Mrs. Hall's Kindergarten Class

 

Week of January 30^th-February 3rd

Coming Events:

Feb.2nd – Groundhog Day!

Feb. 14^th – Valentine's Day

It's hard to believe we are heading into February this week. We do exchange valentines in the classroom on Valentine's Day so look for information this week about it and also a class list will be enclosed. I am almost finished with DRA's. This is a reading assessment to see what level your child is reading on. I would like all children to be at a Level C or D by the end of the year. I will send reading bags with words and books for you to practice at home. We will not have reading groups since I will pull individual students at this time for DRA's.

Language Arts

We will read books about groundhogs and we will hear The Mitten for art masters this week. We will focus on retelling the story. Our sight words this week are: nine, little, jump.

Phonics

Our spotlight letter is Jj. We will also focus on sounding out short vowel words independently and match the word to the picture.

Writing

Our writing focus for the 3^rd quarter is to write about what we know. It will be an informational writing. We will talk about fiction vs. nonfiction. We will read books and gather information so we can write facts about a certain topic. Our topic for this week is Groundhogs".

Math

We will continue with numbers. I will give an assessment on counting and labeling sets to 20. The children that have it will move on to higher numbers, while those children that need more practice can focus on teen numbers in small groups. We will continue working on number words to 10 and play some math games.

 

Social Studies

We will begin a unit on "where we live". The children are expected to know their address, city, county, state, country and continent.

Week of January 23^rd-27th

Coming Events:

Jan. 16^th –NO SCHOOL- Martin Luther King Day

A special thank you to the mom's who chaperoned our field trip. I could not have done it without your help. THANK YOU!!! The 100 day of school celebration will be this Friday. I will finish testing for the 100+ club. I will also begin DRA's. This is a reading assessment to see what level your child is reading on. I would like all children to be at a Level C or D by the end of the year. I will send reading bags with words and books for you to practice at home. We will not have reading groups since I will pull individual students at this time for DRA's

Language Arts

We will continue to read stories about winter. We will focus on retelling a story. Our sight words this week are: eight, away.

Phonics

Our spotlight letter is Kk. We will also focus on sounding out short vowel words independently and match the word to the picture.

Writing

Our writing focus for the 3^rd quarter is to write about what we know. It will be an informational writing. We will talk about fiction vs. nonfiction. We will read books and gather information so we can write facts about a certain topic. Our topic for this week is "Penguins."

Math

We will continue our unit on teen numbers. The children will be expected to count and label sets to 20. We will continue working on number words to 10. We will also introduce the quarter at calendar math time.

 

Social Studies

I will assess the children on Martin Luther King. They will have to identify him and describe to me why he is important.

Week of January 16^th-20th

Coming Events:

Jan. 16^th –NO SCHOOL- Martin Luther King Day

Jan. 20^th- Our Field Trip /Bingo Night

This week I will finish testing for the 100 and 100+ club. I will also begin DRA's. This is a reading assessment to see what level your child is reading on. I would like all children to be at a Level C or D by the end of the year. Our field trip is scheduled for Friday Jan. 20^th. Please send a snack that day. We will eat before we board buses. Buses will leave between 9:00-9:15 a.m.

Language Arts

We will continue to read stories about winter and snowman in hopes that we may really experience a little bit of winter! We will focus on retelling a story. Our sight words this week are: seven, come.

Phonics

Our spotlight letter is Ll. Our center activities will continue from last week. We will focus on sounding out short vowel words independently and match the word to the picture.

Writing

Our writing focus for the 3^rd quarter is to write about what we know. It will be an informational writing. We will talk about fiction vs. nonfiction. We will read books and gather information so we can write facts about a certain topic.

Math

We will continue our unit on teen numbers. The children will be expected to count and label sets to 20. We will continue working on number words to 10. We will also introduce the quarter at calendar math time.

Social Studies

We will continue reading and write about Martin Luther King.

Week of January 9^th-3th

Coming Events:

Jan. 13^th - Report cards go home

Jan. 16^th –NO SCHOOL- Martin Luther King Day

Jan. 20^th- Our Field Trip /Bingo Night

I hope you all had a wonderful winter break! I am ready to get back into a routine. I miss seeing my "little darlings" smiling faces each day! The report card for the 2^nd quarter will be sent home on Friday Jan. 13^th. Please sign the card and return inside the envelope. You keep the report card.

Language Arts

We will read stories about winter and snowman in hopes that we may really experience a little bit of winter! We will focus on retelling a story. Our sight words this week are: six, went.

Phonics

Our spotlight letter is Ff. Our center activities will go for the next 2 weeks, since we have two short weeks. I will also incorporate the letter Ll –which is next week's letter – into some of our centers.

Writing

Our writing focus for the 3^rd quarter is to write about what we know. It will be an informational writing. We will talk about fiction vs. nonfiction. We will read books and gather information so we can write facts about a certain topic.

 

Math

We will begin our unit on teen numbers. The children will be expected to count and label sets to 20. We will continue working on number words to 10. We will also introduce the quarter at calendar math time.

 

Social Studies

We will be learning about Martin Luther King.

Week of Dec. 19th-22nd

Coming Events:

Dec. 22^nd – school wide holiday sing-a-long 1:00pm

Dec. 23^rd-Jan. 9^th Winter Holiday break..

 

The children worked very hard in their jobs last week. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the things they made and bought. I would like to extend a special thank you to all the parents and grandparents who took time out of their busy schedules to help us last week. Your help was very much appreciated!

This week we will have some fun centers. We will read different holiday books. I will be assessing the children for the 2^nd quarter in all areas. There are no new sight words this week. I hope you all have a safe holiday break. See you in January!

Week of Dec. 12^th-16th

Coming Events:

Dec. 13^th Mrs. Frigerio's birthday- send in one flower, if you can for her!

Dec. 16^th –Spirit Day- Chick-fil-a bisquits for sale

Dec. 23^rd-Jan. 9^th Winter Holiday break..

 

We will continue with our Wants and Needs unit this week. Each child will be assigned a place to work their job on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We have some great parent help coming in to manage each store where the children will be making goods to sell. The children will earn money each day they work their job. Then on Friday, Dec. 16^th the children will be able to spend their money to purchase the items we made. A special thanks to all the parents and grandparents who volunteered.

Language Arts

Our sight words this week are: up, down, five. I will try to meet with each group at least twice this week. Our time is limited due to the wants and needs unit.

Phonics

Our spotlight letter is Rr. We will focus our center activities around the letter Rr and its sound.

Writing

Our writing focus for the 2^nd nine weeks is to write about one clear event. We will write in our journals 2 days about any topic we want. I am looking for at least one interesting sentence if not more and a detailed picture.

Math

We will play some number games this week in our math tubs. I will also be assessing some math standards for the report card.

 

Science

We will learn about our five senses and how to take care of them. I will also be assessing gravity.