Monday, September 2, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Unit 1, Week 1 - Building With Dad / What Makes a Family?
Our Informational Text this week will be What Makes a Family?, by Pam Munoz Ryan. This book is about different families and the things they do together.
We will be working on the following skills this week: rhyming words, reading with expression, identifying the main idea of a story, summarizing a story, identifying people as nouns, and learning to classify and categorize 'family' words. High-Frequency Word: I
Oral Vocabulary Words (Building with Dad): cranes,
crew, gleaming, mechanic, outlining, and solid
Selection Vocabulary Words (What Makes a Family?):
celebrate, family, memories, and include
Thank you to www.amazon.com and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for the cover images!
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Class T-Shirt Order Form
Here is a copy of the class t-shirt order form that will be going home the night of our Open House, in case the original is misplaced or a second copy is needed. Our classroom color will be Lime Green this year!
T-Shirt Order Form -
Matching Numbers to Sets
As part of our last week of review before starting our Math and Reading Series next week, we practiced matching numbers to sets out of order with Bingo markers.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
First Week Fun!
Here are a few pictures from our first full week of Kindergarten! There are a few from whole group reading discussion (complete with an inflatable microphone), scissor safety practice, and some of the kiddos playing on the playground at the end of the day. They've sure worked hard this week!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Leader in Me Info
Follow the link below to learn more about the new direction we have envisioned for Watt Hardison through The Leader in Me program!
http://www.theleaderinme.org/
http://www.theleaderinme.org/
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Unit 5, Week 5 - On the Move!
This week our Focus Story will be On the Move! by Donna Latham. This story uses rhyming to describe the many means by which people around the world move from place to place.
Our Target Skill this week is identifying the main idea of a story. We will also continue to practice making predictions, retelling a story, and determining the causes and effects of certain events in a story. Noun recognition and identification will be reviewed as well. We will work to identify, form, and match the letters 'Vv' and 'Zz' to their phonemes--/v/ and /z/, respectively.
Amazing Words: travel, kayak, llama, dogsled, double-decker bus, submarine
High-Frequency Words: where, come (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letters: Vv and Zz
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Unit 5, Week 4 - The Little Engine That Could
This week our Focus Story will be The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. This story is a classic, and is a wonderful means by which to teach children about optimism and the good things that can come as a result of hard work. In this story, a long train must be pulled over the mountain as it has toys and treats for the children there. The dolls and toys try unsuccessfully to find an engine willing to pull their train over the mountain. Finally, a little blue engine (the smallest of them all) decides that she will try to help, and with some hard work and encouragement is successful.
Our Target Skill this week will be learning to identify the plot of a story. We will also continue to practice making predictions, retelling a story, and identifying the characters in a story. We will again focus on learning to identify, form, and match the letter 'Uu' to its phoneme--/u/. This week we will focus on the long vowel sound.
Amazing Words: engine, tracks, passenger, roundhouse, mountain, valley
High-Frequency Words: what, said, was (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letter: Uu
Thank you to http://allthingsd.com for the cover image!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
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