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Mrs. Guerrero and Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on March 11, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
This 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.
December 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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Mrs. Guerrero and Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
We 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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Mrs. Guerrero & Mrs. Burns – Kindergarten
Posted on September 24, 2009, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
Kindergarten 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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