This Week In KC Kindergarten

 L...is for Lucy
Lucy is the Special Person this Week!!!




Yes It was snowing out this week!

 We are writing a class Nonfiction Book ALL ABOUT FALL

We are learning that Nonfiction books sometimes have BOLD headings at the top of the page.
Nonfiction books give facts and new information. Some nonfiction books have photographs and some
  have pictures. At Interactive Writing time we wrote facts about leaves and pumpkins. We focused on spelling, writing sentences that make sense and spacing between words.

                                                             
                                                                
We picked writing workshop goals this week

We are picking a favorite book to publish from our writing folders!

ABC
We are working on an fall alphabet Bridge Map
We read the story

We tried to think of words that  that began with the same beginning sounds like the Dr.Seuss ABC book! We are still working on this Thinking Map.

The message is missing vowels!!

We worked together figuring out the missing vowels. You can see that for some of the words like Let's and Busy were tricky. We  tried a few different vowels and asked ourselves what vowel looked right!

Math
We looked around the room for objects that were shorter and longer then our cube measuring sticks.

 We worked on combinations of 5 leaves some of them where red and some yellow

 We record our thinking with a Brace Map

Fall Story Hour

Everyone had a great time wearing their PJ's to school on Tuesday! We went on a Fall Story Walk visiting each kindergarten classroom listening to different fall stories and learning some fall songs.

We went to KM first. Ms. McMahon read a funny story about a Turkey. We went into KC next, Mrs. Clancy read a funny story about a spider. We also learned a new song called Thanks A Lot and The Earth.

Mrs. Mead read a funny story about Thanksgiving! Ask your child what was their favorite fall book and why!

 We loved wearing our PJ's!!

 A few students suggested we do this again in the winter!

Queen of Ten

The journal was illustrated by Luke and Matthew. I love how they put two Circle Maps to show you that the Queen of Ten came to the class with her ten cube wand.

The Queen of Ten came to our class today! It was the 40th day of school. We did 40 exercises!!! 

Look at our Ten Frames!! We recorded 4 groups of ten in our Queen of Ten journals.

 Monday Morning Message

 What do you notice about the message today?

 Some HEART words are, like, to and go. We figured out the beginning of the message together. Did the message begin with Dear Class, Dear Friends or Dear Children?? We had to look at the beginning letter sounds. We have been talking about how the letter Y sometimes make the sound of E. We have been learning that every word has a vowel. We circled some vowels on the message today.

Bubble Bag
Can you guess what is in the Bubble Bag? This was very tricky!! We had some great guesses.

This Week In KC

Emery is the Special Person this Week!

We made a Bubble Map about  the Special person! 
Books we have read in October

We Voted on the top two favorite books below. Click on the Voicethread below to see what book your child picked.

We loved both of these books.

We read the story 

Here are some monsters!

Comparing two books The Tale of the Turnip and Big Pumpkin

We finished writing our class poem I knew it was Halloween.

Halloween Party

It was great to finally get back to school on Wednesday! We had a great time marching in the Halloween parade! This slide show shares the kids in costumes. A special thanks to all the parent helpers at that party!

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This slide show shares our class party!

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Halloween In KC

On Tuesday we are having students wear their PJ to school! All of the kindergarten classrooms will be having a SPOOKY HOUR storytime! On Wednesday we will be having our class party right after the parade. Sibling's are welcome to this party!

We made Haunted House math problems. Click the Smilebox if you dare!

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Working with a partner we solved math problems from the story One Witch

We learned about Bridge Maps this week!

After reading the story One Witch we illustrated words that rhyme from the story.

All About Fall

We are writing an All About Fall book. We are using a Tree Map above to help organize our thinking. 

We are acting our the story Big Pumpkin