Candy Cane

Austin - "We were gluing on pictures that the middle sound was the long /a/. I don't remember what I glued on."

Luis - "I would get flowers and put it in the vase for my mom.  Vase is a long /a/ sound."

Jackson - "On my candy cane picture, I have an ape, sleigh, and a rake that all make the long /a/ sound."

Tristian - "I learned about cane.  Cane is cool.  It makes the long /a/ sound like cake, rake, and make."

Miguel - "My candy cane! "

 Ariam - "I have a cake, rake, and crayon on my Candy Cane that sounds like long /a/."

Jamila - "I like the candy cane.  It has a long /a/ sound.  I have a skate, cake, ape, rake, and apron on my picture."

Christmas fun

Thank you Gardner Public Library and Mrs. Bard for reading to us!

   

 

Fancy Dressed and they sing too!

Twas the night of the Christmas Concert, and all through the school.........

Tasty Cranberries

We cooked, smelled, touched, tasted, listened, and saw cranberries from bag to bowl.  We couldn't believe how they POPPED when we cooked them!  Very sour, but MUCH, MUCH better with sugar!  Yum!!!!

Gingerbread fun

Coloring! Coloring! Coloring!!

Center Fun

Learning and having fun at the same time!

102’s Kindergarten News For You!

102’s Kindergarten News For You!     

Reading/Writing:    Our new words will be: up, down, did.  Confusing words: they, then, that! The /th/ sound is a bit confusing.  Just tell your child that their tongue gets caught between their teeth on that sound in order to help them remember.  We were able to write some FANTASTIC stories this week due to so many birthdays in kindergarten in November!  I wish you could have heard them all! J

Alphabetical order.  Can your child put 3 or 4 random words in alphabetical order?  Try at home.  Help your child utilize that alphabet song they know so well!

Math/Numbers:  In addition, we will be putting together fact families (0+5=5, 1+4=5, 2+3=5, 3+2=5, etc…up to ten.  Help your child notice how these numbers work together as it will help them when we begin subtraction.  Also, try giving them a missing addend to be filled in: 4+___=5. How will they figure it out? We will practice a lot of these “unknown” numbers all before Christmas.

Special Topics:  Continue with the FIVE SENSES & the Food Pyramid.  We will of course, talk about Thanksgiving traditions!

Until next time,                                         
Mrs. Steinman J

Ah, isn't learning fun!

Just some pics from quiet reading time today.  The kiddos did aweseome and were very productive! 

102’s Kindergarten News For You!

Reading/Writing:   We are working on telling and writing a story with a beginning, a middle and an ending.  Some of us are making up a problem to our story so that we can explain how the problem was fixed!  We retold the story of The Little Red Hen using puppets.  She had a problem.  What was it?  How did she fix it? We are also identifying the characters and setting in a story.  When reading to your child, be sure to ask them where/who these are!  Our new words will be: because, one, two, three, four & five.

Math/Numbers: We are spiraling back to see if we remember how to read a graph, what kind of a graph is being read (picture, line, pie or bar) as well as making our own graphs.  Some of us forgot some of this.  Numeral writing:  practice those 6’s, 9’s, 2’s & 5’! Counting by 5’s has been fun because we can use nickels.  Counting by 10’s is a breeze because we can use dimes and it’s SO FAST!!!! Zooom! 

Special Topics:  We will begin talking about the FIVE SENSES next week because that will lead us into one of my favorite topics:  FOOD! Food will lead us into NUTRITION. J

Important Stuff:  I have seen some beautiful, warm coats, hats & gloves on the kids.  Darn kids keep growing, don’t they? Please try to mark these with names if possible as some are identical to a friend’s.  NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ON Monday, October 31, 2011!

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT STUFF:  The students get to vote for the teacher wearing their favorite costume. Remind your child to vote for ME!  Hee! Hee!  J  We’ll see if they can figure out what I am as I haven’t told them yet!   BOO!

Until next time,                                         
Mrs. SteinmanJ

102’s Kindergarten News For You!

Reading/Writing:  New letter Nn.   Our new word families will use letters /a/ or /i/ or in the middle.  Practice making words using the sound of /n/. 

Word Families:  have your child say the sounds, then “sing” the sounds  in order to slide it together.

The children are beginning to use temporary spelling.  This means writing a letter for each sound they hear.  Even if the word is spelled incorrectly, but all of the sounds are there, that is okay. Although, if they are spelling a word family word (hat, cat, pin, zip, etc…) OR a sight word from our word list these must be spelled correctly.

We are working on beginning our letters in the proper place on the line when writing.  The same works for numerals. Please take a look at your child’s handwriting papers when they come home in case there’s a need for extra practice.

Math/Numbers:   Work on writing numerals to 50 without help. Greater than & less than.  Which numerals are larger or smaller and why?  Skip-counting: learning to count by 2’s, 5’s & 10’s so that we are able to work with money will begin!

Special Topics:  Fire-Prevention, Grandparents’ Day is next Friday!!!!
Important Stuff: OH!  The kids brought home their towels and because we have Book Nook areas now, they do NOT need to bring them back! THANKS!   

Until next time,

Mrs. SteinmanJ

October 3 - 7

102’s Kindergarten News For You!       

Reading/Writing:  Our new letters will be Tt and Bb.  Our new words will be it, is, in.  Our new word families will use letters /a/ or /i/ or in the middle.  Help your child listen for the sounds of letters in words so they understand its placement.  For example:  fan…where do you hear the /f/ sound?  Where do you hear the/n/ sound? Etc….

We are working on beginning our letters in the proper place on the line when writing.  The same works for numerals. 

Math/Numbers:   Work on writing numerals to 50 without help. Whew!   

Special Topics:  Autumn and Fire Prevention

Important Stuff: OH!  The kids brought home their towels and because we have Book Nook areas now, they do NOT need to bring them back! THANKS!  Please turn in your Grandparents’ Day information to the office ASAP so we are ready to have visitors in October!

Until next time,

Mrs. Steinman

Yummy!!!

Kindergarten carmel apples!  Yummy!

Newsletter for 9-19 to 9-23

102’s Kindergarten News For You! 

Reading/Writing:  Our new letter will be Pp and the sound of /p/.   We will really begin building words now that we have these letters to choose from: a, p, m, s. Remember, am & at help us build many words.  We will soon change the vowel as well!  Sight words: your child must know how to spell the words as well as read them.

Math/Numbers:  Patterning.  What makes a pattern?  Noticing different kinds of  patterns:  ABABAB, or AAB, AAB or ABC, ABC, etc. We are comparing things we see in our daily lives such as trees, buildings and people in order to build our vocabulary.
Special Topics: APPLES!

Important Stuff:  Parent-Teacher Conferences will be coming up soon! Watch for information about this! 

Until next time,
Mrs. SteinmanJ

102's Kindergarten News for You!

Reading/Writing:  Continue alphabet recognition and sound recognition.  New sight words: can, like, and am, at.  Our new letter will be Ss and the sound of /s/.  We noticed how the letter /a/ made it easy for us to rhyme and build short words such as at, hat, fat, cat or an, pan, man, fan.  We noticed how the ENDING of words is what makes them rhyme!  Cool!

Math/Numbers:  Positional terms were fairly simple.  We will incorporate these terms into our reading and math along with our sorts.  Next week we begin noticing patterns.  Writing numerals from 0-20 as well as matching.

Special Topics:  All About Me!  CONGRATULATION PARENTS!   Nearly every child turned in their poster about themselves immediately after Labor Day!  I am impressed!  THANK YOU!  The kids are so excited to share their interests and lives with each other!

Important Stuff:  Keep up the good work on helping your child learn to tie!  Two children learned over the long weekend and you want to talk about FREEDOM for them, you and me!  :)

LATE START for students on Monday, September 12, 2011, due to teacher in-service.

Homecoming is next week and the elementary will participate in dress-up days.  Watch for notes!

Website: SOCS has some problems...(lucky me?) so until it is fixed, my piece of the website will not be updated, so once again, thank you paper!

Until next time, 
Mrs. Steinman :)