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Mrs. Guerrero & Ms. Lane – Kindergarten
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintHappy New Year! This is what we will be doing for the next couple of weeks:
Religion – We are working on a book about the life of Jesus. We are reading the Bible and learning about Jesus’ life and the many miracles He performed.
Language Arts – Wind is the new unit we will learn about! Our goals are to learn about the wind through books, pictures, discussion, and active experimentation. We will learn about informational prose and its difference from narrative. And finally, we will learn about informational writing and illustration. We will continue to work on letters, sounds, blending, segmenting, and fluency when reading. Decodable books are going home each evening. Please have your child read his/her decodable each night. This will build fluency! We read “The Mitten,” and we had fun making milkshakes with our mittens. Below are some pictures of us making milkshakes, YUMMM!
Acting out The Mittens
We had fun making milkshakes wearing our mittens!
Math – Our goals for this month are to continue to recognize numerals 1 – 60, order numerals on a number line, count by 5′s and 10′s, identify missing numeral on a number line, solve simple subtraction problems, discriminate between subtraction and addition stories, make AB, AABB, and ABC patterns, recognize and name hexagon.
Science – We have been learning about PETS. We will know how to identify and classify pets. We will learn how to identify how animals move, body coverings, and what animals need in order to live. The creature teacher will be visiting us in January! We can’t wait to see all of the animals!
Social Studies – We will learn about the planets in our solar system! We will learn interesting facts about each planet and make a rocket book about what we have learned! We will learn how we are a part of the universe!
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Environmental Club
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
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Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 7, from 3:30 – 4:00 in Mrs. Fabian’s room.
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Mrs. Guerrero, M.Ed. and Ms. Lane – Kindergarten
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintHappy Thanksgiving!
The kindergarten classes are busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. We have enjoyed making books about Thanksgiving, singing poems, making turkeys, and creating Pilgrim and Indian costumes! Below are some pictures of what we have been doing:
This is what we will be doing:
Religion – We are continuing to learn about saints and how we can be a saint! We will learn about advent and how we can get ready for the birth of Jesus. We will visit a nursing home before Christmas and bring to the nursing home residents the spirit of Christmas and some special gifts. Fourth grade will be helping us! Parents are invited to attend!
Language Arts – Finding Friends is our unit we will be studying this quarter. We will learn about friends through books, learn about literary features of stories, and begin the story writing process. Our goals are to retell and summarize stories, identify similarities and differences in literary elements, and use pictures, print, and people to gather information about people.
Math – We will continue to work with numerals – counting, sequencing, making ten frames and tallies, counting on from numbers other than 1, and identifying and writing missing numerals. For geometry, the children will make patterns, compare shapes, and sort objects. For measurement, children will identify penny, nickel, and dime, tell value and count pennies and dimes. We will continue to celebrate the 10th days of school by counting to 100 and singing along with Zero the Hero.
Science – We will identify characteristics of pets! We will learn about the characteristics of pets, how to care for pets, animal coverings, how animals move, and what animals need to live. The creature teacher will come to St. Elizabeth and bring her pets to show the kids!
Social Studies – We will learn about the First Thanksgiving. We will also learn how other countries celebrate Christmas!
Have a great month!
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Environmental Club
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintOur next meeting will be Tuesday, December 6th in Mrs. Fabian’s room from 3:30 – 4:00.
We are not following the watering schedule for our garden. We will ask your child to come help water the plants before or after school. We are making sure that each child will get a turn.
Here are some pictures of us planting our new garden!
Thank you for your support!
Mrs. Fabian, Mrs. Guerrero, and Ms. Lane
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Mrs. Guerrero, Ms. Lane, and Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on October 22, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintWe are looking forward to our Halloween Parade and Program on October 31st! We will have our parade at 8:15 and immediately after the parade, we will begin our Halloween program in the cafeteria!
Your children did a fantastic job praying the Rosary! We learned the parts to the rosary! We will continue to pray the rosary every Wednesday this month at 2:00 p.m. in the Church. We will learn about the ten commandments and that God gave us the ten commandments to help us live as an image of God. On November 1, All Saints Day, your child may dress up as his/her patron saint or their favorite saint. In November, we will learn about saints and how we can be a saint!
Science – We have enjoyed learning about bats and spiders! During the last week of October, we will learn about pumpkins and participate in an online study of pumpkins and seeds. We will estimate and count the number of seeds in our pumpkin. We will observe how a pumpkin decomposes in the science center. During November, we will investigate healthy habits.
Language Arts – we will continue our unit on Shadows. We will work in literacy groups on the children’s needs. So, if a child needs to learn letters and sounds, we will work on those skills. If children know letters and sounds, then we will work on blending and segmenting words, reading decodables, etc. As a whole group, we will continue to work on letters, sounds, blending, segmenting, reading poems and stories.
Math – we will work on counting,writing, identifying, and sequencing numerals. We will identify missing numerals and identify groups that have more, less, or are equal. We will identify shapes and their characteristics and we will make patterns. Every 30 lessons, we will assess the children on skills that have been learned. So, next week, we will be assessing on lesson 30.
We will continue to learn about our stars of the week! We enjoy making books for our friends and learning more about each other with our circle maps.
In November, we will have a Thanksgiving Feast. Time and date will be determined and we will let you know.
Have a great month!
Here are some pictures of the kids working hard!
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Environment Club
Posted on October 22, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintWe will meet on Tuesday, October 25th, from 3:30 – 4:00 in Mrs. Fabian’s room. We will be working on our herb garden! Please have your child bring an extra set of clothes and gloves – we will be getting dirty!
We will also meet on Tuesday, November 1 from 3:30 – 4:00 in Mrs. Fabian’s room.
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Mrs. Guerrero & Ms. Lane – Kindergarten
Posted on September 19, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintWelcome to St. Elizabeth! Your kindergartners are fantastic! We are learning so much in kindergarten! Here is a preview of what we will be doing in September:
Religion -We have already learned about the Blessed Trinity and that God is three persons – God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. We will learn aboout Creation. We will make a book on the story of Creation and read from the Bible.
Language Arts – Our unit is SCHOOL! We are reading many books and poems about school. Each week, we add new heart words (these are words the kids need to know by heart) to our reading folder. We make a repetetive book about these words. We read these books in our reading center on the pocket charts. Please help your child to learn these heart words. Every day, we work on oral blending, letter names and sounds, segmentation, and word substitution. We then break up into literacy centers to review what we have learned as a whole group – writing, reading, student, and teacher centers.
Math – We are using Early Learning in Mathematics which is a unique kindergarten level math curriculum! The curriculum is divided into 30 lessons, each quarter contains 6 problem solving activities in which the children apply math skills and concepts learned. Each day, you will receive a daily Math Practice that is completed in class, please read the “Note to Parents” on the back. This note explains concepts learned that day. Our goals for this month are :
Children will recognize numerals 0 – 10, recognize and produce models (fingers, tallies, ten frame, number line) for numerals 0 – 10, order numerals on a number line, trace numerals 0 – 10, recognize a circle and square, create and interpret graphs, and understand vocabulary words – first, next, last, less, equal, more, shape, circle, and square.
Science – Our unit is exploring the human body and and the five senses. We already have identified parts of the human body. We will explore the senses of sight and taste and identify the parts of the body used to see and taste.
Social Studies – Each week, we will have a star student in our classes! We will make a book for each star and listen to the star’s favorite book from home. Each star will make a circle map of themselves, and we will learn about each star!
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Environment Club News
Posted on September 19, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintOur first meeting will be Tuesday, October 4, 2011. The Environmental Club will meet the first Tuesdays of every month. All St. Elizabeth students are welcome to attend! We will meet from 3:30 – 4:00. Thank you!
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Mrs. Strunk – PK4
Posted on May 23, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Pre-kindergarten.
PrintCongratulations! You are now kindergartners! Have a great summer!
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on May 27, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintCongratulations, kindergarten! Have a great summer!
“KINDERGARTEN” Poem
K is for Kiss Your Brain, Kindergarteners!
I is for imagination we use every day.
N is for numbers – we know them to 100!
D is for drawing, lots of color and detail.
E is for exciting! We love kindergarten!
R is for our reading!
G is for good friends. We made more each day.
A is for the alphabet we know how to say.
R is for remembering everything we’ve learned.
T is for talents. WE can do so many things.
E is for everyone – We’re a classroom family!
N is for next year. First grade here we come!
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Environmental Club
Posted on May 27, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintHave a great summer!
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on April 18, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintReligion – Kindergarten is pleased to announce that we will have a Stations of the Cross play on Thursday, April 21 at 2:15 p.m. in the cafeteria. We are working very hard to memorize our lines in a very important play!
Language Arts – We have completed our alphabet! Our ABC books will be going home. If your child has not completed all of his / her homework, please turn it in as soon as possible so we can complete our books! We will continue to work on oral blending, segmenting words, blending sounds, sounding out, spelling, and reading our decodables.
Math – We will work on counting from 1 – 100; identifying numerals; we will make base ten models for numerals through 100; understand the concept of time, length, temperature, and weight with tools. We will practice counting on from numerals between 1 – 30, making combinations of sums to 10, and counting backwards.
Science – We will learn about plants. We will plant seeds and observe our plant growth. On April 15, the Dallas Arboretum will be presenting Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! to our kindergartners!
Social Studies - We will learn about the USA and its symbols. We will also learn about our great state, Texas and have a Howdy Ho Down on Friday, April 29th from 9 – 12. We will learn our addresses and phone numbers!
Have a great month!
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Environmental Club
Posted on April 18, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintEarth day is celebrated on April 22. We will not be here so we will meet on TUESDAY, APRIL 19th from 3:30 – 4:00 to plant a tree in honor of Earth Day! We need parents to help our little ones with planting our tree! Thank you for your help!
Our school, will also honor Earth day by turning off the lights for an hour and pick up trash.
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on March 7, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintThis is what we will be doing this month:
Religion
We will learn about Ash Wednesday and make Lenten calendars. We will make Lenten prayer pots, and kids will bring home a bag full of tokens . Each week a new item will be put into the prayer pot and the children will say a prayer asking God to help them do whatever good deed is called for. We will begin our Stations of the Cross book and practice for our Stations of the Cross play. This play will be on April 21. More details will be on your child’s daily folder.
Language Arts
We will continue to work on our unit, The Wind. Every day we are working on letter sounds, blending, writing, segmenting words, reading our heart words and practicing our decodables. Please have your child read his/her decodable to you every night and please return each day. We will work on publishing our very own class book! More details will be in your child’s folder.
Math
We will begin in March our 3rd quarter assessment. We will ask kids to count by ones, fives, and tens, sequence numerals 1 – 30, identify coins and tell value, identify numerals, identify shapes, tell time to the hour, write numerals, add 1 to a number, and make patterns. This month we will work on recognizing and naming numerals to 100, count to 100, count backwards from 10, subtract, add, identify and extend patterns, count coins and tell value, measure, and create and interpret graphs.
Social Studies
We will learn all of the continents and take a look at each continent. We will locate land/water on a map.
Science
We will explore forces that move objects.
Have a great month!
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Environmental Club
Posted on March 7, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintEnvironmental Club will meet on Thursday, March 24, 2011. We will meet in Mrs. Fabian’s room from 3:30 – 4:00.
We are collecting empty and clean non-alcoholic plastic bottle or aluminum cans. Please send them to the front office. The environmental club will scan all cans and put in our dark green dumpster. The more cans/bottles we have, the more prizes St. Elizabeth can earn!
Thank you for your support!
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on January 18, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Uncategorized.
PrintJanuary News -
Religion – We will learn about the life of Jesus. We will make a timeline of Jesus’ life.
Language Arts – We will continue to work on oral blending – vowel replacement, initial and final consonant. We will work on letter sounds, blending sounds into words, segmenting words, and reading sight words. We are wrapping up our unit on Friends and we will begin a new unit on The Wind. Throughout this unit we will listen to a variety of books and poems to understand and explore how wind is created. We will learn the difference between informational prose and narrative prose. We will continue to read our decodables. Please remember that decodables are sent home daily and returned to school daily. We read the decodables each day to build fluency. Kindergrarten will have a spelling bee in the classroom on Friday, January 28, and the two winners will move on to the Primary Spelling Bee on Wednesday, Febraury 2! Please practice those sight words!
Math – This month we are practicing counting by 5′s to 100. We will learn about time to the hour. We will understand and use the vocabularty, “take away, subtract, less, minus, equal, second, minute, and hour.” We will continue to work on numeral recognition, and what numeral is missing? Every fifth lesson, we will work on graphing , and every tenth lesson we will do a problem solving activity. The 100th day of school is quickly approaching! All 100 day projects are due on Monday, January 31st. Have fun working with your child and counting to 100!
Science – This month we are learning about our solar system! We will explore our Milky Way Galaxy! We will learn the names of our planets in our solar system, and the sun is a star! We will also learn about the season – WINTER!
Social Studies – We will continue to celebrate our stars in the classroom. We will also learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. and make a craft.
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Environment Club
Posted on January 12, 2011, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintOur next environmental club meeting will be on Thursday, January 20 from 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. in Mrs. Fabian’s room.
You might have noticed that we have a new container by the newspaper recycle container! St. Elizabeth is now participating in the Dream Machine Recycle Rally. We encourage you to collect beverage containers (please non alcoholic), and bring containers that have been cleaned to school.
The environment club and tech club will scan all of the containers that come in, and we will place the beverage containers in the recycle container outside. Waste Management will weigh the containers, and we can earn points! Our school can earn rewards with local businesses such as educational events, music, books, and videos. The more our school recycles, the more rewards we can earn! We are also entered in a contest for a chance to win funding to support green facilty improvements such as installing solar panels, low energy printers or copiers, or planting trees. We appreciate your support!
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Kindergarten – Mrs. Guerrero and Mrs. Burns
Posted on December 8, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintImportant Dates for December:
December 1 The Creature Teacher will be visiting kindergarten and PK 3 and PK4.
December 13 Kindergarten and 4th grade will be visiting Williamsburg Nursing Home to wish the nursing home residents a Merry Christmas.
December 17 Christmas Party – We will make Gingerbread houses for our party; time will be announced; please look in your child’s folder more detail.
This is what we will be doing this month:
Religion – We will discuss the meaning of Advent and make advent wreaths. We will also practice for our Christmas Program on December 16 at 7 p.m. We will retell the story of Jesus’ birth. We will also collect items for the nursing home residents. A detailed letter will be coming home.
Language Arts – Our unit is Finding Friends. Our goals this unit are to learn about finding friends through books, learn about literary features of stories, and begin the story writing process. Students will explore the worlds of story characters who have goals and challenges similar to their own.
Math – We will continue to solve addition stories by acting them out and using pictures. We will understand and identify AB patterns with shapes and letters. We will identify and order numerals 11 – 20. Please practice with your child identifying numerals 1 – 20. We will continue to work with pennies and dimes. We will count dimes to 100 and identify that 100 cents is the same as 1 dollar.
Social Studies – We will learn how other countries celebrate Christmas.
Science - We will continue to work on our unit – PETS. We will identify, classify, and graph animals that are pets. We will identify how animals move, identify animal body coverings, describe how animals resemble their parents, and identify what animals need to live.
Have a great month! Merry Christmas!
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Environmental Club
Posted on December 8, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintThank you so much for your bulb orders! As soon as the bulb orders come in, we will send them home.
Our winners for the Environmental Club Bulb Sale are:
1st place – Dominique Weaver
2nd place – Kimberly Fontillas
3rd place – Joshua Porter
Congratulations! Thank you for your support!
The Environmental club will meet on Thursday, December 16, from 3:30 – 4:00 in Mrs. Fabian’s room.
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintWe are so thankful that we have a great bunch of kindergartners! This is what we will be doing this week:
Religion – We will study saints this month! We will make a book of saints and at the end of the month two kindergartners will participate in the procession of saints at Church. We will also continues to read and learn about old testament Bible stories.
Language Arts – Our new unit is SHADOWS. The goals for this unit are: learn more about shadows through books and active experimentation, learn about informational prose and how it differs from narrative, and engage in hands-on activities to see if answers are correct. We will begin to have homework on letters that we work on in class! The children are so excited!
Math – Our objectives for this month are: recognize and name numerals 11 -20, count by 10′s to 100, order numerals 1-20 on a number line, count on from numbers other than 1, identify ordinal positions, extend AB patterns, recognize and name rectangle and oval, compare shapes and tell how they are the same and different, and sort objects by shape, color, size, and other attributes. We will continue to create and interpret graphs.
Social Studies – We will learn about the first Thanksgiving and do various activities about Thanksgiving. We will have a Thanksgiving feast on November 23.
Science – We will continue to investigate ways to keep our bodies healthy. We will also observe our indian corn in water. What happens? We will also observe our pumpkin guts in a jar and watch how it decomposes.
Have a great month!
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Environmental Club
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintThe kids worked very hard on our new garden! We created a beautiful rock garden with a birdbath and potted plants by the entrance to the gym. Please come by and take a look!
Beginning November 1, we will begin a fundraiser for the St. Elizabeth Environment Club. St. Elizabeth students will be selling bulbs for planting in your garden! We are using Earth Friendly Fund Raising Products and are excited to be a part of this program! The proceeds earned from this fundraiser will be used to support St. Elizabeth Environment club and to keep St. Elizabeth beautiful!
The Environment club is also working on being a part of the Dream Machine Recycle Rally. We are working on receiving a recyclable container to be placed at St. Elizabeth school so that students, parents, and faculty can place plastic bottles and aluminum cans (non alcoholic) in our container! The more the school recycles, the more rewards a school earns! We will keep you posted on this exciting way to recycle and keep our Earth clean!
Our next Environmental Club meeting will be on Thursday, November 18th from 3:30 – 4:00.
Melissa Guerrero
Betty Fabian
Kathy Strunk
Marta Martinez
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintKindergarten has gotten off to a great start! We enjoyed our bear unit and ended our unit with a teddy bear picnic. We had a great time!
In Religion, we are learning about the story of Creation. We are making a really cute book about Creation and are acting out the story in class. Next, we will learn about the Garden of Eden. At the end of September, we will learn about angels and learn our prayer, “Guardian Angel”. In October, we will learn about the rosary and how to pray the rosary.
We have now begun a new unit in Open Court (Language Arts) on “school”. Our goal in this unit is to have children see books as a valuable resource for learning about school – activities, routines, and people. A second goal is to have children learn about the literary features of narrative – audience, reader, writer, and features of books – title, author, and illustrator. Our third goal is to begin to learn how to create literary works themselves. Each day, the students will listen to poems, read books, review letters and sounds, listen for first, middle, and last sounds, listen for missing sounds, and work on rhyming.
In Math, we have been working on numbers 1, 2, and 3. We have worked on the shape – circle. We will continue to work on our numerals 1 – 10. We will learn about the number line, make finger representations for 1 – 10, make tallies thru 10, look at base ten blocks thru 10, and count and sequence numerals to 10. We will learn about these shapes: circle, triangle, and square. We will also make patterns AB, AABB, ABC. We will learn about the following vocabulary: same, different, equal, more, less, and next.
In Science, we have been learning about the parts of our body. We will explore the five senses and do various activities related to our five senses. We will also learn about nutrition, healthy snacks, exercise, and how to keep our body healthy.
In Social Studies, we are having a “star” of the week. Each child will get a turn to be a star of the week. On your child’s turn, your child will receive a book of compliments. On Friday, of that week, your child may bring a book, show and tell, and picture to share with the class.
Please remember to continue to review the weekly newsletters for more information! Thank you and have a great month!
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Environmental Club
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintWe were so glad to see the kids at our first Environment Club Meeting. We will meet on the third Thursday of each month. Our next meeting will be Thursday, October 21, from 3:30 – 4:00 in Mrs. Fabian’s room. We will be planting around the gym entrance flowers and making a rock garden. Please have your child bring an old t-shirt and gloves so they can help plant flowers and clean up our entrance to the gym. Donations of pots, flowers, statues and or items for a rock garden are always welcome! Thank you!
Mrs. Fabian, Mrs. Guerrero, Ms. Martinez, and Mrs. Strunk
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Mrs. Guerrero and Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on March 11, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintThis is what we will be doing this month in Kindergarten:
Religion
We will complete our Stations of the Cross book and practice for our Stations of the Cross play. Our play will be on April 1 at 9:30 a.m. in the cafeteria. We will have a Last Supper meal in the class.
Language Arts
Our new unit will be Stick to It! Helping children persist in situations in which the reward is not immediately apparent is one of the major tasks in Kindergarten. Perseverance is a common theme in our literature. Characters who stick to it are usually rewarded, while characters in the story who give up suffer the consequences. Our goals for this unit are to have children learn perseverance through listening to books, learn about the narrative, and create literary works. We will continue to work on oral blending, segmentation, sight words, and introduce letters.
Math
This month, I will assess students on their math progress. We will practice counting from 61 – 80 and identify numerals 61 – 80, practice measuring, divide groups in half, and solve addition and subtraction stories.
Social Studies
We will complete our unit on the 7 continents. We will learn about South America, Australia, and Antarctica. We will locate land and water on a map.
Science
We will learn about the 4 oceans. We will also learn about the animals in our oceans!
Important Dates:
March 11 Snack Sale
March 15 – 19 Spring Break
March 25 Buck a Jean Day
April 1 Kindergarten Stations of the Cross play at 9:30 a.m.
Have a great month!
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Mrs. Guerrero and Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on December 10, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintDecember is always a fun and busy month.
Important Dates to Remember
- November 29 Advent begins
- December 7-11 Book Fair
- December 6 Feast of St. Nicholas
- December 7 Please send 1 white t shirt or turtleneck, we will be making a cute Christmas shirt for the party
- December 11 Field trip permission form and $ due; items for nursing home due; costumes due
- December 14 Field trip to Williamsburg Village Nursing Center 9:30 a.m.
- December 16 1 Hershey bar and item for gingerbread house due
- December 17 Christmas Program at 7:00 p.m. in Church, please have your child in their classroom at 6:30 p.m.
***Kindergarten students will participate. They will present the nativity story and sing “Away in a Manger.” Unlike upper grades, kindergarten students must be picked up immediately after their performance from their classroom. If they have an older sibling you may bring them back in the Church to sit with you for the remainder of the performance. - December 18 Christmas breakfast 9 -10 a.m.; gingerbread houses 10 a.m.–12 p.m.; all parents are welcome; NOON Dismissal
In Religion, we discuss and coordinate activities related to Advent and the birth of Jesus. We also study Christmas around the world which gives students an opportunity to learn how other nationalities celebrate during this special time of year.
In Language Arts, we continue with emergent reading skills such as: segmenting, blending, and decoding. Please watch for decodable readers in your child’s daily folder. Please note we will use these readers every day in the classroom, so be sure to send their book back to school every day. Be sure your child reads the book at home every night, as repetition is extremely important in building excellent reading skills. We will also continue to write in our journals, and work in our handwriting book to develop letter writing skills.
Since many families will be traveling this holiday season, we would like to use this information for Social Studies. If you will be traveling, or someone will be coming to visit you, please get a picture or a postcard from the destination and we will track this on our U.S. map. We will discuss other states, climates and items included in the picture or postcard. We will be sure to return these to you as soon as we are finished.
In Math, we will continue identifying numerals 0-20. We are also working on shapes, patterns, problem solving, graphing, and addition problems.
In Science, we will make a frost experiment and graph our weather!
Merry Christmas! God bless you all!
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Environmental Club
Posted on December 10, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintThe Environment & Tech Club met on Tuesday, December 8th and had a great time at their Christmas Party. We will have another sale of recycled crayons during the week of December 14th. You will receive a Renweb with more details.
It’s not too late to turn in your recycled ornament. The deadline to turn in your recycled ornament is Monday, December 14!
Our next meetings will be on Tuesday, January 12 and Tuesday January 26. Have a Merry Christmas!
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Mrs. Guerrero and Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintWe want to thank all of the Kindergarten families for their hard work and time in preparing for the Halloween Carnival. The children had a wonderful time! The children also enjoyed our field trip to the Native Lands at Green Meadows. The children experienced animals from the land, saw falcons and hawks sweep over their heads, learned about music and dance from Native Americans and Africa. The kids had a great time and we truly appreciate all of your help on the field trip! This is what we will be doing this month:
Religion – We will learn about the saints and make a book about them. We will also discuss what we are thankful for in our lives.
Language Arts – We will complete our unit on Shadows and move on to our next unit, Finding Friends. Students will use pictures, print, and people to gather information about friendship, identify similarities and differences in literary elements (characters, problems, theme), retell and summarize stories, and regularly read picture stories in groups and independently. We will learn about the following letters: Ss, Mm, Dd, Aa, Hh, Tt, and Oo. We will work in our Handwriting Without Tears book on these letters. We will also continue to work in our SRA Open Court book on segmenting letters, sounding out words, letter sounds, reading decodable books, spelling words, and reviewing our tricky (sight) words. The kids are also enjoying working on letter mats on placing letters in alphabetical order, playing games with letters such as “Simon Says”, echoing letter sounds, and finding missing letters.
Math – We will work on numbers 0 – 20 – identifying numerals, rote and rational count to 20, trace and write to 20, and ordering numerals. The children will identify a penny and dime and learn the value of each coin. We have been working with ten sticks and cubes to understand the place value of numerals 0 – 20 and your kids are doing a great job! We will work with these shapes: rectangle, oval, and triangle. Every 5 lessons, we work on a problem solving activity which involves graphing. We will learn vocabulary for next, after, last, first, second, third, plus, equal, and add.
Social Studies – We will learn about the First Thanksgiving. On the week of Nov. 9, we will learn about pilgrims and their way of life. On the week of Nov. 16, we will learn about the Native Americans. Parents, please send 1 large brown paper grocery sack. The children will be making Indian vests. We need these bags on or before Thursday, November 8. Thank you! We will have a Thanksgiving feast on Tuesday, Nov. 24. You will receive a letter asking you to bring one item for the feast. We will be making friendship soup!
Science – We will continue to graph our daily weather and discover objects in our Can you Guess? box. We will also conduct various experiments related to our letters we are learning about.
Have a great month!
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Environmental Club
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Environmental Club.
PrintThe Environmental Club has decorated and labeled our recycling cans for aluminum and plastic. These containers are located in the cafeteria! Containers will also be available during St. Elizabeth game events by the concession stand.
This month we will work on melting our old, unwanted crayons into new dazzling, different colored crayons!
Our meetings for November will be on Tuesday, November 10th from 3:30 – 4:00 pm in Mrs. Strunk’s Pre-K room.
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Mrs. Guerrero & Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on September 24, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintKindergarten is off to a great start! Please remember to look at the weekly newsletters for more detailed information. This is what we are doing this month:
Religion
We will discuss Creation and make a book about the story of Creation. We are also learning stories from the Old Testament – Cain and Abel and how to be our brother’s keeper. The last week of September, we will learn the prayer, My Guardian Angel and learn about the three angels mentioned in the Bible: Angel Gabriel, Angel Raphael, and Angel Michael.
Language Arts
Our first unit in our Open Court program is SCHOOL. The kids will engage in a variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. The goals of this unit are to: have children see books as a valuable source for learning about school, offer children an opportunity to learn about the literary features of a narrative (audience, reader, writer), and to learn how to create literary works themselves. Each day we will work on phonemic awareness, letter and print recognition, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, listening, and speaking.
Math
This month, we are working on identifying numerals 0 – 5, rote counting, showing fingers to represent numerals 1 – 5, number line to 5, tallies numerals 1 – 5, sorting objects by color, recognizing shapes – circle, square, and triangle and identifying ten frame models to 5. Although many children already know the names of these numerals, the children will develop a deeper understanding and learn different representational models for the numerals.
Science
We will explore our 5 senses through various science experiments!
Social Studies
We will learn the Pledge of Allegiance and “God Bless America.” We will also learn about the rules of the classroom and how to treat one another.
We hope you have a great month!
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