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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Week of Oct 24
Sorry parents, no fancy newsletter this week!
In language arts we will be reviewing EVERYTHING we’ve learned up to this point: letters, sight words, sequence, characters, setting, writing the sounds we hear in words, etc. Instead of reading groups (during our “centers” block) they will be taking their Unit 1 test this week. We will also be giving the new reading assessment at the end of the week to those children who have already begun reading. As I finish testing your child I will send home results for you to review.
In math we will be reviewing all that we have learned up to this point plus learning shapes. I know most of the children know their basic shapes but we are learning ALL 2-D shapes- trapezoids, hexagons, pentagons, etc! We will take a shape walk through the school to draw the shapes we see and make shape collages.
This week we will also have fun Fall/Halloween activities for the children to do- if they choose to! If they don’t want to do something Halloween related we will have things for Fall- and ALL are fun! I figured with writing/publishing a book and all the “testing” they need to have a little fun!
The children have ALMOST earned a “popcorn/movie” party by filling our classroom bucket (ask your child about this!) so encourage best behavior and I bet we can fill that bucket by Halloween!
Donations needed: candy corn, dried leaves, ribbon in “fall/Halloween” colors
In language arts we will be reviewing EVERYTHING we’ve learned up to this point: letters, sight words, sequence, characters, setting, writing the sounds we hear in words, etc. Instead of reading groups (during our “centers” block) they will be taking their Unit 1 test this week. We will also be giving the new reading assessment at the end of the week to those children who have already begun reading. As I finish testing your child I will send home results for you to review.
In math we will be reviewing all that we have learned up to this point plus learning shapes. I know most of the children know their basic shapes but we are learning ALL 2-D shapes- trapezoids, hexagons, pentagons, etc! We will take a shape walk through the school to draw the shapes we see and make shape collages.
This week we will also have fun Fall/Halloween activities for the children to do- if they choose to! If they don’t want to do something Halloween related we will have things for Fall- and ALL are fun! I figured with writing/publishing a book and all the “testing” they need to have a little fun!
The children have ALMOST earned a “popcorn/movie” party by filling our classroom bucket (ask your child about this!) so encourage best behavior and I bet we can fill that bucket by Halloween!
Donations needed: candy corn, dried leaves, ribbon in “fall/Halloween” colors
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Week of Oct. 17
Mrs. Barr’s Shining Stars News
October 17, 2011
Mrs. Barr’s Message:
This quarter is flying by! Only 3 weeks left. This week we will finish our first unit of our reading curriculum. We will be taking a unit test at the end of the week. When reading each night, talk with your child about the characters, setting, and sequence of the story. Please review the letter names and sounds. For game ideas please see the class website.
We will create our class book “I am thankful for…” this week as part of journal and reading group time. Talk with your child about what being thankful means and what they are thankful for. Have them draw pictures of what they are thankful for. Have them say the word slowly and write down the letter sounds they hear. Correct spelling is NOT important at this stage in writing!!! Always praise your child for any attempts at writing letters/words. We have practiced this in our journals and they are doing great! Be on the lookout for the order form for your hard back copy of the class book. Thanks for participlating!
Thanks for all you do!!!
IMPORTANT DATES:
10/20: Bingo/Pizza fundraiser in the MPS @ 1800
11/3: End of 1st Quarter
11/4: No school for students
11/5: Craft Market Fundraiser
11/9-11/10 Parent Teacher Conferences (no school for Elem. students
11/10: Principal’s Coffee- 9am
11/11: No school Veteran’s Day
Monday 10/17
Art
Tuesday 10/18
Host Nation
Wednesday 10/19
PE
Thursday 10/20
Music (in the AM)
Friday 10/21
PE
!!!REMINDER!!!
You may keep a spare change of clothes in your child’s backpack. We can store them in the room if you don’t want them to carry them back and forth. Accidents (and mud puddles) happen!
Library is on Friday
Check out information, resources, kid web sites, and pictures on our classroom blog:
www.mrsbarrshiningstars.blogspot.com
Homework is not mandatory but highly recommended!!
Writing:
Sight words: to, a
Review: am, I, little, it, is, the
Please review these sight words for our unit test!!!
KE2a.1: Discuss ideas to include in a story.
KE2a.3: Write using pictures, letters, and words.
Reading:
Letters: X, Y, Z, vowels
Review: A-W
Reviewing character, setting, sequence, and sorting/classifying.
Dig, Dig, Dig
KE1c.3: Identify characters, settings, and important events in a story.
KE1a.14: Match all consonant sounds in simple words (such as mad, red, pin, top,
sun) to appropriate letters.
Math:
We are making number quilts!
K.M.1a: identify, write, and name numbers up to 20
K.M.1b: using one-to-one correspondence, count the number of objects in sets up to 20;
Books:
1, 2, 3
Where’s my teddy
Horris and Morace but mostly Delores
Ten, nine, eight
Today I feel silly
Boys and Girls of the world
Today is Monday
Mama, how much do you love me?
Just so thankful
Thanks a million
Plus many more!
Children need to hear and say the words that one day they will read and write. Have fun with the following songs and rhymes… word play leads to word power!
KE3b.2: Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
COLOR OF THE WEEK:
(don’t forget Show-n-Share on Friday! It
must be the color of the week!)
Gray
Look at them go
(tune: wheels on the bus)
The diggers dig with a scoop, scoop, scooping
Scoop, scoop, scooping,
Scoop, scoop, scooping
The diggers dig with a scoop, scoop, scooping
Look at them go
V2: The fire hose sprays with a swoosh, swoosh, swooshing
V3: The tractors plow with a squelch, squelch, squelching
V4: Garbage trucks are good at gobble, gobble, gobbling
V5: The cranes carry pipes that are spin, spin, spinning
V6: The dump trucks dump with a rumble, rumble, rumbling
October 17, 2011
Mrs. Barr’s Message:
This quarter is flying by! Only 3 weeks left. This week we will finish our first unit of our reading curriculum. We will be taking a unit test at the end of the week. When reading each night, talk with your child about the characters, setting, and sequence of the story. Please review the letter names and sounds. For game ideas please see the class website.
We will create our class book “I am thankful for…” this week as part of journal and reading group time. Talk with your child about what being thankful means and what they are thankful for. Have them draw pictures of what they are thankful for. Have them say the word slowly and write down the letter sounds they hear. Correct spelling is NOT important at this stage in writing!!! Always praise your child for any attempts at writing letters/words. We have practiced this in our journals and they are doing great! Be on the lookout for the order form for your hard back copy of the class book. Thanks for participlating!
Thanks for all you do!!!
IMPORTANT DATES:
10/20: Bingo/Pizza fundraiser in the MPS @ 1800
11/3: End of 1st Quarter
11/4: No school for students
11/5: Craft Market Fundraiser
11/9-11/10 Parent Teacher Conferences (no school for Elem. students
11/10: Principal’s Coffee- 9am
11/11: No school Veteran’s Day
Monday 10/17
Art
Tuesday 10/18
Host Nation
Wednesday 10/19
PE
Thursday 10/20
Music (in the AM)
Friday 10/21
PE
!!!REMINDER!!!
You may keep a spare change of clothes in your child’s backpack. We can store them in the room if you don’t want them to carry them back and forth. Accidents (and mud puddles) happen!
Library is on Friday
Check out information, resources, kid web sites, and pictures on our classroom blog:
www.mrsbarrshiningstars.blogspot.com
Homework is not mandatory but highly recommended!!
Writing:
Sight words: to, a
Review: am, I, little, it, is, the
Please review these sight words for our unit test!!!
KE2a.1: Discuss ideas to include in a story.
KE2a.3: Write using pictures, letters, and words.
Reading:
Letters: X, Y, Z, vowels
Review: A-W
Reviewing character, setting, sequence, and sorting/classifying.
Dig, Dig, Dig
KE1c.3: Identify characters, settings, and important events in a story.
KE1a.14: Match all consonant sounds in simple words (such as mad, red, pin, top,
sun) to appropriate letters.
Math:
We are making number quilts!
K.M.1a: identify, write, and name numbers up to 20
K.M.1b: using one-to-one correspondence, count the number of objects in sets up to 20;
Books:
1, 2, 3
Where’s my teddy
Horris and Morace but mostly Delores
Ten, nine, eight
Today I feel silly
Boys and Girls of the world
Today is Monday
Mama, how much do you love me?
Just so thankful
Thanks a million
Plus many more!
Children need to hear and say the words that one day they will read and write. Have fun with the following songs and rhymes… word play leads to word power!
KE3b.2: Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
COLOR OF THE WEEK:
(don’t forget Show-n-Share on Friday! It
must be the color of the week!)
Gray
Look at them go
(tune: wheels on the bus)
The diggers dig with a scoop, scoop, scooping
Scoop, scoop, scooping,
Scoop, scoop, scooping
The diggers dig with a scoop, scoop, scooping
Look at them go
V2: The fire hose sprays with a swoosh, swoosh, swooshing
V3: The tractors plow with a squelch, squelch, squelching
V4: Garbage trucks are good at gobble, gobble, gobbling
V5: The cranes carry pipes that are spin, spin, spinning
V6: The dump trucks dump with a rumble, rumble, rumbling
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Letter Games/Ideas!
Write your letters in/use:
Sand
Salt
Shaving cream
With glue (and then cover with glitter!)
Pasta
Dried beans
Playdough
Coins
Parents: call out the letter SOUND and let your child make the letter he/she thinks it is. If it is incorrect try saying, “Hmm if I were to make an ‘h’ I’d make it like this” then demonstrate for your child. They’ll want to fix the mistake without you even asking! You can also demonstrate by writing on a magnadoodle or dry erase board.
Make letter writing fun. Try using every color in your crayon or marker collection. See how many colors you can write “a” in and so on.
Make your own letter bingo game by writing random letters on a 5x5 grid. Make several different boards so your child can play many times. Make corresponding letters on cut out squares that you use to draw from. You draw a card with a letter and call out the letter name or sound and they cover the letter if it is on their board. Then let them call letters or sounds for you!
Make your own letter puzzles. Using a dark colored marker, write a letter very large on a piece of paper. Cut the paper in a simple way (into 4 squares, into 4 strips, etc). Have your child put the letter puzzle together and tell you the name and sound. They can save the puzzle to play again or glue it to a piece of construction paper. Increase the number of times you cut the puzzle to make it harder. Let your child try making a letter puzzle.
“Alphabet Soup” place some magnet letters or paper letters into a pot. Use a spoon or ladle to scoop out a letter and name it. If you get it right it goes in your bowl. If not it goes back in the pot.
www.starfall.com has letter games, stories, and movies for children.
www.pinterest.com has ideas for parents. Try searching “letter games” “kids games” or “learning letters”
“Alphabet Hunt” can be played any where! Call out a sound or letter name and your child hunts for it. This is great for the commissary. “Bobby I need a vegetable that starts with the /g/ sound” and let him bring you a can of green beans! Make it hard by leaving out the vegetable clue. This is wonderful to play with more than one child- make it a competition!
Make your own tongue twister using a certain letter. Aunt Annie ate an alligator! Busy bees buy bread! Silliest one wins!
Keep a running list of words that start with a letter. You could write the letter in dark marker at the top of a page on a notepad. As your child thinks of or finds words that start with the letter help them write it on the letter page. Start out by having them write the first letter and you finish the word (while sounding it out slowly for them to hear) but then, as they improve, have them start writing all the letters they hear and know.
Turn those lists into a letter book! Fold a piece of paper in half (“hamburger style”) and write one word from the list on each page and let your child illustrate it.
Google: “letter games” for a LOT of fun online games. “kindergarten letter games” gets you letter songs, online games, and activities you can do at home.
If you would like to, purchase letter stamps, letter beads, or letter games on Amazon.com The possibilities with stamps and beads are endless!!!
Sand
Salt
Shaving cream
With glue (and then cover with glitter!)
Pasta
Dried beans
Playdough
Coins
Parents: call out the letter SOUND and let your child make the letter he/she thinks it is. If it is incorrect try saying, “Hmm if I were to make an ‘h’ I’d make it like this” then demonstrate for your child. They’ll want to fix the mistake without you even asking! You can also demonstrate by writing on a magnadoodle or dry erase board.
Make letter writing fun. Try using every color in your crayon or marker collection. See how many colors you can write “a” in and so on.
Make your own letter bingo game by writing random letters on a 5x5 grid. Make several different boards so your child can play many times. Make corresponding letters on cut out squares that you use to draw from. You draw a card with a letter and call out the letter name or sound and they cover the letter if it is on their board. Then let them call letters or sounds for you!
Make your own letter puzzles. Using a dark colored marker, write a letter very large on a piece of paper. Cut the paper in a simple way (into 4 squares, into 4 strips, etc). Have your child put the letter puzzle together and tell you the name and sound. They can save the puzzle to play again or glue it to a piece of construction paper. Increase the number of times you cut the puzzle to make it harder. Let your child try making a letter puzzle.
“Alphabet Soup” place some magnet letters or paper letters into a pot. Use a spoon or ladle to scoop out a letter and name it. If you get it right it goes in your bowl. If not it goes back in the pot.
www.starfall.com has letter games, stories, and movies for children.
www.pinterest.com has ideas for parents. Try searching “letter games” “kids games” or “learning letters”
“Alphabet Hunt” can be played any where! Call out a sound or letter name and your child hunts for it. This is great for the commissary. “Bobby I need a vegetable that starts with the /g/ sound” and let him bring you a can of green beans! Make it hard by leaving out the vegetable clue. This is wonderful to play with more than one child- make it a competition!
Make your own tongue twister using a certain letter. Aunt Annie ate an alligator! Busy bees buy bread! Silliest one wins!
Keep a running list of words that start with a letter. You could write the letter in dark marker at the top of a page on a notepad. As your child thinks of or finds words that start with the letter help them write it on the letter page. Start out by having them write the first letter and you finish the word (while sounding it out slowly for them to hear) but then, as they improve, have them start writing all the letters they hear and know.
Turn those lists into a letter book! Fold a piece of paper in half (“hamburger style”) and write one word from the list on each page and let your child illustrate it.
Google: “letter games” for a LOT of fun online games. “kindergarten letter games” gets you letter songs, online games, and activities you can do at home.
If you would like to, purchase letter stamps, letter beads, or letter games on Amazon.com The possibilities with stamps and beads are endless!!!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Week of Oct. 11
Mrs. Barr’s Shining Stars News
October 11, 2011
Mrs. Barr’s Message:
Our IT man, Mr. Voce, would like me to remind you that GradeSpeed is only available for students in grades 4-8. Please do not request an account for a child in any other grades. Thanks!
We will not have a Halloween party. We will do Halloween and fall crafts that week as well as enjoy some popcorn and candy while watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” to go along with our fall and nocturnal animals unit.
Kindergarten does not receive formal progress reports. I will send home checklists and work that shows you where your child is and what they need to work on. Report cards come out the week of Nov. 7.
Thanks for all you do!!!
IMPORTANT DATES:
10/11-14: Fire Prevention Week
10/13: Flu vaccines for K
10/13: Principal’s Coffee 9-10am
11/3: End of 1st Quarter
11/4: No school for students
11/9-11/10 Parent Teacher Conferences (no school for Elem. students
11/10: Principal’s Coffee- 9am
11/11: No school Veteran’s Day
Monday 10/10
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday 10/11
Host Nation
Wednesday 10/12
PE
Thursday 10/13
Music (in the AM)
Friday 10/14
PE
!!!REMINDER!!!
Check out information, resources, kid web sites, and pictures on our classroom blog:
www.mrsbarrshiningstars.blogspot.com
Homework is not mandatory but highly recommended!!
Writing:
Sight words: to, a
Review is, it at home!
www.handwritingforkids.com is a great place to get homework sheets!
Reading:
Letters: T, U, V, W
Review A-S
Reviewing character, setting, sequence, and sorting/classifying.
Julius
KE1c.3: Identify characters, settings, and important events in a story.
KE1a.14: Match all consonant sounds in simple words (such as mad, red, pin, top,
sun) to appropriate letters.
Social Studies:
KSS5.b: Describe different kinds of jobs that people do at work and home.
KSS4.c: Explore the role of students in the school community
Math: identify, sort, and classify a set of objects by color, shape, size, number, and other attributes;
identify, reproduce, describe, extend, and create color, rhythmic, shape, number, and letter repeating patterns with simple attributes,
Books:
Leo the Late Bloomer
Words are not for hurting
Flower Fairy Alphabet
Bully Bear
Cliffords Pals
I’m Gonna Like Me
A children’s Zoo
Friends at School
Plus MANY more!
COLOR OF THE WEEK:
(don’t forget Show-n-Share on Friday! It must
be the color of the week!)
Yellow
October 11, 2011
Mrs. Barr’s Message:
Our IT man, Mr. Voce, would like me to remind you that GradeSpeed is only available for students in grades 4-8. Please do not request an account for a child in any other grades. Thanks!
We will not have a Halloween party. We will do Halloween and fall crafts that week as well as enjoy some popcorn and candy while watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” to go along with our fall and nocturnal animals unit.
Kindergarten does not receive formal progress reports. I will send home checklists and work that shows you where your child is and what they need to work on. Report cards come out the week of Nov. 7.
Thanks for all you do!!!
IMPORTANT DATES:
10/11-14: Fire Prevention Week
10/13: Flu vaccines for K
10/13: Principal’s Coffee 9-10am
11/3: End of 1st Quarter
11/4: No school for students
11/9-11/10 Parent Teacher Conferences (no school for Elem. students
11/10: Principal’s Coffee- 9am
11/11: No school Veteran’s Day
Monday 10/10
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday 10/11
Host Nation
Wednesday 10/12
PE
Thursday 10/13
Music (in the AM)
Friday 10/14
PE
!!!REMINDER!!!
Check out information, resources, kid web sites, and pictures on our classroom blog:
www.mrsbarrshiningstars.blogspot.com
Homework is not mandatory but highly recommended!!
Writing:
Sight words: to, a
Review is, it at home!
www.handwritingforkids.com is a great place to get homework sheets!
Reading:
Letters: T, U, V, W
Review A-S
Reviewing character, setting, sequence, and sorting/classifying.
Julius
KE1c.3: Identify characters, settings, and important events in a story.
KE1a.14: Match all consonant sounds in simple words (such as mad, red, pin, top,
sun) to appropriate letters.
Social Studies:
KSS5.b: Describe different kinds of jobs that people do at work and home.
KSS4.c: Explore the role of students in the school community
Math: identify, sort, and classify a set of objects by color, shape, size, number, and other attributes;
identify, reproduce, describe, extend, and create color, rhythmic, shape, number, and letter repeating patterns with simple attributes,
Books:
Leo the Late Bloomer
Words are not for hurting
Flower Fairy Alphabet
Bully Bear
Cliffords Pals
I’m Gonna Like Me
A children’s Zoo
Friends at School
Plus MANY more!
COLOR OF THE WEEK:
(don’t forget Show-n-Share on Friday! It must
be the color of the week!)
Yellow
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