Wednesday, January 28, 2015
We mailed letters!
Our school is writing letters to men who are in school to become priests. It was kindergartens turn in January to send them cards! We made cards with winter scenes! Then we learned how to address envelopes. We put stamps on the envelops. And we walked over to the post office and mailed our letters! We were all very excited!
Friday, December 19, 2014
Short Week (sorry it never posted!)
A few pictures of centers and we went to the computer lab for the first time this week!
Second week of December
What's Cooking
Math: Numbers 21-30
Letter: P and R
Religion/social studies: Christmas Around the world
This week we shared what our Christmas traditions are in the US and how each of our traditions are the same or different within our own homes. We also visited Mexico and learned about the legend of the poinsettia and how important the nativity is. We are in the process of visiting Sweeden and we learned about Saint Lucia. We learned if you are the oldest daughter in your family you must get up and serve your family breakfast in bed (hot chocolate and cinnamon buns). So we had a snack of hot chocolate and cinnamon buns! Thank you for your donations to help make this unit more meaningful.
Reminder! As it continues to get colder, please feel free to wear leggings/tights under the girls' jumpers. You can also wear long sleeve shirts or bring a sweatshirt to wear as it is cold in the lunch room.
The Christmas play is Wednesday night. Students are to wear comfortable clothes as they will have on costumes on which are being provided by the school. If you would like your child to be dressed up and not wear comfy clothes that is fine too.
Please feel free to send in anything for the Christmas party! Cookies, cupcakes, chips, fruit, etc.
Do not forgot your child's secret Santa gift. If you are unable to participate please let me know asap.
Lastly, in your child's guided reading folder under the book title for the night, you see I write every few days your child is reading at level - at - percent accuracy. In case you are unsure of what this means I thought I'd explain it a little more in depth. During guided reading I do running records every day. A running record allows me to see what common mistakes your child is making during reading and how accurately they are reading. If you see me writing how your child did reading that day, that means they read that book by themselves to the rest of their group. Then after they are done reading and we talk about anything they might have gotten tricked on then they take turns reading within the group-each student reading a page at a time until they read the whole book.
100%-95% accuracy means the book was easy for them
94%-90% means it's instructional which means the book is right at their level- not too hard and not too easy
89 and below mean the book was too hard.
As far as the level of the book: Level D is considered advanced in kindergarten in public schools. Anything higher (E-Z) is even better! The higher they are reading by the end of the year the easier 1st grade will be. Most students leave our classroom reading chapter books such as Junie B Jones. It is important for students to be able to read the words but it is equally just as important for them to comprehend what they are reading. Even if they are reading the book with no mistakes, if they can't tell me details about what they are reading then they are not ready to move to the next level or next letter up. I check comprehension daily by asking questions or by taking AR tests if the book is an AR book. As they begin reading chapter books in the spring we will have questions in a packet that correlate with each chapter to check understanding. Hope this helps!
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Beginning of December
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