The Jacket I Wear In The Snow

Last week we read the story "The Jacket I Wear In the Snow".  My students loved this story.  We did lots of fun activities, but they seemed to like the flip book the most.  I hope you enjoy.

The Jacket I Wear In the Snow sentences.  Beginning and end of sentences, words in a sentence, and color words. Get it here.

Here is our board put all together with our flip books, and tree map.

The pattern for the flip book is from Kelly's Kindergarten.

A sample of the writing.  This is probably some of the best writing some of our students have done. So.......we've got to do more flip books.  :-) 

WE ARE LEARNING LIKE ROCKSTARS

 We are learning about 2-D and 3-D shapes.  This past week we took a walk around the school to see if we could find shapes in the environment.  Our rockstars put a tally mark on  their chart each time they found a shape.  We had some very interesting data, but everyone did a great job in their own way.  In this next week we will be talking about how  we compose shape (put one or more shapes together to make another), and how we decompose shapes (take larger shapes apart).

 Our rockstars are doing an awesome job picking out letters, words and sentences.  We know that a letter is just a letter, letters make words, and words make sentences.  We are also beginning to understand that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.  (Ask your rockstar to read the sentences above to you.  They are doing an outstanding job).

This past week talked about how the author has a purpose to their writing.  They write to persuade, inform or to entertain you.  Our rockstars did awesome job picking out where the picture would go.  They were asked is the author trying to persuade you to buy or give them something,,,,or is he/she giving you information.... or lastly did he/she just write for your entertainment.  It is so amazing how much a 5 or 6 year can tell you. They may be small, but they are very smart and think just like a rockstar does.

In the week ahead..........

Letters - Uu, Nn

Sight Words - but, us, not, on, up, down

Vocabulary - We will be reading stories and picking out vocabulary 

that we can use in conversation with others

Math - Compose and Decompose Shapes

Things to remember..........

Media Center Monday

A small snack for each day

A water bottle for recess

closed toe shoes for PE

Check your child's folder each night and initial their behavior calendar

Pumpkin Patch permission slip and money.

Love,

Mrs. Ring

A Look at the Week Ahead

We are learning about letters, words, and sentences.

(Click on Link) Our letter, words and sentences caterpillar

Look at what we are learning this week......

Letters and Sounds: Rr and Ll
Sight Words: and, are, like, likes
Concepts of print: Letter, Words and Sentences
Writing: We will be learning how to put meatball spaces in between our words, drawing pictures with details, writing the sounds we hear for each word in a sentence.
Math:
2-D Shapes  - triangle, circle, square, rectangle
3-D Shapes - Sphere, and Cube

Things to Remember:

Review all letters, sounds and sight words
Practice identifying numbers to 30 (If your child knows all of his/her numbers to 30 keep going all the way to 100)
Remember to check your child's Rockstar folder each night and initial the calendar.
A small snack for snack time
Closed toe shoes for PE

I can't wait for the week a head with my Rockin Rockstars in Room 8!

Love,

Mrs. Ring