Ms. Hall

Red, White, and Blue Day

November 11- Veteran’s Day program at 1:00 for the entire school.  Wear your patriotic colors.  It’s red, white and blue day!

November 16- Academic Alerts Sent Home

November 16-20 Book Fair

November 18- VIP Lunch K, 2 &4 (Students and Family) Our lunch time is at 10:30 on this day.  Please mark your calendar for the lunch change on this day.

November 20- Kindergarten Play 8:15 – This is an event you can not miss! There will be time for group pictures after the play.  The play will be about 20 minutes.  We are usually finished with play and pictures before 9:00a.m.  We hope you can come.  It is our only performance for the year.

November- 23-27 Thanksgiving Break

 

  Weekly Curriculum Overview

   Language Arts-  This week will do a sing-to-read book called Indian Week.  We will also practice sight words.  I will do some assessing for letters/ sounds and sight words.

  Writing- This week we will be writing stories about things they like to do, things they do with their family and stories about friends. 

   Math-  This week we are working on teen numbers.  We are learning how to show a number on the ten frame and explain what a teen number is.  We will continue to work on more than, fewer than and equal.  We are also learning how to combine sets up to 10 using a five frame.

  Social Studies:  We are learning about Thanksgiving and Veteran’s Day.

 

Classroom Fund

 Please remember to send in the $20 for our classroom fund.  This will be used for our classroom for the WHOLE YEAR.  Let us know if you have any questions.  Our Fall Fun party will be Friday from 11:45-12:45.  Please check with our room mom if you signed up to help with this event.

 

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 Language Arts- This week we will read different poems focusing on how word choice is used.  Our sight word is:  as.

Phonics-   This week we will sort the letters Oo, Qq, and Ss.  We will also practice writing these letters.

Writing- This week we are working on the 6+1 trait of Word Choice.  We are writing about spiders this week.  We are working on making our sentences more interesting using word choice.

Math- This week we are moving on with our numbers and beginning to work on 1-20.  Also practice ordinal numbers 1^st- 10^th.   We will continue to compare numbers 1-10.

Science -  We will continue our unit on Motion.  The standard states:  The student will sort objects into categories according to their motion (straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast, slow and motionless).  We will experiment with different types of motion.

Also the student will push, pull and roll common objects and describe their motion.

A REMINDER:  Wednesday is early release day.  Our special will be P.E.  Our lunch will be 10:30-11:00.  Dismissal will be 12:20 p.m.

A Special Thanks

          I want to thank all the parents who chaperoned our field trip. Your help was very much appreciated!  I also want to thank our room mom and anyone else who helped with fall carnival and our beautiful silent auction basket.   

 

Classroom Fund

 Please remember to send in the $20 for our classroom fund.  This will be used for our classroom for the WHOLE YEAR.  Let us know if you have any questions.

 

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 Language Arts- This week we will read the story The Best Places.  We will predict using the cover and by taking a picture walk. We will use the picture clues to figure out words and background knowledge to figure out unfamiliar words.

Phonics-   This week we will sort  -at and –et rhyming word families.

Writing- This week we are talking about the 6+1 trait of Word Choice.  Our writing focus for this nine weeks is Informational Writing.  We will read nonfiction books about Bats and gather facts.  We will use these facts to draw our pictures focusing on details and then  write sentences about Bats.

Math- This week we are going to continue working with numbers from 0-10.

Science -  We will begin a unit on Motion.  The standard states:  The student will sort objects into categories according to their motion (straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast, slow and motionless).  Also the student will push, pull and roll common objects and describe their motion.

OCTOBER

 

 OCTOBER CALENDAR

Oct. 9- End of the first nine weeks

Oct. 16- report cards go home

Oct. 20- Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Oct. 21- Early Release Dismissal 12:20

   Oct. 28-30- Penny Wars- Kids Helping Kids

   Oct. 30- Spirit Day, Chick-fil-A Biscuits

   Oct. 31- Change clocks

 

  Weekly Curriculum Overview

   Language Arts- This week we will focus on making connections to text, how connections    help us to understand stories, looking for details and making connections to other texts.       sight words are: can, take and the color word black

  Phonics- This week: we will focus on rhyming words :  an, en

  Writing- This week we will be writing stories about things they like to do, things they do with ttheir familes and friends

   Math-  This week will begin numbers 6-10. 

   Social Studies:  We will learn about Christopher Columbus.

Sept.28th - Oct.2nd

OCTOBER EVENTS 

Oct. 9- End of the first nine weeks

Oct. 16- report cards go home,  Nicholson Carnival,  Field Trip to Cagle Dairy Farm

Oct. 20- Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Oct. 21- Early Release Dismissal 12:20

Oct. 28-30- Penny Wars- Kids Helping Kids

Oct. 30- Spirit Day, Chick-fil-A Biscuits

Oct. 31- Change clocks

 

Just a Reminder

Volunteers are needed for the carnival on Friday Oct. 16^th.  Please contact our room parent if you can help for a 30 minute slot.

Please send in a $20.00 donation to our room parent for supplies for special days ( fall party, winter party etc.)

The spaghetti dinner and game night with Kennesaw students has been rescheduled for tomorrow night.

Sight Words

 Please practice the following sight words this week: big, into, to

 

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 Language Arts- This week we will be listening to the story Sunflower.  We will focus on summarizing and retelling.  We will also focus on the following skills: previewing/predicting, genre, return sweep, beginning sounds, rhyming words, seasons, sequencing, and retelling.  We will also talk about Johnny Appleseed.  Our centers will be activities focused on apples.

  Phonics- This week we will focus of recognizing the letters Ll, Pp, Rr.  We also will learn how to write each letter correctly.

Writing-   We will learn about Johnny Appleseed and write a story about apples.  We will focus on writing the sight words we know correctly and practice writing the beginning sound of words we do not know.

Math- This week we will be working on equal sets, more, and fewer/less.

 Science- This week we will finish our unit on animals.  We will focus on animal coverings.

 FIELD TRIP

Today in your folder there is information and a permission slip about our first field trip to Cagle Dairy Farm.   Please read all the information and return  by Monday October 5^th.

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 Language Arts- This week we will focus on predicting using the title of a story and cover, we will match oral words  to written text, one-one correspondence, rhyming words, does a word make sense in a sentence and recall  sequencing steps

Phonics- This week we will be working on letter recognition and handwriting with the letters Ee, Ff, Gg

Writing- This week we will be working on writing sounds of letters, writing words in our classroom, and writing words we know. 

Math-  This week we will begin numbers 0-5.

Science-  This week we will continue discussing animals and matching mothers and babies.  But we will focus on differences and similarities in animals.

NEWS UPDATE

The Spaghetti dinner and Family Game Night has been changed to Tuesday Sept. 29^th.

The schedule is the same:  Spaghetti Dinner-5:30-6:45 (reservations needed)

                                           Games 6:45-8:00

 

Terrific Kids ceremony will be held Tuesday Sept. 29^th at 7:30a.m. in the media center.

Our lunch time is now 11:08-11:38.  Please join us anytime!

URGENT

 The Foundation Movie Night has been rescheduled due to RAIN.  The new date will be Friday, October 2.

ROOM PARENT REMINDERS:  Parents please send in your $20.00 donation for supplies for “special days”. (Fall party, winter party etc.)

Volunteers are also needed for Fall Carnival on Oct.16^th .  Please contact our room parent.

Sept.22^nd:  Family Game night presented by Kennesaw State Students.  Come join us for               a night of fun math games.

Picture Day

 SMILE!!!  Our picture day will be Monday, September 14th.

 

Sight Words

 Please practice the following sight words:  and, in

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 Language Arts- This week we will be focusing on making predictions.  We will focus on the following skills: reading from left to right, word parts, similarities and differences, and sequencing words.

Phonics- This week we will be working with letter recognition and handwriting for the letters Cc,  Dd, and Ee.

 

Writing- This week we will be working on understanding that pictures and words tell a story.  We will also continue working on IDEAS.

Math- This week we will continue working on patterns.  We will focus on transferring a pattern, understanding a pattern, and AB, ABC, AAB patterns.  In Calendar Math we have introduced the penny and nickel.  We are also learning about fair trades – five pennies for a nickel.  Practicing with real coins at home will help to reinforce this skill.

Social Studies- This week we will continue working on where we live.  We will look at state, country, and continent. 

August 31st

 Please practice the following sight words: one and see.  Please practice letter recognition/sound for Mm, Nn, Hh and review Tt, Bb, Aa.

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 Language Arts- This week we will be reading the story Garden Zoo.  We will focus on the following skills: predict/preview, differences between words and letters, reviewing rhyming words, color words, sorting items in a room, and sequencing words.

Phonics- This week we will work on letter recognition and handwriting of Mm, Nn, and Hh.  

Writing-  This week we will be focusing on drawing a picture of something that has happened.  We will read Mouse Mess and draw a picture and write about one thing that happened in the book.  Later we will write to tell about something.  We will draw a picture of their house and write to tell about it.

Math-  This week we will begin our next chapter on patterns.  We will focus on simple patterns(AB), copying and extending a pattern, and predicting a pattern.

Social Studies-  This week we will begin our unit on

Georgia

.  We will discuss fun facts, location on a map and globe, and the term STATE.  We will learn our country is the United States of America and we live on the continent of North America.

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 

Language Arts- This week we will work on four different poems , finding a good place to read at home and school, paying attention to what we are reading, and reading the WHOLE book.  We will focus on the following skills: predicting, sweeping our finger from left to right while reading, rhyming words, the color word blue, and sequencing words.

Phonics-  We will focus on the letters Tt and Aa this week.  We will work on letter recognition, sounds, and writing the letter.  We will also practice the sight words:  I, my, and, it, are, a, red.

Writing- This week we will begin looking at writing in our classroom and writing in our home and community.  We will also be working on a picture module that is focused around drawing and labeling different items.  We will also focus on the first trait of writing which is “IDEAS."

Math-  This week we will review positional words, then we will learn to sort by color, shape and size.