Today we had so much fun on our field trip to the Akron Children’s Museum! ! Thank you to all the parents who came and helped!
This week was all about Friendship!! We had so much fun reading some amazing books on how to be a great friend. We also created different types of charts on the characteristics of how to be a good friend to others. Ms. Amanda created some really fun crafts that went along with our theme!!!
Your kiddos did so amazing brainstorming all of their ideas!!Just look at their friendship quilt!Isn’t our friend”ship” so cute?
REMINDERS :
Don’t forget the International Festival sign ups are on the door!!
Oh what a fun week we had this week! Our weekly them was the 5 senses!!They had a blast doing different activities such as taste testing different spicy, sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and sweet foods. We also used all of our five senses when we made popcorn!! Some of our other activities that we had fun with was using our sense smell by guessing what food was under a cup,using our sense of touch to match different types of fabrics, and a fun take away game for our sense of sight. Ms. Amanda created fun crafts that went along with each of the senses.
We had fun guessing what each smell was under each cup! While blindfolded, I took one item away from the group and they had to guess which one I took away! Each box was filled with different objects. They had to use their sense of touch to figure out what was inside! Our friends created 5 senses puppets. For sense of sight they made binoculars!
REMINDERS :
We are still in need of a few items for our Valentines day party. So please hop on our sign up!
I can’t believe that January is almost over. Time is just flying by!! This week all of our lessons were about celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We read some incredible books that really explained who he was on their level. They learned about segregation, they listened to his I Have A Dream speech, learned who Rosa Parks was, and learned about freedom marches and sit-ins. Ms.Amanda had some awesome crafts that went along with each lesson of the day! It was a fantastic week!!!
Our brand new friend is working on the knobbed cylinders. This material is designed to assist children in making distinctions in their immediate environment. This material primarily engages the senses of touch and sight. When working on the Nine Tray the child will have a better understanding of the decimal system. They will also become familiar with the names and relative sizes of the categories. Ms. Amanda is working with one of our friends on one of our continent maps. I love these maps because it teaches the child the different countries in each continent. It also is a great work for them to gain fine motor skills, focus, and concentration. This cutie is working on the binomial cube. The purpose of the material is less focused on the complex mathematics behind the material, and rather is to provide a challenge for a child’s ability to find patterns and relationships between the blocks.
REMINDERS :
Please check out the sign up I sent out yesterday about the valentines day party!!
We love to go outside, so please remember to have your kiddo always come prepared for outside!!
This week was all about Ice and snow! (Lol,go figure). We read some fantastic books and watched some interesting videos about how icicles are formed, how many points a snowflake has, what a blizzard is, the different shapes a snowflake can form, fun crafts and science experiments that were all about snow and ice!!! Let’s hope we get some snow soon so our kiddos can play in it!!!
Yesterday we had parents come in for ” take your parent to work day.” If you haven’t signed up for this you need to!! Spend 30 minutes with your child as they are working in the classroom. It’s so amazing to see all that they can do!!Our brand new friend is working on our sandpaper numbers. The purpose of the sandpaper numbers is to teach the children the symbols that represent each number, allowing them to visually identify any number from 0 to 9.One of our Kindergarten students is working on number formation. The purpose of this work is to learn the hierarchy of the numbers in the decimal system. To associate quantity and symbol. And to learn to put numbers of larger quantity into sequence.This little cutie here is working on our Four Season cards. When working on this work the child is learning about each season, and also how to place the cards into different categories.When working on the teen board the child is going to learn to connect the name and symbol of that teen number.
Today’s the big day!!! Your kiddos have been working so hard on the Christmas show!!! We are all so excited! ! This week our theme was Christmas around the world!! We learned all of the different traditions and how people celebrate in England, Russia, Germany, China, and in South America. It was so cool learning all about the different ways they celebrate Christmas in other countries!! Ms. Amanda had such great crafts that went along with the different countries. It was so much fun !!
This work helps the child memorize the essential combinations in addition. The various charts give the possibility of repetition, which helps to fix these in the memory of the child. When working on different word lists it helps the child associate words with the same anomalies with each other, thereby making reading phonograms easier. The sandpaper letters teach the child the sounds of the alphabet. When working on this the child is encouraged to trace the symbol over and over again until the shape of the letter becomes a part of the childs muscle memory.
REMINDERS:
Tonight is the Christmas show!! Please get to the high school at 530 sharp!!!
Next week is christmas fun week!!
Monday- christmas socks day
Tuesday – dress as your favorite Christmas character
We had such a fantastic week learning all about being thankful!! Together we read some amazing books that taught them what it really means to be thankful. We also had a great discussion on wants vs’s needs!! Your kiddos did such a great job on this, so we decided to make a chart out of it!! Together we also created our own class book about everything we are thankful for. It’s in our library, so come check it out!!! Ms. Amanda also had our friends create different crafts that gave them a better understanding of what it means to be thankful:)
Take a look at our wants vs needs chart up above and down below our class is working hard drawing and writing what they are thankful for.The movable alphabet is such an awesome tool that teaches reading, spelling, and writing. It’s one of my favorite works!The purpose of the sandpaper letters is to teach the child the sounds of the alphabet by means of muscular and visual memory. The child is encouraged to trace the symbol over and over again until the shape of the letter becomes part of the childs muscle memory.One of our Kindergarten students is working on our North America puzzle. He is taking his time coloring and labeling the different countries .
Acedemic Enrichment Corner:
Weekly Theme: We learned how to multiple to the thousand static/column without carryovers with manipulatives. I told the students that multiplication is merely adding multiple times. We learned what the multiplicand and multiplier are.
X for multiplication
Handwriting: We practiced writing in cursive three letter words cat, red, pit, mop, cup
Cultural Subjects: We now can count to ten in 19 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili).
Next Week: Weekly Theme: GO BUCKEYES
Synonym Of The Week:
Sight Words Of The Week:
Adding no languages to the languages
Reading group:
This week in reading group we started a new book called Waiting Is Not Easy. Together we read the book and talked about what we were wondering about durine the story. They then wrote out their answers in their booklets. We also led a discussion about a time that we all felt tired of waiting for something and how we felt during that time. We had a blast!!!
These past two weeks have been SPOOKTACULAR! We had the best time learning about the differencs between an arachnid and an insect. We also had fun creating a tree web together! I was so proud of how well your kiddos remembered all of the different spider facts! They also had fun making different spider crafts:) This week the kids had a BLAST making their own Halloween decorations for the classroom party!We also worked really hard on the different chores, such as dusting, taking out the trash, cleaning the tables, sweeping, vacuming, and more! When children are doing chores it helps them to incur a sense of purpose at a young age. It also helps them gain their own independence.
All of our friends are having a blast dusting, rolling mats, and vacuming!our friend is working on creating a landform booklet. When doing this he is learning all about an island, bay, cape, gulf, peninsula, strait, archipelago, and isthmus.Our friends are crafting up a storm this week!!!Candy corn fun!The key purpose of the Movable alphabet is to prepare children for writing, reading, and spelling. The child’s use of the material progresses from single words, to phrases, and eventually stories.
REMINDERS:
Please make sure to place your child’s costume in their backpack or in a labled bag. They do not have to bring in a trick o treat bag because we made them in class. 11:30 our pizza party will start, followed by costume change. If you have any questions at all please ask!
It was fire prevention week👨🚒🚒 in our classroom this week!!
We had so much fun doing a variety of activities that taught your child how to keep their bodies safe if a fire occurs. We did some fantastic activities such as Stop, drop, and roll, get low and go ( how to crawl out of your house), the difference between fire and electric, how firefighters help us, and much much more!! The kids absolutely loved this week!!!!
One of our younger students is working on our pumpkin spooning work! When spooning it helps the child master three finger grip and thus prepares them for activities outside the practical life learning area.The 45 layout helps your child to visualize and develop an understanding of place value, order of numbers and concentration.The Metal Insets are used to help with pencil control, to refine hand movements in preparation for writing.Journal writing can help your child process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas.
Field Trip to the fire station!
Reminders: please check your child’s folder this weekend, we have another field trip coming up!
We had such a fun week this week!! Our theme was all about pumpkins!! Together we had fun doing a pumpkin investigation which included giving a description of what our pumpkin looked like, measuring our pumpkin with the pink tower blocks, seeing if our pumpkin sinks or floats, and we counted the pumpkin seeds! We also talked about the like cycle of a pumpkin, and labeled the different parts of the pumpkin!! They had a blast!! Our class also had fun creating different pumpkin crafts and science experiments!!
How does cutting help a child’s development? The opening and closing motion of cutting with scissors helps children develop the small muscles in their hands otherwise known as fine motor skills. These muscles are crucial for holding a pencil or crayons and gripping and manipulating small objects.Our kindergarten friend is working on the Vowel tree. The vowel tree is tactile, engaging way to teach and practice decoding words. This manipulative can be used with beginning readers to more advanced readers.The direct purpose of the sandpaper letters is to teach the child sounds of the alphabet by means of muscular and visual memory.
REMINDERS:
Book share is every Friday!
Friday I will be sending out Halloween party sign ups!
Please keep ALL toys in car or at home!! Thank you!!
Hello, Hello!! I hope all of you are having a fantastic week like we are!! This week’s theme was all about kindness and respect. I really love both of these lessons, because all of our discussions, crafts, books, and lessons, really makes an impact on your kiddos. Kindness is a key ingredient that enhances positivity and helps children feel good about themselves…Children with a positive outlook have a greater attention spans, more willingness to learn, and better creative thinking to improve results at school!
Our new friend is working on the spindle box.The spindle boxes have important purposes of reinforcing the idea that the symbols represent certain quantities of separate objects, introducing the concept zero and it’s symbol, and reinforcing the sequence of the numerals.The direct purpose of the sandpaper letters is to teach the child the sounds of the alphabet by means of muscular and visual memory.One of our kindergarten students is working on the Vowel tree. This work is a tactile, and engaging way to teach and practice decoding words.
REMINDERS: Don’t forget our school field trip is tomorrow! Please make sure all lunches are bagged lunches. Also, please make sure your child is wearing appropriate shoes for the farm!
Please make sure your child leaves ALL toys at home or in the car. Thank you!!!
