It's beginning to feel like fall...with the return of football anyway! We are a divided household (as you can see) and luckily we all had a terrific Sunday with big wins for our teams! I hope you had a terrific weekend as well!!
9/14: Picture Day- please send your order forms to school on or before this day
9/16: Fitnesss wear Friday- wear Athletic clothes
9/16: Fox Cities Kids Fun Run
9/20: No School for students
9/22: Family Night: Hot Dogs and How to Help- please send RSVP's to school with your child by Sept 15th
Every Friday throughout the school year will be NDLC wear day. Students can/should wear their school apparel proudly! Check out this link from Eagle Graphics to purchase NDLC school apparel online. Clothing samples are available in the office and will be out at family night on 9/22. Ordering can take place through 9/25.
We are hoping orders will be fulfilled by mid-October!
Here is a peek at what will be happening in Room 80 next week:
Reading: Right now as readers we are enjoying super interesting non-fiction books or, as we call them, "learn about the world books." Our goal when exploring these books is to look closely at the pictures and learn as much as we can. While we are doing this we are connecting new information back to the title/topic of the book and also connecting new information as we "read" more and more pages. During reading workshop each day we have a time to reading independently (private reading time) and a time to read with a friend (partner reading time). When we meet with our reading partners we are talking about and sharing all we have learned from our books. This week we will focus on rereading books to learn more and more and to begin to think about what the words in the book might tell us.
Writing: As writers we have been working on thinking of a topic we know a lot about and then showing what we know by drawing a picture and maybe even using a letter or two. We feel so grown up using pens to write with and have also been working to keep writing...we even learned a new saying "when we are done, we have just begun!" This week we will work more on listening to and writing down the sounds we hear in words we are trying to write. We will also practice our drawing skills to challenge ourselves to write about ideas that may seem hard for us.
Math: Last week as mathematicians we learned that we carry our most important tools for math right on our body: our fingers and eyes (and our brains too). We used them to see math all over our classroom and school. This week we will practice using different math tools in the classroom to reinforce counting, patterning and sorting. We will also focus on ordering numbers 1-5 and drawing and "reading" pictures to tell how many objects we see.
Word Work: During word work time we will be focusing on skills we will need to begin to spell words. Right now word work time has lots to do with matching upper case and lower case letters, building names, reading familiar color words and sorting letters of various fonts. Each day the children work in a center to reinforce these skills. As we grow as readers and writers this time will look differently and focus on more sophisticated skills.
9/22: Family Night: Hot Dogs and How to Help- please send RSVP's to school with your child by Sept 15th
Every Friday throughout the school year will be NDLC wear day. Students can/should wear their school apparel proudly! Check out this link from Eagle Graphics to purchase NDLC school apparel online. Clothing samples are available in the office and will be out at family night on 9/22. Ordering can take place through 9/25.
We are hoping orders will be fulfilled by mid-October!
Here is the link and the code
https://eaglegraphics.itemorder.com/
Code: NDLCSPIRIT
Reading: Right now as readers we are enjoying super interesting non-fiction books or, as we call them, "learn about the world books." Our goal when exploring these books is to look closely at the pictures and learn as much as we can. While we are doing this we are connecting new information back to the title/topic of the book and also connecting new information as we "read" more and more pages. During reading workshop each day we have a time to reading independently (private reading time) and a time to read with a friend (partner reading time). When we meet with our reading partners we are talking about and sharing all we have learned from our books. This week we will focus on rereading books to learn more and more and to begin to think about what the words in the book might tell us.
Writing: As writers we have been working on thinking of a topic we know a lot about and then showing what we know by drawing a picture and maybe even using a letter or two. We feel so grown up using pens to write with and have also been working to keep writing...we even learned a new saying "when we are done, we have just begun!" This week we will work more on listening to and writing down the sounds we hear in words we are trying to write. We will also practice our drawing skills to challenge ourselves to write about ideas that may seem hard for us.
Math: Last week as mathematicians we learned that we carry our most important tools for math right on our body: our fingers and eyes (and our brains too). We used them to see math all over our classroom and school. This week we will practice using different math tools in the classroom to reinforce counting, patterning and sorting. We will also focus on ordering numbers 1-5 and drawing and "reading" pictures to tell how many objects we see.
Word Work: During word work time we will be focusing on skills we will need to begin to spell words. Right now word work time has lots to do with matching upper case and lower case letters, building names, reading familiar color words and sorting letters of various fonts. Each day the children work in a center to reinforce these skills. As we grow as readers and writers this time will look differently and focus on more sophisticated skills.
Social Studies: Right now in kindergarten we are studying our classroom. This week we will use all we learned about last week to determine a hope and dream for ourselves for the school year. Each child will decide on something they really want to accomplish and we will share it with the class. We will publish our hope and dreams and display them in our classroom. After we have set our hopes and dreams we will write classroom rules together so we can all reach our hopes and dreams this school. This is big, important work for the students and really helps them to build a community in our classroom!!
Have a great week and please keep me posted with any questions and concerns!!
Elly :)
Have a great week and please keep me posted with any questions and concerns!!
Elly :)
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