Weekly Newsletter 09/23/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 118 continued their Unique Learning System unit entitled: We All Work Together. This unit explores the rights and responsibilities of being part of a group especially within the school setting. We are exploring the concept of voting and how it can be used to make a group decision. We are working on the word families - an and -ag. The word wall words for this unit include: we, to, play, want, our, do, each, should, together, love, sing, work. The vocabulary words for this unit include: class, group, help, listen, share, teacher, together, vote, work. Additionally, we worked on the book: The Pigeon Has to Go to School by Mo Willems. For our craft this week, we created a fun pigeon with the letters of our names. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we did an interactive read aloud and comprehension activity with our book. For our Sensory/Science made butter and compared if warm or cold cream made butter faster. For our fine motor activity this week, we did some back to school pinning pages with jumbo push pins. For our cooking activity, we created pigeon punch. It used blue sports drinks, lemonade and lemon lime soda. For our movement activity, we did a Nelson the Pigeon yoga adventure. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money and telling time. Additionally, we introduced the concept of place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Finally, we worked hard to create our interactive writing notebooks. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: We All Work Together. We will, also, focus on the book, The Wheels on the Bus adapted by Made for Me Literacy. If you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will provide homework for additional at home practice. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/16/2022
Welcome Back!!! Mrs. Shingleton is so excited to be back to school with all my friends! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 118 began their Unique Learning System unit entitled: We All Work Together. This unit explores the rights and responsibilities of being part of a group especially within the school setting. We are exploring the concept of voting and how it can be used to make a group decision. We are working on the word families - an and -ag. The word wall words for this unit include: we, to, play, want, our, do, each, should, together, love, sing, work. The vocabulary words for this unit include: class, group, help, listen, share, teacher, together, vote, work. Additionally, we worked on the book: How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. For our craft this week, we created a fun dinosaur whose spikes spelled our names. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we played Class Rules Bingo. For our Sensory/Science had fun fizzy dino play with baking soda, food coloring and vinegar. For our fine motor activity this week, we did some excavating of dinosaur stickers in different textures like sand, baking soda and salt. For our cooking activity, we created a dino snack sandwich with a peanut better sandwich, cheese cracker spikes and a banana tail. For our movement activity, we did Tiny T Rex Cosmic Yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money and telling time. Additionally, we introduced the concept of place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Finally, we worked hard to create our interactive writing notebooks. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: We All Work Together. We will, also, focus on the book, The Pigeon Has to Go to School by Mo Willems. If you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will provide homework for additional at home practice. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/27/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book:Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. For our craft this week, we created a gift for the father in your lives. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we played Earth Friendly Bingo one last time. For our Sensory/Science activity this week, we did some flower arranging. For our cooking activity, we created a plant a rainbow snack. We used yogurt, ritz crackers, grapes and raspberries. For our movement activity, we did a Very Hungry Caterpillar Cosmic Yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Fast and Slow, Earth Changes. This unit provides a basic introduction to Earth’s events and the changes they bring. Students will work to determine the speed of an Earth event and identify ways to stop erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, kind, will, some, of, into, over, water, change, fast, must, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, Earth, earthquake, fast, ice, slow, volcano, water, wind. Additionally, this week, we got to do a fun carnival! Thanks, PSO! We will focus on fun year end books. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/20/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Earthquake! by Marion Dane Bauer. For our craft this week, we created a coffee filter Earth. We colored coffee filters with markers and then sprayed them with water to make them look like the Earth. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we played Earth Friendly Bingo. For our Sensory/Science activity this week, we used Q-tips to paint the Earth. For our cooking activity, we made green smoothies. We used yogurt alternative (so our dairy-free friends could enjoy it too!), frozen mango, frozen strawberries, coconut water, bananas and kale. For our movement activity, we did earthquake safety songs and movement activities. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Fast and Slow, Earth Changes. This unit provides a basic introduction to Earth’s events and the changes they bring. Students will work to determine the speed of an Earth event and identify ways to stop erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, kind, will, some, of, into, over, water, change, fast, must, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, Earth, earthquake, fast, ice, slow, volcano, water, wind. We will focus on the book, Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/13/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Volcano! by Marion Dane Bauer. For our craft this week, we created a volcano to go with our story. We mixed colors in a ziplock baggie and created the lava of our volcanoes. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we watched the Magic School Bus Blows It’s Top. For our Sensory/Science activity this week, we performed an experiment on volcanoes. We used a plastic bottle and clay to create a structure of a volcano, then used baking soda, vinegar and food coloring to make it erupt! For our cooking activity, we made volcanoes. We used toaster waffles as the base of our volcanoes, strawberry jelly as the lava and blueberries as the land below. For our movement activity, we did a volcano themed yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Fast and Slow, Earth Changes. This unit provides a basic introduction to Earth’s events and the changes they bring. Students will work to determine the speed of an Earth event and identify ways to stop erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, kind, will, some, of, into, over, water, change, fast, must, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, Earth, earthquake, fast, ice, slow, volcano, water, wind. We will focus on the book, Earthquake! by Marion Dane Bauer. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/06/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: The Earth and I by Frank Asch. For our craft this week, we created an Earth Mobile to go with our story. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we watched a video on the impact of people on the Earth. For our Sensory/Science activity this week, we performed an experiment on how to stop erosion using bottles, soil, rocks, and gravel. For our cooking activity, we made Earth cookies. We took cookie dough and dyed it blue and green, squished it together and baked to make the Earth. For our movement activity, we did a Spring themed yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Fast and Slow, Earth Changes. This unit provides a basic introduction to Earth’s events and the changes they bring. Students will work to determine the speed of an Earth event and identify ways to stop erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, kind, will, some, of, into, over, water, change, fast, must, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, Earth, earthquake, fast, ice, slow, volcano, water, wind. We will focus on the book, Volcano! by Marion Dane Bauer . Mrs. Shingleton will be out May 6th for an IEP writing day and Mrs. Coyer will be our substitute. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/29/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Benny’s Pennies by Pat Brisson. For our craft this week, we used real money as stamps! For our Fun Friday activity this week, we watched a video on earning and saving money. For our Sensory/Science activity this week, we sorted money into different containers to practice our fine motor skills. For our cooking activity, we made dollar bills our of graham crackers and icing. For our movement activity, we did a coin themed gross motor activity to identify coins and do different motions. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. This week, we, also, concluded our Unique Learning unit entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit students explored basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling and wants and needs. The word wall words for this unit included: box, I, want, have, new, each, should, need, game, buy, money, like. The vocabulary words for this unit included: buy, cost, money, need, sell, shop, spend, store, want. Next week, we will begin our Unique Learning unit entitled: Fast and Slow, Earth Changes. This unit provides a basic introduction to Earth’s events and the changes they bring. Students will work to determine the speed of an Earth event and identify ways to stop erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, kind, will, some, of, into, over, water, change, fast, must, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, Earth, earthquake, fast, ice, slow, volcano, water, wind. We will focus on the book, The Earth and I by Frank Asch. Additionally, Mrs. Shingleton will be out Friday April 29th for an IEP writing day and Mrs. Roberts will be our substitute. She will, also, be out May 6th for an IEP writing day and Mrs. Coyer will be our substitute. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/22/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Choose to Reuse by Lisa Bullard. For our craft this week, we created an awesome Earth using water beads and paint. For our Fun Friday activity this week, we watched Wall-E to remind us to take care of our Earth for Earth Day and everyday! Due to having no school on Monday we did not have a Sensory/Science activity this week but Mrs. Shingleton included water beads as a sensory element to our craft this week! For our cooking activity, we made dirt cups. We used pudding (made with coconut milk for our dairy free friends), oreos we crushed (gluten free for our gluten free friends) and gummy worms. For our movement activity, we did an Earth Day themed yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling and wants and needs. The word wall words for this unit include: box, I, want, have, new, each, should, need, game, buy, money, like. The vocabulary words for this unit include: buy, cost, money, need, sell, shop, spend, store, want. We will focus on the book, Benny’s Pennies by Pat Brisson. Additionally, Mrs. Shingleton will be out Friday April 29th for an IEP writing day and Mrs. Roberts will be our substitute. She will, also, be out May 6th for an IEP writing day and Mrs. Coyer will be our substitute. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/14/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick by Lucille Colandro. For our craft this week, we created a cool chick to go along with our book and colored eggs. We did not have a Fun Friday activity this week due to not having school on Friday. For our Sensory/Science activity we created Peeps playdough! Yum and so neat!! For our cooking activity, we made cookies that looked like little chicks just like in our book! For our movement activity, we did an egg hunt around our room. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling and wants and needs. The word wall words for this unit include: box, I, want, have, new, each, should, need, game, buy, money, like. The vocabulary words for this unit include: buy, cost, money, need, sell, shop, spend, store, want. We will focus on the book, Choose to Reuse by Lisa Bullard. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/08/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Williams. For our craft this week, we painted a cool piggy bank (unfortunately, Mrs. Shingleton could only find six piggy shaped banks, so a couple friends made rainbow banks but they were still super cool!). For our fun Friday activity this week, we watched a super neat money video. For our Sensory/Science activity we did an experiment where we made a hypothesis (we talked about that being a good guess) and then explored how many drops of water each coin would hold. It was way more than what Mrs. Shingleton thought! For our cooking activity, we made Bank on it Bananas! We took bananas, cut them in half, put a popsicle stick in each one, added honey, rolled in sprinkles, and froze them. It was like a banana popsicle with sprinkles! For our movement activity, we did a gross motor activity locating different coins around our room. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling and wants and needs. The word wall words for this unit include: box, I, want, have, new, each, should, need, game, buy, money, like. The vocabulary words for this unit include: buy, cost, money, need, sell, shop, spend, store, want. We will focus on the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick by Lucille Colandro. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/24/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: The Sun Our Closest Star by Franklin M. Branley. We concluded our Unique Learning Unit entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit explored energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students examined how heat and cold can change some objects. Students, also, learned that the Sun gives us heat and light. The word wall words for this unit included: it’s, high, up, but, our, very, know, leave, made, big, before, warm. The vocabulary words for this unit included: change, heat, sun, cool, light, warm, dry, melt, wet. For our craft this week, we painted our sun sculptures made from the clay we made during our Sensory/Science activity this week. Due to the in-service day, we did not have a Fun Friday activity this week. For our Sensory/Science activity we created Sunshine Clay and built sun sculptures. For our cooking activity, we built a sun with crackers and cheese (gluten and dairy free for those friends who cannot have traditional cheese and crackers). For our movement activity, we did Cosmic yoga with a fun space theme! For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Also, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will all enjoy a fun-filled Spring Break!! When we return, we will begin our new Unique LEarning unit entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling and wants and needs. The word wall words for this unit include: box, I, want, have, new, each, should, need, game, buy, money, like. The vocabulary words for this unit include: buy, cost, money, need, sell, shop, spend, store, want. We will focus on the book, The Counting Coins Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams . Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Have a wonderful Spring Break!!
Have a wonderful Spring Break!!
Weekly Newsletter 03/18/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover by Lucille Colandro. For our craft this week, we created suncatchers in the shape of shamrocks using construction paper, contact paper and tissue paper. For our Fun Friday activity, we played St. Patrick’s Day Bingo. For our Sensory/Science activity we built rainbow letters using fruit loops. For our cooking activity, we made a shamrock smores snack mix. It used pretzels, green m&ms, tootsie rolls, golden grahams, chocolate chips and mini-marshmallows. We used gluten free alternatives for our gluten free friends. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic yoga with a fun space theme! For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, The Sun Our Nearest Star by Franklin M. Branley. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit explores energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students will examine how heat and cold can change some objects. Students will also learn that the Sun gives us heat and light. The word wall words for this unit include: it’s, high, up, but, our, very, know, leave, made, big, before, warm. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, heat, sun, cool, light, warm, dry, melt, wet. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/11/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: The Sun is My Favorite Star by Frank Asch. For our craft this week, we created a sun using paper plates, construction paper and tissue paper. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched a video on the Sun to introduce our Hot, Hot Sun unit. For our Sensory/Science activity we created a fizzy sun using cornstarch, baking soda, yellow food coloring and vinegar. For our cooking activity, we made a fruit sun using orange slices, strawberries and blueberries. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic yoga with a fun space theme! For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. Additionally, we worked with money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover by Lucille Colandro. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit explores energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students will examine how heat and cold can change some objects. Students will also learn that the Sun gives us heat and light. The word wall words for this unit include: it’s, high, up, but, our, very, know, leave, made, big, before, warm. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, heat, sun, cool, light, warm, dry, melt, wet. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/04/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Peace Train by Cat Stevens. For our craft this week, we created a kindness donut. It had sprinkles of kind things we can do for others. For our Fun Friday activity, we played Kindness Bingo. For our Sensory/Science activity we explored rainbow colored jello! Some friends used words like, “Yuck” and “Disgusting” but still played in it. Other friends preferred to play with it in plastic bags. For our cooking activity, we made a fruit rainbow. We used strawberries for our red layer, mandarins for our orange layer, pineapple for our yellow layer, kiwi for our green layer, blueberries for our blue layer and red grapes for our purple layer. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic yoga with a fun rainbow and unicorn theme! For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, The Sun My Favorite Star by Frank Asch. Next week, we begin our new Unique Learning unit entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit explores energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students will examine how heat and cold can change some objects. Students will also, learn that the Sun gives us heat and light. The word wall words for this unit include: it’s, high, up, but, our, very, know, leave, made, big, before, warm. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, heat, sun, cool, light, warm, dry, melt, wet. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/25/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: One Love by Cedella Marley. For our craft this week, we created a fun image of peace sign by using paint to create relief paintings. We used lots of colors! For our Fun Friday activity, we watched a movie about kindness. We did not have a science or sensory activity due to President’s Day. For our cooking activity, we made a friendship snack mix. We used popcorn, M&M’s, raisins, gluten free cereals and gluten free crackers to make our mix. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic yoga with a fun Moana theme! For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, Peace Train by Cat Stevens. Next week, we will conclude our work on our Unique Learning Unit titled: Time for Peace. This unit focused on learning important historical figures who worked for peace like Dr. Martin Luther King and Ruby Bridges. Students, also, explored how to be a peacemaker at home and school. The word wall words for this unit included: a, was, not, girl, he, play, be, about, man, friend, one, people. The vocabulary words for this unit included: fair, fight, friend, help, love, peace, right, share, wrong. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/18/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Tiny Acts of Kindness by Thuy Ha. For our craft this week, we created a fun image of peace doves by using do-a-dot art daubers to create relief paintings. We used every color! We did not have a Fun Friday activity this week due to our ice day on Friday. For our sensory/science activity this week, we made chocolate play dough. We used cocoa powder, flour, salt, oil and water. We made fun heart shapes and even a few footballs to celebrate the Super Bowl! For our cooking activity, we made Super Sunday Dip in celebration of the Super Bowl. We used Velveeta cheese and Rotell Chilis. We cut our cheese and added it to a bowl with the tomatoes and chilis and used the microwave to melt them all together. We mixed and ate the dip with tortilla chips! Yum! For our movement activity, we did a Valentine’s themed yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, One Love by Cedella Marley. Next week, we will continue work on our new Unique Learning Unit titled: Time for Peace. This unit focuses on learning important historical figures who worked for peace like Dr. Martin Luther King and Ruby Bridges. Students will, also, explore how to be a peacemaker at home and school. The word wall words for this unit include: a, was, not, girl, he, play, be, about, man, friend, one, people. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fair, fight, friend, help, love, peace, right, share, wrong. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/11/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: In My Heart by Jo Witek. For our craft this week, we created a fun image of hearts by using do-a-dot art daubers to create relief paintings. For our Fun Friday activity, we played a Valentine’s Day themed Bingo. For our sensory/science activity this week, we did a science experiment that explored conversation hearts. We used conversation hearts, vinegar, soda, and water. We observed if the conversation hearts sank or floated in each liquid and then drew how they looked after remaining in the liquid for 5 minutes. For our cooking activity we made a Valentine Shake. We used dairy free strawberry ice cream, non-dairy milk, non-dairy whipped topping and fresh strawberries. We used the blender to mix up the milk and ice cream, topped with whipped topping and a fresh strawberry. For our movement activity, we did a Valentine’s themed yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, Tiny Acts of Kindness by Thuy Ha. Next week, we will continue work on our new Unique Learning Unit titled: Time for Peace. This unit focuses on learning important historical figures who worked for peace like Dr. Martin Luther King and Ruby Bridges. Students will, also, explore how to be a peacemaker at home and school. The word wall words for this unit include: a, was, not, girl, he, play, be, about, man, friend, one, people. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fair, fight, friend, help, love, peace, right, share, wrong. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/04/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: One Winter’s Day by Christina Butler. Due to our snow days, we did not have a craft or Fun Friday activity. For our sensory/science activity this week, we did a science experiment that explored our hard and soft. We used our cotton balls and sandpaper to scratch the surface of CD’s and see what different textures can do to materials. For our cooking activity we made yogurt bark. We used dairy free strawberry yogurt and fresh strawberries. We froze the yogurt to make a fun and yummy snack. For our movement activity, we did a Valentine’s themed yoga. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, In My Heart by Jo Witek. We concluded work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focused on learning how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. It, also, focused on how some materials change when heated or cooled which provides a foundation for investigating the properties and states of matter. The word wall words for this unit included: his, then, make, do, good, she, out, hard, you, when, color, thing. The vocabulary words for this unit included: change, cold, color, feel, hear, heat, see, smell, taste. Next week, we will begin work on our new Unique Learning Unit titled: Time for Peace. This unit focuses on learning important historical figures who worked for peace like Dr. Martin Luther King and Ruby Bridges. Students will, also, explore how to be a peacemaker at home and school. The word wall words for this unit include: a, was, not, girl, he, play, be, about, man, friend, one, people. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fair, fight, friend, help, love, peace, right, share, wrong. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/28/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Curious George Discovers the Senses by H.R. Rae. For our craft, we created fun puppets for our five senses. We used crayons to color each sense and glued them onto popsicle sticks to make puppets. We did this on Friday due to our cold day on Thursday. For our sensory/science activity this week, we did a science experiment that explored our sense of smell. We used our nose to smell orange, chocolate, maple syrup, cinnamon, and coffee and observed what we smelled. For our cooking activity we made microwave hot chocolate. We used cocoa powder, sugar, milk (almond milk for our dairy free friends), and vanilla. For our movement activity, we did a winter themed yoga. For Fun Friday, we played a Soundscapes game. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, One Winter's Day by Christina Butler. We will conclude work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focused on learning how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. It, also, focuses on how some materials change when heated or cooled which provides a foundation for investigating the properties and states of matter. The word wall words for this unit included: his, then, make, do, good, she, out, hard, you, when, color, thing. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, cold, color, feel, hear, heat, see, smell, taste. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/14/2022
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: The Listening Walk by Paul Showers. For our craft, we created a super fun melted crayon art. We used a hair dryer to melt the crayons and they rained melted crayon wax onto the canvas. For our sensory/science activity this week, we did a science experiment called Heating and Cooling Chocolate. We used our hands to heat the chocolate and our refrigerator to cool the chocolate and did observations. For our cooking activity we made Veggies Faces. We used corn tortillas, green bell peppers, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots and cheese to create faces. For our movement activity, we did yoga using yoga puzzle pieces. For Fun Friday, we played a Soundscapes game. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, Parts by Tedd Arnold. We will work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on learning how to use your senses to observe and describe materials.It, also, focuses on how some materials change when heated or cooled which provides a foundation for investigating the properties and states of matter. The word wall words for this unit include:his, then, make, do, good, she, out, hard, you, when, color, thing. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, cold, color, feel, hear, heat, see, smell, taste. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/07/2022
Welcome Back from Winter Break! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: My Five Senses by Aliki. For our craft, we created a physical interpretation of our five senses. We used pipe cleaners, bells, googly eyes, cotton balls and sand paper. For our sensory/science activity this week, we used our sense of touch to match items of different shapes and textures. For our cooking activity we made popcorn. We used a hot air popper so that we could use all our senses! For our movement activity, we did Refresh Your Senses themed yoga. For Fun Friday, we played a Sound Lotto game. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, The Listening Walk by Paul Showers. We will work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on learning how to use your senses to observe and describe materials.It, also, focuses on how some materials change when heated or cooled which provides a foundation for investigating the properties and states of matter. The word wall words for this unit include:his, then, make, do, good, she, out, hard, you, when, color, thing. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, cold, color, feel, hear, heat, see, smell, taste. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. There will be no homework from this week or for next week. Homework will resume following the end of the quarter. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/17/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess. For our craft, we created a candle holder using a plastic jar, tissue paper, glue, ribbon and battery operated tea lights. We did decoupage tissue paper all over our jars. For our sensory/science activity this week, we made Grinch themed sensory bottles. We used glitter, clear glue, sensory bottles, sequins, water, and foam hearts for the Grinch’s heart. For our cooking activity we made Grinch popcorn. We used microwave popcorn, marshmallows, butter, and red M&M’s. For our movement activity, we did Christmas themed yoga. For Fun Friday, we watched How the GRinch Stole Christmas. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. After Winter Break, we will focus on the book, My Five Senses by Aliki. We will work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on learning how to use your senses to observe and describe materials.It, also, focuses on how some materials change when heated or cooled which provides a foundation for investigating the properties and states of matter. The word wall words for this unit include:his, then, make, do, good, she, out, hard, you, when, color, thing. The vocabulary words for this unit include: change, cold, color, feel, hear, heat, see, smell, taste. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible. Have a wonderful Winter Break! Enjoy the rest, relaxation and time with family!
Weekly Newsletter 12/10/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: A Cookie for Santa by Stephanie Shaw. For our craft, we created a gingerbread man like the one from our story. We painted our man with kwik stix and then decorated him with buttons and gems. For our sensory/science activity this week, we made gingerbread playdough and made “cookies.” For our cooking activity we made microwave gingerbread cookies. We used flour, molasses, sugar, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, shortening, salt, sugar and water. This was a first for everyone! I had never made cookies in the microwave. For our movement activity, we did gingerbread man themed yoga. For Fun Friday, we watched fun Christmas traditions videos. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will focus on the book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess. We will work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This is a short holiday unit and will only be for these 2 weeks before Winter Break. It focuses on different traditions over the holiday season for different families and cultures. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, eat, we, day, what, with, after, says, our, every, play. The vocabulary words for this unit include: celebrate, different, family, friend, holiday, share, special, together, tradition. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/03/2021
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Mapping Penny’s World by Loreen Leedy. For our craft, we created a house from a wooden shape and Kwik Stix. For our sensory/science activity this week, we used our fine motor skills to feed a doggy using Cocoa Puffs as puppy chow! For our cooking activity we decorated cupcakes to look like dogs. We used Oreos for the ears, mini Oreos for the nose and fun candy eyes. For our movement activity, we did doggy themed yoga. For Fun Friday, we watched fun dog videos. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. This week we, also, concluded our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on learning about maps and how to use them to find your way from one place to the other. It works on learning to use helpful tools like maps and signs to help us find different places. The word wall words for this unit include: are, go, from, to, next, on, near, find, map, show, look, how. The vocabulary words for this unit include: far, find, left, right, map, near, place, sign, symbol. Next week, we will focus on the book, A Cookie for Santa by Stephanie Shaw. We will work on the Unique Learning System unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This is a short holiday unit and will only be for these 2 weeks before Winter Break. It focuses on different traditions over the holiday season for different families and cultures. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, eat, we, day, what, with, after, says, our, every, play. The vocabulary words for this unit include: celebrate, different, family, friend, holiday, share, special, together, tradition. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible
Weekly Newsletter 11/19/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map by James Dean. For our craft, we created a neighborhood map using images from the Unique Learning System. For our sensory/science activity this week, we found gems for our treasure chests in a sandy sensory bin. For our cooking activity we made snow on mountains. This included peach slices, strawberries, pineapple slices, kiwi slices, coconut and vanilla yogurt. For our movement activity, we did pirate themed yoga. For Fun Friday, we played pirate bingo. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. This week we, also, continued our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on learning about maps and how to use them to find your way from one place to the other. It works on learning to use helpful tools like maps and signs to help us find different places. The word wall words for this unit include: are, go, from, to, next, on, near, find, map, show, look, how. The vocabulary words for this unit include: far, find, left, right, map, near, place, sign, symbol. When we return from Thanksgiving Break, we will focus on the book, Mapping Pennies World by Loreen Leedy. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible
Weekly Newsletter 11/12/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Me On the Map by Joan Sweeney. For our craft, we created a world map using do a dot, alcohol, and colored macaroni. For our sensory/science activity this week, we conducted a science experiment on which freezes faster salt water like in an ocean or freshwater like in a lake. We discovered that fresh water freezes faster. For our cooking activity we made a map using graham crackers, icing, and nonpareils. It was pretty cool and yummy too! For our movement activity, we did a sensory walk through the classroom. For Fun Friday, we watched a cool video where Franklin the frog used a map to locate a family treasure. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. This week we, also, began our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on learning about maps and how to use them to find your way from one place to the other. It works on learning to use helpful tools like maps and signs to help us find different places. The word wall words for this unit include: are, go, from, to, next, on, near, find, map, show, look, how. The vocabulary words for this unit include: far, find, left, right, map, near, place, sign, symbol. We will focus on the book, Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map by James Dean. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/05/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. For our craft, we created a paper bag octopus from our Unique Learning Unit using paper bags, googly eyes, yarn and tissue paper. For our sensory/science activity this week, we conducted a science experiment on animal tracks. For this experiment, we used wet sand, dry sand, wet soil, dry soil and construction paper to see where animal tracks could be seen the best. For our cooking activity we made Grassland Veggie Dip. This used sour cream, cream cheese, minced onion, garlic salt, fresh dill and fresh parsley. We tried it with: cucumbers, sweet peppers, broccoli and cauliflower. For our movement activity, we did Animal themed Yoga. For Fun Friday, we played habitat bingo and watched a fun animal habitat video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. This week we, also, concluded our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. In this unit, students learned about various animals and the habitat in which they live. Students, also, learned about what animals need to live and grow. This unit's wall words included:see, he, many, what, can, in, does, different, live, food, we, eat. This unit's vocabulary words included: animal, desert, food, grassland, habitat, live, rainforest, water, woods. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning System unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on learning about maps and how to use them to find your way from one place to the other. It works on learning to use helpful tools like maps and signs to help us find different places. The word wall words for this unit include: are, go, from, to, next, on, near, find, map, show, look, how. The vocabulary words for this unit include: far, find, left, right, map, near, place, sign, symbol. We will focus on the book, Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/29/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: No Place Like Home by Ronojoy Ghosh and Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. For our craft, we created a foggy night with bats flying by using chalk to make a piece of relief art. For our sensory/science activity this week, we found scary eyeballs in a fun Halloween themed sensory bin and we got spiders out of a web. For our cooking activity we made Banana Ghosts. This used chocolate pudding, bananas, and chocolate chips! For our movement activity, we did Animal themed Yoga. For Fun Friday, we had fun Halloween treats and a Halloween video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. In this unit, students learn about various animals and the habitat in which they live. Students will, also, learn about what animals need to live and grow. This unit's wall words include: see, he, many, what, can, in, does, different, live, food, we, eat. This unit's vocabulary words include: animal, desert, food, grassland, habitat, live, rainforest, water, woods. Next week, we will focus on the book, Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/22/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle. For our craft, we created a hermit crab with all his friends. For our sensory/science activity this week, we used a fun sensory bin with blue jello to look like the ocean and found ocean animals using our hands and spoons. For our cooking activity we made Croissant Crabs (our gluten free friends used rice cakes instead of croissants). This used croissants, peanut butter, and apples with toothpicks! For our movement activity, we did Animal themed Yoga for the ocean and rainforest habitats. There was no Fun Friday activity due to no school on Friday. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, story elements, story sequencing and the onset and rime. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. In this unit, students learn about various animals and the habitat in which they live. Students will, also, learn about what animals need to live and grow. This unit's wall words include :see, he, many, what, can, in, does, different, live, food, we, eat. This unit's vocabulary words include: animal, desert, food, grassland, habitat, live, rainforest, water, woods. Next week, we will focus on the book, No Place Like Home by Ronojoy Ghosh. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/15/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Animal Homes by Jennifer Bove. For our craft, we created an ocean habitat using shaving cream and liquid water color. For our sensory/science activity this week, we used a fun sensory bin and found animals using our hands and tweezers. For our cooking activity we made bird's nest cookies using gluten free pretzels, white chocolate chips, peanut butter, and chocolate chips. For our movement activity, we did Animal themed Yoga for the forest and desert habitats. For Fun Friday this week, we did animal habitat bingo for the forest habitat and watched a forest themed video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, and the beginnings of onset and rime with the word families -at and -an. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. In this unit, students learn about various animals and the habitat in which they live. Students will, also, learn about what animals need to live and grow. This unit's wall words include: see, he, many, what, can, in, does, different, live, food, we, eat. This unit's vocabulary words include: animal, desert, food, grassland, habitat, live, rainforest, water, woods. Next week, we will focus on the book, A Home for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/07/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Pete the Cat: Rockin’ in My School Shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin. For our craft, we created a Pete the Cat headband so we could ROCK in our school shoes too! For our sensory/science activity this week, we used a fun sensory bin and found numbers using our hands and tweezers. For our cooking activity we made Pete the Cat using rice cakes, grape jelly, blueberries, bananas, raisins and pretzels. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic Yoga with a cat theme. Due to no school on Friday we did not have a Fun Friday activity this week. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development and modeled reading, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, and the beginnings of onset and rime with the word families -at and -an. We concluded our Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. This unit introduced students to authority figures within the school and their jobs. Students also, worked on learning the rules at school and consequences for not following these rules. This unit's wall words included: get, my, work, her, help, they, the, school, should, me, learn, use. This unit's vocabulary words included: class, help, learn, listen, principal, rule, safe, school, teacher. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning Unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. In this unit, students learn about various animals and the habitat in which they live. Students will, also, learn about what animals need to live and grow. This unit's wall words include:see, he, many, what, can, in, does, different, live, food, we, eat. This unit's vocabulary words include: animal, desert, food, grassland, habitat, live, rainforest, water, woods. Next week, we will focus on the book, Animal Homes by Jennifer Bove. Reminder- There is no school Friday October 8, 2021 for NEOEA Day. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/01/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: The New Bear in School by Carrie Weston. For our craft, we created a bookmark. This was the craft from our Unique Learning System. For our sensory/science activity this week, we created shapes using playdough and counting bears. For our cooking activity we made a bear using pancakes, bananas and raisins. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic Yoga with a bear theme. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched a bear themed video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We did many of these activities using counting bears to go with our book! We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Additionally, we worked on letter sounds, letter identification, icon matching, and the beginnings of onset and rime. Next week, we will conclude our first new Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. This unit introduced students to authority figures within the school and their jobs. Students also, worked on learning the rules at school and consequences for not following these rules. This unit's wall words included: get, my, work, her, help, they, the, school, should, me, learn, use. This unit's vocabulary words included: class, help, learn, listen, principal, rule, safe, school, teacher. Next week, we will focus on the book, Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin. Reminder- There is no school Friday October 8, 2021 for NEOEA Day. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/24/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Llama llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney. For our craft, we created a craftivity that corresponded with our book. It was a neat image of Llama llama! For our sensory/science activity this week, we used do-a-dots to make the letters in Llama’s name. For our cooking activity we made Back to School Snack Mix. This mix included different types of cereal, raisins, mini chocolate chips, and cheese crackers. For our movement activity, we did Cosmic Yoga with a bear theme. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched a llama themed video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets, comparing sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Next week, we will continue our first new Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. This unit introduces students to authority figures within the school and their jobs. Students will, also, work on learning the rules at school and consequences for not following these rules. This unit's wall words include: get, my, work, her, help, they, the, school, should, me, learn, use. This unit's vocabulary words include: class, help, learn, listen, principal, rule, safe, school, teacher. Next week, we will focus on the book, The New Bear at School by Carrie Weston. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/17/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale. For our craft, we created a craftivity that corresponded with our book. It was a really cool Clark the Shark. We wrote that in order to stay cool at school, we should follow the rules. For our sensory/science activity this week, we created Mix it Together dough and explored whether it was hard or soft and whether ingredients are wet or dry. For our cooking activity we made Back to School Cereal Bars. These bars included Cheerios, dried fruit, peanut butter, flour, yogurt and honey. For our movement activity, we did an Underwater Fitness Challenge. It was SO fun! We did the backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle! For our Fun Friday activity, we watched a shark themed video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, journal entries, errorless sentence development, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Next week, we will continue our first new Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. This unit introduces students to authority figures within the school and their jobs. Students will, also, work on learning the rules at school and consequences for not following these rules. This unit's wall words include: get, my, work, her, help, they, the, school, should, me, learn, use. This unit's vocabulary words include: class, help, learn, listen, principal, rule, safe, school, teacher. Next week, we will focus on the book, Llama llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/10/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: Froggy Goes to School by Jonathon London. For our craft, we created a craftivity that corresponded with our book. It was a really cool Froggy, all dressed up for school with his lunchbox. Due to no school on Monday, we did not have a sensory/science activity this week. For our cooking activity we made a Froggy using rice cakes, icing, dried kiwis, candy eyes and icing for the mouth. For our movement activity, we did a Froggy Scavenger Hunt. We looked all over the school to find Froggy’s smiling face in different location around the school. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched a Froggy themed video. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We worked on addition and subtraction using objects and pictures and reviewed shapes and geometry. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Next week, we will continue our first new Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. This unit introduces students to authority figures within the school and their jobs. Students will, also, work on learning the rules at school and consequences for not following these rules. This unit's wall words include: get, my, work, her, help, they, the, school, should, me, learn, use. This unit's vocabulary words include: class, help, learn, listen, principal, rule, safe, school, teacher. Next week, we will focus on the book, Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/03/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 worked on the book: I’ve Got the School Spirit by Connie Schofield- Morrison. We did a lot of fun following directions activities to go with this book. For our craft, we created craftivity that corresponded with our book. For our sensory/science activity, we played in bloomed chia seeds. Mrs. Shingleton had never done this before and it was so cool! For our cooking activity we made a back to school pencil using vanilla wafer cookies, raspberries, bananas and raisins. For our movement activity, we did Phonics Yoga! There is a different pose for most letters of the alphabet. For our Fun Friday activity, we played School Rules Bingo and watched a school rules video. For math; we worked on number identification, color and shpes review and practice, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We practiced using school bus themed activities. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, sight words, vocabulary and participation. Next week, we will begin our first new Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. This unit introduces students to authority figures within the school and their jobs. Students will, also, work on learning the rules at school and consequences for not following these rules. This unit's wall words include: get, my, work, her, help, they, the, school, should, me, learn, use. This unit's vocabulary words include: class, help, learn, listen, principal, rule, safe, school, teacher. Next week, we will focus on the book, Froggy Goes to School by Jonathon London. Homework will begin for 1st-3rd grade after Labor Day. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. For kindergarten families, if you would like homework, please let Mrs. Shingleton know and she will send home activities for you to practice at home. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 08/27/2021
Welcome Back!!! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 welcomed our new kindergarten friends! We are so excited to have new friends in our classroom! This week we worked on the books: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and The Pigeon has to go to School! by Mo Willems. For our craft, we created a pigeon just like the one in our stories. For our sensory/science activity, we played in shaving cream! For our cooking activity we made a pigeon driving a bus using graham crackers, mini oreos, mini nilla wafers, chocolate chex and yellow and blue icing. For our Fun Friday activity, we completed our craft. For math; we worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We had pigeon themed math for our numbers and counting so it was really fun! For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, and participation. Next week, we will focus on the book, I Got the School Spirit by Connie Schofield-Morrison. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/28/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. In this unit students explored plants and how they grow. They worked to learn what plants need to grow from the environment including: water, air and sunlight. They, also, learned about how plants have different parts that serve different functions for the plant. The word wall words for this unit included: he, red, and, take, into, will, small, look, green, grow, should, enough, The vocabulary words for this unit included: flower, garden, grow, leaf, plant, root, seed, stem, water. We focused on the book:The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we created a flip book for plant parts. For our cooking activity, we created veggie flowers using baby carrots, celery and cucumbers. For our craft, we create a parts of a plant craft. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we observed our garden in a bag again and looked to see any changes. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying parts of plants and needs of plants. Next week, we will have lots of year end fun activities! We will focus on fun end of year books. There is no second grade spelling list for this week. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. You are receiving a summer packet for practice but this is optional. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/21/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. In this unit students explore plants and how they grow. They will work to learn what plants need to grow from the environment including: water, air and sunlight. They will, also, learn about how plants have different parts that serve different functions for the plant. The word wall words for this unit include: he, red, and, take, into, will, small, look, green, grow, should, enough, The vocabulary words for this lesson include: flower, garden, grow, leaf, plant, root, seed, stem, water. We focused on the book: Muncha, Muncha, Muncha by Candace Fleming. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we used playdough to create seeds, sprouts, plants, and flowers on fun playdough mats. For our cooking activity, we created rice krispies treats. We made them into fun flower and carrot shapes. We decorated them with icing and sprinkles. For our craft, we create a father’s day gift for the special guy in our lives. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. This week was extra special because the article talked about a topic one of our friends loves! The Titanic!! For our Fun Friday activity, we observed our garden in a bag and looked to see any changes. Our seeds are lima beans, I’m not sure I’m planting these! Not a fan! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying parts of plants and needs of plants. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. We will focus on the book:The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. The second grade spelling list for this week is: row, mow, slow, grow. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/14/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. In this unit students explore plants and how they grow. They will work to learn what plants need to grow from the environment including: water, air and sunlight. They will, also, learn about how plants have different parts that serve different functions for the plant. The word wall words for this unit include: he, red, and, take, into, will, small, look, green, grow, should, enough, The vocabulary words for this lesson include: flower, garden, grow, leaf, plant, root, seed, stem, water. We focused on the book: Growing Radishes and Carrots by Faye Bolton and Diane Snowball. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we used artificial flowers to write and draw in shaving cream. We, also, played in it with our hands. For our cooking activity, we created Berry Smoothie Bowls. We used strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and bananas. We, also, used granola and honey. For our craft, we create carrots using construction paper and paint! For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we got to plant a garden in a bag. Really it was a bean seed in a bag but we can’t wait to see it sprout! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying parts of plants and needs of plants. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. We will focus on the book: Muncha, Muncha, Muncha by Candace Fleming. The second grade spelling list for this week is: meat, heat, seat, treat. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/07/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. In this unit students explore plants and how they grow. They will work to learn what plants need to grow from the environment including: water, air and sunlight. They will, also, learn about how plants have different parts that serve different functions for the plant. The word wall words for this unit include: he, red, and, take, into, will, small, look, green, grow, should, enough, The vocabulary words for this lesson include: flower, garden, grow, leaf, plant, root, seed, stem, water. We focused on the book: Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we did an experiment called Silly Celery. We cut celery stalks and put them in water with food coloring for 25 minutes and looked to see how the color had risen in the celery. So cool! For our cooking activity, we created spring flowers. We used strawberries, blueberries and kiwi. For our craft, we create a spring flower using a paper plate and tissue paper. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we got to watch a fun movie! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying parts of plants and needs of plants. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. We will focus on the book: Growing Carrots and Radishes by Faye Bolton. The second grade spelling list for this week is: small, look, green, grow, should, enough. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/30/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explored the way people change the environment. They worked to learn how the changes people make can either help or hurt the environment. Students worked to recognize human modifications and how they can help the environment too! The word wall words for this unit included: are, this, then, how, here, on, use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. The vocabulary words for this unit included: animal, bridge, build, environment, house, road, sidewalk, tree, tunnel. We focused on the book: The Night Worker by Kate Banks. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we built gumdrop towers and measured them to see who could build the tallest tower. For our cooking activity, we created spring flowers. We used pretzels, icing and M&M’s. For our craft, we create a city scene with the things people build like houses, buildings, sidewalks, tunnels and bridges. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. We, also, completed our Mother’s Day gifts. For our Fun Friday activity, we played cool engineering games from PBSkids. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying things that are man made versus things that are found in nature. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning Unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. This unit students explore plants and how they grow. They will work to learn what plants need to grow from the environment including: water, air and sunlight. They will, also, learn about how plants have different parts that serve different functions for the plant. The word wall words for this unit include: he, red, and, take, into, will, small, look, green, grow, should, enough, The vocabulary words for this lesson include: flower, garden, grow, leaf, plant, root, seed, stem, water. We will focus on the book: Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert. The second grade spelling list for this week is: he, red, and, take, into, will. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/23/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores the way people change the environment. They will work to learn how the changes people make can either help or hurt the environment. Students will recognize human modifications and how they can help the environment too! The word wall words for this unit include: are, this, then, how, here, on, use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, bridge, build, environment, house, road, sidewalk, tree, tunnel. We focused on the book: What a Waste: Trash, Recycling and Protecting our Planet by Jess French. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we introduced the concept of recycling and did some practice activities with this concept. For our cooking activity, we created earth cookies. We used sugar cookies and blue and green food coloring to create the earth. For our craft, we created an Earth using paper plates and tissue paper for a mosaic look. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we planted a seedling for Earth Day! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying things that are man made versus things that are found in nature. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Changing Our Land. We will focus on the book: The Night Worker by Kate Banks. The second grade spelling list for this week is: poke, smoke, joke, choke. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/16/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores the way people change the environment. They will work to learn how the changes people make can either help or hurt the environment. Students will recognize human modifications and how they can help the environment too! The word wall words for this unit include: are, this, then, how, here, on, use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, bridge, build, environment, house, road, sidewalk, tree, tunnel. We focused on the book: Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichenheld. On Monday, for our sensory/science activity we work together to build a bridge. For our cooking activity, we created dirt cup by making chocolate pudding, crushing oreos and adding gummy worms! For our craft, we created a house using paper lunch bags. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. This weeks article was about the new Sesame Street characters Wesley and Elijah, For our Fun Friday activity, we watched the new version of The Lorax and had popcorn! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying things that are man made versus things that are found in nature. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Changing Our Land. We will focus on the book: What a Waste: Trash, Recycling and Protecting our Planet by Jess French. The second grade spelling list for this week is: use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/09/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores the way people change the environment. They will work to learn how the changes people make can either help or hurt the environment. Students will recognize human modifications and how they can help the environment too! The word wall words for this unit include: are, this, then, how, here, on, use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, bridge, build, environment, house, road, sidewalk, tree, tunnel. We focused on the book: Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry. Due to not having school on Monday, we did not have a sensory/science activity. For our cooking activity, we created an Earth using rice cakes, blueberries, yogurt and grapes. Yum!! For our craft, we decorated puzzle pieces and infinity symbols for April. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we used playdough to build a park just like the one in our new story. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying things that are man made versus things that are found in nature. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit entitled: Changing Our Land. We will focus on the book: Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld. The second grade spelling list for this week is: use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/26/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. In this unit, students learned about the four seasons and common weather patterns. They learned how water can change form, such as ice, rain, or snow. Students, also, were encouraged to draw on personal experiences with weather and the seasons. The word wall words for this unit included: get, very, out, a, where, see, cold, going, air, warm, change, hot. The vocabulary words for this unit included: fall, rain, season, snow, spring, summer, Sun, weather, winter. We focused on the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog by Lucille Colandro. For our science/sensory activity, we created peeps play dough with marshmallow peeps, flour and crisco. So cool! For our cooking activity, we created clouds using sliced bananas and rain using blueberries. Yum!! For our craft, we created rainy scene using our fine motor skills with paint and Qtips. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. We did not have a fun Friday activity this week due to the Teacher In-Service Day. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying types of weather. Next week, we hope you have a wonderful Spring Break!! When we return from Spring Break, we will begin our new Unique Learning Unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores the way people change the environment. They will work to learn how the changes people make can either help or hurt the environment. Students will recognize human modifications and how they can help the environment too! The word wall words for this unit include: are, this, then, how, here, on, use, their, hurt, made, did, tree. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, bridge, build, environment, house, road, sidewalk, tree, tunnel. We will focus on the book: Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry. The second grade spelling list for this week is: are, this, then, how, here, on. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible. Have a wonderful Spring Break!
Weekly Newsletter 03/19/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. In this unit, students will learn about the four seasons and common weather patterns. They will learn how water can change form, such as ice, rain, or snow. Students will, also, be encouraged to draw on personal experiences with weather and the seasons. The word wall words for this unit include: get, very, out, a, where, see, cold, going, air, warm, change, hot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fall, rain, season, snow, spring, summer, Sun, weather, winter. We focused on the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover by Lucille Colandro. We did not have science or cooking this week due to Asynchronous Learning Days. For our craft, we created a wind sock using construction paper, crepe paper, stickers and crayons. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article on St. Patrick’s Day and corresponding activities. We, also, painted a lucky pot of gold. For our Fun Friday activity, we used play dough and weather themed play dough mats to create fun scenes! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying types of weather. Next week, we will conclude the unique learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the book:There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog by Lucille Colandro. The second grade spelling list for this week is:gate, plate, late, skate. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/12/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. In this unit, students will learn about the four seasons and common weather patterns. They will learn how water can change form, such as ice, rain, or snow. Students will, also, be encouraged to draw on personal experiences with weather and the seasons. The word wall words for this unit include: get, very, out, a, where, see, cold, going, air, warm, change, hot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fall, rain, season, snow, spring, summer, Sun, weather, winter. We focused on the book: The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. For our science activity, we had a cool experiment called Tornado in a Jar. We used water, glitter, dish soap and vinegar in a glass jar to make the glitter spin like a tornado. For our cooking activity, we created a weather themed snack mix. We used cheetohs as lightning, mini marshmallows for clouds, cookies and cream bites for snow, a vanilla sandwich cookie for sunny weather, dried blueberries for raindrops, and rainbow candy for a rainbow. For our craft, we created clouds and wind using wiki sticks and created a cloud flying in the wind. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying types of weather. Next week, we will continue the unique learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the book:There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover by Lucille Colandro. The second grade spelling list for this week is:dice, mice, nice and slice. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible. Reminder- Monday March 15, 2021 and Tuesday March 16, 2021 are Asynchronous learning days.
Weekly Newsletter 03/05/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. In this unit, students will learn about the four seasons and common weather patterns. They will learn how water can change form, such as ice, rain, or snow. Students will, also, be encouraged to draw on personal experiences with weather and the seasons. The word wall words for this unit include: get, very, out, a, where, see, cold, going, air, warm, change, hot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fall, rain, season, snow, spring, summer, Sun, weather, winter.We focused on the book: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring by Kin Eagle. It is a retelling of the familiar song. For our science activity, we had a cool experiment called Raining Colors. We used water, shaving cream and food coloring to see how rain occurs. For our cooking activity, we created clouds in the sky using blue jello and cool whip. For our craft, we created clouds and raindrops with cotton balls, paper, string. For our Wednesday small group activity, we reviewed a News to You article and corresponding activities. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched snowy stories! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying types of weather. Next week, we will continue the unique learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the book: The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. The second grade spelling list for this week is:cold, going, air, warm, change, hot. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/26/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explored the history and traditions of community, state and country. Students learned about national symbols and holidays and recognize what makes their community unique and special. The word wall words for this unit included: with, our, of, has, the, new, state, different, today, part, place, each. The vocabulary for this unit included: America, community, country, festival, flag, history, people, president and state. We focused on the book: Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark. We did not have a science activity today due to the Asynchronous Learning day. For our cooking activity, we created Red, White and Blue Yogurt Bars. We used plain yogurt, honey, blueberries, strawberries and granola. It wasn’t our favorite recipe this year. For our craft, we completed our Presidents Day book of crafts. For our Wednesday small group activity, we used the letters of our name to create a community. For our Fun Friday activity, we played U.S. Symbols bingo and used our fine motor skills to add stickers to U.S. symbols pictures. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying symbols of the United States. Next week, we will begin the unique learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. In this unit, students will learn about the four seasons and common weather patterns. They will learn how water can change form, such as ice, rain, or snow. Students will, also, be encouraged to draw on personal experiences with weather and the seasons. The word wall words for this unit include: get, very, out, a, where, see, cold, going, air, warm, change, hot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: fall, rain, season, snow, spring, summer, Sun, weather, winter. We will focus on the book:It’s Raining, It’s Pouring by Kin Eagle. The second grade spelling list for this week is: get, very, out, a, where, see. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/19/2021
.This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores the history and traditions of community, state and country. Students will learn about national symbols and holidays and recognize what makes their community unique and special. The word wall words for this unit include: with, our, of, has, the, new, state, different, today, part, place, each. The vocabulary for this unit includes: America, community, country, festival, flag, history, people, president and state. We focused on the book: F is for Flag by Wendy Cheyette Lewison. We did not have a science activity today due to Presidents Day. We did not have a cooking activity due to our snow day! For our craft, we created a Presidents Day book of crafts. For our Wednesday small group activities, we worked on our Presidents Day crafts. For our Fun Friday activity, we played U.S. Symbols bingo and used our fine motor skills to add stickers to U.S. symbols pictures. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and dimes and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money, and counting sets. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying symbols of the United States. Next week, we will conclude the unique learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. We will focus on the book:Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bourgeois. The second grade spelling list for this week is: ten, men, hen, pen. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/12/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores the history and traditions of community, state and country. Students will learn about national symbols and holidays and recognize what makes their community unique and special. The word wall words for this unit include: with, our, of, has, the, new, state, different, today, part, place, each. The vocabulary for this unit includes: America, community, country, festival, flag, history, people, president and state. We focused on the book: The Biggest Valentine Ever by Steven Kroll and The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond. For our science activity, we did an experiment using candy hearts. We tried dissolving hearts in cold water and hot water. The hearts dissolved in the hot water faster than in the cold water. For our cooking activity, we created valentine’s kabobs with blueberries, strawberries and marshmallows. For our craft, we painted raining hearts. For our Wednesday small group activities, we completed painting our raining hearts. For our Fun Friday activity, we played Valentine’s Day. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-20. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying symbols of the United States. Additionally, we did some fun Valentine’s Day themed activities and had Valentine’s Day treats! Next week, we will continue the unique learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. We will focus on the book: F is for Flag by Wendy Cheyette Lewison. The second grade spelling list for this week is: race, lace, face, place. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 02/05/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores the history and traditions of community, state and country. Students will learn about national symbols and holidays and recognize what makes their community unique and special. The word wall words for this unit include: with, our, of, has, the, new, state, different, today, part, place, each. The vocabulary for this unit includes: America, community, country, festival, flag, history, people, president and state. We focused on the book: Ten Grouchy Groundhogs by Deborah Hembrook and Kathryn Heling. For our science activity, we did an experiment with using our shadows just like the groundhog for Groundhog’s Day looks out for. We created an outline of ourselves and decorated it any way we liked. For our cooking activity, we created groundhog cookies. Our cookies used sugar cookies as the head, mini chocolate chip cookies as the cheeks, a piece of kit kats for the teeth, an M&M for the nose and chocolate sprinkles for the hair. They were really cute and yummy too! For our craft, we created a groundhog and his shadow. We practiced our cutting and coloring. For our Wednesday small group activities, we did fine motor cutting and coloring with a groundhog theme. For our Fun Friday activity, we watched Olivia the Pig in anticipation for Valentine’s Day. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying symbols of the United States. Next week, we will continue the unique learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. We will focus on the books: The Biggest Valentine Ever by Steven Kroll and The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond. The second grade spelling list for this week is: state, different, today, part, place, each. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/29/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Be Healthy. This unit explored the body and what we need to stay healthy. Students worked to be able to identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and activities help us live. We practiced healthy habits throughout the unit. The word wall words for this unit included: is, put, when, I, my, too, body, help, keep, her, eat, live. The vocabulary words for this unit included: body, exercise, grow, hair, hand, healthy, live, mouth, nose. We focused on the book: Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer. For our science activity, we did an experiment with hard boiled eggs. We put them in water, juice, and soda. We soaked them for 24 hours then used toothbrushes and toothpaste to scrub the stains away. It was cool to see the stains leave the eggs just like they leave our teeth! For our cooking activity, we created mouths and toothbrushes! We used apples, peanut butter, marshmallows for our mouths and celery and cheese for our toothbrushes. For our craft, we created a mouth using mini marshmallows for teeth! For our Wednesday small group activities, we painted a tooth using a puffy paint and graphed teeth again using our mini marshmallows. For our Fun Friday activity, we played Nutrition bingo! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and continued subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying body parts. Next week, we will begin the unique learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores the history and traditions of community, state and country. Students will learn about national symbols and holidays and recognize what makes their community unique and special. The word wall words for this unit include: with, our, of, has, the, new, state, different, today, part, place, each. The vocabulary for this unit includes: America, community, country, festival, flag, history, people, president and state. We will focus on the book: Ten Grouchy Groundhogs by Deborah Hembrook and Kathryn Heling. The second grade spelling list for this week is: with, has, our, the, of, new. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/22/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what we need to stay healthy. Students will work to be able to identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and activities help us live. We will practice healthy habits throughout the unit. The word wall words for this unit include: is, put, when, I, my, too, body, help, keep, her, eat, live. The vocabulary words for this unit include: body, exercise, grow, hair, hand, healthy, live, mouth, nose. We focused on the book: Llama Llama Home with Mama by Anna Dewdney. For our sensory activity, we created a snowman using contact paper and cotton balls. For our cooking activity, we created Applesauce Parfaits. These parfaits had no sugar added applesauce, teddy grahams, and granola. For our craft, we did a fun cut and paste activity that was a game called “Roll a Llama.” We rolled the die and added each piece of our llama! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes, incorporated counting pennies and introduced subtraction. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying body parts. Finally, we had a fun friday with creating a snack mix and watching a fun movie! We had a great time! Next week, we will conclude the unique learning unit entitled: I Can Be Healthy. We will focus on the book: Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer. The second grade spelling list for this week is: bell, well, fell, smell, gum, hum, yum, plum. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/15/2021
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what we need to stay healthy. Students will work to be able to identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and activities help us live. We will practice healthy habits throughout the unit. The word wall words for this unit include: is, put, when, I, my, too, body, help, keep, her, eat, live. The vocabulary words for this unit include: body, exercise, grow, hair, hand, healthy, live, mouth, nose. We focused on the book: Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson. For our science activity, we did an experiment with different types of chips to see, “How Greasy are Those Chips?” We tested: original chips, kettle cooked chips, Pringles, and baked chips. We found out the baked chips had the least greasy and the original chips had the most. Boy, do I wish regular chips were healthier!! For our cooking activity, we created Perfectly Healthy Parfaits. These parfaits had blueberries, raspberries, granola, and vanilla yogurt. For our craft, we colored a bear and cut and pasted all the things that would make him feel better like: tissues, herbs, tea, hot water, wet clothes, blankets, a thermometer and medicine. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing numbers, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Additionally, we worked on geometry and shapes. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts and worked on geometry and shapes, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, worked on monthly vocabulary and worked on identifying body parts. Next week, we will continue the unique learning unit entitled: I Can Be Healthy. We will focus on the book: Llama llama Home with Mama by Anna Dewdney. The second grade spelling list for this week is:body, help, keep, her, eat, live. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/18/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: The Gift of Giving. This unit explored opportunities for civic participation during the holiday season by learning ways to help our local community. There are many giving opportunities but with the COVID 19 situation, many of those opportunities are limited. This year we made cards for all of the Chippewa staff to promote a giving spirit and make everyone feel good over the winter months. The word wall words for this unit included: and, he, on, go, make, you, ask, give, try, feel, happy, kind. The vocabulary words for this unit included: care, celebrate, community, family, feel, give, help, holiday, and kind. We focused on the book: How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess. For our sensory activity, we created do it yourself snow! We used baking soda and water and gave it a fun peppermint smell. For our cooking activity, we created Holiday Giving Soup. It had chicken, stock, and vegetables. For our craft, we made a fun Santa mask using paper plates, construction paper and cotton balls. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, continued to work on monthly vocabulary and work on identifying emotions. Next week, I hope everyone has an amazing and safe Winter Break. When we return from Winter Break, we will begin the unique learning unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what we need to stay healthy. Students will work to be able to identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and activities help us live. We will practice healthy habits throughout the unit. The word wall words for this unit include: is, put, when, I, my, too, body, help, keep, her, eat, live. The vocabulary words for this unit include: body, exercise, grow, hair, hand, healthy, live, mouth, nose. We will focus on the book: Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London. The second grade spelling list for this week is: is, put, I, when, my, too. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/11/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: The Gift of Giving. This unit explores opportunities for civic participation during the holiday season by learning ways to help our local community. There are many giving opportunities but with the COVID 19 situation, many of those opportunities are limited. This year we will be making cards for all of the Chippewa staff to promote a giving spirit and make everyone feel good over the winter months. The word wall words for this unit include: and, he, on, go, make, you, ask, give, try, feel, happy, kind. The vocabulary words for this unit include: care, celebrate, community, family, feel, give, help, holiday, and kind. We focused on the books: How Full is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? By Carol McCloud and Kindness is My Superpower by Alicia Ortega. For our sensory activity, we created holiday themed sensory bottles with metal jingle bells and used magnets to explore them. For our cooking activity, we decorated brownies to look like gifts. For our craft, we created our own wrapping paper to wrap our holiday gifts. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, continued to work on monthly vocabulary and work on identifying emotions. Next week, we will continue our unique learning unit entitled: The Gift of Giving. We will focus on the book: How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess. The second grade spelling list for this week is: ram, jam, ham, yam, pot, hot, not, spot. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/04/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: The Gift of Giving. This unit will explore opportunities for civic participation during the holiday season by learning ways to help their local community. There are many giving opportunities but with the COVID 19 situation, many of those opportunities are limited. This year we will be making cards for all of the Chippewa staff to promote a giving spirit and make everyone feel good over the winter months. The word wall words for this unit includes: and, he, on, go, make, you, ask, give, try, feel, happy, kind. The vocabulary words for this unit include: care, celebrate, community, family, feel, give, help, holiday, and kind. We will focus on the book: My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems. For our sensory activity, we made peppermint scented red salt and practiced writing using a pipe cleaner candy cane. We did not have a cooking activity due to being virtual on Tuesday. For our craft, we began working on our holiday gifts for our families. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and sequencing numbers 1-12. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, continued to work on monthly vocabulary and work on identifying emotions. Next week, we will continue our unique learning unit entitled: The Gift of Giving. The second grade spelling list for this week is: ask, give, try, feel, happy, kind. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/20/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explored why people from the past moved from place to place. Students learned about groups of people who lived in America long ago. Students were provided with opportunities to compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. The unit explored why people move today. The word wall words for this unit included: they, were, some, past, need, do, both, people, food, these, water, present. The vocabulary words for this unit included: clothes, food, home, money, move, need, past, people, and present. This week we worked on the book: Turkey Trouble by Wendi J. Silvano. For our sensory activity, we created cranberry dough using jellied cranberry sauce and cornstarch. For cooking this week, we made pumpkin pie dip. We used pumpkin pie filling, cool whip, vanilla pudding mix, and cinnamon. We dipped mini vanilla wafers and teddy grahams into the dip. For our craft, we created a piece of pumpkin pie using paper plates, cut paper, glue, and cotton balls. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and used Thanksgiving activities to practice the concept. We all built pumpkin pies to work on one to one correspondence in a fun one. This activity, also, worked on fine motor skills by using our pincer grasp, spoon usage and tweezers. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, continued to work on monthly vocabulary and work on identifying items and ways of doing things from long ago and today. Next week, we will have a wonderful Thanksgiving Break!! When we return from Thanksgiving Break, we will begin our Unique Learning unit entitled: The Gift of Giving. This unit will explore opportunities for civic participation during the holiday season by learning ways to help their local community. There are many giving opportunities but with the COVID 19 situation, many of those opportunities are limited. This year we will be making cards for all of the Chippewa staff to promote a giving spirit and make everyone feel good over the winter months. The word wall words for this unit includes: and, he, on, go, make, you, ask, give, try, feel, happy, kind. The vocabulary words for this unit include: care, celebrate, community, family, feel, give, help, holiday, and kind. We will focus on the book: My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems. The second grade spelling list for this week is: and, he, on, go, make, you. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/13/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about groups of people who lived in America long ago. Students will be provided with opportunities to compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. The unit will, also, explore why people move today. The word wall words for this unit include: they, were, some, past, need, do, both, people, food, these, water, present. The vocabulary words for this unit include: clothes, food, home, money, move, need, past, people, and present. This week we worked on the book: Nathan of Yesteryear and Michael of Today by Brian J. Heinz. For cooking this week, we made stuffing. We used a box mix, water and butter. It only took about 10 minutes to make and many of our friends loved it!! For our craft, we created a car book that talked about transportation then and now. For our sensory/science activity, we created pumpkin pie playdough. We used flour, water, pumpkin pie spice, food coloring and oil. It smelled SO GOOD! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends continued to work on number identification and writing, counting sets and matching numbers to set. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and used Thanksgiving activities to practice the concept. We all built pumpkin pies to work on one to one correspondence in a fun one. This activity, also, worked on fine motor skills by using our pincer grasp, spoon usage and tweezers. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions and activities, sentence development, journal writing, sentence completion, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, continued to work on monthly vocabulary and work on identifying items and ways of doing things from long ago and today. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning unit entitled: People Move. We will focus on the book: Turkey Trouble by Wendi J. Silvano. The second grade spelling list for this week is: dog, log, bog, and frog. Mrs. Shingleton is including the week of Thanksgiving homework with next week's homework. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/06/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about groups of people who lived in America long ago. Students will be provided with opportunities to compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. The unit will, also, explore why people move today. The word wall words for this unit include: they, were, some, past, need, do, both, people, food, these, water, present. The vocabulary words for this unit include: clothes, food, home, money, move, need, past, people, and present. This week we worked on the book: Now and Long Ago by Wiley Bevins. For cooking this week, we made microwave cornbread. We used corn meal, flour, baking powder, salt, egg, milk and oil. It only took about 10 minutes to make! For our craft, we created a canoe with a Native America paddling it. For our sensory/science activity, we did an experiment called, “One Seed, Few Seeds, Many Seeds.” This experiment explored that fruits have different numbers of seeds. We examined a kiwi and determined it had many seeds. We examined a pumpkin and determined it had many seeds. We examined a peach and determined it had one seed. We examined an apple and determined it had a few seeds. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets and writing numbers. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and used Thanksgiving and fall themed counters to practice the concept. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We continued to practice some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, sentence development, vocabulary writing and participation. We, also, introduced monthly vocabulary and work on identifying items and ways of doing things from long ago and today. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: People Move. We will focus on the book: Nathan of Yesteryear and Michael of Today by Brian J. Heinz. The second grade spelling list for this week is: both, food, present, people, these, water. Also, Mrs. Shingleton will be out Thursday and Friday of next week for the OCALICON conference. This conference is a great opportunity for learning approaches and finding resources that support all students. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/30/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looked at the ways things move, including the movement of the body. Students worked on learning that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down and fast and slow. This unit provided many opportunities to engage and manipulate various types of movement through a kinesthetic approach to learning. This unit's wall words included: make, her, she, in, them, fast, along, move, play, ride, now, it. This unit's vocabulary words included: circle, down, fast, move, side, slow, stop, straight, and up. This week we worked on the book: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. For cooking this week, we made witches hats and witches brooms using Hershey’s kisses, Fudge Stripe Cookies, mini-Reece’s cups, and pretzel sticks. For our craft, we created a witch that had splatted against the wall! Yikes! For our sensory/science activity, we created a witches brew in a cauldron using worms (noodles), eyeballs (grapes), magic powder (baking soda), slime (oil with food coloring), and stock (vinegar and water). It was so cool to see our potion/brew bubble and it felt cool too!! We practiced measurement, as well. Additionally, we got to watch the Room on the Broom movie, decorate pumpkins and have a Halloween treat! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets and making ten with a Halloween theme. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept and used Halloween counters to practice the concept. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We are practicing some mental math concepts, as well. They, also, practiced this with a Halloween theme. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, sentence development, vocabulary writing and participation. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about groups of people who lived in America long ago. Students will be provided with opportunities to compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. The unit will, also, explore why people move today. The word wall words for this unit include: they, were, some, past, need, do, both, people, food, these, water, present. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: clothes, food, home, money, move, need, past, people, and present. We will focus on the book, Now and Long Ago by Wiley Bevins. The second grade spelling list for this week is: they, some, need, were, past, do. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/23/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the ways things move, including the movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down and fast and slow. This unit provides many opportunities to engage and manipulate various types of movement through a kinesthetic approach to learning. This unit's wall words include: make, her, she, in, them, fast, along, move, play, ride, now, it. This unit's vocabulary words include: circle, down, fast, move, side, slow, stop, straight, and up. This week we worked on the book: Push and Pull by Patricia J. Murphy. For cooking this week, we made caramel apples. We used cool apple wraps to make it a little easier. Some of our friends preferred the caramel, some the apples and some loved trying them together! For our craft, we created a catapult using popsicle sticks to practice our force and motion. It was like a craft and a science project all in one, again! We used candy pumpkins to arm our catapults! Super cool! For our sensory/science activity, we created cloud dough using hair conditioner and corn starch. We practiced measurement, as well. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets and making ten with a fall theme. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We are practicing some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, journal writing and participation. We, also, focused on sorting and identifying push and pull and the vocabulary of this unit. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. We will focus on a Halloween book, Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. The second grade will not have a spelling list for this week. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly NewsLetter 10/16/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the ways things move, including the movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down and fast and slow. This unit provides many opportunities to engage and manipulate various types of movement through a kinesthetic approach to learning. This unit's wall words include: make, her, she, in, them, fast, along, move, play, ride, now, it. This unit's vocabulary words include: circle, down, fast, move, side, slow, stop, straight, and up. This week we worked on the book: Motion: Push and Pull, Fast and Slow by Darlene Still. For cooking this week, we made trail mix containing: chocolate chips, blueberry cheerios, pretzel sticks, raisins and popcorn. For our craft, we created spinning tops to practice our force and motion. It was like a craft and a science project all in one! For our sensory/science activity, we did an experiment with ramps to determine how friction causes things to slow and stop. We practiced measurement, as well. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets with a fall theme. We, also, continued to do some work with addition as a concept. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. We are practicing some mental math concepts, as well. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, and participation. We, also, focused on sorting and identifying push and pull and the vocabulary of this unit. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. We will focus on the book, Push and Pull by Patricia J. Murphy. The second grade spelling list for this week includes the words: dad, sad, pad, and glad. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/09/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the ways things move, including the movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down and fast and slow. This unit provides many opportunities to engage and manipulate various types of movement through a kinesthetic approach to learning. This unit's wall words include: make, her, she, in, them, fast, along, move, play, ride, now, it. This unit's vocabulary words include: circle, down, fast, move, side, slow, stop, straight, and up. This week we worked on the book: Move It! Motion, forces and you by Adrienne Mason. For cooking this week, we made energy bites containing: peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, honey, vanilla and salt. For our craft, we created a flying rocket using a template, curling ribbon and straws. For our sensory/science activity, we let mystery science introduce force and motion! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also, did some work with addition as a concept. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, and participation. We, also, focused on sorting and identifying push and pull. Finally, we had our first music therapy session! It was AMAZING!! Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Move It!. We will focus on the book, Motion: Push and Pull, Fast and Slow by Darlene Still. The second grade spelling list for this week includes the words:pick, lick, click, and sick. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/02/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Follow the Rules. This unit introduced rules at home and rules at school. We worked to identify the purpose of rules and the consequences of not following them. The word wall words for this unit included: at, why, we, can, your, his, walk, school, that, to, hand, does. The vocabulary for this unit included: ask, home, listen, nice, rule, safe, school, teacher, walk. This week we worked on the books: No, David and David Goes to School by David Shannon. For our craft, we created a Helpful Pencil holder using paper towel tubs, cardboard, paint and stickers. For our sensory/science activity, we created marshmallow playdough and made it pick to look like David’s gum! Yuck!!. For our cooking activity we made instant chocolate pudding and it looked like the mud David brought into the house. For our Fun Friday activity, we played School Rules Bingo. For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We even practiced this using David mouth! Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. They used David’s mouth to find number sentences. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, and participation. Additionally, we worked on modified journal writing. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning Unit entitled: Move It! This unit looks at the ways things move, including the movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down and fast and slow. This unit provides many opportunities to engage and manipulate various types of movement through a kinesthetic approach to learning. This unit's wall words include: make, her, she, in, them, fast, along, move, play, ride, now, it. This unit's vocabulary words include: circle, down, fast, move, side, slow, stop, straight, and up. The second grade spelling list for this week includes the words: make, her, she, in, them, fast. We will focus on the booki: Move It! Motion, Forces and You by Adrienne Mason. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/25/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Follow the Rules. This unit explores the difference between school rules and rules at home. They have worked to become good citizens at school. This unit's wall words include: at, why, we, can, your, his, walk, school, that, to, hand, does. This unit's vocabulary words include: ask, home, listen, nice, walk, rule, safe, school, and teacher. This week we worked on the book: If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff. For our craft, we created a basic shape mouse using a triangle and circles. This gave a chance to practice our cutting skills. For our sensory/science activity, we did an experiment on handwashing. We placed cooking oil and glitter on our hands and saw how long it took to get all the glitter “germs” off. Boy oh Boy, did that take a while! For our cooking activity we created a mouse using a microwave pancake, mini chocolate chip cookies, and candy! Wow was it tasty! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We, also practiced these skills using a fun mouse game. Our second grade friends worked on addition, subtraction, number sense, time and money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, and participation. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Follow the Rules. We will focus on the books, No David! and David Goes to School by David Shannon. Additionally, our second grade friends will begin spelling lists. Their list for this week includes the words: cap, lap, nap, flap, fan, ran, tan, van. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/18/2020
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Follow the Rules. This unit explores the difference between school rules and rules at home. They have worked to become good citizens at school. This unit's wall words include: at, why, we, can, your, his, walk, school, that, to, hand, does. This unit's vocabulary words include: ask, home, listen, nice, walk, rule, safe, school, and teacher. This week we worked on the book: How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. For our craft, we created a puffy paint school bus. The puffy paint used shaving cream and yellow food coloring. For our sensory/science activity, we created no-cook play dough. For our cooking activity we created a bus using graham crackers, icing and oreos! Yum!! For math; our kindergarten and first grade friends worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. Our second grade friends worked on addition, number sense and time and money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, errorless sentence development, and participation. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: I Can Follow the Rules. We will focus on the book, If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff. We will begin getting homework next week. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 12 began our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit was entitled: I Can Follow the Rules. This unit introduced school rules and how to be a good citizen at school. We will work to identify school rules and home rules. We will, also, work on following the rules within the school environment. The word wall words for this unit include: at, why, we, can, your, his, walk, chool, that, to, hand, does. The vocabulary words for this unit include: ask, home, listen, nice, walk, rule, safe, school, teacher. For our small group cooking, we created a cucumber pencil cup with veggie dip, carrot sticks, celery sticks, and red pepper sticks. For our small group craft, we created a fun back to school pencil. For our fun Friday activity, we shared our camper reports. We focused on the book, How Do Dinosaurs Go to School by Jane Yolen. This book shows dinosaurs demonstrating ways to follow and not follow the rules at school. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning unit and continue to focus on the same book.
Welcome Back 2020-2021
Welcome Back to School!!! This year will be a little different than previous years, but we are looking forward to lots of learning, lots of fun and lots of laughter! Mrs. Shingleton will provide several social stories to assist room 12 students with some of the differences we will be experiencing. Please remember feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton if you have any questions, comments or concerns. Thanks and cannot wait to see you all!!
Weekly Newsletter
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit was entitled: Fast and Slow: The Earth Changes. This unit introduced Earth events and the changes that they produce. We worked to determine if an event and the subsequent changes occurred fast or slow. We, also, worked on learning about erosion and ways to prevent erosion. The word wall words for this unit included: an, of, some, will, kind, intro, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit included: Earth, change, fast, slow, earthquake, wind, volcano, ice, water. For our small group activity, we created an apple pie roll-up snack. This snack included white bread, applesauce and cinnamon sugar. We, also, did an earthquake experiment and built cities and watched to see how much force was required to know them down. We focused on the book, Earthquakes by Mari Schuh. This book describes how earthquakes happen and what to do in case you ever find yourself around one. Next week, we will participate in loads of fun activities including Junior Olympics, Homeroom class parities and our own room 7 class party. We will focus a variety of fun books leading up to summer! There will be no homework for this upcoming week, however, a practice packet for the summer will be sent home on Thursday. Thank you all for an amazing year!
Weekly Newsletter 05/17/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit is entitled: Fast and Slow: The Earth Changes. This unit introduces Earth events and the changes that they produce. We will work to determine if an event and the subsequent changes occur fast or slow. We will, also, work on learning about erosion and ways to prevent erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, of, some, will, kind, intro, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: Earth, change, fast, slow, earthquake, wind, volcano, ice, water. For our small group activity, we created a paper bag volcano using paper bags and construction paper. We, also, created a mountain snack. This snack included graham crackers, water, and cool whip. We focused on the book, Learning About the Earth: Volcanoes by Emily K. Green. This book describes how a volcano erupts and what to do in case you ever find yourself around one. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit: Fast and Slow: The Earth Changes. We will focus on the book, Earthquakes by Mari Schuh. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 05/10/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit was entitled: Fast and Slow: The Earth Changes. This unit introduces Earth events and the changes that they produce. We will work to determine if an event and the subsequent changes occur fast or slow. We will, also, work on learning about erosion and ways to prevent erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, of, some, will, kind, intro, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: Earth, change, fast, slow, earthquake, wind, volcano, ice, water. For our small group activity, we created a lemon volcano using lemons, food coloring, baking soda. We, also, created a volcano craft. We focused on the book, Volcanoes by Mari Schuh.. This book describes how a volcano erupts and what to do in case you ever find yourself around one. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning Unit: Fast and Slow: The Earth Changes. We will focus on the book, Learning About the Earth: Volcanoes by Emily K. Green. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 05/03/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit was entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit, students explored basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling, and wants and needs. We have worked on recognizing the difference between wants and needs, distinguishing between buying and selling, recognizing people need money to buy things and identifying more and less. The word wall words for this unit included: it, have, their, no, new, want, should, buy, need, book, does, money. The vocabulary words for this unit included: want, need, buy, sell, money, spend, price, store, shop. For our small group activity, we decorated our Mother’s Day gifts for mom and a money themed writing activity. We focused on the book, Wants or Needs by Elizabeth Moore. This book describes things that we need and want and the differences between them. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning Unit: Fast and Slow: the Earth Changes. This unit introduces Earth events and the changes that they produce. We will work to determine if an event and the subsequent changes occur fast or slow. We will, also, work on learning about erosion and ways to prevent erosion. The word wall words for this unit include: an, of, some, will, kind, intro, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. The vocabulary words for this unit include: Earth, change, fast, slow, earthquake, wind, volcano, ice, water. We will focus on the book, Volcanoes by Mari Schuh. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 04/26/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit is entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit, students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling, and wants and needs. We have been working on recognizing the difference between wants and needs, distinguishing between buying and selling, recognizing people need money to buy things and identifying more and less. The word wall words for this unit includes: it, have, their, no, new, want, should, buy, need, book, does, money. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: want, need, buy, sell, money, spend, price, store, shop. For our small group activity, we had a fun experiment to blow up a balloon using vinegar and baking soda in a water bottle. Additionally, we watched a cool video about money. We focused on the book, The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money by Jan and Stan Berenstain. This book talks about how Brother and Sister Bear get consumed by making money. We, also, had another visit from Kimo the therapy dog. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning Unit: Can I Buy It? We will focus on the book, Wants or Needs by Elizabeth Moore. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 04/12/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit is entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit, students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling, and wants and needs. We will work on recognizing the difference between wants and needs, distinguishing between buying and selling, recognizing people need money to buy things and identifying more and less. The word wall words for this unit includes: it, have, their, no, new, want, should, buy, need, book, does, money. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: want, need, buy, sell, money, spend, price, store, shop. For our small group activity, we created a bank to save our change and worked on our Mother’s Day gifts for mom! We focused on the book, Needs and Wants by Susan Ring. This book describes things that we need and want and the differences between them. Additionally, we had a visit from Kimo the therapy dog. Everyone loved the visit and we look forward to having him again! Next week, we will have Spring Break but when we return we will continue our Unique Learning Unit: Can I Buy It? We will focus on the book, Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money by Jan and Stan Berenstain. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 04/05/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 begin our new Unique Learning Curriculum unit. This unit is entitled: Can I Buy It? In this unit, students explore basic concepts of economics, including buying and selling, and wants and needs. We will work on recognizing the difference between wants and needs, distinguishing between buying and selling, recognizing people need money to buy things and identifying more and less. The word wall words for this unit includes: it, have, their, no, new, want, should, buy, need, book, does, money. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: want, need, buy, sell, money, spend, price, store, shop. For our small group activity, we created bank on it bananas! We cut bananas in half, placed them on a craft stick, covered them in honey, rolled them in sprinkles and froze them. They were very cool! We, also, created a dandelion craft to put in the hallway to celebrate Spring. We focused on the book, Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells. The book is a super fun story about Max and his sister Ruby. They want to buy a birthday gift for their grandmother but run into a few snags. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Unit: Can I Buy It? Next week, we will focus on the book, Needs and Wants by Susan Ring. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 03/15/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning unit. This unit is entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. The unit explores energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students will explore how heat and cold can change materials. The word wall words for this unit include: high, leave, warm, made, know, big, very, but, before, our, is, up. The vocabulary words for this unit include: Sun, light, heat, change, cool, warm, wet, dry, melt. For our small group activity, we participated in St. Patrick’s Day activities. We read a book about a Lucky Leaping Leprechaun. The leprechaun did lots of things that let us explore prepositions and spatial relations. Additionally, we participated in a St. Patrick’s Day themed following directions activity and we were able to draw the directions from a leprechauns hat! Finally, we created a lucky leprechaun float using lime sherbet and sprite. We focused on the book, Wake Up, Sun by David Harrison. The book was a fun story about farm animals trying to wake up the sun when they wake up before the sun comes up. Next week, we will focus on the book, Energy From the Sun by Allan Fowler. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 03/08/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning unit. This unit is entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. The unit explores energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students will explore how heat and cold can change materials. The word wall words for this unit include: high, leave, warm, made, know, big, very, but, before, our, is, up. The vocabulary words for this unit include: Sun, light, heat, change, cool, warm, wet, dry, melt. For our small group activity, we created a rocket with strawberries, cantaloupe and marshmallows. The recipe used fresh strawberries, marshmallows and cantaloupe. We put the fruit onto skewers to create a rocket. We, also, created a rainbow colored rocket ship! Additionally, we made kool aid playdough using lemonade flavored kool aid so that it was yellow like the sun! We focused on the book, The Sun is Always Shining Somewhere by Allan Fowler. The book gave a brief explanation of the sun and why we need it. Next week, we will focus on the book, Wake Up, Sun by David L. Harrison. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 03/01/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded our Unique Learning unit. This unit was entitled: Time for Peace. The unit focused on historical figures who worked for peace including Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. It, also, explored how we can be peacemakers within our school and community. The word wall words for this unit included: a, girl, was, he, not, play, be, friend, about, one, man, people. The vocabulary words for this unit included: fight, fair, love, wrong, friend, share, right, peace, help. For our small group activity, we created yogurt bark. The recipe used strawberry yogurt and fresh strawberries. We measured 2 cups of strawberry yogurt, spread it on a pan, sliced strawberries and placed those on the yogurt. We, then, put the pan in the freezer and broke it into pieces to eat. We were not big fans of this recipe, but at least we tried it. We focused on the book, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Adler. The book gave a brief history of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning unit. This unit is entitled: The Hot, Hot Sun. The unit explores energy from the sun and how it affects different objects. Students will explore how heat and cold can change materials. The word wall words for this unit include: high, leave, warm, made, know, big, very, but, before, our, is, up. The vocabulary words for this unit include: Sun, light, heat, change, cool, warm, wet, dry, melt. Next week, we will focus on the book, The Sun is Always Shining Somewhere by Allan Fowler. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 02/22/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning unit. This unit is entitled: Time for Peace. The unit focuses on historical figures who worked for peace including Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. It, also, explores how we can be peacemakers within our school and community. The word wall words for this unit includes: a, girl, was, he, not, play, be, friend, about, one, man, people. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: fight, fair, love, wrong, friend, share, right, peace, help. For our small group activity, we worked on the SMART board with interactive lessons on our Unique unit. We worked on vocabulary and comprehension that related to Time for Peace. We, also, had COSI! This year COSI exploring ecology. We got to explore how different animals see. The way different animals feel and different things they need to survive. We focused on the book, A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David Adler. The book gave a brief history of President Abraham Lincoln. Next week, we will focus on the book, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Adler. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 02/15/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our Unique Learning unit. This unit is entitled: Time for Peace. The unit focuses on historical figures who worked for peace including Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. It, also, explores how we can be peacemakers within our school and community. The word wall words for this unit includes: a, girl, was, he, not, play, be, friend, about, one, man, people. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: fight, fair, love, wrong, friend, share, right, peace, help. For our small group activity, we created heart tree in honor of Valentine’s Day. The tree used punched out hearts, paper and glue. We, also, had our Valentine’s Day class parties! We focused on the book, Sweet Hearts by Jan Carr. The book has a family of panda bears celebrating Valentine’s Day and answers a variety of where questions. Next week, we will focus on the book, A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David Adler. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 02/08/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began our new Unique Learning unit. This unit is entitled: Time for Peace. The unit focuses on historical figures who worked for peace including Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. It, also, explores how we can be peacemakers within our school and community. The word wall words for this unit includes: a, girl, was, he, not, play, be, friend, about, one, man, people. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: fight, fair, love, wrong, friend, share, right, peace, help. For our small group activity, we created a peace dove using our fingers and paint. We focused on the book, What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky. The book descriptions of peace using our senses and as answered by young children. It answers the questions:”What Does Peace Feel Like?,” “What Does Peace Look Like?,” “What Does Peace Sound Like?,” “What Does Peace Taste Like?,” and “What Does Peace Smell Like?”. Next week, we will focus on the book, Sweet Hearts by Jan Carr. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 02/01/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded our work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focused on how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. We, also, worked on learning how some materials change when heated and/or cooled. The word wall words for this unit included: his, do, then, good, make, she, out, when, hard, many, color, cold. The vocabulary words for this unit included: see, hear, smell, taste, feel, color, heat, cold, change. For our small group activity, we created melted crayon art. This allowed us to see first hand how matter can change with heat. We focused on the book, My Hands Can by Jean Holzenthaler. The book focuses on things we can do with our hands. Next week, we will begin our new unique learning unit. This unit is entitled: Time for Peace. The unit focuses on historical figures who worked for peace including Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. It, also, explores how we can be peacemakers within our school and community. The word wall words for this unit includes: a, girl, was, he, not, play, be, friend, about, one, man, people. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: fight, fair, love, wrong, friend, share, right, peace, help. We will focus on the book, What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 01/24/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. We, also, worked on learning how some materials change when heated and/or cooled. The word wall words for this unit include: his, do, then, good, make, she, out, when, hard, many, color, cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: see, hear, smell, taste, feel, color, heat, cold, change. For our small group activity, we completed a SMART board lesson on five senses and a five senses chart. We focused on the book, Matter: See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell It by Darlene Still. The book explores states and changes in matter. Next week, we will conclude our unique learning unit. We will focus on the book, My Hands Can by Jean Holzenthaler. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 01/18/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our work on our new Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. We, also, worked on learning how some materials change when heated and/or cooled. The word wall words for this unit include: his, do, then, good, make, she, out, when, hard, many, color, cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: see, hear, smell, taste, feel, color, heat, cold, change. For our small group activity, we popped popcorn and explored it with our five senses. We explored how it smells: , delicious, buttery and maybe burnt. How it tastes: yummy, salty, buttery, and dry. It looks white, yellow, small, and fluffy. It It sounds popping and noisy. It feels bumpy, light, soft and squishy. We focused on the book, Popcorn by Alex Moran. The book explored making popcorn and a mess! The characters in the book made so much popcorn it went out the front door of the house! Next week, we will focus on the book, Matter: See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell It by Darlene Still. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 01/11/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our work on our new Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. We, also, worked on learning how some materials change when heated and/or cooled. The word wall words for this unit include: his, do, then, good, make, she, out, when, hard, many, color, cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: see, hear, smell, taste, feel, color, heat, cold, change. For our small group activity, we created a fun winter scene using cut paper and paint. We focused on the book, My Five Senses by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza by Ian Falconer. The book explores the ways we use our five sense to enjoy and explore our world. It includes items we explore with our senses. Next week, we will focus on the book, Popcorn by Alex Moran and do a variety of fun popcorn activities. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 01/04/2019
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began our work on our new Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. We will, also, work on learning how some materials change when heated and/or cooled. The word wall words for this unit include: his, do, then, good, make, she, out, when, hard, many, color, cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: see, hear, smell, taste, feel, color, heat, cold, change. For our small group activity, we talked about the things we can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel during winter. We completed a worksheet with choices about these senses. We completed a winter buddies craft and a writing activity about what we like to do during the winter. We, also, had a little hot (warm) chocolate and marshmallows. We focused on the book, My Five Senses by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza by Ian Falconer. The book explores the ways we use our five sense to enjoy and explore our world. Next week, we will continue to focus on the book, My Five Senses by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza by Ian Falconer. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 12/20/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded our work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This unit focused on history. This unit focused on the exploration of different cultures during the winter holiday season. Students worked on identifying family, community and country traditions. The word wall words for this unit included: my, and, we, eat, day, what, with, after, says, our, every, play. The vocabulary words for this unit included: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. As a class, we focused on the holidays of Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. This week we focused on Christmas. For our small group activity, we created a holiday gift for our families. We hope you enjoy the cookies in a jar. They contain flour, baking powder, baking soda, M&M’s, oats, sugar, brown sugar, and chocolate chips. We focused on the book, Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer. The book explores the ways we help with Christmas and the ways that helping can go astray. Olivia the pig tries very hard to help her parents but it doesn’t always go as planned. Next week, we hope you have a fabulous break and a wonderful holiday season. When we return from Winter Break on January 2, 2019, we will begin our new Unique Learning unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. This unit focuses on how to use your senses to observe and describe materials. We will, also, work on learning how some materials change when heated and/or cooled. The word wall words for this unit include: his, do, then, good, make, she, out, when, hard, many, color, cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: see, hear, smell, taste, feel, color, heat, cold, change. The book we will focus on will be, My Five Senses by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 12/14/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued our work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on history. This unit focuses on the exploration of different cultures during the winter holiday season. Students are working on identifying family, community and country traditions. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, we, eat, day, what, with, after, says, our, every, play. The vocabulary words for this unit include: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. As a class, we will focus on the holidays of Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. This week we focused on Hanukkah. For our small group activity, we created a gingerbread houses and cookie jars. Gingerbread cookies are a classroom tradition in one of our unique stories this month. We focused on the book, It’s Kkwanzaa Time by Synthia Saint James. The book explores the themes of Kwanzaa in a fun lift a flap format. Next week, we will focus on the holiday of Christmas. The book we will focus on will be, Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 12/07/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began continued our work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on history. This unit focuses on the exploration of different cultures during the winter holiday season. Students are working on identifying family, community and country traditions. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, we, eat, day, what, with, after, says, our, every, play. The vocabulary words for this unit include: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. As a class, we will focus on the holidays of Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. This week we focused on Hanukkah. For our small group activity, we created a star of David that is a representation of Hanukkah and a dreidel snack. The snack included fig newtons, pretzel sticks, and icing. We focused on the book, Dinosaur on Hanukkah by Diane Levin Rauchwerger. The book explores Hanukkah themes using a dinosaur pal to celebrate with. Next week, we will focus on the holiday of Kwanzaa. The book we will focus on will be, It’s Kwanzaa Time by Synthia Saint James. Kwanzza is traditionally from December 26th through January 1st. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 11/30/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded our work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focused on geography. Students learned about finding their way from one place to another. Students, also, learned about helpful tools like map and signs. The word wall words for this unit included: are, they, show, to, what, next, should, go, from, near, find, map. The vocabulary words for this unit included: map, find, symbol, sign, place, left, right, near, far. For our small group activity, we worked on a road sign packet. We focused on the book, I Read Signs by Tana Hoban. The book using environmental print to work on identifying community signs. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on the exploration of different cultures during the winter holiday season. Students will work on identifying family, community and country traditions. As a class, we will focus on the holidays of Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, we, eat, day, what, with, after, says, our, every, play. The vocabulary words for this unit include: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. Next week, we will focus on the book, Dinosaur on Hanukkah by Diane Levin Rauchwerger, as Hanukkah begins on Sunday. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 11/19/2018
Happy Thanksgiving!! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography. Students have been learning about finding their way from one place to another. Students have, also, been learning about helpful tools like map and signs. The word wall words for this unit include: are, they, show, to, what, next, should, go, from, near, find, map. The vocabulary words for this unit include: map, find, symbol, sign, place, left, right, near, far. For our small group activity, we made had a Thanksgiving Feast. We focused on the book, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. The book was a story about a turkey who is very nervous about the upcoming holiday of Thanksgiving. Next week, we will focus on the book, I Read Signs by Tana Hoban. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 11/12/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography. Students have been learning about finding their way from one place to another. Students have, also, been learning about helpful tools like map and signs. The word wall words for this unit include: are, they, show, to, what, next, should, go, from, near, find, map. The vocabulary words for this unit include: map, find, symbol, sign, place, left, right, near, far. For our small group activity, we made an awesome snack. The snack was Snow-on-Mountains. It included: pineapples, kiwis, peaches, cool whip and coconut. We focused on the book, Toot and Puddle by Holly Hobbie. The book was a story about two friends. One loves to travel and the other loves to stay at home. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week we will focus on the book, If Maps Could Talk by Erika L. Shores. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 11/09/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography. Students have been learning about finding their way from one place to another. Students have, also, been learning about helpful tools like map and signs. The word wall words for this unit include: are, they, show, to, what, next, should, go, from, near, find, map. The vocabulary words for this unit include: map, find, symbol, sign, place, left, right, near, far. For our small group activity, we made really neat treasure map that included rocks, mountains, sand, water, and island, a pirate ship and a pirate. We focused on the book, Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map by James Dean. The book was a really fun story in which Pete the Cat and his crew find a treasure map that leads them on an exciting journey to Secret Island. They encounters a drumming sea monster and their old pal Grumpy Frog. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week we will focus on the book, Toot and Puddle by Holly Hobbie. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 11/02/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography. Students will learn about finding their way from one place to another. Students will, also, learn about helpful tools like map and signs. The word wall words for this unit include: are, they, show, to, what, next, should, go, from, near, find, map. The vocabulary words for this unit include: map, find, symbol, sign, place, left, right, near, far. For our small group activity, we made a stacked geography activity using styrofoam cups that stack into each other indicated: me, my school, my city, my country, my continent, my planet and my solar system. We focused on the book, Maps, Maps, Maps by Kelly Boswell. The book teaches us about maps, map symbols, and how we use them. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week we will focus on the book, Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map by James Dean. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 10/26/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. This unit is a life science unit focusing on animals and their habitats. Students worked to identify animals and describe their homes and basic needs. The word wall words for this unit included: we, this, see, with, live, you, in, give, home, away, animal, cannot. The vocabulary words for this unit included: animal, home, forest, grass, pond, tree, ocean, woods, desert. For our small group activity, we made a spider cookie snack. The snack included: oreos, pretzels, frosting and M&M’s. We, also, made a Halloween pumpkin craft in honor of the upcoming holiday. We focused on the book, Honey Bees and Hives by Lola Schaefer. The book teaches us about honey bees and their hives. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week, we will begin our new unique learning unit entitled: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography. Students will learn about finding their way from one place to another. Students will, also, learn about helpful tools like map and signs. The word wall words for this unit include: are, they, show, to, what, next, should, go, from, near, find, map. The vocabulary words for this unit include: map, find, symbol, sign, place, left, right, near, far. Additionally, next week we will focus on the book, Maps, Maps, Maps by Kelly Boswell. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 10/19/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. This unit is a life science unit focussing on animals and their habitats. Students are working to identify animals and describe their homes and basic needs. The word wall words for this unit include: we, this, see, with, live, you, in, give, home, away, animal, cannot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, home, forest, grass, pond, tree, ocean, woods, desert. For our small group activity, we made a bear themed snack. The snack included: graham crackers, marshmallows, raisins and M&M’s. We, also, made a Halloween bear craft in honor of the upcoming holiday and our reading the Berenstain Bears this week. We focused on the book, Home Sweet Tree by Jan and Stan Berenstain. The book teaches us showed us all around the Bear Family home. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week we will focus on the book, Honey Bees and Hives by Lola M. Schaefer. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 10/11/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. This unit is a life science unit focussing on animals and their habitats. Students are working to identify animals and describe their homes and basic needs. The word wall words for this unit include: we, this, see, with, live, you, in, give, home, away, animal, cannot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, home, forest, grass, pond, tree, ocean, woods, desert. For our small group activity, we made Grassland Veggie Dip. This was the snack from Unique Learning. The snack included: cream cheese, sour cream, minced onion, garlic salt, dill and parsley. It wasn’t a fan favorite but at least everyone helped make the recipe. We focused on the book, A Home in the Swamp. The book teaches us about animals that live in the swamp like ducks, dragonflies, frogs and alligators. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week we will focus on the book, Home Sweet Tree by Jan and Stan Berenstain. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 10/05/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. This unit is a life science unit focussing on animals and their habitats. Students will work to identify animals and describe their homes and basic needs. The word wall words for this unit include: we, this, see, with, live, you, in, give, home, away, animal, cannot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, home, forest, grass, pond, tree, ocean, woods, desert. For our small group activity, we made a mouse craft and a mouse snack. The craft worked on our cutting skills and for the snack used cheese, sausages and blueberries. No one was very interested in eating the snack but we all made one. We focused on the book, I am a Mouse. The story follows a mouse who goes around her home and meets lots of other animal friends. We, also,continued music therapy. Next week we will focus on the book, A Home in the Swamp by David C. Lion. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 09/30/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: This is My School. This unit focused on authority figures at school, their jobs and how they help students each day. The unit, also, focused on school rules and schedules. The word wall words for this unit included: get, her, my, can, I help, clean, the, school, read, me, learn. The vocabulary words included: teacher, bus driver, librarian, secretary, custodian, principal, school, help, learn. For our small group activity, we made green lime dough. This experiment contained water, food coloring, salt, flour, vegetable oil and jello! We got to make and play with the dough. It was really fun! We focused on the book, Marley Goes to School By John Grogan. Cassie’s dog Marley goes to school to find her and gets into LOTS of trouble! We, also, had our first music therapy session. It was terrific and our new therapist is Miss Natalie. We will have music therapy on Thursdays from 10-10:30 until the end of November. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled: Animals in Their Homes. This unit is a life science unit focussing on animals and their habitats. Students will work to identify animals and describe their homes and basic needs. The word wall words for this unit include: we, this, see, with, live, you, in, give, home, away, animal, cannot. The vocabulary words for this unit include: animal, home, forest, grass, pond, tree, ocean, woods, desert. Next week we will focus on the book,I Am A Mouse. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 09/21/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued to work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: This is My School. This unit focuses on authority figures at school, their jobs and how they help students each day. The unit, also, focuses on school rules and schedules. The word wall words for this unit include: get, her, my, can, I help, clean, the, school, read, me, learn. The vocabulary words include: teacher, bus driver, librarian, secretary, custodian, principal, school, help, learn. For our small group activity, we made modeling dough. This was the experiment this month for our Unique Learning unit. This experiment contained water, food coloring, salt, flour, vegetable oil and cornmeal. We got to make and play with the dough. It was really fun! We focused on the book Pinkalicious, School Rules By Victoria Kann. Pinkalicious really missed her unicorn Goldie while at school and decided to take her with her. She had to teach her the rules of school and Goldie was a very good unicorn. Next week, we will focus on the book, Marley Goes to School by John Grogan. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 09/14/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued to work on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: This is My School. This unit focuses on authority figures at school, their jobs and how they help students each day. The unit, also, focuses on school rules and schedules. The word wall words for this unit include: get, her, my, can, I help, clean, the, school, read, me, learn. The vocabulary words include: teacher, bus driver, librarian, secretary, custodian, principal, school, help, learn. For our small group activity, we made Back to School Mix was the recipe for this month through our unique curriculum. This mix contained cereal, raisins, sunflower seeds and banana chips. I think our favorite part was the cereal. We focused on the book No, David By David Shannon. Boy that David can get into trouble! Next week, we will focus on the book, Pinkalicious, School Rules by Victoria Kann. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 09/07/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 worked on our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: This is My School. This unit focuses on authority figures at school, their jobs and how they help students each day. The unit, also, focuses on school rules and schedules. The word wall words for this unit include: get, her, my, can, I help, clean, the, school, read, me, learn. The vocabulary words include: teacher, bus driver, librarian, secretary, custodian, principal, school, help, learn. For our small group activity, we made ooblek and completed a sequencing worksheet about our creation. We focused on the book Froggy Goes to School By Jonathan London. Next week, we will continue to work on our Unique Learning Unit entitled: This is My School. We will focus on the book, No, David by David Shannon. David gets into lots of trouble and really needs to work on following the rules! He, also, learns that his mother always loves him even when he gets into trouble. Please let me know if homework is ever too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 08/31/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued getting to know each other. For our small group activity, we made trail mix using pretzels, popcorn, cereal, raisins and chocolate chips. Did you know today is National Trail Mix Day? We worked hard to get used to new students, new adults and new activities. We focused on the book How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe? By Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. Following Labor Day, we will begin our first full unique learning curriculum unit entitled: This is My School. This unit focuses on authority figures at school, their jobs and how they help students each day. The unit, also, focuses on school rules and schedules. The word wall words for this unit include: get, her, my, can, I help, clean, the, school, read, me, learn. The vocabulary words include: teacher, bus driver, librarian, secretary, custodian, principal, school, help, learn. Next week, we will focus on the book, Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London. Froggy is so excited to go to school and I hope so are you!! Our first homework packet will come home on Tuesday. I am using News-2-You articles and activities for homework this year. Please let me know if homework is every too little or too much for your lifestyle and I will do my best to adjust accordingly.
Weekly Newsletter 08/27/2018
Welcome Back!! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the process of getting to know each other. We made pudding as a fun welcome back activity. We got to choose vanilla or chocolate and surprisingly we chose vanilla. We worked hard to get used to new students, new adults and new activities. We focused on the book We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan Higgins. Following Labor Day, we will begin our first full unique learning curriculum unit entitled: This is My School. This unit focuses on authority figures at school, their jobs and how they help students each day. The unit, also, focuses on school rules and schedules. The word wall words for this unit include: get, her, my, can, I help, clean, the, school, read, me, learn. The vocabulary words include: teacher, bus driver, librarian, secretary, custodian, principal, school, help, learn. This week we are focusing on the book: How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe by Jane Yolen.
WeeklyNewsletter 05/25/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. This unit explores plants and how they grow. Students will learn what plants need to survive such as water and sunlight. Students will also work on the parts of a plant and what roles these parts play. This units word wall words include: of, little, what, take, into , grow, found, house, green, more, inside, air. This units vocabulary words include: root, stem, leaf, seed, flower, garden, plant, water, and rain. This week we worked on the book: We Are Growing by Laurie Keller. We created a worksheet showing how we can eat a whole plant for our snack. The worksheet used celery, broccoli, sunflower seeds, spinach and carrots. For our craft, we created an image of all the parts of a plant. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away and exploring money and time. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Additionally, we worked on time and money. Our second and third grade friends worked on time and money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: We will focus on the book, The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Additionally, we will work on the story, Vegetables from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, word families, pronouns, synonyms, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, we will all continue to work on time and money concepts. With this being our last week of school, we will have a lot of fun activities as well, including: Junior Olympics, class parties, our room 7 fiesta, 3rd grade recognition assembly and early dismissal on Friday. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/18/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. This unit explores plants and how they grow. Students will learn what plants need to survive such as water and sunlight. Students will also work on the parts of a plant and what roles these parts play. This units word wall words include: of, little, what, take, into , grow, found, house, green, more, inside, air. This units vocabulary words include: root, stem, leaf, seed, flower, garden, plant, water, and rain. This week we worked on the book: Muncha! Muncha! Muncha by Candace Fleming. We created trees for our snack. The trees used cucumbers and pretzel sticks. For our craft, we created a Hyacinth flower craft. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away and exploring money and time. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Additionally, we worked on time and money. Our second and third grade friends worked on time and money. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: We will focus on the book, We Are Growing by Laurie Keller. Additionally, we will work on the story, Fruit Colors from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, word families, pronouns, synonyms, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, we will all continue to work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/11/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. This unit explores plants and how they grow. Students will learn what plants need to survive such as water and sunlight. Students will also work on the parts of a plant and what roles these parts play. This units word wall words include: of, little, what, take, into , grow, found, house, green, more, inside, air. This units vocabulary words include: root, stem, leaf, seed, flower, garden, plant, water, and rain. This week we worked on the book: My Garden by Kevin Henkes. We created flowers for our snack. The flowers used nerds, grapes, crackers and icing. For our craft, we created a Hibiscus flower craft. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. We used construction themed subtraction problems and a variety of building manipulatives to add. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning unit entitled: We will focus on the book, Muncha, Muncha, Muncha by Candace Fleming and G. Brian Karas. Additionally, we will work on the story, I Love Flowers from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, word families, pronouns, synonyms, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 05/04/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explored ways people change the environment. Students worked to learn how the changes people make help or hurt the environment. Students worked to recognize human modifications that can help the Earth. The word wall words for this unit included: are, out, then, how, so, have, could, go, hurt, made, did, too. The vocabulary words for this unit included: road, bridge, tunnel, sidewalk, house, build, environment, tree, and animal. This week we worked on the book: Watch Your Step, Mr. Rabbit by Richard Scarry. We built fruit kabobs for our snack. The kabobs used strawberries, grapes, and bananas. For our craft, we created a mobile of construction trucks. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. We used construction themed subtraction problems and a variety of building manipulatives to add. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Learning unit entitled: Plants Can Grow. This unit explores plants and how they grow. Students will learn what plants need to survive such as water and sunlight. Students will also work on the parts of a plant and what roles these parts play. This units word wall words include: of, little, what, take, into , grow, found, house, green, more, inside, air. This units vocabulary words include: root, stem, leaf, seed, flower, garden, plant, water, and rain. We will focus on the book, My Garden by Kevin Henkes. Additionally, we will work on the story, My Backyard from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, word families, pronouns, synonyms, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/27/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores ways people change the environment. Students have been working to learn how the changes people make help or hurt the environment. Students have worked to recognize human modifications and that can help the Earth. The word wall words for this unit include: are, out, then, how, so, have, could, go, hurt, made, did, too. The vocabulary words for this unit include: road, bridge, tunnel, sidewalk, house, build, environment, tree, and animal. This week we worked on the book: Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker. We create construction truck cookies for our snack. The cookies used strawberry wafer cookies, icing, chocolate chips and cereal. For our craft, we created a house using a lunch bag and construction paper. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. We used construction themed subtraction problems and a variety of building manipulatives to add. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. We will focus on the book, Watch Your Step, Mr. Rabbit! by Richard Scarry. Additionally, we will work on the story, I Love the Earth from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, word families, pronouns, synonyms, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will continue to review addition and subtraction concepts with a focus on subtraction concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/20/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores ways people change the environment. Students will work to learn how the changes people make help or hurt the environment. Students will work to recognize human modifications and that can help the Earth. The word wall words for this unit include: are, out, then, how, so, have, could, go, hurt, made, did, too. The vocabulary words for this unit include: road, bridge, tunnel, sidewalk, house, build, environment, tree, and animal. This week we worked on the book: Let’s Clean Up by Peggy Perry Anderson. We create Earth Day cookies for our snack. The cookies used flour, butter, vanilla, and sugar. We colored two different batches of dough: one blue and one green and rolled them together to create the Earth. For our craft, we created a bird feeder using soy-butter, bird seed and toilet paper rolls. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. We used construction themed additions problems and a variety of building manipulatives to add. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. We will focus on the book,Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Tom Lichtenheld. Additionally, we will work on the story, My House from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will continue to review addition and subtraction concepts with a focus on subtraction concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 04/13/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began a new Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores ways people change the environment. Students will work to learn how the changes people make help or hurt the environment. Students will work to recognize human modifications and that can help the Earth. The word wall words for this unit include: are, out, then, how, so, have, could, go, hurt, made, did, too. The vocabulary words for this unit include: road, bridge, tunnel, sidewalk, house, build, environment, tree, and animal. This week we worked on the book: Earth Day Everyday by Lisa Bullard. We create a dirt snack. For our craft, we created a bulldozer. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. We used construction themed additions problems and a variety of building manipulatives to add. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue the Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. We will focus on the book, Let’s Clean Up! by Peggy Perry Anderson. Additionally, we will work on the story, The Forest from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, identifying the setting of a story, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will continue to review addition and subtraction concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekl Newsletter 03/28/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. In this unit the students worked on learning about common weather patterns that occur during each of the four seasons. We worked on drawing from personal experiences to identify clothing and activities that correspond with these weather patterns. We worked on observing daily and seasonal weather changes, identify properties of air, and identify forms of water. The word wall words for this unit included: warm, get, me, hot, keep, when, very, going, this, up, a, and cold. The vocabulary words for this unit included: season, winter, spring, summer, fall, Sun, rain, snow, and weather. This week we worked on the book: The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. We combined our snack and craft this week with a sensory activity of creating Peeps play dough. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. We used fun spring flowers to practice number to set and addition concepts and even planted our flowers in play dough “dirt.” For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, I hope you all have an amazing Spring Break. Following Spring Break, we will begin a new Unique Learning unit entitled: Changing Our Land. This unit explores ways people change the environment. Students will work to learn how the changes people make help or hurt the environment. Students will work to recognize human modifications and that can help the Earth. The word wall words for this unit include: are, out, then, how, so, have, could, go, hurt, made, did, too. The vocabulary words for this unit include: road, bridge, tunnel, sidewalk, house, build, environment, tree, and animal. We will focus on the book, Earth Day Everyday by Lisa Bullard. Additionally, we will work on the story, The Street from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will continue to review addition and subtraction concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/23/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. This unit the students will work on learning about common weather patterns that occur during each of the four seasons. We will work on drawing from personal experiences to identify clothing and activities that correspond with these weather patterns. We will work on observing daily and seasonal weather changes, identify properties of air, and identify forms of water. The word wall words for this unit include: warm, get, me, hot, keep, when, very, going, this, up, a, and cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: season, winter, spring, summer, fall, Sun, rain, snow, and weather. This week we worked on the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog by Lucille Colandro. For our craft this week, we created an “Easter” bunny. For our snack this week, we created a fun cloud and raindrops using sugar cookies, icing, and blueberries. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on modeling addition for larger sums. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Curriculum unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the book, The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. Additionally, we will work on the story, It Is Spring from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will continue to review addition and subtraction concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible
Weekly Newsletter 03/16/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. This unit the students will work on learning about common weather patterns that occur during each of the four seasons. We will work on drawing from personal experiences to identify clothing and activities that correspond with these weather patterns. We will work on observing daily and seasonal weather changes, identify properties of air, and identify forms of water. The word wall words for this unit include: warm, get, me, hot, keep, when, very, going, this, up, a, and cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: season, winter, spring, summer, fall, Sun, rain, snow, and weather. This week we worked on the book: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring by Kin Eagle. For our craft this week, we created a rainbow using tissue paper. For our snack this week, we an edible rainbow with fruit loops cereal, marshmallows and pipe cleaners. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Additionally, we worked on modelling teen and larger numbers. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on place value and worked to identify ones, tens, hundreds and thousands using physical models. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled: Tell Me About the Westher. We will focus on the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog by Lucille Colandro. Additionally, we will work on the story, Spring Weather from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will review addition and subtraction concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 03/09/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. This unit the students will work on learning about common weather patterns that occur during each of the four seasons. We will work on drawing from personal experiences to identify clothing and activities that correspond with these weather patterns. We will work on observing daily and seasonal weather changes, identify properties of air, and identify forms of water. The word wall words for this unit include: warm, get, me, hot, keep, when, very, going, this, up, a, and cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: season, winter, spring, summer, fall, Sun, rain, snow, and weather. This week we worked on the book: Weather Words by Gail Gibbons. For our craft this week, we created a winter snowman using baking soda, glitter and water. For our snack this week, we Clouds in the Sky using blue gelatin and cool whip. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Additionally, we worked on modelling teen numbers. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. We, also, worked on modeling larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on place value and worked to identify ones, tens, hundreds and thousands using physical models. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled: Next week, we will focus on the book, It’s Raining, It’s Pouring as told by Kin Eagle. Additionally, we will work on the story, Spring from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will continue to work on increased understanding of place value concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review addition and subtraction. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
Weekly Newsletter 03/02/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explored history and traditions of community, state, and country. We are explored national symbols and holidays. We, also, explored what makes a community special and what makes up a community. The word wall words for this unit included: see, he, and, will, said, my, feel, man, for, here, the, was. The vocabulary words for this unit includes: America, state, community, flag, president, bald eagle, statue, people, and festival. This week we worked on the book: When I Grow Up by Al Yankovic (Yes, Weird Al Yankovic)! If you have not read this book, check it out. It is a terrific book about the many great adventures we can have as we grow up. For our craft this week, we created a community helpers flip book that lets us be a helper. For our snack this week, we created a fire truck snack using graham crackers, mini oreos, icing, pretzels and cheezits. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on place value and worked to identify ones, tens, hundreds and thousands using physical models. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled: Tell Me About the Weather. This unit the students will work on learning about common weather patterns that occur during each of the four seasons. We will work on drawing from personal experiences to identify clothing and activities that correspond with these weather patterns. We will work on observing daily and seasonal weather changes, identify properties of air, and identify forms of water. The word wall words for this unit include: warm, get, me, hot, keep, when, very, going, this, up, a, and cold. The vocabulary words for this unit include: season, winter, spring, summer, fall, Sun, rain, snow, and weather. Next week, we will focus on the book, Weather Words by Gail Gibbons. Additionally, we will work on the story, Hot and Cold from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on increased understanding of place value concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review addition and subtraction. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clip
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clip
Weekly Newsletter 02/23/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores history and traditions of community, state, and country. We are exploring national symbols and holidays. We are, also, exploring what makes a community special and what makes up a community. The word wall words for this unit include: see, he, and, will, said, my, feel, man, for, here, the, was. The vocabulary words for this unit include: America, state, community, flag, president, bald eagle, statue, people, and festival.. This week we worked on the books: Duck for President by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. For our craft this week, we created cards for our friend Mrs. Wiesler who is sick. For our snack this week, we created a patriotic snack mix using popcorn, blue and red licorice, blue and red M&M’s and some duck shapes crackers to go with our book. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on place value and worked to identify ones, tens, hundreds and thousands using physical models. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled: I Live in a Community. We will focus on the book, When I Grow Up by Al Yankovic. Additionally, we will work on the story, I am a Community Worker from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, author’s purpose and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on increased understanding of place value concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review addition and subtraction. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
Weekly Newsletter 02/16/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores history and traditions of community, state, and country. We are exploring national symbols and holidays. We are, also, exploring what makes a community special and what makes up a community. The word wall words for this unit include: see, he, and, will, said, my, feel, man, for, here, the, was. The vocabulary words for this unit include: America, state, community, flag, president, bald eagle, statue, people, and festival.. This week we worked on the books: Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse by Laura Numeroff and Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. For our craft this week, we created a a patriotic windsock using construction paper and crepe paper. For our snack this week, we created a yogurt bars using yogurt, honey, blueberries, strawberries, and granola. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition and subtraction and the concepts of put together and take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends worked on place value and worked to identify ones, tens, hundreds and thousands using physical models. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences, punctuation and capitalization and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled: I Live in a Community. We will focus on the book, Duck for President by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Additionally, we will work on the story, The Parade from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, and recognizing nouns. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on increased understanding of place value concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review addition and subtraction. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
Weekly Newsletter 02/09/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the Unique Learning unit entitled: I Live in a Community. This unit explores history and traditions of community, state, and country. We will explore national symbols and holidays. We will, also, explore what makes a community special and what makes up a community. The word wall words for this unit include: see, he, and, will, said, my, feel, man, for, here, the, was. The vocabulary words for this unit include: America, state, community, flag, president, bald eagle, statue, people, and festival.. This week we worked on the book: Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark. For our craft this week, we created a Valentine’s Day craft using contact and crepe papers. For our snack this week, we created a Valentine’s Snack Mix using marshmallows, Valentine’s Day M&M’s, berry cereal, popcorn and Valentine’s Day cookies. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative subtraction and the concept of take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on subtraction from larger numbers and continued work on place value. We practiced subtraction using a monkey themed subtraction activity with fine motor practice. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled: I Live in a Community. We will focus on the book, Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney and Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse by Laura Numeroff. Additionally, we will work on the story, Valentines All Around from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, capitalization and punctuation. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on increased understanding of place value concepts. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and continue to review addition and subtraction. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
- Shoe boxes (This is a one time request! Please do not send empty shoe boxes after Valentine's Day!)
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
- Shoe boxes (This is a one time request! Please do not send empty shoe boxes after Valentine's Day!)
Weekly Newsletter 02/02/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded the Unique Learning unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. This unit explored the body and what it needs to stay healthy. Students worked to identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and practices help us live. The word wall words for this unit included: help, body, by, myself, with, all, has, him, I, is, her, eat. The vocabulary words included: mouth, healthy, body, hair, hand, eye, ear, nose, teeth, exercise. This week we worked on the book:A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Stead. For our craft this week, we created a groundhog and his shadow for Groundhog Day. For our snack this week, we created a groundhog using pancakes, bananas, marshmallows and chocolate chips. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative subtraction and the concept of take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on subtraction from larger numbers and continued work on place value. We practiced subtraction using a monkey themed subtraction activity with fine motor practice. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing, declarative sentences and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin our Unique Curriculum unit entitled:I Live in a Community. This unit explores history and traditions of community, state, and country. We will explore national symbols and holidays. We will, also, explore what makes a community special and what makes up a community. The word wall words for this unit include: see, he, and, will, said, my, feel, man, for, here, the, was. The vocabulary words for this unit include: America, state, community, flag, president, bald eagle, statue, people, and festival.We will focus on the book, Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark. Additionally, we will work on the story, The City from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, categorizing words, classifying information, capitalization and naming words. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding and subtracting numbers and adding and subtraction using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
- Shoe boxes (This is a one time request! Please do not send empty shoe boxes after Valentine's Day!)
Additionally,
The Highland Drive STEAM Room is currently in need of supplies. If you are able to make a donation, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!
- Clorox wipes
- Paper towels
- Foil
- Cellophane tape (Scotch tape or any generic brand)
- Masking tape
- Straws
- New sponges
- Paper clips
- Binder clips
- Shoe boxes (This is a one time request! Please do not send empty shoe boxes after Valentine's Day!)
Weekly Newsletter 01/26/2018
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what it needs to stay healthy. Students will identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and practices help us live. The word wall words for this unit include: help, body, by, myself, with, all, has, him, I, is, her, eat. The vocabulary words include: mouth, healthy, body, hair, hand, eye, ear, nose, teeth, exercise. This week we worked on the book:Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz. For our craft this week, we created a snowy scene and dressed our own Froggy for the snow. For our snack this week, we created a frog using fudge stripe cookies, pretzel twists, and M&M’s. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative subtraction and the concept of take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on subtraction from larger numbers and continued work on place value. We practiced subtraction using a fun Subtraction Smash activity with play dough. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Curriculum unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. We will focus on the book, A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead. Additionally, we will work on the story, All Kinds of Faces from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, identifying emotions, classifying information, capitalization and declarative sentences. Additionally, we will work briefly on antonyms. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding and subtracting numbers and adding and subtraction using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/19/2018
This week and last, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued the Unique Learning unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what it needs to stay healthy. Students will identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and practices help us live. The word wall words for this unit include: help, body, by, myself, with, all, has, him, I, is, her, eat. The vocabulary words include: mouth, healthy, body, hair, hand, eye, ear, nose, teeth, exercise. This week we worked on the book:Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz. Due to the in-service day on Friday we did not have a craft or create a snack together. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative subtraction and the concept of take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on subtraction from larger numbers and continued work on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. We will continue to focus on the book, Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz. Additionally, we will work on the story, My Hair from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, and declarative sentences. Additionally, we will work briefly on antonyms. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding and subtracting numbers and adding and subtraction using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 01/12/2018
This week and last, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the Unique Learning unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what it needs to stay healthy. Students will identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and practices help us live. The word wall words for this unit include: help, body, by, myself, with, all, has, him, I, is, her, eat. The vocabulary words include: mouth, healthy, body, hair, hand, eye, ear, nose, teeth, exercise. This week we worked on the book:LLama LLama Home with Mama by Anna Dewdney. For our craft this week, we created a llama to go with our story. For our snack, we created exercising snowmen using bananas, chocolate chips, apples, grapes and pretzel sticks. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative subtraction and the concept of take away. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on subtraction from larger numbers and continued work on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, story elements, nouns, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. We will focus on the book, Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz. Additionally, we will work on the story, My Face from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, initial sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding and subtracting numbers and adding and subtraction using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Congratulations to Mrs. Arnold on her first grandchild! Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/19/2017
This week and last, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their Unique Learning unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This unit focused on traditions celebrated by different families and how they are the same and different. The word wall words for this unit included: my, and, eat, we, day, what, with, after, says, our, every. The vocabulary words included: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. This week we worked on the book:The Gingerbread Bear by Robert Dennis and The Night Before the Night Before Christmas by Natasha Wing. For our craft this week,we created a happy holidays craft and decorated gift bags. For our snack, we created gingerbread cookies. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on addition to larger numbers and continued work on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Following winter break, we will begin our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled:I Can Be Healthy. This unit explores the body and what it needs to stay healthy. Students will identify what people need to survive and how healthy habits and practices help us live. We will focus on the book, LLama LLama Home with Mama by Anna Dewdney. Additionally, we will work on the story, My Body from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, short vowel sounds, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting,vocabulary, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. We will, also, continue to practice and review addition and subtraction. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding and subtracting numbers and adding and subtraction using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. I sincerely hope you all have a wonderful winter break and I can not wait to see you all in the new year. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/08/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their Unique Learning unit entitled: It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on traditions celebrated by different families and how they are the same and different. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, eat, we, day, what, with, after, says, our, every. The vocabulary words include: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. This week we worked on the book:The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Cambell Ernst. For our craft this week,we created a holiday wreath. For our snack, we created hot chocolate using an interactive recipe. It contained cocoa, milk, vanilla, sugar and of course marshmallows. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups and picture/manipulative addition. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on story problems. We, also, worked on addition to larger numbers and continued work on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our Unique Curriculum unit entitled:It’s a Tradition. We will focus on the book, The Gingerbread Bear by Robert Dennis. Additionally, we will work on the story, Winter Fun from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, short vowel sounds, main idea and details, adjectives, vocabulary, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. We will, also, continue to practice and review addition. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding numbers and adding using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 12/01/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explored why people from the past moved from place to place. Students learned about different groups of people that lived in America long ago. Students compared what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. Additionally, students learned why people move today. The word wall words for this unit included: water, present, were, these, need, food, people, past, do, some, they, both. The vocabulary words for this unit included: people, need, present, past, money, clothes, home, food, move. This week we worked on the book: Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara. For our craft this week,we created an alien like the aliens from our story. For our snack, we created an alien themed snack using oreos, melting chocolate and candy eyes.. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 5, picture addition, and counting groups. Additionally, we worked on identifying the equal sign, pus sign and identifying beginning place value. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 5’s and 10’s. We, also, worked on identifying equal groups and beginning place value. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by equal groups, and repeated addition. Finally, we continued working on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled:It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on traditions celebrated by different families and how they are the same and different. The word wall words for this unit include: my, and, eat, we, day, what, with, after, says, our, every. The vocabulary words include: family, tradition, holiday, together, celebrate, special, share, friend, different. We will focus on the book, The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Cambell Ernst. Additionally, we will work on the story, A Cold Day from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, short vowel sounds, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. We will, also, practice and review addition. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding numbers and adding using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/24/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about different groups of people that lived in America long ago. Students will compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. Additionally, students will learn why people move today. The word wall words for this unit included: water, present, were, these, need, food, people, past, do, some, they, both. The vocabulary words for this unit included: people, need, present, past, money, clothes, home, food, move. This week we worked on the book: Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. We did not have a craft this week, but instead created Thanksgiving foods for our feast. For our snack, we created cranberry sauce for our feast. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 5, picture addition, and counting groups. Additionally, we worked on identifying the equal sign and identifying beginning place value. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 5’s and 10’s. We, also, worked on identifying equal groups and beginning place value. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by equal groups, and repeated addition. Finally, we continued working on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will conclude our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled: People Long Ago. We will focus on the book, Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara. Additionally, we will work on the story, New Again from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, short vowel sounds, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. We will, also, practice and review addition. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding numbers and adding using place value concepts and using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/17/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about different groups of people that lived in America long ago. Students will compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. Additionally, students will learn why people move today. The word wall words for this unit included: water, present, were, these, need, food, people, past, do, some, they, both. The vocabulary words for this unit included: people, need, present, past, money, clothes, home, food, move. This week we worked on the book: Berenstain Bears: Moving Day by Jan and Stan Berenstain. We did not have a craft this week, but worked on a turkey themed phonics activity. For our snack, we created pumpkin pie dip using pumpkin, cinnamon, pudding, cool whip and nilla wafers. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 5, picture addition, and counting groups. Additionally, we worked on identifying the equal sign. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 5’s. We, also, worked on identifying equal groups. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on missing addends, fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by equal groups, and repeated addition. Finally, we all began working on place value. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled: People Long Ago. We will focus on the book, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvan. Additionally, we will work on the story, On Thanksgiving from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. We will, also, introduce place value. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding equal numbers and repeated addition using visual supports. Additionally, we will all work on time and money concepts and place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 11/10/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about different groups of people that lived in America long ago. Students will compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. Additionally, students will learn why people move today. The word wall words for this unit included: water, present, were, these, need, food, people, past, do, some, they, both. The vocabulary words for this unit included: people, need, present, past, money, clothes, home, food, move. This week we worked on the book: Berenstain Bears: Moving Day by Jan and Stan Berenstain. For our craft this week, we created a turkey using paper plates, tissue paper, and construction paper. For our snack, we created a turkey using graham crackers, icing, twizzlers, nilla wafers, candy corn, and pretzel sticks. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 5 and picture addition. Additionally, we worked on identifying the equal sign. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 5’s. We, also, worked on identifying equal groups. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on missing addends, fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by equal groups, and repeated addition. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled: People Long Ago. We will continue to focus on the book, Berenstain Bears: Moving Day by Jan and Stan Berenstain. Additionally, we will work on the story, Then and Now from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. We will, also, introduce place value. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding equal numbers and repeated addition using visual supports. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts and place value. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible. Please note: Mrs. Shingleton will be at OCALICON, a conference for autism and low incidence disabilities Wednesday November 15th, Thursday November 16th, and Friday November 17th. Mrs. Twarog will be our substitute.
Weekly Newsletter 11/03/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looked at the way things move, including movement of the body. Students worked on learning that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down or fast and slow. The word wall words for this unit included: in, move, game, it, ride, now, she, fast, after, them, along, make. The vocabulary words for this unit included: straight, circle, up, down, move, stop, fast, slow and slide. This week we worked on the books: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Animals on the Move. For our craft this week, we created a broom using construction paper, tape, paper bags and yarn. For our snack, we created a broom using a cheese stick, pull and peel licorice and pretzel sticks. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 5 and picture addition. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 5’s. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on missing addends, fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by groups, and repeated addition. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin our new Unique Curriculum unit entitled: People Long Ago. This unit explores why people from the past moved from place to place. Students will learn about different groups of people that lived in America long ago. Students will compare what life was like in the past to what life is like in the present. Additionally, students will learn why people move today. We will focus on the book, Berenstain Bears: Moving Day by Jan and Stan Berenstain. Additionally, we will work on the story, Old and New from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, and declarative sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on adding equal numbers and repeated addition using visual supports. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/26/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the way things move, including movement of the body. Students have been learning that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down or fast and slow. The word wall words for this unit include: in, move, game, it, ride, now, she, fast, after, them, along, make. The vocabulary words for this unit include: straight, circle, up, down, move, stop, fast, slow and slide. This week we worked on the books: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro and Monkey See, Monkey Do by Marc Gave. For our craft this week, we created a halloween foam build a scene. For our snack, we had cupcakes to to say goodbye to one of our friends. We will miss him very much and hope he LOVES his new school. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 5. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 5’s. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on missing addends, fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by groups, and repeated beginning addition. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements, sequencing and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue to focus on physical science including force and motion and, of course Halloween. We will focus on the books, Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and Animals on the Move. Additionally, we will work on the story, Halloween Costumes from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, and nouns. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Additionally, we will work on counting sets of 2’s. Our first through third grade friends will continue to work on number patterns like counting by groups (2’s, 5’s, and 10’s) and filling in a variety of number charts. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts and continue working on story problems and repeated addition. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible. Reminder: there is no school tomorrow October 27, 2017. The Halloween Parade and parties will be in the afternoon on October 31st. Happy Halloween!
Weekly Newsletter 10/20/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 Continued their focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the way things move, including movement of the body. Students have been learning that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down or fast and slow. The word wall words for this unit include: in, move, game, it, ride, now, she, fast, after, them, along, make. The vocabulary words for this unit include: straight, circle, up, down, move, stop, fast, slow and slide. This week we worked on the book: Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig and Marc Brown and It’s Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall. For our craft this week, we created a counting book using pumpkin cut outs and pumpkin seeds. For our snack, we decorated pumpkin cookies. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets. We,also, worked on counting groups of 10. Our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers and counting by 10’s. Our second and third grade friends continued to work on missing addends, fact families and story problems. We, also, worked on number patterns, counting by groups, and repeated beginning addition. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue to focus on physical science including force and motion. We will focus on the books, Monkey See, Monkey Do by Marc Gave and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro. Additionally, we will work on the story, You and I from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, main idea and details, initial sounds practice, rhyming words and the pronoun “I”. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Additionally, we will work on counting sets of 10. Our first through third grade friends will continue to work on number patterns like counting by groups (2’s, 5’s, and 10’s) and filling in a variety of number charts. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts and continue working on story problems. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 10/12/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the way things move, including movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down or fast and slow. The word wall words for this unit include: in, move, game, it, ride, now, she, fast, after, them, along, make. The vocabulary words for this unit include: straight, circle, up, down, move, stop, fast, slow and slide. This week we worked on the book: Motion: Push and Pull, Fast and Slow by Darlene Stille. For our craft this week, we created pop up puppets we could push and pull! We create a Puppy Chow snack. Our snack called for peanut butter but we substituted WOW butter to accommodate allergies. Our snack, also, cereal, chocolate chips, and powdered sugar. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends continued to work on applying addition and subtraction concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. Additionally, we worked on missing addends, fact families and story problems. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial and final sounds, CVC words, prepositions, story elements and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue to focus on physical science including force and motion. We will focus on the books, Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig and Marc Brown and It’s Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall. Additionally, we will work on the story, Go, Animals, Go from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, comparing and contrasting reality and fiction, initial sounds practice, capitalization and punctuation of sentences and positional words. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will on number sequences like counting by groups (2’s, 5’s, and 10’s) and filling in a variety of number charts. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts and continue working on story problems. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible. Also, please remember there is no school tomorrow due to NEOEA Day. Have a wonderful weekend.
Weekly Newsletter 10/06/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began the focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the way things move, including movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down or fast and slow. The word wall words for this unit include: in, move, game, it, ride, now, she, fast, after, them, along, make. The vocabulary words for this unit include: straight, circle, up, down, move, stop, fast, slow and slide. This week we worked on the book: Fast and Slow: An Animal Opposites Book by Lisa Bullard. For our craft this week, we created flying rockets. We create an Energy Bites snack. Our snack called for peanut butter but we substituted sunflower seed butter to accommodate allergies. Our snack, also, used oats, honey, vanilla, chocolate chips, and salt. It was a little like a no bake cookie. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends continued to work on applying addition and subtraction concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. Additionally, we worked on missing addends and fact families. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial sounds and CVC words, comparing and contrasting, author’s purpose, story elements and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue to focus on physical science including force and motion. We will We will focus on the book, Motion: Push and Pull, Fast and Slow by Darlene Stille. Additionally, we will work on the story, Swing, Sydney, Swing from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, comparing and contrasting, initial sounds practice, and capitalization and punctuation of sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition and subtraction by using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts, finding missing addends and beginning fact families. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/29/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded working on following school rules. We concluded the Unique Learning unit titled: I Can Follow the Rules. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. The word wall words included: that, does, school, can, at, hand, to, you, we, walk, his, why. The vocabulary words included: teacher, nice, listen, ask, walk, rule, school, home and safe. This week we worked on the book: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Voirst. For our craft this week, we created a school bus using an egg carton. We create a monkeys jumping on the bed snack. Our snack called for peanut butter but we substituted icing to accommodate allergies. Our snack, also, used bananas and raisins. We, also, conducted a germ science experiment. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend continued to work on addition and subtraction with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends continued to work on applying addition and subtraction concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial sounds and CVC words, comparing and contrasting, story elements and vocabulary. Next week, we will begin a new focus on physical science including force and motion. We will focus on the Unique Learning Curriculum Unit entitled: Move It!. This unit looks at the way things move, including movement of the body. Students will learn that movement can be described in many ways, such as up and down or fast and slow. The word wall words for this unit include: in, move, game, it, ride, now, she, fast, after, them, along, make. The vocabulary words for this unit include: straight, circle, up, down, move, stop, fast, slow and slide. We will focus on the book, Fast and Slow: An Animal Opposites Book by Lisa Bullard. Additionally, we will work on the story, Opposites from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, comparing and contrasting, initial sounds practice, and capitalization and punctuation of sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition and subtraction by using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. Additionally, we will work on time and money concepts, finding missing addends and beginning fact families. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/22/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued working on following school rules. We continued the Unique Learning unit titled: I Can Follow the Rules. We have been focusing on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. The word wall words include: that, does, school, can, at, hand, to, you, we, walk, his, why. The vocabulary words include: teacher, nice, listen, ask, walk, rule, school, home and safe. This week we worked on the book: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. For our craft this week, we created a crayon pal using our favorite color. We create a crayon snack using graham crackers, sprinkles and icing. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend continued to work on addition with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends continued to work on applying addition concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. Additionally, all of our room 7 friends worked on subtraction and the concept of take away. We began by working on crossing out to subtract and worked on utilizing a number line to subtract. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial sounds and CVC words, author’s purpose, story elements and vocabulary. Next week, we will conclude our focus on following the rules. We will focus on the book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Voirst. Additionally, we will work on the story, Nice, Not Nice from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, comparing and contrasting, initial sounds practice, capitalization and punctuation of sentences, and antonyms. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets and applying putting together and taking apart. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition and subtraction by using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/15/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued working on following school rules. We continued the Unique Learning unit titled: I Can Follow the Rules. We have been focusing on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. The word wall words include: that, does, school, can, at, hand, to, you, we, walk, his, why. The vocabulary words include: teacher, nice, listen, ask, walk, rule, school, home and safe. This week we worked on the book: Chamelia and the New Kid in Class by Ethan Long. For our craft this week, we created a chameleon of our very own and the fun part of creating a chameleon is that he or she can be any color or color combination we like! We create a chameleon snack using bananas, strawberries and cheese. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend continued to work on addition with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends continued to work on applying addition concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, initial sounds and CVC words, author’s purpose, and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue to focus on following the rules. We will focus on the book, The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. Additionally, we will work on the story, We Make Good Choices from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, discuss author’s purpose, initial consonant sounds, and reading and writing sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets. In addition, our kindergarten friend will work on shape identification practice and review. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. In addition, we will work more heavily on subtraction and applying subtraction concepts. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/08/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued working on following school rules. We continued the Unique Learning unit titled: I Can Follow the Rules. We will be focusing on this unit for the month of September. We are focusing on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. The word wall words include: that, does, school, can, at, hand, to, you, we, walk, his, why. The vocabulary words include: teacher, nice, listen, ask, walk, rule, school, home and safe. This week we worked on the book: David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. For our craft this week, we created a pencil craft. We create a pencil snack using wafer cookies, melting chocolate and marshmallows. For math; our kindergarten friend continued to work on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend continued to work on addition with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends continued to work on applying addition concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,letter identification practice and review, short /o/ sound and words using this sound, author’s purpose, and vocabulary. Next week, we will continue to focus on following the rules. We will focus on the book, Chamelia and the New Kid in Class by Ethan Long. Additionally, we will work on the story, After School from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, discuss author’s purpose, initial consonant sounds, and reading and writing sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. In addition, we will continue a subtraction review. Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 09/01/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued working on following school rules. We continued the Unique Learning unit titled: I Can Follow the Rules. We will be focusing on this unit for the month of September. We are focusing on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. The word wall words include: that, does, school, can, at, hand, to, you, we, walk, his, why. The vocabulary words include: teacher, nice, listen, ask, walk, rule, school, home and safe. This week we worked on the book: You’ll Be Sorry by Josh Schneider. For our craft this week, we created a boat and mouse just like in our story. We sorted good choices and not so good choices on soggy crackers from our story. We create a soggy cracker boat snack using graham crackers, icing, apples, and cheese. For math; our kindergarten friend worked on number identification, counting sets and matching numbers to sets, our first grade friend worked on addition with manipulatives, identifying numbers 11-20, and counting sets for larger numbers, our second and third grade friends worked on applying addition concepts like using manipulatives, creating models, and using a number line. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions,good and not so good choice sorts,letter identification practice and review, basic inferencing and categories. Next week, we will continue to focus on following the rules. We will focus on the book, David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. Additionally, we will work on the story, Time for Soccer from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions, discuss author’s purpose, short vowels sounds, and reading and writing sentences. In math, our kindergarten friend will continue to work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. In addition, we will introduce a subtraction review. Finally, remember there is no school on Monday September 4, 2017. Have a happy Labor Day! Please remember, homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 08/25/2017
Welcome Back!!! I hope everyone had a terrific summer. This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began working on following school rules. We began a brief introduction of the Unique Learning unit titled: I Can Follow the Rules. We will be focusing on this unit for the month of September. We will focus on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. The word wall words include: that, does, school, can, at, hand, to, you, we, walk, his, why. The vocabulary words include: teacher, nice, listen, ask, walk, rule, school, home and safe. This week we worked on the books: No, David By David Shannon and Dinosaurs Go to School by Mark Teague and Jane Yolen. For our craft this week, we created a No, David activity depicting good choices and not so good choices. We create a No, David snack using rice cakes, icing, and M&M’s. For math, we worked on a back to school review. We practiced money, time and addition concepts. For language arts, we focused on comprehension questions, behavior sorts, and letter identification practice and review. Next week, we will continue to focus on following the rules. We will focus on the book, You’ll Be Sorry by Josh Schneider. Additionally, we will work on the story, He Runs from Reading A-Z. We will practice answering comprehension questions and making basic inferences. We will, also, work on sorting by categories. In math, our kindergarten friends will work on number identification practice and review, counting sets, and matching numbers to sets. Our first through third grade friends will work on reviewing addition using manipulatives, by making sets and pictures and using a number line. Finally, on Monday your first homework packet will come home. Please feel free to work at your own pace. Homework is for practice and routine. If, at any time, it is too much or too little please let Mrs. Shingleton know. Also, feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton with any comments, questions or concerns. I do my best to answer as promptly as possible.
Weekly Newsletter 06/01/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their unit on Life Science, entitled: Are You My Parent? We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on animals and their offspring. We focused on the book From Head to Toe By Eric Carle. For our craft this week, we created a turtle using construction paper, crayons, glue, and paper plates. We create a turtle themed snack using apples and grapes. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our life science unit. Additionally, we continued to work on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s, and reviewed time and money. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. We, also, have been working on creating declarative sentences and typing and writing. Our third grade friends began to review time concepts and counting by 5’s and 10’s. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing, sight words, verbs and identifying main ideas and story details. We, also, concluded our school year! This year has been exciting and I have enjoyed everyday getting to be your teacher! I cannot wait to see many of you in the summer and look forward to next year. We had a ton of fun this week. We had Junior Olympics, a classical music assembly, an awards assembly for our 3rd grade friends, class parties and our room 7 party. I hope you all had as much fun as I did! To my third grade friends, I am incredibly lucky to have been your teacher. I have admired the way each of you has grown and I look forward to seeing where the future takes you. Good luck at Central and don’t be strangers!
Weekly Newsletter 05/26/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their unit on Life Science, entitled: Are You My Parent? We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on animals and their offspring. We focused on the book Little Lions By Jim Arnosky. For our craft this week, we worked on a kangaroo joey in a pouch craft using paper, paper plates, crayons and yarn. We create a kangaroo themed snack using pancakes, bananas, and chocolate chips. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our life science unit. Additionally, we continued to work on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s, and reviewed time and money. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. We, also, have been working on creating declarative sentences and typing and writing. Our third grade friends began to review time concepts and counting by 5’s and 10’s. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing, sight words, verbs and identifying main ideas and story details. We concluded our grant funded opportunity called Kids Love Musicals! The actor/educators came to Room 7 Wednesdays and Thursdays for 4 weeks and explored The Jungle Book. It was fantastic! Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Are You My Parent? We will also conclude our school year! Students will observe in what ways offspring resembles parents. They will work on matching parents to offspring, matching like features, and describing ways offspring resemble their parents. We will focus on the following words: for, little, come, mother, be, big, does, animal, too, am, here, me. We will focus on a variety of books to conclude the school year. Additionally, there will be a summer practice packet coming home. Please feel free to do as much or as little as you please over the summer. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 05/19/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their unit on Life Science, entitled: Are You My Parent? We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on animals and their offspring. We focused on the book Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? By Eric Carle. For our craft this week, we worked on a giraffe themed craft using paint, paper, yarn and googly eyes. We create a lion themed snack using graham crackers, icing, pretzel sticks and mini twists, and mini chocolate chips. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our life science unit. Additionally, we continued to work on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s, reviewed time and money and continued to work worked on composite shapes and 2 and 3 dimensional shapes. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. We, also, have been working on creating declarative sentences and typing and writing. Our third grade friends began to review money concepts and counting by 5’s and 10’s. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing, sight words, s blends and identifying main ideas and story details. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Unfortunately, this week was our last Music Therapy session. We will really miss Miss Alicia. We continued a grant funded opportunity called Kids Love Musicals! The actor/educators will be coming to Room 7 Wednesdays and Thursdays for the next week to explore The Jungle Book. We are having a culminating event on Thursday May 25th at 2:15pm for this activity. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Are You My Parent? Students will observe in what ways offspring resembles parents. They will work on matching parents to offspring, matching like features, and describing ways offspring resemble their parents. We will focus on the following words: for, little, come, mother, be, big, does, animal, too, am, here, me. We will focus on the book: Little Lions By Jim Arnosky. We will work on corresponding activities. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 05/12/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their unit on Life Science, entitled: Are You My Parent? We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on animals and their offspring. We focused on the book Is Your Mama a Llama By Deborah Guarino. For our craft this week, we worked on Mother’s Day gifts (sorry moms no hints, no pictures!). We create an animal themed trail mix as our snack using animal crackers, goldfish crackers, animal gummies, pretzels and cereal. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our life science unit. Additionally, we worked on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s, reviewed time and money and continued to work worked on composite shapes and 2 and 3 dimensional shapes. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have continued to work on the concept of equivalent fractions. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words, and identifying main ideas and story details. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Unfortunately, next week will be our last Music Therapy session. We will really miss Miss Alicia. We continued a grant funded opportunity called Kids Love Musicals! The actor/educators will be coming to Room 7 Wednesdays and Thursdays for the next few weeks to explore The Jungle Book. We are hoping to have a culminating event on Thursday May 25th for this activity. A formal invitation will come home soon! Next week we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Are You My Parent? Students will observe in what ways offspring resembles parents. They will work on matching parents to offspring, matching like features, and describing ways offspring resemble their parents. We will focus on the following words: for, little, come, mother, be, big, does, animal, too, am, here, me. We will focus on the book: Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? By Eric Carle. We will work on corresponding activities. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 05/05/2017
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their unit on Life Science, entitled: Are You My Parent? We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on animals and their offspring. We focused on the book Growing Like Me By Anne Rockwell. For our craft this week, we created a mother and baby snake using paper chains, googly eyes and red balloons. We create Animals on a Trail as our snack using cream cheese, celery, raisins and animal crackers. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our life science unit. Additionally, we worked on 2-dimensional shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s, reviewed time and money and continued to work worked on composite shapes. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have continued to work on the concept of equivalent fractions. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. We began a grant funded opportunity called Kids Love Musicals! The actor/educators will be coming to Room 7 Wednesdays and Thursdays for the next four weeks to explore The Jungle Book. Next week we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Are You My Parent? Students will observe in what ways offspring resembles parents. They will work on matching parents to offspring, matching like features, and describing ways offspring resemble their parents. We will focus on the following words: for, little, come, mother, be, big, does, animal, too, am, here, me. We will focus on the book: Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino and Steven Kellogg. We will work on corresponding activities. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 04/28/17
Welcome Back from Spring Break! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their unit on Economics, entitled: Earning Money. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on spending and saving as they pertain to economics. We focused on the books At the Supermarket by Anne Rockwell and Just Shopping with Mom by Mercer Mayer. For our craft this week, we created our own Lunch money locket using felt, yarn and markers. We create fruit punch as our snack and Mrs. Shingleton brought in baseball cupcakes. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our economics unit. Additionally, we worked on shapes. We reviewed basic shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s, reviewed time and money and worked on composite shapes. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have introduced the concept of equivalent fractions. They have done a great job with halves, thirds, fourths, and eighths. They worked on equivalent fraction puzzles (these will be sent home for homework practice next week). They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. In addition we worked on similes and idioms. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Our second grade friends had their Spring Concert and did a fantastic job! Next week we will begin our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Are You My Parent? Students will observe in what ways offspring resembles parents. They will work on matching parents to offspring, matching like features, and describing ways offspring resemble their parents. We will focus on the following words: get, if, when, so, has, food, also, house, more, money clothes, leave. We will focus on the book: Growing Like Me by Anne Rockwell. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: big, am, too, here, me, for, be, little, come, animal, mother, does. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 04/21/17
Welcome Back from Spring Break! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their unit on Economics. It is entitled: Earning Money. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on needs and wants as they pertain to economics. Additionally, we focused on Earth Day! We focused on the books The Lorax by Dr. Suess and How to Help the Earth By the Lorax by Tish Rabe. For our craft this week, we created our own Lorax with our hands, paper plates and orange paper. We create a Lorax themed snack using lots of different fruit like pineapple, oranges, apples and strawberries. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our economics unit. Additionally, we worked on shapes. We reviewed basic shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. We have worked on telling time and money concepts, as well. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have introduced the concept of equivalent fractions. They have done a great job with halves, thirds, fourths, and eighths. They created a fraction pizza and got to decorate their pizza boxes. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. In addition we worked on compound words and long /e/ words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. We, also, got to see the musical Pinkaliscious! Next week we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Earning Money. Students will work to recognize that people earn money by doing jobs or performing a chore. They will, also, work on identifying that people must have money if they wish to buy products and services. We will focus on the following words: get, if, when, so, has, food, also, house, more, money clothes, leave. We will focus on the book: At the Supermarket by Anne Rockwell. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 04/07/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their new unit on Economics. It is entitled: Earning Money. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on needs and wants as they pertain to economics. We focused on the book Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells. For our craft this week, we focused on Easter themed activities. We made peeps playdough, decorated a wooden egg, and an Easter parfait with peeps, M&Ms, pudding and cool whip. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. We, also, worked on vocabulary to go along with our economics unit. Additionally, we worked on shapes. We reviewed basic shapes. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. We have worked on telling time and money concepts, as well. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have introduced the concept of equivalent fractions. They have done a great job with halves, thirds, fourths, and eighths. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. In addition we worked on compound words and long /e/ words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will have Spring Break! When we return, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Earning Money. Students will work to recognize that people earn money by doing jobs or performing a chore. They will, also, work on identifying that people must have money if they wish to buy products and services. We will focus on the following words: get, if, when, so, has, food, also, house, more, money clothes, leave. We will, also, engage in Earth Day activities. We will focus on the book: How to Help the Earth By the Lorax by Tish Rabe and The Lorax by Dr. Suess. We will work on corresponding activities and some bunny themed activities for the season! The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 03/31/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their new unit on Economics. It is entitled: Earning Money. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We, also, focused on needs and wants as they pertain to economics. We focused on the book Benny’s Pennies by Pat Brisson. We completed an awesome Minion themed bank. We used clear containers that we painted the inside of yellow. We added blue for the overalls, a black band and a googly eye. We, also, created a fun minion themed snack mix using minion fruit snacks, dried fruit, cereal and pretzels. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. We worked on teen numbers and how to compose those numbers. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. We have worked on telling time and money concepts, as well. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have introduced the concept of equivalent fractions. They have done a great job with halves, thirds, fourths, and eighths. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. In addition we worked on compound words and long /e/ words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Earning Money. Students will work to recognize that people earn money by doing jobs or performing a chore. They will, also, work on identifying that people must have money if they wish to buy products and services. We will focus on the following words: get, if, when, so, has, food, also, house, more, money clothes, leave. We will focus on the book: Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells. We will work on corresponding activities and some bunny themed activities for the season! The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 03/24/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their focus on their five senses with special attention paid to sight and sound. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book When Will It Be Spring? by Catherine Walters. We completed a fun rainbow craft with ribbon, cotton and stickers. We, also, created a fun St. Patrick’s Day snack using vanilla pudding (colored green of course), Lucky Charms cereal, and cool whip. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. We, also, worked on teen numbers and how to compose those numbers. Finally, we worked on addition and subtraction concepts. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on fractions. We have worked to identify simple fractions and have introduced the concept of equivalent fractions. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. In addition we worked on compound words and long /e/ words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Also, this week, we had D.A.R.E. Next week, we will begin our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Earning Money. Students will work to recognize that people earn money by doing jobs or performing a chore. They will, also, work on identifying that people must have money if they wish to buy products and services. We will focus on the following words: get, if, when, so, has, food, also, house, more, money clothes, leave. We will focus on the book: Benny’s Pennies by Pat Brisson. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 03/17/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on their five senses with special attention paid to sight and sound. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book Happy St. Patrick’s Day Curious George by Cynthia Platt. We did not have a snack or craft this week due to the snow day. Due to this we will complete our St. Patrick’s day craft and snack next week. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. We, also, worked on teen numbers and how to compose those numbers. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts of touch points, addition and subtraction. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on the concepts of perimeter and area and began working on fractions. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. In addition we worked on compound words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Also, this week, we had a great visit from the local nature center. They taught us about how they use their beak as tools just like we use our hands. We got to see different skulls and practice using tools like their beaks. Next week, we will be concluding our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Exploring Light and Sound. Students have worked to explore sounds and how they are made, how light changes the appearance of objects, identify the difference between light and dark, and participate in making and amplifying sounds. We will focus on the book When Will It Be Spring by Catherine Walters. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Also, Mrs. Shingleton will be absent Monday March 20, 2017 and Tuesday March 21, 2017 for IEP writing and Mrs. Tischey will be our substitute.
Weekly Newsletter 03/10/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their focus on their five senses with special attention paid to sight and sound. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. We created a polar bear in the snow craft using paint and cutting and pasting. We, also, made a polar bear snack using oreos, icing, marshmallows, chocolate chips and candy eyes. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. We, also, worked on teen numbers and how to compose those numbers. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on the concepts of perimeter and area. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Also, this week, our 3rd grade friends got to see a huge Alaskan Malamute, again, to correspond with their Iditarod unit. Keanu (the huge Malamute) brought 2 canine friends to demonstrate how sled dog races work. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Exploring Light and Sound. Students will work to explore sounds and how they are made, how light changes the appearance of objects, identify the difference between light and dark, and participate in making and amplifying sounds. We will, also, focus on St. Patrick’s Day and have some fun St. Patrick’s Day activities. We will focus on the book Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Curious George by Cynthia Platt. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Also, Mrs. Shingleton will be absent Monday March 20, 2017 and Tuesday March 21, 2017 for IEP writing and Mrs. Tischey will be our substitute.
Weekly Newsletter 03/03/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their focus on their five senses with special attention paid to sight and sound. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle and Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Suess to celebrate his birthday. We created a cool straw flute by cutting straws in different lengths to create different sounds. We, also, made a Poppin’ snack mix snack using microwave popcorn, dried fruit, candy, and chocolate chips. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. We, also, worked on teen numbers and how to compose those numbers. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts. We have also practiced counting by 5’s and 10’s. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on the concepts of perimeter and area. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, nouns and verbs, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Also, this week, our 3rd grade friends got to see a huge Alaskan Malamute to correspond with their Iditarod unit. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Exploring Light and Sound. Students will work to explore sounds and how they are made, how light changes the appearance of objects, identify the difference between light and dark, and participate in making and amplifying sounds. We will focus on the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear by Eric Carle. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Also, Mrs. Shingleton will be absent Tuesday March 7, 2017 for special education meetings and Mrs. Twarog will be our substitute.
Weekly Newsletter 02/24/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their focus on geography, maps and occupations and their relationship to maps. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. We created a map to go with our story. The map included wavy grass, a deep cold river, oozy mud, a dark forest, a swirling whirling snowstorm, and a deep dark cave. We, also, made a bear themed snack using rice and corn cakes and chocolate icing and raisins. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. We, also, worked on teen numbers. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on the concept of perimeter. We, also, introduced the concept of area. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Also, this week, we had COSI on Wheels. There was an all school assembly then we went to stations to learn about the Human Body. Next week, we will begin our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled:Exploring Light and Sound. Students will work to explore sounds and how they are made, how light changes the appearance of objects, identify the difference between light and dark, and participate in making and amplifying sounds. We will focus on the book The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: on, some, black, her, will, let, morning, these, next, of, white, early. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 02/17/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on geography, maps and occupations and their relationship to maps. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book Around the World by Margaret Wise Brown. Additionally, we read Valentine’s Day books. We created a LOVE canvas painting project for Valentine’s Day. We, also, decorated and ate Valentine’s Day cookies. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we continued to practice sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on the concept of perimeter. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will conclude our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Natural or Man-Made. Students will work to explore natural and man-made features that can be found on a map. They will work on describing items found on a physical map and determining if they are naturally occurring features or those made by human beings. We will, also, work on connecting physical features of a community and community jobs. We will focus on the book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: you, how, schoo, many, they, a, that, by, place, find, people, live. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Additional Information: Please remember there is no school Monday February 20, 2017 due to President's Day.
Weekly Newsletter 02/10/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on geography, maps and occupations and their relationship to maps. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book LaRue Across America: Postcards from the Vacation by Mark Teague. We created a postcard craft that goes with our story. We used masking tape to create a relief pattern on blank note cards and used water colors to create patterns. We, also, made ocean jello cups with a Nilla Wafer ocean floor jello ocean and gummy fish. Our story this week told the story of Ike the dog on a cross country vacation with two cats! Ike and his owner were planning an ocean cruise and due to unforeseen circumstances the trip becomes a drive across the country. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we practiced sorting and classifying items and composing and decomposing numbers. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing, data analysis and place value. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and touch math concepts. Also, they have worked on fact families. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on the concept of perimeter. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Natural or Man-Made. Students will work to explore natural and man-made features that can be found on a map. They will work on describing items found on a physical map and determining if they are naturally occurring features or those made by human beings. We will, also, work on connecting physical features of a community and community jobs. We will focus on the book Around the World by Margaret Wise Brown. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: you, how, schoo, many, they, a, that, by, place, find, people, live. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Additional information: Please consider attending the Schools Foundation’s Sip and Support. This event supports scholarships and classroom grants. Room 7 has benefited by receiving a grant for Ipads in the past, music therapy and this year we will participate in a project called Kids Love Musicals with the Cleveland Musical Theater Project with a grant from the schools foundation. Also, there is the opportunity to support a project without attending.
Fund-A-Need is a fun way to support your favorite project in the schools. Here is how it works:
1) Three quality project ideas will be featured at the BBHSF Sip and Support fundraiser – each project will have a glass container to fill with chips that represent funds raised in support of the project.
2) Fundraiser attendees can purchase chips in the amount of $10 each (no limit) to support your favorite project
· Chips may also be purchased online in advance of the fundraiser and will be converted into real chips at the event.
3) The project that receives the most chips (funding) will win a funding match from BBHSF (up to 50% of donation total).
4) Projects coming in second and third will still be winners – they will receive the total amount raised in chips only.
This is a fun, competitive and rewarding way to support wonderful project ideas generated by district teachers. Every project will make a difference by providing fun opportunities to advance learning. We encourage you to spread the word and purchase chips in support of one or all of the highlighted project!
Purchase your tickets and chips online at http://www.bbhsf.org/fundraising.
The 2017 Fund-A-Need Projects include:
We Do MORE with LEGOs in the Makerspace! at Highland Drive. Help teacher Morgan Kolis take her elementary Makerspace to a new level of innovation with LEGO kits that help students think critically, problem solve and design during their informal time.
3D Mobile Printer at BBH High School. Help teacher Ryan Goubeaux take 3D printing on the move with engineering CAD, robotics and other high school classes exploring engineering and design principles, critically thinking and creativity.
Upgrading and Innovating MS Percussion at BBH MS. Help teacher Jason Wyse keep middle school musicians upbeat by upgrading percussion instruments and supporting formation of a new percussion ensemble experience.
1) Three quality project ideas will be featured at the BBHSF Sip and Support fundraiser – each project will have a glass container to fill with chips that represent funds raised in support of the project.
2) Fundraiser attendees can purchase chips in the amount of $10 each (no limit) to support your favorite project
· Chips may also be purchased online in advance of the fundraiser and will be converted into real chips at the event.
3) The project that receives the most chips (funding) will win a funding match from BBHSF (up to 50% of donation total).
4) Projects coming in second and third will still be winners – they will receive the total amount raised in chips only.
This is a fun, competitive and rewarding way to support wonderful project ideas generated by district teachers. Every project will make a difference by providing fun opportunities to advance learning. We encourage you to spread the word and purchase chips in support of one or all of the highlighted project!
Purchase your tickets and chips online at http://www.bbhsf.org/fundraising.
The 2017 Fund-A-Need Projects include:
We Do MORE with LEGOs in the Makerspace! at Highland Drive. Help teacher Morgan Kolis take her elementary Makerspace to a new level of innovation with LEGO kits that help students think critically, problem solve and design during their informal time.
3D Mobile Printer at BBH High School. Help teacher Ryan Goubeaux take 3D printing on the move with engineering CAD, robotics and other high school classes exploring engineering and design principles, critically thinking and creativity.
Upgrading and Innovating MS Percussion at BBH MS. Help teacher Jason Wyse keep middle school musicians upbeat by upgrading percussion instruments and supporting formation of a new percussion ensemble experience.
Weekly Newsletter 02/03/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their focus on geography, maps and occupations and their relationship to maps. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. We created a map craft that goes with our story, Cooper’s Trip Across America. We cut and pasted the areas and geographical features the characters in our story work near and draw a map of Cooper’s route across America. We, also, made desert sand pudding to go along with the geographical features portion of our unit. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Additionally, we practiced sorting and classifying items. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing and data analysis. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and using tally marks. Also, they have worked a little on fact families. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements, sequencing and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on multiplication fact fluency and division. We reviewed previously introduced facts and fact families. We introduced the concept of perimeter. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will continue our Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Natural or Man-Made. Students will work to explore natural and man-made features that can be found on a map. They will work on describing items found on a physical map and determining if they are naturally occurring features or those made by human beings. We will, also, work on connecting physical features of a community and community jobs. We will focus on the book La Rue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation by Joan Mark Teague. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: you, how, schoo, many, they, a, that, by, place, find, people, live. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly Newsletter 01/27/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 concluded their focus on past and present. We completed our unique learning curriculum unit titled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. We focused on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the books Today in Monday by Eric Carle and Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward and Tomie dePaola. We created a sequencing craft to go with our book Today is Monday. We cut and pasted the days of the week and the corresponding foods that go with the story and song. We, also, made a cat themed craft to go along with our two stories. Today is Monday has a cat on it’s cover and within the pages and Cookie’s Week is about a troublesome kitten. Our kindergarten friends continued working on comprehension questions, sight words practice, letter sounds and initial sounds practice. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, fact families, graphing and data analysis. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and using tally marks. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on multiplication fact fluency and division. We reviewed previously introduced facts and fact families. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We, also, continued music therapy. Students continue to get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will introduce our new Unique Learning Curriculum unit entitled: Natural or Man-Made. Students will work to explore natural and man-made features that can be found on a map. They will work on describing items found on a physical map and determining if they are naturally occurring features or those made by human beings. We will, also, work on connecting physical features of a community and community jobs. We will focus on the book Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: you, how, school, many, they, a, that, by, place, find, people, live. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 01/20/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on past and present. We worked on the unique learning curriculum unit titled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. We have been focusing on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the ebooks about Colonial American life. We created a colonial craft called decoupage by using pieces of paper and glue. Paper was scarce in colonial times and they wanted to use every piece available. We, also, made spoon bread. We followed a recipe using corn meal, sour cream, butter, eggs, whole kernel corn and cream style corn. It was tasty! Our kindergarten friends continued working on probing letter identification and sounds and sight words for the upcoming report cards. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, graphing and data analysis. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and using tally marks. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on multiplication fact fluency and reviewing division. We reviewed previously introduced facts and fact families. They, also, worked on comparing story elements, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We, also, continued music therapy. Students get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will conclude our new Unique Learning unit entitled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. Students have been exploring how things have changed over time, chronological thinking, historical figures and how they have shaped our country and the concepts and past and present. We will focus on the books about historical figures and colonial america. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will work on recent past and present concepts like days of the week. We will focus on the books, Today is Monday by Eric Carle and Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward and Tomie dePaola. The words we will focus on include: different, was, same, ago, this, long, my, car, I, like, didn’t, today. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 01/13/17
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued their focus on past and present. We worked on the unique learning curriculum unit titled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. We have been focusing on the word wall words and vocabulary that accompany this unit. We focused on the book Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream. We created a Martin Luther King Jr. craft by cutting and pasting in the style of a puzzle. We, also, made pioneer soda biscuits. We followed a recipe using flour, baking soda, butter, vinegar, and milk. They were delicious biscuits! Our kindergarten friends continued working on probing letter identification and sounds and sight words for the upcoming report cards. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on comparing sets of objects, graphing and data analysis. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and using tally marks. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on multiplication fact fluency. We reviewed previously introduced facts. They, also, worked on comparing stories, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We, also, continued music therapy. We have a new music therapist this year. Her name is Ms. Alicia and she is terrific. Students get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. Students will be exploring how things have changed over time, chronological thinking, historical figures and how they have shaped our country and the concepts and past and present. We will focus on the books about historical figures and colonial america. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: different, was, same, ago, this, long, my, car, I, like, didn’t, today. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 01/06/17
Welcome Back!! This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began their focus on past and present. We introduced the unique learning curriculum unit titled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. We have begun this unit by focusing on newly introduced word wall words and vocabulary. We focused on the book Going to Town by Laura Ingels Wilder. We created fun snowman craft using a variety of items. We, also, made a snowman snack banana slices, pretzel sticks, mini chocolate chips and M&M’s. Our kindergarten friends worked on probing letter identification and sounds and sight words for the upcoming report cards. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers, using tally marks, and working with graphs and data analysis. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication fact fluency. We reviewed previously introduced facts. They, also, worked on comparing stories, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We, also, started music therapy. We have a new music therapist this year. Her name is Ms. Alicia and she was terrific. Typically, we will be having music therapy on Wednesday mornings from 10:15-10:45am. Next week, due to a prior commitment, we will be having music therapy on Thursday from 10:00-11:00am. Students get the opportunity to use music to develop sensory process, social skills, and communication skills. Next week, we will continue our new Unique Learning unit entitled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. Students will be exploring how things have changed over time, chronological thinking, historical figures and how they have shaped our country and the concepts and past and present. We will focus on the books about historical figures and colonial america. We will work on corresponding activities. Also, next week we will focus on Martin Luther King Jr. The words we will focus on include: different, was, same, ago, this, long, my, car, I, like, didn’t, today. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
WeEkly Newsletter 12/16/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 continued to focus on winter holidays and traditions. We continued this focus with Christmas. We learned that Christmas is a winter holiday celebrated by many people around the world in different ways. We learned that many people celebrate by putting up a tree with lights and ornaments, singing carols, visiting Santa Claus, and giving gifts. We focused on the books The Gingerbread Bear by Robert Dennis and Click, Clack, Ho!, Ho!, Ho! By Betsy Lewin and Doreen Cronin. We created fun gingerbread crafts and created chalkboard coasters as our holiday gifts to our families. We, also, made gingerbread from scratch and rolled and cut gingerbread men. We decorated our gingerbread men and got to eat gingerbread! Our kindergarten friends worked on practicing number to set with a Christmas theme and increasing fine motor skills. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers, using tally marks, and working with bar graphs. Additionally, they continue to work on reading comprehension, story elements and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication fact fluency. They, also, worked on proper nouns, comparing stories, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. We,also, had lots of fun special events including a presentation of Music in Motion which is the high school show choir. We had our homeroom holiday parties, and a school wide sing along! When we return from Winter Break, we will begin our new Unique Learning unit entitled: My Country: Yesterday and Today. Students will explore how things have changed over time, chronological thinking, historical figures and how they have shaped our country and the concepts and past and present. We will focus on the books about historical figures and colonial america. We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on include: different, was, same, ago, this, long, my, car, I, like, didn’t, today. Wishing you all a restful, fun and joyful break and holiday season! Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 12/09/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began focusing on winter holidays and traditions. We continued this focus with Kwanzaa. We learned that Kwanzaa is a winter holiday celebrated by people of the African American Heritage. We, also, learned that this celebration was created by Dr. Malauna Karenga in 1966 and celebrates family and togetherness. The celebration uses symbols like a unity cup, straw mat, dried corn and a candle holder called a kinara. We focused on the book It's Kwanzaa Time by Synthia Saint James. We created a kinara craft that illustrated the seven principles of Kwanzaa. We, also, created a kinara snack using pretzel sticks, graham crackers, icing and red, green and brown M&Ms. It was delicious! Our kindergarten friends worked on practicing number to set with a Kwanzaa theme and increasing fine motor skills. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add and subtract numbers and continue to work on reading comprehension and fluency. Additionally, they worked on counting pennies. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication and division fact families. They,also, practiced word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They, also, worked on proper nouns, comparing stories, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. Next week, we will continue our focus on the Unique Learning unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on the traditions of different families. We will focus on the books about Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas . We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on included:my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. We will be focusing on the winter tradition of Christmas next week with a focus on the books, The Gingerbread Bear by Robert Dennis and Click, Clack, Ho, Ho, Ho by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 12/02/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 began focusing on winter holidays and traditions. We started this focus with Hanukkah. We learned that Hanukkah is a winter holiday celebrated by people of the Jewish faith. We, also, learned that they celebrate by lighting candles on a menorah, playing games like dreidel and singing songs. We focused on the book The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser. We created a candle for a menorah and, also, menorah and dreidel crafts. We, also, created a dreidel snack using pretzel sticks, marshmallows, icing and Hershey’s kisses. Yum! Our kindergarten friends worked on practicing number to set with a Hanukkah theme and increasing fine motor skills. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add numbers and continue to work on reading comprehension and fluency. Additionally, they worked on counting pennies. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication and division fact families. They practiced multiplying by 10. They, also, worked on proper nouns, comparing stories, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. Next week, we will continue our focus on the Unique Learning unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on the traditions of different families. We will focus on the books about Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas . We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on included:my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. We will be focusing on the winter tradition of Kwanzaa next week with a focus on the book, It’s Kwanzaa Time by Synthia Saint James. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 11/22/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on exploring objects in the sky like the sun, moon, planet and stars. We,also, took time out to focus on Thanksgiving. We focused on the books, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Pie by Alison Jackson and ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey. We created our a turkey craft. We, also, created a friendship snack mix to eat while we watched, Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving. Our kindergarten friends worked on practicing number to set with a turkey theme, shape and color identification, and increasing fine motor skills. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities and initial sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add numbers and continue to work on reading comprehension and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication and division fact families. They, also, worked on proper nouns, comprehension questions, sequencing and sight words. Next week, we will conclude our focus on the Unique Learning unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on the traditions of different families. We will focus on the books about Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas . We will work on corresponding activities. The words we will focus on included:my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 11/18/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on exploring objects in the sky like the sun, moon, planet and stars. We,also, took time out to focus on Thanksgiving. We focused on the books, Wake Up, Sun! By David Harrison and I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Pie by Alison Jackson. We created our a fun sun craft that looked a lot like the Story Bots sun. If you are not familiar with the Story Bots, please check them out! They have terrific educational videos and songs that kids love. They have their website www.storybots.com, their videos are posted on youtube and they even have their own show on Netflix! We, also, created a healthy sun themed snack using oranges, strawberries, and blueberries. Our kindergarten friends worked on practicing number to set, shape and color identification, and increasing fine motor skills. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities, sight words, and comprehension questions. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also continued working on utilizing a number line to add numbers and continue to work on reading comprehension and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication and division fact families. They, also, worked on proper nouns, comprehension questions, and sight words. Next week, we will conclude our focus on Earth and Space Science and continue to learn about Thanksgiving. We will focus on the book; ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving By Dav Pilkey. We will work on corresponding activities. Students have been learning and exploring objects in the sky like the sun and moon. The words we focused on included: up, see, in, she, it, right, look, away, make, night, where, high. We will be having a Room 7 Thanksgiving Feast on Tuesday November 22. We encourage students to try the Thanksgiving foods but please provide a lunch either packing or buying from the cafeteria in case your child is uninterested in the foods provided. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 11/11/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused a little on exploring objects in the sky like the sun, moon, planet and stars. We, also, took time out to focus on the election and Veteran’s Day. We focused on the book, Duck For President Doreen Cronin. We created our own future voter badges and voted on our favorite cookies. The vote was between oreos and chocolate chip cookies and the oreos won the election! The students loved getting the opportunity to eat the oreos after the election! Our kindergarten friends worked on voting themed counting activities, number to set, and shapes activities. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They have also begun working on utilizing a number line to add numbers and continue to work on reading comprehension and fluency. Our third grade friends continued working on relating multiplication and division and multiplication and division fact families. They, also, worked on homophones. Next week, we will continue our focus on Earth and Space Science. We will focus on the book; Wake Up, Sun! By David Harrison. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Look Up In the Sky. Students will be working on learning and exploring objects in the sky like the sun and moon. The words we will focus on included: up, see, in, she, it, right, look, away, make, night, where, high. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 11/04/16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on exploring objects in the sky like the sun, moon, planet and stars. We focused on the stars this week. We focused on the book, Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist by Herman Parish. We created our own constellations using star stickers and connected them using chalk. We, also, created a fun rocket ship snack using crackers and cheese. Our rockets even had raisin stars and a grape moon! Our kindergarten friends worked on star themed counting activities and number to set. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. This is a very tough concept and has needed extra time to work on in class. They, also, worked on story elements with our stories. Our third grade friends continued working on creating equal groups and the basics of division. They, also, worked on how multiplication and division are related. They, also, worked on fantasy (make believe) versus realism. Next week, we will continue our focus on Earth and Space Science. We will also work on the Election as an overall theme. We will focus on the book; Duck for President by Doreen Cronin. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Look Up In the Sky. Students will be working on learning and exploring objects in the sky like the sun and moon. The words we will focus on included: up, see, in, she, it, right, look, away, make, night, where, high. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 10-28-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on scientific inquiry and the five senses. Additionally, we had some fun Halloween themed activities. We focused on a variety of pumpkin and Halloween themed books.. For snack this week, we had a Halloween themed snack that went with the story Spookly: The Legend of the Square Pumpkin. Additionally, we visited the STEAM (Science, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) room and explored pumpkins! . We counted seeds, explored weight and height, used adjectives to describe the pumpkins, and explored if pumpkins sink or float! Our kindergarten friends worked on Halloween themed counting activities and number to set. They, also, worked on thematic letter sounds activities. Our first and second grade friends continued to work hard on addition/subtraction concepts and comparing sets of objects. They, also, worked on story elements with our Halloween stories. Our third grade friends continued working on creating equal groups and the basics of division. They worked on how multiplication and division are related. They, also, worked on adjectives. Next week, we will begin our focus on Earth and Space Science. We will, also, focus on a Halloween theme on Monday! Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist by Herman Parish. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will begin our Unique Learning unit entitled: Look Up In the Sky. Students will be working on learning and exploring objects in the sky like the sun and moon. The words we will focus on included: up, see, in, she, it, right, look, away, make, night, where, high. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 10-21-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on scientific inquiry and the five senses. We focused on the books: Tasting by Helen Frost and Tasting Things by Allan Fowler. For snack this week, we had a tastes experiment. We explored the question, “Are all chips salty?”. We tried BBQ, plain and ranch chips. We found that they all tasted a little salty but the ranch and BBQ had lots of other flavors like sour and sweet. Additionally, we explored magnets and had a science experiment in which we determined what types of things a magnet will stick to. We determined that the magnets would not stick to glass, plastic or paper, but they did stick to metal. For our craft this week, we continued our magnet exploration by painting using magnets. Our kindergarten friends began learning about their five senses and corresponding vocabulary. They, also, worked on thematic counting activities and continued to work on sorting by attributes, number identification, counting with 1:1 correspondence and continued to work hard learning letters and their sounds in addition to sight words. Our first and second grade friends reviewed addition and subtraction concepts and worked on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds. Additionally, they worked on comparing sets and identifying more and less. Our third grade friends began continued working on creating equal groups and the basics of division. They, also, worked on pronouns. Next week, we will conclude our focus on science and the five senses. We will, also, focus on a Halloween theme! We will focus on books about Halloween and pumpkins. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will conclude our Unique Learning unit entitled: Elementary Science Fair. Students have been working to learn about scientific inquiry with a special emphasis on the five senses. They have worked to learn how they can observe and learn about their environment using their five senses. The words we have focused on included: use, he, the, put, water, can, two, learn, about, what, grow, is. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 10-14-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on scientific inquiry and the five senses. We focused on the books: Seeing by Helen Frost and Hearing Things by Allan Fowler. We explored mixtures and solutions for our snack this week. We created a snack mix (our mixture) and we created chocolate milk (our solution). We explored that in a mixture the separate parts can be removed even when mixed, but with a solution the separate parts can not be removed. Additionally, we created Mr. Potato Head craft for identifying our 5 senses. We had a cool science experiment where we explored smells. We tried to determine if we could tell what fruit was in a bag my using only our sense of smell. We identified bananas, pineapple, strawberries, and oranges. Our kindergarten friends began learning about their five senses and corresponding vocabulary. They, also, continued to work on sorting by attributes, number identification, counting with 1:1 correspondence and continued to work hard learning letters and their sounds in addition to sight words. Our first and second grade friends reviewed addition and subtraction concepts and worked on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds. Our third grade friends began continued working on creating equal groups and the basics of division. They, also, worked on verbs. Next week, we will continue to focus on science and the five senses. We will focus on the books, Tasting Things by Allan Fowler and Tasting by Helen Frost. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Elementary Science Fair. Students will work to learn about scientific inquiry with a special emphasis on the five senses. They will work to learn how they can observe and learn about their environment using their five senses. The words we will be focusing on include: use, he, the, put, water, can, two, learn, about, what, grow, is. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 10-07-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on scientific inquiry and the five senses. We focused on the books: Smelling by Helen Frost and Smelling Things by Allan Fowler. We created an owl using apples for our snack this week. Additionally, we created an apple craft using fine motor skills. We had a cool science experiment to determine if apples have the same amount of seeds. We explored four different kinds of apples and determined that all apples do not have the same amount of seeds. Our kindergarten friends began learning about their five senses. They, also, continued to work on sorting by attributes, number identification, counting with 1:1 correspondence and continued to work hard learning letters and their sounds in addition to sight words. Our first and second grade friends reviewed addition and subtraction concepts and worked on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds. Our third grade friends began working on creating equal groups and the basics of division. They, also, worked on creating complete sentences. Next week, we will continue to focus on science and the five senses. We will focus on the books, Hearing Things by Allan Fowler and Seeing by Helen Frost. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: Elementary Science Fair. Students will work to learn about scientific inquiry with a special emphasis on the five senses. They will work to learn how they can observe and learn about their environment using their five senses. The words we will be focusing on include: use, he, the, put, water, can, two, learn, about, what, grow, is. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-30-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on school rules and routines. We, also, continued to focus on sharing. We focused on the book: The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. We ate a delicious M&M cookie! Additionally, we created a chocolate chip cookie craft. We graphed our candies within our M&M cookie and answered questions about our graphs. Our kindergarten friends continued to work hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. They, also, continued to work on sorting by attributes, number identification, counting with 1:1 correspondence and continued to work hard learning letters and their sounds in addition to sight words. Our first and second grade friends continued to work on the beginnings of addition concepts, beginning subtraction concepts, how to make certain numbers, subtracting parts of a whole and working on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds. Our third grade friends began working on repeated addition and arrays as they pertain to beginning multiplication. They, also, continues working on synonyms. Next week, we will begin to focus on science and the five senses. We will focus on the books, Smelling by Helen Frost and Smelling Things by Allan Fowler. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will begin our Unique Learning unit entitled: Elementary Science Fair. Students will work to learn about scientific inquiry with a special emphasis on the five senses. They will work to learn how they can observe and learn about their environment using their five senses. The words we will be focusing on include: use, he, the, put, water, can, two, learn, about, what, grow, is. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-23-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on school rules and routines. We, also, continued to focus on sharing. We focused on the book: Should I Share My Ice Cream? By Mo Willems. We created a baggie ice cream as our snack! Additionally, we created a Piggie and Elephant craft. We colored paper plates and used pieces to make Piggie and Gerald’s faces. Our kindergarten friends continued to work hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. They, also, worked on sorting by attributes, number identification, counting with 1:1 correspondence and continued to work hard learning letters and their sounds. Our first and second grade friends continued to work on the beginnings of addition concepts, beginning subtraction concepts, how to make certain numbers and working on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds. Our third grade friends began working on repeated addition as it pertains to beginning multiplication. They, also, continues working on synonyms. Next week, we will continue to focus on sharing, school routines and rules. We will focus on the book, The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will conclude our Unique Learning unit entitled: We All Work Together. Students will work to learn about making choices, working together, and exercising rights and responsibilities. The words we will be focusing on include: together, should, our, do, to, play, each, love, we, want, sing, work. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-16-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on school rules and routines. We, also, continued to focus on sharing. We focused on the book: The Berenstain Bears Learn to Share by Stan and Jan Berenstain. We created a bear themed snack mix to share. Our snack mix included birthday cake flavored teddy grahams, vanilla chex, pretzels, and cheese crackers. Additionally, we created an equal share themed craft. We had 2 baskets and a selection of flower stickers. We had to put an equal number of flowers in each of our baskets. Our kindergarten friends continued to work hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. They, also, worked on sorting by attributes and continued to work hard learning letters and their sounds. Our first and second grade friends continued to work on the beginnings of addition concepts and how to make certain numbers and working on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds Our third grade friends began working on reviewing addition and subtraction concepts. They, also, began working on adjectives and synonyms. Next week, we will continue to focus on sharing, school routines and rules. We will focus on the book, Should I Share My Ice cream? By Mo Willems. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: We All Work Together. Students will work to learn about making choices, working together, and exercising rights and responsibilities. The words we will be focusing on include: together, should, our, do, to, play, each, love, we, want, sing, work. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-09-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on school rules and routines. We focused on the book: Llama Llama Time to Share by Anne Dewdney. Mrs. Shingleton had chosen this book a few weeks ago and as a sad coincidence, Anne Dewdney passed away this past weekend. She asked that as a tribute or memorial to her that people read her books to children and that is just what we did. We created strawberry jam as our snack and ate it with yummy corn muffins. We cut our strawberries, added sugar and lemon juice, stirred and cooked our jam. It was tasty! Additionally, we created a Llama LLama themed craft and wrote about something we could share. Our kindergarten friends continued to work hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. They, also, worked on developing some independent work skills. Our first and second grade friends worked hard on the beginnings of addition concepts and how to make certain numbers and working on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words and isolate sounds Our third grade friends continued working on place value to the thousands and learning terms like standard form, expanded form, digit, and word form. They also worked on rounding. Finally, we had a Kindness Assembly and a Pep Rally! Next week, we will continue to focus on school routines and rules. We will focus on the book, The Berenstain Bears Learn to Share by Jan and Stan Berenstain. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will continue our Unique Learning unit entitled: We All Work Together. Students will work to learn about making choices, working together, and exercising rights and responsibilities. The words we will be focusing on include: together, should, our, do, to, play, each, love, we, want, sing, work. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-02-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on school rules and routines. We focused on the book: Pirates Go to School by Corrine Demas. We created a pirate ship snack with cheese, sausage, goldfish crackers and Finding Dory graham crackers. Additionally, we created a cool pirate craft because, “We Arrrgh Following the Rules in Room 7.” Our kindergarten friends continued to work hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. Our first and second grade friends worked hard on the beginnings of addition concepts and working on letter sound correspondence to develop CVC words. Our third grade friends continued working on place value to the thousands and learning terms like standard form, expanded form, digit, and word form. Also, exciting news in room 7, we got a ball pit and everyone LOVES it!! Next week, we will continue to focus on school routines and rules. We will focus on the book, Llama, Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney. We will work on corresponding activities. Additionally, we will begin our first Unique Learning unit entitled: We All Work Together. Students will work to learn about making choices, working together, and exercising rights and responsibilities. The words we will be focusing on include: together, should, our, do, to, play, each, love, we, want, sing, work. Finally, we had an assembly from Heinen’s about healthy eating. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 08-26-16
WELCOME BACK!!!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 began our first full week of school focusing on school rules and routines. We focused on the books: No David and David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. We worked on a current event of the Summer Olympics and created an Olympic slush recipe for a snack. Additionally, we created a No David craft and rule sort. Our kindergarten friends worked hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. Our first and second grade friends worked hard on the beginnings of addition concepts and working on letter sound correspondence. Our third grade friends began working on place value to the thousands and learned terms like standard form, expanded form, digit, and word form. They also worked on the story Summer Olympic Events and practiced plural words. We even practiced a few olympic events as a culminating event. Next week, we will continue to focus on school routines and rules. We will focus on the book, Pirates Go to School by Corrine Demas. We will work on corresponding activities. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 began our first full week of school focusing on school rules and routines. We focused on the books: No David and David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. We worked on a current event of the Summer Olympics and created an Olympic slush recipe for a snack. Additionally, we created a No David craft and rule sort. Our kindergarten friends worked hard to learn new routines and expectations of school. Our first and second grade friends worked hard on the beginnings of addition concepts and working on letter sound correspondence. Our third grade friends began working on place value to the thousands and learned terms like standard form, expanded form, digit, and word form. They also worked on the story Summer Olympic Events and practiced plural words. We even practiced a few olympic events as a culminating event. Next week, we will continue to focus on school routines and rules. We will focus on the book, Pirates Go to School by Corrine Demas. We will work on corresponding activities. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if at any time if there is too little or too much homework and we will adjust as needed. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 06-02-16
Have a terrific summer!!
weekly newsletter 05-27-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued our unit on changes in the Earth titled: Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. This unit introduced students to the notion that the Earth is always changing. Students have learned about events such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods that change the Earth quickly and forces such as wind and water that change the Earth slowly. The words we have been focusing on for this lesson will include: an, of, some, will, kind, into, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. We focused on the books: Pig Kahuna and Pig Kahuna Pirates. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a water bin for our sensory experience. We explored rain themed math activities. Our second grade friends continued to work hard on compound words. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work on telling time. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard learning about Earthquakes. We had a cool science experiment of the effects of Earthquakes. We, also, created a cool beach snack using pudding, cookies, teddy grahams and fruit by the foot. Next week, we will conclude our unit entitled: Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. We will, also, focus on Summer and look forward to summer vacation! The 2nd grade will go on a field trip to the Nature Center to plant milkweeds and go on a fun hike. All classes will have Junior Olympics on Wednesday in the morning and class parties in the afternoon. Finally, on Thursday, we will be having a Room 7 Fiesta where we will be having a Chipotle lunch, watch our year end video and have a pinata! Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Also, Mrs. Shingleton is sending home a Summer Packet for at home practice over the summer. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly newsletter 05-20-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued our unit on changes in the Earth titled: Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. This unit introduces students to the notion that the Earth is always changing. Students will learn about events such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods that change the Earth quickly and forces such as wind and water that change the Earth slowly. The words we have been focusing on for this lesson will include: an, of, some, will, kind, into, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. We focused on the book: City Storm. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a water bin for our sensory experience. We explored rain themed math activities. Our second grade friends worked hard on compound words. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work on telling time. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on following directions activities with a rain theme. We created an Earth mobile with the different changes we have focused on this month. We, also, created a mountain snack using graham crackers and cool whip. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled: Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. We will, also, focus on Summer and look forward to summer vacation! Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 05-13-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued our unit on changes in the Earth titled: Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. This unit introduces students to the notion that the Earth is always changing. Students will learn about events such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods that change the Earth quickly and forces such as wind and water that change the Earth slowly. The words we will be focusing on for this lesson will include: an, of, some, will, kind, into, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. We focused on the book: Volcanoes. We had another great music therapy session. We explored an erupting volcano using baking soda and vinegar and an another erupting volcano using tinted shaving cream as sensory experiences. We created a volcano craft using construction paper, paper bags, and scrap paper. We, also, created a volcano themed snack using sugar cones, sour straws, fruit loops and fruit snacks. Our second grade friends worked hard on practicing nouns and introduced compound words. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work on telling time. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on following directions activities with a volcano theme and basic graphing. We all focused on how volcanoes erupt and change the Earth like how they build new mountains! Next week, we will continue our unit entitled:Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. We will focus on wind and rain as elements of Earth change. Additionally, we will talk about plant life cycles. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 05-06-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 introduced our unit on changes in the Earth titled: Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. This unit introduces students to the notion that the Earth is always changing. Students will learn about events such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods that change the Earth quickly and forces such as wind and water that change the Earth slowly. The words we will be focusing on for this lesson will include: an, of, some, will, kind, into, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. We focused on the book: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a rice, corn and bean bin with earth elements like logs, pine cones, and rocks as a sensory experience. We created a Mother’s Day craft to celebrate our moms. We, also, created a Cinco de Mayo snack using cookies, icing, gum drops and created Mexican hats. Our second grade friends worked hard on comparing and contrasting characters and worked on sequencing story events. Our second grade friends, also, worked on telling time. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on creating sets with a cool rain theme. We all introduced different types of changes to the Earth. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled:Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. We will focus on Volcanoes as an element of Earth change. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 04-29-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 concluded our unit on Needs Versus Wants titled: Can I Buy It? We focused on the book: Jellybeans for Sale by Bruce McMillan. This unit introduced student to basic economic concepts like needs versus wants, buying and selling, and being responsible consumers. Additionally, students worked to learn identification and usage of money. The words focused on in this unit were: want, book, have, their, money, need, new, buy, does, it, should, no. We had another great music therapy session. We explored coconut dough as a sensory experience. We had a cool science experiment called: Let’s Blow Up a Balloon. We used vinegar and baking soda to blow up a balloon. It really works! We, also, created a snack called Bank on It Bananas using bananas, honey and sprinkles. Our second grade friends worked hard on comparing and contrasting characters. Our second grade friends, also, worked on money practice with identification and counting. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on sorting coins and early identification of money. We all continued to practice identifying needs and wants. Next week, we will introduce our unit entitled:Fast and Slow the Earth Changes. This unit introduces students to the notion that the Earth is always changing. Students will learn about events such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods that change the Earth quickly and forces such as wind and water that change the Earth slowly. The words we will be focusing on for this lesson will include: an, of, some, will, kind, into, over, must, fast, change, water, ground. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 04-22-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Needs Versus Wants. We continued our unit titled: Can I Buy It? We focused on the book: Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells and It’s Earth Day by Mercer Mayer. This unit introduces student to basic economic concepts like needs versus wants, buying and selling, and being responsible consumers. Additionally, students will work to learn identification and usage of money. The words focused on in this unit are: want, book, have, their, money, need, new, buy, does, it, should, no. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a money themed sensory bin as a sensory experience. We created a fun polar bear craft. This went along with our story, It’s Earth Day. Little Critter was very interested in saving the polar bears. We, also, created a polar bear snack with cupcakes, marshmallows and chocolate chips. Our second grade friends worked hard on identifying the author’s purpose. Our second grade friends, also, worked on money practice with identification and counting. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on sorting coins and early identification of money. We all continued to practice identifying needs and wants. We had a fun presenter who used American Sign Language to present the book, Green Eggs and Ham. Next week, we will conclude our unit entitled: Can I Buy It? We will focus on the book, Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 04-15-16
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Needs Versus Wants. We continued our unit titled: Can I Buy It? We focused on the book: Benny’s Pennies by Pat Brisson. This unit introduces student to basic economic concepts like needs versus wants, buying and selling, and being responsible consumers. Additionally, students will work to learn identification and usage of money. The words focused on in this unit are: want, book, have, their, money, need, new, buy, does, it, should, no. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a money themed sensory bin as a sensory experience. We created a bank to keep our money inside. We also created chocolate chip cookies just like in the book, Benny’s Pennies. We, also, enjoyed puzzle piece cookies to celebrate April as Autism Awareness Month. Due to the conference there was no newsletter last week but we had the opportunity to make a cool flip book about ways to make a dollar and a yummy snack. Our second grade friends worked hard on identifying the main idea and supporting details of a story. Our second grade friends, also, worked on money practice with identification and counting. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on sorting coins and early identification of money. We all practiced identifying needs and wants. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled: Can I Buy It? We will also work on the concepts reduce, recycle and reuse for Earth Week. We will focus on the books: It’s Earth Day! By Mercer Mayer and Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-23-16
Have a Wonderful Spring Break!
weekly newsletter 03-18-16
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the sun and St. Patrick’s Day as overall themes. We continued our unit titled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We have been working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. We continued to learn that the sun gives us heat, light and energy. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a lucky charms bin as a sensory experience. We created a sun and rainbow craft. We also created rainbow snack. This snack was created using fruit loops and mini marshmallows. Our second grade friends continued to work hard on identifying and using nouns. We, also, practice proper versus common nouns. Our second grade friends, also, continued working on data analysis and graphing. We practice graphing with colored mini marshmallows and lucky charms! Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on creating sets with a St. Patrick’s Day theme and lots of fine motor practice. Next week, we will conclude our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. We will focus on the books; Wake Up, Sun! by David Harrison. When we return from Spring Break, we will begin a new unit entitled: Can I Buy It? This unit introduces student to basic economic concepts like needs versus wants, buying and selling, and being responsible consumers. Additionally, students will work to learn identification and usage of money. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the sun and St. Patrick’s Day as overall themes. We continued our unit titled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We have been working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. We continued to learn that the sun gives us heat, light and energy. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a lucky charms bin as a sensory experience. We created a sun and rainbow craft. We also created rainbow snack. This snack was created using fruit loops and mini marshmallows. Our second grade friends continued to work hard on identifying and using nouns. We, also, practice proper versus common nouns. Our second grade friends, also, continued working on data analysis and graphing. We practice graphing with colored mini marshmallows and lucky charms! Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on creating sets with a St. Patrick’s Day theme and lots of fine motor practice. Next week, we will conclude our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. We will focus on the books; Wake Up, Sun! by David Harrison. When we return from Spring Break, we will begin a new unit entitled: Can I Buy It? This unit introduces student to basic economic concepts like needs versus wants, buying and selling, and being responsible consumers. Additionally, students will work to learn identification and usage of money. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-11-16
Energy Makes Things Happen
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the sun as an overall theme. We introduced our new unit titled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We will be working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. We focused on the concept that the sun gives us energy. We continued to learn that the sun gives us heat, light and energy. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a golden sensory bin as a sensory experience. We created a sun catchers as our craft. We also created a rocket ship snack. This snack was created using bananas, craisins, pineapple rings and whipped cream! Our second grade friends continued to work hard on identifying and using nouns. Our second grade friends, also, continued working on data analysis and graphing. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on creating sets with a star theme. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. We will focus more on the idea that the sun gives us light. We will focus on the books; The Sun My Favorite Star by Frank Asch. Mrs. Shingleton will be out on Wednesday March 16th in the afternoon for an IEP. Mrs. Twarog will be our substitute. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the sun as an overall theme. We introduced our new unit titled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We will be working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. We focused on the concept that the sun gives us energy. We continued to learn that the sun gives us heat, light and energy. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a golden sensory bin as a sensory experience. We created a sun catchers as our craft. We also created a rocket ship snack. This snack was created using bananas, craisins, pineapple rings and whipped cream! Our second grade friends continued to work hard on identifying and using nouns. Our second grade friends, also, continued working on data analysis and graphing. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on creating sets with a star theme. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. We will focus more on the idea that the sun gives us light. We will focus on the books; The Sun My Favorite Star by Frank Asch. Mrs. Shingleton will be out on Wednesday March 16th in the afternoon for an IEP. Mrs. Twarog will be our substitute. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-04-16
Mr. Golden Sun
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the sun as an overall theme. We introduced our new unit titled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We began working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. We introduced that the sun is a star. We introduced that the sun gives us heat, light and energy. We focused on the book: The Sun Our Nearest Star. We had another great music therapy session. We explored shaving cream as a sensory experience. We created a sun themed craft that can be used as a sun catcher in the windows. We also created a sun themed snack. This snack was created using orange slices, grapes, baby carrots and mini chocolate chips. Our second grade friends worked hard on identifying and using nouns. Our second grade friends, also, began working on data analysis and graphing. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on identifying sets with a space theme. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. We will focus more on the idea that the sun gives us energy. We will focus on the books; Energy Makes Things Happen by Kimberly Bradley and Energy From the Sun by Allan Fowler. Mrs. Shingleton will be out on Wednesday March 9th for a seminar. Mrs. Rees will be our substitute for the day. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the sun as an overall theme. We introduced our new unit titled: The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We began working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. We introduced that the sun is a star. We introduced that the sun gives us heat, light and energy. We focused on the book: The Sun Our Nearest Star. We had another great music therapy session. We explored shaving cream as a sensory experience. We created a sun themed craft that can be used as a sun catcher in the windows. We also created a sun themed snack. This snack was created using orange slices, grapes, baby carrots and mini chocolate chips. Our second grade friends worked hard on identifying and using nouns. Our second grade friends, also, began working on data analysis and graphing. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on identifying sets with a space theme. Next week, we will continue our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. We will focus more on the idea that the sun gives us energy. We will focus on the books; Energy Makes Things Happen by Kimberly Bradley and Energy From the Sun by Allan Fowler. Mrs. Shingleton will be out on Wednesday March 9th for a seminar. Mrs. Rees will be our substitute for the day. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 02-26-16
Give Peace a Chance!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Peace as an overal theme. We focused on Martin Luther King, Jr. We, also, concluded our unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students worked on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we worked on this month included: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored colored noodles as a sensory experience. We created a hanging peace sign craft. We also created strawberry yogurt bark as our snack. This snack was created using strawberry slices and strawberry yogurt. We, also, completed a science experiment with brown and white eggs to demonstrate how we may be different on the outside but the same on the inside. Our second grade friends worked hard on qu words. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work hard on telling time and counting money. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on ten frame practice and addition with a peace theme. Next week, we will begin our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We will be working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Peace as an overal theme. We focused on Martin Luther King, Jr. We, also, concluded our unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students worked on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we worked on this month included: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored colored noodles as a sensory experience. We created a hanging peace sign craft. We also created strawberry yogurt bark as our snack. This snack was created using strawberry slices and strawberry yogurt. We, also, completed a science experiment with brown and white eggs to demonstrate how we may be different on the outside but the same on the inside. Our second grade friends worked hard on qu words. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work hard on telling time and counting money. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on ten frame practice and addition with a peace theme. Next week, we will begin our unit entitled:The Hot, Hot Sun. This unit focuses on the sun as a source of energy, the way heat from the sun changes objects, sun safety, and using the sun’s heat. We will be working on the words: is, up, but, our, big, very, know, before, high, made, leave, warm. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 02-19-16
Happy President’s Day!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on President’s Day. We focused on President Abraham Lincoln and President George Washington. We, also, continued our unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a winter themed sensory bin. We created a cool patriotic craft that was a necklace made of stars with a penny in the middle. We also created a president themed snack. This snack made the faces of President George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln using vanilla wafers, icing and chocolate. Our second grade friends worked hard on initial consonant blends and comprehension questions. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work hard on telling time and counting money. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on manipulative addition with patriotic stickers and roll, count and cover activities. We, also, had a great time with COSI on Wheels! It was really cool and we learned about our planets, stars, and the effects of gravity. Next week, we will conclude our unit entitled: Time for Peace. We will be focusing on the books, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on President’s Day. We focused on President Abraham Lincoln and President George Washington. We, also, continued our unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a winter themed sensory bin. We created a cool patriotic craft that was a necklace made of stars with a penny in the middle. We also created a president themed snack. This snack made the faces of President George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln using vanilla wafers, icing and chocolate. Our second grade friends worked hard on initial consonant blends and comprehension questions. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work hard on telling time and counting money. Our kindergarten and first grade friends worked hard on manipulative addition with patriotic stickers and roll, count and cover activities. We, also, had a great time with COSI on Wheels! It was really cool and we learned about our planets, stars, and the effects of gravity. Next week, we will conclude our unit entitled: Time for Peace. We will be focusing on the books, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 02-11-16
Happy Valentine’s Day
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Valentine’s Day. We, also, continued our unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a Valentine’s Day themed sensory bin where we played with a variety of items that were red and pink. We created a Valentine Bee and had a Valentine themed snack. Our second grade friends worked hard on contractions and comprehension questions. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on telling time and counting money. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced creating sets and matching sets to numbers. We, also, had a great time with our homeroom classes at our Valentine’s Day parties! Next week, we will continue our unit entitled: Time for Peace. We will be focusing on the books, A Picture Book of George Washington and A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln in honor of President’s Day. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Reminder: No School February 12 and February 15.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Valentine’s Day. We, also, continued our unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a Valentine’s Day themed sensory bin where we played with a variety of items that were red and pink. We created a Valentine Bee and had a Valentine themed snack. Our second grade friends worked hard on contractions and comprehension questions. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on telling time and counting money. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced creating sets and matching sets to numbers. We, also, had a great time with our homeroom classes at our Valentine’s Day parties! Next week, we will continue our unit entitled: Time for Peace. We will be focusing on the books, A Picture Book of George Washington and A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln in honor of President’s Day. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Reminder: No School February 12 and February 15.
weekly newsletter 02-05-16
Groundhog Day
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Groundhog Day. We, also, introduced our new unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a hot chocolate themed sensory bin where we played with hot chocolate mix, mini marshmallows and dehydrated marshmallows. We created a groundhog and listed some facts about groundhogs. We made a fun groundhog themed snack using pudding cups, cookie crumbs and teddy grahams. Our second grade friends worked hard on the sh digraph and comprehension questions. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on telling time. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced ten frames and number sequencing. Finally, we played did a small group activity on groundhogs. Next week, we will begin continue our unit entitled: Time for Peace. Additionally, next week we will be working on some fun Valentine’s Day activities. We will be focusing on the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Groundhog Day. We, also, introduced our new unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a hot chocolate themed sensory bin where we played with hot chocolate mix, mini marshmallows and dehydrated marshmallows. We created a groundhog and listed some facts about groundhogs. We made a fun groundhog themed snack using pudding cups, cookie crumbs and teddy grahams. Our second grade friends worked hard on the sh digraph and comprehension questions. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on telling time. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced ten frames and number sequencing. Finally, we played did a small group activity on groundhogs. Next week, we will begin continue our unit entitled: Time for Peace. Additionally, next week we will be working on some fun Valentine’s Day activities. We will be focusing on the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 01-29-16
What’s the Matter?
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focus on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We did this by focusing on the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. We focused on the book: Matter: See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell it by Darlene Stille. We concluded our unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we are focused on were: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We had another great music therapy session. We explored an ice sensory bin where we melted ice to get out a variety of fun items. We created a sensory bottle using corn syrup, water, sequins, food coloring and glitter. We painted using water colors and ice. We explored the 3 states of matter by making root beer floats! We noted that the root beer was the liquid, the carbonation (air bubbles) were the gas and the ice cream was the solid. We worked hard on matter vocabulary and sense words. Our second grade friends worked hard on sequencing. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work hard on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced classifying objects. Finally, we played did a small group activity on the states of matter and watched Sid the Science Kid! Next week, we will begin our new unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. Additionally, next week we will be working on some fun and informative groundhog themed activities and some Valentine’s Day activities the following week. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focus on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We did this by focusing on the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. We focused on the book: Matter: See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell it by Darlene Stille. We concluded our unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we are focused on were: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We had another great music therapy session. We explored an ice sensory bin where we melted ice to get out a variety of fun items. We created a sensory bottle using corn syrup, water, sequins, food coloring and glitter. We painted using water colors and ice. We explored the 3 states of matter by making root beer floats! We noted that the root beer was the liquid, the carbonation (air bubbles) were the gas and the ice cream was the solid. We worked hard on matter vocabulary and sense words. Our second grade friends worked hard on sequencing. Our second grade friends, also, continued to work hard on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced classifying objects. Finally, we played did a small group activity on the states of matter and watched Sid the Science Kid! Next week, we will begin our new unit entitled: Time for Peace. In this unit, students will work on learning about several historical figures who worked for peace, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks. The words we will be working on this month include: a, he, girl, not, was, play, be, one, friend, man, about, people. Additionally, next week we will be working on some fun and informative groundhog themed activities and some Valentine’s Day activities the following week. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Pop! Pop! Boom!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focus on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We did this by focusing on popcorn, this week! Tuesday was National Popcorn Day and due to the short week, we used all 4 days to have a fun popcorn theme! We focused on the books: Popcorn by Alex Moran, The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paolo, and The Popcorn Shop by Alice Low. We continued our unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we are focusing on are: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a popcorn themed sensory bin. We created a popcorn themed craft. We explored popcorn by making a popcorn snack mix with kettle corn, chocolate chips, marshmallows, goldfish and pretzels. It was yummy! We worked hard on senses vocabulary and sense words. Our second grade friends worked hard on adjectives and describing words for popcorn and even worked to create sense poems and popcorn writing. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced addition and subtraction with manipulatives and sorting by sums and differences with a popcorn theme. Finally, we played My Body Match-Up to find our body parts and identify what they do. As a special treat, our friend Mr. Chad brought in his cello and let us use our sense of hearing and touching to explore! Next week, we will continue to explore our five senses and changes in matter. We will be focusing on the states of matter including liquid, solid and gas. We will focus on the book: Matter:See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell It. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focus on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We did this by focusing on popcorn, this week! Tuesday was National Popcorn Day and due to the short week, we used all 4 days to have a fun popcorn theme! We focused on the books: Popcorn by Alex Moran, The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paolo, and The Popcorn Shop by Alice Low. We continued our unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we are focusing on are: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We had another great music therapy session. We explored a popcorn themed sensory bin. We created a popcorn themed craft. We explored popcorn by making a popcorn snack mix with kettle corn, chocolate chips, marshmallows, goldfish and pretzels. It was yummy! We worked hard on senses vocabulary and sense words. Our second grade friends worked hard on adjectives and describing words for popcorn and even worked to create sense poems and popcorn writing. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practiced addition and subtraction with manipulatives and sorting by sums and differences with a popcorn theme. Finally, we played My Body Match-Up to find our body parts and identify what they do. As a special treat, our friend Mr. Chad brought in his cello and let us use our sense of hearing and touching to explore! Next week, we will continue to explore our five senses and changes in matter. We will be focusing on the states of matter including liquid, solid and gas. We will focus on the book: Matter:See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell It. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 01-15-16
Five Senses
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focus on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We focused on the books: The Sense of Taste and The Sense of Smell. We continued our unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we are focusing on are: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We had our second music therapy session and again it was terrific. Miss Hannah is wonderful. We explore changes in matter with a jello sensory bin. It was MESSY, but lots of fun! We had every color of the rainbow! We, also, created a five senses craft that highlighted each of our five senses by using felt for our sense of touch, googly eyes for our sense of sight, a pom pom for our sense of smell, a pipe cleaner for our sense of taste and jingle bells for our sense of hearing. We explored our sense of smell during snack by smelling food items through a bag and trying to identify them by smell alone. Mrs. Shingleton was nice enough to only use tasty and good smelling options like chocolate chip cookies, cinnamon cereal, oranges, pineapple, and bananas. We had an all school assembly with the high school students from Music in Motion. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on subtracting 3 digit numbers and next week we will work on identifying the sign and completing both addition and subtraction problems in rotation. Finally, we explored our sense of touch by using play dough for math instruction this week. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practice creating sets and numbers using play dough. Next week, we will continue to explore our five senses and changes in matter by exploring popcorn! Tuesday January 19th is National Popcorn Day! We will focus on the books: Popcorn by Alex Moran, The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paolo, and The Popcorn Shop by Alice Low. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focus on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We focused on the books: The Sense of Taste and The Sense of Smell. We continued our unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we are focusing on are: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We had our second music therapy session and again it was terrific. Miss Hannah is wonderful. We explore changes in matter with a jello sensory bin. It was MESSY, but lots of fun! We had every color of the rainbow! We, also, created a five senses craft that highlighted each of our five senses by using felt for our sense of touch, googly eyes for our sense of sight, a pom pom for our sense of smell, a pipe cleaner for our sense of taste and jingle bells for our sense of hearing. We explored our sense of smell during snack by smelling food items through a bag and trying to identify them by smell alone. Mrs. Shingleton was nice enough to only use tasty and good smelling options like chocolate chip cookies, cinnamon cereal, oranges, pineapple, and bananas. We had an all school assembly with the high school students from Music in Motion. Our second grade friends, also, worked hard on subtracting 3 digit numbers and next week we will work on identifying the sign and completing both addition and subtraction problems in rotation. Finally, we explored our sense of touch by using play dough for math instruction this week. Our kindergarten and first grade friends practice creating sets and numbers using play dough. Next week, we will continue to explore our five senses and changes in matter by exploring popcorn! Tuesday January 19th is National Popcorn Day! We will focus on the books: Popcorn by Alex Moran, The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paolo, and The Popcorn Shop by Alice Low. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 01-08-16
A Winter Welcome Back!!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We focused on the books: My Five Senses by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza, My Five Senses by Margaret Miller and Sense Suspense by Bruce McMillan. We introduced our new unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we will be focusing on will be: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We played in the snow inside on our first real snow of the year. We had our first music therapy session and met our new music therapist. Her name is Hannah Gadzinski and we had a terrific time working with her! We can’t for next week! We played in baking soda snow when the snow outside had melted. We used our senses during math and created a snowman using foam and wooden pegs. We rolled a die, counted the set, created a set with pegs and pressed the pegs into the foam to create our snowman. We explored our sense of sight and taste with a color sorting snack. We, also, created really cool melted crayon art using a hair dryer. This art let us explore changes in states of matter with the melting of the crayon. Next week, we will continue to explore our five senses and changes in matter with the addition of the books: The Sense of Smell and The Sense of Taste. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the five senses and how we perceive changes in matter. We focused on the books: My Five Senses by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza, My Five Senses by Margaret Miller and Sense Suspense by Bruce McMillan. We introduced our new unit entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we will be focusing on will be: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. We played in the snow inside on our first real snow of the year. We had our first music therapy session and met our new music therapist. Her name is Hannah Gadzinski and we had a terrific time working with her! We can’t for next week! We played in baking soda snow when the snow outside had melted. We used our senses during math and created a snowman using foam and wooden pegs. We rolled a die, counted the set, created a set with pegs and pressed the pegs into the foam to create our snowman. We explored our sense of sight and taste with a color sorting snack. We, also, created really cool melted crayon art using a hair dryer. This art let us explore changes in states of matter with the melting of the crayon. Next week, we will continue to explore our five senses and changes in matter with the addition of the books: The Sense of Smell and The Sense of Taste. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 12-18-15
Merry Christmas!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books: Twas the Night Before the Night Before Christmas, Christmas in the Big Woods,The Twelve Days of Christmas and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell . We concluded our unit called: It’s a Tradition. This unit focused on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we focused on included: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we worked on included: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. We created our holiday gifts for our families. We worked on Christmas themed math using trees and ornaments. We continued to play with our cinnamon play dough. We had our classroom holiday parties and the schoolwide holiday sing-a-long. Mrs. Shingleton has sent home a winter break packet of work. Upon our return from Winter Break, we will be beginning a new unit. This new unit is entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students will learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we will be focussing on will be: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books: Twas the Night Before the Night Before Christmas, Christmas in the Big Woods,The Twelve Days of Christmas and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell . We concluded our unit called: It’s a Tradition. This unit focused on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we focused on included: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we worked on included: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. We created our holiday gifts for our families. We worked on Christmas themed math using trees and ornaments. We continued to play with our cinnamon play dough. We had our classroom holiday parties and the schoolwide holiday sing-a-long. Mrs. Shingleton has sent home a winter break packet of work. Upon our return from Winter Break, we will be beginning a new unit. This new unit is entitled: See It, Feel It, Describe It. In this unit, students will learn how to use their senses to observe and describe materials. They also learn how some materials change when heated or cooled to establish foundational skills for investigating the properties and states of matter in later years. The words we will be focussing on will be: his, good, do, make, then, she, out, many, when, color, hard, cold. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 12-11-15
Happy Kwanzaa!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book It’s Kanzaa Time! by Synthia Saint James. We continued our unit called: It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we will focus on include: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we will be working on will include: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. The holiday we focused on this week was Kwanzaa which is December 26-January 1st. We, also, worked on the theme of gingerbread men. We played in cinnamon play dough. We created Kwanzaa mats, yarn wreaths and read online stories about Kwanzaa. We worked on counting with 1:1 correspondence and completed roll, count and color activities with a Kwanzaa theme. We learned Kwanzaa vocabulary like: kinara, crop, and unity cup. Finally, we created gingerbread men and ate them!! They were delicious. Our 2nd grade friends worked hard on place value concepts, as well. Next week, we will be exploring the winter tradition of Christmas which is December 25th. We will be focusing on Christmas themed books. We will be creating a holiday gift for our families. Student classroom parties will be December 17th. Please see their homeroom newsletter for specific times. There will be a school wide holiday singalong on December 18th at 1:30. Parent are welcome to come and join us for the singalong. on Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Additionally there will be a holiday spirit week next week with the following special days:
Monday December 14th - Candy Cane Day - Wear something read and/or white.
Tuesday December 15th - Deck your neck and show your fun festive socks day! - Wear your favorite scarf and/or socks!
Wednesday December 16th - School Spirit Day - Wear your favorite Bees wear or red and/or gold.
Thursday December 17th - Party Day! Don some crazy hair and/or holiday headgear! Wear your favorite hat, headband, elf ears, or create a unique hairdo like Cindy Lou Who!
Friday December 18th - Caroling in your pajamas!! - Wear your favorite pajamas to school for our last day in 2015.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book It’s Kanzaa Time! by Synthia Saint James. We continued our unit called: It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we will focus on include: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we will be working on will include: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. The holiday we focused on this week was Kwanzaa which is December 26-January 1st. We, also, worked on the theme of gingerbread men. We played in cinnamon play dough. We created Kwanzaa mats, yarn wreaths and read online stories about Kwanzaa. We worked on counting with 1:1 correspondence and completed roll, count and color activities with a Kwanzaa theme. We learned Kwanzaa vocabulary like: kinara, crop, and unity cup. Finally, we created gingerbread men and ate them!! They were delicious. Our 2nd grade friends worked hard on place value concepts, as well. Next week, we will be exploring the winter tradition of Christmas which is December 25th. We will be focusing on Christmas themed books. We will be creating a holiday gift for our families. Student classroom parties will be December 17th. Please see their homeroom newsletter for specific times. There will be a school wide holiday singalong on December 18th at 1:30. Parent are welcome to come and join us for the singalong. on Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Additionally there will be a holiday spirit week next week with the following special days:
Monday December 14th - Candy Cane Day - Wear something read and/or white.
Tuesday December 15th - Deck your neck and show your fun festive socks day! - Wear your favorite scarf and/or socks!
Wednesday December 16th - School Spirit Day - Wear your favorite Bees wear or red and/or gold.
Thursday December 17th - Party Day! Don some crazy hair and/or holiday headgear! Wear your favorite hat, headband, elf ears, or create a unique hairdo like Cindy Lou Who!
Friday December 18th - Caroling in your pajamas!! - Wear your favorite pajamas to school for our last day in 2015.
Weekly newsletter 12-04-15
Happy Hanukkah!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on books about Hanukkah including: Dinosaur on Hanukkah by Diane Levin Rauchwerger, The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser, Zigazak! by Eric A. Kimmel, and Eight Wild Nights by Brian P. Cleary. We began our unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we will focus on include: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we will be working on will include: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. The first holiday we focused on was Hanukkah which is December 6-14th. We made words using a menorah and candle flames, we made a menorah themed snack, we played dreidel and we created fun dreidel and menorah crafts. We, also, worked on math using Hanukkah themed roll count and cover activities and explored Hanukkah vocabulary. Next week, we will be exploring the winter tradition of Kwanzaa which is December 26-January 1st. We will be focusing on the book, It’s Kanzaa Time! by Synthia Saint James. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on books about Hanukkah including: Dinosaur on Hanukkah by Diane Levin Rauchwerger, The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser, Zigazak! by Eric A. Kimmel, and Eight Wild Nights by Brian P. Cleary. We began our unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit focuses on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we will focus on include: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we will be working on will include: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. The first holiday we focused on was Hanukkah which is December 6-14th. We made words using a menorah and candle flames, we made a menorah themed snack, we played dreidel and we created fun dreidel and menorah crafts. We, also, worked on math using Hanukkah themed roll count and cover activities and explored Hanukkah vocabulary. Next week, we will be exploring the winter tradition of Kwanzaa which is December 26-January 1st. We will be focusing on the book, It’s Kanzaa Time! by Synthia Saint James. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly newsletter 11-20-15
Scrambled States
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller. This week we concluded our new unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we have been practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We labelled places we have visited on a map. We created a healthy turkey themed snack using pears, oranges and apples. We created a cornucopia craft to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday. Additionally, we played in a sensory bin to harvest cranberries from water and then added jellied cranberry sauce to get messy and have fun! Our 2nd grade friends celebrated Cranberry Day with their 2nd Grade classrooms. Next week, we will focus on the book Mash the Potatoes from Reading A-Z and some additional Thanksgiving themed books. We will be making a Thanksgiving Feast on Tuesday to have at lunch time. Please send in your child’s regular lunch as well just in case they do not wish to eat the offerings. When we return from Thanksgiving Break we will begin a new unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit will focus on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we will focus on include: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we will be working on will include: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. The first holiday we will be focusing on will be Hanukkah which is December 6th-14th. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller. This week we concluded our new unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we have been practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We labelled places we have visited on a map. We created a healthy turkey themed snack using pears, oranges and apples. We created a cornucopia craft to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday. Additionally, we played in a sensory bin to harvest cranberries from water and then added jellied cranberry sauce to get messy and have fun! Our 2nd grade friends celebrated Cranberry Day with their 2nd Grade classrooms. Next week, we will focus on the book Mash the Potatoes from Reading A-Z and some additional Thanksgiving themed books. We will be making a Thanksgiving Feast on Tuesday to have at lunch time. Please send in your child’s regular lunch as well just in case they do not wish to eat the offerings. When we return from Thanksgiving Break we will begin a new unit called It’s a Tradition. This unit will focus on winter holidays and traditions. The winter holidays we will focus on include: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The words we will be working on will include: my, we, and, day, eat, what, with, our, after, every, says, play. The first holiday we will be focusing on will be Hanukkah which is December 6th-14th. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 11-13-15
Around the World We Go
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, Around the World We Go by Margaret Wise Brown. This week we continued our unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we have been practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We created an Earth themed snack of Earth Shortcake with shortcakes, blue and green cool whip, blueberries, and kiwi. We created an Earth themed craft that was an Earth suncatcher. Additionally, we created a sensory craft to go with our unique story, Nadia Finds Her Way. This story focuses on a girl finding her way through a fair using a map. We created a container of popcorn and “buttered” our popcorn using food coloring and medicine droppers. We, also, continued to play in a map themed sensory bin with pirate treasure, X’s, the letters to make the word map, binoculars and compasses. Finally, we celebrated Veteran’s Day with a video, a writing activity, and a song. Next week, we will continue to work on our unit called: Finding Our Way. We will focus on the book, Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller. We will, also, begin working on some Thanksgiving themed activities. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, Around the World We Go by Margaret Wise Brown. This week we continued our unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we have been practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We created an Earth themed snack of Earth Shortcake with shortcakes, blue and green cool whip, blueberries, and kiwi. We created an Earth themed craft that was an Earth suncatcher. Additionally, we created a sensory craft to go with our unique story, Nadia Finds Her Way. This story focuses on a girl finding her way through a fair using a map. We created a container of popcorn and “buttered” our popcorn using food coloring and medicine droppers. We, also, continued to play in a map themed sensory bin with pirate treasure, X’s, the letters to make the word map, binoculars and compasses. Finally, we celebrated Veteran’s Day with a video, a writing activity, and a song. Next week, we will continue to work on our unit called: Finding Our Way. We will focus on the book, Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller. We will, also, begin working on some Thanksgiving themed activities. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 11-06-15
Me on the Map
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. This week we began our new unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we will be practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We created a fun map themed snack called snow on mountains. It contained a variety of circular fruits including pineapple, peach, and kiwi, cool whip, coconut, strawberries and sugar. We created a flip book to go with our book. Our book identified our names, our streets, our cities, our state, our country and our world. We created a cool pirate map and read a book about pirates. We, also, played in a map themed sensory bin with pirate treasure, X’s, the letters to make the word map, binoculars and compasses. Next week, we will continue to work on our unit called: Finding Our Way. We will focus on the book, Around the World We Go by Margaret Wise Brown. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. This week we began our new unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we will be practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We created a fun map themed snack called snow on mountains. It contained a variety of circular fruits including pineapple, peach, and kiwi, cool whip, coconut, strawberries and sugar. We created a flip book to go with our book. Our book identified our names, our streets, our cities, our state, our country and our world. We created a cool pirate map and read a book about pirates. We, also, played in a map themed sensory bin with pirate treasure, X’s, the letters to make the word map, binoculars and compasses. Next week, we will continue to work on our unit called: Finding Our Way. We will focus on the book, Around the World We Go by Margaret Wise Brown. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-30-15
Happy Halloween!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on a variety of Halloween themed books including; The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The Runaway Mummy, and The Thirteen Nights of Halloween. We concluded our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focused on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we practiced for this unit included: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created a fun Halloween bat snack. We created a mummy and a coloring book to go with some of our books. We played in a Halloween themed sensory bin. We had a terrific visit from a visiting naturalist from Brecksville Nature Center. We, also, had a great time at our Halloween parties and the Halloween parade. Next week ,we will begin our new unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we will be practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We will be focusing on the book, Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on a variety of Halloween themed books including; The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The Runaway Mummy, and The Thirteen Nights of Halloween. We concluded our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focused on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we practiced for this unit included: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created a fun Halloween bat snack. We created a mummy and a coloring book to go with some of our books. We played in a Halloween themed sensory bin. We had a terrific visit from a visiting naturalist from Brecksville Nature Center. We, also, had a great time at our Halloween parties and the Halloween parade. Next week ,we will begin our new unit called: Finding Our Way. This unit focuses on geography and map skills. The words we will be practicing are: from, are, what, they, to, go, next, first, find, way, should, map. We will be focusing on the book, Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-23-15
Peculiar Zoo
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; Peculiar Zoo by Barry Louis Polisar. We continued our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created a zoo animal snack. We created an octopus out of a paper bag. We played in a desert habitat themed sensory bin. Our 2nd grade friends,got to go on a terrific field trip to Hale Farm and Village! Next week ,we will conclude our unit called Animals in Their Homes. Additionally, we will be focusing on Halloween themed books and fun activities. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; Peculiar Zoo by Barry Louis Polisar. We continued our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created a zoo animal snack. We created an octopus out of a paper bag. We played in a desert habitat themed sensory bin. Our 2nd grade friends,got to go on a terrific field trip to Hale Farm and Village! Next week ,we will conclude our unit called Animals in Their Homes. Additionally, we will be focusing on Halloween themed books and fun activities. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-15-15
I Know a Rhino
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge. We continued our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created an animal themed snack mix with raisins, teddy grahams, bunny fruit snacks, and gold fish. We did an experiment on animal tracks in different types of soil when the soil is wet and dry. Our kindergarten and 1st grade friends, worked on an animal themed roll, count and cover. We played the game Where Do I Live?. We completed an animal diary and matched animals with their homes. Our 2nd grade friends, also, worked hard practicing subtraction using manipulatives and interactive whiteboard games! Some of our 2nd grade friends, also, joined Maker’s Club and assisted with the creation of Sharecrows for Highland Island. Next week ,we will continue our unit called Animals in Their Homes. We will be focusing on the book; Peculiar Zoo by Barry Louis Polisar. Also, 2nd grade will be going on a field trip to Hale Farm and Village. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge. We continued our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created an animal themed snack mix with raisins, teddy grahams, bunny fruit snacks, and gold fish. We did an experiment on animal tracks in different types of soil when the soil is wet and dry. Our kindergarten and 1st grade friends, worked on an animal themed roll, count and cover. We played the game Where Do I Live?. We completed an animal diary and matched animals with their homes. Our 2nd grade friends, also, worked hard practicing subtraction using manipulatives and interactive whiteboard games! Some of our 2nd grade friends, also, joined Maker’s Club and assisted with the creation of Sharecrows for Highland Island. Next week ,we will continue our unit called Animals in Their Homes. We will be focusing on the book; Peculiar Zoo by Barry Louis Polisar. Also, 2nd grade will be going on a field trip to Hale Farm and Village. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-09-15
Our Little Lions!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; Little Lions by Jim Arnosky. We began our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created a fun lion themed snack with oranges, Kix cereal, blueberries and icing. We played Animal Soundtracks and got to hear the different sounds animals make! We used monkey manipulatives to find different sums. We read the book; Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear by Bill Martin Jr. and found all the animals in our story in a sensory bin. We created sets using a book called “At the Zoo.” Our 2nd grade friends, also, worked hard practicing identifying and counting coins and everyone enjoyed Spirit Week! Next week ,we will continue our unit called Animals in Their Homes. We will be focusing on the book; I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; Little Lions by Jim Arnosky. We began our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We created a fun lion themed snack with oranges, Kix cereal, blueberries and icing. We played Animal Soundtracks and got to hear the different sounds animals make! We used monkey manipulatives to find different sums. We read the book; Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear by Bill Martin Jr. and found all the animals in our story in a sensory bin. We created sets using a book called “At the Zoo.” Our 2nd grade friends, also, worked hard practicing identifying and counting coins and everyone enjoyed Spirit Week! Next week ,we will continue our unit called Animals in Their Homes. We will be focusing on the book; I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-2-15
The Trouble with Friends
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends by Jan and Stan Berenstain. We concluded our unit called, This is my School. This unit focused on social studies terms and concepts. The words we practiced included: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We worked on ways to be a good friend. We played in play dough and did stamping activities for sensory this week. We created a bear themed snack with graham crackers, chocolate chips marshmallows and icing. It was delicious! We, also, created a friendship quilt in which each student decorated an individual square and we put it all together to create a quilt. Finally, we celebrated a friends birthday with treats! Next week, we will begin our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We will be focusing on the book; Little Lions by Jim Arnosky. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Also, next week is spirit week. The special days are as follows:
Monday October 5, 2015 - Red and Gold Day - Wear your favorite red and gold!
Tuesday October 6, 2015- Crazy Hair or Hat Day
Wednesday October 7, 2015 - Favorite Sports Team Day - Wear your favorite team’s colors!
Thursday October 8, 2015 - Neon Day
Friday October 9, 2015 - Pajama Day!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends by Jan and Stan Berenstain. We concluded our unit called, This is my School. This unit focused on social studies terms and concepts. The words we practiced included: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We worked on ways to be a good friend. We played in play dough and did stamping activities for sensory this week. We created a bear themed snack with graham crackers, chocolate chips marshmallows and icing. It was delicious! We, also, created a friendship quilt in which each student decorated an individual square and we put it all together to create a quilt. Finally, we celebrated a friends birthday with treats! Next week, we will begin our unit called Animals in Their Homes. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts like animals and habitats. The words we will be practicing for this unit include: this, we, in, see, give, away, you, home, cannot, with, live, animal. We will be focusing on the book; Little Lions by Jim Arnosky. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Also, next week is spirit week. The special days are as follows:
Monday October 5, 2015 - Red and Gold Day - Wear your favorite red and gold!
Tuesday October 6, 2015- Crazy Hair or Hat Day
Wednesday October 7, 2015 - Favorite Sports Team Day - Wear your favorite team’s colors!
Thursday October 8, 2015 - Neon Day
Friday October 9, 2015 - Pajama Day!
weekly newsletter 10-02-15
weekly newsletter 09-25-15
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; The Teacher From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler. We continued our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have continued to work on school rules. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We worked on adjectives and feeling words. We created cool bookmarks from Mike Thaler’s website. We watched the videos for not only, The Teacher From the Black Lagoon, but The Gym Teacher From the Black Lagoon and The Librarian From the Black Lagoon, as well. We black in green slime made from tapioca and water. It was GROSS (in a fun way!). For snack we made, “Mrs. Green Pie” with green pudding pie slices, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and white chocolate chips. It made it look like an alligator or the monster teacher from our story. We, also, made a school house craft that had each of our pictures in them and they turned out really nicely. Next week ,we will conclude our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends by Jan and Stan Berenstain. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; The Teacher From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler. We continued our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have continued to work on school rules. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We worked on adjectives and feeling words. We created cool bookmarks from Mike Thaler’s website. We watched the videos for not only, The Teacher From the Black Lagoon, but The Gym Teacher From the Black Lagoon and The Librarian From the Black Lagoon, as well. We black in green slime made from tapioca and water. It was GROSS (in a fun way!). For snack we made, “Mrs. Green Pie” with green pudding pie slices, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and white chocolate chips. It made it look like an alligator or the monster teacher from our story. We, also, made a school house craft that had each of our pictures in them and they turned out really nicely. Next week ,we will conclude our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends by Jan and Stan Berenstain. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 09-18-15
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some WHAT?!!!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro. We continued our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have continued to work on school rules. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We worked on sequencing and retelling using our story. We created a bag to look like our old lady and retold the story using pictures of the items she swallowed. We created cool backpacks. We made lists of the items the old lady swallowed. We made a craft of the old lady. For snack we made, “Going to School GORP” with cereal, dried fruit and sunflower seeds. We worked on an old lady themed roll, count and cover and made our own There Was An Old Lady emergent reader. Next week ,we will continue our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; The Teacher From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 09-11-15
How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; How Do Dinosaurs Go to School by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We continued our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have continued to work on school rules. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We worked on dinosaur themed addition, dinosaur themed place value, sight word matching, and sorted between good behaviors and poor behaviors. We worked on a power point activity that was the same theme as our book and used illustrations from our book do demonstrate good and not so good behaviors. We created a cool dinosaur that stands up and a dinosaur snack made from watermelon, oranges, strawberries and bananas. We, also, had some time with water play. We practiced stringing sponges to try to stay cool on these super hot days! Next week ,we will continue our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; How Do Dinosaurs Go to School by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We continued our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have continued to work on school rules. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We worked on dinosaur themed addition, dinosaur themed place value, sight word matching, and sorted between good behaviors and poor behaviors. We worked on a power point activity that was the same theme as our book and used illustrations from our book do demonstrate good and not so good behaviors. We created a cool dinosaur that stands up and a dinosaur snack made from watermelon, oranges, strawberries and bananas. We, also, had some time with water play. We practiced stringing sponges to try to stay cool on these super hot days! Next week ,we will continue our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 09-04-15
David Learns the Rules and So Do We!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on the book; David Goes to School by David Shannon. We began our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have worked on school rules and who are the leaders in our school. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We created a picture web of leaders in our school. We created a fun pencil snack made of cheese sticks, bugles, raisins and bologna. We create a David craft and he helped us learn our rules. We, also, had a fun assembly from Heinen’s grocery store that told us all about healthy foods like fruits and vegetables! Next week ,we will continue our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? by Mark Teague and Jane Yolen. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of room 7 focused on the book; David Goes to School by David Shannon. We began our unit called, This is my School. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, school, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me, I, can. We have worked on school rules and who are the leaders in our school. Some of the rules we have focused on include: Raise your hand, listen to your teacher, sit in your chair and walk in the halls. We created a picture web of leaders in our school. We created a fun pencil snack made of cheese sticks, bugles, raisins and bologna. We create a David craft and he helped us learn our rules. We, also, had a fun assembly from Heinen’s grocery store that told us all about healthy foods like fruits and vegetables! Next week ,we will continue our unit on This is my School. We will be focusing on the book; How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? by Mark Teague and Jane Yolen. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly newsletter 08-28-15
If You Take a Mouse to School
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; If You Take a Mouse to School. This book was a good introduction to coming back to school and led us into some good work with cause and effect. We created a fun mouse themed snack, played a sandwich game, and created a mouse just like in our book. We, also, had a chance to play with a stuffed mouse that looks just like the one from our book and played a getting to know you game on the SMART Board to get to know new and old friends. Next week, we will begin our unit called,School Rules. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, schoo, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me I, can. We will focus on the book, David Goes to School and do many activities that relate to this book. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; If You Take a Mouse to School. This book was a good introduction to coming back to school and led us into some good work with cause and effect. We created a fun mouse themed snack, played a sandwich game, and created a mouse just like in our book. We, also, had a chance to play with a stuffed mouse that looks just like the one from our book and played a getting to know you game on the SMART Board to get to know new and old friends. Next week, we will begin our unit called,School Rules. This unit focuses on social studies terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: at, help, schoo, the, her, read, get, my, learn, me I, can. We will focus on the book, David Goes to School and do many activities that relate to this book. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 05-29-15
Room 7: Where Minds Blossom and Grow
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; The Reason for Flowers. We continued our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We continued to talk about the parts of a plant including stem, roots, leaves, and flower. We, also, continued to talk about basic needs of plants like water, air, and sun. We created a fun May flower craft because April Showers Bring May Flowers! We made a delicious and healthy flower themed snack that used a slice of kiwi as the center of the flower, strawberries as the petals and grapes as the leaves and stem. We planted grass seed bombs into cups with our pictures and when they sprout we will have silly looking hair! We watched Sid the Science kids, My Shrinking Shoes which is all about how things grow and change just like plants. Finally, we practiced the sequence and life cycle of a plant one more time for practice and review. Also, this week our 3rd grade friends visited Progressive Field and took Lolley the Trolley and our 1st grade friends visited the zoo. Next week ,we will be have a fun summer beach theme in preparation for the upcoming summer break. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book; The Reason for Flowers. We continued our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We continued to talk about the parts of a plant including stem, roots, leaves, and flower. We, also, continued to talk about basic needs of plants like water, air, and sun. We created a fun May flower craft because April Showers Bring May Flowers! We made a delicious and healthy flower themed snack that used a slice of kiwi as the center of the flower, strawberries as the petals and grapes as the leaves and stem. We planted grass seed bombs into cups with our pictures and when they sprout we will have silly looking hair! We watched Sid the Science kids, My Shrinking Shoes which is all about how things grow and change just like plants. Finally, we practiced the sequence and life cycle of a plant one more time for practice and review. Also, this week our 3rd grade friends visited Progressive Field and took Lolley the Trolley and our 1st grade friends visited the zoo. Next week ,we will be have a fun summer beach theme in preparation for the upcoming summer break. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 05-22-15
A Garden of Learning
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books; Creepy Caterpillar and Dandelion. This week we continued our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We continued to explore our spring and planting themed sensory bin with flowers, soil (it was really coffee!), gardening tools and pots. We continued to talk about the parts of a plant including stem, roots, leaves, and flower. We, also, continued to talk about basic needs of plants like water, air, and sun. We concluded our experiment to see if you take one of those needs away how does it affect the plant. We found out that when you take away water the plant dies quickly. We, also, found when you take away air, the plant will rot and get really gross! We used pansies in our experiment and when we took away the light, the big change we saw was that the stems turned white. We created delicious Berry Smoothies and did a graphing activity to decide which plant part we liked the best to eat. We tried broccoli, pepper, radishes, carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce. We all liked the fruit or flower parts the best. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books; Creepy Caterpillar and Dandelion. This week we continued our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We continued to explore our spring and planting themed sensory bin with flowers, soil (it was really coffee!), gardening tools and pots. We continued to talk about the parts of a plant including stem, roots, leaves, and flower. We, also, continued to talk about basic needs of plants like water, air, and sun. We concluded our experiment to see if you take one of those needs away how does it affect the plant. We found out that when you take away water the plant dies quickly. We, also, found when you take away air, the plant will rot and get really gross! We used pansies in our experiment and when we took away the light, the big change we saw was that the stems turned white. We created delicious Berry Smoothies and did a graphing activity to decide which plant part we liked the best to eat. We tried broccoli, pepper, radishes, carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce. We all liked the fruit or flower parts the best. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 05-15-15
Sunny Days in Room 7
This week in room 7, we focused on our unit, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We explored a spring and planting themed sensory bin with flowers, soil (it was really coffee!), gardening tools and pots. We focused on the books, Sunflower House, A Field of Sunflowers, From Seed to Sunflower, Tops and Bottoms and Curious George Plants a Seed. We used our fine motor skills to sort sunflower seeds and create a cool sunflower craft. We two sunflower snacks, as well. We sequenced the life cycle of a sunflower and created a sunflower name recognition craft. Next week, we will continue to work on our How Do Plants Grow unit. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week in room 7, we focused on our unit, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We explored a spring and planting themed sensory bin with flowers, soil (it was really coffee!), gardening tools and pots. We focused on the books, Sunflower House, A Field of Sunflowers, From Seed to Sunflower, Tops and Bottoms and Curious George Plants a Seed. We used our fine motor skills to sort sunflower seeds and create a cool sunflower craft. We two sunflower snacks, as well. We sequenced the life cycle of a sunflower and created a sunflower name recognition craft. Next week, we will continue to work on our How Do Plants Grow unit. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 05-08-15
How Plants Grow
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book;The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. This week we began our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We explored a spring and planting themed sensory bin with flowers, soil (it was really coffee!), gardening tools and pots. We began talking about the parts of a plant including stem, roots, leaves, and flower. We, also, talked about basic needs of plants like water, air, and sun. We began an experiment to see if you take one of those needs away how does it affect the plant. We created a craft that depicts the different parts of a plant. We, also, listened to the story, Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert and sequence the steps to growing a plant. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book;The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. This week we began our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. We explored a spring and planting themed sensory bin with flowers, soil (it was really coffee!), gardening tools and pots. We began talking about the parts of a plant including stem, roots, leaves, and flower. We, also, talked about basic needs of plants like water, air, and sun. We began an experiment to see if you take one of those needs away how does it affect the plant. We created a craft that depicts the different parts of a plant. We, also, listened to the story, Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert and sequence the steps to growing a plant. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 05-01-15
Community Helpers, conclusion.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on community helpers books like;Little Nino’s Pizzeria. We concluded our Where Do They Work unit. We created a garbage truck using basic shapes. We conducted an experiment to see if an object's shape will allow it to float and we found that YES! it does! We made a delicious firetruck snack and took a survey on where we would like to work. Next week, we will begin our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on community helpers books like;Little Nino’s Pizzeria. We concluded our Where Do They Work unit. We created a garbage truck using basic shapes. We conducted an experiment to see if an object's shape will allow it to float and we found that YES! it does! We made a delicious firetruck snack and took a survey on where we would like to work. Next week, we will begin our unit called, How Do Plants Grow. This unit focuses on science terms and concepts. The words we will be practicing include: green, air, inside, house, more, into, little, for, found, take, eat, of. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 04-24-15
Earth Day!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on community helpers books like;The Day the Teacher Went Bananas and Watch Your Step, Mr. Rabbit!. We, also, explored some Earth Day activities. This week, we created three dimensional maps of the earth with salt dough. We marbled painted the earth and wrote about ways we can help the earth. We created a landscape using modelling clay and conducted an experiment on the watershed. Our experiment showed how all the pollutants we use run off and dirty our water sources. Next week, we will continue our unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on community helpers books like;The Day the Teacher Went Bananas and Watch Your Step, Mr. Rabbit!. We, also, explored some Earth Day activities. This week, we created three dimensional maps of the earth with salt dough. We marbled painted the earth and wrote about ways we can help the earth. We created a landscape using modelling clay and conducted an experiment on the watershed. Our experiment showed how all the pollutants we use run off and dirty our water sources. Next week, we will continue our unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 04-17-15
Community Helpers
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on community helpers books like; I Want a Hat Like That and When I Get Bigger. This week we created gel bags to use for practicing our writing and because they feel really great on our hands! We, also, read Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. We took a survey to see how many of us would let the pigeon drive the bus. Most of us said “NO!” but we did have a couple of daredevils who said, “YES!” We, also, made a fun snack to go with this book. It looked really cool and it tasted good too! Mrs. Shingleton brought puzzle piece cookies for Autism Awareness month, as well. Next week, we will continue our unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Additionally, Highland Drive will be celebrating Earth Week and many of our activities will be in that celebration. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on community helpers books like; I Want a Hat Like That and When I Get Bigger. This week we created gel bags to use for practicing our writing and because they feel really great on our hands! We, also, read Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. We took a survey to see how many of us would let the pigeon drive the bus. Most of us said “NO!” but we did have a couple of daredevils who said, “YES!” We, also, made a fun snack to go with this book. It looked really cool and it tasted good too! Mrs. Shingleton brought puzzle piece cookies for Autism Awareness month, as well. Next week, we will continue our unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Additionally, Highland Drive will be celebrating Earth Week and many of our activities will be in that celebration. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 04-02-15
Spring Has Sprung!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Spring Themed books like; The Berenstain Bears and the Real Easter Eggs, Last One in Is a Rotten Egg!, Here Comes T.Rex Cottontail, Pete the Cat Big Easter Adventure, and The Night Before Easter. We, also, concluded our unit on energy. This unit has focused on science topics like energy and electricity. We have focused on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. This week we explored peeps play dough. We melted peeps and added oil, water, and cornstarch. It was really fun and it tasted good too! We created a peeps in a basket craft. We, also, made puffy paint with glue, food coloring and shaving cream and painted chicks and bunnies that looked like peeps. We dyed eggs. We created a spring snack with peeps, pudding, cookie crumbs, and chocolate eggs. Finally, we did a color match using a hunt for eggs. Next week is Spring Break! Following Spring Break, we will begin a unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on Spring Themed books like; The Berenstain Bears and the Real Easter Eggs, Last One in Is a Rotten Egg!, Here Comes T.Rex Cottontail, Pete the Cat Big Easter Adventure, and The Night Before Easter. We, also, concluded our unit on energy. This unit has focused on science topics like energy and electricity. We have focused on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. This week we explored peeps play dough. We melted peeps and added oil, water, and cornstarch. It was really fun and it tasted good too! We created a peeps in a basket craft. We, also, made puffy paint with glue, food coloring and shaving cream and painted chicks and bunnies that looked like peeps. We dyed eggs. We created a spring snack with peeps, pudding, cookie crumbs, and chocolate eggs. Finally, we did a color match using a hunt for eggs. Next week is Spring Break! Following Spring Break, we will begin a unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-26-15
One Book, One School - Final Week
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focused on the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. We, also, continued our unit on energy. This week we explored our mouse themed sensory bin. We practiced number to set using mice and motorcycles and a fun light bulb activity. We tried a really cool experiment where we used batteries to light up a flashlight light bulb. We, also, created a working windmill craft! We worked on the SMARTboard to explore different kinds of energy. This week concluded our One Book, One School project and today everyone watched The Mouse and the Motorcycle movie. Next week, we will conclude our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit has focused on science topics like energy and electricity. We have focused on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. We will, also, do some spring themed activities and focus on spring themed books for the short week before Spring Break. Following Spring Break, we will begin a unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focused on the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. We, also, continued our unit on energy. This week we explored our mouse themed sensory bin. We practiced number to set using mice and motorcycles and a fun light bulb activity. We tried a really cool experiment where we used batteries to light up a flashlight light bulb. We, also, created a working windmill craft! We worked on the SMARTboard to explore different kinds of energy. This week concluded our One Book, One School project and today everyone watched The Mouse and the Motorcycle movie. Next week, we will conclude our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit has focused on science topics like energy and electricity. We have focused on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. We will, also, do some spring themed activities and focus on spring themed books for the short week before Spring Break. Following Spring Break, we will begin a unit called, Where People Work. This unit focuses on geography and community occupations. The words we will be practicing include: work, on, there, are, they, does, where, people, town, around, farm, water. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-20-15
One Book, One School - Week 2
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focused on the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. We, also, continued our unit on energy. Additionally, we had some St. Patrick’s Day fun! This week we explored a gold themed sensory bin. We found leprechauns gold and put it into our individual pots. We counted how much gold we found and practices identifying who had more and less. We created shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day. We painted our shamrocks with paint mixed with baking soda and used eye droppers to drop vinegar on our shamrocks to demonstrate chemical energy! We practiced fine motor by cutting out basic shapes and created a mouse to go with our book. We, also made a mouse themed snack using strawberries, chocolate chips, nuts and twizzlers. We worked on the SMART board to explore different kinds of energy. Next week, we will continue our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Additionally, we will continue working on the One Book, One School project. This project takes a single book and encourages the whole school to work on it! This year the book is The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We will read as a class here at school and Mrs. Shingleton will be providing modified chapter summaries to review at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 continued to focused on the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. We, also, continued our unit on energy. Additionally, we had some St. Patrick’s Day fun! This week we explored a gold themed sensory bin. We found leprechauns gold and put it into our individual pots. We counted how much gold we found and practices identifying who had more and less. We created shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day. We painted our shamrocks with paint mixed with baking soda and used eye droppers to drop vinegar on our shamrocks to demonstrate chemical energy! We practiced fine motor by cutting out basic shapes and created a mouse to go with our book. We, also made a mouse themed snack using strawberries, chocolate chips, nuts and twizzlers. We worked on the SMART board to explore different kinds of energy. Next week, we will continue our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Additionally, we will continue working on the One Book, One School project. This project takes a single book and encourages the whole school to work on it! This year the book is The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We will read as a class here at school and Mrs. Shingleton will be providing modified chapter summaries to review at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-13-15
One Book, One School
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. We continued our unit on energy. This week we explored a mouse themed sensory bin. We found sets of numbers to match a number on our motorcycles and some of us worked on addition and multiplication problems to go with our motorcycle numbers. We created conductive and insulating playdoughs. We used these doughs to complete a current and make lights light up using battery packs. We worked on the SMART board to explore different kinds of energy. Next week, we will continue our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Additionally, we will be working on the One Book, One School project. This project takes a single book and encourages the whole school to work on it! This year the book is The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We will read as a class here at school and Mrs. Shingleton will be providing modified chapter summaries to review at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. We continued our unit on energy. This week we explored a mouse themed sensory bin. We found sets of numbers to match a number on our motorcycles and some of us worked on addition and multiplication problems to go with our motorcycle numbers. We created conductive and insulating playdoughs. We used these doughs to complete a current and make lights light up using battery packs. We worked on the SMART board to explore different kinds of energy. Next week, we will continue our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Additionally, we will be working on the One Book, One School project. This project takes a single book and encourages the whole school to work on it! This year the book is The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We will read as a class here at school and Mrs. Shingleton will be providing modified chapter summaries to review at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 03-06-15
It Takes Energy!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book Energy. We began our unit on energy. We, also, did some Dr. Suess themed activities to celebrate his birthday on March 2. This week we explored a Dr. Suess themed sensory bin. We listened to Horton Hears a Who and created a fun Horton themed writing activity. We listened to the fiction story, The Contest Between the Wind and the Sun. We created a modified journal about solar energy. This week we, also, created some delicious Energy Bars to go with our energy theme. We worked on the SMART board to explore different kinds of energy and we created a fun light bulb craft. Next week, we will continue our unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Additionally, we will be working on the One Book, One School project. This project takes a single book and encourages the whole school to work on it! This year the book will be The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We will read as a class here at school and Mrs. Shingleton will be providing modified chapter summaries to review at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 02-27-15
Pete’s a Pizza
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book Pete’s a Pizza. We are concluding our work on our unit, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit focused on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We, also, continued to talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. This week we explored a Winter White themed sensory bin. We worked on locating relevant vocabulary within the bin. We read Pete’s a Pizza and did some interactive movements with the book. We watched an animated video of the book. We did a modified journal that sequenced the steps to making a pizza. We, also, created a paper plate pizza. Finally, we made english muffin pizzas! Yum! Also, as a culminating activity for our family unit, we watched Finding Nemo. Next week, we will begin a new unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book Pete’s a Pizza. We are concluding our work on our unit, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit focused on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We, also, continued to talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. This week we explored a Winter White themed sensory bin. We worked on locating relevant vocabulary within the bin. We read Pete’s a Pizza and did some interactive movements with the book. We watched an animated video of the book. We did a modified journal that sequenced the steps to making a pizza. We, also, created a paper plate pizza. Finally, we made english muffin pizzas! Yum! Also, as a culminating activity for our family unit, we watched Finding Nemo. Next week, we will begin a new unit, It Takes Energy. This unit will focus on science topics like energy and electricity. We will focus on the sight words: from, how, to, many, want, use, look, us, car, grow, need, move. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 02-20-15
Brrrrrrr!
This week despite being a very short week with presidents day and 2 cold days, we have lots of fun adventures. We had a visit from a magician and COSI on Wheels came to school! COSI on Wheels was about weather this year and we got to try some really cool experiments.
This week despite being a very short week with presidents day and 2 cold days, we have lots of fun adventures. We had a visit from a magician and COSI on Wheels came to school! COSI on Wheels was about weather this year and we got to try some really cool experiments.
weekly newsletter 02-13-15
Happy Valentine’s Day!!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The One in the Middle is a Green Kangaroo and a variety of Valentine’s themed stories. We continue to work on our unit, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit focuses on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We, also, continue to talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. This week we explored a Valentine’s Day themed sensory bin. This bin included artificial flower petals, beads, a and variety of hearts. Some of our room 7 friends worked to locate letters from their names and match them. Other friends looked for parts of a whole and matched to the fraction. We made a fun Valentine’s Day cookie craft and decorated a Valentine’s bag. We, also, decorated a cookie and got to eat it! We, also, used hearts to play a number to set match game and packaged hearts into baggies with the correct amount in each bag. We participated in the districtwide Jam to get our bodies moving. We got up and danced to “Happy.” Our Valentine’s Day parties were this week, as well. Next week, we will continue our unit titled, “I Belong to a Family.” We will focus on the sight words: with, me, this, go, and, have, just, every, family, sister, love. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The One in the Middle is a Green Kangaroo and a variety of Valentine’s themed stories. We continue to work on our unit, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit focuses on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We, also, continue to talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. This week we explored a Valentine’s Day themed sensory bin. This bin included artificial flower petals, beads, a and variety of hearts. Some of our room 7 friends worked to locate letters from their names and match them. Other friends looked for parts of a whole and matched to the fraction. We made a fun Valentine’s Day cookie craft and decorated a Valentine’s bag. We, also, decorated a cookie and got to eat it! We, also, used hearts to play a number to set match game and packaged hearts into baggies with the correct amount in each bag. We participated in the districtwide Jam to get our bodies moving. We got up and danced to “Happy.” Our Valentine’s Day parties were this week, as well. Next week, we will continue our unit titled, “I Belong to a Family.” We will focus on the sight words: with, me, this, go, and, have, just, every, family, sister, love. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 02-06-15
We Are Family!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Middle Child Blues, M.O.M. Mom Operating Manual, and My Mom is So Smart. We began working on our new unit, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit will focus on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We will, also, talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. We used family members to practice addition, counting people in a household, and played family bingo. We, also, shared our My Family and Me books. Thanks so much for all the hard work. These books were fantastic. Next week, we will continue our unit titled, “I Belong to a Family.” We will focus on the sight words: with, me, this, go, and, have, just, every, family, sister, love. We will, also, have some fun Valentine’s activities. The Valentine’s Day parties will be on Friday. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Middle Child Blues, M.O.M. Mom Operating Manual, and My Mom is So Smart. We began working on our new unit, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit will focus on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We will, also, talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. We used family members to practice addition, counting people in a household, and played family bingo. We, also, shared our My Family and Me books. Thanks so much for all the hard work. These books were fantastic. Next week, we will continue our unit titled, “I Belong to a Family.” We will focus on the sight words: with, me, this, go, and, have, just, every, family, sister, love. We will, also, have some fun Valentine’s activities. The Valentine’s Day parties will be on Friday. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly newsletter 01-30-15
SMILE!!!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Nice Try, Tooth Fairy, Loose Tooth and Franklin and the Tooth Fairy. We have concluded our unit on Healthy Habits. We continued to focus on dental health and hygiene. We practiced flossing using large legos, play dough and yarn. Some of us made homemade toothpaste and practiced brushing our teeth. We used the SMART board to practice brushing germs away from our teeth. We, also, made a giant mouth full of marshmallow teeth and sequenced the steps to brushing our teeth. We brushed shaving cream off of our egg carton teeth and some of us practiced finding letters, numbers, sight words and fractions on smiles and teeth. Next week, we will begin a new unit titled, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit will focus on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We will, also, talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. We will focus on the sight words: with, me, this, go, and, have, just, every, family, sister, love. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Nice Try, Tooth Fairy, Loose Tooth and Franklin and the Tooth Fairy. We have concluded our unit on Healthy Habits. We continued to focus on dental health and hygiene. We practiced flossing using large legos, play dough and yarn. Some of us made homemade toothpaste and practiced brushing our teeth. We used the SMART board to practice brushing germs away from our teeth. We, also, made a giant mouth full of marshmallow teeth and sequenced the steps to brushing our teeth. We brushed shaving cream off of our egg carton teeth and some of us practiced finding letters, numbers, sight words and fractions on smiles and teeth. Next week, we will begin a new unit titled, “I Belong to a Family.” This unit will focus on social studies themes and understanding being a part of a family and the other members of the family. We will, also, talk about traditions and cultures within our own families. We will focus on the sight words: with, me, this, go, and, have, just, every, family, sister, love. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 01-23-15
Our Teeth Are Totally Terrific!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Tooth Book and Just Going to the Dentist. We have continued our unit on Healthy Habits. We used Ipads to show how to brush our teeth correctly and get all the germs off of them. We, also, painted a very yellow tooth white with toothbrushes to get in the practice of being thorough when we brush our teeth. We created a really cool healthy snack that looked a little like a smile. We, also, practice number sense activities using a big smile and an open mouth. Next week, we will continue to be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will continue to focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This week will focus on dental health. We will continue to learn all about the dentist, brushing our teeth and how to have good dental hygiene. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Tooth Book and Just Going to the Dentist. We have continued our unit on Healthy Habits. We used Ipads to show how to brush our teeth correctly and get all the germs off of them. We, also, painted a very yellow tooth white with toothbrushes to get in the practice of being thorough when we brush our teeth. We created a really cool healthy snack that looked a little like a smile. We, also, practice number sense activities using a big smile and an open mouth. Next week, we will continue to be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will continue to focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This week will focus on dental health. We will continue to learn all about the dentist, brushing our teeth and how to have good dental hygiene. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 01-16-15
Hooray for Healthy Habits!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,All By Myself and Healthy Eating. We have continued our unit on Healthy Habits. We continued to focused on MyPlate and introduced another healthy habit of exercise. We continued to explore the food groups: meat and protein, dairy, fruits, vegetables and grains. and discussed “extras” like sweets and fats. We explored the food groups by finding pictures of foods hidden in frozen vegetables. We cut out a variety of foods and sorted them into the five food groups. We played a really fun food group lotto and explored really neat Ipad apps for food groups. Finally, we tried some kids yoga. It was hard work but really fun! Next week, we will continue to be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will continue to focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This week will focus on dental health. We will learn all about the dentist, brushing our teeth and how to have good dental hygiene. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,All By Myself and Healthy Eating. We have continued our unit on Healthy Habits. We continued to focused on MyPlate and introduced another healthy habit of exercise. We continued to explore the food groups: meat and protein, dairy, fruits, vegetables and grains. and discussed “extras” like sweets and fats. We explored the food groups by finding pictures of foods hidden in frozen vegetables. We cut out a variety of foods and sorted them into the five food groups. We played a really fun food group lotto and explored really neat Ipad apps for food groups. Finally, we tried some kids yoga. It was hard work but really fun! Next week, we will continue to be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will continue to focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This week will focus on dental health. We will learn all about the dentist, brushing our teeth and how to have good dental hygiene. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 01-09-15
My Oh My - MyPlate
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Eating Well and Healthy Eating. We have introduced a unit on Healthy Habits. We focused on MyPlate. MyPlate was introduced by First Lady Michelle Obama and takes the place of the traditional food pyramid. We introduced the food groups: meat and protein, dairy, fruits, vegetables and grains. and discussed “extras” like sweets and fats. We created posters for each of the different food groups and we created a healthy snack using MyPlate. Next week, we will continue to be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will continue to focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This unit will focus on healthy eating and exercise. We will continue to focus on MyPlate, the food groups and healthy eating and beginning to introduce the healthy habit of exercise. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Eating Well and Healthy Eating. We have introduced a unit on Healthy Habits. We focused on MyPlate. MyPlate was introduced by First Lady Michelle Obama and takes the place of the traditional food pyramid. We introduced the food groups: meat and protein, dairy, fruits, vegetables and grains. and discussed “extras” like sweets and fats. We created posters for each of the different food groups and we created a healthy snack using MyPlate. Next week, we will continue to be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will continue to focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This unit will focus on healthy eating and exercise. We will continue to focus on MyPlate, the food groups and healthy eating and beginning to introduce the healthy habit of exercise. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly newsletter 12-19-14
Happy Holidays!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Light the Lights by Margaret Moorman and Eight Wild Nights by Brian Cleary. We continued to work on our winter holidays. We focused on the Jewish holiday Chanukah. The first night of Chanukah was this week. We discussed the symbols of Chanukah like the dreidel, menorah, latkes, oil, gifts and gelt. We graphed using the dreidel. We created dreidel snacks and a dreidel themed craft. We worked on Chanukah themed reading and math activities including roll and cover activities for sight words and counting and addition. We, also, used a teacher created menorah to build words with teacher created candles. We had our holiday parties with our homeroom classes. We had a school-wide sing along! It was lots of fun and we even saw funny pictures of staff and teachers. When we return from Winter Break, we will be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This unit will focus on healthy eating and exercise.
Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Mrs. Shingleton sent home a packet for practice over Winter Break. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Have a wonderful Winter Break and Happy Holiday Season!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Light the Lights by Margaret Moorman and Eight Wild Nights by Brian Cleary. We continued to work on our winter holidays. We focused on the Jewish holiday Chanukah. The first night of Chanukah was this week. We discussed the symbols of Chanukah like the dreidel, menorah, latkes, oil, gifts and gelt. We graphed using the dreidel. We created dreidel snacks and a dreidel themed craft. We worked on Chanukah themed reading and math activities including roll and cover activities for sight words and counting and addition. We, also, used a teacher created menorah to build words with teacher created candles. We had our holiday parties with our homeroom classes. We had a school-wide sing along! It was lots of fun and we even saw funny pictures of staff and teachers. When we return from Winter Break, we will be focusing on a unit titled, “I Can Be Healthy.” We will focus on the sight words: we, up, let, all, thing, help, you, myself, yes, by, her, again. This unit will focus on healthy eating and exercise.
Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Mrs. Shingleton sent home a packet for practice over Winter Break. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed. Have a wonderful Winter Break and Happy Holiday Season!
weekly newsletter 12-12-14
Gingerbread Fun!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Cambell Ernst and The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. We continued to work on our winter holidays. We worked on number identification and completed a variety of roll, count and cover activities. We explored our crystal snowflakes and determined if they looked the same or different and in what ways they looked different. We decorated gingerbread men and graphed how we ate our gingerbread men. We graphed if we ate the head, foot, or arm first. We then used our gingerbread men for a cool science experiment. We drew what we thought our gingerbread men looked like before it got wet, what we thought it would look like after it got wet and what it actually looked like. We then determined if our predictions were correct. We had sensory fun with gingerbread play dough and made play dough cookies.
Next week, we will focus on Hanukkah. We will be focusing on the books: Light the Lights! by Margaret Moorman and Eight Wild Nights by Brian P. Cleary. Many of our activities will explore some of the symbols and traditions of Hanukkah. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. There will be no homework this week due to all the festivities. Mrs. Shingleton will send home a packet for practice over Winter Break. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Cambell Ernst and The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. We continued to work on our winter holidays. We worked on number identification and completed a variety of roll, count and cover activities. We explored our crystal snowflakes and determined if they looked the same or different and in what ways they looked different. We decorated gingerbread men and graphed how we ate our gingerbread men. We graphed if we ate the head, foot, or arm first. We then used our gingerbread men for a cool science experiment. We drew what we thought our gingerbread men looked like before it got wet, what we thought it would look like after it got wet and what it actually looked like. We then determined if our predictions were correct. We had sensory fun with gingerbread play dough and made play dough cookies.
Next week, we will focus on Hanukkah. We will be focusing on the books: Light the Lights! by Margaret Moorman and Eight Wild Nights by Brian P. Cleary. Many of our activities will explore some of the symbols and traditions of Hanukkah. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. There will be no homework this week due to all the festivities. Mrs. Shingleton will send home a packet for practice over Winter Break. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 12-05-14
A Rainbow Christmas!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Merry Christmas, Space Case and Merry Christmas, Stinky Face. We introduced our winter holidays including: Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza and Los Posados. We wrote a journal about Christmas gifts and celebrations. We, also, worked on counting skills with a fun tree decorating activity. We created a crystal snowflake in science this week. We created a healthy snack with apples, grapes, and pretzels in the shape of a Christmas tree and worked on our fine motor skills by lacing a stocking. Also, this week our 3rd Graders had many practices for their Winter Performance. We all were able to watch the performance on Thursday! Everyone did a terrific job! We had wonderful performers and a terrific audience.
Next week, we will focus on a gingerbread man theme. We will have a gingerbread themed science experiment, gingerbread themed graphing activity and other gingerbread themed work. We will focus on the books: The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Cambell Ernst and The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Merry Christmas, Space Case and Merry Christmas, Stinky Face. We introduced our winter holidays including: Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza and Los Posados. We wrote a journal about Christmas gifts and celebrations. We, also, worked on counting skills with a fun tree decorating activity. We created a crystal snowflake in science this week. We created a healthy snack with apples, grapes, and pretzels in the shape of a Christmas tree and worked on our fine motor skills by lacing a stocking. Also, this week our 3rd Graders had many practices for their Winter Performance. We all were able to watch the performance on Thursday! Everyone did a terrific job! We had wonderful performers and a terrific audience.
Next week, we will focus on a gingerbread man theme. We will have a gingerbread themed science experiment, gingerbread themed graphing activity and other gingerbread themed work. We will focus on the books: The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Cambell Ernst and The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we have been practicing at school within your reading. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 11-21-14
The Wind Blew!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Wind Blew, by Pat Hutchins and The Cloud Book by Tomie de Poala. We had the opportunity to continue to explore our weather themed sensory bottles. We like these so much that they are going to be a permanent addition to the weather portion of our circle time. We began the week with an overview of wind and continued with a brief lesson on tornadoes and what to do in case of a tornado. We watched a Time for Kids video to help us learn about tornadoes and wrote about the way tornadoes sound and what to do if we have a tornado. We conducted an experiment on how wind moves things by making a boat out of a cupcake liner, floating it in some water and moving it with a tissue to create wind and a piece of cardboard to create stronger winds. We, also, made a wind sock to demonstrate how other things are moved by the wind. We used our story The Wind Blew to create a writing activity of the different things that the wind blew in our book. Finally, we introduced Thanksgiving as a mini-theme and will continue to use Thanksgiving as our theme for the short week next week. We will focus on the books, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims.
November’s Unique Learning curriculum theme has been called Tell Me About the Weather. We have focused on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. When we return from Thanksgiving Break, we will begin a brief unit on winter holidays and talk about: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and Las Posados. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Mrs. Shingleton will be out on Tuesday due to a family obligation and Mrs. Rees will be her substitute. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed and have a wonderful holiday with your families!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The Wind Blew, by Pat Hutchins and The Cloud Book by Tomie de Poala. We had the opportunity to continue to explore our weather themed sensory bottles. We like these so much that they are going to be a permanent addition to the weather portion of our circle time. We began the week with an overview of wind and continued with a brief lesson on tornadoes and what to do in case of a tornado. We watched a Time for Kids video to help us learn about tornadoes and wrote about the way tornadoes sound and what to do if we have a tornado. We conducted an experiment on how wind moves things by making a boat out of a cupcake liner, floating it in some water and moving it with a tissue to create wind and a piece of cardboard to create stronger winds. We, also, made a wind sock to demonstrate how other things are moved by the wind. We used our story The Wind Blew to create a writing activity of the different things that the wind blew in our book. Finally, we introduced Thanksgiving as a mini-theme and will continue to use Thanksgiving as our theme for the short week next week. We will focus on the books, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims.
November’s Unique Learning curriculum theme has been called Tell Me About the Weather. We have focused on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. When we return from Thanksgiving Break, we will begin a brief unit on winter holidays and talk about: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and Las Posados. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Mrs. Shingleton will be out on Tuesday due to a family obligation and Mrs. Rees will be her substitute. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed and have a wonderful holiday with your families!
weekly newsletter 11-14-14
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Four Seasons for Little People and Old Winter. We had the opportunity to continue to explore our weather themed sensory bottles. We created an awesome multi-medium and multi-sensory cloud to go with our weather unit. We, also, had a language arts/math lesson on sequencing the steps to making a snowman. We created a paper snowman to go with our sequencing activites and then since we were lucky enough to have snow, we brought in snow and created snowman using our steps and real snow!
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is called Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading a little more about weather and begin to incorporate Thanksgiving into our lessons. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Four Seasons for Little People and Old Winter. We had the opportunity to continue to explore our weather themed sensory bottles. We created an awesome multi-medium and multi-sensory cloud to go with our weather unit. We, also, had a language arts/math lesson on sequencing the steps to making a snowman. We created a paper snowman to go with our sequencing activites and then since we were lucky enough to have snow, we brought in snow and created snowman using our steps and real snow!
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is called Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading a little more about weather and begin to incorporate Thanksgiving into our lessons. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 11-7-14
Wild and Wonderful Weather!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Down Comes the Rain and It’s Raining, It’s Pouring. We had the opportunity to explore weather themed sensory bottles. We created a delicious treat with blue jello and cool whip that looked like clouds in a blue sky. We, also, had a science experiment with shaving cream and food color to show how rain comes through the clouds. We talked about some of the different sounds weather can make. Some of those sounds included: drip, dribble, drop, splat, and boom. We created a cool umbrella to hang our weather words from, as well. Additionally, we worked on a weather themed writing activity where we decided what our favorite type of weather is and what we can do during this weather.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is called Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading, Four Seasons for Little People and Old Winter. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,Down Comes the Rain and It’s Raining, It’s Pouring. We had the opportunity to explore weather themed sensory bottles. We created a delicious treat with blue jello and cool whip that looked like clouds in a blue sky. We, also, had a science experiment with shaving cream and food color to show how rain comes through the clouds. We talked about some of the different sounds weather can make. Some of those sounds included: drip, dribble, drop, splat, and boom. We created a cool umbrella to hang our weather words from, as well. Additionally, we worked on a weather themed writing activity where we decided what our favorite type of weather is and what we can do during this weather.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is called Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading, Four Seasons for Little People and Old Winter. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 10-31-14
Happy Halloween!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The 13 Nights of Halloween, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, and The Vanishing Pumpkin.
We played Halloween themed games, got to explore a Halloween themed sensory bin, and worked on Halloween themed vocabulary by using a sentence completion book. We, also, got to create a cool, creepy popcorn hand to take home and enjoy. We worked on our writing by completing a fall themed journal. Everyone had a great time at the Halloween Parade and parties with their classes.
This months (November) Unique Learning curriculum theme is called Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading,It’s Rainy, It’s Pouring and Down Comes the Rain. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books,The 13 Nights of Halloween, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, and The Vanishing Pumpkin.
We played Halloween themed games, got to explore a Halloween themed sensory bin, and worked on Halloween themed vocabulary by using a sentence completion book. We, also, got to create a cool, creepy popcorn hand to take home and enjoy. We worked on our writing by completing a fall themed journal. Everyone had a great time at the Halloween Parade and parties with their classes.
This months (November) Unique Learning curriculum theme is called Tell Me About the Weather. We will focus on the following high frequency words: has, she, in, see, it, get, mother, day, will, put, make, say. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading,It’s Rainy, It’s Pouring and Down Comes the Rain. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-24-14
Awesome, Abe!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln and Abe Lincoln’s Hat. We created our own stove pipe hats, just like Abraham Lincoln wore. We, also, created some cool and tasty cookies that looked like Abraham Lincoln’s stove pipe hat. We watched the book, My Teacher for President on the SMART Board and made our own writing project about if Mrs. Shingleton were president. On Friday, we sequenced presidents and chose our own favorite presidents. This week will conclude our Past Presidents unit due to the short week and Halloween festivities next week.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme has been on Past Presidents. We have focused on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading, The 13 Nights of Halloween, The Vanishing Pumpkin, and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. We will, also, be incorporating many spider themed activities to add a little science into the Halloween lessons. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln and Abe Lincoln’s Hat. We created our own stove pipe hats, just like Abraham Lincoln wore. We, also, created some cool and tasty cookies that looked like Abraham Lincoln’s stove pipe hat. We watched the book, My Teacher for President on the SMART Board and made our own writing project about if Mrs. Shingleton were president. On Friday, we sequenced presidents and chose our own favorite presidents. This week will conclude our Past Presidents unit due to the short week and Halloween festivities next week.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme has been on Past Presidents. We have focused on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading, The 13 Nights of Halloween, The Vanishing Pumpkin, and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. We will, also, be incorporating many spider themed activities to add a little science into the Halloween lessons. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed
Weekly Newsletter 10-17-14
Wonderful, Washington
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, George Washington: Our First President. We completed work on our picture dictionary for our Past Presidents theme. Also, we worked on a journal that let us choose days we would make holidays, what we would build, what we would make America’s snack food if we were president. We all made great choices. We, also, created a journal about what type of pet we would like to have if we were president, what we would do with the vice president and what mode of transportation we would take. We have focused a lot on different coins and this week we looked at who is on the penny, nickel, quarter and dime. We had learned that George Washington is on the quarter and Abraham Lincoln is on the penny, but this week we also discussed Thomas Jefferson on the nickel and Franklin Roosevelt on the dime. We created piggy banks to house all the coins we have discussed this week and we made George Washington wigs out of cotton balls to work on our pincer grasp and fine motor.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Past Presidents. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading,A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln and Abe Lincoln’s Hat. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, George Washington: Our First President. We completed work on our picture dictionary for our Past Presidents theme. Also, we worked on a journal that let us choose days we would make holidays, what we would build, what we would make America’s snack food if we were president. We all made great choices. We, also, created a journal about what type of pet we would like to have if we were president, what we would do with the vice president and what mode of transportation we would take. We have focused a lot on different coins and this week we looked at who is on the penny, nickel, quarter and dime. We had learned that George Washington is on the quarter and Abraham Lincoln is on the penny, but this week we also discussed Thomas Jefferson on the nickel and Franklin Roosevelt on the dime. We created piggy banks to house all the coins we have discussed this week and we made George Washington wigs out of cotton balls to work on our pincer grasp and fine motor.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Past Presidents. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading,A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln and Abe Lincoln’s Hat. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 10-10-14
Wow, Washington
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, A Picture Book on George Washington. We continued to work on our picture dictionary for our Past Presidents theme. Also, we surveyed people within the school environment to determine what is their favorite snacks. We graphed our results in a pictograph. Additionally, we did a science experiment to determine if different fruits had one seed, few seeds, or many seeds. While doing our experiment we practiced the words hypothesis, data and conclusion. Since we used a pumpkin in our science experiment, we, also, carved a jack-o-lantern!
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Past Presidents. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading,George Washington, Our First President. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with this book. . Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, A Picture Book on George Washington. We continued to work on our picture dictionary for our Past Presidents theme. Also, we surveyed people within the school environment to determine what is their favorite snacks. We graphed our results in a pictograph. Additionally, we did a science experiment to determine if different fruits had one seed, few seeds, or many seeds. While doing our experiment we practiced the words hypothesis, data and conclusion. Since we used a pumpkin in our science experiment, we, also, carved a jack-o-lantern!
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Past Presidents. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading,George Washington, Our First President. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with this book. . Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 10-03-14
Past Presidents
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the book, N is for Our Nation’s Capital. We concluded our following the rules unit on Tuesday and introduced our new unit for the month of October. This month’s unit will focus on Past Presidents. The unit primarily focuses on George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We have changed our Circle time activities to include activities with money, stories about these presidents and a really cool song about these presidents. In addition, we have created a picture dictionary with some key terms to practice about this unit.
As mentioned above, this months (October) Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Past Presidents. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: a, he, is, our, my, big, who, I, down, new, was, tree. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will be reading, A Picture Book on George Washington. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with this book. Thank you all for your support and understanding during this time. Mrs. Shingleton will be out Monday and Tuesday to be with family, but will check email regularly. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly newsletter 09-26-14
Here is How Dinosaurs Follow the Rules
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? We continued to discuss rules to follow in other places around the school and completed an activity to sequence the rules in the cafeteria. We began to create a school bus craft to go with our monthly unit. We will complete it next week. We, also, worked on the SMART board to practice turn-taking with our friends on some Dinosaur Themed games. Additionally, we completed a fine motor activity that helped us with number recognition using stickers with a dinosaur theme. We sequenced activities that dinosaurs do in the morning, afternoon, and night. We, also, created an image of each of our friends as a dinosaur following a rule.
This months (September) Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you have been sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will complete our September unit for Following the Rules. We will be reading, How to be a Perfectly Polite Pig in the beginning of the week. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with this book. We will introduce our October unit. This unit will focus on Past Presidents. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? We continued to discuss rules to follow in other places around the school and completed an activity to sequence the rules in the cafeteria. We began to create a school bus craft to go with our monthly unit. We will complete it next week. We, also, worked on the SMART board to practice turn-taking with our friends on some Dinosaur Themed games. Additionally, we completed a fine motor activity that helped us with number recognition using stickers with a dinosaur theme. We sequenced activities that dinosaurs do in the morning, afternoon, and night. We, also, created an image of each of our friends as a dinosaur following a rule.
This months (September) Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you have been sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. Next week, we will complete our September unit for Following the Rules. We will be reading, How to be a Perfectly Polite Pig in the beginning of the week. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with this book. We will introduce our October unit. This unit will focus on Past Presidents. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
weekly Newsletter 09-19-14
How Do Dinosaurs Follow the Rules?
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? and How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? We began working on these books, by finding puzzle pieces in a salt box to create images from the book. We, then, took a picture tour through our stories. We discussed rules to follow in other places around the school and completed an activity working on who is in charge in different areas of school and what kinds of rules to follow in those locations. For example, Mrs. Shingleton chose the cafeteria. The cafeteria worker (Ms. Linda) is the person in charge and we should follow the rules, I can wait in line, eat all my food, and clean up. This week for a science activity we conducted a hand washing science experiment. Mrs. Shingleton put “germs” (dots from a washable marker) on our hands and we washed them off in three different ways to determine which was the best way to wash our hands. We started with just water, followed by soap and water for five seconds and finally, we scrubbed with soap and water for 30 seconds. We, also made a hypothesis and tested our hypothesis. Everyone had the right answer on which would be the best way to wash our hands!! Finally, watched a fun video on Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (not a very good way to follow the rules!) and made a snack with bananas, peanut butter and raisins to go with the video.
This months Unique Learning curriculums theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you have been sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. This week, we will continue reading, the How Do Dinosaurs? books by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We will be reading , How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? one more time and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? and How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? We began working on these books, by finding puzzle pieces in a salt box to create images from the book. We, then, took a picture tour through our stories. We discussed rules to follow in other places around the school and completed an activity working on who is in charge in different areas of school and what kinds of rules to follow in those locations. For example, Mrs. Shingleton chose the cafeteria. The cafeteria worker (Ms. Linda) is the person in charge and we should follow the rules, I can wait in line, eat all my food, and clean up. This week for a science activity we conducted a hand washing science experiment. Mrs. Shingleton put “germs” (dots from a washable marker) on our hands and we washed them off in three different ways to determine which was the best way to wash our hands. We started with just water, followed by soap and water for five seconds and finally, we scrubbed with soap and water for 30 seconds. We, also made a hypothesis and tested our hypothesis. Everyone had the right answer on which would be the best way to wash our hands!! Finally, watched a fun video on Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (not a very good way to follow the rules!) and made a snack with bananas, peanut butter and raisins to go with the video.
This months Unique Learning curriculums theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you have been sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. This week, we will continue reading, the How Do Dinosaurs? books by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We will be reading , How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? one more time and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-12-14
David Goes to School and So Do We!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, David Goes to School and David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. We used pictures to determine ways to follow the school rules. We, also, traced and/or developed a sentence about our picture and how we follow the rules. In our story, David Goes to School, David gets messy from chewing gum in school. This week for a science activity we created our own homemade play dough in a pink bubblegum color and with a peppermint gum scent. We used visual supports on the SMART Board to help us with our science experience. We used a David mat to put our, “bubblegum” on David’s face just like in our book.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you have been sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. This week, we will begin reading, the How Do Dinosaurs? books by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We will begin with, How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 focused on the books, David Goes to School and David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. We used pictures to determine ways to follow the school rules. We, also, traced and/or developed a sentence about our picture and how we follow the rules. In our story, David Goes to School, David gets messy from chewing gum in school. This week for a science activity we created our own homemade play dough in a pink bubblegum color and with a peppermint gum scent. We used visual supports on the SMART Board to help us with our science experience. We used a David mat to put our, “bubblegum” on David’s face just like in our book.
This months Unique Learning curriculum theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you have been sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. This week, we will begin reading, the How Do Dinosaurs? books by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We will begin with, How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 09-05-14
David Follows the Rules and So Should You!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 team welcomed our kindergarten friends. We focused on the book, No, David by David Shannon. For those of you who are unfamiliar with David Shannon’s books about David, David is a little boy who often gets into trouble. No, David is Mr. Shannon’s introduction to the character. We used our book Following the Rules to help us develop our own school rules and created our own David craft to go along with our rules. Also, we created masks, so we could all look like David. We, also had some terrific sensory fun with noodles. We played, created letters and numbers and used the noodles to draw.
This year we will be structuring many of our themes based around the Unique Learning curriculum monthly lessons, as most of the students in room 7 will be working with these lessons on a daily basis. The September theme is on Following the Rules. We are focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. This week, we will be reading, David Goes to School and David Gets In Trouble. Many of our activities will be in conjunction with these books. Also, homework will begin this week, the week of September 8th. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 08-29-14
Welcome Back, Campers!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 team welcomed back our 1st through 3rd graders. We, also, got a brief introduction to our overall room theme of camping! We read books including Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer, Scaredy Squirrel goes Camping by Melanie Watt and Charlie Goes Camping by Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes. We took a great scavenger hunt, explored different sensory activities, and even made some ice cream by playing kick the can! We will go more in depth with this theme later in the school year.
This year we will be structuring many of our themes based around the Unique Learning curriculums monthly lessons, as most of the students in room 7 will be working with these lessons on a daily basis. The September theme will be a great introduction to the new year! This month’s theme will be on Following the Rules. We will be reading stories that focus on our theme that will include the David series by David Shannon and the How do Dinosaurs series by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. These books will reinforce our learning of what are rules and how we should behave when following the rules. We will be focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. We will begin working on these lessons during the upcoming week of September 1st. During this short week, we will be focusing on No David, by David Shannon. Also, homework will begin next week, the week of September 8th. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton and the rest of the room 7 team welcomed back our 1st through 3rd graders. We, also, got a brief introduction to our overall room theme of camping! We read books including Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer, Scaredy Squirrel goes Camping by Melanie Watt and Charlie Goes Camping by Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes. We took a great scavenger hunt, explored different sensory activities, and even made some ice cream by playing kick the can! We will go more in depth with this theme later in the school year.
This year we will be structuring many of our themes based around the Unique Learning curriculums monthly lessons, as most of the students in room 7 will be working with these lessons on a daily basis. The September theme will be a great introduction to the new year! This month’s theme will be on Following the Rules. We will be reading stories that focus on our theme that will include the David series by David Shannon and the How do Dinosaurs series by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. These books will reinforce our learning of what are rules and how we should behave when following the rules. We will be focusing on the following high frequency words: at, can, the, his, your, do, what, school, home, should, walk, and play. Most of you will be sent home a copy of these words to review and practice at home. Please read with your child as often as possible and try to find the words we are practicing at school within your reading. We will begin working on these lessons during the upcoming week of September 1st. During this short week, we will be focusing on No David, by David Shannon. Also, homework will begin next week, the week of September 8th. Please let Mrs. Shingleton know if you do not wish to have homework sent home with your child or if at anytime the homework sent home is too much or too little for your child. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Shingleton whenever needed.
Weekly Newsletter 4-18-14
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
Finally we see the sun….
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on 2-dimensional shapes. We worked on using our shapes in patterns, positions and creating new shapes. We, also, problem solved using our 2-dimensional shapes and observed them in the real world. Next week, we will begin our work on 3-dimensional shapes. We have already had an interest in the shape pyramid. We began working on Unit 9 which focuses on Growing Up. This week we worked on a focus of “How Can You Help At Home.” We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: chores, contribute, member, organize, and accomplish. We, also, introduced the high frequency words: help and too. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will continue working on Wonders Unit 9. The focus will be on Good Citizens and “How Can You Be a Good Citizen?” We have touched on this subject before and this unit will be great review and extension of what we have previously learned.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their April unit. This unit focused on jobs around us and real world economics. We have been focusing on the words: people, house, money, town, so, when, day, for, do, who, work and many. We have worked on identifying where to buy certain items, different jobs people have, and why people work. We, also, continued to work on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will complete our work on our April unit. Please feel free to practice the monthly word wall words at home.
Also this week, we began working on an author study on Mo Willems. He is the terrifically fun author behind the Knufflebunny, Elephant and Piggy, and Pigeon books. We began this week primarily focusing on the Knuffle Bunny books and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. We are creating our own Don’t Let the Pigeon books that we will share with the class next week. We will also share our pictures of exciting events from our lives just like Knuffle Bunny. Next week, we will continue to work on our author study and focus more on the Pigeon stories. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week in math, we spent more time on 2D plane shapes and the 3D solid objects. We created a chart to list the number of sides and corners on the 3D solid objects (cube, cone, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, and rectangular prism). We also spent time sorting shapes as “flat (2D Shapes)” and “fat (3D Shapes).”
As math homework for the past few weeks, we have started to work on pages from a book called “Simple Solutions.” These pages review a variety of concepts daily, but your child needs help on most of the concepts (mostly to understand the directions). Everyone has been turning in these pages which is great! I can’t wait to see math scores continue to rise!
This week, we started working on books by the author/illustrator Mo Willems. Mo Willems wrote the three Knufflebunny books, along with the Pigeon series and the Elephant and Piggie series. We had a lot of fun this week reading Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, My Friend is Sad, and I Love My New Toy! We worked a lot on identifying the feelings of the characters based on their facial expressions in the books. We had a great time making some Elephant and Piggie headbands and plan to use them to do Readers’ Theaters next week.
On Thursday, we got to crack open some plastic Easter eggs to find both our spelling/sight words and some Easter candy! Each student found three special eggs with Hershey’s Kisses inside! We also colored real, edible (maybe), Easter Eggs in the afternoon after reading Eggs for Everyone. We had a lot of fun and you can see the pictures below!
In the upcoming week, we will continue reading books by Mo Willems. There are so many great books, we couldn’t keep it to just one week!
What else will we be working this coming week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: I Love the Earth, How Frogs Grow, assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: make, came, ate, late, date, may, say, today
Vocab: ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Writing: Continue to introduce writing a sentence
Math: Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Social Studies: start to study the history of Brecksville
Student B-
Reading Stories: Where’s the Joey?, assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Mrs., Mr., Dr., Hts., St., Sun., Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs.
Vocab: abbreviations, ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.” Adding an extra sentence with your opinion such as “This is a dog. He is small. I love dogs.”
Math: Counting by 3s, multiplying by 3, Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Social Studies: start the unit on the history of Brecksville
Student D-
Reading Stories: Broken Arm Blues, assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Mrs., Mr., Dr., Hts., St., Sun., Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs.
Vocab: abbreviations, ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Writing: Write a sentence about the story
Math: Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Student F-
Reading Stories: I Love the Earth, How Frogs Grow, assorted books by Mo Willems
Vocab: ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
New Sight Words: work on number words- one, two, three, four
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a and i sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Social Studies: start unit on the history of Brecksville
Dates to Know:
Monday, April 21st- No school.
Tuesday, April 22nd- Back to school
Thursday, April 24th- It's Leo's birthday!!!
Tuesday, May 13th- Third Grade field trip to Progressive Field and Lolly the Trolley
Finally we see the sun….
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on 2-dimensional shapes. We worked on using our shapes in patterns, positions and creating new shapes. We, also, problem solved using our 2-dimensional shapes and observed them in the real world. Next week, we will begin our work on 3-dimensional shapes. We have already had an interest in the shape pyramid. We began working on Unit 9 which focuses on Growing Up. This week we worked on a focus of “How Can You Help At Home.” We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: chores, contribute, member, organize, and accomplish. We, also, introduced the high frequency words: help and too. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will continue working on Wonders Unit 9. The focus will be on Good Citizens and “How Can You Be a Good Citizen?” We have touched on this subject before and this unit will be great review and extension of what we have previously learned.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their April unit. This unit focused on jobs around us and real world economics. We have been focusing on the words: people, house, money, town, so, when, day, for, do, who, work and many. We have worked on identifying where to buy certain items, different jobs people have, and why people work. We, also, continued to work on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will complete our work on our April unit. Please feel free to practice the monthly word wall words at home.
Also this week, we began working on an author study on Mo Willems. He is the terrifically fun author behind the Knufflebunny, Elephant and Piggy, and Pigeon books. We began this week primarily focusing on the Knuffle Bunny books and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. We are creating our own Don’t Let the Pigeon books that we will share with the class next week. We will also share our pictures of exciting events from our lives just like Knuffle Bunny. Next week, we will continue to work on our author study and focus more on the Pigeon stories. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week in math, we spent more time on 2D plane shapes and the 3D solid objects. We created a chart to list the number of sides and corners on the 3D solid objects (cube, cone, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, and rectangular prism). We also spent time sorting shapes as “flat (2D Shapes)” and “fat (3D Shapes).”
As math homework for the past few weeks, we have started to work on pages from a book called “Simple Solutions.” These pages review a variety of concepts daily, but your child needs help on most of the concepts (mostly to understand the directions). Everyone has been turning in these pages which is great! I can’t wait to see math scores continue to rise!
This week, we started working on books by the author/illustrator Mo Willems. Mo Willems wrote the three Knufflebunny books, along with the Pigeon series and the Elephant and Piggie series. We had a lot of fun this week reading Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, My Friend is Sad, and I Love My New Toy! We worked a lot on identifying the feelings of the characters based on their facial expressions in the books. We had a great time making some Elephant and Piggie headbands and plan to use them to do Readers’ Theaters next week.
On Thursday, we got to crack open some plastic Easter eggs to find both our spelling/sight words and some Easter candy! Each student found three special eggs with Hershey’s Kisses inside! We also colored real, edible (maybe), Easter Eggs in the afternoon after reading Eggs for Everyone. We had a lot of fun and you can see the pictures below!
In the upcoming week, we will continue reading books by Mo Willems. There are so many great books, we couldn’t keep it to just one week!
What else will we be working this coming week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: I Love the Earth, How Frogs Grow, assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: make, came, ate, late, date, may, say, today
Vocab: ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Writing: Continue to introduce writing a sentence
Math: Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Social Studies: start to study the history of Brecksville
Student B-
Reading Stories: Where’s the Joey?, assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Mrs., Mr., Dr., Hts., St., Sun., Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs.
Vocab: abbreviations, ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.” Adding an extra sentence with your opinion such as “This is a dog. He is small. I love dogs.”
Math: Counting by 3s, multiplying by 3, Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Social Studies: start the unit on the history of Brecksville
Student D-
Reading Stories: Broken Arm Blues, assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Mrs., Mr., Dr., Hts., St., Sun., Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs.
Vocab: abbreviations, ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Writing: Write a sentence about the story
Math: Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Student F-
Reading Stories: I Love the Earth, How Frogs Grow, assorted books by Mo Willems
Vocab: ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
New Sight Words: work on number words- one, two, three, four
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a and i sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Measurement Tools- ruler, measuring tape, measuring cups, thermometer, scale
Social Studies: start unit on the history of Brecksville
Dates to Know:
Monday, April 21st- No school.
Tuesday, April 22nd- Back to school
Thursday, April 24th- It's Leo's birthday!!!
Tuesday, May 13th- Third Grade field trip to Progressive Field and Lolly the Trolley
Weekly newsletter 4-11-14
Mrs. Shingleton's Group
April Showers….
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on 2-dimensional shapes. We worked on using our shapes in patterns, positions and creating new shapes. Next week, we will complete our work on 2-dimensional shapes and introduce 3-dimensional shapes. We completed working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. This week we worked on a focus of “Look to the Sky.” We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: distance, challenge, space, recognize, and surface. We, also, reviewed previously introduced high frequency words. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will begin working on Wonders Unit 9. The focus of this week is “Growing Up” and “How Can You Help at Home?”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their April unit. This unit focused on jobs around us and real world economics. We have been focusing on the words: people, house, money, town, so, when, day, for, do, who, work and many. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our April unit. Please feel free to practiced the monthly word wall words at home.
Also this week, we continued to work on a planting and spring based unit. We read a variety of spring themed books including, The Whole Green World, Springtime in Bugland, Up, Down, and Around, and From Seed to Plant. Next week, we will be working on an author study of Mo Willems. He is the terrifically fun author behind the Knufflebunny, Elephant and Piggy, and Pigeon books. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week in math, we spent time on the 2D plane shapes and the 3D solid objects. For 2D shapes, we charted each and said how many sides and corners each had. We also listed objects found in real life that used each shape (for example, A circle has 0 sides and 0 corners. We can see that the clock is a circle, that we have a circle table, and that a pizza is a circle.) We started discussing 3D solid objects and will continue next week. These are the shapes that your child needs to know: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, diamond, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, cube, cone, sphere, pyramid, cylinder, and rectangular prism.
As math homework from now on, we will begin to work on pages from a book called “Simple Solutions.” These pages will review a variety of concepts daily, but your child WILL need help on these. Each student is starting at a different place on the pages so if your child’s homework does not start with #1, don’t worry!
This week, we also continued talking about the season of spring and what happens to plants outside. We named the parts of a plant (roots, leaves, stem, and flower) and then talked about the life cycle. We read A Day in the Life of a Seed and The Tiny Seed. We also watched the Brain Pop Jr. videos on “Parts of a Plant” and the “Plant Life Cycle.” We started our own plants too. And the tomato already has two sprouts!
Lastly, we started a new writing journal that we’ve used every school day. The journals are called our “Wonderful Writing Notebooks” and will explore a variety of writing skills for each student from copying and writing letters and numbers to copying and writing sentences about pictures or themes. We will also practice writing our addresses and phone numbers daily.
In the upcoming week, we will read books by Mo Willems and talk about beginning, middle, and end. We will continue to work on the signs of spring and the life cycle of a plant as well.
What else will we be working this coming week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Easter Egg Hunt (Level C), assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: make, take, ate, came, may, day, say, play, way, today
Vocab: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, life cycle, metamorphosis
Writing: Continue to introduce writing a sentence
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, life cycles of plants
Student B-
Reading Stories: What Pet Should You Get? (Level J), assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Review words with suffixes- careful, careless, helpful, helpless, hopeful, hopeless, useful, useless
Vocab: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, life cycle, metamorphosis
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting by 3s, multiplying by 3, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, life cycle of a plant
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Ship of Shapes (Level J), assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Review words with suffixes- careful, careless, helpful, helpless, hopeful, hopeless, useful, useless
Vocab: words with “less” and “ful” as suffixes
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: push/pull, magnets
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Easter Egg Hunt (Level C), assorted books by Mo Willems
Vocab: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, life cycle, metamorphosis
New Sight Words: number words one, two, and three.
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a and i sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, life cycle of a plant
Dates to Know:
Friday, April 18th- No school.
Monday, April 21st- No school.
April Showers….
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on 2-dimensional shapes. We worked on using our shapes in patterns, positions and creating new shapes. Next week, we will complete our work on 2-dimensional shapes and introduce 3-dimensional shapes. We completed working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. This week we worked on a focus of “Look to the Sky.” We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: distance, challenge, space, recognize, and surface. We, also, reviewed previously introduced high frequency words. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will begin working on Wonders Unit 9. The focus of this week is “Growing Up” and “How Can You Help at Home?”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their April unit. This unit focused on jobs around us and real world economics. We have been focusing on the words: people, house, money, town, so, when, day, for, do, who, work and many. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our April unit. Please feel free to practiced the monthly word wall words at home.
Also this week, we continued to work on a planting and spring based unit. We read a variety of spring themed books including, The Whole Green World, Springtime in Bugland, Up, Down, and Around, and From Seed to Plant. Next week, we will be working on an author study of Mo Willems. He is the terrifically fun author behind the Knufflebunny, Elephant and Piggy, and Pigeon books. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week in math, we spent time on the 2D plane shapes and the 3D solid objects. For 2D shapes, we charted each and said how many sides and corners each had. We also listed objects found in real life that used each shape (for example, A circle has 0 sides and 0 corners. We can see that the clock is a circle, that we have a circle table, and that a pizza is a circle.) We started discussing 3D solid objects and will continue next week. These are the shapes that your child needs to know: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, diamond, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, cube, cone, sphere, pyramid, cylinder, and rectangular prism.
As math homework from now on, we will begin to work on pages from a book called “Simple Solutions.” These pages will review a variety of concepts daily, but your child WILL need help on these. Each student is starting at a different place on the pages so if your child’s homework does not start with #1, don’t worry!
This week, we also continued talking about the season of spring and what happens to plants outside. We named the parts of a plant (roots, leaves, stem, and flower) and then talked about the life cycle. We read A Day in the Life of a Seed and The Tiny Seed. We also watched the Brain Pop Jr. videos on “Parts of a Plant” and the “Plant Life Cycle.” We started our own plants too. And the tomato already has two sprouts!
Lastly, we started a new writing journal that we’ve used every school day. The journals are called our “Wonderful Writing Notebooks” and will explore a variety of writing skills for each student from copying and writing letters and numbers to copying and writing sentences about pictures or themes. We will also practice writing our addresses and phone numbers daily.
In the upcoming week, we will read books by Mo Willems and talk about beginning, middle, and end. We will continue to work on the signs of spring and the life cycle of a plant as well.
What else will we be working this coming week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Easter Egg Hunt (Level C), assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: make, take, ate, came, may, day, say, play, way, today
Vocab: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, life cycle, metamorphosis
Writing: Continue to introduce writing a sentence
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, life cycles of plants
Student B-
Reading Stories: What Pet Should You Get? (Level J), assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Review words with suffixes- careful, careless, helpful, helpless, hopeful, hopeless, useful, useless
Vocab: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, life cycle, metamorphosis
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting by 3s, multiplying by 3, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, life cycle of a plant
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Ship of Shapes (Level J), assorted books by Mo Willems
Spelling Words: Review words with suffixes- careful, careless, helpful, helpless, hopeful, hopeless, useful, useless
Vocab: words with “less” and “ful” as suffixes
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: push/pull, magnets
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Easter Egg Hunt (Level C), assorted books by Mo Willems
Vocab: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, life cycle, metamorphosis
New Sight Words: number words one, two, and three.
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a and i sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, life cycle of a plant
Dates to Know:
Friday, April 18th- No school.
Monday, April 21st- No school.
Weekly Newsletter 4-4-14
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week in math, we reviewed concepts learned before spring break. We spent time on bar graphs and learned how to play the Touch Money game! We’ll continue to incorporate the game at least once every week through the end of the year. It helps us to work on counting coins using the Touch Money method (counting by 5s) while we are working on our game playing skills and practicing waiting for our turn.
As math homework from now on, we will begin to work on pages from a book called “Simple Solutions.” These pages will review a variety of concepts daily, but your child WILL need help on these. Each student is starting at a different place on the pages so if your child’s homework does not start with #1, don’t worry!
This week, we also started to talk about the season of spring! We even got to see a day or two of spring weather! We watched the Brain Pop Jr. video on spring, read poems about spring, sorted pictures of spring and fall, decided what types of clothing are appropriate for most spring weather, and discussed what typically happens with the weather. We did some activities with plastic Easter eggs, and started to plant seeds. We will watch as they grow into sunflowers, peppers, cucumbers, and tomato plants and chart their progress.
Lastly, we started a new writing journal that we’ve used every school day this week. The journals are called our “Wonderful Writing Notebooks” and will explore a variety of writing skills for each student from copying and writing letters and numbers to copying and writing sentences about pictures or themes. We will also practice writing our addresses and phone numbers daily.
In the upcoming week, we will focus on spring again, and begin to study the parts of a plant and the plant life cycle.
What else will we be working this coming week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: How Many Legs? (Level B), What Has This Tail? (Level B)
Spelling Words: ate, late, date, ape, tape, cape, grape, same, name, came
Vocab: “long vowel words,” “silent e,” spring, seasons, parts of a plant
Writing: Introduce writing a sentence
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish
Student B-
Reading Stories: Whose Tracks Are These? (Level K)
Spelling Words: helpful, hopeful, careful, playful, harmful, peaceful, useful, thankful
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “ful,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting by 3s, multiplying by 3, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds
Student D-
Reading Stories: Let's Make Shapes (Level J)
Spelling Words: helpful, hopeful, careful, playful, harmful, peaceful, useful, thankful
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “ful,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: push/pull, magnets
Student F-
Reading Stories: How Many Legs? (Level B), What Has This Tail? (Level B)
Vocab: spring, seasons
New Sight Words: number words one, two, and three.
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a and i sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds
Dates to Know:
Friday, April 18th- No school.
Monday, April 21st- No school.
Mrs. Shingleton's Group
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on 2-dimensional shapes. We began to learn about squares, rectangles, circles and hexagons. Next week, we will continue to work on 2-dimensional shapes and work on them in patterns, positions and how to create new shapes from other shapes. We continued working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. This week we continue to work on U.S. symbols. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: country, travel, careful, purpose, and connect. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, this and what. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will work on Wonders Unit 8. The focus of this week is “Look to the Sky.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began to work on their April unit. This unit focused on jobs around us and real world economics. We have been focusing on the words: people, house, money, town, so, when, day, for, do, who, work and many. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our April unit.
Also this week, we worked on a planting and spring based unit. We began by introducing the concept with a brainpop jr. video and we loved working with Guess with Jess. We made delicious dirt (pudding, of course)! We, also, created a flower picture using our pincer grasp to paint with Qtips and labeled the parts of our flowers. Next week, we will be continuing our Spring and Planting theme. Please let me know if you have any questions.
This week in math, we reviewed concepts learned before spring break. We spent time on bar graphs and learned how to play the Touch Money game! We’ll continue to incorporate the game at least once every week through the end of the year. It helps us to work on counting coins using the Touch Money method (counting by 5s) while we are working on our game playing skills and practicing waiting for our turn.
As math homework from now on, we will begin to work on pages from a book called “Simple Solutions.” These pages will review a variety of concepts daily, but your child WILL need help on these. Each student is starting at a different place on the pages so if your child’s homework does not start with #1, don’t worry!
This week, we also started to talk about the season of spring! We even got to see a day or two of spring weather! We watched the Brain Pop Jr. video on spring, read poems about spring, sorted pictures of spring and fall, decided what types of clothing are appropriate for most spring weather, and discussed what typically happens with the weather. We did some activities with plastic Easter eggs, and started to plant seeds. We will watch as they grow into sunflowers, peppers, cucumbers, and tomato plants and chart their progress.
Lastly, we started a new writing journal that we’ve used every school day this week. The journals are called our “Wonderful Writing Notebooks” and will explore a variety of writing skills for each student from copying and writing letters and numbers to copying and writing sentences about pictures or themes. We will also practice writing our addresses and phone numbers daily.
In the upcoming week, we will focus on spring again, and begin to study the parts of a plant and the plant life cycle.
What else will we be working this coming week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: How Many Legs? (Level B), What Has This Tail? (Level B)
Spelling Words: ate, late, date, ape, tape, cape, grape, same, name, came
Vocab: “long vowel words,” “silent e,” spring, seasons, parts of a plant
Writing: Introduce writing a sentence
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish
Student B-
Reading Stories: Whose Tracks Are These? (Level K)
Spelling Words: helpful, hopeful, careful, playful, harmful, peaceful, useful, thankful
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “ful,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting by 3s, multiplying by 3, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds
Student D-
Reading Stories: Let's Make Shapes (Level J)
Spelling Words: helpful, hopeful, careful, playful, harmful, peaceful, useful, thankful
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “ful,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: push/pull, magnets
Student F-
Reading Stories: How Many Legs? (Level B), What Has This Tail? (Level B)
Vocab: spring, seasons
New Sight Words: number words one, two, and three.
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a and i sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, 2D plane shapes and 3D solid objects
Science: classifying animals- mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds
Dates to Know:
Friday, April 18th- No school.
Monday, April 21st- No school.
Mrs. Shingleton's Group
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on 2-dimensional shapes. We began to learn about squares, rectangles, circles and hexagons. Next week, we will continue to work on 2-dimensional shapes and work on them in patterns, positions and how to create new shapes from other shapes. We continued working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. This week we continue to work on U.S. symbols. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: country, travel, careful, purpose, and connect. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, this and what. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will work on Wonders Unit 8. The focus of this week is “Look to the Sky.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began to work on their April unit. This unit focused on jobs around us and real world economics. We have been focusing on the words: people, house, money, town, so, when, day, for, do, who, work and many. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our April unit.
Also this week, we worked on a planting and spring based unit. We began by introducing the concept with a brainpop jr. video and we loved working with Guess with Jess. We made delicious dirt (pudding, of course)! We, also, created a flower picture using our pincer grasp to paint with Qtips and labeled the parts of our flowers. Next week, we will be continuing our Spring and Planting theme. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Weekly Newsletter 3-20-14
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
Spring has finally Sprung… Well, at least spring break has come!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends reviewed the concepts of the positions, counting sets, addition, subtraction, sorting, patterns, charting, and following directions. Next week, have a wonderful Spring Break. We continued working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. The focus was “Symbols of the USA”. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: country, travel, careful, purpose, and connect. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, this and what. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, have a wonderful Spring Break. When we return from Spring Break, we will begin work on a new chapter in My Math which focuses on Two-Dimensional Shapes. We will, also, continue to work on unit 8 of Wonders and spend a review week focusing on Symbols of the USA.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends completed work on their March unit. This unit focused on real world science and how things change. We have focused on things changing shape and size, but staying the same kind of item. For example, we can cut and fold paper and the paper will change shape and size, but will remain paper. We have been focusing on the words: her, not, or, some, that, how, into, thing, change, does, small, and paper. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, have a wonderful Spring Break! When we return from Spring Break, we will begin work on our April unit. This unit focuses on real world economics. This unit includes places we buy things, money, and more and less.
Also this week, we continued working on our One Book One School project. We have continued to work hard to read The Enormous Egg and this week we finished it! . We had a great visit from a naturalist who tied in our work on The Enormous Egg. We, also, practiced scientific observation using Lucky Charms for St. Patrick’s Day. When we return from Spring Break, we will begin working on a planting and spring based unit. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
It’s spring break! Yes!!!
This week in math, we worked on reviewing concepts for the test we took on Thursday. Students practiced time, identifying AM and PM, making bar graphs, and counting forward or back. The test on Thursday looked exactly like the review sheets that were sent home for homework during the week.
We also finished up chapter 14 of The Enormous Egg, but didn’t get to finish 15, 16, or 17. Hopefully, you will get a chance to finish reading the book at home. We got to practice many of our skills while reading this book such as identifying the title, author, illustrator, main characters, settings, and events in a story. We also wrote sentences to summarize each chapter as well. Maybe over break, you can help your child finish the summaries for chapters 15-17. Please keep The Enormous Egg folder at home then. :)
Friday folders will come home on Thursday this week. Please check out the optional spring break homework. There are many things your child can do online and at home to practice so that we don’t lose any skills next week. Please read something every day! :)
After break, we will start to work on the signs of spring (hopefully we’ll start to see some)! We’ll talk about the weather during spring and the appropriate clothing choices and holidays.
What else will we be working on after break?
Student A-
Reading Stories: It Is Spring (Level C)
Spelling Words: make, take, bake, cake, rake, wake, lake, shake
Vocab: “long vowel words,” “silent e,” spring, seasons
Writing: Introduce writing a sentence
Math: Review skills from before break- subtraction, skip counting by 5s, time, and graphing
Science: unit on life cycles
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Mailman’s Hat (Level K)
Spelling Words: helpless, hopeless, careless, sleepless, dreamless
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “less,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Review skills from before break- time and graphing
Science: continue unit on life cycles
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Mailman’s Hat (Level K)
Spelling Words: helpless, hopeless, careless, sleepless, dreamless
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “less,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Review skills from before break- time and graphing
Student F-
Reading Stories: It is Spring! (Level C)
Vocab: spring, seasons
New Sight Words: Start number words one, two, and three.
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Review skills from before break- time and graphing
Science: Unit on life cycles
Dates to Know:
Thursday, March 20th- Last day of third grading period
Friday, March 21st- No school for students! Third Quarter IEP Progress Reports will be mailed today.
Monday, March 24- Friday, March 27th- SPRING BREAK!
Monday, March 31st- Come back to school!
Wednesday, April 2nd- IEP meetings for Kolis’ students A, B, and D. Miss Kolis out in the AM, Mrs. Ciolek is the sub.
Friday, April 4th- District Transition Meeting, Kolis out, Mrs. Rees is the sub.
Spring has finally Sprung… Well, at least spring break has come!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends reviewed the concepts of the positions, counting sets, addition, subtraction, sorting, patterns, charting, and following directions. Next week, have a wonderful Spring Break. We continued working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. The focus was “Symbols of the USA”. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: country, travel, careful, purpose, and connect. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, this and what. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, have a wonderful Spring Break. When we return from Spring Break, we will begin work on a new chapter in My Math which focuses on Two-Dimensional Shapes. We will, also, continue to work on unit 8 of Wonders and spend a review week focusing on Symbols of the USA.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends completed work on their March unit. This unit focused on real world science and how things change. We have focused on things changing shape and size, but staying the same kind of item. For example, we can cut and fold paper and the paper will change shape and size, but will remain paper. We have been focusing on the words: her, not, or, some, that, how, into, thing, change, does, small, and paper. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, have a wonderful Spring Break! When we return from Spring Break, we will begin work on our April unit. This unit focuses on real world economics. This unit includes places we buy things, money, and more and less.
Also this week, we continued working on our One Book One School project. We have continued to work hard to read The Enormous Egg and this week we finished it! . We had a great visit from a naturalist who tied in our work on The Enormous Egg. We, also, practiced scientific observation using Lucky Charms for St. Patrick’s Day. When we return from Spring Break, we will begin working on a planting and spring based unit. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
It’s spring break! Yes!!!
This week in math, we worked on reviewing concepts for the test we took on Thursday. Students practiced time, identifying AM and PM, making bar graphs, and counting forward or back. The test on Thursday looked exactly like the review sheets that were sent home for homework during the week.
We also finished up chapter 14 of The Enormous Egg, but didn’t get to finish 15, 16, or 17. Hopefully, you will get a chance to finish reading the book at home. We got to practice many of our skills while reading this book such as identifying the title, author, illustrator, main characters, settings, and events in a story. We also wrote sentences to summarize each chapter as well. Maybe over break, you can help your child finish the summaries for chapters 15-17. Please keep The Enormous Egg folder at home then. :)
Friday folders will come home on Thursday this week. Please check out the optional spring break homework. There are many things your child can do online and at home to practice so that we don’t lose any skills next week. Please read something every day! :)
After break, we will start to work on the signs of spring (hopefully we’ll start to see some)! We’ll talk about the weather during spring and the appropriate clothing choices and holidays.
What else will we be working on after break?
Student A-
Reading Stories: It Is Spring (Level C)
Spelling Words: make, take, bake, cake, rake, wake, lake, shake
Vocab: “long vowel words,” “silent e,” spring, seasons
Writing: Introduce writing a sentence
Math: Review skills from before break- subtraction, skip counting by 5s, time, and graphing
Science: unit on life cycles
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Mailman’s Hat (Level K)
Spelling Words: helpless, hopeless, careless, sleepless, dreamless
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “less,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Review skills from before break- time and graphing
Science: continue unit on life cycles
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Mailman’s Hat (Level K)
Spelling Words: helpless, hopeless, careless, sleepless, dreamless
Vocab: Introduce words with the suffix “less,” spring, seasons
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Review skills from before break- time and graphing
Student F-
Reading Stories: It is Spring! (Level C)
Vocab: spring, seasons
New Sight Words: Start number words one, two, and three.
Review Words: Color Words
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Review skills from before break- time and graphing
Science: Unit on life cycles
Dates to Know:
Thursday, March 20th- Last day of third grading period
Friday, March 21st- No school for students! Third Quarter IEP Progress Reports will be mailed today.
Monday, March 24- Friday, March 27th- SPRING BREAK!
Monday, March 31st- Come back to school!
Wednesday, April 2nd- IEP meetings for Kolis’ students A, B, and D. Miss Kolis out in the AM, Mrs. Ciolek is the sub.
Friday, April 4th- District Transition Meeting, Kolis out, Mrs. Rees is the sub.
Weekly Newsletter 3-14-14
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on Chapter 10 in My Math which includes the concepts of the positions of above, below, beside, or next to, in front and behind. Next week, we will be working on review previously learned skills including: identifying numbers, counting sets, adding and subtracting using objects, sorting and positions. We began working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. The focus was “what can help you get from here to there?”. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: journey, transportation, vehicle, wide, and fierce. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, here and me. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will continue to work on Unit 8 and focus ways we move.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued working on their March unit. This unit focused on real world science and how things change. We have focused on things changing shape and size, but staying the same kind of item. For example, we can cut and fold paper and the paper will change shape and size, but will remain paper. We have been focusing on the words: her, not, or, some, that, how, into, thing, change, does, small, and paper. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our March unit. We will continue to work on ways things change.
Also this week, we continued working on our One Book One School project. We have continued to work hard to read The Enormous Egg. Next week, we will continue the One Book, One School project. This project is done by the whole school and it is very exciting. We will continue reading chapters in class aloud and doing activities to reinforce the book. We will also work a little to incorporate a few St. Patrick’s Day projects on Monday. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
We made it through ANOTHER five day week! And finally some nicer weather!
This week in math, we worked on identifying, creating, and answering questions about graphs. Students were introduced to pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs. We’ll continue to practice next week. We’ll take a quarter ending math test on Thursday next week. Each student will have review sheets appropriate for him/her in the homework packet. For all students, time to the hour and half hour, AM and PM, and graphs will be on the assessment.
We’ll use the theme The Enormous Egg (along with the whole school!) AGAIN next week! We finished chapter 10 on Friday so we’ll have some catching up to do on Monday. What do you think of Uncle Beazley so far?
This is a school-wide project called “One Book, One School.” The entire school is reading a chapter book called The Enormous Egg. We hope you have been following along. We’ve been reading the modified chapters in class. You can find them here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/chapter-summaries
You can find the full chapters of The Enormous Egg read aloud here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/audio-chapters-read-aloud
Also, in the upcoming week, third graders will continue the Ohio Alternate Assessment for Students with Cognitive Disabilities. We will work on finishing the Math section before spring break.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: no words this week
Vocab: enormous, “long vowel words,” “silent e” (We will re-introduce this after spring break.)
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Review for math test- Time to the hour and half hour, AM and PM, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs, counting back from 18, skip counting by 5
Science: Start unit on life cycles
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: no spelling words this week
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Review for math test- time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, AM and PM, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs, skip counting
Science: start unit on life cycles
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: no spelling words this week
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Review for math test on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs, AM and PM
Science: Forces and Motion- Push and Pull
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Vocab: enormous
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow, pink, purple, orange
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Review for math test- time to the hour and half hour, AM and PM, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Science: Intro. to unit on life cycles
Dates to Know:
Thursday, March 20th- Last day of third grading period
Friday, March 21st- No school for students! Third Quarter IEP Progress Reports will be mailed today.
Monday, March 24- Friday, March 27th- SPRING BREAK!
Monday, March 31st- Come back to school!
Wednesday, April 2nd- IEP meetings for Kolis’ students A, B, and D. Miss Kolis out in the AM, Mrs. Ciolek is the sub.
Friday, April 4th- District Transition Meeting, Kolis out, Mrs. Rees is the sub.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on Chapter 10 in My Math which includes the concepts of the positions of above, below, beside, or next to, in front and behind. Next week, we will be working on review previously learned skills including: identifying numbers, counting sets, adding and subtracting using objects, sorting and positions. We began working on Unit 8 which focuses on being On the Move. The focus was “what can help you get from here to there?”. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words: journey, transportation, vehicle, wide, and fierce. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, here and me. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” “of,” “want,” and “said.” Next week, we will continue to work on Unit 8 and focus ways we move.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued working on their March unit. This unit focused on real world science and how things change. We have focused on things changing shape and size, but staying the same kind of item. For example, we can cut and fold paper and the paper will change shape and size, but will remain paper. We have been focusing on the words: her, not, or, some, that, how, into, thing, change, does, small, and paper. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our March unit. We will continue to work on ways things change.
Also this week, we continued working on our One Book One School project. We have continued to work hard to read The Enormous Egg. Next week, we will continue the One Book, One School project. This project is done by the whole school and it is very exciting. We will continue reading chapters in class aloud and doing activities to reinforce the book. We will also work a little to incorporate a few St. Patrick’s Day projects on Monday. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
We made it through ANOTHER five day week! And finally some nicer weather!
This week in math, we worked on identifying, creating, and answering questions about graphs. Students were introduced to pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs. We’ll continue to practice next week. We’ll take a quarter ending math test on Thursday next week. Each student will have review sheets appropriate for him/her in the homework packet. For all students, time to the hour and half hour, AM and PM, and graphs will be on the assessment.
We’ll use the theme The Enormous Egg (along with the whole school!) AGAIN next week! We finished chapter 10 on Friday so we’ll have some catching up to do on Monday. What do you think of Uncle Beazley so far?
This is a school-wide project called “One Book, One School.” The entire school is reading a chapter book called The Enormous Egg. We hope you have been following along. We’ve been reading the modified chapters in class. You can find them here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/chapter-summaries
You can find the full chapters of The Enormous Egg read aloud here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/audio-chapters-read-aloud
Also, in the upcoming week, third graders will continue the Ohio Alternate Assessment for Students with Cognitive Disabilities. We will work on finishing the Math section before spring break.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: no words this week
Vocab: enormous, “long vowel words,” “silent e” (We will re-introduce this after spring break.)
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Review for math test- Time to the hour and half hour, AM and PM, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs, counting back from 18, skip counting by 5
Science: Start unit on life cycles
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: no spelling words this week
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Review for math test- time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, AM and PM, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs, skip counting
Science: start unit on life cycles
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: no spelling words this week
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Review for math test on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs, AM and PM
Science: Forces and Motion- Push and Pull
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Vocab: enormous
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow, pink, purple, orange
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Review for math test- time to the hour and half hour, AM and PM, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Science: Intro. to unit on life cycles
Dates to Know:
Thursday, March 20th- Last day of third grading period
Friday, March 21st- No school for students! Third Quarter IEP Progress Reports will be mailed today.
Monday, March 24- Friday, March 27th- SPRING BREAK!
Monday, March 31st- Come back to school!
Wednesday, April 2nd- IEP meetings for Kolis’ students A, B, and D. Miss Kolis out in the AM, Mrs. Ciolek is the sub.
Friday, April 4th- District Transition Meeting, Kolis out, Mrs. Rees is the sub.
Weekly Newsletter 3-7-14
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 10 in My Math which includes the concepts of the positions of above, below, beside, or next to, in front and behind. Next week, we will complete our work on positions. We continued working on Unit 7 which focuses on The Animal Kingdom. This weeks focus was Animal Habitats. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: habitat, wild, complain, join and stubborn. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, said and want. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” and “of.” Next week, we will begin to work on Unit 8 and focus on ways we move.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began working on their March unit. This unit focused on real world science and how things change. We have focused on things changing shape and size, but staying the same kind of item. For example, we can cut and fold paper and the paper will change shape and size, but will remain paper. We have been focusing on the words: her, not, or, some, that, how, into, thing, change, does, small, and paper. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our March unit. We will continue to work on ways things change.
Also this week, we began working on our One Book One School project. We have worked hard to read The Enormous Egg. Next week, we will continue the One Book, One School project. This project is done by the whole school and it is very exciting. The book for this project is called, The Enormous Egg. We will continue reading chapters in class aloud and doing activities to reinforce the book. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
We made it through ANOTHER five day week!
This week in math, we worked on telling time again. Each student is at a different level at this time and working on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and in five minute segments. We also got a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” and “evening.” We practiced calling the morning “A.M” and the nighttime “P.M.”
We’ll use the theme The Enormous Egg (along with the whole school) AGAIN next week!
This is school-wide project called “One Book, One School.” The entire school is reading a chapter book called The Enormous Egg. We hope you have been following along. We’ve been reading the modified chapters in class. You can find them here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/chapter-summaries
You can find the full chapters of The Enormous Egg read aloud here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/audio-chapters-read-aloud
Also, in the upcoming week, third graders will start the Ohio Alternate Assessment for Students with Cognitive Disabilities. We will test one student a day on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. If we need to continue into the next week, we can do that.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: make, take, bake, lake, rake, cake, wake
Vocab: enormous, “long vowel words,” “silent e”
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Social Studies: local government, The Bill of Rights
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: Review: boy, enjoy, how, now, down, brown, join, boil, preschool, preread
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Social Studies: local government, The Bill of Rights
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: Review: boy, enjoy, how, now, down, brown, join, boil, preschool, preread
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Science: Forces and Motion- Push and Pull
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Vocab: enormous
New Words: orange
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow, pink, purple
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Social Studies: local government, The Bill of Rights
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Dates to Know:
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Thursday, March 20th- Last day of third grading period
Friday, March 21st- No school for students! Third Quarter IEP Progress Reports will be mailed today.
Monday, March 24- Friday, March 27th- SPRING BREAK!
Monday, March 31st- Come back to school!
Wednesday, April 2nd- IEP meetings for Kolis’ students A, B, and D.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 10 in My Math which includes the concepts of the positions of above, below, beside, or next to, in front and behind. Next week, we will complete our work on positions. We continued working on Unit 7 which focuses on The Animal Kingdom. This weeks focus was Animal Habitats. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: habitat, wild, complain, join and stubborn. We, also, introduced the high frequency words, said and want. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” “have,” “they,” and “of.” Next week, we will begin to work on Unit 8 and focus on ways we move.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began working on their March unit. This unit focused on real world science and how things change. We have focused on things changing shape and size, but staying the same kind of item. For example, we can cut and fold paper and the paper will change shape and size, but will remain paper. We have been focusing on the words: her, not, or, some, that, how, into, thing, change, does, small, and paper. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue to work on our March unit. We will continue to work on ways things change.
Also this week, we began working on our One Book One School project. We have worked hard to read The Enormous Egg. Next week, we will continue the One Book, One School project. This project is done by the whole school and it is very exciting. The book for this project is called, The Enormous Egg. We will continue reading chapters in class aloud and doing activities to reinforce the book. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
We made it through ANOTHER five day week!
This week in math, we worked on telling time again. Each student is at a different level at this time and working on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and in five minute segments. We also got a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” and “evening.” We practiced calling the morning “A.M” and the nighttime “P.M.”
We’ll use the theme The Enormous Egg (along with the whole school) AGAIN next week!
This is school-wide project called “One Book, One School.” The entire school is reading a chapter book called The Enormous Egg. We hope you have been following along. We’ve been reading the modified chapters in class. You can find them here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/chapter-summaries
You can find the full chapters of The Enormous Egg read aloud here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/audio-chapters-read-aloud
Also, in the upcoming week, third graders will start the Ohio Alternate Assessment for Students with Cognitive Disabilities. We will test one student a day on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. If we need to continue into the next week, we can do that.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: make, take, bake, lake, rake, cake, wake
Vocab: enormous, “long vowel words,” “silent e”
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Social Studies: local government, The Bill of Rights
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: Review: boy, enjoy, how, now, down, brown, join, boil, preschool, preread
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Social Studies: local government, The Bill of Rights
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Spelling Words: Review: boy, enjoy, how, now, down, brown, join, boil, preschool, preread
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Science: Forces and Motion- Push and Pull
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various leveled readers
Vocab: enormous
New Words: orange
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow, pink, purple
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
Social Studies: local government, The Bill of Rights
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Dates to Know:
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Thursday, March 20th- Last day of third grading period
Friday, March 21st- No school for students! Third Quarter IEP Progress Reports will be mailed today.
Monday, March 24- Friday, March 27th- SPRING BREAK!
Monday, March 31st- Come back to school!
Wednesday, April 2nd- IEP meetings for Kolis’ students A, B, and D.
Weekly Newsletter 2-28-14
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on Chapter 9 which includes the concepts of alike and different. We also began to work on Chapter 10 which focuses on positions. We began talking about the positions above and below. Next week, we will continue our work on positions and focus on the positions in front, behind, next to and beside. We continued working on Unit 7 of Wonders which focuses on The Animal Kingdom. This weeks focus was Pet Pals. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: responsibility, train, compared, social, and depend. We, also, introduced the high frequency words: they and of. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” and “have.” Next week, we will continue to work on Unit 7 and focus on animal habitats.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends completed work on their February unit. This unit focused on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. We worked on a sink and float science experiment and explored items around the room to see if they would sink or float. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our March Unit which focuses on rocks and geology in the real world.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on Being a good citizen/friend We read the books, You’ll Be Sorry, The Rainbow Fish and Terrible, Horrible, Awful Manners. We fished for soggy crackers, just like our character in You’ll Be Sorry. These crackers had pictures of good choices and not so good choices and we practiced identifying each one. We, also, shared shiny scales from our own rainbow fish, created a rainbow fish snack mix to share, and created our own beautiful rainbow fish from old CDs. Next week, we will begin the One Book, One School project. This project is done by the whole school and it is very exciting. The book for this project is called, The Enormous Egg. We will be reading chapters in class aloud and doing activities to reinforce the book. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
We made it through a five day week! Let's try it again!
This week, we focused on concepts of being a good citizen. We sorted things a good citizen would do and things a good citizen would NOT do. Some examples of things a good citizen might do are follow the laws (like wear your seat belt or wear a bike helmet), help clean up (at home, at school, and in the community), recycle, and know about your community. We reviewed the names of our cities (we have kiddos from Brecksville, Broadview Heights, AND North Royalton in our group) and learned the names of our mayors. We watched Brain Pop Jr. videos called “Rights and Responsibilities” and also “Local Government.” The third graders will continue to talk about these concepts in their social studies class with Mrs. Niedermeyer.
This week in math, we worked on telling time. Each student is at a different level at this time and working on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and in five minute segments. We also got a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” and “evening.” We will practice calling the morning (12am-11:59am) the “a.m.” and calling the afternoon/evening the “p.m.” We’ll continue with “time” for one more week.
Next week, we’ll use the theme The Enormous Egg (along with the whole school!) We'll kick off the book project on Monday with an assembly arranged by Mr. Todd Wasil.
This is school-wide project called “One Book, One School.” The entire school will be reading a chapter book called The Enormous Egg chosen by Mrs. O'Mara. You will receive this book on Monday. We hope that you will follow along with the reading schedule so that we can participate in the events at school during the week. The schedule of reading will also be reflected on your child’s homework sheet. Note: There are also chapters to read on the weekends.
You can find the chapters of The Enormous Egg read aloud here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/audio-chapters-read-aloud
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various small leveled readers
Spelling Words: sit, sat, set, big, bag, bug, hit, hat, pin, pen
Vocab: enormous
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Social Studies: Being a good citizen, local government, The Bill of Rights
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), Can You Say Pterodactyl? (Level J)
Spelling Words: coin, join, boil, soil, foil, noise, boiling, joining, preschool
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Time to the quarter hour and five minutes, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Social Studies: Being a good citizen, local government, The Bill of Rights
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), Can You Say Pterodactyl? (Level J)
Spelling Words: coin, join, boil, soil, foil, noise, boiling, joining, preschool
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Science: Forces and Motion- Push and Pull
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various small leveled readers, Paint it Purple (Level B)
Vocab: enormous
New Words: purple, orange
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow, pink
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Social Studies: Being a good citizen, local government, The Bill of Rights
Dates to Know:
Friday, March 7th- Miss Kolis will be out today. Mrs. Ciolek will be her sub.
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Monday, March 10th- Miss Kolis will begin to administer the Ohio Alternate Assessment for Students with Cognitive Disabilities (AASCD) to third graders this week.
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on Chapter 9 which includes the concepts of alike and different. We also began to work on Chapter 10 which focuses on positions. We began talking about the positions above and below. Next week, we will continue our work on positions and focus on the positions in front, behind, next to and beside. We continued working on Unit 7 of Wonders which focuses on The Animal Kingdom. This weeks focus was Pet Pals. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: responsibility, train, compared, social, and depend. We, also, introduced the high frequency words: they and of. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” “was,” “for,” and “have.” Next week, we will continue to work on Unit 7 and focus on animal habitats.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends completed work on their February unit. This unit focused on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. We worked on a sink and float science experiment and explored items around the room to see if they would sink or float. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our March Unit which focuses on rocks and geology in the real world.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on Being a good citizen/friend We read the books, You’ll Be Sorry, The Rainbow Fish and Terrible, Horrible, Awful Manners. We fished for soggy crackers, just like our character in You’ll Be Sorry. These crackers had pictures of good choices and not so good choices and we practiced identifying each one. We, also, shared shiny scales from our own rainbow fish, created a rainbow fish snack mix to share, and created our own beautiful rainbow fish from old CDs. Next week, we will begin the One Book, One School project. This project is done by the whole school and it is very exciting. The book for this project is called, The Enormous Egg. We will be reading chapters in class aloud and doing activities to reinforce the book. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
We made it through a five day week! Let's try it again!
This week, we focused on concepts of being a good citizen. We sorted things a good citizen would do and things a good citizen would NOT do. Some examples of things a good citizen might do are follow the laws (like wear your seat belt or wear a bike helmet), help clean up (at home, at school, and in the community), recycle, and know about your community. We reviewed the names of our cities (we have kiddos from Brecksville, Broadview Heights, AND North Royalton in our group) and learned the names of our mayors. We watched Brain Pop Jr. videos called “Rights and Responsibilities” and also “Local Government.” The third graders will continue to talk about these concepts in their social studies class with Mrs. Niedermeyer.
This week in math, we worked on telling time. Each student is at a different level at this time and working on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and in five minute segments. We also got a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” and “evening.” We will practice calling the morning (12am-11:59am) the “a.m.” and calling the afternoon/evening the “p.m.” We’ll continue with “time” for one more week.
Next week, we’ll use the theme The Enormous Egg (along with the whole school!) We'll kick off the book project on Monday with an assembly arranged by Mr. Todd Wasil.
This is school-wide project called “One Book, One School.” The entire school will be reading a chapter book called The Enormous Egg chosen by Mrs. O'Mara. You will receive this book on Monday. We hope that you will follow along with the reading schedule so that we can participate in the events at school during the week. The schedule of reading will also be reflected on your child’s homework sheet. Note: There are also chapters to read on the weekends.
You can find the chapters of The Enormous Egg read aloud here- https://sites.google.com/a/bbhcsd.org/enormousegg/audio-chapters-read-aloud
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various small leveled readers
Spelling Words: sit, sat, set, big, bag, bug, hit, hat, pin, pen
Vocab: enormous
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Social Studies: Being a good citizen, local government, The Bill of Rights
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), Can You Say Pterodactyl? (Level J)
Spelling Words: coin, join, boil, soil, foil, noise, boiling, joining, preschool
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Time to the quarter hour and five minutes, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Social Studies: Being a good citizen, local government, The Bill of Rights
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), Can You Say Pterodactyl? (Level J)
Spelling Words: coin, join, boil, soil, foil, noise, boiling, joining, preschool
Vocab: enormous, review words with prefixes “pre,” “re,” and “un”- preschool, preread, prewrite, redo, reread, replay, undo, untie, unfair
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Science: Forces and Motion- Push and Pull
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Enormous Egg (chapter book), various small leveled readers, Paint it Purple (Level B)
Vocab: enormous
New Words: purple, orange
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow, pink
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Social Studies: Being a good citizen, local government, The Bill of Rights
Dates to Know:
Friday, March 7th- Miss Kolis will be out today. Mrs. Ciolek will be her sub.
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Monday, March 10th- Miss Kolis will begin to administer the Ohio Alternate Assessment for Students with Cognitive Disabilities (AASCD) to third graders this week.
Weekly Newsletter 2-21-14
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on Chapter 8 which focused on measurement. We continued comparing height and length and capacity. We also began working on Chapter 9 which includes the concepts of alike and different. We also began to sort by size. Next week, we will continue our work on sorting by size, shape and count. We completed our work on Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on the seasons and weather. We began working on Unit 7 which focuses on The Animal Kingdom. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: appearance, behavior, exercise, wander, and plenty. We, also, introduced the high frequency words: for and have. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” and “was.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their February unit. This unit focuses on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story was, Going on a Treasure Hunt. We have also been reading, Marshall’s Maps. We have been working on sorting geographical features of land and water. We created a great recipe called Canoe’s in a Lake that included oatmeal, yogurt, cinnamon, applesauce, dried apricots, and raisins. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on the Winter Olympics. We made the Olympic rings, played in a snow themed sensory bin, and worked on a variety of SMART board activities that introduced us to the events that are participated in during the Winter Olympics. Next week, we will work on some basic citizenship concepts like being a good friend, following the rules, and helping our environment. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
Another short week, thanks to the snow!
This week, we focused on using the words “nonfiction” (also known as “real” or “informational”) and “facts” while learning about some of the Olympic sports. We watched some videos of Olympic coverage and our favorite seemed to be the ice dancing routine that won gold! We named the Olympic sports, graphed them, told what times they would begin, wrote sentences about them, and more! It was fun and I wish I would’ve started the theme a little earlier to get in more activities. Some additional worksheets will come home in the Friday Folder that we didn’t get to do.
On Friday, we also got to enjoy some time playing Wii Bowling. The kids had a great time and we really enjoyed our time using our gross motor skills, social skills (like waiting and taking turns), and game playing language (like "your turn," "my turn," "great job" and "nice try."
This week in math, we worked on telling time. Each student is at a different level at this time and working on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and in five minute segments. We will also get a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” “afternoon,” and “evening.” We will practice calling the morning (12am-11:59am) the “a.m.” and calling the afternoon/evening the “p.m.” This unit will continue for several weeks.
Next week, we’ll use the theme of “Being a Good Citizen” to tie into what we are learning in social studies class.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Taking Turns (Level C)
Spelling Words: bag, bug, rag, rug, tag, tug, ran, run, hat, hut
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, being a good citizen, common good
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Day I Needed Help (Level H)
Spelling Words: preschool, preread, prewrite, preview, precut, preheat
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” being a good citizen, common good
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Time to the quarter hour and five minutes, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Day I Needed Help (Level H)
Spelling Words: preschool, preread, prewrite, preview, precut, preheat
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” being a good citizen, common good
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student F-
Reading Stories: Taking Turns (Level C)
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, being a good citizen, common good
New Words: yellow, pink, purple, short i words like big, pig, wig
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Dates to Know:
Tuesday, Feb. 25th- Second Grade Music Demonstration (Berchtold/Nixon 6pm)
Thursday Feb. 27th - Kindergarten Open House
Friday, March 7th- Miss Kolis will be out today. Mrs. Ciolek will be her sub.
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed working on Chapter 8 which focused on measurement. We continued comparing height and length and capacity. We also began working on Chapter 9 which includes the concepts of alike and different. We also began to sort by size. Next week, we will continue our work on sorting by size, shape and count. We completed our work on Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on the seasons and weather. We began working on Unit 7 which focuses on The Animal Kingdom. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: appearance, behavior, exercise, wander, and plenty. We, also, introduced the high frequency words: for and have. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” and “was.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their February unit. This unit focuses on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story was, Going on a Treasure Hunt. We have also been reading, Marshall’s Maps. We have been working on sorting geographical features of land and water. We created a great recipe called Canoe’s in a Lake that included oatmeal, yogurt, cinnamon, applesauce, dried apricots, and raisins. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on the Winter Olympics. We made the Olympic rings, played in a snow themed sensory bin, and worked on a variety of SMART board activities that introduced us to the events that are participated in during the Winter Olympics. Next week, we will work on some basic citizenship concepts like being a good friend, following the rules, and helping our environment. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
Another short week, thanks to the snow!
This week, we focused on using the words “nonfiction” (also known as “real” or “informational”) and “facts” while learning about some of the Olympic sports. We watched some videos of Olympic coverage and our favorite seemed to be the ice dancing routine that won gold! We named the Olympic sports, graphed them, told what times they would begin, wrote sentences about them, and more! It was fun and I wish I would’ve started the theme a little earlier to get in more activities. Some additional worksheets will come home in the Friday Folder that we didn’t get to do.
On Friday, we also got to enjoy some time playing Wii Bowling. The kids had a great time and we really enjoyed our time using our gross motor skills, social skills (like waiting and taking turns), and game playing language (like "your turn," "my turn," "great job" and "nice try."
This week in math, we worked on telling time. Each student is at a different level at this time and working on time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and in five minute segments. We will also get a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” “afternoon,” and “evening.” We will practice calling the morning (12am-11:59am) the “a.m.” and calling the afternoon/evening the “p.m.” This unit will continue for several weeks.
Next week, we’ll use the theme of “Being a Good Citizen” to tie into what we are learning in social studies class.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Taking Turns (Level C)
Spelling Words: bag, bug, rag, rug, tag, tug, ran, run, hat, hut
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, being a good citizen, common good
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Day I Needed Help (Level H)
Spelling Words: preschool, preread, prewrite, preview, precut, preheat
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” being a good citizen, common good
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Time to the quarter hour and five minutes, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Day I Needed Help (Level H)
Spelling Words: preschool, preread, prewrite, preview, precut, preheat
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” being a good citizen, common good
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student F-
Reading Stories: Taking Turns (Level C)
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, being a good citizen, common good
New Words: yellow, pink, purple, short i words like big, pig, wig
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown, green, yellow
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Dates to Know:
Tuesday, Feb. 25th- Second Grade Music Demonstration (Berchtold/Nixon 6pm)
Thursday Feb. 27th - Kindergarten Open House
Friday, March 7th- Miss Kolis will be out today. Mrs. Ciolek will be her sub.
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Weekly Newsletter 2-14-14
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 8 which focuses on measurement. We continued comparing height and length and added capacity. Next week, we will complete our work on measurement and begin Chapter 9 which focuses on classifying objects by shape and size. We will work on sorting and identifying alike and different. We continued working on Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on the seasons and weather. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: safe, prepare, notice, celebration, and enough. We, also, reviewed our high frequency words. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” and “was.” Due to our Valentine’s Day celebration we did not do the assessment for this chapter this week and will complete it on Tuesday.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their February unit. This unit focuses on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story has been, Going on a Treasure Hunt. We have also begun reading, Marshall’s Maps. We have been working on sorting geographical features of land and water. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on Valentine’s Day. We read Little Critter’s Valentine’s Day and Franklin’s Valentine. We made Valentine’s day treats of heart shaped suckers and dipped cookies. We, also, painted using celery to make beautiful flowers. Next week, we will incorporate a variety of skills within a Winter Olympics theme. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’ Group:
This week, we focused on using the words “nonfiction” (also known as “real” or “informational”) and “facts.” We read about Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, and Abraham Lincoln and filled out graphic organizers with “facts” about each famous American. We also had a chance to watch Brain Pop Jr. movies about each famous American. Students in Mrs. Kucharski’s class and Mrs. Berchtold’s class also got to hear more about Abraham Lincoln in their homeroom classes during their social studies times. Did you know that Wednesday was Honest Abe’s birthday?!?!
In math, we worked on naming and identifying coins and counting coin combos. Students B and D also worked on handing over coins given a specific amount in writing. Students A and D also practiced subtraction while Student B worked on multiplying 0, 1, 2, and 5. Each student took a math test on Friday and EVERYONE got more than half of their questions right! One student even got ONLY ONE WRONG! I am so happy to see our math skills developing!
Next week in math, we will work on telling time. Each student is at a different level at this time, but will also get a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” “afternoon,” and “evening.” We will practice calling the morning (12am-11:59am) the “a.m.” and calling the afternoon/evening the “p.m.” This unit will continue for several weeks.
Our theme next week will be the “Winter Olympics!” We’ll use our group time to work on “facts” about the Olympians and their sports.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Heavy and Light (Level B)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! We’ll start again next week!
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, Olympics
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student B-
Reading Stories: Childhood Stories of George Washington (Level I)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! We’ll start again next week!
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” Olympics
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Time to the quarter hour and five minutes, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student D-
Reading Stories: Childhood Stories of George Washington (Level I)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! We’ll start again next week!
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” Olympics
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student F-
Reading Stories: Hot and Cold (Level A)
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, Olympics
New Words: green, yellow, pink, short i words like big, pig, wig
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Dates to Know:
Monday, Feb. 17th- No School!
Tuesday, Feb. 18th- Mrs. Vajda’s Birthday!
Thursday, Feb. 20th- Mrs. E’s Birthday!
Friday, Feb. 21st- Student D’s birthday!
Tuesday, Feb. 25th- Second Grade Music Demonstration (Berchtold/Nixon 6pm)
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 8 which focuses on measurement. We continued comparing height and length and added capacity. Next week, we will complete our work on measurement and begin Chapter 9 which focuses on classifying objects by shape and size. We will work on sorting and identifying alike and different. We continued working on Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on the seasons and weather. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: safe, prepare, notice, celebration, and enough. We, also, reviewed our high frequency words. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is,” “she,” and “was.” Due to our Valentine’s Day celebration we did not do the assessment for this chapter this week and will complete it on Tuesday.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their February unit. This unit focuses on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story has been, Going on a Treasure Hunt. We have also begun reading, Marshall’s Maps. We have been working on sorting geographical features of land and water. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on Valentine’s Day. We read Little Critter’s Valentine’s Day and Franklin’s Valentine. We made Valentine’s day treats of heart shaped suckers and dipped cookies. We, also, painted using celery to make beautiful flowers. Next week, we will incorporate a variety of skills within a Winter Olympics theme. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’ Group:
This week, we focused on using the words “nonfiction” (also known as “real” or “informational”) and “facts.” We read about Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, and Abraham Lincoln and filled out graphic organizers with “facts” about each famous American. We also had a chance to watch Brain Pop Jr. movies about each famous American. Students in Mrs. Kucharski’s class and Mrs. Berchtold’s class also got to hear more about Abraham Lincoln in their homeroom classes during their social studies times. Did you know that Wednesday was Honest Abe’s birthday?!?!
In math, we worked on naming and identifying coins and counting coin combos. Students B and D also worked on handing over coins given a specific amount in writing. Students A and D also practiced subtraction while Student B worked on multiplying 0, 1, 2, and 5. Each student took a math test on Friday and EVERYONE got more than half of their questions right! One student even got ONLY ONE WRONG! I am so happy to see our math skills developing!
Next week in math, we will work on telling time. Each student is at a different level at this time, but will also get a chance to work on sorting activities into “morning,” “afternoon,” and “evening.” We will practice calling the morning (12am-11:59am) the “a.m.” and calling the afternoon/evening the “p.m.” This unit will continue for several weeks.
Our theme next week will be the “Winter Olympics!” We’ll use our group time to work on “facts” about the Olympians and their sports.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Heavy and Light (Level B)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! We’ll start again next week!
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, Olympics
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student B-
Reading Stories: Childhood Stories of George Washington (Level I)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! We’ll start again next week!
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” Olympics
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Time to the quarter hour and five minutes, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student D-
Reading Stories: Childhood Stories of George Washington (Level I)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! We’ll start again next week!
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, words with the prefix “pre,” Olympics
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Student F-
Reading Stories: Hot and Cold (Level A)
Vocab: nonfiction, facts, Olympics
New Words: green, yellow, pink, short i words like big, pig, wig
Review/Practice Words: red, blue, black, brown
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20, Time to the hour and half hour, sorting by morning, afternoon, night, AM/PM
Dates to Know:
Monday, Feb. 17th- No School!
Tuesday, Feb. 18th- Mrs. Vajda’s Birthday!
Thursday, Feb. 20th- Mrs. E’s Birthday!
Friday, Feb. 21st- Student D’s birthday!
Tuesday, Feb. 25th- Second Grade Music Demonstration (Berchtold/Nixon 6pm)
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
Weekly Newsletter 2-7-14
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed chapter 7 which focused on decomposing numbers 11-19. We, also, began working on Chapter 8 which focuses on measurement. We started by comparing height and length. Next week, we will continue to work on measurement and be able to practice throughout room 7. We continued working on Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on the seasons and weather. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: drought, predict, temperature, storm and clever. We, also, worked on the high frequency words: “she” and “was.” Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their February unit. This unit focuses on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story has been, Going on a Treasure Hunt. We have also begun reading, Marshall’s Maps. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on the author/ illustrator Jan Brett. We read The Mitten in a variety of formats. We worked on sequencing the story, identifying animals which appeared in the story, same and different, identifying a matching pair and identifying characters of a story. Next week, we will incorporate a variety of skills within a Valentine’s Day theme. On Friday, students will return to their homeroom classes for Valentine’s Day parties. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
Again this week, we worked on understanding and sequencing using the book The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. We worked on telling and retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story and writing it on a graphic organizer. We used our graphic organizers to type a paragraph. We’ll finish up the typing early next week.
Students also worked on reading books on their levels and practiced sight words and decodable words this week, as we do every week. We learned and practiced the vocabulary terms “title,” “author,” “illustrator,” and “antonyms.” Next week, we’ll work on the words “nonfiction” and “fact.”
In math, all students continue to work on identifying coins and telling the value of each coin. Each student is working at a different level, but all students are encouraged to practice counting coins regularly. Count out the coins you might need to buy some candy in line at the grocery store. Tell the amount of money you might need to get a Happy Meal at McDonald’s.
For now, we continue to count the coins with the touch points on them. We are using the original Touch Money program where coins are counted by 5s. Please check out the videos below to review how we are learning to count money.
Counting Coins with Touch Math and Brain Pop Jr.- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXIK1gS0TXE
Touch Coins for Counting Money- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ROMZ7U9po
In the next week, we’ll focus on two overall themes, “Valentine’s Day” and “Famous Americans.” We plan to focus on the word “facts” as we read about these Famous Americans: John Chapman, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, and Michael Jordan.
You’ll also get to use the word “facts” and “nonfiction” at home as you use the National Geographic for Kids website found here- http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/polar-bear/
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln
Spelling Words: run, hug, not, got, ten, red, sit, big, can, am
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Skip counting by 5s from 5-50, intro. to counting dimes, practice/ finish up subtraction
Student B-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Loved to Learn (Level I)
Spelling Words: down, brown, clown, frown, town, drown, cow, how, now, owl
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student D-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Loved to Learn (Level I)
Spelling Words: down, brown, clown, frown, town, drown, cow, how, now, owl
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins,
Student F-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
New Words: red, yellow, green
Review/Practice Words: away, blue, come, for, in, is, it.
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20
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Dates to Know:
Thursday, Feb. 13th- Highland PSO Meeting with Dr. Carla Calevich, Director of Curriculum and Instruction presenting "What Every Parent Wants to Know: 21st Century Learners, Testing, and the Common Core."
Friday, Feb. 14th- Valentine’s Day Parties in homeroom classes (social stories will come home by Wednesday)
Monday, Feb. 17th- No School!
Tuesday, Feb. 25th- Second Grade Music Demonstration (Berchtold/Nixon @ 6pm)
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
**Just a reminder that you can also follow us on twitter @highlandroom7. **
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed chapter 7 which focused on decomposing numbers 11-19. We, also, began working on Chapter 8 which focuses on measurement. We started by comparing height and length. Next week, we will continue to work on measurement and be able to practice throughout room 7. We continued working on Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on the seasons and weather. We have worked on the oral vocabulary words like: drought, predict, temperature, storm and clever. We, also, worked on the high frequency words: “she” and “was.” Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying these and the additional high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he,” “with,” and “is.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued to work on their February unit. This unit focuses on real world geography. We have been focusing on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story has been, Going on a Treasure Hunt. We have also begun reading, Marshall’s Maps. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives.
Also this week, we completed a theme based on the author/ illustrator Jan Brett. We read The Mitten in a variety of formats. We worked on sequencing the story, identifying animals which appeared in the story, same and different, identifying a matching pair and identifying characters of a story. Next week, we will incorporate a variety of skills within a Valentine’s Day theme. On Friday, students will return to their homeroom classes for Valentine’s Day parties. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
Again this week, we worked on understanding and sequencing using the book The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. We worked on telling and retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story and writing it on a graphic organizer. We used our graphic organizers to type a paragraph. We’ll finish up the typing early next week.
Students also worked on reading books on their levels and practiced sight words and decodable words this week, as we do every week. We learned and practiced the vocabulary terms “title,” “author,” “illustrator,” and “antonyms.” Next week, we’ll work on the words “nonfiction” and “fact.”
In math, all students continue to work on identifying coins and telling the value of each coin. Each student is working at a different level, but all students are encouraged to practice counting coins regularly. Count out the coins you might need to buy some candy in line at the grocery store. Tell the amount of money you might need to get a Happy Meal at McDonald’s.
For now, we continue to count the coins with the touch points on them. We are using the original Touch Money program where coins are counted by 5s. Please check out the videos below to review how we are learning to count money.
Counting Coins with Touch Math and Brain Pop Jr.- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXIK1gS0TXE
Touch Coins for Counting Money- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ROMZ7U9po
In the next week, we’ll focus on two overall themes, “Valentine’s Day” and “Famous Americans.” We plan to focus on the word “facts” as we read about these Famous Americans: John Chapman, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, and Michael Jordan.
You’ll also get to use the word “facts” and “nonfiction” at home as you use the National Geographic for Kids website found here- http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/polar-bear/
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln
Spelling Words: run, hug, not, got, ten, red, sit, big, can, am
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, o, and u.
Math: Skip counting by 5s from 5-50, intro. to counting dimes, practice/ finish up subtraction
Student B-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Loved to Learn (Level I)
Spelling Words: down, brown, clown, frown, town, drown, cow, how, now, owl
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student D-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Loved to Learn (Level I)
Spelling Words: down, brown, clown, frown, town, drown, cow, how, now, owl
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins,
Student F-
Reading Stories: mini-readers on Johnny Appleseed, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln
Vocab: nonfiction, facts
New Words: red, yellow, green
Review/Practice Words: away, blue, come, for, in, is, it.
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Count groups of 20 objects, name numbers 0-20
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Dates to Know:
Thursday, Feb. 13th- Highland PSO Meeting with Dr. Carla Calevich, Director of Curriculum and Instruction presenting "What Every Parent Wants to Know: 21st Century Learners, Testing, and the Common Core."
Friday, Feb. 14th- Valentine’s Day Parties in homeroom classes (social stories will come home by Wednesday)
Monday, Feb. 17th- No School!
Tuesday, Feb. 25th- Second Grade Music Demonstration (Berchtold/Nixon @ 6pm)
Friday, March 7th- Highland Drive BINGO Night at the Middle School
**Just a reminder that you can also follow us on twitter @highlandroom7. **
weekly newsletter 1-31-14
Can you believe it's February? Wow, this year is flying by!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
Hi All! With the short week this week and some trainings that Mrs. Shingleton was out for, we will continue working on chapter 7 which focuses on decomposing numbers 11-19 and Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on The seasons and weather. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he” and “with.” We also introduced the word, “is.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends completed their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We continued this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We continued to practice our homemade toothpaste to practice the steps to brush our teeth. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our February unit that focuses on real word geography. We will focus on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story will be, Going on a Treasure Hunt.
Also this week, we will continued a theme based on the author/ illustrator Jan Brett. We read Gingerbread Friends. We decorated a gingerbread house for our gingerbread baby and gingerbread friends. Due to the short week this week, we will continue to learn about Jan Brett and work on her book, The Mitten , next week. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
Again this week, we worked on understanding and sequencing the animals in the books The Hat and The Mitten by Jan Brett. We focused on using the words “first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, next, last” when reading the story. Because of the short week, we’ll continue learning more about Jan Brett next week. She’s an author AND an illustrator! We’ll also read her book The Three Snow Bears.
Next Friday, I’d like to give a formative assessment on reading skills and vocabulary. This vocabulary will include the words “title,” “author,” and “illustrator” as well and identifying antonyms. Students B and D will also be assessed on their knowledge of the meaning of words with the prefixes “re” and “un.” Formative assessments help me know if we've understood and mastered a concept. It helps me know where to move next in terms of our vocabulary.
In math, all students continue to work on identifying coins and telling the value of each coin. Each student is working at a different level, but all students are encouraged to practice counting coins regularly. Ask dad to empty his pockets and find all the pennies. Ask mom to get her wallet and find all the nickels. Count all the coins in your piggy bank. Count enough coins to buy a special treat at the grocery store. These are easy ways to practice coins at home.
For now, we continue to count the coins with the touch points on them. We are using the original Touch Money program where coins are counted by 5s. You can see, in the visual below, how the coins appear to your child when we count them. First, we line up the coins from greatest amount to smallest (Q, D, N, P), then say (while pointing to the silver coins) “Count by 5s, STOP, then count by ones” (while pointing to the pennies). The plan is to eventually remove the touch points (just like with addition and subtraction) and have student remember where they are placed. If you have further questions about this method, please feel free to contact me or look at some of the sites posted below.
Counting Coins with Touch Math and Brain Pop Jr.- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXIK1gS0TXE
Touch Coins for Counting Money- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ROMZ7U9po
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, Lucy Did It! (Level C)
Spelling Words: bug, hug, mug, rug, pug, bun, fun, sun
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and o.
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels up to $.50, intro. to counting dimes
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, The 100th Day Project (Level I)
Spelling Words: boy, toy, joy, loyal, royal, enjoy, annoy, employ
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms, words with prefixes “re” and “un” and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, The 100th Day Project (Level I)
Spelling Words: boy, toy, joy, loyal, royal, enjoy, annoy, employ
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms, words with prefixes “re” and “un” and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting combos of coins, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, I Draw a Bunny (Level A)
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
New Words: Color Words- red, yellow, green, blue
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Identify penny and nickel and tell the value of each, count groups of 20 objects
Dates to Know:
Friday, Feb. 7th- Students will take a reading test including antonyms, words with prefixes “re” and “un”(Students B and D) and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
Hi All! With the short week this week and some trainings that Mrs. Shingleton was out for, we will continue working on chapter 7 which focuses on decomposing numbers 11-19 and Unit 6 of Wonders. This unit focuses on The seasons and weather. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he” and “with.” We also introduced the word, “is.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends completed their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We continued this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We continued to practice our homemade toothpaste to practice the steps to brush our teeth. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our February unit that focuses on real word geography. We will focus on the words: a, of, from, has, get, him, over, under, find, show, map and through. Our first story will be, Going on a Treasure Hunt.
Also this week, we will continued a theme based on the author/ illustrator Jan Brett. We read Gingerbread Friends. We decorated a gingerbread house for our gingerbread baby and gingerbread friends. Due to the short week this week, we will continue to learn about Jan Brett and work on her book, The Mitten , next week. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
Again this week, we worked on understanding and sequencing the animals in the books The Hat and The Mitten by Jan Brett. We focused on using the words “first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, next, last” when reading the story. Because of the short week, we’ll continue learning more about Jan Brett next week. She’s an author AND an illustrator! We’ll also read her book The Three Snow Bears.
Next Friday, I’d like to give a formative assessment on reading skills and vocabulary. This vocabulary will include the words “title,” “author,” and “illustrator” as well and identifying antonyms. Students B and D will also be assessed on their knowledge of the meaning of words with the prefixes “re” and “un.” Formative assessments help me know if we've understood and mastered a concept. It helps me know where to move next in terms of our vocabulary.
In math, all students continue to work on identifying coins and telling the value of each coin. Each student is working at a different level, but all students are encouraged to practice counting coins regularly. Ask dad to empty his pockets and find all the pennies. Ask mom to get her wallet and find all the nickels. Count all the coins in your piggy bank. Count enough coins to buy a special treat at the grocery store. These are easy ways to practice coins at home.
For now, we continue to count the coins with the touch points on them. We are using the original Touch Money program where coins are counted by 5s. You can see, in the visual below, how the coins appear to your child when we count them. First, we line up the coins from greatest amount to smallest (Q, D, N, P), then say (while pointing to the silver coins) “Count by 5s, STOP, then count by ones” (while pointing to the pennies). The plan is to eventually remove the touch points (just like with addition and subtraction) and have student remember where they are placed. If you have further questions about this method, please feel free to contact me or look at some of the sites posted below.
Counting Coins with Touch Math and Brain Pop Jr.- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXIK1gS0TXE
Touch Coins for Counting Money- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ROMZ7U9po
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, Lucy Did It! (Level C)
Spelling Words: bug, hug, mug, rug, pug, bun, fun, sun
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and o.
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels up to $.50, intro. to counting dimes
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, The 100th Day Project (Level I)
Spelling Words: boy, toy, joy, loyal, royal, enjoy, annoy, employ
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms, words with prefixes “re” and “un” and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, The 100th Day Project (Level I)
Spelling Words: boy, toy, joy, loyal, royal, enjoy, annoy, employ
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms, words with prefixes “re” and “un” and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting combos of coins, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, I Draw a Bunny (Level A)
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms, reading test on Friday including antonyms and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
New Words: Color Words- red, yellow, green, blue
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Identify penny and nickel and tell the value of each, count groups of 20 objects
Dates to Know:
Friday, Feb. 7th- Students will take a reading test including antonyms, words with prefixes “re” and “un”(Students B and D) and words such as “title,” “author,” and “illustrator.”
Weekly newsletter 1-24-14
It's a cold one out there! Brrrr....
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed work on Chapter 6 of My Math. Everyone did a wonderful job on the assessment. All Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends scored 80% or better! Next week, we will begin chapter 7 which focuses on decomposing numbers 11-19. In Language Arts, we completed a unit that teaches us about how things grow. This week focused on Fresh From The Farm. We also continued to work on building sentences and identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives and the use of pronouns. We also introduced the high frequency words, he and with. The oral vocabulary words for this week were: fresh, delicious, beneath, raise, and special. Next week, we will begin Unit 6 or Wonders. This unit focuses on The seasons and weather. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he” and “with.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We continued this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We continued to practice our homemade toothpaste to practice the steps to brush our teeth. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our January unit. We will continue to practice brushing our teeth, with our homemade toothpaste, and continue to learn about the differences between long ago and today.
Also this week, we will began a theme based on the author Jan Brett. We read The Gingerbread Baby and Hedgie Blasts Off! We created a mural of Hedgie in space and created our own Hedgie! Also, we practiced writing on Jan Brett themed pages. Next week, we will continue to learn about Jan Brett and work on her books, The Mitten and Gingerbread Friends. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on understanding and sequencing the animals in the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. We focused on using the words “first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth” when reading the story. We used our fine motor skills by cutting and coloring the animals and gluing them with the corresponding ordinal number word. Next week, we’ll learn more about Jan Brett. She’s an author AND an illustrator! We’ll also read her books The Hat and The Three Snow Bears.
Also this week, we finished up our unit on antonyms. You will find the antonyms quiz this week in your child’s Friday Folder. It is clear to me that we need a little more practice. :) We will continue practicing antonyms for the rest of January before we introduce the new word “synonyms.” Students B and D also continue to review words with the prefixes “re” and “un.” In February, they will be introduced to the prefix “pre” and the suffixes “ful” and “less.”
In math, all students continue to work on identifying coins and telling the value of each coin. Each student is working at a different level, but all students are encouraged to practice counting coins regularly. Ask dad to empty his pockets and find all the pennies. Ask mom to get her wallet and find all the nickels. Count all the coins in your piggy bank. Count enough coins to buy a special treat at the grocery store. These are easy ways to practice coins at home.
We also continue to sneak in lessons on the Zones of Regulation. On Friday, we talked about how to move from the Red Zone down to the Green Zone. We gave examples such as “take a deep breath,” “count back from 10,” or “find a quiet spot.” Other good ideas are “use your words to say how you feel,” “ask for a break,” or “say calm down to yourself quietly.”
You should have received your child’s second quarter IEP progress report by now. Please let me know if you have not. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please feel free to call (440-740-4652) or email me.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: bug, hug, mug, rug, pug, bun, fun, sun
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and o.
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: back, pack, black, sick, pick, stick, clock, block
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student C-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: bug, hug, mug, rug, pug
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a, i, e, and o sounds)
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: back, pack, black, sick, pick, stick, clock, block
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting combos of coins, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
New Words: Color Words- red, yellow, green, blue
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Identify penny and nickel and tell the value of each, count groups of 20 objects
Dates to Know:
Monday, Jan. 27th- Miss Kolis will be absent, out at an IEP writing training. Mrs. Ciolek will be the sub.
Tuesday, Jan. 28th- Miss Kolis will be out for half a day at an Alternate Assessment training. Mrs. Rees will be the sub.
Wednesday, Jan. 29th- Miss Kolis will be absent, out at a Reading Training. Mrs. Rees will be the sub again.
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed work on Chapter 6 of My Math. Everyone did a wonderful job on the assessment. All Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends scored 80% or better! Next week, we will begin chapter 7 which focuses on decomposing numbers 11-19. In Language Arts, we completed a unit that teaches us about how things grow. This week focused on Fresh From The Farm. We also continued to work on building sentences and identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives and the use of pronouns. We also introduced the high frequency words, he and with. The oral vocabulary words for this week were: fresh, delicious, beneath, raise, and special. Next week, we will begin Unit 6 or Wonders. This unit focuses on The seasons and weather. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my,” “are,” “he” and “with.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We continued this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We continued to practice our homemade toothpaste to practice the steps to brush our teeth. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our January unit. We will continue to practice brushing our teeth, with our homemade toothpaste, and continue to learn about the differences between long ago and today.
Also this week, we will began a theme based on the author Jan Brett. We read The Gingerbread Baby and Hedgie Blasts Off! We created a mural of Hedgie in space and created our own Hedgie! Also, we practiced writing on Jan Brett themed pages. Next week, we will continue to learn about Jan Brett and work on her books, The Mitten and Gingerbread Friends. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on understanding and sequencing the animals in the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. We focused on using the words “first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth” when reading the story. We used our fine motor skills by cutting and coloring the animals and gluing them with the corresponding ordinal number word. Next week, we’ll learn more about Jan Brett. She’s an author AND an illustrator! We’ll also read her books The Hat and The Three Snow Bears.
Also this week, we finished up our unit on antonyms. You will find the antonyms quiz this week in your child’s Friday Folder. It is clear to me that we need a little more practice. :) We will continue practicing antonyms for the rest of January before we introduce the new word “synonyms.” Students B and D also continue to review words with the prefixes “re” and “un.” In February, they will be introduced to the prefix “pre” and the suffixes “ful” and “less.”
In math, all students continue to work on identifying coins and telling the value of each coin. Each student is working at a different level, but all students are encouraged to practice counting coins regularly. Ask dad to empty his pockets and find all the pennies. Ask mom to get her wallet and find all the nickels. Count all the coins in your piggy bank. Count enough coins to buy a special treat at the grocery store. These are easy ways to practice coins at home.
We also continue to sneak in lessons on the Zones of Regulation. On Friday, we talked about how to move from the Red Zone down to the Green Zone. We gave examples such as “take a deep breath,” “count back from 10,” or “find a quiet spot.” Other good ideas are “use your words to say how you feel,” “ask for a break,” or “say calm down to yourself quietly.”
You should have received your child’s second quarter IEP progress report by now. Please let me know if you have not. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please feel free to call (440-740-4652) or email me.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: bug, hug, mug, rug, pug, bun, fun, sun
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and o.
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: back, pack, black, sick, pick, stick, clock, block
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0, x10, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student C-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: bug, hug, mug, rug, pug
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a, i, e, and o sounds)
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: back, pack, black, sick, pick, stick, clock, block
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
Writing: Practice writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Counting combos of coins, Given an amount under $1.00, make that amount with coins
Student F-
Reading Stories: The Mitten, The Hat, and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Vocab: Illustrator, continue work on antonyms
New Words: Color Words- red, yellow, green, blue
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound, label objects with short a sounds
Math: Identify penny and nickel and tell the value of each, count groups of 20 objects
Dates to Know:
Monday, Jan. 27th- Miss Kolis will be absent, out at an IEP writing training. Mrs. Ciolek will be the sub.
Tuesday, Jan. 28th- Miss Kolis will be out for half a day at an Alternate Assessment training. Mrs. Rees will be the sub.
Wednesday, Jan. 29th- Miss Kolis will be absent, out at a Reading Training. Mrs. Rees will be the sub again.
weekly newsletter 1-17-14
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 6 of My Math. This chapter focuses beginning subtraction. We continued working on understanding subtraction stories, using the minus sign, using the equals sign in subtraction problems and determining how many. Next week, we will conclude Chapter 6 and begin chapter 7 which focuses on decomposing numbers 11-19. In Language Arts, we continued to work on a new unit that teaches us about how things grow. This week focused on trees. We began this unit with working on phonemic awareness for the letter /e/, writing the letter Ee and words that are parts of trees like branch, leaf, seed, bark, and trunk. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : develop, amazing, enormous, imagine, and content. We also continued to work on building sentences and identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives and introduced the use of pronouns. We also introduced the high frequency word, are. Next week, we will continue our new language arts unit and focus on things that are fresh from the farm. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my” and “are.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We continued this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We created homemade butter without a churn to work on following a recipe and using tools of measurement. We, also, used our homemade toothpaste to practice the steps to brush our teeth. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our January unit. We will continue to practice brushing our teeth, with our homemade toothpaste, and continue to learn about the differences between long ago and today.
Also this week, we concluded our penguins theme and worked on introducing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Our focus was on identifying who Dr. King was and that we had Monday off school to celebrate all the wonderful things he did. We created a peace sign snack in honor of Dr. King’s desire for peace. We, also, created dot art in the shape of peace doves. This project asked each child to be a part of everyones piece. Each child chose a color and used their color to create dots on their own and each of their peers pieces. We talked about working together and being fair. The students, then, used their color dot and wrote their name on each piece to practice writing their name and to show that they were all a part of each piece. Next week, we will begin a theme based on the author Jan Brett. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on antonyms. We watched videos on Brain Pop Jr. and from YouTube to help us remember the word “antonyms.” We put our arms over our heads to make the letter A and said “A-A- Antonyms are O-O-Opposites” while changing our arms to look like an O. We even played Antonyms BINGO.
On Thursday, we talked about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We read the book Martin’s Big Words and talked about how Dr. King did something REALLY important. He made it so that we could ALL go to school together, go to the store together, and even ride the bus together, no matter the color of our skin. Next Tuesday, we’ll finish up a craft project we were making to celebrate Martin Luther King day.
In the next week, we’ll finish up our unit on antonyms on Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll take a quick quiz on antonyms on Wednesday. Please use the Blend Space lesson called “Antonyms are Opposites” at http://blnds.co/1iGFaAt to study.
Also this week, we spent lots of time on assessments. These assessments will not only be reflected in the data that will come home in your child’s second quarter progress report, but will also help to drive instruction for the next quarter of our school year.
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: What is at the Zoo? (Reading A-Z, Level C), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: dog, log, frog, hop, top, stop, not, got
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and o.
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student B-
Reading Stories: Dr. King’s Memorial (Reading A-Z, Level H), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: are, came, did, get, into, must, our, pretty
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Intro. writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: What is at the Zoo? (Reading A-Z, Level C), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: dog, log, frog, stop, shop
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a, i, e, and o sounds)
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student D-
Reading Stories: Dr. King’s Memorial (Reading A-Z, Level H), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: come, little, look, said, three, where, four, new
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Intro. writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Double Digit subtraction with borrowing
Student F-
Reading Stories: What is at the Zoo? (Reading A-Z, Level C), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Identify penny and nickel and tell the value of each, count groups of 20 objects
Dates to Know:
Monday, Jan. 20th- No School!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 6 of My Math. This chapter focuses beginning subtraction. We continued working on understanding subtraction stories, using the minus sign, using the equals sign in subtraction problems and determining how many. Next week, we will conclude Chapter 6 and begin chapter 7 which focuses on decomposing numbers 11-19. In Language Arts, we continued to work on a new unit that teaches us about how things grow. This week focused on trees. We began this unit with working on phonemic awareness for the letter /e/, writing the letter Ee and words that are parts of trees like branch, leaf, seed, bark, and trunk. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : develop, amazing, enormous, imagine, and content. We also continued to work on building sentences and identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives and introduced the use of pronouns. We also introduced the high frequency word, are. Next week, we will continue our new language arts unit and focus on things that are fresh from the farm. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do,” “my” and “are.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We continued this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We created homemade butter without a churn to work on following a recipe and using tools of measurement. We, also, used our homemade toothpaste to practice the steps to brush our teeth. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our January unit. We will continue to practice brushing our teeth, with our homemade toothpaste, and continue to learn about the differences between long ago and today.
Also this week, we concluded our penguins theme and worked on introducing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Our focus was on identifying who Dr. King was and that we had Monday off school to celebrate all the wonderful things he did. We created a peace sign snack in honor of Dr. King’s desire for peace. We, also, created dot art in the shape of peace doves. This project asked each child to be a part of everyones piece. Each child chose a color and used their color to create dots on their own and each of their peers pieces. We talked about working together and being fair. The students, then, used their color dot and wrote their name on each piece to practice writing their name and to show that they were all a part of each piece. Next week, we will begin a theme based on the author Jan Brett. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on antonyms. We watched videos on Brain Pop Jr. and from YouTube to help us remember the word “antonyms.” We put our arms over our heads to make the letter A and said “A-A- Antonyms are O-O-Opposites” while changing our arms to look like an O. We even played Antonyms BINGO.
On Thursday, we talked about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We read the book Martin’s Big Words and talked about how Dr. King did something REALLY important. He made it so that we could ALL go to school together, go to the store together, and even ride the bus together, no matter the color of our skin. Next Tuesday, we’ll finish up a craft project we were making to celebrate Martin Luther King day.
In the next week, we’ll finish up our unit on antonyms on Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll take a quick quiz on antonyms on Wednesday. Please use the Blend Space lesson called “Antonyms are Opposites” at http://blnds.co/1iGFaAt to study.
Also this week, we spent lots of time on assessments. These assessments will not only be reflected in the data that will come home in your child’s second quarter progress report, but will also help to drive instruction for the next quarter of our school year.
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: What is at the Zoo? (Reading A-Z, Level C), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: dog, log, frog, hop, top, stop, not, got
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and o.
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student B-
Reading Stories: Dr. King’s Memorial (Reading A-Z, Level H), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: are, came, did, get, into, must, our, pretty
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Intro. writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: What is at the Zoo? (Reading A-Z, Level C), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: dog, log, frog, stop, shop
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a, i, e, and o sounds)
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student D-
Reading Stories: Dr. King’s Memorial (Reading A-Z, Level H), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Spelling Words: come, little, look, said, three, where, four, new
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Intro. writing two sentences about a picture such as “This is a dog. He is small.”
Math: Double Digit subtraction with borrowing
Student F-
Reading Stories: What is at the Zoo? (Reading A-Z, Level C), The Mitten by Jan Brett
Vocab: Finish antonyms on Wednesday, work on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth)
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Identify penny and nickel and tell the value of each, count groups of 20 objects
Dates to Know:
Monday, Jan. 20th- No School!
Weekly newsletter 1-10-14
Happy New Year from Room 7!
Please check out the photos below this newsletter from before the Winter Break.
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on Chapter 6 of My Math. This chapter focuses on beginning subtraction. We began working on understanding subtraction stories. Due to the short week, we only began to touch on the subject and will continue to work on subtraction next week. We will learn to use the minus sign and write subtraction number sentences. In Language Arts, we worked on a new unit that teaches us about how things grow. This week focuses on How Does Your Garden Grow?. We began this unit by working on phonemic awareness for the letter /h/, writing the letter Hh and size words like big/small, tall/short, and big/little. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : require, plant, soak, crowd and harmful. We also continue to work on building sentences and identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We introduced the high frequency word, my. Next week, we will continue our new language arts unit and focus on trees. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do” and “my.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We started this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We created homemade toothpaste as a science experiment. We also continued working on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our January unit. We will practice brushing our teeth with our homemade toothpaste and continue to learn about the differences between long ago and today.
Also this week, we incorporated a penguins theme. We learned that penguins are birds that swim, but do not fly. They are black and white and they eat fish. We created a fun penguin snack, did a cut and paste penguin activity and created some fun foam penguins. Next week, we will continue our penguin theme through Tuesday and then spend the next two days talking about Martin Luther King Jr. Please let me know if you have any questions. Also, I am including some pictures from before break they did not make it into our previous newsletters. Hope you love them as much as I do!
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we slowly introduced antonyms. Since we only had three days of school, we’ll need to spend more time on this concept. We also used a penguin theme and worked on fine motor and listening comprehension skills. We read Tacky the Penguin and Penguin Pete and also enjoyed hearing about everyone’s Christmas vacation.
In the next week, we’ll continue to work on words called “antonyms.” Antonyms are opposites. We’ll work on receptively identifying (by pointing, circling, etc.) words that are opposites as well as expressively generating (verbally telling) opposites. We’ll also work on attempting to understand the concept of equality when introducing Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also this week, we’ll spend time on IEP assessments as the quarter winds down. Please expect your child’s second quarter IEP progress report to be mailed to you on Friday, Jan. 17th. As always, if you have questions or concerns about this, please ASK!
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: What’s My Job? (Reading A-Z, Level C), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: hot, pot, not, got, hop, pop, top, mop
Vocab: Continue work on ANTONYMS
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student B-
Reading Stories: Brother Messy, Brother Neat (Reading A-Z, Level H), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: sea, eat, meat, seat, heat, beat, leap, mean, heal, meal
Vocab: Practice antonyms; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Write complete sentences, Introduce writing two sentences about a picture.
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: What’s My Job? (Reading A-Z, Level C), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: hop, mop, top, pop, stop
Vocab: Practice antonyms.
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a, i, e, and o sounds)
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student D-
Reading Stories: Brother Messy, Brother Neat (Reading A-Z, Level H), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: sea, eat, meat, seat, heat, beat, leap, mean, heal, meal
Vocab: Practice Antonyms; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Writing a complete sentence, introduce writing two sentences about a picture
Math: Double digit subtraction without borrowing
Science/ SS tie in: Explorers, early transportation, early communication, long ago vs. today
Student F-
Reading Stories: What’s My Job? (Reading A-Z, Level C), trade books about MLK
Vocab: Practice Antonyms
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, learning the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Thursday, Jan. 16th- Last day to turn in the Marty McGuire or Traditions Projects!
Friday, Jan. 17th- No School for Students! Teacher Workday! 2nd quarter IEP progress reports will be mailed today!
Monday, Jan. 20th- No School!
Please check out the photos below this newsletter from before the Winter Break.
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on Chapter 6 of My Math. This chapter focuses on beginning subtraction. We began working on understanding subtraction stories. Due to the short week, we only began to touch on the subject and will continue to work on subtraction next week. We will learn to use the minus sign and write subtraction number sentences. In Language Arts, we worked on a new unit that teaches us about how things grow. This week focuses on How Does Your Garden Grow?. We began this unit by working on phonemic awareness for the letter /h/, writing the letter Hh and size words like big/small, tall/short, and big/little. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : require, plant, soak, crowd and harmful. We also continue to work on building sentences and identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We introduced the high frequency word, my. Next week, we will continue our new language arts unit and focus on trees. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” “do” and “my.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began their January unit, “Long Ago and Today.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like history, into our language arts and math activities. We started this unit with the stories about Long Ago and Today and George Goes to School. The word wall vocabulary for this unit includes the words: was, this, to, long, his, like, today, ago, sister, car, year, and play. We created homemade toothpaste as a science experiment. We also continued working on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our January unit. We will practice brushing our teeth with our homemade toothpaste and continue to learn about the differences between long ago and today.
Also this week, we incorporated a penguins theme. We learned that penguins are birds that swim, but do not fly. They are black and white and they eat fish. We created a fun penguin snack, did a cut and paste penguin activity and created some fun foam penguins. Next week, we will continue our penguin theme through Tuesday and then spend the next two days talking about Martin Luther King Jr. Please let me know if you have any questions. Also, I am including some pictures from before break they did not make it into our previous newsletters. Hope you love them as much as I do!
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we slowly introduced antonyms. Since we only had three days of school, we’ll need to spend more time on this concept. We also used a penguin theme and worked on fine motor and listening comprehension skills. We read Tacky the Penguin and Penguin Pete and also enjoyed hearing about everyone’s Christmas vacation.
In the next week, we’ll continue to work on words called “antonyms.” Antonyms are opposites. We’ll work on receptively identifying (by pointing, circling, etc.) words that are opposites as well as expressively generating (verbally telling) opposites. We’ll also work on attempting to understand the concept of equality when introducing Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also this week, we’ll spend time on IEP assessments as the quarter winds down. Please expect your child’s second quarter IEP progress report to be mailed to you on Friday, Jan. 17th. As always, if you have questions or concerns about this, please ASK!
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: What’s My Job? (Reading A-Z, Level C), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: hot, pot, not, got, hop, pop, top, mop
Vocab: Continue work on ANTONYMS
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, e, and
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student B-
Reading Stories: Brother Messy, Brother Neat (Reading A-Z, Level H), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: sea, eat, meat, seat, heat, beat, leap, mean, heal, meal
Vocab: Practice antonyms; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Write complete sentences, Introduce writing two sentences about a picture.
Math: Multiplication x5, x2, x1, x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: What’s My Job? (Reading A-Z, Level C), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: hop, mop, top, pop, stop
Vocab: Practice antonyms.
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a, i, e, and o sounds)
Math: Skip counting by 5s, counting groups of nickels and dimes up to $.50
Student D-
Reading Stories: Brother Messy, Brother Neat (Reading A-Z, Level H), trade books about MLK
Spelling Words: sea, eat, meat, seat, heat, beat, leap, mean, heal, meal
Vocab: Practice Antonyms; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Writing a complete sentence, introduce writing two sentences about a picture
Math: Double digit subtraction without borrowing
Science/ SS tie in: Explorers, early transportation, early communication, long ago vs. today
Student F-
Reading Stories: What’s My Job? (Reading A-Z, Level C), trade books about MLK
Vocab: Practice Antonyms
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, learning the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Thursday, Jan. 16th- Last day to turn in the Marty McGuire or Traditions Projects!
Friday, Jan. 17th- No School for Students! Teacher Workday! 2nd quarter IEP progress reports will be mailed today!
Monday, Jan. 20th- No School!
Winter Break News... 12-28-13
Bored already? We hope not! But, we have some ideas of ways to keep your child from regressing over the Winter Break. Check out the ideas below.
1. Use RAZ Kids. While I've noticed that it's use has dropped a bit in the last month, I really believe that this is a good program to help your child with his/her reading skills. "Listening to reading" and "repeated reading" are tried and true interventions to increase reading fluency and comprehension.
2. Use the Blend Space website links below. There are some good reviews to lessons that we've completed there.
- If your child is working on subtraction, use the link for "Counting Back to Subtract"- http://blnds.co/1hAcFUL
- If your child is working on learning the letters and sounds or needs a review, use the link for "Learning to Read"- http://blnds.co/18htXxb
- If your child is working on writing complete sentences, use the link for "Writing a Sentence"- http://blnds.co/GWctjs
- You can also use the link for the "Zones of Regulation" as we will continue with them once we get back- http://blnds.co/1dF3Uo3
- Third grade students will start a social studies unit on the local Government when we get back as well. Use this link to get started- http://blnds.co/ILQOKD
3. Use Brain Pop Jr. In the Math Notebook, there are math videos for basic subtraction, addition with regrouping, and multiplication. There are also lots of great videos in the Reading and Writing Notebook, in the Science Notebook, and in the Social Studies Notebook. Email [email protected] for the username and password.
4. If you have an iPad, consider getting the app called Reading Raven. I love this app for early literacy. Here is the link- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-raven-hd/id496586135?mt=8
5. Read. Get books from the library and read, read, read. Read to your child every night. Also, let your child see YOU reading. This is very important!
6. Talk about/ point out the characteristics of winter. Here's an example: "Look, it's so cold out. I think I should make sure we have boots, gloves, and coats. The winter is so cold." "Hmm.. what season is it? I was wondering if I could wear my bathing suit outside. What do you think?"
7. Brush up on penguins. When we get back on Jan. 6th, we'll start with a penguin theme. It would great if the kids had some background knowledge when we get started. :)
8. Point out math concepts wherever you go. At the grocery store or the mall, you can point out how prices are listed. You can also compare things like this "Do you see more apples or more oranges over there?" Point out how you know. You can also use license plates to identify letters and numbers. OR use presents you got for Christmas like this "Let's count the DVDs we had. We had 41 DVDs. We got 3 more for Christmas. How many do we have now?"
Now...
Wondering what we'll be working on in the New Year?
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
TBA
Miss Kolis' Group:
Starting the week of Jan. 6th, we’ll start to work on words called “antonyms.” Antonyms are opposites. We’ll work on receptively identifying (by pointing, circling, etc.) words that are opposites as well as expressively generating (verbally telling) opposites. We’ll attempt to learn these by using a penguin theme and reading books like Tacky the Penguin and Tacky’s Winter Games.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Open and Close (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: hot, pot, not, got, hop, pop, top, mop
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, open/close
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Long Ago and Today (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: see, bee, three, meet, street, feet, sleep, peel, heel, feel
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, go/stop, over/under, in front/behind, open/close; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Multiplication x2, x1, and x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: Open and Close (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: hot, pot, not, got, hop
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, open/close
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Science: Winter weather characteristics
Social Studies: Review Winter Holidays
Student D-
Reading Stories: Long Ago and Today (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: see, bee, three, meet, street, feet, sleep, peel, heel, feel
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, go/stop, over/under, in front/behind, open/close; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double Digit addition with and without regrouping
Science/ SS tie in: TBA
Student F-
Reading Stories: Open and Close (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, open/close
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, learning the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Jan. 6th- First day back from Winter break!
Thursday, Jan. 16th- Last day to turn in the Marty McGuire or Traditions Projects!
1. Use RAZ Kids. While I've noticed that it's use has dropped a bit in the last month, I really believe that this is a good program to help your child with his/her reading skills. "Listening to reading" and "repeated reading" are tried and true interventions to increase reading fluency and comprehension.
2. Use the Blend Space website links below. There are some good reviews to lessons that we've completed there.
- If your child is working on subtraction, use the link for "Counting Back to Subtract"- http://blnds.co/1hAcFUL
- If your child is working on learning the letters and sounds or needs a review, use the link for "Learning to Read"- http://blnds.co/18htXxb
- If your child is working on writing complete sentences, use the link for "Writing a Sentence"- http://blnds.co/GWctjs
- You can also use the link for the "Zones of Regulation" as we will continue with them once we get back- http://blnds.co/1dF3Uo3
- Third grade students will start a social studies unit on the local Government when we get back as well. Use this link to get started- http://blnds.co/ILQOKD
3. Use Brain Pop Jr. In the Math Notebook, there are math videos for basic subtraction, addition with regrouping, and multiplication. There are also lots of great videos in the Reading and Writing Notebook, in the Science Notebook, and in the Social Studies Notebook. Email [email protected] for the username and password.
4. If you have an iPad, consider getting the app called Reading Raven. I love this app for early literacy. Here is the link- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-raven-hd/id496586135?mt=8
5. Read. Get books from the library and read, read, read. Read to your child every night. Also, let your child see YOU reading. This is very important!
6. Talk about/ point out the characteristics of winter. Here's an example: "Look, it's so cold out. I think I should make sure we have boots, gloves, and coats. The winter is so cold." "Hmm.. what season is it? I was wondering if I could wear my bathing suit outside. What do you think?"
7. Brush up on penguins. When we get back on Jan. 6th, we'll start with a penguin theme. It would great if the kids had some background knowledge when we get started. :)
8. Point out math concepts wherever you go. At the grocery store or the mall, you can point out how prices are listed. You can also compare things like this "Do you see more apples or more oranges over there?" Point out how you know. You can also use license plates to identify letters and numbers. OR use presents you got for Christmas like this "Let's count the DVDs we had. We had 41 DVDs. We got 3 more for Christmas. How many do we have now?"
Now...
Wondering what we'll be working on in the New Year?
Mrs. Shingleton's Group:
TBA
Miss Kolis' Group:
Starting the week of Jan. 6th, we’ll start to work on words called “antonyms.” Antonyms are opposites. We’ll work on receptively identifying (by pointing, circling, etc.) words that are opposites as well as expressively generating (verbally telling) opposites. We’ll attempt to learn these by using a penguin theme and reading books like Tacky the Penguin and Tacky’s Winter Games.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Open and Close (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: hot, pot, not, got, hop, pop, top, mop
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, open/close
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Long Ago and Today (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: see, bee, three, meet, street, feet, sleep, peel, heel, feel
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, go/stop, over/under, in front/behind, open/close; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Multiplication x2, x1, and x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: Open and Close (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: hot, pot, not, got, hop
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, open/close
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Science: Winter weather characteristics
Social Studies: Review Winter Holidays
Student D-
Reading Stories: Long Ago and Today (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: see, bee, three, meet, street, feet, sleep, peel, heel, feel
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, go/stop, over/under, in front/behind, open/close; Review words with the prefixes “re” and “un”
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double Digit addition with and without regrouping
Science/ SS tie in: TBA
Student F-
Reading Stories: Open and Close (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Vocab: Opposites, Antonyms, cold/hot, tall/short, big/small, dark/light, day/night, open/close
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, learning the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Jan. 6th- First day back from Winter break!
Thursday, Jan. 16th- Last day to turn in the Marty McGuire or Traditions Projects!
weekly newsletter 12-13-13
5 more school days until Winter Break!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on Chapter 5 of My Math. This chapter focuses beginning addition. We began working on understanding addition stories, using the plus sign, using the equals sign, and early addition. In Language Arts, we worked on a new unit that teaches us about people and places in your neighborhood. This week focuses on Meet Your Neighbors. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : cultures, appreciate, prefer, tradition and proud. We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Dd and the sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences and identifying adjectives. We also introduced the high frequency word, do. Next week, we will continue Chapter 5 of My Math which focuses on addition. We will also continue our new language arts unit and focus on pitching in to help your community. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” and “do.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their December unit, “Holidays.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like traditions, into our language arts and math activities. We started this unit with a story about Hanukkah. We continued this unit this week with stories on Christmas. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our December unit. Our next story will focus on Kwanza. This unit incorporates social studies concepts while we learn about different holidays and ways to celebrate.
Also this week, we incorporated a family traditions theme and focused on traditions with winter holidays. we created a Christmas tree out of foil, we created a holiday garland of cranberries for great fine motor practice, and we created ornaments with pom poms. We, also, created really fun ornaments with salt dough! Next week, we will continue to focus on winter holidays and, of course, do some fun holiday activities. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on a theme of Winter Holidays We talked about the holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa this week. We watched a Brain Pop Jr. video on “Winter Holidays” and read the Count’s Hanukkah Countdown, an informational text about Kwanzaa, Charlie Brown’s Christmas, and Huggly’s Christmas.
When reading about Hanukkah, we learned that there are 8 nights of Hanukkah where people light candles and get gifts on each night. We named the dreidel and the menorah during class and made our own menorahs.
We briefly touched on Kwanzaa and what it means. We said that people whose great grandmas and grandpas came from Africa celebrate Kwanzaa. We learned that Kwanzaa lasts 7 days and people who celebrate Kwanzaa light 7 candles called a Kinara. We even made our own Kinaras.
Lastly, we started to talk about Christmas. We made salt dough ornaments this week and painted them. We talked about some of our holiday traditions like putting up a Christmas tree, singing Christmas carols, and baking cookies together as a family.
What is one of your traditions? Please look below this Newsletter for the project that is due on Monday, Dec. 16th.
In the next week, we are also going to be working on a lot of fundamental skills that we may have already mastered. According to the STAR assessment reports, many of my Room 7 students need more practice with the alphabetic principle, phonological awareness (rhyming, isolating sounds, syllables, phonemic awareness), phonics, and word recognition. While I take the results with a grain of salt, I also would like to spend some time strengthening our students’ foundation skills. You can check out this website for some things that you can do at home to help too- http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonologicalphonemic/. Another great way to improve your child’s reading skills is to use RAZ Kids regularly. Over winter break, I will provide more activities that you can do with your child for practice.
As always, if you have questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 440-740-4652.
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Trade books about Christmas and Winte, One Red Sled (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: Review List- can, man, sit, big, red, bed, leg, pen, ten, get
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program, counting back from 10
Student B-
Reading Stories: Trade books about Christmas and Winter, One Red Sled (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: Review List (a combination of prefixes, long vowels, and beginning blends) reheat, unfair, frames, coin, glass, crash, play, looking
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Multiplication x2, x1, and x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: One Red Sled (Reading A-Z), Trade books about Christmas and Winter
Spelling Words: red, bed, sled, get, let
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program, count back from 10
Student D-
Reading Stories: One Red Sled (Reading A-Z), Trade books about Christmas and Winter
Spelling Words: Review List (a combination of prefixes, long vowels, and beginning blends) - reheat, unfair, frames, phone, brick, make, play, nine
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double Digit addition with and without regrouping
Student F-
Reading Stories: One Red Sled (Reading A-Z), Trade books about Christmas and Winter
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, learning the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Dec. 16th- Traditions Project Due
Friday, Dec. 20th- Last day before Winter Break!
_____________________________________________________________________
Traditions Project:
As we begin to study winter holidays in Room 7, we are interested in your family traditions. Please complete one of the recommended projects below by Monday, Dec.16th. PLEASE HELP YOUR CHILD WITH HIS/HER PROJECT. Family assistance is needed!
First, talk to your child about a tradition. What is it? We’ll also talk about it at school.
Next, decide on one tradition that your child would like to share with the class.
Then, select one of the projects below to complete. Complete it and make sure your child is ready to share on Monday, Dec. 16th.
1. Use the websites Wordle (www.wordle.net) or Tagxedo (www.tagxedo.com) to make a word cloud of the family tradition you share.
2. Create a poster with photos of your family tradition. Make sure each photo is labeled.
3. Write a letter to Miss Kolis or Mrs. Shingleton. In the letter, explain the family tradition. Use the correct friendly letter writing format. Type or handwrite the letter.
4. Make up a song about your tradition OR sing a traditional family song. It will be a bonus if the song rhymes!
5. Use the website Animoto.com to create a short video of your tradition. Use Miss Kolis’ account information found below.
6. Make a small photo album of pictures, drawings, or photos about your tradition. Try to label most of the pictures.
7. Have another great idea? Share it with us!
Animoto.com-
Username: [email protected] Password: Room5
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on Chapter 5 of My Math. This chapter focuses beginning addition. We began working on understanding addition stories, using the plus sign, using the equals sign, and early addition. In Language Arts, we worked on a new unit that teaches us about people and places in your neighborhood. This week focuses on Meet Your Neighbors. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : cultures, appreciate, prefer, tradition and proud. We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Dd and the sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences and identifying adjectives. We also introduced the high frequency word, do. Next week, we will continue Chapter 5 of My Math which focuses on addition. We will also continue our new language arts unit and focus on pitching in to help your community. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” “you,” and “do.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their December unit, “Holidays.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like traditions, into our language arts and math activities. We started this unit with a story about Hanukkah. We continued this unit this week with stories on Christmas. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our December unit. Our next story will focus on Kwanza. This unit incorporates social studies concepts while we learn about different holidays and ways to celebrate.
Also this week, we incorporated a family traditions theme and focused on traditions with winter holidays. we created a Christmas tree out of foil, we created a holiday garland of cranberries for great fine motor practice, and we created ornaments with pom poms. We, also, created really fun ornaments with salt dough! Next week, we will continue to focus on winter holidays and, of course, do some fun holiday activities. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on a theme of Winter Holidays We talked about the holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa this week. We watched a Brain Pop Jr. video on “Winter Holidays” and read the Count’s Hanukkah Countdown, an informational text about Kwanzaa, Charlie Brown’s Christmas, and Huggly’s Christmas.
When reading about Hanukkah, we learned that there are 8 nights of Hanukkah where people light candles and get gifts on each night. We named the dreidel and the menorah during class and made our own menorahs.
We briefly touched on Kwanzaa and what it means. We said that people whose great grandmas and grandpas came from Africa celebrate Kwanzaa. We learned that Kwanzaa lasts 7 days and people who celebrate Kwanzaa light 7 candles called a Kinara. We even made our own Kinaras.
Lastly, we started to talk about Christmas. We made salt dough ornaments this week and painted them. We talked about some of our holiday traditions like putting up a Christmas tree, singing Christmas carols, and baking cookies together as a family.
What is one of your traditions? Please look below this Newsletter for the project that is due on Monday, Dec. 16th.
In the next week, we are also going to be working on a lot of fundamental skills that we may have already mastered. According to the STAR assessment reports, many of my Room 7 students need more practice with the alphabetic principle, phonological awareness (rhyming, isolating sounds, syllables, phonemic awareness), phonics, and word recognition. While I take the results with a grain of salt, I also would like to spend some time strengthening our students’ foundation skills. You can check out this website for some things that you can do at home to help too- http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonologicalphonemic/. Another great way to improve your child’s reading skills is to use RAZ Kids regularly. Over winter break, I will provide more activities that you can do with your child for practice.
As always, if you have questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 440-740-4652.
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Trade books about Christmas and Winte, One Red Sled (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: Review List- can, man, sit, big, red, bed, leg, pen, ten, get
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program, counting back from 10
Student B-
Reading Stories: Trade books about Christmas and Winter, One Red Sled (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: Review List (a combination of prefixes, long vowels, and beginning blends) reheat, unfair, frames, coin, glass, crash, play, looking
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Multiplication x2, x1, and x0
Student C-
Reading Stories: One Red Sled (Reading A-Z), Trade books about Christmas and Winter
Spelling Words: red, bed, sled, get, let
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program, count back from 10
Student D-
Reading Stories: One Red Sled (Reading A-Z), Trade books about Christmas and Winter
Spelling Words: Review List (a combination of prefixes, long vowels, and beginning blends) - reheat, unfair, frames, phone, brick, make, play, nine
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double Digit addition with and without regrouping
Student F-
Reading Stories: One Red Sled (Reading A-Z), Trade books about Christmas and Winter
Vocab: Hanukkah, menorah, Kwanzaa, Kinara, Christmas, wreath
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, learning the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Dec. 16th- Traditions Project Due
Friday, Dec. 20th- Last day before Winter Break!
_____________________________________________________________________
Traditions Project:
As we begin to study winter holidays in Room 7, we are interested in your family traditions. Please complete one of the recommended projects below by Monday, Dec.16th. PLEASE HELP YOUR CHILD WITH HIS/HER PROJECT. Family assistance is needed!
First, talk to your child about a tradition. What is it? We’ll also talk about it at school.
Next, decide on one tradition that your child would like to share with the class.
Then, select one of the projects below to complete. Complete it and make sure your child is ready to share on Monday, Dec. 16th.
1. Use the websites Wordle (www.wordle.net) or Tagxedo (www.tagxedo.com) to make a word cloud of the family tradition you share.
2. Create a poster with photos of your family tradition. Make sure each photo is labeled.
3. Write a letter to Miss Kolis or Mrs. Shingleton. In the letter, explain the family tradition. Use the correct friendly letter writing format. Type or handwrite the letter.
4. Make up a song about your tradition OR sing a traditional family song. It will be a bonus if the song rhymes!
5. Use the website Animoto.com to create a short video of your tradition. Use Miss Kolis’ account information found below.
6. Make a small photo album of pictures, drawings, or photos about your tradition. Try to label most of the pictures.
7. Have another great idea? Share it with us!
Animoto.com-
Username: [email protected] Password: Room5
weekly newsletter 12-6-13
How many days til Christmas? Is anyone counting?
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed Chapter 4 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers decomposing and making numbers to 10. In Language Arts, we worked on a new unit that teaches us about people and places in your neighborhood. This week focuses on Time For Work. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : equipment, uniform, utensils, expect, and remained. We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Oo and the sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences and identifying adjectives. We also introduced the high frequency word, you. Next week, we will begin Chapter 5 of My Math which focuses on addition. We will also continue our new language arts unit and focus on meeting your neighbors. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” and “you.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends started their December unit, “Holidays.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like traditions, into our language arts and math activities. We started this unit with a story about Hanukkah. We, also, created a menorah to go with this story. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our December unit. Our next story will focus on Christmas. This unit incorporates social studies concepts while we learn about different holidays and ways to celebrate.
Also this week, we incorporated a snowman theme. We created snacks that look like snowmen, labeled snowmen, watched a read aloud by Mercer Mayer and created some really cool snowmen out of shaving cream and glue! Next week, we will be incorporating a theme on family traditions. In your homework packet, there is a family traditions project. Please complete and return by December 16th. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on a theme of snowmen and winter. We started to talk about the characteristics of winter weather and clothing choices for winter. We also brainstormed the steps to make a snowman and read a great book called A Snowman Named Just Bob. We got to paint puffy snowmen with a shaving cream/glue mix and sequence the steps to make a snowman.
In the upcoming week, we will continue our winter theme. We will start to talk about Winter Holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, etc.) and the traditions that many families share during these holidays. What is a tradition? What is one of your traditions? Please look below this Newsletter for a new project that is due on Monday, Dec. 16th.
In the next two weeks, we are also going to be working on a lot of fundamental skills that we may have already mastered. According to the STAR assessment reports, many of my Room 7 students need more practice with the alphabetic principle, phonological awareness (rhyming, isolating sounds, syllables, phonemic awareness), phonics, and word recognition. While I take the results with a grain of salt, I also would like to spend some time strengthening our students’ foundation skills. You can check out this website for some things that you can do at home to help too- http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonologicalphonemic/.
As always, if you have questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected].
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: leg, peg, beg, red, bed, led, ten, men, pet, wet
Sight Words: we, make
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: reheat, redo, reread, undo, untie, unfair
Vocab: words using the prefixes “un” and “re”- undo, undress, unfair, uneven, untie, reheat, reread, rewrite, redo
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: multiplication x2 and x1
Student C-
Reading Stories: We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: pet, met, set, wet, get, let
Sight Words: we, make
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: reheat, redo, reread, undo, untie, unfair
Vocab: words using the prefixes “un” and “re”- undo, undress, unfair, uneven, untie, reheat, reread, rewrite, redo
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double Digit addition WITH carrying
Science/ SS tie in: TBA
Student F-
Reading Stories: We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Sight Words: we, make
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, beginning to learn the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Dec. 16th- Traditions Project Due
Friday, Dec. 20th- Last day before Winter Break!
_____________________________________________________________________
Traditions Project:
As we begin to study winter holidays in Room 7, we are interested in your family traditions. Please complete one of the recommended projects below by Monday, Dec.16th. PLEASE HELP YOUR CHILD WITH HIS/HER PROJECT. Family assistance is needed!
First, talk to your child about a tradition. What is it? We’ll also talk about it at school.
Next, decide on one tradition that your child would like to share with the class.
Then, select one of the projects below to complete. Complete it and make sure your child is ready to share on Monday, Dec. 16th.
1. Use the websites Wordle (www.wordle.net) or Tagxedo (www.tagxedo.com) to make a word cloud of the family tradition you share.
2. Create a poster with photos of your family tradition. Make sure each photo is labeled.
3. Write a letter to Miss Kolis or Mrs. Shingleton. In the letter, explain the family tradition. Use the correct friendly letter writing format. Type or handwrite the letter.
4. Make up a song about your tradition OR sing a traditional family song. It will be a bonus if the song rhymes!
5. Use the website Animoto.com to create a short video of your tradition. Use Miss Kolis’ account information found below.
6. Make a small photo album of pictures, drawings, or photos about your tradition. Try to label most of the pictures.
7. Have another great idea? Share it with us!
Animoto.com:
Username: [email protected] Password: Room5
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed Chapter 4 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers decomposing and making numbers to 10. In Language Arts, we worked on a new unit that teaches us about people and places in your neighborhood. This week focuses on Time For Work. We have been focusing on the oral vocabulary of : equipment, uniform, utensils, expect, and remained. We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Oo and the sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences and identifying adjectives. We also introduced the high frequency word, you. Next week, we will begin Chapter 5 of My Math which focuses on addition. We will also continue our new language arts unit and focus on meeting your neighbors. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” “go,” and “you.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends started their December unit, “Holidays.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts, like traditions, into our language arts and math activities. We started this unit with a story about Hanukkah. We, also, created a menorah to go with this story. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our December unit. Our next story will focus on Christmas. This unit incorporates social studies concepts while we learn about different holidays and ways to celebrate.
Also this week, we incorporated a snowman theme. We created snacks that look like snowmen, labeled snowmen, watched a read aloud by Mercer Mayer and created some really cool snowmen out of shaving cream and glue! Next week, we will be incorporating a theme on family traditions. In your homework packet, there is a family traditions project. Please complete and return by December 16th. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This past week, we worked on a theme of snowmen and winter. We started to talk about the characteristics of winter weather and clothing choices for winter. We also brainstormed the steps to make a snowman and read a great book called A Snowman Named Just Bob. We got to paint puffy snowmen with a shaving cream/glue mix and sequence the steps to make a snowman.
In the upcoming week, we will continue our winter theme. We will start to talk about Winter Holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, etc.) and the traditions that many families share during these holidays. What is a tradition? What is one of your traditions? Please look below this Newsletter for a new project that is due on Monday, Dec. 16th.
In the next two weeks, we are also going to be working on a lot of fundamental skills that we may have already mastered. According to the STAR assessment reports, many of my Room 7 students need more practice with the alphabetic principle, phonological awareness (rhyming, isolating sounds, syllables, phonemic awareness), phonics, and word recognition. While I take the results with a grain of salt, I also would like to spend some time strengthening our students’ foundation skills. You can check out this website for some things that you can do at home to help too- http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonologicalphonemic/.
As always, if you have questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected].
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: leg, peg, beg, red, bed, led, ten, men, pet, wet
Sight Words: we, make
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: reheat, redo, reread, undo, untie, unfair
Vocab: words using the prefixes “un” and “re”- undo, undress, unfair, uneven, untie, reheat, reread, rewrite, redo
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: multiplication x2 and x1
Student C-
Reading Stories: We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: pet, met, set, wet, get, let
Sight Words: we, make
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: reheat, redo, reread, undo, untie, unfair
Vocab: words using the prefixes “un” and “re”- undo, undress, unfair, uneven, untie, reheat, reread, rewrite, redo
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double Digit addition WITH carrying
Science/ SS tie in: TBA
Student F-
Reading Stories: We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Sight Words: we, make
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, beginning to learn the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Dec. 16th- Traditions Project Due
Friday, Dec. 20th- Last day before Winter Break!
_____________________________________________________________________
Traditions Project:
As we begin to study winter holidays in Room 7, we are interested in your family traditions. Please complete one of the recommended projects below by Monday, Dec.16th. PLEASE HELP YOUR CHILD WITH HIS/HER PROJECT. Family assistance is needed!
First, talk to your child about a tradition. What is it? We’ll also talk about it at school.
Next, decide on one tradition that your child would like to share with the class.
Then, select one of the projects below to complete. Complete it and make sure your child is ready to share on Monday, Dec. 16th.
1. Use the websites Wordle (www.wordle.net) or Tagxedo (www.tagxedo.com) to make a word cloud of the family tradition you share.
2. Create a poster with photos of your family tradition. Make sure each photo is labeled.
3. Write a letter to Miss Kolis or Mrs. Shingleton. In the letter, explain the family tradition. Use the correct friendly letter writing format. Type or handwrite the letter.
4. Make up a song about your tradition OR sing a traditional family song. It will be a bonus if the song rhymes!
5. Use the website Animoto.com to create a short video of your tradition. Use Miss Kolis’ account information found below.
6. Make a small photo album of pictures, drawings, or photos about your tradition. Try to label most of the pictures.
7. Have another great idea? Share it with us!
Animoto.com:
Username: [email protected] Password: Room5
weekly newsletter 12-2-13
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on Chapter 4 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers decomposing and making numbers to 10. In Language Arts, we completed Places We Go. We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Cc and the /k/ sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences. Next week, we will take our unit assessment for Language Arts and begin our new unit. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” and “go.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their November unit, “Scientific Inquiry.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. This unit has many great science experiments we have begun to work on in class. The high frequency vocabulary that is focused on in this unit include: is, can, about, the, he, water, what, use, put, two, grow, and learn. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our December unit which is themed “Holidays.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts while we learn about different holidays and ways to celebrate.
Also this week, we continued our Thanksgiving themed. We, also, read some really neat Thanksgiving themed books like, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and T is for Turkey. We also had our Thanksgiving Feast with all of our Room 7 friends. The menu included: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, applesauce, and pudding. Everyone did a wonderful job cleaning, setting the table, trying new foods and sitting nicely with their friends. Next week, we will incorporate a snowman theme. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
In the upcoming week, we are going to start talking about Winter! It IS on it’s way, isn’t it?!?! We’ll start with a snowman theme!
We will begin to talk about winter weather, holidays in the winter, and appropriate clothing choices for winter, and we’ll add in a few cute snowman crafts and sensory activities.
I was really pleased with the quality of work that I saw on the awesome Marty McGuire book report projects! They look great! We’ve hung them up on our side of the room and we’re going to admire them for a little while longer. If your child has not yet turned in a project, you have until the end of the quarter to do so.
As always, if you have questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected].
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Winter Fun (Reading A-Z, Level B), We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: pen, men, hen, ten, pet, met, wet, net, get, let
Sight Words: get, let, ten, this, these, make
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: frames, frogs, frost, flames, flakes, fleas, redo, undo
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo, unreal, uneven, unload, unkind, unsafe
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Introduction to multiplication x2 and x1
Student C-
Reading Stories: Winter Fun (Reading A-Z, Level B), We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: pen, men, ten, hen, seven
Sight Words: in, the, we, make
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: frames, frogs, frost, flames, flakes, fleas, redo, undo
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo, unreal, uneven, unload, unkind, unsafe
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Review double digit addition without regrouping, fact families, related facts, and ways to make ten
Science/ SS tie in: TBA
Student F-
Reading Stories: Winter Fun (Reading A-Z, Level B), We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Sight Words: in, the, we, make
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, beginning to learn the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Dec. 2nd- Back to School!
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd- Third Grade Music Concert! Please be at the high school at 6:45pm! Show starts at 7pm!
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on Chapter 4 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers decomposing and making numbers to 10. In Language Arts, we completed Places We Go. We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Cc and the /k/ sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences. Next week, we will take our unit assessment for Language Arts and begin our new unit. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” and “go.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their November unit, “Scientific Inquiry.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. This unit has many great science experiments we have begun to work on in class. The high frequency vocabulary that is focused on in this unit include: is, can, about, the, he, water, what, use, put, two, grow, and learn. We, also, continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our December unit which is themed “Holidays.” This unit incorporates social studies concepts while we learn about different holidays and ways to celebrate.
Also this week, we continued our Thanksgiving themed. We, also, read some really neat Thanksgiving themed books like, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and T is for Turkey. We also had our Thanksgiving Feast with all of our Room 7 friends. The menu included: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, applesauce, and pudding. Everyone did a wonderful job cleaning, setting the table, trying new foods and sitting nicely with their friends. Next week, we will incorporate a snowman theme. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
In the upcoming week, we are going to start talking about Winter! It IS on it’s way, isn’t it?!?! We’ll start with a snowman theme!
We will begin to talk about winter weather, holidays in the winter, and appropriate clothing choices for winter, and we’ll add in a few cute snowman crafts and sensory activities.
I was really pleased with the quality of work that I saw on the awesome Marty McGuire book report projects! They look great! We’ve hung them up on our side of the room and we’re going to admire them for a little while longer. If your child has not yet turned in a project, you have until the end of the quarter to do so.
As always, if you have questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected].
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Winter Fun (Reading A-Z, Level B), We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: pen, men, hen, ten, pet, met, wet, net, get, let
Sight Words: get, let, ten, this, these, make
Writing: Label objects using words with short vowel sounds a, i, and e.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: frames, frogs, frost, flames, flakes, fleas, redo, undo
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo, unreal, uneven, unload, unkind, unsafe
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Introduction to multiplication x2 and x1
Student C-
Reading Stories: Winter Fun (Reading A-Z, Level B), We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: pen, men, ten, hen, seven
Sight Words: in, the, we, make
Writing: Label objects with short vowel words (a and i sounds)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Arctic Life (Reading A-Z, Shared Reading booklet)
Spelling Words: frames, frogs, frost, flames, flakes, fleas, redo, undo
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo, unreal, uneven, unload, unkind, unsafe
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Review double digit addition without regrouping, fact families, related facts, and ways to make ten
Science/ SS tie in: TBA
Student F-
Reading Stories: Winter Fun (Reading A-Z, Level B), We Make a Snowman (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Sight Words: in, the, we, make
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Counting groups of up to 20 objects with one to one correspondence, beginning to learn the Touch Math touch points
Dates to Know:
Monday, Dec. 2nd- Back to School!
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd- Third Grade Music Concert! Please be at the high school at 6:45pm! Show starts at 7pm!
Weekly Newsletter 11-26-13
This week, we spent two days working hard on learning to set the table and preparing food for our Thanksgiving celebration! On Tuesday afternoon, we sat down altogether to eat turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pudding, applesauce, muffins, and cranberry sauce! A wonderful time was had by all and there are pictures to prove it! :) Lots of photos below!
We will be sending out another newsletter closer to next week to share what we are working on in December.
Miss Kolis was also VERY impressed with the Marty McGuire book reports! You can also see pictures of them below!
In the meantime, here are some things you can be working on over break:
1. Click into Brain Pop Jr. at brainpopjr.com. Check out any of the videos of topics we’ve been working on. A great one for this week is “Thanksgiving” in the Social Studies notebook. If you do not know the username and password, please email Miss Kolis at [email protected].
2. Use RAZ Kids (Miss Kolis’ group). This is a great way to keep up your child’s reading skills during the break. Listening to reading is VERY important to your child’s reading progress.
3. Begin to point out the signs of winter. With winter on it’s way, we will talk about the change in seasons and the weather in winter. We’ll also talk about appropriate clothing choices in the winter.
4. Look back through the newsletters and review any of the topics with your child. Ask him about the Eric Carle books or the Marty McGuire chapter book. Ask if she remembers what we did in math last week.
5. Go to https://www.blendspace.com/register and enter the code “rvuv” to get access to Miss Kolis’ blend space lessons. She is currently working on adding sound to each of them.
6. Go to our homepage- www.protopage.com/morgankolis and play any of the games on the left hand side of the page. There are many great math and reading games listed there. In the middle of the page, there are many links to books read aloud. On the right, you may also find some science and social studies links. (If you ever find links that no longer work, please send Miss Kolis a quick email to let her know to delete that link.)
7. Ask your child to set the table for Thanksgiving dinner! Take a picture and send it to us!
8. ENJOY THE BREAK! We sure will!
We will be sending out another newsletter closer to next week to share what we are working on in December.
Miss Kolis was also VERY impressed with the Marty McGuire book reports! You can also see pictures of them below!
In the meantime, here are some things you can be working on over break:
1. Click into Brain Pop Jr. at brainpopjr.com. Check out any of the videos of topics we’ve been working on. A great one for this week is “Thanksgiving” in the Social Studies notebook. If you do not know the username and password, please email Miss Kolis at [email protected].
2. Use RAZ Kids (Miss Kolis’ group). This is a great way to keep up your child’s reading skills during the break. Listening to reading is VERY important to your child’s reading progress.
3. Begin to point out the signs of winter. With winter on it’s way, we will talk about the change in seasons and the weather in winter. We’ll also talk about appropriate clothing choices in the winter.
4. Look back through the newsletters and review any of the topics with your child. Ask him about the Eric Carle books or the Marty McGuire chapter book. Ask if she remembers what we did in math last week.
5. Go to https://www.blendspace.com/register and enter the code “rvuv” to get access to Miss Kolis’ blend space lessons. She is currently working on adding sound to each of them.
6. Go to our homepage- www.protopage.com/morgankolis and play any of the games on the left hand side of the page. There are many great math and reading games listed there. In the middle of the page, there are many links to books read aloud. On the right, you may also find some science and social studies links. (If you ever find links that no longer work, please send Miss Kolis a quick email to let her know to delete that link.)
7. Ask your child to set the table for Thanksgiving dinner! Take a picture and send it to us!
8. ENJOY THE BREAK! We sure will!
weekly newsletter 11-22-13
Only two days next week to make up for this looooooong week...
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began to work on Chapter 4 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers decomposing and making numbers to 10. In Language Arts, we completed Sounds All Around Us. We began working on Places We Go. We focused on the oral vocabulary words: routine, neighborhood, intelligent, local and volunteer. Anytime you have an opportunity to use these words in context would be great practice. We also introduced the high frequency word "go." We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Cc and the /k/ sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences. Next week, we will work on completing Places We Go and Unit 3 of our Wonders program. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” and “go.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their November unit “Scientific Inquiry.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. This unit has many great science experiments we have started to work on in class. This week we worked on an experiment to see if we could identify fruit by smell alone. Then, of course, we ate our fruit! The high frequency vocabulary that is focused on in this unit include: is, can, about, the, he, water, what, use, put, two, grow, and learn. We also continued working on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our November unit which is themed “Science Fair.” We continue to practice a simplified version of the scientific method and practice asking and answering questions with our new unit.
Also this week, we incorporated a Thanksgiving themed unit. We created a Thanksgiving Trail Mix, played a really cool SMART board game with what the turkey eats, made "thankful for" placemats for our feast, and made a really cool turkey craft. We, also, read some really neat Thanksgiving themed books like, The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing and The Day Before Thanksgiving. We watched the latter story on the SMART Board. This unit will continue next week with a culminating event of a Thanksgiving Feast with all of our Room 7 friends. The menu will include: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, applesauce, and pudding. Our room 7 friends will all be cooking the wonderful food with visual recipes and get the opportunity to try new foods. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we finished the 2013 Global Read Aloud with the book Marty McGuire! On Thursday, we took an assessment with ten questions focused on characters and settings. Every student got at least half of the questions correct! While reading this chapter book, students were exposed to many of the ELA Common Core standards at their grade level. They were also able to cut and glue additional visuals to help with the lack of pictures in the chapter book. All students did a great job! Please remember that the book report is due on Monday, Nov. 25th. Please send it to school with your child on Monday. Be sure he/she is prepared to tell the class about it on Monday.
Additionally this week, we worked on the theme of Thanksgiving! We focused on the things you might do and/or eat on Thanksgiving Day. Students worked on a booklet called On Thanksgiving Day, What Will We Eat? Most of the kids said they would eat turkey. Some decided that pizza or macaroni and cheese would be better. We read The Night Before Thanksgiving and Clifford’s Thanksgiving too. We made some turkeys using two dimensional shapes and also created a booklet called Hide! Turkey! Hide! We also painted turkeys, counted turkeys, cut out turkeys, colored turkeys…
We also made a “food craft” this week called Tom Turkey. Using two pieces of bread, peanut butter, cereal, chocolate chips, pretzels, raisins, and candy corn, we made a turkey with four feathers. Check out the photos below.
Next week, we’ll be working on preparing for a Thanksgiving dinner and setting the table. On Tuesday afternoon, we’ll have our own little feast with all of our Room 7 friends. The menu will include: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, applesauce, and pudding. Our room 7 friends will all be cooking the wonderful food with visual recipes, and will get the opportunity to try new foods.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Hide! Turkey! Hide!, Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z booklet, Level C)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
Sight Words: Review the, put, there, are, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Maria’s Thanksgiving (Reading A-Z, Level H)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Introduction to multiplication x2
Student C-
Reading Stories: Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C), Hide! Turkey! Hide!
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
Sight Words: Review the, put, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Maria’s Thanksgiving (Reading A-Z, Level H)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double digit addition without regrouping- Use the four steps- 1. Draw a line down the middle, 2. Circle the arrow, 3. Add the Ones column, 4. Add the Tens column.
Science/ SS tie in: Thanksgiving
Student E -
Stories: Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C), Hide! Turkey! Hide!
Sight Words: Review color words and number words (add in “thirteen” and “fourteen”)
Writing: Write within a defined space, label objects
Math: Review math skills- addition, counting coins, naming shapes, subtraction.
Student F-
Reading Stories: Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C), Hide! Turkey! Hide!
Sight Words: the, on, under, in
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon), counting groups of up to 20 objects
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Dates to Know:
Monday, Nov. 25th- Marty McGuire Book Report Project DUE!
Tuesday, Nov. 26th- Room 7 Thanksgiving Dinner
Wednesday, Nov. 27th- Friday, Nov. 29th- No School! Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, Dec. 2nd- Back to School!
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd- Third Grade Music Concert!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began to work on Chapter 4 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers decomposing and making numbers to 10. In Language Arts, we completed Sounds All Around Us. We began working on Places We Go. We focused on the oral vocabulary words: routine, neighborhood, intelligent, local and volunteer. Anytime you have an opportunity to use these words in context would be great practice. We also introduced the high frequency word "go." We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We are working on the letter Cc and the /k/ sound that it makes. Please feel free to practice locating words that begin with this sound. We also continue to work on building sentences. Next week, we will work on completing Places We Go and Unit 3 of our Wonders program. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” “and,” “to,” and “go.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their November unit “Scientific Inquiry.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. This unit has many great science experiments we have started to work on in class. This week we worked on an experiment to see if we could identify fruit by smell alone. Then, of course, we ate our fruit! The high frequency vocabulary that is focused on in this unit include: is, can, about, the, he, water, what, use, put, two, grow, and learn. We also continued working on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our November unit which is themed “Science Fair.” We continue to practice a simplified version of the scientific method and practice asking and answering questions with our new unit.
Also this week, we incorporated a Thanksgiving themed unit. We created a Thanksgiving Trail Mix, played a really cool SMART board game with what the turkey eats, made "thankful for" placemats for our feast, and made a really cool turkey craft. We, also, read some really neat Thanksgiving themed books like, The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing and The Day Before Thanksgiving. We watched the latter story on the SMART Board. This unit will continue next week with a culminating event of a Thanksgiving Feast with all of our Room 7 friends. The menu will include: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, applesauce, and pudding. Our room 7 friends will all be cooking the wonderful food with visual recipes and get the opportunity to try new foods. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we finished the 2013 Global Read Aloud with the book Marty McGuire! On Thursday, we took an assessment with ten questions focused on characters and settings. Every student got at least half of the questions correct! While reading this chapter book, students were exposed to many of the ELA Common Core standards at their grade level. They were also able to cut and glue additional visuals to help with the lack of pictures in the chapter book. All students did a great job! Please remember that the book report is due on Monday, Nov. 25th. Please send it to school with your child on Monday. Be sure he/she is prepared to tell the class about it on Monday.
Additionally this week, we worked on the theme of Thanksgiving! We focused on the things you might do and/or eat on Thanksgiving Day. Students worked on a booklet called On Thanksgiving Day, What Will We Eat? Most of the kids said they would eat turkey. Some decided that pizza or macaroni and cheese would be better. We read The Night Before Thanksgiving and Clifford’s Thanksgiving too. We made some turkeys using two dimensional shapes and also created a booklet called Hide! Turkey! Hide! We also painted turkeys, counted turkeys, cut out turkeys, colored turkeys…
We also made a “food craft” this week called Tom Turkey. Using two pieces of bread, peanut butter, cereal, chocolate chips, pretzels, raisins, and candy corn, we made a turkey with four feathers. Check out the photos below.
Next week, we’ll be working on preparing for a Thanksgiving dinner and setting the table. On Tuesday afternoon, we’ll have our own little feast with all of our Room 7 friends. The menu will include: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, applesauce, and pudding. Our room 7 friends will all be cooking the wonderful food with visual recipes, and will get the opportunity to try new foods.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Hide! Turkey! Hide!, Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z booklet, Level C)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
Sight Words: Review the, put, there, are, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Maria’s Thanksgiving (Reading A-Z, Level H)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Introduction to multiplication x2
Student C-
Reading Stories: Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C), Hide! Turkey! Hide!
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
Sight Words: Review the, put, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green.
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Maria’s Thanksgiving (Reading A-Z, Level H)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! We’ll start again next week.
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double digit addition without regrouping- Use the four steps- 1. Draw a line down the middle, 2. Circle the arrow, 3. Add the Ones column, 4. Add the Tens column.
Science/ SS tie in: Thanksgiving
Student E -
Stories: Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C), Hide! Turkey! Hide!
Sight Words: Review color words and number words (add in “thirteen” and “fourteen”)
Writing: Write within a defined space, label objects
Math: Review math skills- addition, counting coins, naming shapes, subtraction.
Student F-
Reading Stories: Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C), Hide! Turkey! Hide!
Sight Words: the, on, under, in
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon), counting groups of up to 20 objects
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Dates to Know:
Monday, Nov. 25th- Marty McGuire Book Report Project DUE!
Tuesday, Nov. 26th- Room 7 Thanksgiving Dinner
Wednesday, Nov. 27th- Friday, Nov. 29th- No School! Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, Dec. 2nd- Back to School!
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd- Third Grade Music Concert!
weekly newsletter 11-15-13
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We worked on counting to 50 by ones, counting to 100 by ones and counting to 100 by 10’s. With the additional practice, we did much better. Next week, we will begin decomposing numbers to 10. This chapter will begin with making and taking apart 4 and 5. In Language Arts, we worked on Rules to Go By and began working on Sounds All Around Us. We did really well with our rules unit. We focused on the oral vocabulary words: rules, responsible, cooperate, guard, and prank. We, also, introduced the oral vocabulary: listen, volume, familiar, chat and exclaimed. Anytime you have an opportunity to use these words in context would be great practice. We also introduced the high frequency word "and." We continued to work heavily on blending words and the practice of phonemic awareness. We also began to work on building sentences. Next week, we will work on completing Sounds Around Us and begin working on Places We Go. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,”, “like,” and “to.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued their November unit, “Scientific Inquiry.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. This unit has many great science experiments we have started to work on in class. We already worked on a chips science experiment to answer the question, “Are all chips salty?” and an apple experiment that answers the question “Do all apples have the same amount of seeds?” We also explored a lemon with our senses to go with our book, The Lemon Test. Mrs. Shingleton’s friends really enjoyed these experiment and of course eating the chips and apples! The high frequency vocabulary that is focused on in this unit include: is, can, about, the, he, water, what, use, put, two, grow, and learn. We also continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our November unit which is themed “Science Fair.” We continue to practice a simplified version of the scientific method and practice asking and answering questions with our new unit.
Also this week, we also incorporated a fun scarecrows theme. We created a scarecrow craft with sequencing numbers, practiced identifying numbers with a scarecrow color by number, and create scarecrow suckers and cookies. We also created our very own classroom scarecrow! Everyone did a wonderful job helping to fill up our scarecrow. We read There Was An Old LAdy Who Swallowed Some Leaves, to go with this theme. Mrs. Shingleton’s friends really enjoyed this book. Next week, we will begin our Thanksgiving theme. We will practice identifying what we are thankful for, incorporate turkey and thanksgiving themed academics, and as a culminating activity (but not until right before Thanksgiving), we will work on expanding food preferences and trying Thanksgiving foods. Finally, Mrs. Shingleton has included a few pictures from our Eric Carle project presentations that did not make it into the last newsletter. Everyone did a fantastic job both giving and listening to their friends give these presentations. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 12, 13, and 14 and finished the book! We’ve made it through 7 weeks of the Global Read Aloud! We’ll finish it up next week with a final assessment on Wednesday (tentatively). A study guide will be sent home on Monday, Nov. 18th. Please the comprehension notebook to study in the mean time. Please focus on main character, settings, and major events.
I hope you’ve had enough time to start working on the Marty McGuire book report at home. It can be as easy as a 20 minute project (like creating a Wordle) or as complicated as crafting a figure out of clay! Please choose one of the assignments that your child will enjoy! Please send it to school (and make sure your child is ready to tell us about it) on Monday, Nov. 25th. Remember, YOU CAN HELP! Please do! EVERY ONE of Miss Kolis' students is expected to turn in a project.
Additionally this week, we were reminded of the Zones of Regulation. Some students had time to view the Blend Space web site on the computer and use the new Zones of Regulation iPad App. Each day during circle time, we identified feelings and matched them to their corresponding colors.
We worked on strengthening fine motor skills a lot this week also. We found hidden objects in Theraputty, strung beads, squeezed clothespins, put coins in the bank, laced cards, used kitchen tongs, and completed handwriting pages.
Lastly, while some of our students read the book We Make Cookies this week, we made some of our cookies. Using a recipe for making cookies in a microwave, we embarked on an adventure of making “peanut butter and jelly cookies.” Two batches were made (gluten free and regular) and, to my dismay, the cookies did not turn out to be very appetizing. Truly, I am not a baker, but, we used this as a lesson to show kids that things don’t always turn out how you plan AND sometimes we make mistakes (mine was to use natural peanut butter which turned out a bit oily instead of JIF peanut butter). We said that, if we were baking these cookies at home, we might need to start over. :)
Students in Mrs. Kucharski's third grade home room got to participate in a program with the Great Lakes Theater company too! Check out the pics below!
Quick Note about Parent-Teacher Conferences: Due to the fact that conferences are often very short (10-20 minutes only) and we have several meetings throughout the year, I will NOT be part of the parent-teacher conferences. If you have already signed up for one, you may be meeting with your child’s general education teacher only. If you’d prefer we have an IEP team meeting (gen ed teacher, special ed teacher, SLP, OT, principal), let me know and I can schedule that for another date. Thanks!
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Review for the Marty McGuire test, Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
Sight Words: the (Review put, there, are, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program, 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon)
Student B-
Reading Stories: Review for the Marty McGuire test, Maria’s Thanksgiving (Reading A-Z, Level H)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo
Writing: Write complete sentences
Math: Introduction to multiplication, 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon)
Student C-
Reading Stories: Review for the Marty McGuire test, Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
Sight Words: the (Review put, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program, 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon)
Student D-
Reading Stories: Review for the Marty McGuire test, Maria’s Thanksgiving (Reading A-Z, Level H)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
New Vocab: words using the prefix “un” like unfair, undress, undo
Writing: Writing a complete sentence
Math: Double digit addition without regrouping, 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon)
Science/ SS tie in: “Habitats”- How do plants and animals depend on each other?
Student E -
Stories: Review for the Marty McGuire test, Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Sight Words: Review color words and number words (add in “eleven” and “twelve”)
Writing: Write within a defined space, label objects
Math: 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon)
Student F-
Reading Stories: Review for the Marty McGuire test, Mash the Potatoes (Reading A-Z, Level C)
Sight Words: the
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, trapezoid, hexagon)
Dates to Know:
Monday, Nov. 25th- Marty McGuire Book Report Project DUE!
Tuesday, Nov. 26th- Room 7 Thanksgiving Dinner
Wednesday, Nov. 27th- Friday, Nov. 29th- No School! Happy Thanksgiving!
Weekly newsletter 11-8-13
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We worked on counting to 50 by ones, counting to 100 by ones and counting to 100 by 10’s. This was very challenging for Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends and we will be using next week to continue to work on these skills. In Language Arts, we worked on a unit focusing on Bugs! This weekly project completed Unit 2 of Wonders. Wow! Two units done already! We also took the assessment for Unit 2. Mrs. Shingleton will grade them and let everyone know how her friends did on the assessment. We began unit 3 of Wonders and this week's focus is on Rules to Go By. We focused on the oral vocabulary words: rules, responsible, cooperate, guard, and prank. We also introduced the high frequency word "to." We worked heavily on blending words and continued practice of phonemic awareness. We also began to work on building sentences. Next week, we will work on completing the rules work and begin working on Sounds Around Us. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,” and “like.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends began their up November unit “Scientific Inquiry.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. This unit has many great science experiments for us to conduct in class. The high frequency vocabulary that is focused on in this unit include: is, can, about, the, he, water, what, use, put, two, grow, and learn. We also continued work on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our November unit which is themed “Science Fair.” We will be able to practice a simplified version of the scientific method and practice asking and answering questions with our new unit. The new unit has a variety of science experiments and we hope to do many of them together.
Also this week, we wrapped up The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was "what is your favorite book by Eric Carle?' We shared projects created at home to find out which book was each one of Mrs. Shingleton’s friends favorites. We also incorporated a fun pumpkin theme. We were able to explore size, shape, color, and make other sensory observations about our pumpkins. We were also able to make beautiful art with our pumpkins. Mrs. Shingleton’s group read two pumpkin themed books. These books were Pumpkin Town by Katie McKy and The Vanishing Pumpkin by Tony Johnston. The Vanishing Pumpkin tells the story of a mizzing pumpkin that an old man and an old woman would like to make into pie. Mrs. Shingleton talked about how the pumpkins we decorated were special pumpkins for making pie and that she would be making pie for everyone with the pumpkins. Also, we made no bake pumpkin pies and pumpkin snowballs as treats this week. Next week, Mrs. Shingleton’s friends will be doing a short unit on Scarecrows. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Don't forget to scroll down to check out the pictures from this week!
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapter 11 only and will continue with the last 3 chapters next week. We’ll put a lot of focus on these last 3 chapters and our comprehension of this book. We’ll try to do some Skyping and “Face -Timing” with classes next week too. Please take some time to work on your Marty McGuire project in the upcoming week. The due date is Monday, Nov. 25th.
Also this week, we did some pumpkin exploration! This was really fun as we got to look at, smell, taste, touch, and even listen to our pumpkins. We used some recording sheets to work like scientists to make observations. We finished up by painting our pumpkins. Check out the pictures below (If your child’s pumpkin is not pictured below, he/she will finish painting in the upcoming week.)
Additionally this week, we worked on the Zones of Regulation. All 6 of Miss Kolis’ students have been working on labeling feelings using the colors of the Zones. The blue zone is tired, bored, sad, or sick. The green zone is calm, happy, and ready to learn. The yellow zone is frustrated and scared. The red zone is angry, really upset, or really afraid! We watched lots of video clips this week of our favorite characters and tried to identify their feelings. Then, we matched their feelings to the colors of the zones. We watched short clips from movies/shows like Monsters Inc., Monsters University, Brave, The Princess and the Frog, Dora the Explorer, Spongebob Squarepants, The Wizard of Oz, and Cars! We had a lot of fun with these short movie clips! You can check out a review lesson on the Zones using this Blend Space- http://blnds.co/1dF3Uo3.
Quick Note about Parent-Teacher Conferences: Due to the fact that conferences are often very short (10-20 minutes only) and we have several meetings throughout the year, I will NOT be part of the parent-teacher conferences. If you have already signed up for one, you may be meeting with your child’s general education teacher only. If you’d prefer we have an IEP team meeting (gen ed teacher, special ed teacher, SLP, OT, principal), let me know and I can schedule that for another date. Thanks!
What will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), We Make Cookies (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
Sight Words: put, some, (Review there, are, it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Introduce subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), New Rule! (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: Introduction to multiplication
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), We Make Cookies (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
Sight Words: put, some, (Review it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Introduce subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), New Rule! (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Use this time to work on your Marty McGuire project!
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: Double digit addition without regrouping
Science/ SS tie in: “Habitats”- test set for Friday, tentatively.
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), This is Big (Reading A-Z, High Frequency Word Book), We Make Cookies (Reading A-Z)
Sight Words: put, some, this, that
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Counting coin groups with nickels and pennies
Student F-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), We Make Cookies (Reading A-Z)
Sight Words: put, some
Writing: Write the letter that makes each sound.
Math: Introduce subtraction using the touch points from the Touch Math program
Dates to Know:
Monday, Nov. 25th- Marty McGuire Book Report Project DUE!
weekly newsletter 11-1-13
Happy Belated Halloween to you!!!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We continued our focus on numbers 16-20. Next week, we will focus on numbers beyond 10. We will work on counting to 50 by ones, counting to 100 by ones and counting to 100 by 10’s. In Language Arts, we completed our shapes unit. We learned about how shapes are all around us and how shapes can exist within shapes and everywhere we look. We worked on identifying verbs and and practiced our shape words. We also focused on the oral vocabulary words: materials, nature, world, decoration, games and the high frequency word, “like.” Next week, we will continue our unit themed: World of Bugs. This week our class will focus on different kinds of bugs and how they move. We will also be reading about a variety of bugs they see in nature, including bees, ants, and butterflies. We will work on the oral vocabulary words curious and observe, the category words that describe movement, and phonics for letter sounds /m/ /a/ /s/ /t/ and /p/. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,” and “like.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends wrapped up our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We focused heavily on the words white, yellow, and green. We also continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our November unit which is themed “Science Fair.” We will be able to practice a simplified version of the scientific method and practice asking and answering questions with our new unit. The new unit has a variety of science experiments and we hope to do many of them together.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was the book, Hello Red Fox by Eric Carle. We will also did some fun Halloween activities. We created ghosts, finished our candy corn activity, created Halloween Crisp Candy Corn Treats, and listened to a great story song called The Thirteen Nights of Halloween. Mrs. Shingleton made a coloring book to go with this book and each student got a copy to color and practice counting and writing their numbers. Wow! It was a very full week. We also had terrific Halloween parties with our homeroom classes and attended the Halloween parade in all our amazing costumes. Next week, we will conclude the Global Read Aloud Project. We will be sharing our own favorite Eric Carle books. As a culminating activity for the Global Read Aloud, Mrs. Shingleton is asking each of her friends to create a poster to display their favorite Eric Carle book that they can share with the class. This project will be due on Tuesday November 5. There are details for this project on your homework sheets. Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton also felt that we neglected the poor pumpkin this Halloween and since it is still pumpkin season we will be having a pumpkin theme next week. We are looking forward to some science and literature exploration with pumpkins and their seeds. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 9 and 10, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. It was hard for us to concentrate this week with Halloween coming. Next week, we’ll continue on with Marty McGuire chapters 11 and 12. We’ll also use Skype to connect with Mrs. Pagel’s second grade class at Hilton to talk about the book.
Also this week, we learned about bats and completed some Halloween crafts. We read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Stellaluna, and How Pumpkin Saved Halloween. We also read the booklet Helpful Bats together.
The photos below will show how AWESOME our week was! Our kids are THE cutest, MOST awesome! :)
Next week, we’ll continue with the GRA and work on a pumpkin theme.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Pond Life (Reading A-Z, Level B), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Spelling Words: is, his, big, pig, wig, dig, sip, lip, hip, tip
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal
Sight Words: there, are (Review it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition- use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition, measuring using nonstandard units
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Laws for Kids (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: reheat, redo, reread, rerun, review, rewrite, replay, remove
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal, words with prefixes
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: measuring using nonstandard units
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Pond Life (Reading A-Z, Level B), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Spelling Words: in, pin, win, big, pig
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal
Sight Words: there, are (Review it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition-use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition, Skip Counting by 5s, measuring using nonstandard units
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Laws for Kids (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: sub, sub, sun, fun, bun, cute, cube, mute, use, reuse
New Vocabulary: Introduce words with prefixes, aquarium, dress rehearsal
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: measuring using nonstandard units, repeated addition, repeated addition with arrays
Science/ SS tie in: “Habitats”
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), This is Big (Reading A-Z, High Frequency Word Book), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Sight Words: this, not
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9, measuring using nonstandard units
Student F-
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Pond Life (Reading A-Z, Level B), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Sight Words: there, are
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Assess current skills, skip count by 5s, measuring using nonstandard units
Dates to Know:
Monday, Nov. 25th- Marty McGuire Book Report Project DUE (details coming home on Monday in homework packet).
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We continued our focus on numbers 16-20. Next week, we will focus on numbers beyond 10. We will work on counting to 50 by ones, counting to 100 by ones and counting to 100 by 10’s. In Language Arts, we completed our shapes unit. We learned about how shapes are all around us and how shapes can exist within shapes and everywhere we look. We worked on identifying verbs and and practiced our shape words. We also focused on the oral vocabulary words: materials, nature, world, decoration, games and the high frequency word, “like.” Next week, we will continue our unit themed: World of Bugs. This week our class will focus on different kinds of bugs and how they move. We will also be reading about a variety of bugs they see in nature, including bees, ants, and butterflies. We will work on the oral vocabulary words curious and observe, the category words that describe movement, and phonics for letter sounds /m/ /a/ /s/ /t/ and /p/. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,” and “like.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends wrapped up our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We focused heavily on the words white, yellow, and green. We also continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our November unit which is themed “Science Fair.” We will be able to practice a simplified version of the scientific method and practice asking and answering questions with our new unit. The new unit has a variety of science experiments and we hope to do many of them together.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was the book, Hello Red Fox by Eric Carle. We will also did some fun Halloween activities. We created ghosts, finished our candy corn activity, created Halloween Crisp Candy Corn Treats, and listened to a great story song called The Thirteen Nights of Halloween. Mrs. Shingleton made a coloring book to go with this book and each student got a copy to color and practice counting and writing their numbers. Wow! It was a very full week. We also had terrific Halloween parties with our homeroom classes and attended the Halloween parade in all our amazing costumes. Next week, we will conclude the Global Read Aloud Project. We will be sharing our own favorite Eric Carle books. As a culminating activity for the Global Read Aloud, Mrs. Shingleton is asking each of her friends to create a poster to display their favorite Eric Carle book that they can share with the class. This project will be due on Tuesday November 5. There are details for this project on your homework sheets. Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton also felt that we neglected the poor pumpkin this Halloween and since it is still pumpkin season we will be having a pumpkin theme next week. We are looking forward to some science and literature exploration with pumpkins and their seeds. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 9 and 10, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. It was hard for us to concentrate this week with Halloween coming. Next week, we’ll continue on with Marty McGuire chapters 11 and 12. We’ll also use Skype to connect with Mrs. Pagel’s second grade class at Hilton to talk about the book.
Also this week, we learned about bats and completed some Halloween crafts. We read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Stellaluna, and How Pumpkin Saved Halloween. We also read the booklet Helpful Bats together.
The photos below will show how AWESOME our week was! Our kids are THE cutest, MOST awesome! :)
Next week, we’ll continue with the GRA and work on a pumpkin theme.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Pond Life (Reading A-Z, Level B), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Spelling Words: is, his, big, pig, wig, dig, sip, lip, hip, tip
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal
Sight Words: there, are (Review it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition- use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition, measuring using nonstandard units
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Laws for Kids (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: reheat, redo, reread, rerun, review, rewrite, replay, remove
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal, words with prefixes
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: measuring using nonstandard units
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Pond Life (Reading A-Z, Level B), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Spelling Words: in, pin, win, big, pig
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal
Sight Words: there, are (Review it, sit, in, is, an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow, green)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition-use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition, Skip Counting by 5s, measuring using nonstandard units
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Laws for Kids (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: sub, sub, sun, fun, bun, cute, cube, mute, use, reuse
New Vocabulary: Introduce words with prefixes, aquarium, dress rehearsal
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: measuring using nonstandard units, repeated addition, repeated addition with arrays
Science/ SS tie in: “Habitats”
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), This is Big (Reading A-Z, High Frequency Word Book), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Sight Words: this, not
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9, measuring using nonstandard units
Student F-
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Pond Life (Reading A-Z, Level B), Maria Counts Pumpkins (Reading A-Z, Level A)
Sight Words: there, are
New Vocabulary: aquarium, dress rehearsal
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Assess current skills, skip count by 5s, measuring using nonstandard units
Dates to Know:
Monday, Nov. 25th- Marty McGuire Book Report Project DUE (details coming home on Monday in homework packet).
Weekly newsletter 10-25-13
It's been a blustery week... already...
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends worked on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We began our focus on numbers 11-15. Next week, we will continue our focus on numbers beyond 10. We will work on numbers 16-20. In Language Arts, we worked on our shapes unit. We learned about how shapes are all around us and how shapes can exist within shapes and everywhere we look. We worked on identifying verbs and and practiced our shape words. We also focused on the oral vocabulary words: materials, nature, world, decoration, games and the high frequency word, “like.” Next week, we will continue our unit themed: Shapes All Around You. This unit will work on shape words, blending and segmenting words with the letter sound /t/. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,” and “like.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We focused heavily on the words white, yellow, and green. We also continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We made sunset juice, as well, to go with our lesson and created a seasonal tree. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will complete our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, pre-writing, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle. We worked on using a Venn Diagram to identify letters that are in our names. We were able to see that we share letters with each other and some letters are only in our names. We also practiced identifying the animals in the book, adding predictable text to s story with very little words, and adding story elements to a story. We also began working on a cut and paste activity for Halloween. We will complete this project next week. Next week, we will continue working on the Global Read Aloud Project. We will focus on the book, Hello Red Fox by Eric Carle. We will also do some fun Halloween activities. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 7 and 8, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. These two chapters were pretty difficult for our more literal thinks so we did not spend a lot of time trying to understand all the details. Next week, we’ll continue on with Marty McGuire chapters 9 and 10. We’ll take a quiz on chapters 5-10 early the following week.
Also this week, our third grade students were introduced to friendly letters. Because we all have some friends in other school this year, we practiced writing friendly letters to these friends. We put them in envelopes and labeled them with the names of our friends. The letters were sent to our friends new teachers on Friday. We’re hoping they write back soon!
We had a chance to learn a little about bats this week too! We watched “Going Batty” from the Magic School Bus series and completed a corresponding booklet called Bat Facts. We also played “Feed the Bat” and placed the correct amount of candy corn on our bats. We made some bat crafts and read Bats Day and Night. Next week, we’ll read a book called Helpful Bats.
Next week, we’ll throw in some Halloween books and crafts in addition to Marty McGuire and Bats!
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: it, sit, hit, pit, fit, bit, in, win, pin, fin
New Vocabulary: nocturnal
Sight Words: it, sit (review an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), start to use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: coin, join, point, joint, soil, boil, foil, joining, pointing, boiling
New Vocabulary: nocturnal
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: Using the “greater than,” “less than,” and equals signs (>, <, =), skip counting by 3s and 4s
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: it, sit, hit, pit, fit
New Vocabulary: nocturnal
Sight Words: it, sit (review an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), start to use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: cone, bone, phone, nose, pole, hole, mole, joke, poke, robe
New Vocabulary: nocturnal, Introduce words with prefixes
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: Chapter 2 in My Math: Number Patterns (even, odd, skip counting by 3s and 4s)
Science/ SS tie in: Starting “Habitats”
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z), He Said No (Reading A-Z, High Frequency Word Book)
Sight Words: said
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9
Student F-
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z), This Turtle (Reading A-Z, benchmark booklet)
Sight Words: assess preprimer and primer Dolch sight word lists
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Assess basic math skills and IEP goal areas
Dates to Know:
Thursday, Oct. 31st- Halloween Party day! (Your child will go to the Halloween party and parade with his/her homeroom class.)
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends worked on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We began our focus on numbers 11-15. Next week, we will continue our focus on numbers beyond 10. We will work on numbers 16-20. In Language Arts, we worked on our shapes unit. We learned about how shapes are all around us and how shapes can exist within shapes and everywhere we look. We worked on identifying verbs and and practiced our shape words. We also focused on the oral vocabulary words: materials, nature, world, decoration, games and the high frequency word, “like.” Next week, we will continue our unit themed: Shapes All Around You. This unit will work on shape words, blending and segmenting words with the letter sound /t/. Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” “see,” “a,” and “like.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We focused heavily on the words white, yellow, and green. We also continued worked on shape identification, coin identification and general number sense. We made sunset juice, as well, to go with our lesson and created a seasonal tree. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will complete our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, pre-writing, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle. We worked on using a Venn Diagram to identify letters that are in our names. We were able to see that we share letters with each other and some letters are only in our names. We also practiced identifying the animals in the book, adding predictable text to s story with very little words, and adding story elements to a story. We also began working on a cut and paste activity for Halloween. We will complete this project next week. Next week, we will continue working on the Global Read Aloud Project. We will focus on the book, Hello Red Fox by Eric Carle. We will also do some fun Halloween activities. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 7 and 8, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. These two chapters were pretty difficult for our more literal thinks so we did not spend a lot of time trying to understand all the details. Next week, we’ll continue on with Marty McGuire chapters 9 and 10. We’ll take a quiz on chapters 5-10 early the following week.
Also this week, our third grade students were introduced to friendly letters. Because we all have some friends in other school this year, we practiced writing friendly letters to these friends. We put them in envelopes and labeled them with the names of our friends. The letters were sent to our friends new teachers on Friday. We’re hoping they write back soon!
We had a chance to learn a little about bats this week too! We watched “Going Batty” from the Magic School Bus series and completed a corresponding booklet called Bat Facts. We also played “Feed the Bat” and placed the correct amount of candy corn on our bats. We made some bat crafts and read Bats Day and Night. Next week, we’ll read a book called Helpful Bats.
Next week, we’ll throw in some Halloween books and crafts in addition to Marty McGuire and Bats!
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: it, sit, hit, pit, fit, bit, in, win, pin, fin
New Vocabulary: nocturnal
Sight Words: it, sit (review an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), start to use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: coin, join, point, joint, soil, boil, foil, joining, pointing, boiling
New Vocabulary: nocturnal
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: Using the “greater than,” “less than,” and equals signs (>, <, =), skip counting by 3s and 4s
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: it, sit, hit, pit, fit
New Vocabulary: nocturnal
Sight Words: it, sit (review an, am, at, can, ran, and, me, we, go, red, yellow)
Writing: Label objects in writing (with short i sound)
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), start to use the strategy of finding the bigger number then counting on for addition
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: cone, bone, phone, nose, pole, hole, mole, joke, poke, robe
New Vocabulary: nocturnal, Introduce words with prefixes
Writing: Statements and questions
Math: Chapter 2 in My Math: Number Patterns (even, odd, skip counting by 3s and 4s)
Science/ SS tie in: Starting “Habitats”
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z), He Said No (Reading A-Z, High Frequency Word Book)
Sight Words: said
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9
Student F-
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Helpful Bats (Reading A-Z), This Turtle (Reading A-Z, benchmark booklet)
Sight Words: assess preprimer and primer Dolch sight word lists
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Assess basic math skills and IEP goal areas
Dates to Know:
Thursday, Oct. 31st- Halloween Party day! (Your child will go to the Halloween party and parade with his/her homeroom class.)
Weekly Newsletter 10-18-13
We hope you are enjoying the beautiful fall weather on this awesome day off!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10, comparing numbers to 10 and ordinal position. Everyone did a wonderful job on the chapter assessment. None of my kindergarten friends missed more than one item on the test! Next week, we will begin working on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We will begin our focus on numbers 11-15. In Language Arts, we worked on our tools unit. We learned about how our hands are great tools, but that tools can really help us get our work done faster and easier. We worked on identifying nouns and verbs and practiced our color words. We also focused on the oral vocabulary words: tools, discover, fetch, rumble, and defeated and the high frequency word, “a.” Next week, we will begin our new unit themed: Shapes All Around You. This unit will work on shape words, blending and segmenting words with the letter sound /t/ and introduce the high frequency word, “like.” Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” and “see,” and “a.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We focused heavily on the words white, yellow and green. We also continued worked on coin identification and general number sense. We made fake snow, as well, to go with our lesson. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, prewriting, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. We worked on identifying upper and lowercase letters with a chameleon theme, made “mixed up pudding,” and caught flies with our own “chameleon tongues.” After we caught flies, we graphed how many we had caught and identified who had caught the most and the least flies. It was so cool! We also were able to Skype with another class near Cincinnati, present our very own mixed up chameleons to them, and see the mixed up chameleons they had created. Next week, we will continue working on the Global Read Aloud Project. We will focus on the book, Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 5 and 6, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. On Monday, we used Skype to talk to a class like ours in Hilliard, Ohio. We shared our favorite characters in Marty McGuire and they shared their favorites! We also used Google Maps to show where our new friends were located. We decided we would have to travel southwest to get to Hilliard. We checked out some book trailers for Marty McGuire too. You can find one here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6jWnYq6xI.
Students B and D started to learn the difference between “statements” and “questions.” Statements are “telling sentences” and end with a period. Questions are “asking sentences” and end with a question mark. All of Miss Kolis’ students worked on their writing skills this week either by writing complete sentences or by labeling objects in writing.
On Thursday, we reviewed the season of fall, watched a Brain Pop Jr. video, completed a fall booklet, and took a quiz. Then, we used craft foamies and markers to create fall scenes. We’ll hang them in the hall near our fall tree to remind us of the characteristics of fall!
Coming up in the next week, we’ll read chapters 7 and 8 in Marty McGuire and focus on the setting of a story next week. We’ll also focus on a Bat theme and make some bat crafts before Halloween!
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), This Turtle (Reading A-Z, Level B benchmark booklet), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Sight Words: we, our, this
Writing: Writing a friendly letter
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), rolling 2 dice and finding their sum
Other: Continue work on NEW e-portfolio!
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Writing: Statements and questions, writing a friendly letter
Math: Review quarter 1 skills- Using a calculator, double/triple digit subtraction with and without borrowing, counting with base-ten blocks up to 200, compare groups of objects and determine more/less
Other: Update student e-portfolio
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up, our, this
Writing: Writing a friendly letter
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), rolling 2 dice and finding their sum
Other: Intro. to the e-portfolio, create a front page, start a spelling page
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Writing: Statements and questions, writing a friendly letter
Math: Start chapter 2 in My Math: Number Patterns (even, odd, skip counting)
Science/ SS tie in: Social Studies Unit 6- Government (local, state, and national governments, rights and responsibilities, symbols of the USA)
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Sight Words: are, it
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9
Dates to Know:
Friday, Oct. 25th- No School- Teacher Work Day, Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton will complete first quarter IEP progress reports on this day and put them into the mail. Please expect your child’s first quarter IEP progress report to come to you via USPS mail the following week.
Thursday, Oct. 31st- Halloween Party day! (Your child will go to the Halloween party with his/her homeroom class.)
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends completed Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10, comparing numbers to 10 and ordinal position. Everyone did a wonderful job on the chapter assessment. None of my kindergarten friends missed more than one item on the test! Next week, we will begin working on Chapter 3 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers beyond 10. We will begin our focus on numbers 11-15. In Language Arts, we worked on our tools unit. We learned about how our hands are great tools, but that tools can really help us get our work done faster and easier. We worked on identifying nouns and verbs and practiced our color words. We also focused on the oral vocabulary words: tools, discover, fetch, rumble, and defeated and the high frequency word, “a.” Next week, we will begin our new unit themed: Shapes All Around You. This unit will work on shape words, blending and segmenting words with the letter sound /t/ and introduce the high frequency word, “like.” Please feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” and “see,” and “a.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We focused heavily on the words white, yellow and green. We also continued worked on coin identification and general number sense. We made fake snow, as well, to go with our lesson. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, prewriting, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. We worked on identifying upper and lowercase letters with a chameleon theme, made “mixed up pudding,” and caught flies with our own “chameleon tongues.” After we caught flies, we graphed how many we had caught and identified who had caught the most and the least flies. It was so cool! We also were able to Skype with another class near Cincinnati, present our very own mixed up chameleons to them, and see the mixed up chameleons they had created. Next week, we will continue working on the Global Read Aloud Project. We will focus on the book, Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the 2013 Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 5 and 6, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. On Monday, we used Skype to talk to a class like ours in Hilliard, Ohio. We shared our favorite characters in Marty McGuire and they shared their favorites! We also used Google Maps to show where our new friends were located. We decided we would have to travel southwest to get to Hilliard. We checked out some book trailers for Marty McGuire too. You can find one here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6jWnYq6xI.
Students B and D started to learn the difference between “statements” and “questions.” Statements are “telling sentences” and end with a period. Questions are “asking sentences” and end with a question mark. All of Miss Kolis’ students worked on their writing skills this week either by writing complete sentences or by labeling objects in writing.
On Thursday, we reviewed the season of fall, watched a Brain Pop Jr. video, completed a fall booklet, and took a quiz. Then, we used craft foamies and markers to create fall scenes. We’ll hang them in the hall near our fall tree to remind us of the characteristics of fall!
Coming up in the next week, we’ll read chapters 7 and 8 in Marty McGuire and focus on the setting of a story next week. We’ll also focus on a Bat theme and make some bat crafts before Halloween!
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), This Turtle (Reading A-Z, Level B benchmark booklet), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Sight Words: we, our, this
Writing: Writing a friendly letter
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), rolling 2 dice and finding their sum
Other: Continue work on NEW e-portfolio!
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Writing: Statements and questions, writing a friendly letter
Math: Review quarter 1 skills- Using a calculator, double/triple digit subtraction with and without borrowing, counting with base-ten blocks up to 200, compare groups of objects and determine more/less
Other: Update student e-portfolio
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up, our, this
Writing: Writing a friendly letter
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points), rolling 2 dice and finding their sum
Other: Intro. to the e-portfolio, create a front page, start a spelling page
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: No spelling words this week! Take a break!
New Vocabulary: memorize, imagination, improvise, spontaneous, statues, court jester
Writing: Statements and questions, writing a friendly letter
Math: Start chapter 2 in My Math: Number Patterns (even, odd, skip counting)
Science/ SS tie in: Social Studies Unit 6- Government (local, state, and national governments, rights and responsibilities, symbols of the USA)
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Bats Day and Night (Reading A-Z)
Sight Words: are, it
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9
Dates to Know:
Friday, Oct. 25th- No School- Teacher Work Day, Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton will complete first quarter IEP progress reports on this day and put them into the mail. Please expect your child’s first quarter IEP progress report to come to you via USPS mail the following week.
Thursday, Oct. 31st- Halloween Party day! (Your child will go to the Halloween party with his/her homeroom class.)
Weekly newsletter 10-11-13
Can you believe the first quarter is almost over? We can't!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10. We worked on comparing numbers to 10 and began to work on ordinal position. Next week, we will continue to work on ordinal position and wrap up Chapter 2. In Language Arts, we worked hard on our senses by reading Senses at the Seashore and A Feast for the Senses. We worked on the oral vocabulary words: senses, explore, feast, kneads,and finished. We also worked on the high frequency word “see.” We took the first unit assessment. Mrs. Shingleton will grade them and get them back to you next week. Next week, we will begin a new unit. This unit will focus on “The Tools We Use.” We will focus on the new oral vocabulary words: tools, discover, fetch, rumble, and defeated. We will also be working on the high frequency word, “a.” Feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” and “see.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We also continued worked on coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, prewriting, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle. This book focuses heavily on predictable text. It uses repetitive text including, “Have you seen my cat? This is not my cat.” We have worked on sequencing the sentences. We created cat themed popcorn balls and reward posters for our cats. Our cats were created with cut tissue paper and were really fun! Next week, we will continue our focus on The Global Read Aloud Project. Our book will be The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 3 and 4, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. We’ve been focused on identifying the main characters in the story. We also played a BINGO game to review chapters 1-3, and th kids are doing great! I am so impressed with their comprehension of the book so far! I think we are all really excited about being able to read a chapter book as second and third graders in Room 7. Some of the kids took a quiz on Friday and those who were absent on Friday will take the quiz on Monday.
Next week, when everyone is back and healthy, we will use Skype to talk to a class like ours in Hilliard, Ohio! I also have some Skype sessions planned with my teacher friends over at Hilton and their second grade classes. I LOVE when the kids can talk to other kids using Skype or Facetime. We’ll also use Google Maps to show the locations of our new friends and decide which directions we might travel to get to their locations.
If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
Coming up in the next week, we’ll read chapters 5 and 6 in Marty McGuire and do some craft activities using themes from the book. We’ll also focus on the setting of a story this week.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Our Show (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: Review List: at, an, am, can, ran, man, fan, pan, map, nap, ham, bag, hat, bat, sat
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up, our
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points)
Other: Intro. to the e-portfolio, create a front page, start a spelling page
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), A Dog for Sally (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: grab, grabbing, grand, grass, glass, glad, clap, clapping, crash, crashing
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Writing: Write a complete sentence, tell the difference between statements and questions
Math: Using a calculator
Other: Update student e-portfolio
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Our Show (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: Review List: at, an, am, can, man, map, bag, cat
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up, our
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points)
Other: Intro. to the e-portfolio, create a front page, start a spelling page
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), A Dog for Sally (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: Beginning blends with a short i sound- crib, clips, grid, grip, flip, drip, brim, brick, trip, trim, trick, still
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Writing: Writing a complete sentence with punctuation, Tell the difference between statements and questions
Math: Completing fact families
Science/ SS tie in: Social Studies Unit 6- Government (local, state, and national governments, rights and responsibilities)
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), They Look (Reading A-Z book)
Sight Words: they
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9
Dates to Know:
Friday, Oct. 18th- No School - NEOEA Day!
Friday, Oct. 25th- No School- Teacher Work Day, Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton will complete first quarter IEP progress reports on this day and put them into the mail. Please expect your child’s first quarter IEP progress report to come to you via USPS mail the following week.
Thursday, Oct. 31st- Halloween Party day! (Your child will go to the Halloween party with his/her homeroom class.)
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10. We worked on comparing numbers to 10 and began to work on ordinal position. Next week, we will continue to work on ordinal position and wrap up Chapter 2. In Language Arts, we worked hard on our senses by reading Senses at the Seashore and A Feast for the Senses. We worked on the oral vocabulary words: senses, explore, feast, kneads,and finished. We also worked on the high frequency word “see.” We took the first unit assessment. Mrs. Shingleton will grade them and get them back to you next week. Next week, we will begin a new unit. This unit will focus on “The Tools We Use.” We will focus on the new oral vocabulary words: tools, discover, fetch, rumble, and defeated. We will also be working on the high frequency word, “a.” Feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” “we,” and “see.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends continued our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We continued reading our book Look Up!, and worked on reading predictable text. The text encourages students to reproduce the words “look” and “up.” We worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We also continued worked on coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, prewriting, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
Also this week, our theme continued with The Global Read Aloud Project. Our focus this week was Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle. This book focuses heavily on predictable text. It uses repetitive text including, “Have you seen my cat? This is not my cat.” We have worked on sequencing the sentences. We created cat themed popcorn balls and reward posters for our cats. Our cats were created with cut tissue paper and were really fun! Next week, we will continue our focus on The Global Read Aloud Project. Our book will be The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 3 and 4, and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. We’ve been focused on identifying the main characters in the story. We also played a BINGO game to review chapters 1-3, and th kids are doing great! I am so impressed with their comprehension of the book so far! I think we are all really excited about being able to read a chapter book as second and third graders in Room 7. Some of the kids took a quiz on Friday and those who were absent on Friday will take the quiz on Monday.
Next week, when everyone is back and healthy, we will use Skype to talk to a class like ours in Hilliard, Ohio! I also have some Skype sessions planned with my teacher friends over at Hilton and their second grade classes. I LOVE when the kids can talk to other kids using Skype or Facetime. We’ll also use Google Maps to show the locations of our new friends and decide which directions we might travel to get to their locations.
If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
Coming up in the next week, we’ll read chapters 5 and 6 in Marty McGuire and do some craft activities using themes from the book. We’ll also focus on the setting of a story this week.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Our Show (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: Review List: at, an, am, can, ran, man, fan, pan, map, nap, ham, bag, hat, bat, sat
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up, our
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points)
Other: Intro. to the e-portfolio, create a front page, start a spelling page
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), A Dog for Sally (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: grab, grabbing, grand, grass, glass, glad, clap, clapping, crash, crashing
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Writing: Write a complete sentence, tell the difference between statements and questions
Math: Using a calculator
Other: Update student e-portfolio
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Our Show (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: Review List: at, an, am, can, man, map, bag, cat
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up, our
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Addition facts using numbers 6-9 (with double touch points)
Other: Intro. to the e-portfolio, create a front page, start a spelling page
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), A Dog for Sally (Reading A-Z, Level G)
Spelling Words: Beginning blends with a short i sound- crib, clips, grid, grip, flip, drip, brim, brick, trip, trim, trick, still
New Vocabulary: mane, disappointed, confidence
Writing: Writing a complete sentence with punctuation, Tell the difference between statements and questions
Math: Completing fact families
Science/ SS tie in: Social Studies Unit 6- Government (local, state, and national governments, rights and responsibilities)
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), They Look (Reading A-Z book)
Sight Words: they
Writing: Write within a defined space
Math: Subtraction using numbers 0-9
Dates to Know:
Friday, Oct. 18th- No School - NEOEA Day!
Friday, Oct. 25th- No School- Teacher Work Day, Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton will complete first quarter IEP progress reports on this day and put them into the mail. Please expect your child’s first quarter IEP progress report to come to you via USPS mail the following week.
Thursday, Oct. 31st- Halloween Party day! (Your child will go to the Halloween party with his/her homeroom class.)
Weekly newsletter 10-4-13
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10. We worked on reading and writing number 8, 9 and 10. We also began working on comparing numbers to 10. Next week in math, we will continue to work on comparing numbers, one more with numbers to 10 and ordinal position. In Language Arts, we read the story Pouch! by David Ezra Stein. We worked on the oral vocabulary words: adventure, movement, exhausted, exciting, and arrival. We also worked on the high frequency word “we.” Next week, our unit will focus on our senses and how they help us learn. We will focus on the new oral vocabulary words: senses, explore, feast, kneads, and finished. We will also be working on the high frequency word, “see.” Feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” and “we.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends, began our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We began reading our book, Look Up! We, also, worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We also worked on coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, prewriting, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
This week our theme was "The Global Read Aloud Project." Our focus this week was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We worked on a variety of fun sequencing and fine motor activities that go with our theme. We created healthy snacks that resembled the caterpillar in our story and then decorated cupcakes to look like our caterpillar, too! We also read our story in a variety of ways, including reading the pictures, reading to on the computer and with the physical book. We also created caterpillars and beautiful butterflies to incorporate our theme. Next week, we will continue our focus on The Global Read Aloud Project. Our book will be Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle. This book is written in predictable text and will practice some high frequency words. It will, also, give us the opportunity to learn a little about a variety of different types of cats. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 1 and 2 and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. We talked about the main characters we’ve read about so far: Marty, the teacher Mrs. Aloi, Marty’s friend Annie, and Veronica Grace. Next week, we’re going to connect with another class through Skype or FaceTime from Hilliard, Ohio.
All 5 students have received a copy of the book Marty McGuire to read at home. Of course, we expect that you will read the chapters aloud to your child. :) Please send the book and your child’s Comprehension Notebook back to school each day.
If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
We also continue to take our STARS assessments in “Early Literacy” and Math. We take them every other week to monitor progress made during the weeks. There is still a lot to learn about this new STARS assessment, but I want you to be aware that we are attempting to use the information (and other formative assessments) to plan for instruction.
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises. I would be happy to meet with you before or after school (M, W, TH, or F).
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), I Pick Up (Level B in Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: am, ham, at, bat, an, man, cap, bag
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Completing addition facts with touch points and double touch points
Science/ SS tie in: Rock and Minerals
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Two for Me, One for You (Level F, Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: crab, crib, cry, crown, crow, crayon, craft, crash, crack, crust
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Double Digit Subtraction WITH BORROWING
Science/ SS tie in: Rocks and Minerals
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), I Pick Up (Level B in Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: nap, map, cap, tap, clap
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Sight Words: an, am, at, can, up
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Completing addition facts with touch points and double touch points
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Two for Me, One for You (Level F, Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: bake, take, make, rake, cape, tape, grape, shape, made, fade
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Writing: Writing a complete sentence with punctuation
Math: Relating addition and subtraction, making fact families
Science/ SS tie in: Social Studies Unit 6- Government (local, state, and national)
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud)
Words: Short vowel words in cvc pattern
Writing: Handwriting letters and numbers in isolation
Math: Skip counting by 10s
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued working on Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10. We worked on reading and writing number 8, 9 and 10. We also began working on comparing numbers to 10. Next week in math, we will continue to work on comparing numbers, one more with numbers to 10 and ordinal position. In Language Arts, we read the story Pouch! by David Ezra Stein. We worked on the oral vocabulary words: adventure, movement, exhausted, exciting, and arrival. We also worked on the high frequency word “we.” Next week, our unit will focus on our senses and how they help us learn. We will focus on the new oral vocabulary words: senses, explore, feast, kneads, and finished. We will also be working on the high frequency word, “see.” Feel free to read and practice locating and identifying the high frequency words we have worked on this year. These words include: “I,” “can,” “the,” and “we.”
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends, began our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit incorporates science concepts into our language arts and math activities. We began reading our book, Look Up! We, also, worked on answering comprehension questions and began to practice our unit word wall words. These words include: up, see, it, on, make, she, look, goes, think, white, green and yellow. We also worked on coin identification and general number sense. We continue to work on active participation skills and IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will continue our “Look Up In The Sky” unit. We will continue to work on our word wall words, prewriting, and incorporate science and measurement studies.
This week our theme was "The Global Read Aloud Project." Our focus this week was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We worked on a variety of fun sequencing and fine motor activities that go with our theme. We created healthy snacks that resembled the caterpillar in our story and then decorated cupcakes to look like our caterpillar, too! We also read our story in a variety of ways, including reading the pictures, reading to on the computer and with the physical book. We also created caterpillars and beautiful butterflies to incorporate our theme. Next week, we will continue our focus on The Global Read Aloud Project. Our book will be Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle. This book is written in predictable text and will practice some high frequency words. It will, also, give us the opportunity to learn a little about a variety of different types of cats. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we continued our work on the chapter book Marty McGuire for the Global Read Aloud. We read chapters 1 and 2 and cut and glued additional visuals for each chapter. We talked about the main characters we’ve read about so far: Marty, the teacher Mrs. Aloi, Marty’s friend Annie, and Veronica Grace. Next week, we’re going to connect with another class through Skype or FaceTime from Hilliard, Ohio.
All 5 students have received a copy of the book Marty McGuire to read at home. Of course, we expect that you will read the chapters aloud to your child. :) Please send the book and your child’s Comprehension Notebook back to school each day.
If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
We also continue to take our STARS assessments in “Early Literacy” and Math. We take them every other week to monitor progress made during the weeks. There is still a lot to learn about this new STARS assessment, but I want you to be aware that we are attempting to use the information (and other formative assessments) to plan for instruction.
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises. I would be happy to meet with you before or after school (M, W, TH, or F).
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), I Pick Up (Level B in Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: am, ham, at, bat, an, man, cap, bag
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Sight Words: am, at, an, can, we, in, up
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Completing addition facts with touch points and double touch points
Science/ SS tie in: Rock and Minerals
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Two for Me, One for You (Level F, Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: crab, crib, cry, crown, crow, crayon, craft, crash, crack, crust
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Double Digit Subtraction WITH BORROWING
Science/ SS tie in: Rocks and Minerals
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), I Pick Up (Level B in Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: nap, map, cap, tap, clap
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Sight Words: an, am, at, can, up
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Completing addition facts with touch points and double touch points
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Two for Me, One for You (Level F, Reading A-Z)
Spelling Words: bake, take, make, rake, cape, tape, grape, shape, made, fade
New Vocabulary: waltz, shallow, spectacular, squat
Writing: Writing a complete sentence with punctuation
Math: Relating addition and subtraction, making fact families
Science/ SS tie in: Social Studies Unit 6- Government (local, state, and national)
Student E -
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud)
Words: Short vowel words in cvc pattern
Writing: Handwriting letters and numbers in isolation
Math: Skip counting by 10s
Weekly Newsletter 9-27-13
Fall is upon us!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10. We have introduced numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9. We have also started our first full unit in Wonders. We read the story "What About Bear?" and talked about what it means to be a good friend. We continued to work on the high frequency words “I” and “can” and we added the new high frequency word, “the.” Your homework story includes this word several times for added practice. Also, feel free to practice locating these words in any books you read together. Next week, we will be working on reading the high frequency words: “I”, “can”, and “the.” We will also be working on the letter sound for /m/ and practicing blending words. We will also focus on nouns and being able to talk about what we have read.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends wrapped up their unit on “We are Different, We are the Same.” We continued to practice the stories "Matt and Mike" and "Say Hello." We practiced answering comprehension questions and active participation activities for shapes, counting, and number identification. We continue to practice pre-writing strokes and writing our names. We also continue to work on emotions and following directions. As always, we continue to work hard on IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit will incorporate science concepts into our language arts and math activities.
This week our theme was Fall. We worked on many different fall themed activities to incorporate our theme. We created fall trees to match uppercase and lowercase letters, sequencing numbers, and identifying shapes. We also completed fall numbers to work on counting and number sets. We read Nuts to You and used peanuts to paint. We also created an acorn themed snack with Nilla Wafers, Hershey’s Kisses, and butterscotch chips! Yum! We created fall trees with cheese and crackers. We read the books Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze and Fall Leaves Fall. We also watched "Why Do Leaves Change Color?" and a Brain Pop Jr. video on fall.
Next week, we will begin the the Global Read Aloud Project. The project is international and engages students in learning using the same materials and exchanging ideas, projects, and information with other learners! Our group will focus on an Eric Carle author study. The first book we will be working with will be The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Like our other themes, we will focus many of our activities on this theme. If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, Miss Kolis’ students worked on the theme of Fall. We played Fall Bingo, read Nuts to You!, and even painted with acorns! We also sorted fall items and created Fall booklets. Students watched “Fall” on Brain Pop Jr. and used RAZ Kids to listen to the books Fall and The Four Seasons.
The Zones of Regulation will help our students recognize feelings in themselves and others. We have started to introduce the 4 Zones with the help of Mrs. Page, our COTA. Once we recognize the four zones, we will start to work on strategies to move between the zones. The Red Zone is when someone feels mad, angry, is yelling, is aggressive, or is overly excited. The Yellow Zone is when someone feels upset, overwhelmed, frustrated, scared, nervous, or worried. The Green Zone is when someone feels happy, calm, and ready to learn. The Blue Zone is when someone feels tired, bored, or sad. While we stress that ALL FEELINGS ARE OKAY, some behaviors that go with feelings are not. We’ll continue to incorporate these skills throughout the school year.
You can find more information about the Zones of Regulation by going to http://www.zonesofregulation.com/.
This week, we also introduced Marty McGuire so that we can begin the Global Read Aloud next week. We took a picture walk through the book and made predictions about the book. We decided that the book might be about a girl and a frog and the story might happen in a school. We are looking forward to finding out if our predictions are right!
All 5 students will receive a copy of the book Marty McGuire to read at home. Of course, we expect that you will read the chapters aloud to your child. :) We’ll have extra visuals that will come home each night in your child’s “Comprehension Notebook.” We’ll work on chapter 1 in the upcoming week.
If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Applesauce (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: bag, rag, tag, flag, nap, map, tap, clap
New Vocabulary: cursive, announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Sight Words: red, green, yellow
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science/ SS tie in: Rock and Minerals
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Scaredy Crow (Reading A-Z, Level F)
Spelling Words: grass, grab, crack, crab, clap, clam, glass, plans, play, plate
New Vocabulary: cursive, announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Double Digit Subtraction WITH BORROWING
Science/ SS tie in: Rocks and Minerals
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Applesauce (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: bag, rag, tag, flag
New Vocabulary: announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Sight Words: red, yellow, green
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science: Fall Weather
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Scaredy Crow (Reading A-Z, Level F)
Spelling Words: grass, grab, crack, crab, clap, clam, glass, plans, play, plate
New Vocabulary: cursive, announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Adding three numbers (3 + 2 + 1 = [ ]),
Science/ SS tie in: “Ready, Set, Science” unit on science tools and inquiry skills- scientist, tools, magnifying box, tape measure, hand lens, forceps, dropper (Test on Tuesday!)
Student E will be focused on previously mastered tasks.
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud)
Sight Words: preprimer Dolch sight words
Writing: Handwriting letters and numbers in isolation
Math: Skip counting by 2s
Science: Fall Weather
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Dates to Know:
September 30- Start the Global Read Aloud!
October 4- School Picture Day
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends began working on Chapter 2 of My Math. This chapter focuses on numbers 0-10. We have introduced numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9. We have also started our first full unit in Wonders. We read the story "What About Bear?" and talked about what it means to be a good friend. We continued to work on the high frequency words “I” and “can” and we added the new high frequency word, “the.” Your homework story includes this word several times for added practice. Also, feel free to practice locating these words in any books you read together. Next week, we will be working on reading the high frequency words: “I”, “can”, and “the.” We will also be working on the letter sound for /m/ and practicing blending words. We will also focus on nouns and being able to talk about what we have read.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends wrapped up their unit on “We are Different, We are the Same.” We continued to practice the stories "Matt and Mike" and "Say Hello." We practiced answering comprehension questions and active participation activities for shapes, counting, and number identification. We continue to practice pre-writing strokes and writing our names. We also continue to work on emotions and following directions. As always, we continue to work hard on IEP goals and objectives. Next week, we will begin our October unit, “Look Up In The Sky.” This unit will incorporate science concepts into our language arts and math activities.
This week our theme was Fall. We worked on many different fall themed activities to incorporate our theme. We created fall trees to match uppercase and lowercase letters, sequencing numbers, and identifying shapes. We also completed fall numbers to work on counting and number sets. We read Nuts to You and used peanuts to paint. We also created an acorn themed snack with Nilla Wafers, Hershey’s Kisses, and butterscotch chips! Yum! We created fall trees with cheese and crackers. We read the books Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze and Fall Leaves Fall. We also watched "Why Do Leaves Change Color?" and a Brain Pop Jr. video on fall.
Next week, we will begin the the Global Read Aloud Project. The project is international and engages students in learning using the same materials and exchanging ideas, projects, and information with other learners! Our group will focus on an Eric Carle author study. The first book we will be working with will be The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Like our other themes, we will focus many of our activities on this theme. If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, Miss Kolis’ students worked on the theme of Fall. We played Fall Bingo, read Nuts to You!, and even painted with acorns! We also sorted fall items and created Fall booklets. Students watched “Fall” on Brain Pop Jr. and used RAZ Kids to listen to the books Fall and The Four Seasons.
The Zones of Regulation will help our students recognize feelings in themselves and others. We have started to introduce the 4 Zones with the help of Mrs. Page, our COTA. Once we recognize the four zones, we will start to work on strategies to move between the zones. The Red Zone is when someone feels mad, angry, is yelling, is aggressive, or is overly excited. The Yellow Zone is when someone feels upset, overwhelmed, frustrated, scared, nervous, or worried. The Green Zone is when someone feels happy, calm, and ready to learn. The Blue Zone is when someone feels tired, bored, or sad. While we stress that ALL FEELINGS ARE OKAY, some behaviors that go with feelings are not. We’ll continue to incorporate these skills throughout the school year.
You can find more information about the Zones of Regulation by going to http://www.zonesofregulation.com/.
This week, we also introduced Marty McGuire so that we can begin the Global Read Aloud next week. We took a picture walk through the book and made predictions about the book. We decided that the book might be about a girl and a frog and the story might happen in a school. We are looking forward to finding out if our predictions are right!
All 5 students will receive a copy of the book Marty McGuire to read at home. Of course, we expect that you will read the chapters aloud to your child. :) We’ll have extra visuals that will come home each night in your child’s “Comprehension Notebook.” We’ll work on chapter 1 in the upcoming week.
If you are interested in getting more information about the Global Read Aloud, please go to www.globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com.
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Applesauce (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: bag, rag, tag, flag, nap, map, tap, clap
New Vocabulary: cursive, announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Sight Words: red, green, yellow
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science/ SS tie in: Rock and Minerals
Student B-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Scaredy Crow (Reading A-Z, Level F)
Spelling Words: grass, grab, crack, crab, clap, clam, glass, plans, play, plate
New Vocabulary: cursive, announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Double Digit Subtraction WITH BORROWING
Science/ SS tie in: Rocks and Minerals
Student C-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Applesauce (Reading A-Z, Level B)
Spelling Words: bag, rag, tag, flag
New Vocabulary: announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Sight Words: red, yellow, green
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science: Fall Weather
Student D-
Reading Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud), Scaredy Crow (Reading A-Z, Level F)
Spelling Words: grass, grab, crack, crab, clap, clam, glass, plans, play, plate
New Vocabulary: cursive, announcement, play, shimmery, patient
Writing: Form a response to a story, write it down with assistance
Math: Adding three numbers (3 + 2 + 1 = [ ]),
Science/ SS tie in: “Ready, Set, Science” unit on science tools and inquiry skills- scientist, tools, magnifying box, tape measure, hand lens, forceps, dropper (Test on Tuesday!)
Student E will be focused on previously mastered tasks.
Stories: Marty McGuire (chapter book for the Global Read Aloud)
Sight Words: preprimer Dolch sight words
Writing: Handwriting letters and numbers in isolation
Math: Skip counting by 2s
Science: Fall Weather
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Dates to Know:
September 30- Start the Global Read Aloud!
October 4- School Picture Day
Weekly Newsletter 9-20-13
And… the full moon is upon us… I’m sure none of you are surprised!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continue to work hard on Chapter 1 of My Math. Everyone is doing a wonderful job. We have worked on the skills of reading and writing numbers 0-5. We have also focused on the concepts of greater than, less than and equal to. Finally, we have started working on the concept of one more. We incorporated our weekly theme using apples to sort, count and graph. In language arts, we talked about things “I can” do for fun and with our families. We discussed our families, practiced our high frequency words, and practiced writing our letters. We have worked on practicing writing letters through letter Tt.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends, continue to work on their "We are Different, We are the Same" unit. We practiced answering “wh” questions and worked on active participation for reading and math. We also worked on identifying emotions and pre-writing skills. We also created a thematic craft that incorporated non-standard units of measurement and utilized measurement to create a recipe, Pudding Swirl. A copy of the recipe came home in your Friday folder. Please feel free to try it with your child at home. Finally, we continued to probe and work on IEP goals and objectives.
This week our theme was an Intro to Fall. Mrs. Shingleton’s group focused on Apples, since it is apple picking season. We read books including 10 Red Apples and 10 Apples Up on Top. We also created apple themed snacks like Applesauce Parfait and a great science experiment snack of Jello apples. We created an apple themed craft of Apple Windows and made apple prints. We even went “Apple Picking” right here in room 7. Students moved around the room to find the apples that Mrs. Shingleton had placed there.
We also participated in International Dot Day. This experience encourages students to “make their mark” and see where it takes them. The day is based around the wonderful story, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This book tells the story of a student who feels she has no ability to draw and the wonderful teacher who encourages her creativity and nurtures her talent. If you haven’t read the book, we would encourage you to check it out.
Next week, we will continue our Fall theme and focus more on the changing leaves. Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends will continue their unit on We Are Different, We Are the Same and focusing on IEP goals and objectives, while incorporating our weekly theme. Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends will begin Chapter 2 of My Math which focusing on number 0-10. We will also begin our unit in Language Arts that focuses on “What We Can Learn When We Try New Things.” This will also include the introduction of the high frequency word, “the.”
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, Miss Kolis’ students finished up their STARS assessments as well as worked on the introduction of Fall! When we come back on Monday, it will be fall! Here’s hoping it feels like Fall outside! We watched Brain Pop Jr. videos, read A-Z Readers, and even played a Bingo game all about Fall! Next week, we’ll continue with our Fall theme, and also start to introduce our chapter book for the Global Read Aloud, Marty McGuire.
All of Miss Kolis’ students will receive a copy of the book Marty McGuire to read at home. Of course, we expect you to read the chapters aloud to your child. :) We’ll have extra visuals that will come home each night as well. Next week, we’ll make some predictions and work on identifying the title and author.
We also participated in International Dot Day. This experience encourages students to “make their mark” and see where it takes them. The day is based around the wonderful story, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This book tells the story of a student who feels she has no ability to draw and the wonderful teacher who encourages her creativity and nurtures her talent. If you haven’t read the book, we would encourage you to check it out.
You will receive information on your child's score on the STARS assessment in Early Literacy. Some students also took the STARS Math and STARS Reading assessments. These assessments will never be used for a grade, but will only help me plan instruction for your child. These scores are for your information but should always be read with caution. Depending on your child's mood, sensory system, and attention to the computer on the day of testing, your child's score could vary from day to day. I will only be looking for growth over time.
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: at, mat, cat, rat, bat, hat, pat, fat, that, sat
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: at, an, can, man, in
Writing: Writing last name
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science/ SS tie in: Rock and Minerals, Fall Weather
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: has, ran, grab, sat, as, bats, flat, last, man, band, plan, grandma
New Vocabulary: Seasons, colorful
Writing: Writing a complete sentence about a picture
Math: Double Digit Subtraction
Science/ SS tie in: Rocks and Minerals
Student C-
Reading Stories: Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: at, mat, cat, rat, bat
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: an, can, at, man, in
Writing: Writing last name
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science: Fall Weather
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: has, ran, grab, sat, as, bats, flat, last, man, band, plan, grandma
New Vocabulary: scientist, tools, magnifying box, tape measure, hand lens, forceps, dropper
Writing: Write a complete sentence about a picture focusing on beginning capitalization
Math: Adding doubles (like 2+2, 3+3, etc), Making ten (using tens frames)
Science/ SS tie in: “Ready, Set, Science” unit on science tools and inquiry skills
Student E will be focused on previously mastered tasks.
Sight Words: preprimer Dolch sight words
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Counting groups of 11-20
Science: Fall Weather
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Dates to Know:
October 4- School Picture Day
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continue to work hard on Chapter 1 of My Math. Everyone is doing a wonderful job. We have worked on the skills of reading and writing numbers 0-5. We have also focused on the concepts of greater than, less than and equal to. Finally, we have started working on the concept of one more. We incorporated our weekly theme using apples to sort, count and graph. In language arts, we talked about things “I can” do for fun and with our families. We discussed our families, practiced our high frequency words, and practiced writing our letters. We have worked on practicing writing letters through letter Tt.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends, continue to work on their "We are Different, We are the Same" unit. We practiced answering “wh” questions and worked on active participation for reading and math. We also worked on identifying emotions and pre-writing skills. We also created a thematic craft that incorporated non-standard units of measurement and utilized measurement to create a recipe, Pudding Swirl. A copy of the recipe came home in your Friday folder. Please feel free to try it with your child at home. Finally, we continued to probe and work on IEP goals and objectives.
This week our theme was an Intro to Fall. Mrs. Shingleton’s group focused on Apples, since it is apple picking season. We read books including 10 Red Apples and 10 Apples Up on Top. We also created apple themed snacks like Applesauce Parfait and a great science experiment snack of Jello apples. We created an apple themed craft of Apple Windows and made apple prints. We even went “Apple Picking” right here in room 7. Students moved around the room to find the apples that Mrs. Shingleton had placed there.
We also participated in International Dot Day. This experience encourages students to “make their mark” and see where it takes them. The day is based around the wonderful story, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This book tells the story of a student who feels she has no ability to draw and the wonderful teacher who encourages her creativity and nurtures her talent. If you haven’t read the book, we would encourage you to check it out.
Next week, we will continue our Fall theme and focus more on the changing leaves. Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends will continue their unit on We Are Different, We Are the Same and focusing on IEP goals and objectives, while incorporating our weekly theme. Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends will begin Chapter 2 of My Math which focusing on number 0-10. We will also begin our unit in Language Arts that focuses on “What We Can Learn When We Try New Things.” This will also include the introduction of the high frequency word, “the.”
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, Miss Kolis’ students finished up their STARS assessments as well as worked on the introduction of Fall! When we come back on Monday, it will be fall! Here’s hoping it feels like Fall outside! We watched Brain Pop Jr. videos, read A-Z Readers, and even played a Bingo game all about Fall! Next week, we’ll continue with our Fall theme, and also start to introduce our chapter book for the Global Read Aloud, Marty McGuire.
All of Miss Kolis’ students will receive a copy of the book Marty McGuire to read at home. Of course, we expect you to read the chapters aloud to your child. :) We’ll have extra visuals that will come home each night as well. Next week, we’ll make some predictions and work on identifying the title and author.
We also participated in International Dot Day. This experience encourages students to “make their mark” and see where it takes them. The day is based around the wonderful story, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This book tells the story of a student who feels she has no ability to draw and the wonderful teacher who encourages her creativity and nurtures her talent. If you haven’t read the book, we would encourage you to check it out.
You will receive information on your child's score on the STARS assessment in Early Literacy. Some students also took the STARS Math and STARS Reading assessments. These assessments will never be used for a grade, but will only help me plan instruction for your child. These scores are for your information but should always be read with caution. Depending on your child's mood, sensory system, and attention to the computer on the day of testing, your child's score could vary from day to day. I will only be looking for growth over time.
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: at, mat, cat, rat, bat, hat, pat, fat, that, sat
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: at, an, can, man, in
Writing: Writing last name
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science/ SS tie in: Rock and Minerals, Fall Weather
Student B-
Reading Stories: The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: has, ran, grab, sat, as, bats, flat, last, man, band, plan, grandma
New Vocabulary: Seasons, colorful
Writing: Writing a complete sentence about a picture
Math: Double Digit Subtraction
Science/ SS tie in: Rocks and Minerals
Student C-
Reading Stories: Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: at, mat, cat, rat, bat
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: an, can, at, man, in
Writing: Writing last name
Math: Location of touch points on numbers 1-9, counting touch points on numbers 1-9 when completing addition
Science: Fall Weather
Student D-
Reading Stories: The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: has, ran, grab, sat, as, bats, flat, last, man, band, plan, grandma
New Vocabulary: scientist, tools, magnifying box, tape measure, hand lens, forceps, dropper
Writing: Write a complete sentence about a picture focusing on beginning capitalization
Math: Adding doubles (like 2+2, 3+3, etc), Making ten (using tens frames)
Science/ SS tie in: “Ready, Set, Science” unit on science tools and inquiry skills
Student E will be focused on previously mastered tasks.
Sight Words: preprimer Dolch sight words
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Counting groups of 11-20
Science: Fall Weather
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Dates to Know:
October 4- School Picture Day
Weekly Newsletter 9-13-13
After a crazy week with heat, sun, rain, and wind, we’ve made it to the weekend!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends took their STARS assessments in Mrs. Lastoria’s kindergarten room. We also worked on reading and writing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 0. Everyone is really doing an excellent job with their math lessons! We have started to utilize the SMART Board for our math lessons and everyone has been very engaged with these activities. We also read the story, We Are All Alike, We Are All Different. We talked about how everyone is the same and everyone is different. We discussed the ways our families are the same and different. We practiced the high frequency words of “I” and “can.” Please practice identifying these words whenever you come across them in print at home.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends worked on the September unit of “We are all the same, we are all different.” We read the story Matt and Mike. We practiced answering comprehension questions. We also practiced counting, identifying numbers, colors and shapes, and engaging in active participation when working. We continued to probe and work towards IEP goals and objectives, as well.
We all made english muffin pizzas and talked about how our pizzas are the same and how they are different. We also had some exciting sensory experiences using homemade cinnamon spice playdough and Gloop!
Next week, we will be focusing on an “Intro to Fall” theme. Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends will be working on Equal To, Greater Than and Less Than, and comparing numbers 0-5. We will also be working on the concept of 1 more and drawing a diagram. For language arts, we will be working on letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq and Rr. We will be working on phonological awareness and rhyming. We will also continue to practice our high frequency word, “can.” We will be working on the read alouds, Tikki Tikki Tembo and Teddy’s Week.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends will continue to work on the September lesson “We are all the same, We are all different.” We will work on the literary experiences of Different Just Like Me and Whoever You Are. We will continue to work on answering comprehension questions and active participation. We will continue to work on IEP goals and objectives.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we got a lot done! We took all of our STARS assessments on the computer. Depending on each student’s ability, he/she took a computer based assessment (without accommodations) in Early Literacy, Math, and/or Reading. All students will get a “benchmark score” (completed 3 times a year) and we’ll use the assessments to progress monitor (approx. every 2 weeks) your child as well. I have some concerns about the fact that we are not able to provide IEP accommodations for these assessments, however, the assessments will NEVER be used as a grade, but only help me to know how/what to plan for your child each week.
Also this week, we worked on the Daily 5 strategy called “Read to Self.” We learned that there are three ways to read to yourself including 1. Read the pictures. 2. Read the words. 3. Retell the story in your own words. We practiced these strategies with the books in our “Book Boxes.”
We also heard the stories We Are All Alike, We Are All Different and Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden. We presented our All About Me posters and shared what was alike and different about each of us. We’ll hang the posters up for Open House next week!
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises.
Remember that homework is highly recommended, but is optional. If you have a tough night with your child, skip the homework. If you need to keep the packet over the weekend, keep it. Homework is meant for practice and you can ALWAYS help. I NEVER grade homework assignments. Doing the homework with your child will only help your child to achieve and master concepts more quickly.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: You Can Go (Reading A-Z, level B), Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: an, man, can, fan, ran
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: an, can
Writing: Writing full name
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1) and a long (10), Addition numbers 1-5 using touch points
Science/ SS tie in: Jobs of a scientist, scientific method, tools of a scientist
Student B-
Reading Stories: Fishing with Grandpa (Reading A-Z, Level F), The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: fishing, walking, jumping, talking, laughing, sleeping, running, hopping, looking
New Vocabulary: Seasons, coloful
Writing: Writing a complete sentence about a picture
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100), double digit subtraction
Science/ SS tie in: Jobs of a scientist, scientific method, tools of a scientist
Student C-
Reading Stories: You Can Go (Reading A-Z, level B), Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: an, man, can, fan, ran
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: an, can
Writing: Writing full name
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1) and a long (10), Addition numbers 1-5 using touch points
Student D-
Reading Stories: Does It Sink or Float? (Reading A-Z, Level F), The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: fine, mine, dine, nine, pine, vine, dime, slime, hide, ride
New Vocabulary: scientist, tools, magnifying box, tape measure, hand lens, forceps, dropper
Writing: Write a complete sentence about a picture focusing on beginning capitalization
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1) and a long (10), subtraction using numbers 0-10
Science/ SS tie in: “Ready, Set, Science” unit on science tools and inquiry skills
Student E will be focused on previously mastered tasks.
Sight Words: preprimer Dolch sight words
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Counting groups of 11-20
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Dates to Know:
September 19- Grades 2 and 3 Open House at 6pm- Please come to Room 7 first! :)
October 4- School Picture Day
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends took their STARS assessments in Mrs. Lastoria’s kindergarten room. We also worked on reading and writing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 0. Everyone is really doing an excellent job with their math lessons! We have started to utilize the SMART Board for our math lessons and everyone has been very engaged with these activities. We also read the story, We Are All Alike, We Are All Different. We talked about how everyone is the same and everyone is different. We discussed the ways our families are the same and different. We practiced the high frequency words of “I” and “can.” Please practice identifying these words whenever you come across them in print at home.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends worked on the September unit of “We are all the same, we are all different.” We read the story Matt and Mike. We practiced answering comprehension questions. We also practiced counting, identifying numbers, colors and shapes, and engaging in active participation when working. We continued to probe and work towards IEP goals and objectives, as well.
We all made english muffin pizzas and talked about how our pizzas are the same and how they are different. We also had some exciting sensory experiences using homemade cinnamon spice playdough and Gloop!
Next week, we will be focusing on an “Intro to Fall” theme. Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends will be working on Equal To, Greater Than and Less Than, and comparing numbers 0-5. We will also be working on the concept of 1 more and drawing a diagram. For language arts, we will be working on letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq and Rr. We will be working on phonological awareness and rhyming. We will also continue to practice our high frequency word, “can.” We will be working on the read alouds, Tikki Tikki Tembo and Teddy’s Week.
Mrs. Shingleton’s second and third grade friends will continue to work on the September lesson “We are all the same, We are all different.” We will work on the literary experiences of Different Just Like Me and Whoever You Are. We will continue to work on answering comprehension questions and active participation. We will continue to work on IEP goals and objectives.
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we got a lot done! We took all of our STARS assessments on the computer. Depending on each student’s ability, he/she took a computer based assessment (without accommodations) in Early Literacy, Math, and/or Reading. All students will get a “benchmark score” (completed 3 times a year) and we’ll use the assessments to progress monitor (approx. every 2 weeks) your child as well. I have some concerns about the fact that we are not able to provide IEP accommodations for these assessments, however, the assessments will NEVER be used as a grade, but only help me to know how/what to plan for your child each week.
Also this week, we worked on the Daily 5 strategy called “Read to Self.” We learned that there are three ways to read to yourself including 1. Read the pictures. 2. Read the words. 3. Retell the story in your own words. We practiced these strategies with the books in our “Book Boxes.”
We also heard the stories We Are All Alike, We Are All Different and Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden. We presented our All About Me posters and shared what was alike and different about each of us. We’ll hang the posters up for Open House next week!
If you ever have questions or concerns about what we’re learning, the homework, or anything else about your child’s day, please let me know as soon as your question arises.
Remember that homework is highly recommended, but is optional. If you have a tough night with your child, skip the homework. If you need to keep the packet over the weekend, keep it. Homework is meant for practice and you can ALWAYS help. I NEVER grade homework assignments. Doing the homework with your child will only help your child to achieve and master concepts more quickly.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: You Can Go (Reading A-Z, level B), Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: an, man, can, fan, ran
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: an, can
Writing: Writing full name
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1) and a long (10), Addition numbers 1-5 using touch points
Science/ SS tie in: Jobs of a scientist, scientific method, tools of a scientist
Student B-
Reading Stories: Fishing with Grandpa (Reading A-Z, Level F), The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: fishing, walking, jumping, talking, laughing, sleeping, running, hopping, looking
New Vocabulary: Seasons, coloful
Writing: Writing a complete sentence about a picture
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100), double digit subtraction
Science/ SS tie in: Jobs of a scientist, scientific method, tools of a scientist
Student C-
Reading Stories: You Can Go (Reading A-Z, level B), Fall (Reading A-Z, level C)
Spelling Words: an, man, can, fan, ran
New Vocabulary: Fall, seasons, colorful
Sight Words: an, can
Writing: Writing full name
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1) and a long (10), Addition numbers 1-5 using touch points
Student D-
Reading Stories: Does It Sink or Float? (Reading A-Z, Level F), The Four Seasons (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: fine, mine, dine, nine, pine, vine, dime, slime, hide, ride
New Vocabulary: scientist, tools, magnifying box, tape measure, hand lens, forceps, dropper
Writing: Write a complete sentence about a picture focusing on beginning capitalization
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1) and a long (10), subtraction using numbers 0-10
Science/ SS tie in: “Ready, Set, Science” unit on science tools and inquiry skills
Student E will be focused on previously mastered tasks.
Sight Words: preprimer Dolch sight words
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Counting groups of 11-20
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Dates to Know:
September 19- Grades 2 and 3 Open House at 6pm- Please come to Room 7 first! :)
October 4- School Picture Day
Weekly Newsletter 9-6-13
We made it through this very short week with relative success! TGIF!
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on My Math. We completed Lessons 1 and 2. Homework for these lessons are in your yellow Room 7 Homework Folder. We also continued to work on the alphabet identification, order, and name identification and writing. We worked on the book “On Market Street” by Anita and Arnold Lobel. We also created a collage with pictures from the story and created a themed snack related to our story. Please find pictures of our cool snack below!
There are supplies to create letter cards at home in your yellow Room 7 homework folder. These are for you to keep and practice at home. You can play games like Memory, Go Fish, and What Comes Next.
Next week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends will begin working on Lessons 3 and 4 of My Math which reviews reading, writing and counting groups of 4 and 5. We will also work on our same and different and how we are the same and different. Finally, we will continue to work on writing letters and writing our name.
Mrs. Shingleton’s 2nd Grade friend began working on assessment and benchmarks for the Unique Learning System curriculum. We also worked on identification of personal information, requesting snack and sensory items, and completing all assigned work. For math, we worked on shapes identification and color identification.
Next week, Mrs. Shingleton’s 2nd Grade friend will begin Unit one of the Unique Learning System. This Unit is themed, “We are Different, We are Same.” We will also continue to work on IEP goals and objectives.
We all created a snack related to our name and practiced writing our names in a variety of different mediums. We really loved the Sensory Noodles! Please see the pictures below of our noodle fun!
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we all continued to get to know each other better and worked on remembering the names of our new friends and adults. I’m hopeful that your child can name the other kids in our group (4 other students + your child) and the adults (Kolis, Mrs. Vajda, Mr. Svozil, Mrs. E, Mrs. Arnold) by name. We were also introduced to the Daily 5 activity of “Listen to Reading.” “Listen to Reading” is a strategy in the Daily 5 that will improve reading fluency. We learned that there are 3 ways to listen to reading in Room 7: 1. Ask a teacher to read. 2. Use the computer. 3. Use an iPad. Your child will do “Listen to Reading” at least 3-4 times per week for 15-20 minutes each.
Our third grade students were also introduced to a new science concept. We talked about what a scientist looks like and does this week. We decided that a scientist asks lots of questions, forms hypotheses (good guesses), does experiments, draws conclusions (“tells what happened”), and shares information. This is also known as the scientific method. We practiced with a magnet experiment. We asked the question “What do magnets stick to?”
We did more assessing of IEP goals and objectives this week and should be ready to start some new topics next week. Our theme for the week will be “We are all different, we are all alike.” We will read lots of books about how we are all different, but also the same, and complete some projects like a Venn Diagram showing how we are both alike and different.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), We Pack a Picnic (Reading A-Z, level B)
Spelling Words: we, me, he, she, be, the, sleep, key
New Vocabulary: alike, different, scientist, experiment
Sight Words: we, they
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: What is a scientist? What is the scientific method?
Student B-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), Where is Cub? (Reading A-Z, level F)
Spelling Words: ride, hide, side, wide, tide, inside, bite, white, kite, invite
New Vocabulary: alike, different, scientist, experiment
Writing: Writing a complete sentence about a picture
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: What is a scientist? What is the scientific method?
Student C-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), We Pack a Picnic (Reading A-Z, level B)
Spelling Words: we, me, he, she, be, the, sleep, key
New Vocabulary: alike, different, scientist, experiment
Sight Words: we, they
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: What is a scientist? What is the scientific method?
Student D-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), City Places (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen (will take a pre-test on Monday to see which words we already know)
New Vocabulary: alike, different, suburban, urban, rural
Writing: Write a complete sentence about a picture focusing on beginning capitalization
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: Community, Neighborhood, Suburban, Urban, Rural
Student E-
Reading Stories:We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), The Hungry Goat (Reading A-Z, level B)
New Vocabulary: alike, different, hungry
Sight Words: ate
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Dates to Know:
September 19- Grades 2 and 3 Open House at 6pm
October 4- School Picture Day
Mrs. Shingleton’s Group:
This week Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends continued to work on My Math. We completed Lessons 1 and 2. Homework for these lessons are in your yellow Room 7 Homework Folder. We also continued to work on the alphabet identification, order, and name identification and writing. We worked on the book “On Market Street” by Anita and Arnold Lobel. We also created a collage with pictures from the story and created a themed snack related to our story. Please find pictures of our cool snack below!
There are supplies to create letter cards at home in your yellow Room 7 homework folder. These are for you to keep and practice at home. You can play games like Memory, Go Fish, and What Comes Next.
Next week, Mrs. Shingleton’s kindergarten friends will begin working on Lessons 3 and 4 of My Math which reviews reading, writing and counting groups of 4 and 5. We will also work on our same and different and how we are the same and different. Finally, we will continue to work on writing letters and writing our name.
Mrs. Shingleton’s 2nd Grade friend began working on assessment and benchmarks for the Unique Learning System curriculum. We also worked on identification of personal information, requesting snack and sensory items, and completing all assigned work. For math, we worked on shapes identification and color identification.
Next week, Mrs. Shingleton’s 2nd Grade friend will begin Unit one of the Unique Learning System. This Unit is themed, “We are Different, We are Same.” We will also continue to work on IEP goals and objectives.
We all created a snack related to our name and practiced writing our names in a variety of different mediums. We really loved the Sensory Noodles! Please see the pictures below of our noodle fun!
Miss Kolis’s Group:
This week, we all continued to get to know each other better and worked on remembering the names of our new friends and adults. I’m hopeful that your child can name the other kids in our group (4 other students + your child) and the adults (Kolis, Mrs. Vajda, Mr. Svozil, Mrs. E, Mrs. Arnold) by name. We were also introduced to the Daily 5 activity of “Listen to Reading.” “Listen to Reading” is a strategy in the Daily 5 that will improve reading fluency. We learned that there are 3 ways to listen to reading in Room 7: 1. Ask a teacher to read. 2. Use the computer. 3. Use an iPad. Your child will do “Listen to Reading” at least 3-4 times per week for 15-20 minutes each.
Our third grade students were also introduced to a new science concept. We talked about what a scientist looks like and does this week. We decided that a scientist asks lots of questions, forms hypotheses (good guesses), does experiments, draws conclusions (“tells what happened”), and shares information. This is also known as the scientific method. We practiced with a magnet experiment. We asked the question “What do magnets stick to?”
We did more assessing of IEP goals and objectives this week and should be ready to start some new topics next week. Our theme for the week will be “We are all different, we are all alike.” We will read lots of books about how we are all different, but also the same, and complete some projects like a Venn Diagram showing how we are both alike and different.
What else will we be working on next week?
Student A-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), We Pack a Picnic (Reading A-Z, level B)
Spelling Words: we, me, he, she, be, the, sleep, key
New Vocabulary: alike, different, scientist, experiment
Sight Words: we, they
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: What is a scientist? What is the scientific method?
Student B-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), Where is Cub? (Reading A-Z, level F)
Spelling Words: ride, hide, side, wide, tide, inside, bite, white, kite, invite
New Vocabulary: alike, different, scientist, experiment
Writing: Writing a complete sentence about a picture
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: What is a scientist? What is the scientific method?
Student C-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), We Pack a Picnic (Reading A-Z, level B)
Spelling Words: we, me, he, she, be, the, sleep, key
New Vocabulary: alike, different, scientist, experiment
Sight Words: we, they
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: What is a scientist? What is the scientific method?
Student D-
Reading Stories: We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), City Places (Reading A-Z, Level E)
Spelling Words: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen (will take a pre-test on Monday to see which words we already know)
New Vocabulary: alike, different, suburban, urban, rural
Writing: Write a complete sentence about a picture focusing on beginning capitalization
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Science/ SS tie in: Community, Neighborhood, Suburban, Urban, Rural
Student E-
Reading Stories:We Are All Alike… We Are All Different (trade book), Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden (trade book), The Hungry Goat (Reading A-Z, level B)
New Vocabulary: alike, different, hungry
Sight Words: ate
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Count with base ten blocks using a cube (1), a long (10), and a flat (100)
Dates to Know:
September 19- Grades 2 and 3 Open House at 6pm
October 4- School Picture Day
Weekly Newsletter 8-30-13
Well, we made it through our first full week, although the heat was stifling! Let's all keep our fingers crossed for some cooler weather in the upcoming weeks.
This week, Mrs. Shingleton's Kindergarten friends worked on the stories Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom, No David and David Goes to School. We worked on letter identification, alphabetical order, name recognition and following the rules. We also began working on our math curriculum. Mrs. Shingleton was very excited to see everyone do so well in the introductory review for math.
Next week, we will continue to get to know each other, practice our letters and continue to work on writing and reading our names. We will also continue to work on the concepts of more and less and writing numbers 1,2, and 3.
Mrs. Shingleton's 2nd grade friend worked on name identification and personal information identification. We also continued to work on probing IEP goals for summer regression and general getting to know you activities.
Next week, we will continue to collect data for regression and continue to work on our classroom theme of Getting to Know You.
Also this week, Miss Kolis' group worked on individual goals and objectives while also creating a list of rules for school. A booklet should've come home in your child's Friday Folder so that you can review the rules regularly with your child. We are also working on learning and remembering each others' names. We continue to learn more about each other and are enjoying hearing about your families and activities.
Next week, we'll continue to collect data on IEP goals and objectives to check for summer regression. We'll also take one more week under the theme of "Getting to Know You" before starting more thematic units in our classroom.
Lastly, feel free to send in an afternoon snack for your child each day. The afternoon gets long (and hot) and, when students ask for a snack, we sit down at the table together for snack time. We do not have any peanut allergies in the classroom, so you can send any snack with your child. Thanks!
What else will we be working on next week?
Grade 3:
Student A:
Story: It Is School Time (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling words this week. We'll start spelling next week.
Sight Words: Continue to work on assessing the EdMark sight word list.
Vocabulary Words: scientist
Writing: Continue to assess writing, can we label objects with correct phonetic or invented spelling?
Math: Continue to start learning where the touch points go on numbers 0-9, addition with numerals 0-5 using touch points OR a number line
Science/SS tie in: What is a scientist? What does a scientist do? What does a scientist look like?
Student B:
Story: Does it Sink or Float? (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling words this week. We'll start spelling next week.
Vocabulary Words: scientist
Writing: Continue to assess writing a sentence about a picture with capital letter and a period.
Math: Make sets of objects, compare the sets- Which group has more?
Science/SS tie in: What is a scientist? What does a scientist do? What does a scientist look like?
Student C:
Story: It Is School Time (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling words this week. We'll start spelling next week.
Sight Words: Continue to work on assessing the EdMark sight word list.
Vocabulary Words: scientist
Writing: Continue to assess writing, can we label objects with correct phonetic or invented spelling?
Math: Continue to start learning where the touch points go on numbers 0-9, addition with numerals 0-5 using touch points OR a number line
Science/SS tie in: What is a scientist? What does a scientist do? What does a scientist look like?
Grade 2:
Student D:
Story: Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon
Spelling: orange, purple, green, white, brown, black (Pre-Test was taken on Friday 8/30, post test on Friday 9/6)
Sight Words: work, write
Vocabulary Words: community, rules, neighborhood
Writing: Write a sentence about a picture with capital letters and periods.
Math: Continue to assess IEP goals and objectives- addition and subtraction.
Science/SS tie in: Neighborhoods and Communities
Student E:
Story: It Is School Time (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling this week. We may start a spelling list next week.
Sight Words: down, look
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Addition with touch points, numbers 0-5
Science/SS tie in: Explicitly defining rules of the classroom and school
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Dates to Know:
Monday, Sept. 2nd- No School! Labor Day
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd- No School for students, "In-service day" for teachers
Thursday, Sept. 19th- Second and Third Grade Open House
This week, Mrs. Shingleton's Kindergarten friends worked on the stories Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom, No David and David Goes to School. We worked on letter identification, alphabetical order, name recognition and following the rules. We also began working on our math curriculum. Mrs. Shingleton was very excited to see everyone do so well in the introductory review for math.
Next week, we will continue to get to know each other, practice our letters and continue to work on writing and reading our names. We will also continue to work on the concepts of more and less and writing numbers 1,2, and 3.
Mrs. Shingleton's 2nd grade friend worked on name identification and personal information identification. We also continued to work on probing IEP goals for summer regression and general getting to know you activities.
Next week, we will continue to collect data for regression and continue to work on our classroom theme of Getting to Know You.
Also this week, Miss Kolis' group worked on individual goals and objectives while also creating a list of rules for school. A booklet should've come home in your child's Friday Folder so that you can review the rules regularly with your child. We are also working on learning and remembering each others' names. We continue to learn more about each other and are enjoying hearing about your families and activities.
Next week, we'll continue to collect data on IEP goals and objectives to check for summer regression. We'll also take one more week under the theme of "Getting to Know You" before starting more thematic units in our classroom.
Lastly, feel free to send in an afternoon snack for your child each day. The afternoon gets long (and hot) and, when students ask for a snack, we sit down at the table together for snack time. We do not have any peanut allergies in the classroom, so you can send any snack with your child. Thanks!
What else will we be working on next week?
Grade 3:
Student A:
Story: It Is School Time (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling words this week. We'll start spelling next week.
Sight Words: Continue to work on assessing the EdMark sight word list.
Vocabulary Words: scientist
Writing: Continue to assess writing, can we label objects with correct phonetic or invented spelling?
Math: Continue to start learning where the touch points go on numbers 0-9, addition with numerals 0-5 using touch points OR a number line
Science/SS tie in: What is a scientist? What does a scientist do? What does a scientist look like?
Student B:
Story: Does it Sink or Float? (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling words this week. We'll start spelling next week.
Vocabulary Words: scientist
Writing: Continue to assess writing a sentence about a picture with capital letter and a period.
Math: Make sets of objects, compare the sets- Which group has more?
Science/SS tie in: What is a scientist? What does a scientist do? What does a scientist look like?
Student C:
Story: It Is School Time (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling words this week. We'll start spelling next week.
Sight Words: Continue to work on assessing the EdMark sight word list.
Vocabulary Words: scientist
Writing: Continue to assess writing, can we label objects with correct phonetic or invented spelling?
Math: Continue to start learning where the touch points go on numbers 0-9, addition with numerals 0-5 using touch points OR a number line
Science/SS tie in: What is a scientist? What does a scientist do? What does a scientist look like?
Grade 2:
Student D:
Story: Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon
Spelling: orange, purple, green, white, brown, black (Pre-Test was taken on Friday 8/30, post test on Friday 9/6)
Sight Words: work, write
Vocabulary Words: community, rules, neighborhood
Writing: Write a sentence about a picture with capital letters and periods.
Math: Continue to assess IEP goals and objectives- addition and subtraction.
Science/SS tie in: Neighborhoods and Communities
Student E:
Story: It Is School Time (from Reading A-Z)
Spelling: No spelling this week. We may start a spelling list next week.
Sight Words: down, look
Writing: Label objects in writing
Math: Addition with touch points, numbers 0-5
Science/SS tie in: Explicitly defining rules of the classroom and school
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Dates to Know:
Monday, Sept. 2nd- No School! Labor Day
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd- No School for students, "In-service day" for teachers
Thursday, Sept. 19th- Second and Third Grade Open House
Weekly Newsletter 8-24-13
It's been a great first 3 days in Room 7 at Highland and we're looking forward to completing our group this week with Kindergarteners!
This past week, we worked on getting to know each and every student, gaining rapport with each, and helping them to get to know each other. We're working hard to bring everyone together to form a great Room 7 family this year.
We read the books Clifford's First Day of School, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books, and My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems. We also started collecting data on IEP goals to check for summer regression.
Looking ahead, we'll spend the next week getting to know our students even better. We'll welcome our friends in Kindergarten and continue to establish our classroom routines and expectations. We'll also work to begin incorporating individual behavior plans.
Students working with Miss Kolis will receive a homework packet on Monday that will indicate a letter. Based on the letter you receive next week, Miss Kolis will then indicate, in the Weekly Newsletter, what your child will be working on in the upcoming week. It may look something like this:
Student A in 3rd grade:
Reading: read the story This Turtle, work on short vowel words
Writing: writing one complete sentence about a picture cue
Math: addition with single digits
Science: rocks and minerals
Using the format above, you'll know what concepts your child is focusing on each week. Similarly, students working with Mrs. Shingleton will receive homework folders on Fridays with activities and ideas for practice. All activities are for practice at home and do not need to be turned in to school. Please return the homework folder every Monday, so the next weeks activities can be assigned.
Additionally, several parents have asked about coming in to observe in our classroom. We'll follow the district policy of two 30 minute observations per month only with two or fewer observers. The observation time and date must be mutually agreed upon. You will be asked to sign the district policy about confidentiality when you arrive.
Lastly, we want to thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we all adjust to the changes that have occurred this school year. Every student (and parent), teacher, and aide are adjusting to new settings, new teachers, new aides, new policies, new philosophies, new forms of communication, and more! It may take some time to work it all out, but we assure you, we will! Thanks again for your patience!
Dates to Know:
August 30th- Elementary Night at the BEES Football game, Tailgate party before
Sept. 3rd- No School for Students
Weekly Newsletters 2013-2014
A Weekly Newsletter will be posted here on Friday of each school week. We will post the latest newsletter on top of the previous week's newsletter.
Summer Newsletter 2013
Dear Parents, July 2013
We hope that you are enjoying a wonderful summer vacation with your children at home! Hopefully you’ve been able to catch some sunshine between the storm clouds. We have so much to tell you!
First, you are receiving this letter from your child’s new special education teacher/ case manager in Room 7 at Highland Drive Elementary School. The 2013-2014 school year promises to be one of changes, challenges, and countless successes!
For the 2013-2014 school year, your child’s special ed. teacher/ case manager is
Miss Morgan Kolis Mrs. Corey Shingleton
In Room 7, we will have 2 co-teachers (Kolis and Shingleton), 5-6 special education aides, and 10 students with varying moderate to intensive special needs. Currently, we are preparing for 3 girls and 7 boys.
Miss Kolis is coming to Highland Drive Elementary with 10 years of experience as a special education teacher. She has worked at Hilton School in the BBH City Schools for the last 9 years. She has teaching licenses in Early Childhood Education (preK-3) and as an Intervention Specialist (K-12), along with a Reading Endorsement (K-12) from the state of Ohio. She also has a Masters in Educational Technology and is currently working on another certificate as a Behavior Intervention Specialist. For more information about Miss Kolis, please go to our new web page at http://www.room7highland.weebly.com.
Mrs. Shingleton is coming to Highland Drive Elementary with 11 years of experience as a special education teacher and supervisor at The Monarch School. She has a Bachelor's degree in Education Studies and a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She holds an Intervention Specialist License and is currently pursuing an additional endorsement from Kent State University. For more information about Mrs. Shingleton, please go to our new web page at http://www.room7highland.weebly.com.
Please read through the attached pages for more information about Room 7 at Highland Drive Elementary School.
We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and look forward to the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year!
Sincerely,
Morgan Kolis and Corey Shingleton
Terms Used That May Be Specific To Room 7 at Highland Drive Elementary:
AAC- Assistive Augmentative Communication- as in an iPad used for communication, a Dynavox Xpress, a Vantage or Vantage Lite, Springboard, etc.
AT- Assistive Technology- This can be as simple as a calculator or picture schedule to as high-tech as an iPad or computer.
Apps- short for “Applications”, as in the programs/games/software used on an iPad, iPod, iPhone, or iTouch
Blog- A web log or written account of activities or information on the internet
Case Manager- Your child’s “case manager” is Morgan Kolis and/or Corey Shingleton. A case manager is the “point person” on your child’s IEP team. This person is responsible for coordinating schedules of therapies, maintaining the IEP, communicating to all members of the IEP team, etc.
Decodable Books (also called Leveled Readers)- These small books (may be orange, blue, red, or printed in black and white depending on what grade level/reading level your child is working on) are made up almost entirely of words that can be sounded out and simple sight words. These books are used often during one to one reading instruction or guided reading groups, and are often sent home for homework.
Dolch Sight Words- This is a list of the most common sight words broken down into 5 lists. The Preprimer and Primer list are typically mastered in Kindergarten while List One corresponds to first grade, List Two to second grade, and List Three to third grade.
E-Portfolio- An “Electronic Portfolio” will be your child’s own website or electronic display of your child’s work (with your signed permission and privacy settings) depending on your child’s level. If your child will have an e-portfolio, you will get more information about this when the school year begins.
Friday Folder- Every Friday, your child will bring home a folder with his/her papers from Room 7 from the previous school week. Any papers that come home in the Friday Folder are yours to keep. Please empty the folder, sign the paper to indicate you’ve received the folder, and send it back to school on Monday.
Global Read Aloud- This is a project that we’ll be completing this school year. There is more information on the last page of this newsletter.
Glog- A graphic blog like those found on edu.glogster.com.
Homepage- This is the web site that your child and our special education aides will see when they log onto the desk top computers in Room 7. The link is www.protopage.com/morgankolis. Feel free to use this at home as well.
Homeroom Teacher- This is your child’s “regular education teacher.” Depending on your child’s IEP, his/her homeroom teacher may be responsible for teaching science, social studies, language arts, and/or math. Attendance, lunch count, and class parties will be handled by the homeroom teacher.
Homework- Homework is individualized to fit your child’s needs. You can ALWAYS help with homework. Homework is never “graded” or used as an “assessment” in Room 7. Feedback on homework is appreciated.
IEP Team- Your child’s IEP Team consists of these people: Parents (and any advocate, grandparents, etc. that you bring), School Principal or other district representative, School Psychologist, Intervention Specialist, Regular Education Teacher (aka Homeroom Teacher), Speech and Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist (if applicable), Physical Therapist (if applicable), Audiologist (if applicable), any other service provider necessary.
Intervention Specialist- This is another term for “Special Education Teacher.” Either term can be used to describe Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton at Highland Drive.
iOS- This is the Operating System used in the iPad, iPod, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Microblogging- Using a web site like “Twitter” for small bursts of information
RAZ Kids- This is an online reading program supplemental to the Reading A-Z program. You will get a username and password for your child if you do not already have one.
Reading A-Z- This is a reading program that we often use in Room 5. This is supplemental to the Harcourt Reading Series (and the new Language Arts series, Wonders) and other methodologies/strategies that we use to teach reading.
Red (soft cover) Reading Book- This is a soft cover book that SECOND or THIRD GRADERS may be reading from this school year.
Room 7- In other buildings or school districts, our “kind” of resource room may be referred to as the “CD Unit,” “MH Unit,” or “MD Unit.” We prefer to call our classroom “Room 7.” We believe that Room 7 is just another classroom in the building where learning takes place. The state of Ohio categorizes our room as “cross categorical.”
Sight Words- These are words that cannot be “sounded out.” These words are sometimes called “popcorn words” or “high frequency words” as well. You can find the complete lists of sight words on our blog page under Language Arts (also see Dolch sight words).
Take Home Folder- This is the folder that your child should bring home every day with announcements, paperwork, etc. from homeroom and Room 7.
Touch Math and Touch Money- These are the math programs that we will use in Room 7, along with other supplementals and manipulatives.
Touch Points- This is a math term used by the Touch Math Program. You will find touch points on numbers 1-5 and on the coins (nickel, dime, and quarter). You will find “double touch points” on numbers 6-9.
People You May Need to Know at Highland Drive
Eva O’Mara- Highland Drive Principal- [email protected]
Linda Schultz, administrative assistant- [email protected]
Morgan Kolis, case manager/ special ed. teacher- [email protected]
Corey Shingleton, case manager/ special ed. teacher- [email protected]
Cathy McKee, school psychologist- [email protected]
Shari Hodgson, speech and language therapist- [email protected]
Tina Page, COTA- [email protected]
Shannon Kerns, OT- [email protected]
Bambi Shea, PTA- [email protected]
Lisa Dietsche, PT- [email protected]
Dr. Brigid Whitford, audiologist- [email protected]
Ann Kelley, school counselor- [email protected]
2013-2014 Room 7 Supply List
First, let us say, you are NOT required to provide any of these things… And, if you’ve already gotten them for your grade level supply list, please DO NOT feel you need to bring ANY of these items (we can share between classes).
Nothing has to be “brand-specific” as we can use generic or name brands! Anything that is not on the list, we can provide in Room 7!
Room 7 Supplies Needed:
- 3 large glue sticks
- 1 plastic folder with pockets, any color
- 3 rolls of paper towels
- 2 cans/tubes of disinfecting cleaning wipes or spray
- 1 box of Velcro (or generic brand of “hook and loop tape”)
- 1 pack of markers (any brand or colors)
- 1 plastic shoe box (available at the Dollar Store for $1)
Please label the plastic folder with your child’s name. All other materials do not need labels.
We hope that you are enjoying a wonderful summer vacation with your children at home! Hopefully you’ve been able to catch some sunshine between the storm clouds. We have so much to tell you!
First, you are receiving this letter from your child’s new special education teacher/ case manager in Room 7 at Highland Drive Elementary School. The 2013-2014 school year promises to be one of changes, challenges, and countless successes!
For the 2013-2014 school year, your child’s special ed. teacher/ case manager is
Miss Morgan Kolis Mrs. Corey Shingleton
In Room 7, we will have 2 co-teachers (Kolis and Shingleton), 5-6 special education aides, and 10 students with varying moderate to intensive special needs. Currently, we are preparing for 3 girls and 7 boys.
Miss Kolis is coming to Highland Drive Elementary with 10 years of experience as a special education teacher. She has worked at Hilton School in the BBH City Schools for the last 9 years. She has teaching licenses in Early Childhood Education (preK-3) and as an Intervention Specialist (K-12), along with a Reading Endorsement (K-12) from the state of Ohio. She also has a Masters in Educational Technology and is currently working on another certificate as a Behavior Intervention Specialist. For more information about Miss Kolis, please go to our new web page at http://www.room7highland.weebly.com.
Mrs. Shingleton is coming to Highland Drive Elementary with 11 years of experience as a special education teacher and supervisor at The Monarch School. She has a Bachelor's degree in Education Studies and a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She holds an Intervention Specialist License and is currently pursuing an additional endorsement from Kent State University. For more information about Mrs. Shingleton, please go to our new web page at http://www.room7highland.weebly.com.
Please read through the attached pages for more information about Room 7 at Highland Drive Elementary School.
We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and look forward to the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year!
Sincerely,
Morgan Kolis and Corey Shingleton
Terms Used That May Be Specific To Room 7 at Highland Drive Elementary:
AAC- Assistive Augmentative Communication- as in an iPad used for communication, a Dynavox Xpress, a Vantage or Vantage Lite, Springboard, etc.
AT- Assistive Technology- This can be as simple as a calculator or picture schedule to as high-tech as an iPad or computer.
Apps- short for “Applications”, as in the programs/games/software used on an iPad, iPod, iPhone, or iTouch
Blog- A web log or written account of activities or information on the internet
Case Manager- Your child’s “case manager” is Morgan Kolis and/or Corey Shingleton. A case manager is the “point person” on your child’s IEP team. This person is responsible for coordinating schedules of therapies, maintaining the IEP, communicating to all members of the IEP team, etc.
Decodable Books (also called Leveled Readers)- These small books (may be orange, blue, red, or printed in black and white depending on what grade level/reading level your child is working on) are made up almost entirely of words that can be sounded out and simple sight words. These books are used often during one to one reading instruction or guided reading groups, and are often sent home for homework.
Dolch Sight Words- This is a list of the most common sight words broken down into 5 lists. The Preprimer and Primer list are typically mastered in Kindergarten while List One corresponds to first grade, List Two to second grade, and List Three to third grade.
E-Portfolio- An “Electronic Portfolio” will be your child’s own website or electronic display of your child’s work (with your signed permission and privacy settings) depending on your child’s level. If your child will have an e-portfolio, you will get more information about this when the school year begins.
Friday Folder- Every Friday, your child will bring home a folder with his/her papers from Room 7 from the previous school week. Any papers that come home in the Friday Folder are yours to keep. Please empty the folder, sign the paper to indicate you’ve received the folder, and send it back to school on Monday.
Global Read Aloud- This is a project that we’ll be completing this school year. There is more information on the last page of this newsletter.
Glog- A graphic blog like those found on edu.glogster.com.
Homepage- This is the web site that your child and our special education aides will see when they log onto the desk top computers in Room 7. The link is www.protopage.com/morgankolis. Feel free to use this at home as well.
Homeroom Teacher- This is your child’s “regular education teacher.” Depending on your child’s IEP, his/her homeroom teacher may be responsible for teaching science, social studies, language arts, and/or math. Attendance, lunch count, and class parties will be handled by the homeroom teacher.
Homework- Homework is individualized to fit your child’s needs. You can ALWAYS help with homework. Homework is never “graded” or used as an “assessment” in Room 7. Feedback on homework is appreciated.
IEP Team- Your child’s IEP Team consists of these people: Parents (and any advocate, grandparents, etc. that you bring), School Principal or other district representative, School Psychologist, Intervention Specialist, Regular Education Teacher (aka Homeroom Teacher), Speech and Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist (if applicable), Physical Therapist (if applicable), Audiologist (if applicable), any other service provider necessary.
Intervention Specialist- This is another term for “Special Education Teacher.” Either term can be used to describe Miss Kolis and Mrs. Shingleton at Highland Drive.
iOS- This is the Operating System used in the iPad, iPod, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Microblogging- Using a web site like “Twitter” for small bursts of information
RAZ Kids- This is an online reading program supplemental to the Reading A-Z program. You will get a username and password for your child if you do not already have one.
Reading A-Z- This is a reading program that we often use in Room 5. This is supplemental to the Harcourt Reading Series (and the new Language Arts series, Wonders) and other methodologies/strategies that we use to teach reading.
Red (soft cover) Reading Book- This is a soft cover book that SECOND or THIRD GRADERS may be reading from this school year.
Room 7- In other buildings or school districts, our “kind” of resource room may be referred to as the “CD Unit,” “MH Unit,” or “MD Unit.” We prefer to call our classroom “Room 7.” We believe that Room 7 is just another classroom in the building where learning takes place. The state of Ohio categorizes our room as “cross categorical.”
Sight Words- These are words that cannot be “sounded out.” These words are sometimes called “popcorn words” or “high frequency words” as well. You can find the complete lists of sight words on our blog page under Language Arts (also see Dolch sight words).
Take Home Folder- This is the folder that your child should bring home every day with announcements, paperwork, etc. from homeroom and Room 7.
Touch Math and Touch Money- These are the math programs that we will use in Room 7, along with other supplementals and manipulatives.
Touch Points- This is a math term used by the Touch Math Program. You will find touch points on numbers 1-5 and on the coins (nickel, dime, and quarter). You will find “double touch points” on numbers 6-9.
People You May Need to Know at Highland Drive
Eva O’Mara- Highland Drive Principal- [email protected]
Linda Schultz, administrative assistant- [email protected]
Morgan Kolis, case manager/ special ed. teacher- [email protected]
Corey Shingleton, case manager/ special ed. teacher- [email protected]
Cathy McKee, school psychologist- [email protected]
Shari Hodgson, speech and language therapist- [email protected]
Tina Page, COTA- [email protected]
Shannon Kerns, OT- [email protected]
Bambi Shea, PTA- [email protected]
Lisa Dietsche, PT- [email protected]
Dr. Brigid Whitford, audiologist- [email protected]
Ann Kelley, school counselor- [email protected]
2013-2014 Room 7 Supply List
First, let us say, you are NOT required to provide any of these things… And, if you’ve already gotten them for your grade level supply list, please DO NOT feel you need to bring ANY of these items (we can share between classes).
Nothing has to be “brand-specific” as we can use generic or name brands! Anything that is not on the list, we can provide in Room 7!
Room 7 Supplies Needed:
- 3 large glue sticks
- 1 plastic folder with pockets, any color
- 3 rolls of paper towels
- 2 cans/tubes of disinfecting cleaning wipes or spray
- 1 box of Velcro (or generic brand of “hook and loop tape”)
- 1 pack of markers (any brand or colors)
- 1 plastic shoe box (available at the Dollar Store for $1)
Please label the plastic folder with your child’s name. All other materials do not need labels.