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

Blog Password: Alligator 

50th Day of School and Pumpkins!

This week was very fun and very eventful.  Tuesday was the 50th day of school.  The students count each day of school, we stop along the way at milestones.  The first is the 50th day of school!  It is exciting to celebrate learning.  Our next big number celebration will happen on the 100th day of school.

Everyone dressed in their 50's clothes!

 Enjoying root beer floats!

 Making records

 Rolling to 50

 Bubble gum blowing contest

 Gavin and Logan blew the biggest bubbles!

 The cafeteria also participated in all the 50's day fun!

 The cafeteria was decorated like a 1950's diner.

 We enjoyed hamburgers and french fries just like a diner.

 Then it was time for the "Sock Hop", the students learned dances from the 1950's in music leading up to the big 50th day.  They were great dancers and had loads of fun.

Here is a video of some of the great fun from the Sock Hop!

 Emma was selected from our class as the "Best Costume" for all of Kindergarten!

 The teachers had fun too!

 This week we learned two letters.  We first learned the letter Ss, everyone wore "silly socks" to school!

 Jacob brought a spaceship for Ss show-and-tell.

 We also learned the letter Ff, the students traced their feet and made "funny feet".

 Cruz and Joseph brought flashlights for Ff show-and-tell.

 We continued to practice writing this week.  Also the students took their first spelling test this week, they did fabulous!!!  Great work!!

 The thematic unit was "pumpkins".  We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin and read many great fiction and non-fiction books about pumpkins.  Everyone loved learning about pumpkins and this is a great way to get ready for the "Pumpkin Patch" field trip coming up!

 Making jack-o-lanterns

 The students made "magic pumpkins" by mixing together yellow and red paint and creating a pumpkin.

 The students used linking cubes to measure the heights of different pumpkins.

 Everyone's most favorite pumpkin activity, was carving a real pumpkin!

First everyone worked together to clean out the pumpkin.

 Then Ms. Marzoni carved a jolly-wolly pumpkin face!

 Happy Birthday, Cody!

 Student of the Week: Morgyn

Coming up...

Phonics: Rr

Math: Addition

Thematic Unit: Halloween and more pumpkins!

Spelling test will be given Thursday this week due to the field trip on Friday.

Red Ribbon Week and United Way-  This week is Red Ribbon Week, this is a week that students are taught lessons about "saying no to drugs."  Also, for the next two weeks students will be bringing in donations for the United Way.  

Monday - Wear silly socks to "sock it to drugs" for Red Ribbon Week

Tuesday - Sports Day - bring $1 for United Way and wear your favorite sports uniform

Wednesday - Wear red day for Red Ribbon Week

Thursday - Camo Day - bring $1 for United Way and wear camouflage 

Friday, October 28 - PUMPKIN PATCH FIELD TRIP!!  - Students will need to wear their class T-shirt to school that day (our class T-shirt is aqua blue). 

Monday, October 31 - Halloween party at 1:00 PM, students may wear their class T-shirts to school on this day.

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