Our new schedule has allowed the students to meet most of their "specials" teachers.
Because there are many new faces and names I wanted to let you know the names of these teachers and where they work!
Library-Mrs. Wolf
STEAM- Mrs. Nimmer
Guidance- Miss Duda
Music- Mrs. Krueger
Phy Ed.- Mr. Halloran
Art- Mrs. Siegel
Upcoming Dates and Reminders:
9/15: International Dot Day- Wear dots to school
9/19: Family Night: Hot Dogs and How to Help Family Night (more info coming soon)
9/20: Picture Day- please send your order forms to school on or before this day
9/22: NO SCHOOL for students
Postcards for Seniors
Our first service project this school year is Postcards for Seniors. Starting in early October students will have the opportunity to decorate postcards that will be delivered monthly to Meals on Wheels participants in Kaukauna. We are in need of some supplies for this project. If you have any of the items listed below at home and would like to donate please send them to school and drop off in the Postcards box in the office.
-New boxes of markers
-Light colored card stock
-Fun stickers
Questions can be directed to Kristin McEneany at kristin.mceneany@gmail.com
Here is a peek at what will be happening in Room 80 this coming week:
Reading: Right now as readers we are enjoying super interesting non-fiction books or, as we call them, "learn about the world books." Our goal when exploring these books is to look closely at the pictures and learn as much as we can. While we are doing this we are connecting new information back to the title/topic of the book and also connecting new information as we "read" more and more pages. During reading workshop each day we have a time to reading independently (private reading time) and a time to read with a friend (partner reading time). When we meet with our reading partners we are talking about and sharing all we have learned from our books. This week we will focus on rereading books to learn more and more and to begin to think about what the words in the book might tell us.
Writing: As writers we have been working on thinking of a topic we know a lot about and then showing what we know by drawing a picture and maybe even using a letter or two. We feel so grown up using pens to write with and have also been working to keep writing...we even learned a new saying "when we are done, we have just begun!" This week we will work more on listening to and writing down the sounds we hear in words we are trying to write. We will also practice our drawing skills to challenge ourselves to write about ideas that may seem hard for us.
Math: Last week as mathematicians we learned that we carry our most important tools for math right on our body: our fingers and eyes (and our brains too). We used them to see math all over our classroom and school. This week we will practice using different math tools in the classroom to reinforce counting, patterning and sorting. We will also focus on ordering numbers 1-5 (both forward and backward) and drawing and "reading" pictures to tell how many objects we see. All of this work will set us up for the bog work of addition that will be introduced soon!
Social Studies: Right now in kindergarten we are studying our classroom. This week we will use all we learned about last week to determine a hope and dream for ourselves for the school year. Each child will decide on something they really want to accomplish and we will share it with the class. We will publish our hope and dreams and display them in our classroom. After we have set our hopes and dreams we will write classroom rules together so we can all reach our hopes and dreams this school. This is big, important work for the students and really helps them to build a community in our classroom!!
Have a great week and please keep me posted with any questions and concerns!!
Elly :)
Upcoming Dates and Reminders:
9/15: International Dot Day- Wear dots to school
9/19: Family Night: Hot Dogs and How to Help Family Night (more info coming soon)
9/20: Picture Day- please send your order forms to school on or before this day
9/22: NO SCHOOL for students
Postcards for Seniors
Our first service project this school year is Postcards for Seniors. Starting in early October students will have the opportunity to decorate postcards that will be delivered monthly to Meals on Wheels participants in Kaukauna. We are in need of some supplies for this project. If you have any of the items listed below at home and would like to donate please send them to school and drop off in the Postcards box in the office.
-New boxes of markers
-Light colored card stock
-Fun stickers
Questions can be directed to Kristin McEneany at kristin.mceneany@gmail.com
Here is a peek at what will be happening in Room 80 this coming week:
Reading: Right now as readers we are enjoying super interesting non-fiction books or, as we call them, "learn about the world books." Our goal when exploring these books is to look closely at the pictures and learn as much as we can. While we are doing this we are connecting new information back to the title/topic of the book and also connecting new information as we "read" more and more pages. During reading workshop each day we have a time to reading independently (private reading time) and a time to read with a friend (partner reading time). When we meet with our reading partners we are talking about and sharing all we have learned from our books. This week we will focus on rereading books to learn more and more and to begin to think about what the words in the book might tell us.
Writing: As writers we have been working on thinking of a topic we know a lot about and then showing what we know by drawing a picture and maybe even using a letter or two. We feel so grown up using pens to write with and have also been working to keep writing...we even learned a new saying "when we are done, we have just begun!" This week we will work more on listening to and writing down the sounds we hear in words we are trying to write. We will also practice our drawing skills to challenge ourselves to write about ideas that may seem hard for us.
Math: Last week as mathematicians we learned that we carry our most important tools for math right on our body: our fingers and eyes (and our brains too). We used them to see math all over our classroom and school. This week we will practice using different math tools in the classroom to reinforce counting, patterning and sorting. We will also focus on ordering numbers 1-5 (both forward and backward) and drawing and "reading" pictures to tell how many objects we see. All of this work will set us up for the bog work of addition that will be introduced soon!
Social Studies: Right now in kindergarten we are studying our classroom. This week we will use all we learned about last week to determine a hope and dream for ourselves for the school year. Each child will decide on something they really want to accomplish and we will share it with the class. We will publish our hope and dreams and display them in our classroom. After we have set our hopes and dreams we will write classroom rules together so we can all reach our hopes and dreams this school. This is big, important work for the students and really helps them to build a community in our classroom!!
Have a great week and please keep me posted with any questions and concerns!!
Elly :)
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