B8 & B9 Kinderblog

Singing with Mr. Lee

2010-05-25T19:12:00.000-07:00

Don't forget the kindergarten singing with Mr. Lee!
Friday, June 28th 9:30 in the MPR.
See you there!

Kindergarten Picnic

2010-05-25T19:08:00.000-07:00

Schedule:
11:45 - 12:15 Parents set up at the park
12:15 - 1:00 Playtime
1:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 Play and organized games
2:50 - 3:00 Class Pictures "Class of 2010"
3:00 - 3:15 clean-up and good-bye / return to school with ESS students

May

2010-05-10T14:18:00.000-07:00

We just completed our insect unit. Your child should be knowledgeable in the three parts of a lady bug, an insect and the life cycle of a butterfly. We were able to watch the the life cycle right before our eyes as we raised five of them in our classroom. We just set them free on Friday. The students also wrote many "how to" books in April which described what they are experts at. They also typed up one and published it with their third grade buddy. We completed our math books and our final math unit test.

Today starts the beginning of our Ocean Unit. In writing we have been creating non fiction books with all the insect facts we have learned about. In math we are now working on word problems and getting quick with our addition facts.

We will be looking forward to our open house on the 20th, our field trip to the Birch Aquarium on the 25th and our singing performance with Mr. Lee on the 28th.

We will be sad to see our student teachers leaving us. Their last day will be this Friday the 14th. They have done a great job and have been very helpful. I know our kids are going to miss them!

Where We Are

2010-03-29T09:23:00.001-07:00

Thank you all for coming to the Kindergarten Folk Dance. The kids did great and were so cute and we were so glad you were all there to see!

We are starting a new Social Studies unit today on mapping, it's called "Where We Are" the main ideas we are learning are:

Words help people find things.
Words can tell how close something is.
A globe shows water and land.
A map is a drawing of a place.
We have traffic symbols.
We have map symbols.
A model can show a neighborhood.
A map can show a neighborhood.
A school has workers.
A school has many rooms.

We will be learning to jump rope in PE. We have started Music and singing with Mr. Lee and will be having a performance in May. Save the date May 20th as it is Monterey Ridge's Open house. More details to come. Enjoy your spring break and have a great week!

Updates!

2010-03-16T10:18:00.000-07:00

54 more days of Kindergarten...but whose counting? In Writing we are learning to use our senses in our writing. We are writing about how things feel, smell and taste which helps us to add details. In Math we are starting subtraction...this is tricky! Keep telling story problems around the house so your student can get the concept. In Science we have started studying plants. Your studnet needs to know the parts of a plant, and that a plant needs water, sun and air to grow.

Today we are doing some lucky charm graphing with our buddies. It will be a great experience working together.

We are also practicing for our big dance show on March 25th at 7:00. Please have your child meet us in the MPR at 6:45pm.

We made it to the 100th day!

2010-02-01T19:42:00.000-08:00

Only 80 days left of kindergarten and it's so hard to believe. The kids have grown up so much! Today we did some 100th day activities and wrote about how we would spend 100 dollars if we had it. Tomorrow we will be learning about Ground Hog day. Wednesday we will be talking about Abe Lincoln. This week we will be noticing these presidents as we study coins.

Save the date...March 25th will be our Kindergarten Folk dance performance and you do not want to miss this!! More information to come.

Another Month Goes By!

2010-01-14T16:48:00.000-08:00

Now that we are back in the swing of things....I will share what we have been up to. In science we have been studying Water and all the different ways water can move. The students made a fountain and learned that water goes down and water flows. They learned about how they can control the way that water moves by using clay and creating a path. Tomorrow we will be learning about what sinks and what floats. In math we continue to learn about teen numbers, the partners of ten and extending more complicated patterns. Our writing has focused on using color words to add details in our writing to describe things. We also wrote about our goals for the year.
Have a great weekend! Go Chargers!

Busy, busy, busy!!!

2009-12-17T19:30:00.000-08:00

So sorry it's been a while since our post! We have just completed our unit about Celebrations around the world and what a great ending we had with our multicultural feast! Thank you all so much for all your work sending in so much fabulous food. The kids all tried a bite of each item. Today we took a ride on the Polar Express! So much excitement was desplayed while waiting to board the train with tickets in hand! The kids were read the story and enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate and a cookie. In Math we just completed Unit 3 and took the assessment today. We sent home the math workbooks today. They can stay home and students will be getting a second one when they return from the break. Tomorrow we will be building gingerbread houses.

We hope you all have a wonderful and restful break and Happy Holidays! See you in 2010!

Friendship Soup!

2009-11-19T16:23:00.000-08:00

What a fun day in B8 and B9! You could smell onions throughout the rooms as the kids were chopping away preparing for our feast tomorrow.They could also be seen stiring cornbread and making butter. We hope to see you at the feast :)
There is no home work over the break. Take a trip to the library and pick out a picture book and have some "fun" reading time with your child. Have an enjoyable holiday!

It's November!

2009-11-09T09:34:00.001-08:00

Where does the time go? So sorry for taking so long to post! We all enjoyed our Halloween Party and activities. Thanks to all the adults for making that such a wonderful day. The kids had a great time. We are now starting to learn about times past. We learned about the First Thanksgiving on Friday and today we are writing about what we might be doing at Thanksgiving with our families. In Math we continue to learn about the +1 rule, which is simply just adding one to a number. This week we will be doing assessments to provide information for their report cards.

Red Ribbon Week

2009-10-19T15:35:00.000-07:00

Students went home today with a red ribbon and are to wear it all week. We talked about the difference between medicine that helps you and there are also bad drugs that you don't want. Reminder to bring a sack lunch labled with your child's name for our field trip on Wednesday. No lunch boxes please. Today we talked about the progression of how a pumpkin grows.

Compass Learning

2009-10-14T15:49:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had another visit to the computer lab and we were logged on to compass learning. It takes a while to log on 30 kids to the website even with the five adults we had! Please practice logging on at home. The user ID is their lunch number with a 1 in front and the password is their birth date, six digits. They have all been shown how to do this they just need practice! Have fun!

Stop, Drop and Roll!

2009-10-09T16:04:00.000-07:00

We started our day by attending a Fire Safety assembly. They were told to establish a family meeting place in case there was a fire in their house.

In math we started learning about problem solving. Students were given some family stories such as, 4 family members were eating breakfast and the mom and the sister left the table. How many were still eating breakfast? The students were asked to draw this on their white boards and had turns to explain their thinking during our "math talk". The kids were really engaged with this activity! Practice story telling skills with math at home!

Come check our our ghosts hanging in our windows with some fabulous Halloween writing! Have a great weekend!

Computer Lab

2009-10-06T21:11:00.000-07:00

Today was our first trip to the computer lab with all 29 of us! Good thing we had 4 adults in the room :) They did well. Click the link on the blog that says Compass learning and then use their lunch number and put a 1 in front of it. This number is their user name and their password is their birthday (six digits).

They can access compass learning at home as much as they like! Please give them some one on one time to help them get used to the program and where to put their finger and click on the mouse! We will continue to go to the computer lab every Tuesday.

It's October!

2009-10-02T15:35:00.001-07:00

In math we are learning about right and left, keep reinforcing this at home. Other positional words such as above and below are good to talk about as well. Today we started writing some spooky stories and we would like to share some with you.
" Once a big haunted house moved and a skeleton followed and followed. Boo!" by Kian

"Once upon a time vampire lives in a haunted house with a friend skeleton. He slept in his refrigerator but someone knocked on the door and it was a ghost!" by Jonathan

"The tree monster lived in a haunted house." by Luke

We will post more great stories soon!

It's Spring!

2009-10-01T18:19:00.001-07:00

It may be fall outside, but today we were talking about spring and the activities we do in the spring time. We also wrote about things we do in the spring time. In science we completed another page in our Seasons of the Apple Tree book. You guessed it....we made a tree with some blossoms on it.
Our letter of the week has been R and the color of the week was orange. Keep sending in those box tops we seem to be doing great for the competition!

Thanks for Coming!

2009-09-29T10:25:00.000-07:00

Thank you, to all that came to the Fall Festival!! It was great to see you all out there Friday night! I loved the pasta thrown at my face!! So much fun!!!
Also, a HUGE -THANK YOU, to the Gerardi family for making all of the delicious pasta for our Italian cuisine!! Grazie!!

Dr. Newman Visit

2009-09-22T16:50:00.001-07:00

We had a visit from Dr. Newman today and he talked to the kids about being respectful, working hard, having good behavior and being good listeners. We hope this visit has a positive effect on our students. The letter of the week is "B" and the color is Yellow. In writing we talked about punctuation (.,!,?) and about Capital Letters. Tomorrow is picture day. We get to go first thing, bring your smiles!

Science

2009-09-21T20:21:00.000-07:00

We started science today. Our first science unit is about the four seasons. Today was an overview and we will start learning about each season one at a time. We will learn how the weather effects people and what we wear and the activities that we do. We will also talk about how the weather effects plants and animals. Our new cheer word today was "once".

Action and Consequences

2009-09-17T20:22:00.000-07:00

We started the day today going on a BIG school bus and practiced evacuation in the event of an emergency. This bus drill is mandatory every year. In math we talked about shapes again and prepared some "shape pieces" for up coming lessons. We also practiced writing the number "3". At the end of the day we read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears and talked about cause and effect and how actions cause consequences. The students finished up the lesson by making puppets of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They took them home so you can have them practice retelling the story. If you have the book at home read it again!

Personal Space!

2009-09-15T21:33:00.000-07:00

Today we had our first Physical Education class. We learned about personal space and that we take it with us everywhere we go. Help your child learn that they should respect others personal space by keeping their hands and body to themselves. In writing we practiced the upper and lower case "P". We also came up with words starting with "P" and listened for the sound of "P" at the beginning or the ending of words. In math we continued to talk about things that are alike and different. We compared a circle to a cylinder naming characteristics that were the same and different. We also met our Third grade buddies today in Mr. Romanowski's class!

2009-09-14T12:20:00.000-07:00

"P" is the letter of the week and Brown is the color of the week. Tomorrow is our first day of PE! Please send your child in comfortable shoes.

Mrs. Kasner's Class Goes Full Day!

2009-09-09T19:59:00.000-07:00

The letter of the week is letter "D" and the color we are learning about is green. We also made our first shape person Mr. Longworth the rectangle. Today was our first trip to the library! The kids learned how to check out a book and how to treat a book they take home, no books in the bath tub!
Please remember to return them to school by Tuesday. We also had our first assembly today that explained our gift wrap fundraiser. Your child was to asked to put the packet in the refrigerator so that you would find it...just in case you were wondering why they did that? We also completed our first art project today, the students learned about lines and made a caterpillar using different types of lines. Ask them to show you different types of lines around the room! Wow what a busy day we had!

Welcome!

2009-09-01T18:11:00.000-07:00

Hello parents and welcome to our blog. Here you will receive updates about what's happening in our classroom.
Today we continue to share "Me Bags", we are learning a lot about our friends. This week we are learning the letter "E" and the color blue. Some new "cheer words" are: on, off and here. See if they can cheer it for you! Check back soon, we will update as often as we can!