Schedule for the Week of October 31st - November 4th

Halloween Party:

Halloween Party Information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halloween Party in on Monday, October 31st.

Party starts after everyone is in their costumes (1:30ish).  We take a group picture and the party starts!  We will have centers with fun activities.   At 2:15 the students sit in their table spots and watch other students parade through the classroom.  Then our class joins the end of the parade to go through all the classrooms!  We will be parading through the gym (parents are welcome to grab a seat in the gym and watch us as we parade through!  Then we will return back to our classroom and continue our party.

Please help your child:

*put their costume in a bag - DO NOT WEAR COSTUME TO SCHOOL.  We will change into our 

  costumes after lunch.

*no weapons or violent/bloody costumes

*please do not send treats to school - we have several students with allergies.  

 

Reading:

Unit 1: Ask Questions/Identify Main Idea and Supporting Details - Week 2 Objectives

·       Letter(s): Ss

·       Phonics:

o   Review the sounds of /m/ and /a/

o   Identify the sound /s/

o   Associate the letter Ss with the letter sound

o   Listen for rhyme

o   Blend sounds to read the word am, explore the -am word family

o   Spell am and Sam (and other -am words)

·       Sight Words: has, and

·       build academic vocabulary and concepts related to rules

·       ask questions about a text

·       identify main idea and supporting details using a graphic organizer

·       identify and discuss nonfiction text features and structures

o   table of contents

o   captions

o   boldfaced words

o   description

·       build oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion

·       use academic sentence frames to summarize and synthesize content information

·       use main ideas and supporting details to write about rules (as a class)

Writing/Concepts of Print (Journals)

·       Introduction of Journals

o   understand that words carry meaning and are comprised of letters

o   understand that words go from left to right

o   understand that words have spaces between them

o   share a message orally

o   develop genre awareness

o   determine importance of ideas

o   draw and write daily journal entry

 

Math:

2.6: Introduction to Repeating Patterns - Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; develop spatial concepts; identify repeating patterns.  Vocabulary: repeating pattern, up, down, left, right, more, fewer

2.7: Make Repeating Patterns - Objectives: make repeating patterns; write the numerals 1 through 5.  Vocabulary: pattern

2.8: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Playground Scenario - Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; order numbers 1 through 10.  Vocabulary: straight lines

2.9: More Coin Values and Numbers 6-10 - Objectives: identify and order numbers 1-10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; write the numerals 1 through 5. Vocabulary: before, after, equal, not equal, more, fewer

Rollerskating:

• Rollerskating continues this week in Gym!!!!!!  Please send in a helmet on rollerskating days.

SPECIALS: (October 31-November 4)


Monday:   Music/ Art (Day 5) - Halloween Party and Parade!
Tuesday:    Media/P.E. (Day 6) 
Wednesday: Music/Art (Day 1)
Thursday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)
Friday:  Art/Music (Day 3) - Grandfriends Day! 


MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6! 


COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am


Other News:
• If you haven't yet, sign up for fall conferences via Family Access (Skyward). Call the office if you are unable to log on. I look forward to meeting with you next week! 
• As the weather is changing, please make sure your child has warm gear to wear outside. We do go outside every day. 
• Please send Friday folders back every week (preferably Monday or Tuesday)  

Schedule for the Week of October 24-28

Unit 1: Ask Questions/Identify Main Idea and Supporting Details 

Week 1 Objectives

·       Letter(s): Mm, Aa

·       Phonics:

o   Identify the Mm and short Aa sound

o   Associate the letter Mm and Aa with the letter sound

o   Listen for words that rhyme

o   Blend sounds to read the word am; explore -am word family

·       Sight Words: is, a, the

·       Identify a stated main idea based on a picture

·       Identify details that support the main idea

·       Ask questions about a picture

·       Use academic sentence frames to discuss strategies (EX: The main idea is_______)

·       Use academic vocabulary to discuss strategies

·       Learn strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence

·       Answer text-dependent main idea and supporting details questions

·       Reflect orally on strategy use

·       Create main idea/supporting details graphic organizer and write a paragraph (as a class) based on it

Writing/Concepts of Print (Journals)

·       Introduction of Journals

o   recognize book cover/title page

o   understand that words carry meaning and are comprised of letters

o   understand that words go from left to right

o   understand that words have spaces between them

o   retell information

o   share messages orally

o   develop genre awareness

o   draw and write daily journal entry using our sight words 

Math - Unit 2:

2.1: Find Numbers 1-10: Neighborhood Scene - Objectives: find groups of 1 through 10; identify 5-groups, Vocabulary: 5-group

2.2: Relate Objects and Numbers 6-10 - Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers, Vocabulary: 5-group, more, fewer

2.3: Family Math Stories - Objectives: Establish links between math and the real world; identify groups of 6 through 10 objects, Vocabulary: how many, alike, different

2.4: Coin Values and Numbers 6-10 - Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make numbers 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers, Vocabulary: nickel, penny, alike, different, Nickel Strip

2.5: More Family Math Stories - Objectives: establish links between math and the real world, draw 6 objects, write the numeral 6, Vocabulary: straight, curved

This year we are lucky to have Mrs. D'Arpino come to our class and teach our students about mindfullness.  She is gearing up for a Mind-Up year!  Below is a letter she wanted me to share with you: 

Hello Parents,

My name is Mrs. D'Arpino and I am excited to be working, again this year, in the Shirley Hills classrooms utilizing the Mind-Up Curriculum to help students and teachers to create a compassionate classroom.

What is Mind-Up?

Mind-Up is a comprehensive, classroom-tested, evidence based curriculum framed around easily implemented lessons that foster social and emotional awareness, enhance psychological well-being, and promote academic success.

While we are together, we will be learning about our brain, how it functions and how it helps us be better students, friends and family members. We learn using activities that will encourage self-awareness and promote good choices in school and in life.

I am looking forward to working with your student(s) at Shirley Hills. Please contact me if you have any questions at (952) 491-8416 or email darpinos@westonka.k12.mn.us

Mrs. D'Arpino first visit to our class will be this Wednesday October 26th.  She will visit our classroom about once a month.

 

Science:

We will continue to observe our classroom tree.  We will discuss the season and talk about the differences we see this Fall.

 
Social Studies:

The class will continue working on Unit 1 - Who Am I?  

 

Halloween Party Information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halloween Party is on Monday, October 31st.

Party starts after everyone is in their costumes (1:30ish).  We take a group picture and the party starts!  We will have 5 stations with fun activities.   At 2:15 the students sit in their table spots and watch other students parade through the classroom.  Then our class joins the end of the parade to go through all the classrooms!  We will be parading through the gym (parents are welcome to grab a seat in the gym and watch us as we parade through!  Then we will return back to our classroom and continue our party.

Please help your child:

*put their costume in a bag - DO NOT WEAR COSTUME TO SCHOOL.  We will change into our 

  costumes after lunch.

*no weapons or violent/bloody costumes

*please do not send treats to school - we have several students with allergies.  

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rollerskating:

• Rollerskating starts this week in Gym!!!!!!  Please send in a helmet on rollerskating days.

SPECIALS: (October 24-28)


Monday:   Media/P.E. (Day 6) 
Tuesday:    Music/Art (Day 1)
Wednesday: Media/P.E. (Day 2)
Thursday:  Art/Music (Day 3)
Friday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)


MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6! 


COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am


Other News:
• If you haven't yet, sign up for fall conferences via Family Access (Skyward). Call the office if you are unable to log on. I will send an email out this week to those who have not yet signed up. Thanks!
• As the weather is changing, please make sure your child has warm gear to wear outside. We do go outside every day. 
• Please send Friday folders back every week (preferably Monday or Tuesday)  

Schedule for the Week of October 10-14

Language Arts:

Mini-Lessons for the First 30 Days (Rituals, Routines, Responsibilities of Daily 5/Readers Workshop)

Mini-lessons are short (5-15 minutes) and laser-focused. These particular lessons are like stepping stones and will help us become ready to confidently dive into more vigorous reading and writing instruction. These will be revisited throughout the year.

This is our last week of the rituals and routines portion of our language arts curriculum. Next week, after our MEA break, we will start our first unit, which will focus on centers in which students have choice in how they show understanding/mastery, sight word practice, rhyming, main idea, and letter sound, formation, and understanding. We will also start sending home some "home practice" for students.

• Good Readers Use Pictures
• Introduce students to how they can use pictures to better understand text
• Good Readers ReRead
• Use rereading as a strategy to understand text
• Good Readers Use Chunks
• Help students use words in words to figure out an unknown word
• Good Readers Make Predictions
• Practice looking at pictures in a book to predict what a book is about
• Review of What Good Readers Do
• Read Alouds: a lot of stories will be read to model and add rich discussion to the mini lessons mentioned above.
• Journals/writers workshop: write/draw a basic entry every day, write as a whole group too
• how do we respond to stories? (writing about characters, settings, favorite parts of stories, parts that surprised us)
• why do we do them? (to become better writers and have fun!)
• practice sharing/turn and talk
• understand expectations of writers workshop (start write away, work quietly, stay in one spot, write the whole time, build writing stamina, share your work)
• writing our first and last name every day now!
• We will be focusing on letters:
• Uu
• Vv
• Ww
• Xx
• Yy
• Zz

Math: (Unit Test on Friday)

Unit 1: (we will be re-reviewing some of these concepts so students are readily prepared for our test on Friday)

• 1.20/21:  More Objects and Numbers Through 10: Square Inch Tiles/More Scenes of 2,3,4, and 5
• Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count 1 through 10 objects; identify numbers 1 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; make and compare circles and squares; explore the differences between round and square and between small and large
• Vocabulary: vertical, horizontal, more, fewer, order, straight line, diagonal, circle, square, small, large
• 1.23: Scenes of 1
• Objectives: explore groups of 1
• Vocabulary: scene, pair
• 1.24: Make a Class Graph
• Objectives: make and read a graph; identify shapes
• graph, fewer, less
Science:

We will be visiting our class tree and talking about how it is getting ready for the colder weather.  




Social Studies:

The class will be continue working on Unit 1 - Who Am I?  We will be talking about our families.



SPECIALS: (October 10-14)


Monday:   Music/Art (Day 1)
Tuesday:    Media/P.E. (Day 2)
Wednesday: Art/Music (Day 3)
Thursday:   P.E./Media (Day 4) 
Friday:  Music/Art (Day 5)


MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6! 


COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am


Other News:
• If you haven't yet, sign up for fall conferences via Family Access (Skyward). Call the office if you are unable to log on. I will send an email out this week to those who have not yet signed up. Thanks!
• As the weather is changing, please make sure your child has warm gear to wear outside. We do go outside every day. 
• Please send Friday folders back every week (preferably Monday or Tuesday)  
• So far I have 4 parents who have signed up to plan our Halloween party on Oct. 31st. If you would like to be a part of the party and planning, please let me know! We would love more volunteers. 

Schedule for the Week of October 3-7

Language Arts:

Mini-Lessons for the First 30 Days (Rituals, Routines, Responsibilities of Daily 5/Readers Workshop)

Mini-lessons are short (5-15 minutes) and laser-focused. These particular lessons are like stepping stones and will help us become ready to confidently dive into more vigorous reading and writing instruction. These will be revisited throughout the year

• Review of Literary Elements
• review previous lessons

• Nonfiction Text Features: Table of Contents & Index
• understand that these features help readers locate information
• Nonfiction Text Features: Glossary
• understand features that help readers learn words
• Nonfiction Text Features: Graphics
• understand that nonfiction have graphics to help readers understand information
• Review of Nonfiction Text Features
• review previous lessons

• Journals/writers workshop: write/draw a basic entry every day, write as a whole group too
• how do we respond to stories? (writing about characters, settings, favorite parts of stories, parts that surprised us)
• why do we do them? (to become better writers and have fun!)
• practice sharing/turn and talk
• understand expectations of writers workshop (start write away, work quietly, stay in one spot, write the whole time, build writing stamina, share your work)
• writing our first and last name every day now!
• Read Alouds: a lot of stories will be read to model and add rich discussion to the mini lessons mentioned above.
• We will be focusing on letters:
• Pp
• Qq
• Rr
• Ss
• Tt

Math:

• Unit 1: 
• 1.18: Objects and Numbers Through 10: Centimeter Cubes
• Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1-10; count 1 through 10 objects; identify numbers 1 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; distinguish between different sized groups
• Vocabulary: more, fewer
• 1.19: Practice: Numbers of Objects in a Group
• Objectives: count 1 through 5 shapes; write the numeral 5; identify groups of 5
• Vocabulary: same, alike, different
• 1.20/21:  More Objects and Numbers Through 10: Square Inch Tiles/More Scenes of 2,3,4, and 5
• Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count 1 through 10 objects; identify numbers 1 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; make and compare circles and squares; explore the differences between round and square and between small and large
• Vocabulary: vertical, horizontal, more, fewer, order, straight line, diagonal, circle, square, small, large
• 1.23: Scenes of 1
• Objectives: explore groups of 1
• Vocabulary: scene, pair

Science:

• Continuing to observe trees
• We will observe a specific tree and discuss/draw changes we notice in the fall
• Continue to discuss parts of a tree and their functions
• Explore why leaves change color/why trees lose their leaves

SPECIALS: (October 3-7)

Monday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2) - P.J. Day

Tuesday:   Art/Music (Day 3) - Hat Day....Football Players will be visiting our class to read! 

Wednesday: P.E./Media (Day 4) - College Wear/Jersey Day

Thursday:  Music/Art (Day 5) Please return Library books by today - Multi-Color Day - Kindergarten Wears Purple!!

Friday:  Media/P.E. (Day 6) - Check-out Day in Media Spirit Wear and Wacky Hair Day

• Parade is from 4:30-5:30pm Hilltop Elementary to the High School
• Tailgating  5:30pm-7pm
• Homecoming Football Game  7:00pm-9:00pm

MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6! 

COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am

Other News:

• If you haven't yet, sign up for fall conferences via Family Access (Skyward). Call the office if you are unable to log on. I will send an email out next week to those who have not yet signed up. Thanks!
• As the weather is changing, please make sure your child has warm gear to wear outside. We do go outside every day. 
• Please send Friday folders back every week (preferably Monday or Tuesday)  
• So far I have 3 parents who have signed up to plan our Halloween party on Oct. 31st. If you would like to be a part of the party and planning, please let me know! We would love more volunteers.