Weekly Preview- Oct. 1-5

This week we will finish learning about our 5 senses.  We will then begin to learn about Fire Safety.  October is the month of fire safety.  One thing we will discuss is having a safe meeting place for our families if our house is on fire.  Please discuss with your child a place where you all could meet in the event of a fire.  We will begin to learn about measuring in math.  In Kindergarten, we use non-standard forms of measurement.  We will use lots of different "tools" to measure with this week and learn the words shorter and longer.  

We will begin the formal teaching of the letter R r and will continue to review the letter s.  We will begin PALS testing Monday morning and continue throughout the next 2 weeks.  Please have your child well rested and have a good breakfast each morning before coming to school.  We will start to develop our own ideas for writing and use one of the basic model sentences we have practiced so far this year.  My goal is for the students to draw a picture about what they would like to write about and then put what they drew about into words!  We have already been taught all the sight words for this nine weeks and continue to review them daily.

I       am            can             my            see          a         

On Monday's, we have a practicum student from UMW visiting for the day.  She will be with us through December.  She will teach a lesson but she is mainly with us to learn through observations and helping with the class.  

A few reminders coming up:

1.  It is getting chilly inside and out.  Please send in a coat or sweatshirt for your child.
2.  PALS testing begins on Monday, October 1, and continues for 2 weeks.  ( I will start to send home conference slips as that comes to an end...some of you are already scheduled!)
3.  Homework for the entire month will be in your child's folder, please only complete one week at a time.
4.  NO SCHOOL on Monday, October 8, Columbus Day.
5.  This Thursday we have our Author visit sponsored by the PTA, Many Thanks!!!

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth

  We became scientist this week and explored our sense of hearing, tasting, and smelling.  We learned a new song to help us remember our 5 senses.  We will test our sense of touch on Monday.  Can you guess what sense we are using in these pictures?!?!

What a busy but fun week of learning in Kindergarten!  

the Letter S s

Letter S…..

This week we met our friend Sammy Seal.  He will sail to see in very sunny weather and when summer is the season.  He also salutes a seagull as they sail together!  Check out what we did to help us learn more about the letter S!

Math Exploration

We are working hard at learning new Kindergarten math tubs.  These pictures show you some games we have been playing in school and practicing daily.  Ask your child about the pictures and games we are playing in math.

Number Memory

Sorting by Attributes and Patterns

Making Patterns and Counting

Hop on Top, More or Less

Writing Numbers

Star Helper of the Week

Star student helper

This week's star student helper is Ryan.  Ryan loves to play Legos.  He loves Chicken french fries and can eat them all day long!  His favorite color is red and he LOVES school!  Have a great week RYAN!

Weekly Preview Sept. 24

This week we will continue to review our COW poem in preparation for PALS testing which will begin next week.  We will formally learn the letter "S s" this week.  We will learn about the letter, it's sound and how to form it in our daily writing.  We will read Mrs. Wishy Washy to complete the county assessment for retelling this week.  We will continue to review our sight words to date.  Our journal sentences this week will be My ______ is ________.  We will brainstorm a list of nouns and adjectives to help with our writing.  

SIGHT WORDS to DATE:

My
Can
See
I
A 
Am

We will learn how to compare a group of objects by counting them and use the words more, less or the same.  We will also learn one more and one less in math.  We will do lots of experiments using our 5 senses!  We will listen, taste, smell and touch our way to learning about our senses.   

Please continue to complete homework each night.  
Please send in a light sweatshirt or coat with your child as it starts to cool off.
Please remember to send in a snack with your child daily.

Have a Great Week!
Mrs. Beltz

Apples!

Apples, Apples,

   We love APPLES!

We have learned a lot about apples this week.  We started with brainstorming a list of things we already knew about apples and added them to our apple tree.

We measured how many apples tall we were!  Can you guess how many apples tall your child was?

We made apple patterns, read “10 Apples Up On Top”, made our half eaten apples, and finished the week by doing a taste test.  We tasted apple juice, applesauce and plain apples.  Check out our graph to see what we liked the BEST! 

Thank you to everyone who sent in items for the taste testing!  We had a blast!

Star Helper of the Week

Star Helper of the Week!

This week's star helper is Lindsey.  Lindsey's favorite color is purple.  She likes to play barbie with her friends.  Lindsey loves to eat strawberries!  Yummy!  Lindsey does a great job with helping to pass out papers to the rest of the class.  Way to go!

Happy Birthday

Austin!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you !!!!

Weekly Preview- Sept. 17-21

This Week’s Preview

This week will continue to work on Concept of Word by learning a new poem called Apples.  We will work on learning how to do word study and we have even started learning about how to count syllables.  We will continue to work on writing one complete sentence in our journals.  We will continue to learn about AB patterns, review numbers to 10 and create and make some graphs about apples in math.  We will learn about living and nonliving things, what an apple tree needs to survive and how an apple tree changes with the seasons.  This will cover many science SOLS for the 1^st nine weeks.  We will also do some taste testing with apples, apple juice and applesauce.  YUM!  If you volunteered to send in an item, please do that as soon as you can.  Thank you for your support in helping make the next 2 weeks tasty fun! 

Yearbook sales begin tomorrow.  $14.00 to reserve a copy to be given out at the end of the year.

PE tomorrow.  Please wear the appropriate shoes.

Please complete homework each night!

New sight words:

can

am

P.R.Ring with Pride,

Mrs. Beltz

POPPING with Fun!

WOW!

We earned 30 Gold Coins!

We earned 30 gold coins by P.R.R.ing with Pride and got a POPCORN PARTY!  Keep up the good work!

Star Helper of the Week

Star Helper of the Week…

This week’s star helper is Austin.  Austin loves to play Mario games.  He is great at remembering to carry our Emergency bag to Encore each day.  Austin loves when his mom packs him Mac & Cheese for lunch!  Keep up the great work!

September 11, 2012

Red, White and Blue day!

We celebrate America!

Weekly Preview

This week’s Preview-  Sept. 10

This week we will continue to work on learning our colors.  They are off to a great start!  We will begin to learn about what it means to sort and begin creating, identifying, and extending a simple AB pattern in math.  We will continue to learn more literacy stations while having the chance to do the ones we have already learned.  As always, we will read, read, read!  

Here are a few reminders for next week:

Tuesday-  Wear red, white and blue day

Tuesday Night-  Back to School Night ( Parents this will be an information session for you )

Have a GREAT weekend! 

Mrs. Beltz

A Rainbow of Color

We went on a color hunt today and found lots of colors.  Check out what these awesome wildcats found!

Alex found a green word on the word wall.                        Danella found a yellow letter.

Jack found the red emergency exit 
sheet.



        Luke found a blue magnet.




Makiya found Aby's blue sweatshirt.

A Rainbow of Color

Look at all the ideas we have about color!  We talked about the colors of the rainbow and brainstormed objects for each color.  We also read a book about talking crayons.  No picture can be complete without all the colors of the rainbow!  Stay tuned for more colorful fun!

Star Helpers of the Week

Star Helper of the Week

This week’s star helper of the week is Abygayle!  Aby loves to play tag ball and her favorite color is yellow.  Aby also loves to eat Mac & Cheese, YUM!  Aby is a great role model and is P.R.R.ing with Pride.  Way to go! 

Reminders for this week: Sept.3

Tomorrow is Day 5- PE for us! Please send your child to school with the appropriate shoes.

It gets cold in our room.  Please send your child to school with a light sweatshirt.

Homework will begin on Tuesday.  It is in homework folders after the plastic pocket.  Please complete homework each night for it to be checked on Friday.

Please return Coupon books if you are not planning to purchase it.  

Citizenship

Check out our future leaders!

This was our activity after we learned about who the leader of our nation is and what he does for our communities.

NATIONAL FLAG AND PLEDGE{SSK.9}

 The United States has a leader, who is called

the President.

What is the name given to the leader of the

United States?

Preview for This Week- Sept. 3

This week we will learn about the following:

1.  Continue to be able to identify numbers from 1- 10, count to 10, and do one to one correspondence with numbers from 1-10.
2.  We will finish up our citizenship SOL with learning about the American flag and the Pledge of Allegiance.
3.  We will begin to learn our colors and identify color words.
4.  We will begin to implement literacy tubs with a movement towards learning about literacy stations.
5.  We will continue to practice beginning word study with a sort of numbers and colors.
6.  We will focus on learning the letters in our last names and writing them.
7.  We will add another new sight word to our word wall and practice writing sentences.


As always, we will continue to practice PRRing with PRIDE as we grow, learn, and have fun in Kindergarten!

Have a great week!