Grandparents Day

It was so nice having our grandparents and other special family members for lunch!! We love our families!

Our Thanksgiving Kinderfeast!!

Thank you SO much to all our parents who contributed food, drinks, silverware, napkins, and plates to our Kindergarten Thanksgiving "re-enaction." A special Thank You to Mrs. Farmwald for coordinating the Feast. We had so much fun and everything was delicious!! Mrs Wilson and I hope you all had a blessed and joyful Thanksgiving! We are so thankful for you and your children!

Halloween Fun!!

We had SO much fun on Halloween Day here at EJES!!  We counted and graphed bones and candy corn in Mrs. Detweiler's classroom;  we wrote about little pumpkins sitting on a gate in Mrs. Harmon's class; we learned about safety on Halloween Day and danced to fun Halloween songs in Mrs. Lausier's class; we re-enacted the story The Little Old Lady who was not Afraid of Anything and sequenced it back in order in our class, and we went on a fall walk outside and found pumpkins that we decorated and took home!!
A big THANK YOU to Andy Farmwald's mom for donating pumpkins and decorations to the whole class! The look on the kids' faces when they saw the pumpkins was priceless! :) Thank you also to Lily Currere's mom for the Halloween bags and craft, and to Jordan Richter's mom for providing snacks for the class.  Mrs. Wilson and I could not do all this without your thoughtfulness and generosity.  You all made our day so much more fun and memorable!

In School Field Trip with the Chattahoochee Nature Center

Kindergarten News!!

Here are some of the things we are currently learning about in our class:

Language Arts and Reading: 

·         We are comparing and contrasting fiction and non fiction books.  When you read to your child, ask: “is this book fiction or non fiction?  How do you know?

·         We are counting syllables in words.  Here are some strategies that we use:  clap as you say the word; put your hand under your chin and count how many times you open your mouth when you say a word; robot talk.

·         We are learning about rhyming words.  “How do you know when two words rhyme?  Tell me another word that rhymes with this word.”

·         We are working on decoding 3-letter words by sounding them out (ex:  c-a-t says cat!). 

 Math: 

·         We are comparing numbers using the words greater than, less than, and equal to.  We are also learning to use the symbols <, >, and =

·         We are composing and decomposing numbers 11-20 using ten frames.

·         We are still learning to count to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s.

·         We are learning to count sets of objects from 0-20 and write the matching number.

Science and Social Studies: 

·         In Science, we are learning about day and night.  What can you see in the day sky?  In the night sky?  What is the same?  What is different?  Does the sun move?  Does Earth move?  How?  Why can we see the moon at night?  What animals come out at night? 

·         In Social Studies, we will start our Thanksgiving unit at the beginning of November.  Our focus questions will be:  What is Thanksgiving?  Why and how do we celebrate it?  Who were the Pilgrims?  How and why did they come to America?  How did the Pilgrims and the Native Americans interact?  What can we learn from them?

As always, thank you so much for your help and support!  Continue to practice sight words with your child, counting to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s.  Read to your child,  or have your child read to you every night for at least 10 minutes! 

We can find sight words in poems!

Today, we were detectives trying to find sight words in our weekly poem I Can Hop!  We found the words can, I, a, at, go, like, and to.

Remember to practice reading our sight words with your child at home!  You can spy sight words in newsletters, magazines, books, recipes, signs, and so much more!  You can also write sight words in pairs on index cards and play a memory game!  Learning is so much more exciting when it is fun! 

 

We love our book buddies!!

Mrs. V's second grade class came to our classroom last Friday to read with us.  Her students are going to be our book buddies for the year and we are SO excited!!  Reading is much more exciting with our book buddies!!

Specials Changes!!

Attention parents!

We've had a change of schedule.  We now have P.E on Mondays and Wednesdays, and we will rotate our specials on Fridays.  Here is the Friday rotation schedule:

Mrs. Long’s Friday Rotations for Specials

Sept 12^th Art

Sept 19^th P.E.

Sept 26^nd Music

Oct. 3rd Health

Oct. 10th Art

Oct. 17^th P.E.

Oct. 24th Music

Oct. 31^st Health

Nov. 7th Art

Nov. 14th P.E.

Nov. 21^st Music

Nov. 28th No School Thanksgiving

As always, make sure your child has on tennis shoes on our P.E days.  Thanks!!

Classroom News!!

This is what we are learning about this month:

 Language Arts:

• letter names and sounds
• simple sight words (ex:  I, at, my, the, like, a).  Please practice sight words with your child at home. I put the list of all the sight words we'll be learning throughout the year in your child's folder.  Let me know if you did not get one.
• tracking text in a book from left to right and top to bottom
• actively engaging in group discussions and answering questions during read-alouds
• story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
• the difference between a letter, a word, and a sentence

 Math:

• 2D and 3D shapes
• positional words
• counting to 100 by ones and by 10's

Social Studies:

• Labor Day
• Community workers
• rules

Please practice these skills with your child at home.  
Thank you so much as always with your help and support!

Donuts for Dad!!

It was so much fun having our dads, grandparents, and other family members at school last Friday!! 

 Thank you for your support!