January 21- 25

SAFE AND FUN GAMES FOR THE KIDS

 TO PLAY 

(Click on the title and/or links below)

    

New Games

• Snakes on a Ladder (just like shoots and ladders)- practice counting on to 100
• 100 chart- The interactive 100 number chart is a great way for students to discover number patterns, skip count, and learn multiplication tables. Color the interactive number charts to find patterns in numbers or use them for counting exercises. Children can print their charts too!

• Shark Numbers- count the ten sticks/rod and squares (counting on)
• Tens and Ones- Count the tens and ones and match the number (matching)

• Starfall- ABC's, songs, letters -http://www.starfall.com/
• Concentration-By yourself or against a friend, match whole numbers and shapes. Practice with the clear panes or step up the challenge with the windows closed.
• 10 Frame- (helps to develop counting and addition skills.)- http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=75
• Ten and ones (match the number) 
• Ten and ones - The lifeguard saves a person by counting to a specific number moving only by tens or ones.

Happy Birthday 

Kiya- 16th 

Lilly -18th 

Madelynn- 25th

Portia- 25th

TAKE-HOME BOOK

Click on the title below to get your own copy of the big book, individual book, or additional activities.

Reading Objectives 

K.RF.1a- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page

K.RF.1c- Understand that words are separated by spaces

Keep the shoe box in a place in the house where you and your child can find and read them EVERY NIGHT, maybe keep his/her shoebox next to his/her bed.

• This Weeks book- The Snowman- This is a nose for the snowman."
• Last weeks book- The Mitten- "The bear was in the mitten."

Sight/ High Frequency Words 

Reading Worksheets, Grammar, Comprehension, Lesson Plans

Listening to and Saying Sight Words

Sight words are not only frequently used in writing, they are also essential to conversational English. Because most of the  Dolch sight words are already in children’s verbal vocabularies, learning to read them is simply a matter of connecting the print word to the oral version in their prior knowledge banks. Parents and teachers should make explicit connections between the print version of a word and its sound. Pointing to a word while repeating it is one way to do this. Also, adults should have children say the sight words to help them become actively involved in their learning. This can be as simple as asking them to repeat a sight word while writing it or as involved as having the child search through a pile of sight words written on index cards or sentence strips to find a word that best completes a sentence you have written.

Reading and Vocabulary

Book for the next two weeks-  Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare
Vocabulary words-embarrassed, steep, thumped, warn, concerned, frigid

We will also finish reading different versions of The Mitten. 

We will:

• review the characters, setting, problems, and events in each of the stories
• compare and contrast the stories
• make a story map or use our GO RETELL CHART- CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR A PRINTABLE COPY!
•  recall and summarize the story using images of characters
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100th Day Celebration

Friday, January 25th, will be the 100th day of school. To celebrate, I am asking each student to bring in a collection of 100 small items to put on display. The class brainstormed ideas such as a collection of 100 pennies, marbles, stickers, macaroni, buttons, M&Ms, etc. Included is a 100’s chart to make counting with your child easier, and a ziplock baggie to put them in, as we are going to display our collections on the bulletin board. Please send the collection on Wednesday (January 23rd). Thank you for taking the time to count the items with your child.

Some of our 100 Day Activities This Week

Some of this ideas were found on Chalk Talk

• Complete 100 exercises, completed in 10 sets of 10>
  10 arm circles, 10 toe touches, bounce a ball 10 times, 10 jumping jacks, hop on one foot 10 times, 10 sit ups, 10 log rolls, 10 bunny hops, 10 kicks, 10 alligator chomps, etc.
• Count by 1`s to take 100 steps.  Where do you think we will end up?
• Make a hundreds day necklace with 100 fruit loops- practice counting by 10
• Sorting/classifying our 100 items into groups of 10- practice counting by 10
• toss a coin 100 times and make tally marks to show how many times it lands on heads and how many times it lands on tails.
• Estimate- I will show them three random groups of objects. Students will guess which bags has less than 100, exactly 100, and more than 100. Then count the bags by making groups of 10 to check their predictions

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Activity Summary:

Inspired by the book "The Crayon Box That Talked" this lesson will show children that when we all work together, the results are much more interesting and colorful.

-Found on Kinder Art