Thursday, September 17, 2015

Our first few days!

Check out what we have been up to!

Buddy Reading! Ask us what the ear and the lip cards mean.


Math centers!







Thursday, June 11, 2015

Math!

Here are a couple of our favorite math centers from this week!

Beach bump! We are practicing adding 3 dice together.

Clear the board. Ask your child how to play this predicting and adding game!

Cheetah challenge: I Have a Who Has by 2's. We love timing ourselves and trying to beat our old record!

Friday, May 29, 2015

Math

I keep forgetting to take pictures during literacy block (sorry!), but here is a look at some of our math work this week!

Cheetah Challenge: I Have Who Has (how can we work together to beat our record time?)

Bump! A class favorite for practicing addition.

Number Flash. We are working on identifying numbers quickly without counting all (for example, we know without counting that the full ten-frame on the left makes ten... We can count on from there, or some of us might recognize that half of the ten frame makes five, so it must be 15 all together).

We are working as a group to put number cards in order. It is tricky when we don't start at 1!

We are working on adding two more with this BINGO game!

Friday Flash!

Friday Flash 
June 1st- June 15th, 2015

Focus of the Week
     ·      Literacy:
-       Lions at Lunchtime ch. 1-5
-       Sight words
-       Last names!
     ·      Science: Tide pools
     ·      Math:
-       Addition
-       Subtraction
-       Subitizing (identifying the numbers in a small set without counting)

Notes/Reminders
     ·      June 8th: Tide Pool field trip (rain date June 9th)
PLEASE RETURN PERMISSION SLIPS ASAP!!
     ·      June 11th: Family Picnic
(rain date June 12th)

Things to work on at home
We are working on being able to do these things by the end of the year:
      ·      Count to 100 by tens and ones
     ·      Write our first and last names with appropriate uppercase and lowercase letters
     ·      Identify one more and one less than numbers to 21
     ·      Read and write our K sight words

Conversation Starters
     ·      Can you count on from (7? 14? 21?) without starting at 1?
     ·      Tell me about the clam you made for your tide pool.
     ·      What did you learn about people in the African savanna? What about the animals?
     ·      Can you write the numbers 0-25?



Kindergarten Sight Words
a
at
and
am
are
by
can
come
go
he
I
in
it
is
like
me
my
on
of
see
said
some
she
to
the
went
we
was
you

We have now introduced all of our kindergarten sight words. Kindergarteners should be able to read and write these words by the end of the school year!




















Friday, May 22, 2015

Friday Flash

Friday Flash 
May 26th- May 29th, 2015

Focus of the Week  
     ·      Literacy:
-       Background Knowledge for Lions at Lunchtime (the African Savanna)
-       Sight words
-       Last names
     ·      Science: Tide pools
     ·      Math:
-       Addition
-       Subtraction
-       Subitizing (identifying the numbers in a small set without counting)

Notes/Reminders
     ·      May 25th: No School
     ·     June 8th: Tide Pool field trip (rain date June 9th)
     ·      June 11th: Family Picnic (rain date June 12th)

Things to work on at home
We are working on being able to do these things by the end of the year:
     ·      Count to 100 by tens and ones
     ·      Write our first and last names with appropriate uppercase and lowercase letters
     ·      Identify one more and one less than numbers to 21
     ·      Read and write our K sight words

Conversation Starters
     ·      How do you play Domino Compare in math?
     ·      What do you already know about the African Savanna, or what are you wondering?
     ·      Tell me about the different types of seaweed that you made for your tide pool diorama.
     ·      How do you play the clapping game “Bow Wow Wow”?


Kindergarten Sight Words
a
at
and
am
are
by
can
come
go
he
I
in
it
is
like
me
my
on
of
see
said
some
she
to
the
went
we
was
you

We have now introduced all of our kindergarten sight words. Kindergarteners should be able to read and write these words by the end of the school year!