers, feet, socks, plates, fingers shoes etc. The students worked on their number formation rhymes 0-8. Station Day activities included pattern block create/count/record, creating a specific number tower and recording the number, letter/sound activity and experimenting with our tripod grasp strengthening activities.
Reading/Language Arts: The students are working to complete Week 3 of our prep for our Treasures Reading series called Smart Start. They continued their work on imprinting sound and observing what their mouth does when they create a certain sound. It was great fun but also fascinating to see the students experiment with small mirrors when reproducing target sounds. They "elbow chatted" with a partner to describe what the sound of Bb or the sound of Cc looks like. Pretty cool! Opened or closed mouth? puff of air? vibration in the throat? where is your tongue? We reviewed rhyming sequences and our current sight words. The students used their sight words, pictures and ending marks for sentence building with a partner. Each student built 2 sentences to read to their partner. The partner did the same. Planning, recall and tracking from left to right were in play in this activity.
The students worked on their first read aloud paper story, "I Can!" They worked on listening and following along with their "famous pointing finger" as a student read. We reviewed what a sentence does----it is a group of words that names and tells! The students found the title, the front and back cover and the spine even though it was very skinny. What is this story about? How do you know? The students continued to work on tracking words in a sentence from left to right, noting that a sentence begins with an uppercase letter and has an ending mark. Finger pointing is essential!! During our workstations students chose from a group of sight word texts to read to themselves and then read to a partner and "elbow chat" about the title, characters and setting.
The students did their first formative blueprint with prompting and support. Again, we used the formative text, "Chrysanthemum." The goal for the students was to draw and write about the characters, setting, main event and why the event is important. Quite a task! In the beginning, drawing pictures and talking about key concepts is happening. I am providing support by recoding what the students tell me. Some students did some writing and labeling. As we work throughout the year on this format, more and more writing will occur. We will begin our next formative text,"Duck on a Bike" next week.
The students continue work on foundational skills in the Haggerty Blue Book which included letter naming, rhyming, initial and final sounds, syllables, adding, substituting and deleting word parts and counting words in a sentence.
Math: The student work on calendar books is becoming more routine. Morning math activities included a shape hunt around the room looking for basic shapes as well as pattern block shapes. Students looked for circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, ovals, trapezoids, hexagons and rhombuses. The students also continue work on number formation 0-8 reciting their number form rhymes and using their white boards and dry erase markers. The students also continued using games and activities that reinforced counting and cardinality. Our afternoon math session focused on our new Eureka Math curriculum. This weeks lessons were all about analyzing to find 2 objects that are exactly the same or not exactly the same, analyzing to find 2 similar objects--these are the same but....and classifying to find 2 objects that share a visual pattern, color and use. Student are also learning common terminology and participated in counting beans and fingers and learning to count following the number glove. ( I will show you this on curriculum night.) Math workstations included animal picnic--set the table with plate and cup that reflect visual classification of pattern, color and use, egg carton math, number writing 0-8, spin a number, shape create/count/record and working with attribute blocks classifying with a partner.
Writing: The students are learning that lines make letters. They looked at straight lines, slant and curved lines. Using the Handwriting Without Tears format, each student used the wooden pieces to make the first letter in their name. The students used the lines to form MAT MAN. We even sang a song about him. MAT MAN has all the lines that writers use to form letters to make words. Next week we will begin formal letter formation learning our Frog Jump Capitals. The students experimented with the tripod grasp activity box. (I will share it with you on curriculum night.) In Writer's Workshop this week, the students shared pieces of their writing. We talked again about how writers write what they know about. Using our idea web, the student made idea "light bulbs" drawing and sketching subjects and using stickers to show ideas they can write about. We also talked about the idea that "instead of saying we are done," we can go back and see if we can add anything else to our drawing... a detail.....something that makes our drawing/writing clearer to us and to others that we share it with.
Technology: The students continue to participate by using apps that are projected on the screen. In reading, the students used the app Sound Sort to match pictures according to their letter sound. They continue to delight in setting their sight words, letters and numbers on "fire" using the app Fire Finger." In math, I introduced the app Easy Match working on matching quantity to number and examining number patterns.
Literature: "Curious George Goes to School," "Mean Jean the Recess Queen," "Chrysanthemum," "I Can," "At School," "We Go to School," "It's Okay to Make Mistakes," "David Goes to School,"
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
UPDATES for 9/6-9/9 2016
**The students are becoming more familiar with our daily routines and expectations of all of their teachers and classes. Lunch is going well! At lunch, we are reinforcing eating our main entre first, drinking our beverages and recycling the school lunch trays and mild cartons. Don't forget to send a healthy snack each day! The students are learning to get out their snack and water bottles and place them on the bench next to their name. There is then less confusion about what is lunch and what is a snack.
**Thanks for seeing that your child's HOMEWORK FOLDER is in their backpack each THURSDAY. Students are learning to take out their homework and put it in the homework box. It was great sharing the "Getting to know me Heads." They are now up in our classroom. Games and paper stories can remain home in a secure place for future review. A reminder to please check HOMEWORK FOLDERS every FRIDAY for homework and other school information. You can also check the assignments page on my website for activities and due dates.
**It was fun to see some of you at the Irving Back to School Party. There was no movie due to the weather, but plenty of pizza!
**COME ONE , COME ALL to Irving School's OPEN HOUSE/CURRICULUM NIGHT on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd from 6:30-7:30 pm. I will be speaking to parents at 6:30 for about 30 minutes on our class routine, classroom management, special area classes, assessments in Kindergarten, Route to Reading specific skills groupings and all curriculum. You can drop your child off for a supervised special feature before you come to see me. I will also have handouts with other information on our year. There will also be SIGN UP SHEETS for PARENT CONFERENCES and other COOL EVENTS. Please pick up your child after my presentation and they will become your TOUR GUIDES as they bring you to meet the teachers who will be working with them. I will give you a list with teachers name, subject and room number as an assist. Hope to see everyone!
**I am continuing to finish KRT testing and also baseline assessments (DIBELS and AIMSWEB MATH and PHONIC SCREENERS, as well as baseline letter and number recognition in order to best plan for your child's academic trimester.
**The students had their first FRIENDSHIP CLUB meeting with Dr. Bell Bey, our social worker. She will be working with our class on a variety of lessons centering around fostering positive peer relationships and activities that support our Second Step Lessons. Stories, games, videos, role playing, acting and puppets are just a few ways she will approach a lesson. This week, Dr. Bell Bey gave an overview about being ready to learn and school manners.
**The students had their first LIBRARY meeting with Ms. Noonan, teacher librarian. Next week, the students will be able to check out a book and take it home for 7 days until the next library time. They return the book and can take out a new one. Ms. Noonan will be reading many types of fiction and nonfiction stories, helping with projects and showing the students how the library is organized, how to find certain books and assisting in supporting our Common Core Curriculum.
**We will have our first meeting with GTD Mr. Packer and his THINKING SKILLS sessions next week. He will be be working with whole and small class groupings.
**In the next few weeks, everything should be ready to our intro to iPad Boot Camp for our Kinders. I will keep you posted.
**Don't forget--Gym shoes on Gym days!
This Week:
It was all about the student's continued effort to feel comfortable with our daily routines and meet all of their teachers for the year. It was about ABC'S everywhere! Why do we need them? What do they look like? How do they sound? What does our mouth look like when we say them? Many sounds? One sound? Uppercase? Lowercase? What happens when we put letters together? Station Day activities included creating a paper doll of themselves, creating a hand print, building with cubes and counting how many, building their number board and experimenting with the math games taught this week.
Reading/Language Arts: The students continue to work on their prep for our Treasures Reading series using Smart Start. The students focused on letter recognition and sound foundation. They are learning about imprinting sound and how our mouth looks when we make that sound. What happens when a sound is produced? Is your mouth opened or closed? Can you feel a vibration in your throat? Can you feel air coming out of your mouth? Let's think about it! The students are working with me to create word webs on suggested topics--What do we do in Kindergarten? What do hands do? How do we look? These exercises generate conversation and participation that stimulate vocabulary. Students continue to listen for rhyming patterns in words. They are learning to chant the ending. Our mantra or chant is for example--cat, bat they end in at.
Students have begun work on sight word recognition. Words presented this week were YES, NO, I, GO, AM, CAN. We played "Hands Up, Hands Down" using our word cards. The students are working on tracking words from left to right in our days of the week reads. They are also counting the number of words in each sentence.
In our formative text study, using the story "Chrysanthemum," the students continue finding the title, front/back cover and spine of the book. Once again, we discussed the job of the author and illustrator. This week, we talked about who is in the story (characters) and where the story happens (setting.) We used the term event to describe something that happens in the story. The students began work on a group Blueprint Workmat identifying the characters, setting and important events they remembered from the story. Prior to this, some students volunteered to act out their favorite part. I projected the mat on our board and students helped me by drawing pictures or helping me with writing. The students will eventually complete their own individual Blueprint Workmat on selected stories. Pretty cool!
The students continued work on foundational skills using the Haggerty Blue Book. Whole group instruction, aided by our reading puppet, Mr. Happy, centered on upper and lowercase recognition, counting words in a sentence, isolating the beginning and ending sounds and counting word parts and beginning work on syllables. Small group workstations included letter hunt, rhyming board game, sequencing ABC's, beginning sound sequence and "Hands Up, Hands Down" using their sight words.
Math: The students are working in their daily Calendar Book. They are writing the number for the date and year, creating a pattern, forming their numbers using rhymes, learning about tally marks and ten frames and recording the weather. Small group workstations included "Listen and Count" count and object match activity, egg carton math, "Got It," "Spin a Number," using their number rhymes to write numbers 0-4 and basic shape recognition. Our Problem of the Day this week centered on positional words. Concepts above, below, next and under were included. Next week begins lessons in our new Eureka Math curriculum. A Parent Tip sheet is in your child's homework folder.
Social Studies/Emotional Growth: Our Second Step Lesson focused on how our Listening Rules help everyone learn. The puppet, Puppy, was super helpful!
Writing: The students are working on strengthening their hands and fingers by using clay. Kneading, squishing and rolling are great ways to get our fingers and hands moving. We continue to work on our tripod grasp when holding markers, crayons and pencils. Students are also using the giant tweezers (great tripod grasp tool) to "feed" the dog and to place colored beads into their matching cups. Next week we will spend some time trying some grasp strengthening activities from from a special finger training activity box. In Writer's Workshop this week, we continued our chat about writers writing what they know about. We discussed and recorded what writers can do, where writers can write and who in the class are writers? We also talked about what a sentence is--it is a group of words that NAMES and TELLS us about something or someone. Students added more details to existing writing pieces or began writing and drawing on a new topic of their choice. Some students have begun to use "inventive" or phonetic spelling. They are writing down what they hear. It may be the beginning sound or beginning and ending sound. It is what they are hearing that is important. Let them spell what they hear. During our writers conference time, students may read back to me what they wrote, ask me to help them write, show me their labeling of certain pictures or simply tell me about their drawing and I will record their responses.
Technology: We continue to work on foundational apps that are projected onto the screen for student interaction. We use the app Sound Sort focusing on beginning sounds. The app Fire Finger was used to set our numbers and uppercase letters on "fire." (recognition) Of course, Subitize Tree continues to aid in visual counting and finding number patterns. The app Weatherunderground, is used to familiarize students with current weather conditions in our area, temperature, precipitation and weather predictions.
Literature: "Chrysanthemum," "David Goes to School," "What Would the Fat Cat Sit On?" "If You Take a Mouse To School," "Mouse Loves School," "I Measure Myself," (poem) "The Mixed Up Alphabet."
**Thanks for seeing that your child's HOMEWORK FOLDER is in their backpack each THURSDAY. Students are learning to take out their homework and put it in the homework box. It was great sharing the "Getting to know me Heads." They are now up in our classroom. Games and paper stories can remain home in a secure place for future review. A reminder to please check HOMEWORK FOLDERS every FRIDAY for homework and other school information. You can also check the assignments page on my website for activities and due dates.
**It was fun to see some of you at the Irving Back to School Party. There was no movie due to the weather, but plenty of pizza!
**COME ONE , COME ALL to Irving School's OPEN HOUSE/CURRICULUM NIGHT on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd from 6:30-7:30 pm. I will be speaking to parents at 6:30 for about 30 minutes on our class routine, classroom management, special area classes, assessments in Kindergarten, Route to Reading specific skills groupings and all curriculum. You can drop your child off for a supervised special feature before you come to see me. I will also have handouts with other information on our year. There will also be SIGN UP SHEETS for PARENT CONFERENCES and other COOL EVENTS. Please pick up your child after my presentation and they will become your TOUR GUIDES as they bring you to meet the teachers who will be working with them. I will give you a list with teachers name, subject and room number as an assist. Hope to see everyone!
**I am continuing to finish KRT testing and also baseline assessments (DIBELS and AIMSWEB MATH and PHONIC SCREENERS, as well as baseline letter and number recognition in order to best plan for your child's academic trimester.
**The students had their first FRIENDSHIP CLUB meeting with Dr. Bell Bey, our social worker. She will be working with our class on a variety of lessons centering around fostering positive peer relationships and activities that support our Second Step Lessons. Stories, games, videos, role playing, acting and puppets are just a few ways she will approach a lesson. This week, Dr. Bell Bey gave an overview about being ready to learn and school manners.
**The students had their first LIBRARY meeting with Ms. Noonan, teacher librarian. Next week, the students will be able to check out a book and take it home for 7 days until the next library time. They return the book and can take out a new one. Ms. Noonan will be reading many types of fiction and nonfiction stories, helping with projects and showing the students how the library is organized, how to find certain books and assisting in supporting our Common Core Curriculum.
**We will have our first meeting with GTD Mr. Packer and his THINKING SKILLS sessions next week. He will be be working with whole and small class groupings.
**In the next few weeks, everything should be ready to our intro to iPad Boot Camp for our Kinders. I will keep you posted.
**Don't forget--Gym shoes on Gym days!
This Week:
It was all about the student's continued effort to feel comfortable with our daily routines and meet all of their teachers for the year. It was about ABC'S everywhere! Why do we need them? What do they look like? How do they sound? What does our mouth look like when we say them? Many sounds? One sound? Uppercase? Lowercase? What happens when we put letters together? Station Day activities included creating a paper doll of themselves, creating a hand print, building with cubes and counting how many, building their number board and experimenting with the math games taught this week.
Reading/Language Arts: The students continue to work on their prep for our Treasures Reading series using Smart Start. The students focused on letter recognition and sound foundation. They are learning about imprinting sound and how our mouth looks when we make that sound. What happens when a sound is produced? Is your mouth opened or closed? Can you feel a vibration in your throat? Can you feel air coming out of your mouth? Let's think about it! The students are working with me to create word webs on suggested topics--What do we do in Kindergarten? What do hands do? How do we look? These exercises generate conversation and participation that stimulate vocabulary. Students continue to listen for rhyming patterns in words. They are learning to chant the ending. Our mantra or chant is for example--cat, bat they end in at.
Students have begun work on sight word recognition. Words presented this week were YES, NO, I, GO, AM, CAN. We played "Hands Up, Hands Down" using our word cards. The students are working on tracking words from left to right in our days of the week reads. They are also counting the number of words in each sentence.
In our formative text study, using the story "Chrysanthemum," the students continue finding the title, front/back cover and spine of the book. Once again, we discussed the job of the author and illustrator. This week, we talked about who is in the story (characters) and where the story happens (setting.) We used the term event to describe something that happens in the story. The students began work on a group Blueprint Workmat identifying the characters, setting and important events they remembered from the story. Prior to this, some students volunteered to act out their favorite part. I projected the mat on our board and students helped me by drawing pictures or helping me with writing. The students will eventually complete their own individual Blueprint Workmat on selected stories. Pretty cool!
The students continued work on foundational skills using the Haggerty Blue Book. Whole group instruction, aided by our reading puppet, Mr. Happy, centered on upper and lowercase recognition, counting words in a sentence, isolating the beginning and ending sounds and counting word parts and beginning work on syllables. Small group workstations included letter hunt, rhyming board game, sequencing ABC's, beginning sound sequence and "Hands Up, Hands Down" using their sight words.
Math: The students are working in their daily Calendar Book. They are writing the number for the date and year, creating a pattern, forming their numbers using rhymes, learning about tally marks and ten frames and recording the weather. Small group workstations included "Listen and Count" count and object match activity, egg carton math, "Got It," "Spin a Number," using their number rhymes to write numbers 0-4 and basic shape recognition. Our Problem of the Day this week centered on positional words. Concepts above, below, next and under were included. Next week begins lessons in our new Eureka Math curriculum. A Parent Tip sheet is in your child's homework folder.
Social Studies/Emotional Growth: Our Second Step Lesson focused on how our Listening Rules help everyone learn. The puppet, Puppy, was super helpful!
Writing: The students are working on strengthening their hands and fingers by using clay. Kneading, squishing and rolling are great ways to get our fingers and hands moving. We continue to work on our tripod grasp when holding markers, crayons and pencils. Students are also using the giant tweezers (great tripod grasp tool) to "feed" the dog and to place colored beads into their matching cups. Next week we will spend some time trying some grasp strengthening activities from from a special finger training activity box. In Writer's Workshop this week, we continued our chat about writers writing what they know about. We discussed and recorded what writers can do, where writers can write and who in the class are writers? We also talked about what a sentence is--it is a group of words that NAMES and TELLS us about something or someone. Students added more details to existing writing pieces or began writing and drawing on a new topic of their choice. Some students have begun to use "inventive" or phonetic spelling. They are writing down what they hear. It may be the beginning sound or beginning and ending sound. It is what they are hearing that is important. Let them spell what they hear. During our writers conference time, students may read back to me what they wrote, ask me to help them write, show me their labeling of certain pictures or simply tell me about their drawing and I will record their responses.
Technology: We continue to work on foundational apps that are projected onto the screen for student interaction. We use the app Sound Sort focusing on beginning sounds. The app Fire Finger was used to set our numbers and uppercase letters on "fire." (recognition) Of course, Subitize Tree continues to aid in visual counting and finding number patterns. The app Weatherunderground, is used to familiarize students with current weather conditions in our area, temperature, precipitation and weather predictions.
Literature: "Chrysanthemum," "David Goes to School," "What Would the Fat Cat Sit On?" "If You Take a Mouse To School," "Mouse Loves School," "I Measure Myself," (poem) "The Mixed Up Alphabet."
Friday, September 2, 2016
UPDATES for 8/29-9/2 2016
**We are off to a great start! I am so glad all of you are part of our Irving School Family! I was so happy to meet all of you and your extended family and caregivers. We are going to have a great year.!
**We were a bit hot and sweaty at the beginning of the week. It was so enjoyable to see the humidity go down at the end of the week. Please continue to send a water bottle with your child.
**I will be giving the Kindergarten Readiness Test (KRT) to those students who did not take it during the summer per a directive from District 97. I will begin doing this next week. Any concerns about taking this test should be address in writing to Mr. Hodge. The test is about 20 minutes long.
**A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Ms. Flannery, Ms. Ahring, Ms. Raphael and Zoey's Grandma for helping us with lunch. Things are going well. The students are learning about the lunch routine and recycling milk cartons and paper trays. Please continue to reinforce--HOME LUNCH? SCHOOL LUNCH?--MILK?--WHAT KIND? Just to check with all grown ups---if you child is ordering MILK with a HOME LUNCH....please email me to confirm. Many students are asking for milk with their home lunches. I would like to get a accurate account so you are not charged in error.
**Your child's RED HOMEWORK FOLDER is in their backpack. It has homework and information items for parents to read. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SIGNED THE ACCEPTABLE TECHNOLOGY USAGE FORM. Our iPads are now in our building and I would like to begin iPad Bootcamp soon. Please check their RED HOMEWORK FOLDER EVERY FRIDAY. If there is an assignment that needs to be sent back, that will be due the following Thursday. Games and stories can remain home. Read the info under "click here for assignments" under my name and title for other learning suggestions.
**Please remember to wear or send gym shoes and socks every day. They are especially needed on gym days.
**Information on being an Irving Volunteer, PTO, Eagle Extra On Line Registration, Menu, New Parent Dinner, Peanut Allergy Letter, Back to School Party/Movie Night and Barrie Fest both at Barrie Park are in your child's red homework folder.
**All special area classes have begun. Friendship Club (character development) with Social Worker, Dr. Bell Bey and Thinking Skills with GTD, Mr. Packer will begin next week.
**As soon as I set up student passwords, students will begin working on Lexia Core 5 in our computer lab. This program is a great companion piece to our Language Arts and Literacy Program. Students are able to work on phonemic awareness, phonics and comprehension skills at their own pace. The skills begin at Kindergarten thru Grade 3.
**Our Room Parents for 2016-2017 are Michelle Ahring, Jessica Flannery, Sarah Pierson, Susan Raphael, Knikia Dantzler and Tahji Dixon. Thanks!
**OPEN HOUSE/CURRICULUM NIGHT is Thursday, September 22nd from 6:30-8:00 pm. More information is forthcoming.
**In the future--if your child is traveling where they are staying overnight--let me know and I will send a "Travel Journal." We are going to be tracking places where we have been and sharing our travel stories. It can be grandma's house, another town, another state or country. Great geography!
**NO SCHOOL--Monday, September 5th in observance of Labor Day.
This week:
It was all about routines, expectations and meeting new friends and teachers. Yes.......I talked a lot! The students met with all of their special area teachers--Ms. Hiolski-Music, Senortia Zaragoza-Spanish, Ms. Noonan-Library, Mr. Hancock-PE, Ms. Tague-Art. The students are getting to know each other and are fostering new friendships. The students have learned how to earn EAGLE SLIPS as part of our school wide behavior program. Our Daily Mantra is--Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe Everywhere and Have Fun! Students are beginning to earn Eagle Slips. Each Friday, Mr. Hodge picks 10 winners to choose a little token. We had a winner picked from our room!! Congratulations to Jeanette!! What a great start.
Reading/Language Arts: In our first week of school, the students began a 3 week prep in our Treasures Reading series call Smart Start. Our Common Core Standards in Literacy are being taught thru selected texts. I will be speaking about this at Open House/Curriculum Night. The students are using their language skills to respond to a daily warm up question. We are working on raising our hands to volunteer information. Students worked on their listening comprehension skills and making predictions and connections by listening and responding to the Big Book Story, "Animals in the Park-ABC Book." The students also began work on recognizing rhyming sequences. Rhyming words have the same ending parts. Students began to generate words and rhyming patterns. They learned the rhyming chant--bat, cat, they end with at. Students are also working on upper and lowercase letter recognition. They learned how to play the "Hands Up, Hands Down." It is one of their homework assignments. Students also worked on "tracking" words in a sentence from left to right and counting how many words were in a given sentence. In our formative text, "Chrysanthemum," the students worked on finding the title (name), the front and back cover and the spine of the book.
We discussed what an author does and the job of an illustrator. The students worked on foundational skills using the Haggerty Blue Book. Whole group instruction centered around recognizing upper and lowercase letters, counting words in a sentence, isolating the beginning and ending sound of a word, examining what our mouth looks like and what other things happen (puffs of air, vibrations) when we make the sounds of consonants and vowels. Workstation (small group) activities centered around sequencing ABC's, finding a rhyme, writing our name, partner letter sound match and playing Hands Up, Hands Down.
Math: The students were introduced to our daily calendar activities. What is a ten frame? What is a rekenrek? The students began placing a black dot on the ten frame for each day that we are in school. When we get to 100----PARTY!!! The students graphed and counted how many girls and boys are in our class. They also created a "Who's name has the most letters?" graph. The students worked on number recognition and counting objects to 5 and 10. They worked with their towers of ten, choosing a number card and building their tower with that many cubes. Whole group instruction centered around number recognition and counting activities. Small group activities included "egg carton" math--placing the correct number of beans in each section, sorting by 2 attributes, recognizing simple plane shapes and pattern block shapes and writing numbers 0-5. The students also explored pattern blocks, geo boards, simple plane shapes, gears, waffle blocks and magnetiles.
Social Studies/Cross Curricular: Our theme is All About Me and My Family. The students drew self portraits and related a little fact about something we should know about them. They chatted about things that are important to them. The students discussed the importance of their families and drew a picture of their families. (so precious!!) We will begin our Second Step Emotional Health Curriculum next Tuesday.
Writing: The students began Writer's Workshop. They worked off the idea that we are all writers. The students chatted about what writing is and I showed them examples of books and what the writers wrote in them. Writing is putting your ideas on paper with words and pictures. You can write what you know about, or dream about. We can begin with a drawing. The students talked with their partner about what they could write or teach them about. We had lots of great ideas---family, animals, pets, the ocean, going to school. The students also worked on how they hold a pencil or marker---using their tripod grip. Some students shared their drawing and writing with classmates. During my writing conference time, individual students were able to tell me about their drawing and I recorded what they told me. Some students labels certain parts with beginning letters. Some tried their hand at writing some words. It was very exciting!
Technology: We have been working together on a few foundational skills apps that have been projected onto the screen for student interaction. The app Number Rack uses the rekenrek beads and we played a how many game. The app Subitize Tree focused on the idea of visual counting and looking at number patterns. The app Animal Math worked on counting quantities, sequencing numbers, what number comes before or after, which number is greater. I try to find apps that are free or low cost.
Literature: "Kindergarten Rocks," "Red," "What does It Mean To Be Kind?" "Kindergarten is Cool," "When Dinosaurs Go To School," "Kindergarten Rules," "Hands are Not For Hitting," "It's All About You--Writing your own Journal," "Freight Train," "Chrysanthemum."
**We were a bit hot and sweaty at the beginning of the week. It was so enjoyable to see the humidity go down at the end of the week. Please continue to send a water bottle with your child.
**I will be giving the Kindergarten Readiness Test (KRT) to those students who did not take it during the summer per a directive from District 97. I will begin doing this next week. Any concerns about taking this test should be address in writing to Mr. Hodge. The test is about 20 minutes long.
**A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Ms. Flannery, Ms. Ahring, Ms. Raphael and Zoey's Grandma for helping us with lunch. Things are going well. The students are learning about the lunch routine and recycling milk cartons and paper trays. Please continue to reinforce--HOME LUNCH? SCHOOL LUNCH?--MILK?--WHAT KIND? Just to check with all grown ups---if you child is ordering MILK with a HOME LUNCH....please email me to confirm. Many students are asking for milk with their home lunches. I would like to get a accurate account so you are not charged in error.
**Your child's RED HOMEWORK FOLDER is in their backpack. It has homework and information items for parents to read. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SIGNED THE ACCEPTABLE TECHNOLOGY USAGE FORM. Our iPads are now in our building and I would like to begin iPad Bootcamp soon. Please check their RED HOMEWORK FOLDER EVERY FRIDAY. If there is an assignment that needs to be sent back, that will be due the following Thursday. Games and stories can remain home. Read the info under "click here for assignments" under my name and title for other learning suggestions.
**Please remember to wear or send gym shoes and socks every day. They are especially needed on gym days.
**Information on being an Irving Volunteer, PTO, Eagle Extra On Line Registration, Menu, New Parent Dinner, Peanut Allergy Letter, Back to School Party/Movie Night and Barrie Fest both at Barrie Park are in your child's red homework folder.
**All special area classes have begun. Friendship Club (character development) with Social Worker, Dr. Bell Bey and Thinking Skills with GTD, Mr. Packer will begin next week.
**As soon as I set up student passwords, students will begin working on Lexia Core 5 in our computer lab. This program is a great companion piece to our Language Arts and Literacy Program. Students are able to work on phonemic awareness, phonics and comprehension skills at their own pace. The skills begin at Kindergarten thru Grade 3.
**Our Room Parents for 2016-2017 are Michelle Ahring, Jessica Flannery, Sarah Pierson, Susan Raphael, Knikia Dantzler and Tahji Dixon. Thanks!
**OPEN HOUSE/CURRICULUM NIGHT is Thursday, September 22nd from 6:30-8:00 pm. More information is forthcoming.
**In the future--if your child is traveling where they are staying overnight--let me know and I will send a "Travel Journal." We are going to be tracking places where we have been and sharing our travel stories. It can be grandma's house, another town, another state or country. Great geography!
**NO SCHOOL--Monday, September 5th in observance of Labor Day.
This week:
It was all about routines, expectations and meeting new friends and teachers. Yes.......I talked a lot! The students met with all of their special area teachers--Ms. Hiolski-Music, Senortia Zaragoza-Spanish, Ms. Noonan-Library, Mr. Hancock-PE, Ms. Tague-Art. The students are getting to know each other and are fostering new friendships. The students have learned how to earn EAGLE SLIPS as part of our school wide behavior program. Our Daily Mantra is--Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe Everywhere and Have Fun! Students are beginning to earn Eagle Slips. Each Friday, Mr. Hodge picks 10 winners to choose a little token. We had a winner picked from our room!! Congratulations to Jeanette!! What a great start.
Reading/Language Arts: In our first week of school, the students began a 3 week prep in our Treasures Reading series call Smart Start. Our Common Core Standards in Literacy are being taught thru selected texts. I will be speaking about this at Open House/Curriculum Night. The students are using their language skills to respond to a daily warm up question. We are working on raising our hands to volunteer information. Students worked on their listening comprehension skills and making predictions and connections by listening and responding to the Big Book Story, "Animals in the Park-ABC Book." The students also began work on recognizing rhyming sequences. Rhyming words have the same ending parts. Students began to generate words and rhyming patterns. They learned the rhyming chant--bat, cat, they end with at. Students are also working on upper and lowercase letter recognition. They learned how to play the "Hands Up, Hands Down." It is one of their homework assignments. Students also worked on "tracking" words in a sentence from left to right and counting how many words were in a given sentence. In our formative text, "Chrysanthemum," the students worked on finding the title (name), the front and back cover and the spine of the book.
We discussed what an author does and the job of an illustrator. The students worked on foundational skills using the Haggerty Blue Book. Whole group instruction centered around recognizing upper and lowercase letters, counting words in a sentence, isolating the beginning and ending sound of a word, examining what our mouth looks like and what other things happen (puffs of air, vibrations) when we make the sounds of consonants and vowels. Workstation (small group) activities centered around sequencing ABC's, finding a rhyme, writing our name, partner letter sound match and playing Hands Up, Hands Down.
Math: The students were introduced to our daily calendar activities. What is a ten frame? What is a rekenrek? The students began placing a black dot on the ten frame for each day that we are in school. When we get to 100----PARTY!!! The students graphed and counted how many girls and boys are in our class. They also created a "Who's name has the most letters?" graph. The students worked on number recognition and counting objects to 5 and 10. They worked with their towers of ten, choosing a number card and building their tower with that many cubes. Whole group instruction centered around number recognition and counting activities. Small group activities included "egg carton" math--placing the correct number of beans in each section, sorting by 2 attributes, recognizing simple plane shapes and pattern block shapes and writing numbers 0-5. The students also explored pattern blocks, geo boards, simple plane shapes, gears, waffle blocks and magnetiles.
Social Studies/Cross Curricular: Our theme is All About Me and My Family. The students drew self portraits and related a little fact about something we should know about them. They chatted about things that are important to them. The students discussed the importance of their families and drew a picture of their families. (so precious!!) We will begin our Second Step Emotional Health Curriculum next Tuesday.
Writing: The students began Writer's Workshop. They worked off the idea that we are all writers. The students chatted about what writing is and I showed them examples of books and what the writers wrote in them. Writing is putting your ideas on paper with words and pictures. You can write what you know about, or dream about. We can begin with a drawing. The students talked with their partner about what they could write or teach them about. We had lots of great ideas---family, animals, pets, the ocean, going to school. The students also worked on how they hold a pencil or marker---using their tripod grip. Some students shared their drawing and writing with classmates. During my writing conference time, individual students were able to tell me about their drawing and I recorded what they told me. Some students labels certain parts with beginning letters. Some tried their hand at writing some words. It was very exciting!
Technology: We have been working together on a few foundational skills apps that have been projected onto the screen for student interaction. The app Number Rack uses the rekenrek beads and we played a how many game. The app Subitize Tree focused on the idea of visual counting and looking at number patterns. The app Animal Math worked on counting quantities, sequencing numbers, what number comes before or after, which number is greater. I try to find apps that are free or low cost.
Literature: "Kindergarten Rocks," "Red," "What does It Mean To Be Kind?" "Kindergarten is Cool," "When Dinosaurs Go To School," "Kindergarten Rules," "Hands are Not For Hitting," "It's All About You--Writing your own Journal," "Freight Train," "Chrysanthemum."
Sunday, August 28, 2016
It's Time for Kindergarten!!
**Welcome to Ms. Gullo's Class!
**Class begins tomorrow, August 29th at 8:00 am. Please meet me outside our patio door adjacent to the main entrance of our school. There will be a sign (written in chalk) indicating where to line up. The first bell is at 7:55 am and I will be opening my door at 8:00 am with a HUGE SMILE on my face!!
**We will always enter and exit the BROWN PATIO DOOR.
**Because of the hot weather--please send a water bottle with your child. We do not have air conditioning, but have places to cool off in the building.
**Please send a HEALTHY snack each day. I will have a back up snack if you forget.
**The first hour of class from 8:00-9:00 am is a FAMILY HOUR. I will chat with both adults and students. We will have a story and perhaps an activity. Families will depart at 9:00 am and we will continue our day.
**ABSOLUTELY NO NUT OR NUT PRODUCTS ARE ALLOWED IN OUR CLASSROOM.
Your child may bring nut products for lunch that are kept in their lunchbox.
**Your child should know if he/she is has a HOME LUNCH or getting a SCHOOL LUNCH.
Did you send a drink or are they ordering WHITE or CHOCOLATE MILK from SCHOOL?
**Our lunch recess begins at 11:15 am. We will be outside on the playground until 11:40 am. We will use the bathroom/clean hands and eat in the lunchroom from 11:45-12:10.
**I have Ms. Ahring, Ms. Flannery and Ms. Raphael and Zoey's Grandma helping out in the lunchroom. Thanks much!
**IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY--please have your child wear or keep in school a pair of gym shoes and socks.
**Please make sure your child has a COMPLETE CHANGE OF CLOTHES INCLUDING SOCKS AND UNDERWEAR.
**Our SPECIALS SCHEDULE will begin tomorrow afternoon with PE and Spanish.
** Please continue to bring in any supplies and medical forms.
**Our regular dismissal is at 2:55 pm.....BUT.......for tomorrow only, families can come back and join us for our end of the day story. Please note that regular dismissal is at 2:55 daily except for Wednesdays when it is at 1:55 pm.
**I have received information on students who are taking the district bus, attending Hephzibah, Magical Minds, Clubhouse and some home daycares. If your child is attending one of these after care programs, please email me to let me know when your child will begin them. Please remember---older siblings picking up kindergarten students must dismiss from their own designated door and walk around to the front patio to pick up K students.
**I can't wait to see all of you TOMORROW!
**Class begins tomorrow, August 29th at 8:00 am. Please meet me outside our patio door adjacent to the main entrance of our school. There will be a sign (written in chalk) indicating where to line up. The first bell is at 7:55 am and I will be opening my door at 8:00 am with a HUGE SMILE on my face!!
**We will always enter and exit the BROWN PATIO DOOR.
**Because of the hot weather--please send a water bottle with your child. We do not have air conditioning, but have places to cool off in the building.
**Please send a HEALTHY snack each day. I will have a back up snack if you forget.
**The first hour of class from 8:00-9:00 am is a FAMILY HOUR. I will chat with both adults and students. We will have a story and perhaps an activity. Families will depart at 9:00 am and we will continue our day.
**ABSOLUTELY NO NUT OR NUT PRODUCTS ARE ALLOWED IN OUR CLASSROOM.
Your child may bring nut products for lunch that are kept in their lunchbox.
**Your child should know if he/she is has a HOME LUNCH or getting a SCHOOL LUNCH.
Did you send a drink or are they ordering WHITE or CHOCOLATE MILK from SCHOOL?
**Our lunch recess begins at 11:15 am. We will be outside on the playground until 11:40 am. We will use the bathroom/clean hands and eat in the lunchroom from 11:45-12:10.
**I have Ms. Ahring, Ms. Flannery and Ms. Raphael and Zoey's Grandma helping out in the lunchroom. Thanks much!
**IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY--please have your child wear or keep in school a pair of gym shoes and socks.
**Please make sure your child has a COMPLETE CHANGE OF CLOTHES INCLUDING SOCKS AND UNDERWEAR.
**Our SPECIALS SCHEDULE will begin tomorrow afternoon with PE and Spanish.
** Please continue to bring in any supplies and medical forms.
**Our regular dismissal is at 2:55 pm.....BUT.......for tomorrow only, families can come back and join us for our end of the day story. Please note that regular dismissal is at 2:55 daily except for Wednesdays when it is at 1:55 pm.
**I have received information on students who are taking the district bus, attending Hephzibah, Magical Minds, Clubhouse and some home daycares. If your child is attending one of these after care programs, please email me to let me know when your child will begin them. Please remember---older siblings picking up kindergarten students must dismiss from their own designated door and walk around to the front patio to pick up K students.
**I can't wait to see all of you TOMORROW!
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
WELCOME STUDENTS and FAMILIES!! August 2016
**Welcome to Irving School and Room 110 which is Ms. Gullo's Kindergarten classroom.
** I am very excited to meet each and everyone of you!
**I am almost finished getting everything ready for the beginning of our school year.
**Please come to school to drop off your supplies, meet me and check out our classroom on Thursday, August 25th between 4:00-5:30 pm in Room 110.
**I am looking for interested parents to help with the lunch program for the first week of school. Our lunch room time is 11:15-12:10. You can email me if you are interested. I will also have a sign up sheet at the supply drop off.
**Our very first day of school is MONDAY, AUGUST 29th. Students are here from 8:00-2:55 pm. Please line up on our kindergarten patio which is adjacent to the main doors. On this first day, families can remain with students from 8:00-9:00 am. Come see our classroom and hear about our daily schedule.
**Some things to ponder......home lunch?? school lunch?? ordering milk?? what kind??
**All medical forms need to be in by Monday.
** We will have a full day on Monday.
**Stop and check out the Irving Garden! Can you find Ms. Gullo's garden bed? Check out our green beans, tomatoes, eggplant. There are also lots of potatoes underground. We will harvest them in the fall. Check out some of the other beds. The Wild Flowers at the far end were planted by our outgoing fifth grade students.
**See you all soon!!!
** I am very excited to meet each and everyone of you!
**I am almost finished getting everything ready for the beginning of our school year.
**Please come to school to drop off your supplies, meet me and check out our classroom on Thursday, August 25th between 4:00-5:30 pm in Room 110.
**I am looking for interested parents to help with the lunch program for the first week of school. Our lunch room time is 11:15-12:10. You can email me if you are interested. I will also have a sign up sheet at the supply drop off.
**Our very first day of school is MONDAY, AUGUST 29th. Students are here from 8:00-2:55 pm. Please line up on our kindergarten patio which is adjacent to the main doors. On this first day, families can remain with students from 8:00-9:00 am. Come see our classroom and hear about our daily schedule.
**Some things to ponder......home lunch?? school lunch?? ordering milk?? what kind??
**All medical forms need to be in by Monday.
** We will have a full day on Monday.
**Stop and check out the Irving Garden! Can you find Ms. Gullo's garden bed? Check out our green beans, tomatoes, eggplant. There are also lots of potatoes underground. We will harvest them in the fall. Check out some of the other beds. The Wild Flowers at the far end were planted by our outgoing fifth grade students.
**See you all soon!!!
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Sunday, June 5, 2016
UPDATES for 5/31-6/3 2016
**Our ABC COUNTDOWN is nearing the end! This week, the students had a great T-Ball Game on the turf, made a unicorn mask, ate a vegetable for snack and had some juicy watermelon to end the week. Next week, we will make our autograph books (X marks the spot!) have a YES! Day and go into the Reading Bubble to ZIP and ZOOM into Summer and First Grade.
**Our visit to the Chicken Coup was rescheduled for Monday, June 6th. We will be walking beginning at 11:30 and return for lunch at 12:15 pm.
**Our WALKING FIELD TRIP to the Oak Park Conservatory is Tuesday, June 7th. We will begin walking at 9:40 am. We have a classroom experience beginning at 10:00 am and then a tour of all the plant rooms. If time permits, we will sketch in the Desert Room. We have N. Daniel, M. Nelson, K. Bell volunteering their help.
**Please join us on the last day of school (JUNE 8th) beginning at 1:00 pm for our last FAMILY HOUR. The students will be signing autograph signing, have light refreshments, get report cards and summer packets......and maybe "do"something special on the black top!
**Keep those LIBRARY BOOKS and BUSY READERS coming in. They are due NOW! Look around your house and especially behind things.
**Information on the Oak Park Library's Summer Reading Incentive is in your child's back pack. "Read to Win" had begun! Have Fun!
**Information on the Irving School Summer Math Incentive will be in your child's report card.
It is called "Splash Into Math." Students will have a chance to work at their own pace and move across grade levels. Check it out!
**We did not let the weather keep us from our Pizza and Play! We had a dance party in the auditorium in the morning and by noon the weather had cleared enough for us to have our pizza, veggies and fruit picnic style in front of the school. A HUGE THANKS for those of you who helped make our picnic special!
**I was not able to attend the End of the Year Block Party, but I heard it was great fun. Hope you came out to enjoy it!
**Please keep sending your child's back pack! Thanks! The rest of our journals, science notebooks and Trimester 3 portfolios will go home.
**Our space stations will be recycled next week!
This week:
The students spent time looking over their portfolios and writing journals. They really marveled at all the progress they made. The writing journals were especially fun. Some students couldn't believe their own writing at the beginning of the year. We are beginning to put away things for summer cleaning. These students are so ready to move on to First Grade!
Reading/Language Arts: The students continued their review of all they have learned this year in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension. They planned their own workstations. They are READING everywhere!!!!
Math: The students continued to work on their new June Calendar Books and their math review journals. They are so independent now! Yes! Work on counting, shapes, adding, subtracting, story problems, equation writing, positional concepts, nonstandard measurement, teen numbers and number writing were a few of the topics they reviewed.
Writing: The students are currently working on their draft writing on the topic: "Worms." They will finish it up with the final draft next week. They had a great time looking over their beginning journals--from simple white paper to our green journals. Lots of comments on letters formation, word writing, and even how they illustrated "back then." So much progress!
Science: The students are observing the goings on in the worm bin. Students have brought some "food" to feed the worm compost. The students observed a worms segmented body and pointy head. The bristles or hairs that help them to move were too tiny to see. We are hoping to plant next week in our garden bed.
Technology: The students are currently working on their end of the year movie entitled, "The Best Part of Kindergarten." Each student has chosen an aspect of kindergarten and written a script to recite. Then they had to come up with a way to act it out. Stay tuned!!!
Literature: "Curious George Plants a Tree," "Diary of a Worm," "An Ants Day Off."
**Our visit to the Chicken Coup was rescheduled for Monday, June 6th. We will be walking beginning at 11:30 and return for lunch at 12:15 pm.
**Our WALKING FIELD TRIP to the Oak Park Conservatory is Tuesday, June 7th. We will begin walking at 9:40 am. We have a classroom experience beginning at 10:00 am and then a tour of all the plant rooms. If time permits, we will sketch in the Desert Room. We have N. Daniel, M. Nelson, K. Bell volunteering their help.
**Please join us on the last day of school (JUNE 8th) beginning at 1:00 pm for our last FAMILY HOUR. The students will be signing autograph signing, have light refreshments, get report cards and summer packets......and maybe "do"something special on the black top!
**Keep those LIBRARY BOOKS and BUSY READERS coming in. They are due NOW! Look around your house and especially behind things.
**Information on the Oak Park Library's Summer Reading Incentive is in your child's back pack. "Read to Win" had begun! Have Fun!
**Information on the Irving School Summer Math Incentive will be in your child's report card.
It is called "Splash Into Math." Students will have a chance to work at their own pace and move across grade levels. Check it out!
**We did not let the weather keep us from our Pizza and Play! We had a dance party in the auditorium in the morning and by noon the weather had cleared enough for us to have our pizza, veggies and fruit picnic style in front of the school. A HUGE THANKS for those of you who helped make our picnic special!
**I was not able to attend the End of the Year Block Party, but I heard it was great fun. Hope you came out to enjoy it!
**Please keep sending your child's back pack! Thanks! The rest of our journals, science notebooks and Trimester 3 portfolios will go home.
**Our space stations will be recycled next week!
This week:
The students spent time looking over their portfolios and writing journals. They really marveled at all the progress they made. The writing journals were especially fun. Some students couldn't believe their own writing at the beginning of the year. We are beginning to put away things for summer cleaning. These students are so ready to move on to First Grade!
Reading/Language Arts: The students continued their review of all they have learned this year in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension. They planned their own workstations. They are READING everywhere!!!!
Math: The students continued to work on their new June Calendar Books and their math review journals. They are so independent now! Yes! Work on counting, shapes, adding, subtracting, story problems, equation writing, positional concepts, nonstandard measurement, teen numbers and number writing were a few of the topics they reviewed.
Writing: The students are currently working on their draft writing on the topic: "Worms." They will finish it up with the final draft next week. They had a great time looking over their beginning journals--from simple white paper to our green journals. Lots of comments on letters formation, word writing, and even how they illustrated "back then." So much progress!
Science: The students are observing the goings on in the worm bin. Students have brought some "food" to feed the worm compost. The students observed a worms segmented body and pointy head. The bristles or hairs that help them to move were too tiny to see. We are hoping to plant next week in our garden bed.
Technology: The students are currently working on their end of the year movie entitled, "The Best Part of Kindergarten." Each student has chosen an aspect of kindergarten and written a script to recite. Then they had to come up with a way to act it out. Stay tuned!!!
Literature: "Curious George Plants a Tree," "Diary of a Worm," "An Ants Day Off."
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