Schedule for the Week of April 16-20

THANK YOU CLASSROOM VOLUNTEERS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!! WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU EACH AND EVERY DAY!!!

• M - Music/P.E. and Media (Please remember your library books!!)
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E./Music
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Art & Computer & Celebrate Johnathan's Birthday!!
  

Star of the Week: Cormac!

Sight Words: and, there

Letter of the Week: Uu

Vocabulary: hollow, scurry, watchful, cling, defend, ravenous

Math: We are continuing to work on organizing data, graphing the data and learning how to read different graphs.

Literacy: This week we are beginning a new theme called "Animals All Around." We will be reading some fun new stories and talking about how to write a Thank you letter!

Schedule for the Week of April 9-13

• M - Art, Media & Character Class with Mrs. Swanson! & Celebration of Elizabeth's Birthday!!
  
• T - P.E./Music
  
• W - Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Art & 4th Grade Buddies
  
• F- Music/P.E.
  

Star of the Week: Elizabeth!

Sight Words: Review of: up, down, we, want, she, good, out, who, are, they

Letters of the Week: Yy & Zz

Vocabulary: Review!!

Math: We are continuing to work on organizing data, graphing the data and learning how to read different graphs.

Literacy: This is our last week talking about "Jobs People Do." We will continue with our literacy centers, Guided Reading Groups and practice building and decoding words.

****Please Remember to send in donations for our classroom basket!! Our theme is: "Family Sports" *******

Schedule for the Week of April 2-6

• M- Music/P.E. & Media (Please remember to return your Library Books!!)
  
• T- Art & Field Trip to Lowry Nature Center
  
• W- Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- No School! Teacher Workshop Day!
  

Sight Words: she, good

Word Families of the Week: -et (creates words such as: bet, get, let) -eg (creates words such as: peg, beg, leg) -en (creates words such as: Ben, ten, Jen)

Vocabulary: appreciate, grace, host, lush, marvelous, constantly

Math: We are beginning Chapter 10! We will be working on organizing data, graphing the data and learning how to read different graphs.

Literacy: We are starting a new theme this week in Language Arts called "Jobs People Do"- this theme will last for the next 3 weeks. We will continue with our literacy centers, Guided Reading Groups and practice building and decoding words.

Please check your e-mail about what your family can donate for our classroom basket for the carnival!! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!

Schedule for the Week of March 26-March 30

• M- Art & Media (Please remember to bring back your library books!) and celebrate Jack M.'s Birthday!!
  
• T- Music/P.E. and Adventures in Art!!
  
• W- Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Art
  
• F- P.E./Music & Computer
  

Star of the Week: Lucas!

Sight Words: are & they

Letters of the Week: Vv & Jj

Vocabulary: protecting, volunteer, responsible, adore, melancholy, exquisite

Math: Finishing chapter 9 on Measurement!

Literacy: We are starting a new theme this week in Language Arts called "Jobs People Do"- this theme will last for the next 3 weeks. We will continue with our literacy centers, Guided Reading Groups and practice building and decoding words.

Schedule for the Week of November 14-18

• M- Music & P.E. and Media (Please remember to bring back your library books!) and we will have Character Ed. Class with Mrs. Swanson... the theme... "Be Your Best!"
  
• T- Art
  
• W- Music & P.E.
  
• Th- Music & P.E.
  
• F- Art & Computer
  

Star of the Week: Natalia!

Sight Word: he

Word Family of the Week: -ap (creates words such as: sap, map, rap)
-am (creates words such as: Sam, Pam, ram)

Vocabulary: Review of the last two weeks

Math: Last week of working on Chp. 4 - numbers 6-10

Schedule for the Week of November 7 - 11

• M- Music & Media (Please return your Library books!) and Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-7:20pm.
  
• T- P.E.
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- P.E. (last day of rollerskating!)/Music and Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-7pm
  
• F- No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences 8-3pm

Sight Word: like

Letter of the Week: Dd

Vocabulary: active, gigantic, voyage, gasped, glum, whimper

Phonics: Onset/ Rime Blending

Math: Starting Chp. 5 numbers 6-10

Schedule for the Week of Oct. 31 - Nov. 4

• M- Music (No media this week due to the Bookfair) & Happy Halloween! Party in the afternoon!!
  
• T- Art & Family Fun Book Fair Night - Come celebrate Literature 5-7pm!!
  
• W- P.E.
  
• Th- Music
  
• F- Art & Grandfriends Day!! Welcome Grandparents and Grandfriends!!

Sight Word: to

Word Family for the Week: -am (makes words such as.... Sam, Pam, Cam, ram)
- at (makes words such as.... sat, mat, pat)

Vocabulary: sly, proceed, apparel, announced, imagery, precisely

Phonics: Review Rhyme recognition

Math: We will be taking our Chp. 3 test on numbers 1-5.

Schedule for the Week of October 24-28

• M- Art and Media (Please remember to return your library books!)
  
• T- P.E. & Music & Picture Retake Day!
  
• W- Music & P.E.
  
• Th- Art & Meet up with 4th grade buddies!
  
• F- Music & P.E. and Computer

** Rollerskating begins this week in P.E., so please remember to bring your helmets! :-)

Star of the Week: Henry!!

Sight Word: Review: I, a, go, the, my

Letter of the Week: Cc

Vocabulary: Review: feast, appetite, aroma, prepare, urgency, lonely, gusto, surround, remind, savor, tradition, preoccupied, perfectly, mellow, talent

Math: Chap. 3 focusing on graphing and numbers 1-5

Schedule for the Week of October 10-14

• M- Music/P.E. & Media (Please remember to return you library books!)
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E./Music
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Art & Computer

Star of the Week: Isabella!

Sight Word: go

Letter of the Week: Cc

Vocabulary: appetite, savor, urgency, aroma, surround, tradition

Phonics: rhyming

Math: Chapter 3 - Numbers 1-5

Schedule for the Week of October 3-7

• M - Art & Media Class with Mrs. Williams (*Please return library books!) and Character Class with Mrs. Swanson
  
• T - P.E./Music
  
• W - Music/P.E.
  
• Th - Art
  
• F - Music/P.E. & Computer

Star of the Week: Jack M.

Sight Word: the

Letter of the Week: Nn and Pp

Vocabulary: feast, gusto, prepare, lonely, remind, preoccupied

Phonics: Syllable blending, segmentation and deletion

Math: Chapter 2 - Our last week of covering patterns

Schedule for the Week of September 26-30

• M - P.E./Music & Media with Mrs. Williams (*Please return your library books by today!)
  
• T- PICTURE DAY!! Music/P.E.
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Music/P.E. & Computer & Celebrate Camryn's Birthday!!

Star of the Week: Camryn

Sight Word: my

Letter of the Week: Tt

Vocabulary: Review (ability, confident, encourage, talent, differ, perfectly, resemblance, reverse

Math: Chp. 2 - Patterns

Schedule for the Week of September 12-16

• M - Art and Character Assembly
  
• T - Music/P.E.
  
• W - Music/P.E. & Reading Fluency Testing
  
• Th -Art
• F - P.E./Music & Wolf Ridge Kick-Off Assembly

Letters of the Week: Mm & Ss

Sight Word: I

Phonics: Counting the number of words in a sentence

This is our first FULL week of kindergarten and I know the students will love it. We will have our first Character Assembly of the year with Mrs. Swanson and I think she has a pretty exciting message in store for us. (Hint: this year's Character Theme is "Team Shirley Hills"). We will also begin starting to learn and focus on the letters Mm and Ss in handwriting and reading the sight word I with our first theme "All About Me." We will also learn some new vocabulary words: ability, talent, confident, complained, encourage, and reverse.
In Math we will be reviewing concepts in the next two weeks such as shapes, directional words (i.e: right, left, above, below) and sorting objects by color, size and kind.
I'm looking forward to a great week!

Schedule for the Week of May 23-27

• M- Computer & P.E. /Music & Our End-of-the-Year Rock Star Assembly!!
  
• T- Music/P.E. & Our Last Day of Media -PLEASE bring back your Library books!! We will have our Yearbook Signing Party today too!
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- P.E./Music
  
• F- SUPER TEAM DAY!!!! - Parents you are invited to join us for the afternoon!! PLEASE send a packed lunch today - the kitchen will be closed!

SUPER TEAM DAY on FRIDAY!!!!:
Please Send these items with your child for this day:

• packed lunch (the kitchen is closed)
• water bottle
• tennis shoes - we will be doing many sporting events
• have your child wear light blue or blue
  

Star of the Week: Brekken!

Sight Words: Review

Vocabulary: Review

This will be a very busy but FUN week!!

Schdule for the Week of May 9-13th

• M- computer & P.E. and Music
  
• T- music and P.E. & Media (please remember your library books!)
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- P.E. and music
  
• F- No School! Teacher Workshop Day.

Star of the Week: Zachary

Sight Words: that, have

Vocabulary: peek, watchful, lively, active, clever, boastful, ravenous, famished, hollow, defend, quarrel

Schedule for the Week of April 25-29

• M- Computer & Art
  
• T- P.E./Music & Media (Please remember to return your library books!)
  
• W- Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Art
  
• F- P.E./Music

Star of the Week: Sam!!

Letter of the Week: Uu

Sight Words: and, there

Vocabulary: hollow, scurry, watchful, cling, defend, ravenous

Schdule for the Week of April 11-15

• M- Computer & Music/P.E.
  
• T- Art & Media (Please bring back your Library books!)
  
• W- P.E./Music
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Art

Saturday, April 16th - Shirley Hills Spring Carnival!!! 11am-3pm

Star of the Week: Vaughn!!

Sight Words: she, good

Word Families: -et (pet, set, bet) -eg (peg, leg, beg) & -en (pen, Ken, ten)

Vocabulary: appreciate, grace, host, lush, marvelous, constantly

Schedule for the Week of April 4 - 8

• M- Computer, P.E. & Music
  
• T- Music & P.E. & Media (Please remember to bring back your Library books! :-) )
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- P.E. & Music
  
• F- No School - Teacher Workshop Day!
  

Letters of the Week: Vv & Jj

Sight Words: are, they

Vocabulary: protecting, volunteer, responsible, adore, melancholy, exquisite

Schedule for the Week of March 28 - April 1

• M - Computer & Music/P.E. - Coloring Contest Entries for the Carnival are Due!!
  
• T - Art & Media (Bring back your Library books!)
  
• W - P.E./Music & Make-Up Field Trip to Lowry Nature Center!
  
• Th -Music/P.E.
• F - Art
  

Please continue to send in your items for the Food Drive!!!

Star of the Week: Reagan!!

Sight Words: out, who

Word Families: -ed, -en

Schedule for the Week of March 21-25

Sorry friends! I have not been good about updating my blog in a timely manner.....

• M- Art
  
• T- P.E./Music
  
• W- SNOW DAY - no School! - Hope you enjoyed the unexpected day off!
  
• Th- Art & Adventures in Art with Mrs. Linkert!
  
• F- P.E./Music & Celebrate Lindsay's Birthday! - Look for your child's report card today too!

Please send in anything you would like to donate to our Carnival Basket: the theme is- SWIMMING FUN

We are doing a Shirley Hills Food Drive, please remember to bring in your donations through the end of March!

Star of the Week: Emerson!

Sight Words: we, want

Letter of the Week: Ee

Vocabulary: treasure, sturdy, worth, compliment, confer, mingle

Schedule for the Week of March 7-11

• M - P.E./Music & Computer
  
• T- Music/P.E. & Media
  
• W - Art
  
• Th -P.E./Music & Adventures in Art with Mrs. Linkert!
  
• F - Music/P.E.
  

Star of the Week!! Mac

Sight Words: up, down

Vocabulary: contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate

Word family: -ox, -ix to create words such as: box, fox, sox, fix, mix, six

Parents! Please remember to send back the PTA Fundraiser packets - they are due back this week! Also, just a reminder, we have no school next week -Happy SPriNg BrEAk!!