Happy Birthday, Johnny Appleseed!

Today the students in grade K and 1 had a visit from Johnny Appleseed in honor of his birthday. Johnny talked to the classes and then gave each student and teacher an apple.

 Happy Birthday, Johnny!

Week in Review ~ September 10 - 14

We made it through our first full week of Kindergarten and boy were we busy! In ELA our essential question was "How is everyone special?" We talked about how we are all different but that makes each one of us special in our own way. We read the stories Animals in the Park: An ABC Book and The Ugly Duckling and we introduced the first sight word, I. We also learned the sound for 10 letters: p, b, t, d, f, v, s, z, k, and g. In learning centers we sorted letters and words, practiced writing our names with an uppercase at the beginning and the rest lowercase, wrote our first sentence and worked on many alphabet activities.

In Math we started Topic 1 titled numbers 0 to 5.  In this topic we will count, read and write the numbers 0 to 5.  We also introduced some number poems for numbers 1, 2 and 3 to help the K2ers remember how to form them correctly.  We will work on the poems for 4 and 5 next week.  Any number writing practice at home would be very helpful.

Be sure to check out our class Instagram page theworldofk2. If you have not sent in the paper with your instagram username, please do so.  I do not accept followers unless I know who they are. If you sent a request and I have not accepted it, please let me know. 

Monday night, from 5:30 - 7:30, is Open House at Johnny Appleseed. This is a great opportunity to have your child bring you to the classroom to see what we have been working on so far, as well as walk you around the school to see the various places they go during the week.  I hope to see you Monday night. 

Thank you for the MANY donations to our classroom...it is greatly appreciated!

Panda Cam

This week in ELA we are reading an informational text (non-fiction) story called Panda Kindergarten. The K2ers learned some interesting panda facts such as the color of a panda bear when they are born. During center time and snack time I put up on our smart board a live panda cam from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The K2ers LOVED watching what the panda was doing so I thought I would share the link. 

Panda Cam - National Zoo


Here are some pictures from when I visited the National Zoo with my family in the summer of 2016.

Week in Review ~ April 30 - May 4 and EcoTarium Field Trip

Last week we started Unit 9 Week 2 in our reading series.  Our essential question was 'What do good citizens do?" Our vocabulary words were citizen, respect, necessary, hauled and tidy.  We read the stories Hen Hears Gossip, The Little Red Hen, and Team Up to Clean Up. We focused in on the long i sound in words and introduced the sight words has and play. In learning centers we sorted short i and long i words, practiced reading and writing sight words and wrote in our journals about how we can show respect.  We also wrote about what we can do to help the Planet Earth.

In Math we started Topic 9 which is reading, writing and counting to 20.  We will be focusing in on the teen numbers. 

On Friday we had such a fun trip to the EcoTarium. There was so much to see and do and our trip to the planetarium drew a lot of oohs and ahhhs as they looked at stars up in the sky with the help of Big Bird and Elmo.  Here are some pictures from the trip.

Enjoy the beautiful weather that this week as in store for us!