Colors!!

This week we learned the letter Ss.  The students worked very hard to learn how to form this letter correctly and to practice saying the /s/ sound.  They are also learning sight words.  This week the sight word was "like".  In reading they began to read sentences with the sights words "I" and "like".

The letter Ss means we get to wear SILLY SOCKS to school!!

These sure are some silly socks!

The students drew a picture of their silly socks and completed the words by adding an "S" to the beginning.

 Snake starts with S. 

 And SQUIRREL starts with Ss too!!  Brody has a special pet that he shared with us this week.  We were all so excited Brody shared this special "S" Show-and-Tell with us!  And a special thanks to Brody's mom, Mrs. Kaci, too!

 Great Ss books.

 We also learned about colors this week.  We learned that you can mix primary colors to create secondary colors.  These two books "Mouse Paint" and "White Rabbit's Color Book" are excellent at explaining how to mix colors.

Each day we had a "color" Show-and-Tell

RED

 BLUE

 GREEN

 YELLOW

 ORANGE

 Doing our own color mixing, everyone thought this was so "cool"!

 We also began to learn how to read and spell color words.  We sang a song for each color word and began reading these words in print.

Graphing your favorite color

 Our reading story this week was "How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?".  We discussed fiction and nonfiction texts and made predictions about the story.  We also discussed the book elements (author, illustrator, title, title page and front cover and back cover). 

 We continued to learn about shapes.  Everyone loved the edible school buses and identifying the shapes that make up a bus.  A rectangle graham cracker, square Chex cereal windows, and circle oreo wheels.

 "Open House" is tomorrow night, we made some special crafts for the big day.  

Self Portraits 

 Another special "Open House" craft --- You'll have to come to find out why we painted our feet!

Student of the Week: Maddox

Coming Up...

Phonics: Aa

Math: 2D shapes and Positional Words

Thematic Unit: All About Me

New Sight Word: the

Sight Words (already introduced): I, like

Color words to practice reading by sight: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, brown, purple, pink, white

Monday, August 27 - Grandparents' Day Lunch - All grandparents are invited to lunch tomorrow.  Our class will go to lunch at 11:10 AM.  Please met in our classroom and we'll walk together to the cafeteria.  After lunch grandparents may take their grandchild to the book fair in the school library if they choose.

Monday, August 27 - Open House, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Families are welcome to come and see what your special kindergartener has been learning at school.

Spirit Fridays - Every Friday during football season is "Spirit Fridays".  Students may wear a spirit T-shirt (any Purvis T-shirt) on Fridays to support the PHS football team.  Go Tornadoes!

Monday, September 3 - No school, Labor Day Holiday

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Colors and Letter Oo

This week we learned all about colors and shapes.  We had a lot of fun sharing "Show and Tell" for each color day throughout the week.  Each day the students were introduced to a different color word, they sang songs and played games to help them begin to recognize the color words be sight.  

Watch the video below to see everyone sing along to the color songs!

The students brought many great and colorful items for "Show and Tell", take a look!

Logan's snack day was on "red day",  he treated us all to strawberries on this fun day!

Joseph and Jacob were very colorful in orange and blue for their "show and tell"!  Maybe some future Tim Tebow's in our class!

We read many great books thought taught us how to mix primary colors to create more secondary colors. Everyone thought this was so cool!  We had to give it a try!

The students painted each hand then rubbed their hands together to mix and create a new color.  Very fun!

As a class, everyone worked together to create a handprint rainbow.  We will display this in our class all school year.

Graphing our favorite colors.

In math, we continued to learn about shapes, their attributes, and sorting.

We read the book "Mouse Shapes," the mice in the story created new pictures using various shapes.  We made mice using circles and triangles.

Sorting

Shape puzzle

Making more shapes from other shapes.

Everyone made a delicious snack, using rectangles, squares and circles they made a tasty school bus.

 In phonics, we learned the letter Oo.  We learned the sound, how to properly write this letter and that O is a vowel.

Making an octopus from the letter O.

On of our favorite resources is www.brainpopjr.com.  This website has two of our favorite characters, Annie and Moby.  This week Annie and Moby taught us about colors and color mixing.  The students enjoyed playing the memory match game during centers on the Promethean board.

More fun with friends.

Student of the Week: Alexis

Coming Up...

Phonics: Gg

Math: Numbers 0-5

Thematic Unit: Names

August 30 - "Grandparents' Day Lunch" - Join your grandchild for lunch!  Our class will eat lunch at 11:45 AM, please met in our class at 11:35 AM and we will walk together to lunch.

August 30 - "Open House" - Visit our class and see what your child has been learning!  5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, we look forward to seeing everyone!

September 5 - No School, Labor Day Holiday

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