Growing Seeds

WELCOME BACK GRIZZLIES!

What a great Spring Break and now...back to work!
Our kindergarten objectives for the week:

Math

1. Use one to one correspondence and language such as more than, same number as, or two less than to describe relative sizes of sets of concrete objects
2. Count by ones to 100 by 1's, 5's, 10's and 2's
3. Fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/3
4. 3-D Geometrical Shapes 
5. Math in real-life situations with emphasis on addition and subtraction

Science

1. Make predictions based on observable patterns in nature.
2. Plants, observe how plants grow
3. Animals, what animals need to survive 
4. Living vs. Nonliving

Social Studies

1. Obtain information about a topic using a variety of valid oral sources such as conversations, interviews, and music
2. Sequence and categorize information 
3. Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences
4. Communities in the past and communities today 

Language Arts

1. Continue practicing our syllables as well as our letter sounds
2. Identify upper case and lowecase letters
3. Identify different parts of a book
4. Discuss purposes for reading and listening to various texts (e.g., to become involved in real and imagined events, settings, actions, and to enjoy language).
5. Monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud).
6. Follow pictorial directions (e.g., recipes, science experiments).
7. Write rough drafts in order to get our thoughts in order 
8. Retell important events from a story
9. Use knowledge of letter-sound relationships to decode regular words in text and independent of content (e.g., VC, CVC, CCVC, CVCC words).
10. Use descriptive words to describe an object 
11. Learn how to use a dictionary

                                The "Bean" Experiment

                          It did sprout! (most of them)

                                     The Growing Song

Each child, Each day, Success!

Spring Break

It is almost here...Spring Break!  We have the fever in Room 13! (Spring Fever)  Trying to continue learning when the weather is nice, the plants are blooming, and the birds are singing...well you get the idea, we are very ACTIVE and LOUD!  Even with the break please read for 20 minutes nightly.  Also be reminded that March 11th SPRING FORWARD with your clock. Which means we all loose 1 hour of sleep!  Daylight Savings Time begins again!


Have a wonderful break with your precious students and remember...each child, each day, SUCCESS!

Diversity Fairytale from the Academy

Students from the Jack Singley Academy came today to present a cultural experience called, "Diversity Fairytale".
The students seperated our class into groups of five.  The girls from the Academy gave a skit about how to work together no matter what part of the world you come from.
The Kindergarten and First grade students made their own flag, created a "costume" for one student and named their country.  It was a fun way to learn about our diverse world.

Open House TEXAS STYLE

"There is a state in which I live and TEXAS is it's name oh, T- E- X- A- S repeat x 3 and TEXAS is it's name oh!

There is a town in which I live and IRVING is it's name oh, I-RV-I-N-G repeat x 3 and IRVING is it's name oh!

Open House Thursday night was a wonderful experience.  Our Texas study was finished and the students got to show off their excellent work  to their parents, grandparents and friends.  Learning never stops.

Each child, each day, success! 

Some photos of the night:

Great job Grizzly Cowboys/Cowgirls!

Got to love those Kindergarten Kids!  I am so proud to say we are all on the "Wise" team!