Mrs. Lamparter's Class
November 21, 2014
Specials for the Week of December 1st-5th
Scholastic Book orders are due today! Make sure you READ over Thanksgiving break and then record your minutes. Mrs. Wright is including BONUS minutes over Thanksgiving break which count toward your 2nd nine week totals.
Thank you so much for all the food you donated for our feast today. Didn't our kindergartners do an AMAZING job? Mrs. Hanagriff and I wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving. We are so thankful for our wonderful parents and especially our students! Please be safe and we'll see our kiddos back on December 1st!
Happy Thanksgiving
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Building our sight word vocabulary
- 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
- Researching the Mayflower and creating a tree map
- Creating pictures and phonetically spelling words to tell a story- focusing on setting, characters, and at least 3 details about our story
- 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!!
Math
- 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
- Using the "Notice and Wonder" strategy to help us with problem solving
SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES
We are working on:
- Comparing life long ago and today.
- Comparing Pilgrims and Indians
- Learning about the First Thanksgiving.
Craig Character Award
REMINDERS
- Orders for Scholastic books are due TODAY, November 21st. Every student received 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".
- Our Thanksgiving Holiday will be from November 24th - November 28th. School will resume on Monday, December 1st.
Our lost and found items are on display outside of the cafeteria. Parents are invited to come and look for lost jackets, sweaters, shirts, etc. Sometimes the kids don't recognize their lost things. We will donate unclaimed clothing before winter break. Please write your child's name in all of his/her jackets!
- Buck's Pizza night will be Tuesday, December 2nd.
The media center is going to have a Craig Family Tree. They would like students to bring in something to hang on the tree that symbolizes family or how they fit into this great school community. Examples include; Bronco Colt, small picture of a sports team, girl scout troop, siblings, friends at school...
- Mark your calendars for the annual Kindergarten Holiday program on Thursday, December 18th at 9:00 a.m.