Friday!

What a fast day! Here are a few things that we completed:

Math: one-to-one and using the words "greater than" and "less than"

Writing/Reading- write out and read our poem. "We like the cat. It has a hat."

We had a chance to work with counters and play a game with "greater than" and "less than".

The students had Music today and we were able to work with sounding out words for show and tell that had a "C" and a "K". Overall it was a great day! The class was a bit chatty, but they pulled it together!

Thursday Letter

Newsletter for the Week of Nov. 15th - ,19th
Monday	Tuesday
Letter of the week is “I  i” High Frequency Words:  he    for  Amazing Words: nest, meadow, stump, tree                                    trunk, hive, den   P.E.  Please wear tennis shoes	Story: A Bed for Winter Question of the week: “What kind of                         homes do animals need?   Show-n-Tell: Austin, Eli,                         Maddy and Treyden
Wednesday	Thursday
Library Day – Since we didn’t check out books last week your child’s book may already be in the gray box.  But check to be sure, please   Show-n-Tell:  Elias, Ella, Emma,                          Ethyn and Erica	Show-n-Tell:   Gabrielle, Jaxton,               Kaleigh, Kendal and Orion
Friday	Special Announcements
Music     Show-n-Tell: Reese, Morgan,            Remington, Rikki and Sophia	Thanks to all who have brought snacks. If you haven’t we can still use more to provide some variety.  Carrots for C week would be awesome!
Reminders
Thankful homework coming home 11/11/2010.  It will be due next Friday 11/19 before our very short week of 1 ½ days of school before Thanksgiving break. Directions: Talk to your child about what they are thankful for.  Have them draw a few of their ideas and labels what they are.  You can help them with the spelling but let them do as much of the labeling as they can, even if you write the word on a separate sheet and have them copy it  Encourage them to share more than one thing and to color it nicely because it will be a page in our “Thankful Book”.  Then have them sign the bottom in their very best writing! Thanks so much!

Thursday Newsletter

Great day! We had a lot we completed. In Math we worked on place value. The kids had a great question about why there was a digit for 1 and a digit for 0 making up the number ten. We talked about how when the ones house (place) was overflowing we made "one" group of ten, hence the ! and 0 ... 10. It was a great question! We worked on rhyming words today with "cat" they should have  a sentence that they wrote about a cat. Some were able to rhyme with cat with one of the words we came up with as a class... pat, rat, sat, mat, fat. We reread, The Bear Snores On and reviewed the letter "P" and the sound it makes... phew! That is just a quick snapshot of the day! 

New Song - Who remembers it?

Tuesday, I forgot to put it out on the blog that the children learned a new song and they were going to sing it for you when they got in their pajamas Tuesday night. Since it's been a day and a half, and we forgot to practice the song on Wednesday, you may need to remind them of what the song is about. It goes to the same tune as R-E-D R-E-D that spells red (Frere Jacques or Are you Sleeping?) but it's a math song rather than a reading song.

I can't wait to hear from someone!

Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper

Another Marvelous Monday

I promised the boys and girls that I would tell all the parents how great of a day we had today! We earned 4 compliments and put 4 links in the kindness chain. They are really working to be quiet in line, helpful to each other and listen to the teacher! They adjusted back to our regular day and some were surprised when it was already time to go home!

We started a new way to do lunch count that should go faster and leave us even more learning time. The students who are cold lunch need to put a clip by their name on a list by the door. Then we have the star helper count the hot lunches and we "count on" to get up to our total students for the day! They are lining up alphabetically without name tags, so we will probably only use them on Wednesday's when they can be the nametags for our librarian.

We also started a creative art center choice at the blue table. They can use scraps of paper, scissors, glue and markers to make any sort of creation they want. Look for all sorts of new creative designs and projects!

Thank you all for coming to conferences. We had all but 2 completed last week and those 2 have rescheduled for this week 100% WOW!!! you are AWESOME parents!!!! Thanks for taking time to talk with us about your child's school progress! We know it makes a huge difference when we work together.

Now a quick overview of our week. Our Question of the Week is: What unique thing does a bear do in the Winter? The big book tomorrow is "Bear Snores On" and our amazing words are: blustery,

cave,

sleep,

storm,

winter

and woods.

We are reviewing the high frequency words: we, like, and my.

I also fit in another story about bears getting ready for the winter called "Copy me, Copycub"! Even though we talked about bears the first few weeks of school the student are excited to be learning more about bears.

Show and tell is still one item that starts with the "hard" c sound (like in cat, cup, or carrot) or the k sound as in (kite, koala or kitten). We discovered a lot of words that start with the /k/ sound but have yet to have someone say "KINDERGARTEN".

We got some questions about the homework I put on the November calendar. It will come home this Thursday after we talk a little more about Thanksgiving. I will send home a gold half sheet that says "I am thankful for.... at the top" and by _______________ at the bottom. In between children can draw pictures of things or write a list of things they are thankful for. It can be one thing or many things. You can help them to whatever degree they need help. You can help them sound out the words, spell words for them, or write them on a separate sheet of paper and let them copy the words. Or they can do the pictures and you can label them. Just try to let them do as much as possible that is still readable for other adults. We are going to put the individual sheets into a book that will 'travel' home with each child for a night to read with their parents.

Thanks for everything you do to help your child feel good about school!

Sincerely, Carol Clapper

Thursday, Another Quick Day

Today was another 1/2 day of school. The kids have been working hard during the mornings and can get pretty hungry and tired by the time noon rolls around. We had a guest teacher from the school district in today to work on writing practice with the class. We reread animal babies and wrote, "who is my mommy". The kids chose an animal and their baby to draw and write about. We will finish these up tomorrow. The kids got to join me today for a quick reading group. They did well! Thank you so much for taking the time to join your child in their learning. Thank you also for making it a point to come to their conference time as well.

A Monday Minute report

This is going to be short because we had a marvelous Monday starting out with drawing and writing something about our Halloween weekend. My example said "On Halloween, I handed out candy" but since no one came to the Clapper door, I had to edit it this morning to I was sad when no one came to our door.

We began our week talking about Grassland baby animals and working on the new words 'we', 'my' and 'like'. We said good bye to Abe on Friday and were missing him today. With him gone, only Austin, Eli, Maddy and Treyden need to remember their "P" show and tell for Tuesday.

Tomorrow we will be sending home important stuff! Their first report card, a November calendar, and a reminder of picture retakes on Nov. 10th. So I think I will be sending Thursday envelopes home on Tuesday this week!

That's all for now! Thanks for reading the blog and keeping up with our Kindergarten activities! Sincerely, Carol Clapper