Friday, March 14, 2014
News
Below you will see the newsletter from this week. I am also sending home a Scholastic Book order for this week. This is a great way to get books in the hands of your kiddos! The best part is that there is ALWAYS one book that is only a DOLLAR!! I almost always order just for that reason.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Valentine's and a whole lotta love!
We have been having a great time down here in room 18! Lots of happenings and excitement. We recently celebrated the 100th day of school! We started our day off by, of course, counting to 100 and changing our calendar to the 100th day of school. The kindergartners made really fun crowns that said "I made it 100 days in kindergarten!" Later in the day we made a picture with cutouts of 100. They each received a 1, 0, and 0 and then they moved the numbers around to make a picture. Below are a couple of examples.
Monday will mark our 108th day of school. I have been busy assessing the kiddos, getting ready for conferences. They have grown SO MUCH from the fall and that is one of my favorite parts about teaching kindergarten. It is so amazing to see how much they change and when they walk out of this room in May, they are truly big kids (tear). BUT, that's a long way away!
Please take some time to explore the math websites that I have listed below and also let me know if you know some great ones too! abcya.com is a fantastic website and it has loads of math and reading games. Enjoy!
Monday will mark our 108th day of school. I have been busy assessing the kiddos, getting ready for conferences. They have grown SO MUCH from the fall and that is one of my favorite parts about teaching kindergarten. It is so amazing to see how much they change and when they walk out of this room in May, they are truly big kids (tear). BUT, that's a long way away!
Please take some time to explore the math websites that I have listed below and also let me know if you know some great ones too! abcya.com is a fantastic website and it has loads of math and reading games. Enjoy!
Monday, December 9, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
What's Happening?
If you have been checking the blog, you have probably noticed that I haven't been posting a lot about the happenings, but rather I've been uploading videos. These videos are being used during math group time. I have groups watch the video and then do the activity. So far, it seems to be a great way for kiddos to do math, but without having me right there the whole time. It is still me teaching, but then they can be independent afterwards.
With that being said, I will still try and put up things that are happening, but I also want this to be a great tool for the kiddos! You can always do the activities at home too!
With that being said, I will still try and put up things that are happening, but I also want this to be a great tool for the kiddos! You can always do the activities at home too!
Monday, December 2, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Add it Up! Take it Away!
Here are some tough addition and subtraction problems. Remember to use you fingers, drawings, and math manipulatives to solve the problem! YOU CAN DO IT!
Add it Up and Take it Away!
Add it Up and Take it Away!
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
More Reading and Math Talk in Action
Please head over to YouTube to see some more reading and math talk in action!
Reading
Math Talk
The only people that can see these are those that have this link address. I am set on private.
Reading
Math Talk
The only people that can see these are those that have this link address. I am set on private.
Conferences and Fall Fun
It is so exciting and wonderful to meet and chat about the kinders with parents and family. It is always a great experience and so worthwhile. One of my favorite things is seeing the kiddos in their parents! I also start thinking about someday when I'm sitting in the parent seat for my own child. Oh my!
We had such a blast at our fall party. They are still talking about it! This week our essential question was, "What are the different sounds that we hear?" Everybody talked about the sounds that they heard at our fall party. I value the learning day so much, but I also know how important it is to have fun and to have those "party" experiences. Kiddos always remember things like that.
We had such a blast at our fall party. They are still talking about it! This week our essential question was, "What are the different sounds that we hear?" Everybody talked about the sounds that they heard at our fall party. I value the learning day so much, but I also know how important it is to have fun and to have those "party" experiences. Kiddos always remember things like that.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Red Ribbon Week
Next week is red ribbon week. Schools across the country will be celebrating this great cause and bringing awareness to being drug free. On Monday our counselor visited our room and had a conversation with our kiddos about being drug free. She then told them that the whole school was going to sign a pledge to being drug free. The really cool part is that those pledges are going to be on giant sheets and be on display for all of Lawrence to see! Our motto or saying is, "A HEALTHY ME IS DRUG FREE!"
I snapped a picture of two kinders signing their names on the kindergarten sheet. Make sure to drive by or walk by the front of our school to see our PRIDE!
I snapped a picture of two kinders signing their names on the kindergarten sheet. Make sure to drive by or walk by the front of our school to see our PRIDE!
Sunday, October 13, 2013
I Believe in Me!
Sometimes our room can get plagued with the "I can'ts." We are learning a lot of new things and sometimes rather quickly. This is when our littles can come down with the "I can'ts." This past week, after attending a two day training, I came back with a new sense of responsibility to our kiddos. Not only must I give them every ounce of knowledge and strength to prepare them for their life, but I also want to help them understand that they MUST believe in themselves. We are going to do daily affirmations in our classrooms. We are going to say, "I can do it," and "I believe in me." I think if the kiddos say these statements to themselves it will give them confidence and maybe a strategy as they get older.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
WONDERS!
Going home with your kinders today is a note explaining how to get on our WONDERS website. Along with the note is a small card with your child's animal pic and a password. Let me tell you why this is going to be such an amazing thing for you and your child!!!
- It's easy to do! Once you type in the url make sure to save it or star it. The site itself is user friendly and the kiddos are already great at navigating through it.
- There is so much to do! You can read the small guided reading books together, you can play games that focus on letters and the sounds they make, practice saying our high-frequency words, read one of our BIG books, and so much more.
- This will make a difference! Not much more to say than that.
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| You have to find my name to get to all the kiddos logins! |
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| Find your child's picture and name (I erased all names for the blog) |
Once you get this far, your kinder should be able to navigate through the rest. At this point you'll be asked to enter the password and then you will enter the site.
Enjoy and please contact me with questions or concerns!!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Reading adventures
I'm experimenting with the iPad and all that we and all that we can do with it! Here is my first venture...recording a student reading their guided reading book and posting it on YouTube! No faces, no names, only hands and voice.
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