Mrs. Lamparter's Class
November 7,2014
Specials for the Week of November 10th- 14th
P.E. will be on Tuesday and Thursday next week. Please wear tennis shoes. Please return your library book on Monday so you can check out another one.
Nicole Persaud is our Star of the Week. We loved seeing all of her pictures and loved her M&M doll.
Thank you to all who volunteered to make and/or send in items for our Thanksgiving feast. I will let you know what to bring next week. Please make sure you send in a t-shirt by Monday so we can decorate them for our skit on Friday, November 21st.
Check out our new photo albums on my webpage: Happy Halloween and Corn Dawg Trip!!
LANGUAGE ARTS
We are working on:
- Building our sight word vocabulary- (Work on Words): Our new words this week: out, her, said, did, like
- Recognizing upper and lowercase letters, learning letter sounds, and recognizing color words
- Working on recognizing rhyming words
- Counting, blending, and segmenting syllables
- Features of non-fiction text
- Finding information in non-fiction text
- Creating pictures and phonetically spelling words to tell a story- focusing on setting & characters
- Working in guided reading groups- please have your child read the book to you and return it the next day
- Working independently in Daily Five centers to become better readers, writers, and spellers
READ and RECORD so we can REWARD!!
Please click on the link to record your Mega Minutes daily. You can also go to the Craig Home Page to record minutes OR get the SchoolInfo App and record your minutes there! The link has a new look so you can keep track of your child's totals. We are just beginning the 2nd nine weeks so be sure to log minutes in so we can celebrate and encourage our emergent readers!!
Math
We are working on:
- BUILDing Mathmeticians during our Math Workshop
Using math manipulatives to learn about numbers
Using math tools- number line and tens frame to build numbers
Daily calendar math
- Counting by tens, fives, and ones to 100
- Exploring coins; penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
- Writing numbers and counting sets to 20
- 1-1 correspondence
- Comparing sets- more, less, same
- Using "number talks" to explain our math thinking
SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES
We are working on:
- Pumpkin Investigation: physical characteristics and decomposition of a pumpkin.
- Comparing life long ago and today.
- Learning about the First Thanksgiving.
Craig Character Award
Camden Broadnax earned the Craig Character award for showing responsibility! He will be recognized on the Craig news show next week.
REMINDERS
- Please send in a short sleeved white t-shirt for our Indian costumes by Monday, November 10th. The girls will need a BIGGER size to make a dress (probably Youth XL) Thank you for the cylinder containers- we have enough to make our drums.
- Thursday, November 13th is Math Night at Craig Elementary from 6:30- 7:30 p.m. Students and parents will be able to challenge each others' math expertise as they play a variety of Math games.
- Mark your calendars for Friday, November 21st at 8:45 a.m. Kindergarteners will perform a skit about the First Thanksgiving and then have a feast!
- Students have an opportunity to order from Scholastic books. Every student has a coupon attached to their order. Books make great presents and for dollar spent, we earn books to build our classroom library. You may order online or send in a paper copy with the check made out to "Scholastic Books". Orders are DUE: November 21st.
- Hello from the world of Art! It is the time of year again for Craig Elementary students to participate in the Original Works Art fund-raiser! The students here at Craig have been working hard to create amazing "Pop Art" drawings and paintings specifically for this fund-raiser. This particular fund-raiser provides the unique opportunity for families to order a variety of different items with their child's artwork printed on them, and a percentage of the proceeds made will go directly to the Art program at Craig Elementary. The money that we will raise by participating in the Original Works fund-raiser will be used to enhance the art room with various supplies, resources, and technology! I selected this time frame in order to have items ordered and delivered in time for the holidays! There are several great gift ideas this year! If you would like to place an order everything you need is in the green packet, including your child's actual artwork. I will need THE ARTWORK, the ORDER FORM, and the PAYMENT no later than MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014. Thanks for all that you do to support Craig Elementary School. If you do not wish to order anything, please return the packets (including your child's artwork) to me in order for me to use your child's artwork for various displays and art shows in the coming months. All work will be returned in the months to come! Thanks so much!!!! If you have any questions please contact me at lisa_hiers@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
We are excited to announce our Kindergarten Course page is up and contains lots of exciting information. Log in with your child's student ID number and the password is aaaaaa. I sent home your child's student ID number. Click the button on the right that says My eClass course pages. There you will see the Craig course page. Scroll down to My Visual Course List and click the picture of the Kindergarten Teachers- LAMPARTER L KINDERGARTEN CORE. Be sure and click on my October Homework FUN link to explore 2 apps from our Symbaloo curriculum links!