Dear Parents,
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing break. I have lots of fun things planned for January and I am excited to be back at Ray with my wonderful kiddos. Here is a sneak peak at what we will be doing in kindergarten this week….
Morning Meeting
· Snowflakes song
Literacy
Theme/Science/SS
Mrs. Burks
[email protected]
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing break. I have lots of fun things planned for January and I am excited to be back at Ray with my wonderful kiddos. Here is a sneak peak at what we will be doing in kindergarten this week….
Morning Meeting
· Snowflakes song
- Activity: Hot potato
Literacy
- New Sight words: on, with, said
- Practice the following words at home as well… I, can, like, see , the, and, look, have, are, is, for, my, go, play, am, here, run, we, in, eat, you, will, big, little, me
- Sight word songs and dance
- CVC words and chopping out the sounds
- Teacher Table: guided reading, phonics games
- Projector center: writing complete sentences using new and old sight words
- Library: Reading books from our class library with a friend, stuffed animal or independently
- Word Wall: Building/Writing sight words with choice of…playdoh, wikki stix, puff balls, jewels, rainbow writing, stack and build
- Writing Center: Students will have their choice of the following at writing center:
- Picture cards: choose a card, draw a picture and write a sentence about the picture.
- Independent journal: free write and draw in their journal
- December crowns
- Sticker Stories: choose 1 sticker and sound out the word and draw a picture
- Parent Games: Roll and read a word
- Creating cvc words from 3 dice and determining if it is a real or nonsense word
- IPad’s: choice of ABC mouse or RAZ kids
Theme/Science/SS
- January Journals
- Focusing on capital letter at beginning
- Punctuation at the end
- Finger spaces
- Transitioning into writing with lower case letters
- ST math
- Creating a number four different ways
- Number ordering
- Number writing
- Mitten measuring with various objects
- Animal crackers, cubes, cotton balls, paper clips
- Blocks
- Magna Tiles
- Snow much addition
- Snow adorable colors
- Before-between-after numbers
- Snack Helpers for this week. Please bring a snack for 22 students.
- London, Charlie F., Gavina, Iker
- Please check out our blog weekly. I post weekly pictures of what we are doing in our classroom!!
Mrs. Burks
[email protected]