A Peek At Our Week!

  I hope everyone enjoyed a beautiful long weekend! Please take a peek below to see important dates, announcments, and curriculum updates. 😊

Important Dates:

October 18th:

Picture Day

October 25th:

Parent/Teacher Conferences

6:00-8:00pm (In Person)

October 27th:

Early Release 

Parent/Teacher Conferences

1:00-3:00pm (In Person and Virtual)

November 2nd:

Parent/Teacher Conferences

6:00-8:00pm (Virtual Only)

Announcements:

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences are right around the corner! Both virtual and in-person conferences appointments are available. Please use the links in Mr. Dearborn's SMORE (they are also available on Boyden's website) to schedule your time to speak with me. 

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations the children were introduced to the vowels i, and u. We learned that vowels are letters that make more than one sound, and noticed that our vowel Fundations cards are a different color (a pinkish orange) than our other cards. We also practiced reading the sight words "is" and "his". 

Reader's Workshop

In Reader's Workshop we began our We are Readers unit last week! To kick off this unit, we enjoyed going on a word hunt around Boyden School to find words we knew how to read. "Stop" and "exit" were two of the most popular. The students then had fun reading words they see in their everyday lives (also known as environmental print) such as Target, Cheerios, and Lego. 

Writer's Workshop

The class has been working so hard on their drawing skills as we continue with our illustration unit! In the week ahead we will practice drawing cars, buses, and even whole playgrounds using familiar shapes. I am SO impressed with how far our drawing skills and pictures have come in the last few weeks! 

Math

Last week in math we practiced counting numbers to 10! The ten frame was a major focus of our instruction, and by the end of the week the students were getting very efficient at recognizing numbers in ten frames quickly. They also enjoyed playing two new games called "Beat you to Five" which had the students identifying how many more cubes were needed to make 5, and "Who Will Win?" a game which provides the children with number writing practice. 

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎🚌📖

A Peek At Our Week!

 It was another busy week in Room 115! Please enjoy a few updates below!😊

Important Dates:

October 6th:

Half Day

12:25pm Dismissal

October 9th:

No School

Columbus Day

October 18th:

Picture Day-Smile!

October 25th:

Parent/Teacher Confereneces 6:00-8:00pm

*More information to follow

October 27th:

Half Day

Parent/Teacher Conferences 1:00-3:00pm

Announcements:

Quiet Time Changes

With the pace of the curriculum picking up this month, we will be shortening the length of our daily Quiet Time and only using our towels and stuffed animals on Fridays. Please have your child keep their furry friends safe at home until this day. Stuffed animals should not be brought to school on Monday-Thursday.  I will be sending home quiet time towels to be washed every other Friday. Thank you!

Scholastic Book Orders

There's still time to order Scholastic books for your child this month. Please use the QR code on the flyer that was sent home to see the great titles that are available!

Curriculum Update:

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed!

On Tuesday the class learned about and celebrated a beloved fall figure, Johnny Appleseed! Happy Birthday Johnny!

We also enjoyed participating in many apple themed activities last week! We learned about the life cycle of an apple, and read many poems and books about apples. 🍎

The students above work hard on an apple poem craft project. Click here to hear us read this fun fall poem!

Fundations

Last week in Fundations the class learned about the letters m, and n. We also practiced reading the sight words "a" and "and". 

Math

We continue to build our number sense in math as we explore numbers to 5. Last week we showed the numbers 1-5 on our five frame mats, and used our fingers to show how many boxes were full and how many were empty. At the end of the week we learned some fun number formation poems to help us with wrtiting these numbers.

The class also continues to enjoy exploring math manipulatives during our work station time. 

The students below play a new work station game called Spilled the Beans. This game helps with our number formation/writing skills! 

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍏📖🚌

A Peek At Our Week!

 I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend despite the dreary weather! Please see below for a few highlights from our classroom last week. 😊

Announcements:

Quiet Time Towels

Quiet Time towels were sent home on Thursday for washing. Please have your child bring their clean towel back with them to school tomorrow (Monday). Thank you!

Nut Free Classroom

A friendly reminder that we are a nut free classroom. Please be sure not to pack foods that contains any nuts or nut products for snacktime. Since there is an allergy safe table in the cafeteria, nut/nut products are ok for lunch. Thank you so much for all of your help and diligence. It is greatly appreciated!

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we learned about the letter t, b, and f. We also practiced the sight words "to" and "the". During the first few weeks of school we will be learning to read and spell color words as well! Last week's color was blue. Click here to listen to a song we used to help us practice this color.

Math

In math we began the first unit in our new Bridges curriculum! For our whole group lesson we practiced counting, sorting, and classifying shoes. The children then moved onto work stations where they got to explore math manipulatives such as unifix cubes, geoboards, pattern blocks, and polydrons. 

During one of our whole group lessons we made a human graph and sorted our shoes by various  attributes including sneakers/not sneakers, laces/no laces, velcro/no velcro.

Writer's Workshop

Last week in Writer's Workshop we practiced a very important pre-writing skill, drawing! We learned that shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles can be used to make pictures (and people too!). 

Reader's Workshop

In Reader's Workshop literacy and science came together last week as we read many poems and books about apples! We will continue our apple exploration this week as we also learn about Johnny Appleseed in preparation for his birthday on September 26th!

Special Guests

Last week we also welcomed many special guests into our classroom! On Monday, the Kindergarteners enjoyed a very special visit from Officer Hart and Rebel who taught us about school safety.

The children also enjoyed meeting Mrs. Carroll, Boyden's Digital Learning Coach! Mrs. Carroll taught us how to take care of our Chromebook computers and helped with the tricky process of logging in for the first time.

On Wednesday Mrs. Alden, one of Boyden's school counselors, came by for our first guidance/SEL lesson! She reviewed the Boyden behavior expectations and taught us about her job as a school counselor.

We ended the week with a visit from Mrs. Rinaldi, one of Walpole's amazing math coaches! She introduced us to JiJi the penguin and ST Math. The class was very excited to start solving puzzles and get moving on their own math journeys!

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎📖🚌