Monday, May 30, 2011
Learning the month of May!
Dear Kindergarten Families,
I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day and you had time to enjoy the weather! Thanks to all of you who came to the zoo field trip and to our afternoon to visit kindergarten with the music program and math games. The children had a great time "Showing off" all that they have learned this school year. Here are some important dates as your child's kindergarten year comes to a close.
May 30 No School: Memorial day
June 1 Summer Library Program in the IMC
June 2 Variety Show in the morning
June 3 Field Trip to First Stage Theater: Please have your child bring a bag lunch with a drink as we will be eating before we go (hot lunch will not be available for kindergarten)
June 6 Variety Show in the afternoon
June 8th Last day of school: Fun activity morning which will include bubbles, sidewalk chalk and kickball ( I would love to have some parents help out with this fun morning at 9:30-10:40. Let me know if you will be able to help!)
Ice cream beach party in the afternoon: I will bring the ice cream and I would like some families to donate one of the following: 30 bowls, 30 spoons, chocolate topping, caramel topping, strawberry topping, marchino cherries, sprinkles, plain M & M's. Please let me know what you will be able to donate so that we don't have double of anything. I would also love to have several parents help scoop ice cream at 2:20pm. Let me know if you would be available to help out. Thanks!
June 9th Beginning of summer!!! Keep reading every day this summer!
What we have learned:
Reader's workshop:
*We read several books to help us learn about Earth Day and how to keep our Earth clean.
*We have been reading Charlotte's Web to help us practice visualizing what is happening in the story. We hope to finish the story before the end of the school year.
*We read many different poems during poety unit and each child illustrated and read their own poetry books. These will be great to read over the summer.
*We learned about different reasons that poets write poems.
*We learned that some poems rhyme and some don't.
*We learned that poets write about things they love.
*We voted on our Favorite poem...winner...The Green Queen.
*We sorted words with "Th" and "Sh".
*We sorted words by the amount of syllables they have.
*We continue to work on our stamina and we are up to reading 20 minutes independently.
Writer's Workshop:
*We reviewed what "Voice" is so that we continue to use voice in our writing.
*We read the book First Day Jitter's and wrote about how we felt about our first day of kindergarten.
*We wrote a poem about Earth Day.
*We wrote about books about our Mom's for Mother's day.
*We wrote about our trip to the zoo.
*We continue to work on our stamina while writing independently.
Math:
*We filled in our calendar for May by writing our numbers.
*We solved some Earth day & Mothers' day math addition and subtraction problems.
*We learned about different ways we can add to 8 and 9 using unifix cubes, pattern blocks, stamps and tiles.
*We have been practicing writing addition and subtraction number sentences.
*We learned how to create different shapes using rubber bands and geoboards.
*We practiced measuring using different objects including unifix cubes, markers, etc.
*We made addition flashcards that we can use at home to practice our math facts over the summer.
Science/Social Studies:
*We made and delivered May Day baskets to our Bethesda neighbors.
*We made flower pots for our marigolds and a cover for our Mother's Day books.
*We made a picture of the Earth using watercolors and a coffee filter.
*We learned about the Basic needs of plants and animals by creating and illustrating a book about different animals and plants. We also learned a song to help us learn these basic needs.
*We read a book and wrote about different animals that are oviparous (hatch from eggs). We made the cover for these books by tracing our hands and feet.
*We became very excited about our chicks hatching and everyone held the chicks.
*We became excited when our caterpillars became crysallis (we are hoping for a butterfly any day now).
As the school year comes to a close, I want to thank you for the opportunity to be your child's kindergarten teacher!!! It has been exciting to watch all that your child has learned this year!!! I appreciate all of you that have read the blog. (If you have any thoughts about this blog please let me know)
Have a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you all at the Open House in the fall!
Sincerely,
Lori Marshman
I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day and you had time to enjoy the weather! Thanks to all of you who came to the zoo field trip and to our afternoon to visit kindergarten with the music program and math games. The children had a great time "Showing off" all that they have learned this school year. Here are some important dates as your child's kindergarten year comes to a close.
May 30 No School: Memorial day
June 1 Summer Library Program in the IMC
June 2 Variety Show in the morning
June 3 Field Trip to First Stage Theater: Please have your child bring a bag lunch with a drink as we will be eating before we go (hot lunch will not be available for kindergarten)
June 6 Variety Show in the afternoon
June 8th Last day of school: Fun activity morning which will include bubbles, sidewalk chalk and kickball ( I would love to have some parents help out with this fun morning at 9:30-10:40. Let me know if you will be able to help!)
Ice cream beach party in the afternoon: I will bring the ice cream and I would like some families to donate one of the following: 30 bowls, 30 spoons, chocolate topping, caramel topping, strawberry topping, marchino cherries, sprinkles, plain M & M's. Please let me know what you will be able to donate so that we don't have double of anything. I would also love to have several parents help scoop ice cream at 2:20pm. Let me know if you would be available to help out. Thanks!
June 9th Beginning of summer!!! Keep reading every day this summer!
What we have learned:
Reader's workshop:
*We read several books to help us learn about Earth Day and how to keep our Earth clean.
*We have been reading Charlotte's Web to help us practice visualizing what is happening in the story. We hope to finish the story before the end of the school year.
*We read many different poems during poety unit and each child illustrated and read their own poetry books. These will be great to read over the summer.
*We learned about different reasons that poets write poems.
*We learned that some poems rhyme and some don't.
*We learned that poets write about things they love.
*We voted on our Favorite poem...winner...The Green Queen.
*We sorted words with "Th" and "Sh".
*We sorted words by the amount of syllables they have.
*We continue to work on our stamina and we are up to reading 20 minutes independently.
Writer's Workshop:
*We reviewed what "Voice" is so that we continue to use voice in our writing.
*We read the book First Day Jitter's and wrote about how we felt about our first day of kindergarten.
*We wrote a poem about Earth Day.
*We wrote about books about our Mom's for Mother's day.
*We wrote about our trip to the zoo.
*We continue to work on our stamina while writing independently.
Math:
*We filled in our calendar for May by writing our numbers.
*We solved some Earth day & Mothers' day math addition and subtraction problems.
*We learned about different ways we can add to 8 and 9 using unifix cubes, pattern blocks, stamps and tiles.
*We have been practicing writing addition and subtraction number sentences.
*We learned how to create different shapes using rubber bands and geoboards.
*We practiced measuring using different objects including unifix cubes, markers, etc.
*We made addition flashcards that we can use at home to practice our math facts over the summer.
Science/Social Studies:
*We made and delivered May Day baskets to our Bethesda neighbors.
*We made flower pots for our marigolds and a cover for our Mother's Day books.
*We made a picture of the Earth using watercolors and a coffee filter.
*We learned about the Basic needs of plants and animals by creating and illustrating a book about different animals and plants. We also learned a song to help us learn these basic needs.
*We read a book and wrote about different animals that are oviparous (hatch from eggs). We made the cover for these books by tracing our hands and feet.
*We became very excited about our chicks hatching and everyone held the chicks.
*We became excited when our caterpillars became crysallis (we are hoping for a butterfly any day now).
As the school year comes to a close, I want to thank you for the opportunity to be your child's kindergarten teacher!!! It has been exciting to watch all that your child has learned this year!!! I appreciate all of you that have read the blog. (If you have any thoughts about this blog please let me know)
Have a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you all at the Open House in the fall!
Sincerely,
Lori Marshman
Monday, April 18, 2011
Painting Party
Examples of Hats for our Spring Hat parade
Lori
Happy Spring (maybe) but Happy learning!
Dear Kindergarten Parents,
It is hard to believe that spring break is almost here! I have heard several stories about all the fun activities your children will be doing with you during spring break! Enjoy this special time with your child and hopefully the weather will cooperate! It is also hard to believe that as of today we only have 30 school days left of the school year. Where did the time go?! I look forward to seeing you this Thursday as we celebrate the amazing reading and writing that your child has learned this year. I get so excited this time of the year when I see all that the children have learned!!! It just amazes me what a five and six year old can do! I hope you will enjoy our author's celebration and spring hat parade. If you are unable to come please be sure to have your child read the book that they wrote and illustrated to you and everybody you know. They have worked so hard on it and you can see so much of what they have learned about writing this year.
Important dates:
April 21st Authors celebration and spring hat parade at 10:30 until 11:30
April 21st Spring party planned by our room parents 2:15 (bunny hop in gym at 2:50)
April 22-May 1st Spring Break
May 2nd Back to school
May 5-13 Map testing (Please make sure your child is at school during this time)
May 17th Zoo Field Trip (All families are welcome:more information will be coming)
May 24th Our baby chicks will hatch
May 25th Kindergarten concert in the afternoon (families are invited)
May 26th Wellness walk
May27th Raindate for wellness walk
May 30th No School: Memorial day
June 3 Field trip to First Stage to see Miss Nelson is Missing (if you have not turned in the permission slip and money please do so asap)
June 8th Last day of school
What have we been learning:
Reader's workshop:
*we reviewed that we are all author's and illustrators and what that means
*We started our author study about Audrey Wood and read many, many books that she wrote and that her husband or son illustrated
*We made a list of all the books that we read by Audrey Wood
*We compared The Napping House and Quick as a Cricket both by Audrey Wood
*We learned some interesting & fun facts about Audrey Wood and we had a "mock" interview with Audrey Wood (aka Mrs. Marshman)
*We compared and contrasted two different alphabet books by Audrey Wood
*We read the book Piggies and listed all the characters and the words the author used to describe those characters to help us learn about good word choice
*We read The Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear and came up with words to describe the Mouse and the Bear
*We shared what is our favorite Audrey Wood book and why we like it
*We started to learn about a new author who lives in Milwaukee (Lois Ehlert). We learned some fun and interesting facts about her and we have begun to read some of her books. We really discussed how she illustrates books as she uses many different types of media in her books.
*We shared all of the rhyming bags by guessing which item did not rhyme. Thank you so much for your help with this activity.
Writers Workshop:
*We read the book Grow Flower, Grow by Lisa Bruce. We modeled our book after this book.
*Every day we wrote and illustrated a new page for our book. This included a dedication page and an about the author page. (Our books have at least 7 pages!!! WOW!!!)
*We focused a lot on using good word choice and using voice (writing how we feel) into writing our Grow Flower, Grow books.
*We illustrated the cover to our books.
*We wrote in our plant journals so that we can see how much our plants have grown. We also measure our plants when we do this,
*We wrote about favorite season and included that in our four season book.
Math:
*We reviewed telling time by the hour and half hour. We made our own clocks so that we can practice telling time at home.
*We practiced learning about different ways to add to 6 and 7 and wrote number sentences to help us with this.
*We are learning about greater than and less than by guessing the mystery number of the day.
*We continue to practice learning our coins and the value of the coins.
Social Studies & Science:
*We had our last day with Miss Sara & Miss Heidi from Junior Achievement who taught us so much about coins, how to save money, make money and spend money.
*We learned about the different parts of a plant and we continue to take care of our plants.
*We learned about six different National symbols and what they mean.
*We sorted pictures of items from the four different seasons.
Okay!!! We have been busy learning!!!! I can't wait to see you on Thursday and don't forget to make and send in your kids spring hat.
Sincerely,
Lori Marshman
It is hard to believe that spring break is almost here! I have heard several stories about all the fun activities your children will be doing with you during spring break! Enjoy this special time with your child and hopefully the weather will cooperate! It is also hard to believe that as of today we only have 30 school days left of the school year. Where did the time go?! I look forward to seeing you this Thursday as we celebrate the amazing reading and writing that your child has learned this year. I get so excited this time of the year when I see all that the children have learned!!! It just amazes me what a five and six year old can do! I hope you will enjoy our author's celebration and spring hat parade. If you are unable to come please be sure to have your child read the book that they wrote and illustrated to you and everybody you know. They have worked so hard on it and you can see so much of what they have learned about writing this year.
Important dates:
April 21st Authors celebration and spring hat parade at 10:30 until 11:30
April 21st Spring party planned by our room parents 2:15 (bunny hop in gym at 2:50)
April 22-May 1st Spring Break
May 2nd Back to school
May 5-13 Map testing (Please make sure your child is at school during this time)
May 17th Zoo Field Trip (All families are welcome:more information will be coming)
May 24th Our baby chicks will hatch
May 25th Kindergarten concert in the afternoon (families are invited)
May 26th Wellness walk
May27th Raindate for wellness walk
May 30th No School: Memorial day
June 3 Field trip to First Stage to see Miss Nelson is Missing (if you have not turned in the permission slip and money please do so asap)
June 8th Last day of school
What have we been learning:
Reader's workshop:
*we reviewed that we are all author's and illustrators and what that means
*We started our author study about Audrey Wood and read many, many books that she wrote and that her husband or son illustrated
*We made a list of all the books that we read by Audrey Wood
*We compared The Napping House and Quick as a Cricket both by Audrey Wood
*We learned some interesting & fun facts about Audrey Wood and we had a "mock" interview with Audrey Wood (aka Mrs. Marshman)
*We compared and contrasted two different alphabet books by Audrey Wood
*We read the book Piggies and listed all the characters and the words the author used to describe those characters to help us learn about good word choice
*We read The Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear and came up with words to describe the Mouse and the Bear
*We shared what is our favorite Audrey Wood book and why we like it
*We started to learn about a new author who lives in Milwaukee (Lois Ehlert). We learned some fun and interesting facts about her and we have begun to read some of her books. We really discussed how she illustrates books as she uses many different types of media in her books.
*We shared all of the rhyming bags by guessing which item did not rhyme. Thank you so much for your help with this activity.
Writers Workshop:
*We read the book Grow Flower, Grow by Lisa Bruce. We modeled our book after this book.
*Every day we wrote and illustrated a new page for our book. This included a dedication page and an about the author page. (Our books have at least 7 pages!!! WOW!!!)
*We focused a lot on using good word choice and using voice (writing how we feel) into writing our Grow Flower, Grow books.
*We illustrated the cover to our books.
*We wrote in our plant journals so that we can see how much our plants have grown. We also measure our plants when we do this,
*We wrote about favorite season and included that in our four season book.
Math:
*We reviewed telling time by the hour and half hour. We made our own clocks so that we can practice telling time at home.
*We practiced learning about different ways to add to 6 and 7 and wrote number sentences to help us with this.
*We are learning about greater than and less than by guessing the mystery number of the day.
*We continue to practice learning our coins and the value of the coins.
Social Studies & Science:
*We had our last day with Miss Sara & Miss Heidi from Junior Achievement who taught us so much about coins, how to save money, make money and spend money.
*We learned about the different parts of a plant and we continue to take care of our plants.
*We learned about six different National symbols and what they mean.
*We sorted pictures of items from the four different seasons.
Okay!!! We have been busy learning!!!! I can't wait to see you on Thursday and don't forget to make and send in your kids spring hat.
Sincerely,
Lori Marshman
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Happy Spring!!! What has been happening...April 3
Dear Kindergarten Families,
It is hard to believe another 2 weeks have past since my last post. Time is sure flying! I sent home the April calendar last week Thursday so please take a look at all the happenings this month but here are some highlights...
*April 13 Early Release at 1:55pm
*April 21 Hat Parade & Author's Celebration at 10:30-11:30 am.
All parents are invited!!! Start thinking about the fun spring hat you would like to make with your child and bring it on this day!!! The children will also be sharing their Grow Flower Grow book that they will be working on writing and illustrating the next couple of weeks. We sure hope you can come and enjoy this special day with your kindergartner!
(Spring Party in the afternoon)
*April 22-May 1 No School-Spring Break
*May 17th Field Trip to zoo:all Families are invited to join us. More information will be coming
*June 3 Field Trip to First Stage to see Miss Nelson is Missing
What we have been learning:
Readers Workshop:
*We have been focusing on learning about how to have a strong retelling. This would include telling the title, the story elements and act like it is a conversation. We practiced with a partner and a stuffed animal with our retellings with some of our favorite stories we have read this year.
*We learned that retelling is telling something again.
*We learned why we retell ...because we love a story and want to think about it again, to remind us of the details of something we care about and to let someone know what happened.
*We focused a lot on the story elements including the characters, setting, problem and solution. Each day this past week we learned about each of these elements.
*We opened several rhyming bags each day and tried to guess the rhyming item. The children loved this activity and thanks for your help with this activity. There will be a new rhyming activity coming home this week.
*We read a nightime book and highlighted all the super words.
*We made a kite and read long "i" and short "i" words to put on our kites.
*We sorted long and short vowel sounds and learned how to "Flip the sound" (meaning to change from the short or long vowel sound) when we are trying to read a new word.
Writers' Workshop:
*We did a lot of non-fiction writing the past two weeks. We wrote about the nighttime and daytime sky and what we see in these two skies.
*We wrote about our five senses and how they relate to the season of spring. We made spring books to go along with this.
*We wrote about the four seasons in regards to the weather and how it is different in each season.
*We learned how to write lists by writing about different things we can do in each season.
Math:
*We sorted and graphed the different coins with a partner.
*We made a coin booklet using coin stamps so that we can learn how to indentify the different stamps.
*We have been practicing writing number sentences using unifix cubes, stamps, tiles and pattern blocks. Each week we focus on a different number where that number is the solution. Two weeks ago we focused on the number 4 and this past week we focused on the number 5. We will continue this until we have focused on the numbers up to 9.
*We solved spring math problems where we draw the picture (Show our work), write the number sentence and the solution.
*We were introduced to the different parts of a clock and we have practiced telling time by the hour and half hour. We also practiced putting events in order by the time.
Social studies & Science:
*We have learned about the differences between the nighttime and day time sky.
*We have been watching our plants grow.
*We have been learning about the four seasons and how they are alike and different especially in regards to the weather.
*We have had our students from Carroll University who volunteer for Junior Achievement teach about the coins and money and how to save money. Each child was given a bank this past Friday.
****Please keep reading with your child on a daily basis. It makes a HUGE difference with your child's reading achievement. Thanks to those of who participate in the book in a bag program and continue to return the books on a regular basis.****
*We will have library later this week as their will be voting in the library on Tuesday. Please have your child return their books by Tuesday but they will not bringing a book home until later this week.
Have a great couple of weeks where we can hopefully enjoy the spring weather!!!
It is hard to believe another 2 weeks have past since my last post. Time is sure flying! I sent home the April calendar last week Thursday so please take a look at all the happenings this month but here are some highlights...
*April 13 Early Release at 1:55pm
*April 21 Hat Parade & Author's Celebration at 10:30-11:30 am.
All parents are invited!!! Start thinking about the fun spring hat you would like to make with your child and bring it on this day!!! The children will also be sharing their Grow Flower Grow book that they will be working on writing and illustrating the next couple of weeks. We sure hope you can come and enjoy this special day with your kindergartner!
(Spring Party in the afternoon)
*April 22-May 1 No School-Spring Break
*May 17th Field Trip to zoo:all Families are invited to join us. More information will be coming
*June 3 Field Trip to First Stage to see Miss Nelson is Missing
What we have been learning:
Readers Workshop:
*We have been focusing on learning about how to have a strong retelling. This would include telling the title, the story elements and act like it is a conversation. We practiced with a partner and a stuffed animal with our retellings with some of our favorite stories we have read this year.
*We learned that retelling is telling something again.
*We learned why we retell ...because we love a story and want to think about it again, to remind us of the details of something we care about and to let someone know what happened.
*We focused a lot on the story elements including the characters, setting, problem and solution. Each day this past week we learned about each of these elements.
*We opened several rhyming bags each day and tried to guess the rhyming item. The children loved this activity and thanks for your help with this activity. There will be a new rhyming activity coming home this week.
*We read a nightime book and highlighted all the super words.
*We made a kite and read long "i" and short "i" words to put on our kites.
*We sorted long and short vowel sounds and learned how to "Flip the sound" (meaning to change from the short or long vowel sound) when we are trying to read a new word.
Writers' Workshop:
*We did a lot of non-fiction writing the past two weeks. We wrote about the nighttime and daytime sky and what we see in these two skies.
*We wrote about our five senses and how they relate to the season of spring. We made spring books to go along with this.
*We wrote about the four seasons in regards to the weather and how it is different in each season.
*We learned how to write lists by writing about different things we can do in each season.
Math:
*We sorted and graphed the different coins with a partner.
*We made a coin booklet using coin stamps so that we can learn how to indentify the different stamps.
*We have been practicing writing number sentences using unifix cubes, stamps, tiles and pattern blocks. Each week we focus on a different number where that number is the solution. Two weeks ago we focused on the number 4 and this past week we focused on the number 5. We will continue this until we have focused on the numbers up to 9.
*We solved spring math problems where we draw the picture (Show our work), write the number sentence and the solution.
*We were introduced to the different parts of a clock and we have practiced telling time by the hour and half hour. We also practiced putting events in order by the time.
Social studies & Science:
*We have learned about the differences between the nighttime and day time sky.
*We have been watching our plants grow.
*We have been learning about the four seasons and how they are alike and different especially in regards to the weather.
*We have had our students from Carroll University who volunteer for Junior Achievement teach about the coins and money and how to save money. Each child was given a bank this past Friday.
****Please keep reading with your child on a daily basis. It makes a HUGE difference with your child's reading achievement. Thanks to those of who participate in the book in a bag program and continue to return the books on a regular basis.****
*We will have library later this week as their will be voting in the library on Tuesday. Please have your child return their books by Tuesday but they will not bringing a book home until later this week.
Have a great couple of weeks where we can hopefully enjoy the spring weather!!!
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Dr. Seuss birthday
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