Reading – K – After School
1st – Daily reader and in language “what is the main idea?”

Word of the Day – “take”
1st – Choose the best word

Specialist – Spanish and Movement

Social Studies – Our Pilgrim and Wampanoags further developed their families and took on roles and new names for themselves.

Math – K – Lesson 6-4 Counting groups of tens and counting by 10’s
1st – Challenge Math
2nd – Lesson 6-3 Adding 10’s and 1’s

How about a shout out to our Papa Gary who took our class book shopping at the Fair this afternoon and each choose a book they wanted.  The Book Fair is open until 6:00 tonight.

Reminders:
Check the dates on Box Tops and make sure they have not expired
Tomorrow is pizza day
Friday is Chapel

Mr. M.

Reading – K – Animal Ears
1st – Daily readers

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “t” with sentence
1st – Abbreviations and four sentences

Word of the Day – K – “so”
1st – Language review and choosing the best word (to or too)

Specialist – Art

Math – K – Lesson 6-3 Counting to 100
1st – Lesson 5-7 Making 10 to add 8
2nd – Lesson 6-2 Adding ones

Social Studies – Creating the family structure in our two communities.  I am looking for each community team to cooperate with each as they decide on their family roles in the community.

Spelling – Tests coming home.  Please review.  Most of the kinders words are from our Explode the Code unit  so while they may not spell them exactly correct I am looking for them to use their phonic sounding skills to be close.

Book Fair – I brought the children to the book fair and they made their own wish lists.  Try and stop in this week.  The dollars you spend go back to the school and into our classroom libraries.
A reminder that for you that buy books on-line through Scholastic that our class code is J7TJN

Our Giving Campaign starts today.  Please read the flyer sent home in their folders.

Chapel this Friday – Study their verse if they want to earn a special t-shirt. Joshua 1:9

We decorated our class Christmas tree and the room.

Mr. M

Reading – Animal Sounds – We are now on officially as a class “B” level readers.  Miss Jenn in to mentor read.
1st – Individual leveled readers along with blends of sh, th and ck

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “w” along with a sentence
1st – Lowercase “z” which completes their lowercase unit along with four sentences

Word of the Day – K – “saw”
1st – Language skills “making many one sentence

Specialist – Music

Math – K – Lesson 6-2 About how many (estimating)
1st –
2nd – Lesson 6-1 Adding tens

Phonics – Explode the Code and for some Headsprouts

Reminder that this week is Book Fair so stop in and support thee school with your purchases for your children or others on your Christmas list.

At Student Council our class leads the pack with nearly 300 BOX TOPS.  Keep it up.

Chapel is this Friday morning.
Next Friday (12/9) will be Spirit Day.  Crazy hair or hat day.

Mr. M.

Reading – K – Smile
1st – Daily reader along with word blends (sh, th, ck)

Word of the Day – “read”
1st – Is it real or make believe?

Specialist – Spanish and Movement

Phonics – Explode the Code

Math – K – Challenge Math
1st – Challenge Math
2nd – Topic 5 Test and Intro to Topic 6

Lets Find Out – Thanksgiving Story and children’s life in a Pilgrim and Wampanoag Village

Enjoy your Thanksgiving and safe journeys.  See you back on Monday.  Go Huskies or Cougars.

Mr. M.

Reading – K – Shapes In Nature
1st – Daily reader and in Literacy locating things on a street map

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “v” along with a sentence using a “v” word.
1st – Lowercase “x” along with four sentences

Word of the Day – K – “put”
1st Language review in the “ad” family and more than one words

Specialist – Music

Math – K – Intro to Topic 6 Numbers to 100 along with Lesson 6-1 Counting to 30
1st – Making ten to subtract
2nd – Lesson 5-7 Using chart data

Social Studies – Poetry, using information we learned from the Pilgrims and Wampanoags.

Phonics – Explode the Code

Reminder: Tomorrow is the field trip to the play.  Info went out in a couple emails.       Bus riders be here by 8:00 AM

Keep bringing in the Box Tops!  We are out to an early lead.  Student Council setting up another spirit day for December -Crazy Hair Day.

In IXL Math we as a class have done 10,000 problems.  Way to go!  Keep practicing at home!

Mr. M.

Reading – K – Safe, Not Safe
1st – Daily reader and Word blends, high frequency words

Papa Gary in to mentor read both yesterday and today and we had our regular mentor Miss Layla on Wednesday.

Word of the Day – “or”
1st Language – “Is it a question?” and fix the sentence

Specialist – PE today.  Reminder on Thursday and Friday to wear sneakers or have them to change into.  Too many trips and tears running in smooth shoes and big boots.

Math – K – Challenge Math, Prodigy, Brainzy Math
1st –
2nd – Lesson 5-6 Even and Odd numbers

Social Studies – What are we thankful for exercise.

We ended our day with Learning Centers

Reminders:
Remember BOX TOPS.. WE have 16 kiddos so we should be able to collect lot’s of them.

Mr. M.

We started our day with welcoming our new 1st grader Mylie to our class today.  Everyone was thrilled with her addition and making her feel at home.

Reading – K – The Rainstorm
1st – Daily reader and in language it was main idea’s, and context clues

Social Studies – Back to the Wampanoags and Pilgrims as we listened to letters from the children of each society as well as adding people any families to our motif.

Math – End of Topic 5 (Numbers for 11 to 20) Assessment. Test results will come home tomorrow.
1st –
2nd – Lesson 5-5 10 more or 10 less

We started our November entry inour portfolios today and ended our day with Learning Centers.

Reminder that tomorrow is Pajama Day at Hillside.  Feel free to wear your PJ’s and bring a favorite stuffed critter.

Mr. M.

Reading – K – Rabbits
1st – Daily Reader and Short “e” exercise

Word of the Day – K- “Off”
1st – Language review with fix the sentence and compound words

Specialist – Spanish and Movement today

Math – K – Lesson 5-5 Using logical reasoning.  Find the pattern and missing numbers
1st – Challenge Math
2nd – Lesson 5-4 Count to 100

Let’s Find Out – Hibernation

We ended our day with Learning Centers.

Reminders:
This Friday is Pajama Day
NO School next Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving

Mr. M.

Reading – K – The Parade  Miss Jessie and Miss Christine in to mentor read and yesterday Miss Jen was in.
1st – Daily reader and in language Short “e” and high frequency words

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “s” with a sentence using an “s” word or more
1st – Lowercase “q” with a sentence using a “q” word

Word of the Day – K – “no”
1st – Language Review – Choose the best word, rhymes

Math – K – Lesson 5-4 Numbers 18, 19 and 20 count, read and write
1st – Yesterday they had a review assessment of the first 4 units.
2nd – Lesson 5-3 Using symbols

Social Studies – We watched a film on how the Wampanoags lived in their community and started our motif of life in Plymouth Colony.

We finished our day with Learning Centers with Miss Amanda in to help the writing group today.

Reminders
Wesnesday morning is the deadline to sign up for the play (Lion, Witch) we have to give them our final parent and child count tomorrow

This Friday will be a Spirit Day with the children invited to where their jammies and bring a stuffed pet if they wish.

 School pictures are in their folders and backpacks

Mr. M.

Reading -K -Opposites
1st – Daily reader and in Language Story Elements (characters, main topic) and adding -ed to words

Math – K – Lesson 5-3 Writing, Reading and Counting 16 and 17
1st –
2nd – Lesson 5-2 Reading and writing numbers

Social Studies – The Pilgrims journey to America.  I have divided the class into Pilgrims and Wampanoags in preparation for making a motif of life in the Pilgrim colony and life in the winter forest of Massachusetts for the Wampanoags.

We ended our day with Learning Centers.

Coming up:
Next Tuesday is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  Please register if you are going and let me know if you can drive and how many you can fit.  So far I have Cooper, Brenden/Wes, Alexis, and Felicity parents driving.

From Student Council:
We are now collecting Box Tops so start clipping out your box tops for education and send them in.  We also have a suggestion and prayer box in the classroom.  So if there are prayers please bring them in.  Prizes to the most box tops for class.

Mr. M.