Kilgore's Kindergarten Communicator

This Week
Reading/Language Arts: Letter: Ee (continued)
Sight Words: eat, ate, go, here, from
Math: Number Relationships for Quantities to 20 (continued)
Social Studies: Physical Characteristics of the Local Community

Next Week
Reading/Language Arts: Letter: Jj and Ww
Sight Words: find, jump, make, must
Math: Fractions (halves)
Science: Living and Nonliving

Classroom Notes
On April 6th, please consider buying a ticket and joining us for the Commerce Schools Educational Enrichment Foundation (CSEEF) Boots & BBQ fundraiser. It's $25 per ticket. I will be there with the Promethean ActivTable that the foundation funded for us this year. Our class iPads were funded by the foundation last year! Come out and support this foundation that has supported our Cubs directly!

Snack Reminder
Monday - Brian
Tuesday - Brick
Wednesday - Cayelin
Thursday - Cazden
Friday - Crystal

Dates to Remember
March 25th-29th - Scholastic Book Fair in the Library
April 6th - CSEEF Boots & BBQ fundraiser
April 12th - No School (Bad weather make-up day)
 

This week in Social Studies, we learned about why we need jobs. You know how kids are, they think that all of our needs and wants can be bought from the money tree growing in the back yard! Hehe! Thanks to Paige Throgmorton (Evan's mom) for representing the Cubs and speaking about her job as a cardiac nurse! A special thank you also to Greenville PD K9 Officer Robert Pemberton (Hannah's dad) and Greenville FD's Colby Estes (Evie's uncle) for sharing their jobs with us!

 

We are digging deeper into the numbers 16-20 this week and using story problems to decompose (break apart) the numbers! The Cubs are doing a great job listening and following directions to master the concept...I'm a proud teacher!

This Week
Reading/Language Arts: Letter: Ee
Sight Words: eat, ate, go, here, from
Math: Number Relationships for Quantities to 20
Social Studies: How Families Meet their Basic Needs

Next Week
Reading/Language Arts: Letter: Ee (continued)
Sight Words: eat, ate, go, here, from
Math: Number Relationships for Quantities to 20 (continued)
Social Studies: Physical Characteristics of the Local Community

Classroom Notes
On April 6th, please consider buying a ticket and joining us for the Commerce Schools Educational Enrichment Foundation (CSEEF) Boots & BBQ fundraiser. It's $25 per ticket. I will be there with the Promethean ActivTable that the foundation funded for us this year. Our class iPads were funded by the foundation last year! Come out and support this foundation that has supported our Cubs directly!

Snack Reminder
Monday - Michael
Tuesday - Sonya
Wednesday - Tripp
Thursday - Rabiah
Friday - Bellah's

Dates to Remember
March 23rd - Aglaia Easter Egg Hunt at the Commerce City Park 11am
March 27th - Class Pictures
March 25th-29th - Scholastic Book Fair in the Library
April 6th - CSEEF Boots & BBQ fundraiser
April 12th - No School (Bad weather make-up day)

Brick's great grandpa Brown took Flat Stanley on an adventure on his farm! Not only did they send us a letter detailing the adventure, they also made a bound story book and sent every Cub a cowboy flat Stanley to color, a toy tractor, pencil, bandanna and candy!

PBS Parents Play & Learn is a FREE iPad app designed for parents to use with their children. The appoffers thirteen games put into settings that parents and their children are likely to go to together. Some of the settings are a library, a park, a restaurant, and a grocery store. The games are intended to help children learn to count and spell. Along with each game there is a set of four activities that parents can do with their children in each setting. For example, one of the suggested grocery store activities is to introduce children to the concept of weight and measuring things in the produce section of the grocery store.

Miss Hammons just happened to know a REAL Cowgirl...her sister-in-law Holly! So, she invited Holly to bring her horse and her tools to talk to us about them. She was very knowledgable and patient with all of the Kindergarteners and even let us pet her horse if we wanted! You know the cool part? Holly gives private riding lessons! Her business card is pictured below! Thanks to Holly Hammons for being such a great guest!

Thanks to all of the parents and Cubs who came to open house last Tuesday night! I love the excitement that the kids have over showing off their hard work and their classroom! Here are some highlights:

In science, we have been talking about the moon and stars. We made our own constellations and hung them on the ceiling.


Then, we used prepositional phrases (Language Arts lesson) to describe where our shooting stars went around the moon.


Also in Language Arts, we are reading expository (or real life) text. We read a few books about Texas and studied a few of the main facts. Using these facts we learned, we authored and illustrated a fact book about Texas. Another topic we learned about was the job and tools of the cowboy and cowgirl. After reading a few books on the topic, we wrote about a tool that they use and what the tool is used for. Finally, we learned how to draw ourselves a cowpoke!

This Week 
Reading/Language Arts: Letter: Gg
Sight Words: one, two, three, four, five, get, all
Math: Addition and Subtraction stories with sums to 20
Social Studies: Texas Symbols

Dates to Remember
March 7th - Report Cards go home
March 11th-15th - Spring Break - No School
March 27th - Class Pictures
 

 

This week we are graphing with real objects. Who better to graph with than the Cubs! We used the lines in the cafeteria to graph and compare the class by boys/girls, shirt color, lunch box/tray, and sticker color!