Chapel – Our little K-5 group got together for a mini faith lesson, song and some dance.

Math – K – Lesson 1-7 Using Objects.  Kinder math assessment next Monday.
1st – Lesson 1-7 Adding in any order.

Reading – K/1 Leveled readers. Kinders read Bird Goes Home.  Miss Heather in to do mentor reading and assessments.  Moving up will be Arianne (C to D) Eva and Sebastian (K to L)

Word of the Day – K – “and”
1st – Language – Nouns Review

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “M” and a room write
1st – Lowercase “s” word review and in Language Sentence naming parts.

Science – Pebbles, Sand and Silt – We begin our investigations of rocks and geology.  First Rocks, basalt, scoria and tuff.  We observed, scrapped and explored the many attributes of each rock.  How are they the same and how are they different.

Writing Prompt – This year I want to go to…

1st Grade – New spelling list as well as math homework.  Happy to see 100% returned correct and on time!

Have a great weekend.  Go Hawks, Cougs and Huskies.   And how about our Storm ladies.  Congrats!

Mr. M.

We started our day with Go Noodle and in Class Dojo I introduced the Beast for social and behavioral learning.  Grasping a hold of our emotions is the theme.

Math – K – Lesson 1-6 Reading and Writing 4 and 5
1st – Lesson 1-6 Stories about joining
We are now over 1,000 IXL questions answered!

Reading – K/1 Leveled readers.  Kinders read The Big Cat.  Papa Gary in to mentor read.

Word of the Day – K – “how”
1st – Language – Some words have special meanings Part 2

Social Studies – Citizenship – Good choices and bad choices.

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “N” and a room write
1st – Lowercase “t” and in Language it was “What is a complete thought?”

Writing Prompt – In music class we can…..

Specialist – PE

We ended our day with learning centers

1st Grade MATH HOMEWORK IS DUE TOMORROW
1st Grade Spelling test tomorrow
Reminder that tomorrow is Popcorn Day ($.50)

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 1-5 Making 4 and 5
1st – Addition expressions and number sentences

Reading – K/1 Leveled Readers with Kinders reading Building with Blocks.  Miss Tiffany in to mentor read with the children.

Word of the Day – K – “me”
1st – Language – Nouns – Some words have special meanings for more than one

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “R” with a room write
1st – Language – Writing sentences

Specialist – PE

Social Studies – Citizenship – Why do we have laws.  We read What If Everyone Did That to support the message.

Writing Prompt – In art class we can…

We ended our day with Learning Centers

We choose our Student Council reps today.  Kindergarten is Maddie and 1st Grade is Michael.  Please sign and return the student application.  Congratulations and serve us well.
There are new Scholastic book catalogs in their folders along with the Walk-a-Thon information and pledge forms.  This is a big part of our school funding to start the year.

Reminders:
Pizza Thursday
Popcorn Friday
1st Grade Math home due back Friday
1st Grade spelling test Friday

Upcoming:

Sept 19^th Wed.  Talk like a pirate day
Sept. 20^th Thurs. Curriculum Night
Sept 26^th Wed. Walk-a-Thon

October
5^th Chapel
10^th Picture Day
12^th In-Service Day
25^th Remlingers Farm
25^th Pumpkin Carving

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 1-4 Read and write 4&5
1st – Lesson 1-4 Making 9
Kinders – I sent home an Envision Workbook to practice at home.  Please use it to support the classroom lessons.

Reading – K/1 Leveled readers.  Kinders did Bird Colors.  Many came to me to read additional books or did Headsprouts on the tablets.  Raz-Kids and Headsprouts reminder to use at home.

Word of the Day – K – “can”
1st – Language – Nouns.   Adding “s” and “es” to make plurals

Social Studies – Beginning Unit of Citizenship.  Today we read No David and talked about rules at home and at school and why we need to follow them.

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “B”  With some students I sent home a workbook to practice at home forming their letters.  Please spend some time using it.
1st – Lowercase “v” with a room write.

Specialist – Music and Art

Writing Prompt – My three favorite school subjects are…

We ended our day with Book Flix.  The Man Who Walked Between the Towers.  A World Trade Center story for 9/11.

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 1-3 Counting 4 and 5
1st – Lesson 1-3 Making 8

Reading – K/1 – Leveled readers and for our new readers Baby Animals.  Please make sure they are reading to you every night.  Happy to see everyone is reading more than one book to me.  Miss Kris was in to mentor read today.

Word of the Day – K – “am” with a five word room write.
1st – Language – Nouns are the naming part of our sentences.

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “P” .Practice, practice on writing their words from the board
1st – Lowercase “s”   as in plurals.  Write 3 sentences using plurals.

Specialist – Today was Music and Art

Writing Prompt – Three supplies you need for school and three things you will find inside the classroom.

We finished our day with Learning Centers.

In IXL Math we have answered as a class 500 problems.  Yahoo!

Mr. M.

Friday Devotional –  We got together with the 2-5 grades to sing and dance about God’s Masterpiece to start our day.

HAPPY Grandparents day to our own Dori and Bill (Papa) and all you grandparents out there.

Math – K – Lesson 1-2 Reading and writing 1, 2 , 3
1st – Lesson 1-2 Making 6 and 7

Reading – K/1 Leveled readers with our new readers reading Bedtime Counting.  I introduced to them the on-line Headsprouts phonics program.  This is by far the most important thing they can do at home (and in the classroom) to get those sounding skills down.  If you only use one of our at-home tools please use this one for our new readers.

Word of the Day – K – “I”
1st – Language – Choose the best word.  What rhymes with bell?  Fix the sentence.  Where do they belong.

Handwriting – K – “D” along with a room write to find “D” words
1st – “s” along with a room write

Social Studies – Let’s Find Out – Raise Your Hand and School Rules

Sentence of the Day – Write three things inside our classroom.

We ended our day with some extra recess and choice time.

Go Storm, Huskies, Cougs and Seahawks!

Mr. M

We started our day with pledge and prayer and got moving with Go Noodle.

Math – Envision Math/IXL Math
K – Lesson 1-1 Counting 1, 2, 3
1st – Lesson 1-1 Spatial patterns to 10

Reading – Leveled readers and for our new Kinder readers All Kinds of Faces.  Papa Gary in to mentor read with the students.

Word of the Day – K – “the”
1st – Language Review – Finish the sentence and fix the sentence.  Beginning sentences with a capital and punctuation.

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “E” and write some”E” words
1st – Lowercase “o” with a sentence and some “o” words

Writing Prompt -K/1 – Write three supplies you need for school.

HOMEWORK –
K – Reading their daily reader to someone at home.  I do encourage them to use Raz-kids, Headsprouts, IXL Math and Brainzy reading/math.
1st Grade only – Reading – their daily reader or a book of their choice
Math – Daily worksheets (5)   to be returned next Friday, They do count toward their grade
Spelling – Practice pg (8) Short “a” for test next Friday.  Please ensure they write the words as they practice.  I will ask on occasion for them to bring in so I can see they are doing the exercises.  There are some pages before page (8) which they should do over the next week or so to catch up.

We made our bus trip to Taylor Park and finished our day.

Reminders:
Friday Popcorn $.50
Extra clothes to have on hand.  Not in our class but an “accident” has already happened.
Contracts
Library cards
Comfort Kits

Mr. M.

Faith & Community – Today we started learning the Pledge and our classroom morning prayer.  We also got up and moving with Go Noodle dancing time.  Clap your hands.  I like starting our mornings with movement and with calm meditation during the day if we need that.

Math – K/1 – Introduction to IXL Math.  Teaching the new students how to log on themselves and begin the exercises.  Please help them at home get use to signing in to their account.  It will help me here at school.  Because I teach everyday both kinder and 1st grade math I have to flip flop them.  They will hear the lesson from me and participate for understanding.  They then will go on the computers to do IXL math or eventually Brainzy Math.  Some are very new at navigating the computer, so your help at home will be an immense help to me.

Reading – K – Our new kinder readers read with me Athletes.  They then read to me by themselves.  They were then encouraged to pick another same level book.  Their home work everyday is to read to you their daily reader.  Our 1st graders picked up where they left off.  Same as Kinders, they must read every night.  That is their homework and will soon include spelling.

Word of the Day – K – “a”  With a word find or write the room exercise to practice their handwriting/proportion.
1st – Language Review – Which one is a complete sentence?  What word is spelled correctly?  Write your first and last name.

Handwriting – K – Uppercase “F” along with a find other “F” words in the room
1st – Lowercase “c” along with a sentence using a “c” word.

Writing Prompt – K/1 – I go to school…………

Specialist – PE Today  Reminder sneakers on Wed and Thur for PE.

Learning Centers – We finished our day with a rotation from guided reading with me,  independent writing, Tech educational choice.

Tomorrow I will be taking the class, via bus, to Taylor Park at 2:00 for  some big toy play.

NOTE: If your child is going to ride the tricycles during recess or before/after care they must have a helmet.

I have a “getting to know your child” exercise for you parents/guardians.  Fill out all or what you think I should know and return.  I promise these daily posts will not always be this long but want you to have a feel for our day and what everything means.  Also to get these administrative items below finished.

Reminders:
Pizza Day tomorrow
Friday Popcorn
Return Contracts
Extra clothes set
Comfort Kit
Library Card
Sign up for Class Dojo (Arianne/James)

Mr. M.

Today was a getting to know you day as well as the lay of the land.  I did do a handwriting assessment.

Of note in their take home folders (Important)

Sign up for Class Dojo instructions for (James, Arianne only). For the rest that have signed up be sure to get the phone app.

Hard copy of the weekly schedule.

Scholastic Books – If you wish to order books through Scholastic there is a form but prefer you do it on-line.  Please be sure to use our classroom code so we get credit and free books from Scholastic.  Each month there will be a selection of books.

Epic Book! – An on-line library of great books.  The children are able to go on-line in the classroom to read/listen.  If you wish for them to do it at home you can sign up for a pay account should you wish.  This is not required.

Raz-Kids/Headsprouts – Reading/Phonics – This is part of our curriculum and you are strongly encouraged to use it at home.  Especially our new kinder readers.  Logging information in their folder with a handy card.

IXL Math – This is in addition to our curriculum in the classroom.  While the children will be using it in the classroom, they are encouraged to use it at home as well. Logging information is in their folder with a handy card.

Brainzy – Math/Reading – This is an alternate activity for reading and math for home and classroom.  You will find log on info in their folder (Education.com)

Reminders:
Please sign and return
Elementary Code of Conduct
Parent Code of Conduct
Elementary Acknowledgement Page that you read

Thursday – Pizza lunch ($5.00)
Friday- Popcorn ($.50)

PE Days Wed & Thurs (wear sneakers please)  Speaking of footwear, I am not a fan of flip flops/sandals when kids are active during recess.

Mr. M.