Mrs. Lamparter's Class
March 6th, 2015
SPECIALS for the Week of March 9th- 13th
Alana was our Star of the Week. We loved seeing all of her pictures of her family and loved her Winnie the Pooh picture.
We had so much fun celebrating Dr. Seuss. Our guest reader was Mrs. Carns from the Five Forks Library. We read LOTS of Dr. Seuss books all week, but our class favorite was "Green Eggs and Ham".
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Building our sight word vocabulary- new words this week: would,find, into, much, goes
- Retelling familiar stories and identifying characters, setting, and major events in a story
- Blending letters to make CVC words
- Changing the initial consonant to make new words
- Working on putting uppercase letters at the beginning of a sentence and naming end punctuation.
- Features of non-fiction text
- Finding information in non-fiction text about presidents and American symbols
- Creating a non-fiction book about American symbols
- Writing persuasive stories
- Fluently reading and understanding books ON grade level
- Working independently in Daily Five centers to become better readers, writers, and spellers
READ and RECORD so we can REWARD!!
Our class was the Kindergarten Mega Minute Winners for the 2nd Nine Weeks!!! We read 23,612 minutes. Congratulations to all my students that were recognized at our celebration!! I am so PROUD of you! 17 students in our class read and recorded their minutes online. YOU ROCK!!
White Horseshoe: 900+ minutes
Maroon Horseshoe: 1260 +minutes
Gold Horseshoe: 1350+ minutes
Bronco: 1890+ minutes
Math
- Counting objects one to one and telling how many
- Comparing if a group has greater than, less than, or equal to another group
- Comparing two written numerals
- Decomposing and composing numbers from 11-19
Using math tools- number line, rekenrek, and tens frame to build numbers
Daily calendar math
- Counting by tens, fives, and ones to 100
- Recognizing coins; penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and knowing their values
- Using "number talks" to explain our math thinking
- Using the "Notice and Wonder" strategy to help us with problem solving
SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES
We are working on:
- Learning about Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and the significance of President's Day!
- Learning about American symbols
Check out our SNOWBALL INSULATORS
Craig Character Award
Pete's Shoe Tying Club!!
REMINDERS
- Our second nine weeks ends next Friday, March 13th. That will be the LAST day to log in mega minutes for the third nine weeks.
- The Book Fair is coming to Craig from March 23rd- March 27th. Look for details soon!
- Craig Art & Technology Fair is Tuesday, March 24th at 7:00. Student art work will be displayed and Technology projects will be posted.
- The Brookwood Cluster Announces… The 18th Annual Student Reading/Writing Institute For current K - 4th graders on June 1-4th Mon. – Thurs. 9:00 – 12:00. Registration will be held on March 16th from 3:30 – 5:30 at Gwin Oaks Elementary.
- Camp Invention is coming to Craig Elementary on June 1-4th from 8:00 AM- 4:00 PM. Sign up at http://campinvention.org