-In math this week we began working in small groups and differentiated independent centers! We focused on counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s, writing numbers to 20,and counting objects to answer, “How Many?” Eventually students will be counting to 120 by 10’s and 1’s and writing numbers to 120. We will also be working on sorting, counting, and ordering different groups. Students can sort items by color, shape, or size, count how many items are in each group, and put the groups in order from least to greatest or greatest to least. Here is a great game for this: http://www.abcya.com/counting_sorting_comparing.htm At home, please make sure students are practicing counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s every night and practicing writing their numbers 0-20. (Fun ways of writing numbers can be with chalk outside, in sand or shaving cream, on a whiteboard, etc.) Students who need practice can also practice one to one correspondence using the counting strategies below. When students have mastered this, you can practice skip counting by 2, 3, 4, etc. and discuss odd and even numbers. Here are our math standards for this unit: MGSEK.CC.1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens. Extend the counting sequence. MGSE1.NBT.1 Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. MGSEK.CC.2. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). MGSEK.CC.3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). MGSEK.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. (one-to-one correspondence) b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted (cardinality). The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. c. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. MGSEK.MD.3. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. I loved seeing you all at curriculum night! I have attached the powerpoint and welcome video if you would like to see it/view them again! http://fultontube.fultonschools.org/heards-ferry-elementary/features/qRiamgi_Pxdg4l0Zfopl
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Have a great LONG weekend! Wednesday is pajama day!
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Hi Parents! We had a fantastic week of school and I am looking forward to another awesome week! I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend! We went to the library this Thursday during our “No Specials Time” for students to listen to a story and pick out a book. Students can keep their books for 2 weeks and return them when we go back to the library every other Thursday. This week the students got to go to the computer lab to take the IReady math and reading screener. (We will talk more about this at curriculum night.) Speaking of curriculum night, curriculum night is Thursday, August 29th from 6:00 p.m. -7:15 p.m. This is the one night each year that is a parent only evening. There will be two sessions offered on Thursday night. The session times are 6:00-6:30 and 6:45 to 7:15. During the sessions you will hear about what the students will be learning, what to expect this year, and the ins and outs of Kindergarten. Some other important dates this week: Tuesday is picture day! Wednesday is college pride day and Friday is team color day (we are the YELLOW team) so students should wear yellow to be prepared for the school pep rally lead by yours truly! In math, I pre-assessed students on the GKIDS baseline assessment and our first math unit of counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s, writing numbers, etc. This information will help me plan for instruction. I will also show students how to work in independent centers during math (students will get a chance to do centers daily) and rotate to my table and Mrs. Brannon's table. What you can do at home: Have students begin practicing to count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s every night and practice writing their numbers 1-20. In the upcoming math units, students will be working on the first grade standard of counting to 120 by 1’s and 10’s and writing numbers to 120. In writer’s workshop we will begin our Lucy Calkins narrative unit of study. This is a series of lessons that introduces our writing center, the tools, and how to write about topics we know about. Students will begin working on adding details to words and pictures and labeling the items in their pictures. The Lucy Calkins series also works on having students write across pages like a book so that it is easier for students to organize their ideas. We will create a chart of what to do when students think they are done. “When you are done, you have just begun.” Students can add to their pictures, add to their writing, look over their writing with a partner, or start a new piece. What you can do at home: have students practice sounding out words and writing down the sounds they hear on paper, draw pictures with details, and label the objects in their pictures. During reading I will be pre-assessing students on letters/letter sounds and will be observing student reading behaviors which will also help me plan for instruction. We will also begin practicing our reading routine. On Monday, I did a read-aloud of Todd Parr's "It's Ok to be different" and we discussed all the wonderful things that made us...us! The book teaches acceptance, understanding, and confidence and it's illustrations are bold and bright. So after reading the book we made our own colorful and fun portraits and created a class quilt to celebrate how we are all unique and special and together we are a team :) Today we took our first trip to the science lab where Mr. John did an introduction to the science lab with the kids! They LOVED it! Check out the pics from science lab below!
We had a great first weeks we read a lot of awesome books that related to the first day of school and first day feelings. We discussed how we felt and graphed our emotions. The first type of graph we learned about are pictographs and we worked to create others as the week continued. We worked together to make a birthday month graph and a how many letters are in your name graph. We analyzed the data we found using words like "more, most, fewest, fewer than, and more than." Mrs. Dunagan the Assistant Principal also came in and read us a first week of school book! We began working on our counting and cardinality math unit already, practicing counting and writing our numbers. We also learned some fun color word songs! See if your child remembers the songs for red, blue, green, pink, brown, black and/or white! We learned the rules and expectations in our classroom. We discussed and modeled the appropriate ways to act in the classroom, hallway, stairwell, and cafeteria. Ask your child if they remember the 6 class rules! (clue: rule #1 is follow directions quickly) I am loving getting to know these awesome kindergarteners and building an amazing classroom community!
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