Friday Flash

Friday Flash 

November 3^rd- November 7^th 2014

Focus of the Week ·      Literacy/Social Studies:  -Background Knowledge week: Ancient Egypt -Letter Sounds ·      Math: Counting out a set, number ID, writing numbers Notes/Reminders ·      November 4th: No School (Teacher Professional Development Day) ·      November 11th: No School (Veterans Day) ·      Parent Teacher Conferences are in December. Sign up will be online (I will let you know when it opens). We will have 11:15 Early Releases on 12/9 and 12/17 for afternoon conferences and a set of night conferences on 12/11. You will choose a 15 min slot that is convenient for you! ·      Nurse Tami would appreciate any donations of leggings or sweatpants that your children may have grown out of!

Class Pet Pete the Pig is excited to spend this weekend with Misha! Please help your child document Pete’s weekend through photos and/or drawings and words in his journal. Thanks! Conversation Starters Tell me what happened in The Knight at Dawn      Teach me how to play the clapping game “Double Double This This”      What do you know/ what are you wondering about Ancient Egypt and pyramids?           Teach me how to play “Forbidden Words”

The Knight at Dawn

We have been enjoying getting to know Jack and Annie a little more and following them on their adventure in the Medieval Times! We are reading, dramatizing, and writing about the chapters! We are also dramatizing "life and times," pretending to be at a castle feast, and pretending to invade a castle with catapults!

Jack fell into the moat.

Jack splashed in the moat.

They escaped from the dungeon.

The knight stared at Jack and Annie.

The knight dismounted his horse.

Annie hoped that she picked the right book.

Math!

We have been having a lot of fun working on counting, writing numbers, and manipulating shapes! We do a lot of Buddy work during math, so we are also working on taking turns and helping our buddies in a nice way! When we finish our centers we can choose a game that we already know from our "Can-Do shelf."

Here are some pictures from our centers. 

The Numeral Game. Ask how we play this buddy game!

Dice Dot Painting. We roll each colored die and make that many dots with the matching color.

Race To Trace. We are working on number ID, number formation, and turn taking with this game!

Working together on fun challenges with Pattern Blocks! 

Number line Hopscotch! A fun way to practice counting through that first tricky group of teens!

Class Photos

I am sending home class pictures in your child's folder today! Enjoy :)

Math!

We are practicing counting with one to one correspondence by dumping out our "inventory bags" and putting each item back in one at a time while we say each number. Then we record our numbers, and at the end we check our answers with a buddy (and re-check any bags that we disagree on).

We are getting good at identifying big numbers (1-30) with help from our group! Here is I Have Who Has in action!

We are using our creativity and cognitive flexibility to change triangles into something related to our Medieval Times theme. Check out this catapault!

We also started practicing writing our numbers! Here are the poems we use to remember 1-5.

-Start at the top and down we run, that's how you make the number one!

-Around the track and back, two two!

-Around the tree, around the tree, that's how you make the number three!

-Down, across, and down once more. That's how you make the number four!

-A back, a belly, and a hat. Number five sits on a mat!

Ask how we play our new game called Stackers! It is a direction giving/following game that we play in pairs.

Friday Flash!

Friday Flash 

October 20^th- October 25^th 2014

Focus of the Week ·      Literacy/Social Studies: Knights/Castles The Knight at Dawn Letter Sounds ·      Math: Counting out a set, number ID, writing numbers Notes/Reminders ·      October 21st: 1:00 release ·      November 4th: No School (Teacher PD Day) ·      November 11th: No School (Veterans Day) ·      We will have fun on Halloween, but please do not send your student in costume. If they need their costume for an afterschool program, please let me know and I can help them at the end of the day! ·      On mornings when it is raining or extremely cold, Mrs. Donato will post signs for an “inside line up.” Kindergarteners will wait outside our classroom on the benches in the hallway. Please arrive as close to 8:10 as possible, and like outside lineup, please stay with your child until they enter the room at 8:10.

Class Pet Pete the Pig is excited to spend this weekend with Dahlia! Please help your child document Pete’s weekend through photos and/or drawings and words in his journal. Thanks! Conversation Starters      What did the firemen teach you about fire safety?              Read me something from your fact book!                What is something you learned about knights/castles/medieval times?           What was in the “S” mystery bag? What else could have been in there?

Knights and Castles Background Knowledge week!

This week we are preparing for our next Magic Tree House story by reading, writing, and dramatizing about the Medieval times. We are reading a lot of nonfiction and interactive slideshows about knights and castles, then writing facts in our fact books! We are pretending that we are kings, queens, servants, etc. We are also making props and scenery to use in our dramatizing centers next week!

Here are a few of the slides we have had so far:

Math!

We are having lots of fun practicing our counting in math. We are being very careful when we count, practicing our one to one correspondence. Ask your child how we play these counting games.

Roll A Tower

Make A Train

We are also practicing number ID with harder numbers- up to 30! This is I Have Who Has.

Ask your child about this game- Ten Frame Match

This week we are being creative with a new shape- the rhombus!

We love this song for practice with rote counting:

http://youtu.be/EmXuvGvJtqo

Ask how we play Freeze on the Number!