Posts from the ‘Kindergarten’ Category

Feb 22

I’ll Be Attending the NAEA National Convention Next Week!

The NAEA National Convention is the largest professional development opportunity offered worldwide, exclusively developed art educators. Participating in exemplary professional development workshops and sessions with other pK-12 art educators, museum educators, researchers, scholars and university professors, teaching artists, and administrators offers a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from other professionals in the field, as well as share our schools successes. Within the 1,000 concurrent sessions offered at the 2012 NAEA National Convention, there are numerous sessions specically targeted to my professional development goals including strategies for enhancing student achievement, interdisciplinary learning, assessment, curriculum, and instruction.

I can’t wait to bring back all that I will learn and share it with the students at SJV!

Feb 22

Aerobics With Mrs. Morris

We had a fabulous workout today with Mrs. Morris! She taught us some great activities to keep our bodies moving and healthy. Thank you Mrs. Morris!!!!!

Feb 20

This Week In Kindergarten

***I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend! This is a very short week in Kindergarten. There will be no new sight words this week, but there will be a sight word assessment Wednesday and Thursday. Friday there will be no school for pre-k and kindergarten due to screening of incoming students for the 2012-2013 school year. There will be information coming home this week regarding Iowa Tests. Please check the Wednesday Folder. Homework will be due on Thursady this week. Here is what we will be doing this week.***

MATH – This week we will be identifying and matching equivalent sets, identifying doubles, acting out “some, some more” stories, and drawing pictures for our “some, some more” stories.

SOCIAL STUDIES – This week we will interpret information from charts and recognize that people meet their needs by buying goods and services.

HEALTH – We will finish our study of the Food Pyramid and healthy living this week. Mrs. Morris will be visiting on Wednesady to instruct us in a “kiddie aerobics” class.

RELIGION - Our focus will be on the beginning of the Lenten season. We will prepare for Ash Wednesday and discuss how we can prepare ourselves for the death and ressurection of Jesus.

READING - This week we will read about George Washington and Abe Lincoln and discuss why they were such important leaders. We will also blend initial phonemes to make words, attach the /w/ sound to the letter Ww, make rhyming words by changing the initial phoneme, practice writing the letter Ww. We will discuss our new unit theme “teamwork”, generate questions and statements about the theme, develop new vocabulary and read “Mr. McGill Goes To Town”. THERE WILL BE A SIGHT WORD ASSESSMENT ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY! (I am allowing myself two days to assess since there are quite a few words. Everyone should be ready on Wednesday!)

REMINDERS…

2/22 Ash Wednesday/All School Mass

2/22 Mrs. Morris teaching “kiddie aerobics”

2/24 No school for pre-k and kindergarten

2/27-3/2 Iowa Tests

3/2 11:30 dismissal

3/5-3/9 Iowa Tests

3/12-3/16 SPRING BREAK!!!!

Feb 16

Grades K-3: Pope John Paul II Students Visit SJV

Several students from Pope John Paul II came to visit the SJV K-3 students. The JPII students wrote and illustrated versions of classic fairy tales in French. They brought their books and read them to the SJV students. Everyone had a great time.

: JPII Students

: We love our kindergarten friends.

: New Friends!

: Our Buddies for the Program

: Buddy Opportunity

Feb 13

Dr.Morris Visits Kindergarten

We had such an exciting day! Dr. Morris (Sinclair’s dad) and his friend “Donny the Dragon” taught us the importance of keeping our teeth clean and healthy. We also got to practice brushing Donny’s teeth. Thanks Dr. Morris we had a great time and learned a lot!