I hope you have had the opportunity to talk to your child about their experience with Caraway Academy. It's such a neat concept and the boys and girls love it! I'm currently teaching a Musical Theater Academy. It' so much fun!
Tomorrow the temperature is going to drop! It will be cold the rest of the week. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriatly. I'm not sure how our classroom will feel because this is my first year in room 323. It tends to run warm so dressing your child in layers may be the best option. Please make sure you label coats, hats and gloves with your child's name.
Just a reminder...
We are honoring students in our class as our Star Student of the Week each week. Please see the schedule here! This week (October 15th) we are honoring Bay!
Reminders:
Monday (10/15): Math Information Night at CVMS for Elementary Parents 6pm.
Tuesday (10/16): Library Check out. Please help your child remember to return their book.
Tuesday folders will come home. Please sign and return Wednesday.
Wednesday (10/17):
Thursday (10/18): Riata RoundUp (rescheduled) 6:30pm-7:30pm
Friday (10/19): Caraway Academy 7:45am-8:45am
Have a great weekend!
Saturday (10/20): Sock Hop, 4pm-6pm
This is a really fun event put on by our PTA. Come support our school and have fun too!
This week in Kindergarten...
Last week we borrowed the iPads from the Innovation Lab to use for a reading comprehension lessons. We've been learning about Characters and how they help make a story. We read the book Skeleton Hiccups then we used the app ChatterKids to pretend we were the Skeleton. We retold the story from the Skeleton's point of view. This was so much fun! We went a step further, whoa!, and uploaded our videos to Seesaw, a digital portfolio. If you want to follow our work on our digital portfolios see the instruction below!
This year we are using Seesaw to share our work with families! Your child will post to Seesaw to share their learning. Seesaw is private; you'll only see posts created by your child.
Please Sign Up Now- Click on this link: https://app.seesaw.me/s/882-425-263
- Choose your child from the list
- Create your account
- Once I approve you, you can see content from your child
After you sign up, download the free Seesaw Family app and sign in. You can also access Seesaw from a computer at https://app.seesaw.me.
In Writing Workshop...
We will wrap up our unit on What makes a Story. We've been thinking about how stories have parts. We add words with labels and a sentence. We made an Interactive Chart last week to help us remember the steps of storytelling. This week we will focus on sharing our stories as we learn how to organize ourselves!
In Reading Workshop...
We will begin looking at the differences between Information texts and Fiction texts. We will read all about Owls this week. We will read stories that tell us facts about Owls and stories that have Owls as characters and are just pretend.
In Phonics...
We are exploring how words rhyme! We will play rhyming games and sing songs that have rhyming words this week. We are taking a week off of word wall words. We will add more next week!
In Math...
This week we will continue Math Workshop rotations each day. At the teacher table we will be working with 2D and 3D shapes! We will thinking about what 2D shapes make up 3D shapes. For example, a cone has a circle for a base. We will say "I see a circle is on the bottom of a cone." We will begin to use sentence stems to justify our thoughts and ideas as mathematicians.
In Science...
This week we will continue our unit on Forms of Energy. This week we will explore Thermal Energy! We will engage our senses with a video clip that shows us examples of thermal energy. We will observe different types of thermal energy. On Thursday, we will do a special experiment with thermal energy that we can eat! (Shhh...we are going to make pancakes!)
Lastly, your child will need their own set of headphones this year. I will label them and keep them in a safe place for your child to use. We will not share headphones. You can find headphones at Big Lots and Target for $5 each! Please send them in as soon as you can!
This week's Life Skill is Responsibility! We will focus on being accountable for our actions!
Have a great week!
