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I hope that you had a wonderful weekend! I am so excited for this week with the bookfair and all the exciting learning we will be doing! This week we will be finishing up our chipmunk doubling in math. We will begin focusing more on subtraction and how to show our work and write an equation. In Foundational Skills, we will add some more letters and sounds to what we have been working on. We are really focusing on the segmenting of the letter sounds and what it looks like to blend them back together. These skills will help develop strong readers and writers. In literacy, we have been researching different trees and the seasons. We have been working out note taking skills and relating what we have learned about weather to the seasons and how trees grow. Soon we will be doing a writing activity to share what we have learned. Book Fair: The book fair is this week! On Tuesday morning we will be going to the book fair to create a wishlist of books that your students are interested to help you explore the bookfair when you come and visit. As a friendly reminder, Lunch with a Loved one is also on Tuesday for Kindergarten. On Wednesday afternoon, the bookfair will also be open! I will be here after school with some other teachers to share our favorite stories in the library! Please feel free to stop by and listen and say hi! If you have any questions about Lunch with a Loved One, please reach out to Mrs. Kahn and Mrs. Pickens to help organize it! Important Information 1. Dollar Drive: Please feel free to donate a dollar at some point throughout the week. The Spirit Club is hosting this drive for the Moraine Township Holiday Gift Drive. The money that is collected will be used to purchase gifts for local families in need. 2. Alice Practice: We will be discussing our Alice Practice. Please review Mrs. Kahn's Bobcat Bulletin to learn more about the conversation we will be having. I just wanted to remind you again that is happening in case you would like to share it with your student so it is not a surprise. Again, this is a conversation about how to stay safe and within the Bobcat Bulletin there are links with some of the language that will be used. 3. Scholastic Books: Scholastic book sign up is due tomorrow for the month of November. Please use our class code if you would like to order books. 4. Book fair begins this week!! 5. Conferences are next week I hope that you have a great start to the week and I am looking forward to seeing your students soon!
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I hope that you have had a wonderful week! We have been having an amazing week in class! In literacy we finished our Pond Unit! We have created a Pond Resource guide with all of our research. Your student even chose their own pond animal or plant to write about by themselves. You will see that on Seesaw soon! Your students then created a pond painting that represents their pond resource guide. In foundational skills we learned 5 letter sounds. The new art and science of reading shows that when we teach letters we should be discussing them by sounds instead of letter name and we use lowercase letters. Uppercase letters come sooner for students because it is easier to write and recognize. This lesson is important as well because it helps students associate lowercase letters with sounds for reading and helps them begin writing. Some of the other language you may hear about is chaining and taping it out. Chaining is putting letter sounds together to build words. Once we build the word we "tap it out" by using our fingers to "tap out" each sound on the word and blend it together to read it. This is a great tool to use if you are reading with your student at home, or ask your student to teach you how they tap out words. In math we worked on sequencing numbers. Next week we will be looking at adding and doubling. In science, we began our weather journal and looking at the four seasons and how they change. CHANGE IN SCHEDULE: On Monday we will have library instead of on Tuesday. Please make sure you send your student with their library book on Monday so we can check out new books. Spirit Week: Next week will be spirit week. Mrs. Kahn has shared the different dress up days in her Bobcat Bulletin. Here is what the dress up will look like for Kindergarten: - Monday: PJ day - Tuesday: We wear orange - Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday - Thursday: Wild West Day - Friday: Sports day or Braeside Day Please remember that it is okay if your student does not want to dress up! It is just something fun that we will be doing for Braeside spirit! Important Information: 1. Early Release next Friday 2. Send in library books on Monday 3. Spirit week next week! Hi Room 115 Families!
I hope that you have been having a good week! Today we celebrated our 30th day of school! I cannot believe how fast school is already going and the amazing growth that I am seeing every day! This week in foundational skills we worked on writing our name with a capital letter and lowercase letters. We also practiced our grip and creating a strong foundation of different lines and loops to help us make lowercase letters. Students are also learning how to tap out the sounds they hear and words and blend them back together. This is a great reading strategy! In literacy, we are continuing to work on our Pond Nature guide. We completed our research on pond animals and are beginning to look at pond plants. Soon your students will also have the ability to choose a pond plant or animal to write and illustrate on their own. In math, we completed our Lego Emmett project. Your students worked hard to find the different combinations of ten. Next week we will work on looking at the sequencing of numbers from 1-20 and looking at teen numbers. In social studies we have continued to look at whole body listening and how to be a problem solver! Classroom Observer Next week we will have a college student from National Louis come to our room and collect observation hours as she begins her journey to become a teacher! She will be observing our class on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons for about a month. I wanted to let you know in advance that we will be having someone join us so it will not be a surprise if you hear about her coming to class. Important Information 1. Monday, October 10th, No School 2. Scholastic Book Orders due Monday! Last chance to put in an order this weekend! Click Here for book catalogue and our class code: As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Good morning Room 115 Families!
I hope that you had a wonderful weekend! We are off to a great start this Monday morning and I am very excited for this week! As a reminder, this Thursday, September 22nd is picture day! Please see the Bobcat Bulletin if you have misplaced your form or if you have not signed up yet and would like to for pictures! This week in literacy we are going to begin looking at nonfiction texts! We will be learning the different parts of a nonfiction book. We will also begin to learn how to do research and note taking. In math, we are going to start our Lego math project. We will be using legos as our manipulative to see the value of the number. This will help show students how numbers look and how we then put the values together to add. Last Week: In foundational skills we worked on our grip on how to hold a crayon or pencil. We practiced horizontal and vertical lines to help prepare us for letter writing and letter formations. In literacy, we continued to practice the different story elements. We made a venn diagram to learn how to compare and contrast two books and we wrote about one of our favorite characters in the book and focused on the setting in which they live. In math, we continued to work on sequencing and beginning adding. Important Information: 1. Early release Friday 2. No school Monday 3. Innovation Learning Clubs begin this week. If you need a new transportation form for your students black folder, please let me know! I can send one home for you and your student to update. 3. Student Success Block begins this week. Your student will be working with myself, Ms. Tepper or Miss Smith for literacy or math. This will be 30 minutes everyday. The goal is to meet your students where they are at with their learning in the subject and expand on it! We are very excited to begin it. You may hear your students call it SSB for short! Hi Room 115 Families,
It was so nice to see almost all of you at Open House yesterday! I am so excited for the year ahead! In addition to MAP testing, this week we worked on 1:1 counting of objects to ten, different ways we can add within ten, writing our numbers and sequencing numbers. In literacy, we worked on identifying the characters in a book, the setting, and what the problem and solutions are. We also spent a lot of time working on our classroom community talking about being bucketfillers, having a growth mindset and the power of yet! Below are some updates on drills we will be having, ordering scholastic books and important reminders! Scholastic Books: I will be putting in our first scholastic order for books this year! At the beginning of each month I will share with you the scholastic book order of the month. This is a great opportunity to order books for your students! Please know that this is optional. I will put the order in Friday, September 9th! You can have the books delivered straight to your home or to school for me to send home with your student. The order takes about a week to a week and half for the books to be delivered. Here is the link to go book shopping: Click Here. When you check out, it will ask for our class code. Please type in our class code: please email me for the class code! Drills:
Important Information 1. No school Monday, September 5th, Labor Day 2. Please get book orders in by September 9th please! 3. Questions about SeeSaw: your students will be able to login to SeeSaw through the app on the main page of the iPad or your students can access it through Clever. The Clever QR code is attached to the apple ID and email for students that I shared with you, or the separate small QR code in the take home folder. 4. Your students have their own QR codes at school, please feel free to place the QR codes that I shared with you in a safe spot at home for use! As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out! I hope that you have a wonderful long weekend! Hi Room 115 Families!!
It is hard to believe that we have completed our first week of kindergarten! This week we began building our classroom community. We learned not only about being a bucketfiller but about having a growth mindset! A growth mindset is having a positive attitude and seeing mistakes as celebrations to learn from. Instead of being upset or seeing challenges as a roadblock, a growth mindset allows you to welcome difficult tasks and see new possibilities and opportunities to learn and grow. I hope you will start to hear this language more from your students because it is something that we work on everyday! In class we began working on word games and letter names and sounds. We also started practicing sequencing of numbers and counting 1-10. MAP Testing Monday and Tuesday Morning For those of you who don’t know, MAP testing is a standardized test that allows us to start collecting data on your student to watch their growth in reading and math. While hearing "standardized testing" may sound scary, in Kindergarten it serves an entirely different purpose. Please know the goal in kindergarten is to learn how to take an assessment and complete it. This is just one of the many assessments that we use to document data on your students and to use not only in Kindergarten but throughout their time here at Braeside. I explain the test to your students as a "show me what you know". The students are showing me what they know from the test and I use the data to differentiate for each of your students on what I will be teaching them this year. Please make sure that your students have a big breakfast for brain food to get ready. If you want to talk to your student about this, please talk to them about having a growth mindset, a positive attitude, being open to the challenge and to take their time. On Monday we will do reading and Tuesday will be math. If you have any further questions on MAP testing please do not hesitate to ask. This year, we ask you to please talk with your student and decide if they are more comfortable with their headphones from home or using the earbuds from school to take the MAP test. In kindergarten, the MAP test is read to your student. We have found that sometimes students feel more comfortable wearing home headphones over the earbuds. This is to ensure that each student can hear their individual test. We also ask that you please charge your students iPad over the weekend and Monday night to make sure that they are ready to go for testing both days! Thank you for your help and partnership! I know your students will do great! Important Information: 1. Our iPad are coming home today! We explored the app Pattern Blocks. Each day next week as a class, we will learn how to have balance using technology with learning. We will explore the apps in class, and know that your students do not have all the logins at this moment for them. I will help go through them with your students. Please do not feel pressure to use the iPad at home or this week. My only ask is that it is charged for Monday and Tuesday MAP testing. I encourage you to keep playing outside, exploring and creating or playing board games! 2. First full week next week. Please make sure your student continues to know how they are getting home each day. If you know your schedule will change in the morning feel free to shoot me an email. If it changes in the afternoon, please call the office because I am not always available to check my email by the end of the day and Mrs. Pickens will share the message with me. I am so excited for our first full week next week! Your students are off to a great start and I am having the best time learning with them! Hi Room 115 Families!!
I hope that you have been having a wonderful week, we sure have! This week we took our skills from our bowling unit in P.E. and applied it to math! This week we worked in subtraction bowling. We applied the skill of having a whole group of numbers (all the pins standing up) and taking away (subtracting) how many we knocked down to find out how many were left standing! It has been so much fun to show how subtraction can be used in everyday life, and to truly see what it means to "take away" when we subtract. In literacy we looked at two texts: The Snowy Day and Come On, Rain. We learned how to compare and contrast two texts as well character detail and sequencing (beginning, middle, end). We also reviewed the letter "Rr" and writing word families. Next week, we will be working on writing friendly letters, beginning a new word study group, subtraction, measurement and much more! Proper Mask Wearing I kindly ask you to please help partner with me and discuss the importance of mask wearing with your child. As the numbers for Covid are beginning to climb, I am doing my best to make sure that I can keep your child safe, healthy and comfortable within our classroom. We regularly talk about wearing our mask over our nose to help protect ourselves and our friends. As your child continues to grow, there are different sized masks that are available to make sure that they fit their face properly. Again, I cannot thank you enough for your help already in making sure that we are all doing our part to keep each other safe! I greatly appreciate it! Important Information: 1. As shared last week, our student teacher, Miss Sink, joined us for her first week! Please see the attached introductory letter from her! We are having so much fun getting to know her and learning with her. 2. Tomorrow, Friday the 14th, is early release. School ends at 1:40 3. No School, Monday the 17th - MLK Day 4. Scholastic Book Orders are back! Scholastic is back now and ready to deliver books! If you are interested in ordering books please explore the bookstore here: Click Here. Book orders are due next Friday, January 21st. When you check out, it will ask for our class code this will make sure your books get delivered to me at Braeside! 5. Please make sure your students are practicing putting on and taking off their snow gear independently! Good morning Room 115!!
It was such a pleasure meeting and seeing so many of you yesterday at the back to school bash! It was so much fun to have everyone together again and have a real kick off to the start of the school year! Last week was a busy week of writing/dictating, labeling and drawing our first writing pieces. This week we will take those skills we learned and put them into beginning our first writing piece about Ponds! This week we start our new literacy unit on Ponds. Your students will have the opportunity to learn how to research, take notes, and read different pond books. They will then create their very own informational Pond book to share everything that they have learned! Today we begin with learning how to do research. In math, we have been working on counting collections. Counting collections are a great and fun activity that can even be done at home. This is a great way for students to practice 1:1 counting of items as well as really learning the value of each number. This foundational skill really helps students understand the basics of adding and subtracting. In social studies, we are continuing to learn about our community. This week we learn a bit more about Highland Park and what makes it so special! Don't forget, this Thursday is picture day! I have it in the important information section below. If you would like to order pictures, please click the link for the Bobcat Bulletin for the order link. I am excited to share that we have the very first picture spot on Thursday! Open house information will be sent to you this weekend. Please be on the lookout for some other items about the open house from me at the end of this week. I will also send out an email if there is anything you need to know beforehand. I wish we could all be in person for the open house, but you will receive a video from me. After receiving the open house information, if there is anything else you have questions about, please feel free to reach out and ask! Important Information 1. Picture day this Thursday, Sept. 23! Picture day forms went home on Friday, but if you need a new one, please see the Bobcat Bulletin to scan the QR code to sign up! 2. FunD Run on October 2! Sign up via the Bobcat Bulletin if you are interested! 3. Wednesday is library day. Please have your student bring in their library books by Wednesday morning so they can check out a new one! As always, please do not hesitate to reach out if there is anything you need or if you have any questions! Hello Bobcats,
Greetings from Ms. Pressman As we embark on a new year with an art room full of glorious supplies, I would like to remind parents that art smocks, though not mandatory, are a wonderful thing to be wearing on art day. We have some messy times and I would like to make sure you are aware that some of our "washable" paints and materials still stain clothing. I have many articles of clothing at home that can attest to this! Any type of smock is great, but an old large tee shirt works best as children can easily navigate getting it on and off and it guarantees 360 degrees of coverage! If you are opting your child out of smock wearing, please be aware of the day your child has art and have them dress accordingly. Thank you! Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns. Kristin Pressman - Hello Room 115 Families!!
Today we had a wonderful first day!! We had the opportunity to explore our classroom, meet our new classmates, play at the park, learn a new math game, read aloud and more! Your students were excited and ready for lunch and had the best time at recess. I am so excited to spend the year learning with them and get to know each one of them more. Important Information 1. Each day (or every other day) I take pictures of your students and what learning looks like throughout the day. You can always find them in my email signature. Here is the link if you would like to save it yourself! Class Photos : please email if you would like access to the photos 2. Transportation: As a reminder, please make sure your students know how they are getting home each day in addition to filling out the transportation form. I do have it noted and will help students, but want to make sure they are comfortable with this as well. If for some reason your afternoon pick up plans change mid-day please contact Mrs. Pickens in the office and she will let me know! Otherwise, you can email me in the morning or send in a note to let me know! 3. Family pictures: Thank you to those already who have sent in your family picture! We are so excited to share them in class already. If you have not, please do so by next Monday. As a reminder, this will stay up in our classroom all year! Again, it was wonderful to get to know all of your students and begin learning with them today! I am looking forward to a wonderful year. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!! Have a great afternoon, |
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