Week 3

The highlight of our week was signing the steel beam that will be put up in the new addition of our school!

Reader's Workshop
We continued building our reading stamina this week.  We read for 9 minutes!!  Great job kindergarteners!

This week we also learned about our book bins.  These bins will hold our "just right books" that we will read during Read to Self.  We also learned how to choose a reading spot that is best for us.

Writer's Workshop

This week we studied two wordless books.  We realized that writers can tell stories just through their pictures!

 

 

We all have LOTS of stories to tell!  We practiced oral story telling this week.  We thought of a story and practiced telling it in order using lots of details.  

Phonics

We continued to study names this week! We added some more names to our 'name chart'.  When we learn names we are focusing on studying the letters, counting the letters, noticing tall/short letters, and counting the beats (syllables).

This week we also learned there are two kinds of letters-vowels and consonants.  We worked in small groups to search for vowels around the room!  We also figured out how many vowels were in our names!

Math Workshop

We continued building our understanding of 5 groups.  We learned that our 5 frame can be made up of different amounts of blue and red dots.  For example, 4 red dots and 1 blue dot equals 5.  So does 3 red dots and 2 blue dots.  We are working on subitizing...this means we are able to quickly see dots and know how many there are.  This is an essential foundational skill to understanding addition and subtraction.

Week 2

Happy Friday the 13th! (and full moon!)  We had a great first full week of Kindergarten!  Check out what we were up to!

Reading Workshop
We are readers!  We learned this week that all of us CAN read!  There are three ways we can read books:
1.  Read the pictures
2.  Read the words
3.  Retell the story

We practiced these ways of reading as we learned how Kindergarteners Read to Self.  When we follow these expectations we are working to build our stamina.  Stamina is how long we can do something without stopping.  This week our class built 2 minutes of reading stamina! Way to go
Kindergartners!

Writing Workshop
This week we worked on writing our names by creating two new class books!

We also worked on writing our letters through our handwriting centers.  We are working HARD to start our letters at the top and write them the Kindergarten Way!

Phonics

Meet Mabel!  She is helping us learn and study names and letters!  We are studying the names of the friends in our class.  This week we studied Mabel's, Milo's, and Max's names!  We noticed how many letters are in their names, if the letters are tall or small, and if the letters are all different or if some are the same. 

We are working to learn our letters and the sounds they make.  When we learn letters we name them, say their sound, write them, and use them!  Pretty soon we will have many letters we can 'pull out of our pocket' to use at any time :)

We sorted picture cards into 2 groups- pictures that start with M and pictures that do not start with M.

Word Wall Word
We added our first word to our word wall this week- THE!  We practiced writing and finding this word in our books.

Math Workshop

This week we began math by studying and sorting shoes! This activity gave us many opportunities to count as we discussed the different features of  shoes and sorted them by attributes.  We counted our groups and determined which group had more and less.

After our mini lesson we moved into our workplaces.  Check out what we did this week!

Pattern Blocks

GeoBoards

Unifix Cubes

Polydrons

REMINDERS

• We have library every Wednesday. Please be sure to have your child return his/her book that day.
• Check out Parkview's weekly update:   https://www.cedarburg.k12.wi.us/schools/parkview/forms/thursdayfolder.cfm
• We provide snack each afternoon.  These are purchased from the snack fee you paid during registration in Skyward.  Please do not send any other snacks with your children.  We have to make sure any food entering the classroom is safe.  

   

Have a great weekend!

Week 1

We had a busy first week!  We learned how to show Parkview Pride by participating in our Bullpup Bonanza.  We went to different areas of our school and learned how to be safe, respectful and responsible!

We also talked about showing Parkview Pride in our classroom.  We talked about expected and unexpected behaviors. Then, we created a social contract.  We signed our contract as a promise to follow these expected behaviors. 

We also learned how to use the tools in our table caddies.  In our classroom we share our supplies.  We have to be respectful and responsible when using our supplies.  To learn how to use our supplies, we made some fun projects.  The purpose of the projects was to learn how to appropriately use scissors, glue, pencils, crayons, and markers.  These projects also were good practice for following directions.  Check them out!

HELPING HANDS

We could use a few items for our Kindergarten room!  These materials will be used in our fine motor centers to help build strong fingers!

-playdough

-bags of pompoms (these can be found at the Dollar Tree in the craft section)

-bags of colored popsicle sticks (these can be found at the Dollar Tree)

-hole punchers 

-child sized scissors 
-clothes pins

We rocked the first day of Kindergarten!

We had a busy and fun first day of school!

Welcome!

Hello Kindergarten Families!

I am looking forward to a great year in Kindergarten!  I feel very blessed to be joining Parkview this year.  I spent the last 8 years teaching 1st grade in the Fox Point-Bayside School District.  Prior to that, I spent 3 years teaching Kindergarten and 3rd grade in Minnesota.

I live in Jackson with my husband, Kellen, and our two children. Lila is 3.5 and Bryce is 2.  We love to spend time together swimming, playing at the park, and taking trips to the Milwaukee Zoo. 

Please be sure to check out our classroom blog each week for important classroom information and updates on our learning.  Please feel free to contact me at any time if you have any questions or concerns!