December 15, 2006
What
are the Molecules Learning?
December 11-15, 2006
Math Workshop
- Counting strategies: Grab and Count, Inventory Bags, Racing Bears
- Writing Numbers: start at top and go down
- Counting software
- Counting backwards by 10
- Counting by 2's
- Comparing item during our inventory of classroom supplies: fewer, less, more than, equal and same
Language Arts
- Fiction and non-fiction bear books
- Recognizing and writing the letter /Vv/ and /Yy/
- Popcorn words: "my" and "look"
- Story Element: problem and solution (reading Corduroy)
- Modeled Writing: Being a "Smartie Writer".. a writer who is brave enough to hear the sounds in words and write the letter that makes those sounds. As writers become more confident, correct spelling is shared and written in personal dictionaries.
- Read Aloud: Because of Winn Dixie: Opal learns about the past of her good friend and learns a lesson not to judge people on their past. Charlotte's Web: Fern saved the life of a little runt and now has a new best friend.
- comparing and contrasting different versions of The Gingerbread Man.
Science
- Introducing different kinds of bears: brown, black, polar, sun, panda,
- Adult and baby animals
Investigation
Station: Recycled Inventions
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Kindergarten
Bulletin Board |
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| 12/19 | Holiday Gift Wrapping Party | |
| 12/19 | Kindergarten Holiday Rotation | 1:00 |
| 12/20 | Holiday Concert (Grades 3-5) | 7:00 |
| 12/21 | Book Exchange | 12:30 |
| 12/22-1/2 | Winter Break | No
School |
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For
great practice with number recognition Looking
at the Calendar is great number practice. Blending
sounds to make short vowel words Play
the Alphabet Game with Jan Brett |
On-Line Newsletter
On of the goals at ASFS this year is to decrease the amount of paper used and utilize technology for communicating with parents and community. For the past month the front office has collected email for almost 86% of all students. In Room 149 we are fortunate that 91% of us check email nightly. A printed copy of this newsletter will be sent to our students with out email.
Book Exchange
In the spirit of giving this holiday season, we will be having a book exchange in our classroom on Thursday, December 21. Please send a new, wrapped book with your child between now and the date of the book exchange. Molecules will choose a number and then find the book with that number. They will be allowed to trade with each other to satisfy interests.
Holidays Around the World
Starting Monday, we will be reading a variety of books that celebrate different holiday traditions around the world. We will read about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. On Tuesday, Molecules will visit each kindergarten classroom for a holiday project.
MARS Books
Starting after the new year, Molecules are asked to bring back their MARS books each day. During small Guidied Reading groups we will read together a new book every other day. Often times your child may come home with the same book, but it was read again with the group. The growth Mrs. Cabals and I have seen in reading skills, ability to sound out words, using context and picture clues has been huge. We both agree it's due the work you are doing at home to support what we're doing in the classroom .
Book Orders Have Arrived!
Book orders came in at the end of today. I will be bundling your books and sealing them away in back packs. If you would like to come to the school and pick up, just let me know. Great news: This holiday order provided 15 new books to our classroom library!
Book Ordering On-Line
Please print the letter giving you instructions on ordering Scholastic Books on-line. Click here.
Scholastic
is inviting parents to go onto their site and shop for the books in
the same catalogs that come home. You will still be receiving the catalogs,
but now you have the option to use your credit card to order books.
Books will still be sent to the classroom and delivered through back
pack mail.
Scholastic Parent Ordering
Class
User Name: rileyroom149
Password:
asfs
Movie Saturday
I am
looking forward to seeing the Molecules for Charlotte's Web this Saturday,
12/16. We'll first meet at 11:00 at Five
Guys for great burgers and then walk to the movie at AMC Courthouse
Theater. The movie will run one hour and 43 minutes. Family and friends
are welcome to join us! Parents leaving their child with me should be
outside the movie theater at 2:00. Please let me know if you have any
questions.