Keepin' Up In K With Mrs. A: November 2012

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012

An extra day off, last Wednesday,was certainly a surprise to most of us. I felt bad that the kids didn't have all their great Thanksgiving projects home to share with families on Thursday. We took some time today to finish up our learning about the first Thanksgiving.
I hope you all had a safe and relaxing holiday weekend.

Check out the Pilgrims learning how to plant corn from their Native American friends!

Friday, November 16, 2012

New Reading Bags!

We got new reading bags today! Thank you Mrs. Landt and Mrs. Stuckey for getting these ordered for us. Please help your child keep their new bag in good condition. We talked about how our materials fit in the bottom half of the bag and that we can then fold it over to slide it in our bookbags.
Please continue practicing all the materials in these bags. Even though we are done introducing the sounds, everyone needs to keep reviewing them to help with the fluency of our reading.

Our new reading bags!!

Garrett and Jack are practicing their reading using their "whisper phones". We can whisper into them and hear ourselves without bothering the readers around us.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent/teacher conferences will be held the first week in December. There is not a specified night for BAK as a whole, but I am planning on holding the majority of my conferences on Thursday, Dec. 6th. Your child brought home a note on Friday which asks if you have a preferred time. You can also view/print the note below. Please return these as your earliest convenience and I will get back to you with a meeting time.

conference schedule note

Friday, November 9, 2012

Busy Start to November

We have had a busy start to the month of November. We have been learning a lot of fun math games. Our new math series, Everyday Math, uses many hands on activities and games to teach math concepts and skills. This is a great way for young minds to learn! Next week, your child will be bringing home a game called Monster Squeeze, I hope you enjoy playing it together.
We have introduced all 43 of the Jolly Phonics sounds! It is really important to keep reviewing them with the sound book. We want the students to be very fluent with their sounds in order to move ahead with their reading skills. We are now starting to learn some new phonics rules and spellings for the sounds. Last week we talked about how the letter y usually makes the /ee/ sound when it is on the end of a word. Today, we started talking about "sneaky e" on the end of a word and how it changes a vowels sound.
This link will take you to a fun, 3 minute youtube video to help practice the "sneaky e" (or super e as it is called in the song)
super e song/video

It is going to be COLD on Monday, please be sure your children are dressed warmly!!!

Kyle is playing "Roll and Record" during math centers.

When we have a few minutes of free time we love to read stories to ourselves.

Taia and Ava are working hard in their journals. We get to write and draw about anything we want during journal time. Mrs. Ashbacher helps us sound out words and we use "kindergarten spelling" for some of the really hard words!

Jayden is making a pattern during calendar time. She will ask her friends to describe it to her.

We had "Food for Thought" from the Farm to School program. We learned about pumpkins and got to taste roasted pumpkin seed and pumpkin puree. We got a big surprise when our visitors gave us all new T-shirts! Thank You!!!!