Weekly Theme: The Kindergarten Students learned about the Cardinal Directions. We learned north is always on top, south is always on the bottom, east is always to the right, and west is always to the left. We went into a bit more detail when using the Cardinal Directions. In between north and east is called northeast and so on… We traveled from continent to continent asking what direction we needed to go to get to the appointed continent.
Meet the 2019/2020 Cuyahoga Falls Kindergarten class.
Handwriting: We practiced writing D d, E e, F f, G g in cursive.
Cultural Subjects: We now can count to ten in 5 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek).
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Hemispheres, Equator, Prime Meridian
Synonym Of The Week: sad: miserable, gloomy, depressing, downtrodden, glum, unhappy
Weekly Theme: The first week back to school we looked at the globe of the Earth. It is in a shape of a sphere. We noticed the Earth is covered mostly in water but does have land. The pieces of land are divided and called continents. There are seven continents and each have a fun fact. North America is where we live, South America has the Amazon Rain Forest, Europe has many countries, Africa has really cool animals, Asia is the biggest continent, Australia is an island and is called The Land Down Under, and Antarctica is the coldest continent and no humans live there. We went over what countries are in each continent (except for Antarctica).
Handwriting: We practiced writing A a, B b, C c in cursive.
Cultural Subjects: We now can count to ten in 5 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, and French).
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Cardinal Directions (N,S,W,E)
Synonym Of The Week: FAST (hurried, speedy, brisk, quick, swift)
Lesson: With the holiday , field trip, and the fun field day on Thursday we did not have kindergarten lesson. Although, on Wednesday we watched School House Rock/ Grammar. The students absolutely enjoyed it and said I taught them the same stuff from the show. Ya, Mr. John is not as dense as he looks. LOL
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Lesson: Capitalization- Our last official weekly lesson was on Capitalization. You children now know that the word at the beginning of the sentence it is always capitalized. When you refer to yourself with “I” the I is always capitalized. Also, any proper nouns are capitalized.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Lesson: Punctuation at the end of sentence- We discovered the period and when using is just kind of gives a statement without much excitement or emotion. We learned more about the explanation point and when used there is excitement and emotion! Finally, we learned the question mark is at the end of a sentence when a question is asked. These children are smart, right?
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week: Line Time: Capitalization
Sight Words of the Week: way my
Synonym of Week:DULL (dark, dreary, somber, boring, tedious)
Lesson: Interjection- An interjection is a part of speech that demonstrates the emotion or feeling. These words can stand alone, or be placed before or after a sentence. You’ll notice many interjections are followed by an exclamation point when excitement or strong feelings are present. When the feeling is not as strong interjections are followed by a comma and/or a period.
Senioritis or kinderitis? Actually, I just told them we were not doing the use of the grammar symbols on this day. That is why thew long faces.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week: Line Time: End Of Sentence Punctuation
Sight Words of the Week: there their
Synonym of Week: BRIGHT (shiny, glowing, dazzling, lighted, vivid)
Lesson: Preposition- I described as a “where word” NOT a werewolf. It identifies where or when something is.
Look at all those colors. This sentence had a noun, verb, article, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition. Can you identify all the parts of grammar? My kindergarten students can!
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week: Line Time: Interjection
Sight Words of the Week: which what
Synonym of Week: SNEAKY (underhanded, dishonest, tricky, secretive, sly)
Line Time: We progressed with learning our songs for the International Festival and learned our lines for the show. I have to say the students ROCKED the International Festival. A big shout out to Kathleen and Ashlie for getting the students ready with he songs, lines, and craft. Also, I want to recognize Yao An for volunteering her time to teach the students to sing in Chinese.
On a sad note: This was the last International Festival my favorite and only daughter will attend. She started out as a first grader running around the auditorium handing out programs to unsuspecting adults. She did this until she became a teen and it seemed had less energy for the running of the laps. She since has attended to see the cuteness and food. For the next four springs she will be located in Bowling Green, Ohio/BGSU. Appreciate your children when they are actually children because before you know it they will be teenagers waiting to go to university.
The students patiently waiting during practice. Except, maybe, not the boy in the front row. LOL
Line Time: We are progressing with learning our songs for the International Festival and learning our lines for the show. I have to say the students are doing very very well.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Trivia Question: In high school my football jersey was number 86. Why did I chose this number? This is a tough one!
Hint: It is a reference to a 1960’s television show. {you can not google this} bwahahaha
For those of you who are interested I dislocated my right thumb in practice my senior year.
You Ever Notice?: You get gobs of left overs for Thanksgiving but no one gives leftovers for the Easter Meal (especially if lamb is served).
Peek In Our Classroom:
An odd thing has been happening in my classroom. It is a phenomenon of an increased interest in puzzle maps. It may be that many students are in a sensitive period or they saw an older student (who is in a sensitive period) work with the puzzle map and they followed. In any event I have never seen this kind of interest in puzzle maps but I am lovin it!
The Hundred Board is a fun and educational exercise found in the Montessori classroom to help children with their counting from 1 to 100. This is a material that breaks away from the concrete to the abstract portion of math.
I have science cards in my classroom. They are three part cards (one with just a picture, one with the picture and word, and one with just the word.) This student is working with the amphibian box.
This student is working on the teen board found in the math area. The numbers 11-19 are more of a challenge for a child to learn as their names are more complicated than those of the rest of the number system (11,12,13,15 do not follow the rules like 14,16,17,18,19). The teen board helps to develop an understanding of how these numbers are formed from a ten and units and this teaches the foundations of the decimal system. The child associates between the quantity (concrete) and the numbers (abstract).
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Hunter
Upcoming Events:
International Festival Practice Wednesday, May 1st | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 6pm-7pm
International Festival Friday, May 3rd | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 5:30pm | Early Dismissal 12 Noon
—Moms and Muffins, Friday May 10th, 7am to 7:45am—
—Grandparents Day, Tuesday May 14—
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
My long hair is catching up with his. He claims I will never catch up with him. We will see.
Cheesy grins and what looks like a student running in the background. He can not wait to work on the sandpaper letters.
You shoulda seen the other guy. Notice the scratch on her nose?
Lessons: Conjunctions- a word used to connect clauses or sentences. It acts like a bridge. We focused on and, but, or.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week:
Line Time: Prepositions
Sight Words of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Synonym of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
