Sack Lunch

If your kindergartener needs a sack lunch from the hot lunch program tomorrow for our early release day, please email me to let me know – along with their milk choice, chocolate or white. If I don’t hear from you, I’ll plan on your child eating lunch at home with you.

 

This Week in Kindergarten…

POPCORN WORDS: or, for

READING: This week in reading we continued learning about our Super Reader Powers! We practiced reading using our POINTER POWER, our REREAD POWER, our PARTNER POWER (which we practiced by reading The Itsy Bitsy Spider), our PICTURE POWER and our SNAP WORD POWER! Wow…we have a lot of reading powers! The Kinders loved looking for SNAP words (popcorn words) in their books and writing them down! I’m so proud of how hard they are working!

WRITING: During writing this week, we worked on writing a small moment story. We practiced writing a beginning, a middle and an end. The Kinders drew pictures on each page, labeled the pictures and wrote words to go on each page. They even added a speech bubble to tell what someone in their picture was saying! Way to take a risk with writing Kinders!

MATH: This week during math, we practiced writing the numbers 8 and 9 as well as identifying shapes. The Kinders had to find certain shapes and color them the correct color. Then they had to practice drawing different shapes around a hexagon. Ask them to sing you their hexagon song…it’s quite catchy! We finished the week by helping Puzzled Penguin write his numbers in the correct order. Good thing we helped him, he gets puzzled sometimes.

VETERAN’S DAY: On Monday, we learned about Veteran’s Day. We read about Veteran’s Day in our Scholastic News and then made a Veteran craft. I hope you enjoyed the soldiers! I sent my dad, a Veteran, a picture (he’s deer hunting) of the Veteran crafts and he loved it! 

WANTS AND NEEDS: This week we started to learn about the differences between wants and needs. We sorted pictures of things we want and need. We did a cut and paste activity about wants and needs and ended the week by reading a book about wants and needs. In the book, the Kinders drew a picture of something they want and something they need. 

MYSTERY READER: Brayden was excited when his mom surprised our class and was our mystery reader! It was fun to listen to her read us the story Flying High. It was a cute story written by a football player Julian Edelman. 

THANK YOU so much for the many boxes of Cheerios we received for our classroom! It’s greatly appreciated! We should be all set for awhile!

UPCOMING DATES…

Monday, November 18: Art; Book fair preview day; Parent-Teacher conferences

Tuesday, November 19: STEAM; Book fair preview day

Wednesday, November 20: Music; Book fair purchase day; Parent-Teacher conferences

Thursday, November 21: Gym; Book fair purchase day

Friday, November 22: Art

November 27 – November 29: Thanksgiving Break

December 12 – Holiday Program at 6:30 p.m. at Fair Haven Church in Jenison.  More details coming as date approaches. The kids are very busy practicing their songs!

I’m looking forward to meeting with you next week at parent teacher conferences!

Have a wonderful weekend!