Student of the Week: Kate Fitzgerald

Student of the Week: Kate Fitzgerald

Favorite Toy: Barbie
Favorite Book: Good News, Bad News
Favorite Snack: Fruit Snacks

Cardinals "DOIN' IT RIGHT" Program

Yesterday, Fred Bird came to visit our school with the Cardinals "DOIN' IT RIGHT" Program. They talked to us about having important goals in life.

Fred Birds Rules to Doin' IT RIGHT were:
1. Stay in School
2.Participate in Sports
3.Don't do Drugs

Monster Squeeze

This week our class was introduced to a fun game that reinforces number relationships and number recognition. Monster squeeze is a great game that works with a number line! You can play it hands on or on an iPad. It recently got it's own app! Our class had a blast playing this game and working with the iPads!

Family History

This month our class learned all about Thanksgiving. We went in dept about turkeys, pilgrims, and Native Americans. A student in our class taught us about her heritage and Native American background.

Motivational Speaker:Nels Ross

Today, Nels Ross a performer and speaker came to talk to us. He showed us what the word motivate means. He had a fun-filled motivational performance for us based on character. It addressed excellence, respect, responsibility, bullying, and life choices.

UNICEF: Dress Down

CARING KIDS ARE SPONSORING A DRESS DOWN DAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 TO AID IN THIS EFFORT.

DONATIONS OF $2.00 OR MORE WILL ALLOW STUDENTS TO BE OUT OF UNIFORM.

Student of the Week: Iris Cole

Student of the Week:Iris Cole

Favorite Book:Blue Hat, Green Hat

Favorite Toy:Beanie Baby

Favorite Snack:Fruit Roll Ups & Club Cracker Minis

GSA Girl's Soccer

Congratulations to Coach Pike's Kindergarten Girls Team. These girls had a great soccer season, and were undefeated! Go Gators!

GSA Soccer Stars

Our Kindergarten GSA soccer stars had their last game on Saturday. All the teams worked really hard and played well!

Pajama Party

Exciting news! K-C has earned a Pajama Party! We have been working extra hard on maintaining good behavior and have completed our classroom behavior chart!

We will have our Pajama Day on Friday, November 15. Students are allowed to wear school appropriate pajamas to school this day.

Pajamas must cover shoulders, stomach, and go at least to the knee. Please wear uniform shoes with pajamas.

Halloween Party

Thank you so much to all the parents that came to help out at our class Halloween Party! It was a huge success and could not have happened with out you! Thank you Mrs. Eckrich for planning the party, it could have not gone more perfectly! The students had a blast! They got to make a puzzle craft, play Halloween Bingo, wrap their teacher like a Mummy, and eat a healthy Halloween snack. Thank you :)

Shaving Cream Fun!

Today, we worked with shaving cream in our classroom! We practiced forming our upper case & lower case letters while having some fun! Please encourage your children at home to only use upper case letters when they are necessary. We are trying to break away from the habit in class and are preparing to use the appropriate case when necessary.

Our Visit to the Pumpkin Patch!

Today, our class went on their first field trip! We visited Stuckmeyer Farms.
On our field trip we:

• Went on a hay ride through the Pumpkin Patch
• Went through a Spooky Halloween Maze
• Played in a Spooky Fort
• Got our very OWN pumpkin!

Pumpkin Investigation

This week we learned all about pumpkins to help us prepare for attending the pumpkin patch.  Today, we investigated the outside of  a pumpkin. We did several activities to find out a little more information. We discovered:

• The amount of lines a pumpkin has tells you how many rows of seeds it has inside
• The color of a pumpkin can tell you how old it is
• Pumpkins can FLOAT! They DO NOT SINK!
• Like an apple, a pumpkin also grows a flower (the flowers are edible)
• The orange, stringy, slimy, stuff inside is called: pumpkin pulp

Reminder

Reminder

Field trip money & permission slips are due today 10/9/13 !

Coin Challenge

K-C won the coin challenge! Thank you so much for contributing to the challenge! Our class is so excited that we raised so much money for the school library.
As the winners of the challenge we will receive:

• One free book for each child from the book fair
• A class ice-cream party (more details TBA)
• $200 worth of books for our classroom

Amazing job! 

Johnny Appleseed's Birthday

We celebrated Johnny Appleseed's Birthday September 26th.

Did you know?

• Johnny Appleseed's real name is John Chapman
• Johnny protected animals & nature
• Johnny was born on a small farm in Massachusetts
• Johnny began traveling the U.S. at 18 
• Johnny often traded for things he needed such as food or clothing

One-to-One Correspondence

Last Week in Math, we worked on one-to-one correspondence. One-to-one correspondence is the ability to match numbers to objects.This is an easy skill to practice at home.

There are so so many ways to practice this concept for all developmental levels and can be as simple as:

• Count your fingers and toes (touching each of them).
• Count all of the animals in a book.
• Covering the numbers 1-5 with the corresponding amount of stickers.
• Counting the trees or cars you pass on a walk!

Teacher Tip- 3 techniques to help teaching this concept:

Scanning- Have your child move their hand over the object as you count out loud. Better yet...touch it!

Organize- If the items are scattered about you can move them together. Once counted, you can move them into a line or in an organized shape. Your child can then go back if they lose track, reorganize their thoughts, and pick back up.

Partition- Assign separate "compartments" for all objects, counted and not yet! Like egg cartons, cups, baskets, paper cut into different shapes labeled with a number.

An A-PEEL-ING Bunch

This week we started a 2 week unit on apples & Johnny Appleseed. For the first week, we learned all about apples! We had an apple tasting with red, yellow, and green apples. We graphed our favorite ones as a class and on our own.

HWT-Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum

Dear Parent(s)/Legal Guardian(s),

  Our Kindergarten Handwriting curriculum is Handwriting Without Tears. It covers  capital and lowercase letters; number, word, and sentence lessons that combine handwriting instruction with other language art lessons. It provides a fun and interactive way to learn, gray blocks for teaching capitals without reversals, large step-by-step illustrated instruction, child-friendly consistent language, generous space with room to write, double lines to facilitate correct size and placement, and left-hand friendly design.

  This week our class will be introduced to HWT writing techniques. The following weeks to come your child will  learn how to write their letters and will bring home at the end of each week what they learned and extra practice to be completed at home.

Ms.Williams

Introduction to Pattern Blocks

Our class got to explore with pattern blocks last week. We identified and described a triangle, square, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon. We used the pattern blocks to make our own designs, create patterns, and pictures. Check out some of our cool designs!

Welcome K-C Parents

Hi Parents!

Welcome to our classroom blog. On this blog we will be posting fun and exciting things we are working on in our classroom. It is a wonderful space for sharing and learning together.

Ms. Williams

2nd Grade Wax Museum

 Last week K-C took a field trip upstairs to 2nd grade. The 2nd grade put together a wax museum exhibit for us. Each student was a famous person in history and taught us some fun facts about their lives.

Student of the Week: Mia Doran

Student of the Week: Mia Doran

Favorite Book:Pinkalicious
Favorite Toy: Talking Monkey
Trick or Talent: Mia taught the class a joke
Favorite Snack: Fruit Snacks

Student of the Week: Olivia Fleming

Student of the Week: Olivia Fleming

Favorite Book: Yes Day!
Favorite Toy:Pink Monkey
Trick or Talent: Thumb Magic Trick
Favorite Snack: Fruit Roll Ups & Cheez-Its



Student of the Week: Alan Pointer

Student of the Week: Alan Pointer

Favorite Book: We Can be a Team
Favorite Toy: Leapster
Trick or Talent: Alan taught the class a joke
Favorite Snack: Fruit Snacks



Student of the Week: Anya Cox

Student of the Week: Anya Cox

Favorite Book: The Cat in the Hat
Favorite Toy: Baby Doll
Trick or Talent: Anya taught the class a joke
Favorite Snack: Fruit Roll Ups

GSA- Can You Find K-C?

Can you spot us? We are at the right bottom corner of the A.

Number Poems

Here are some simple number poems to practice at home to make learning fun! They are also a great tool for helping a child recall a number when they forget what it looks like.

1: Down you run and one is done

2:Around the railroad track and back

3:Around the tree, around the tree, this is how you make a three

4:Down, across and down some more; this is how you make a four

5:Short neck,belly fat, number five wears a hat

6:First a line, then an O, this is number six, you know

7:Across the sky and down from heaven that is how you make a seven

8:Around the gate, around the gate, that is how we make an eight

9:First a circle, then a line, that is how you make a nine

A Visit from the Service Learning Club

Last week, the service & learning club from the middle school came to visit us. We worked on our word wall words and played fun games with them!

Kindergarten Parent Meeting

When: Thursday March 28,2013

Where: GSA Cafeteria

Time: 4:30 pm

Come join us at an informational kindergarten meeting. We will be discussing our reading curriculum, reading strategies to help out your child, and the big jump to 1st grade!

Dr.Seuss Week

This week we celebrated Dr.Seuss' Birthday!

Monday: We wore crazy hats and hair dos

Tuesday:We dressed up as what we want to be when we grow up

Wednesday: We wore crazy socks

Thursday: We dressed as our favorite character of a Dr.Seuss book

Valentine Sort & Graph

We used our sorting skills to sort boxes of sweethearts and graph our data. 

Student of the Week: Avia Stevenson

Student of the Week: Avia Stevenson

Favorite Toy: Monster High Backpack
Favorite Book: Green Eggs & Ham
Favorite Snack: Fudge Cookies

Student of the Week: Quentin Beck

Student of the Week: Quentin Beck

Favorite Toy:Bouncy Ball
Favorite Book: Opposites
Taught the Class: A joke
Favorite Snack: Cheese Its

Student of the Week:Anna Waters

Student of the Week: Anna Waters

Favorite Toy: Baby Doll
Favorite Book: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed
Favorite Snack:Goldfish

Student of the Week: Mikalah Franklin

Student of the Week: Mikalah Franklin

Favorite Toy: My Little Pony
Taught the Class: A joke
Favorite Book: The Easter Bunny
Favorite Snack: Brownies

Fun Reading Strategies :)

These are fun reading strategies we have learned at school that you can work on at home :)

100th Day of School Projects

Thank you parents for helping your child out on our 100th day of school projects! All of the projects came out amazing and the students were very excited to present all of them!