Pictures from the Farm

We had a wonderful time on our trip to the farm! Here are some pictures :)

Cooking up a storm!

We will be cooking A LOT this month! Cooking helps us practice math, social skills, following directions, and experience new things. We would love to have the following foods donated so we can make some yummy treats!

-applesauce in jars
-cinnamon
-a box of vanilla cake mix
-egg beaters (pre-broken eggs)
-vanilla icing
-rice
-milk
-vanilla extract
-sugar
-hot chocolate mix
-mini & regular sized marshmallows
-hershey kisses
-skinny pretzel sticks

Thanks in advance for your help!

Week of December 3rd

Hello!

This week, we will be getting into all our holiday studies! We have 2 field trips this week! On Thursday, we will visit Coleman's Christmas Tree Farm. We will make a wreath and get a tree for our classroom. On Friday, we will visit The Schwartz Center in Dover to see "The Nutcracker." We have been listening to the music and the students LOVE it!

Here's the rest of the lesson plans for the week:

Math: numbers to 20

Science: conifer trees

Social Studies: holiday traditions, St. Nicholas Day, Christmas trees past and present

Phonics: short Ii vowel sound, -it word family

Reading: sight words on & to, finding the main idea of a story

Writing: writing on the lines and with finger spaces to make our writing easy to read

Handwriting: capital letter formation

Have a wonderful week!

Crazy November

Hello!

The month of November is a little crazy with all the days off and half days we have! Rather than do a plan for just one week, I'm going to share with you what we'll cover throughout the month. Some topics will take more than one week or will be divided by a weekend because of the holidays.


This month we will.....


-compare groups with numbers up to 10
-keep practicing short vowel "a" and the word families -an, -at, -ap, -am, -ag
-learn the color words gray and purple
-study the first Thanksgiving, pilgrims, and native americans
-cook delicious Thanksgiving food!
-work on using punctuation, finger spaces, and descriptive attributes in our writing
-learn correct capital letter formation
-practice counting syllables in words and the number of words in a sentence
-match digits to sets of objects
-identifying capital and lower case letter pairs

I think that's about it! You can see we have a very busy month planned!

Field Trip!

Friends and Family,

We had an AMAZING time on our trip today! We got to climb through an obstacle course, make our way through a soy bean maze, pick indian corn, go on a hayride, and learn about different kinds of pumpkins! We were able to take lots of pictures on the trip that I've posted on a private, online web album. If you would like the link to the album so you are able to see our pictures and print out ones that you like, please email me and let me know! I want to share as much as possible with you while protecting your child and family's privacy as much as possible. Email me at brittany.scullion@smyrna.k12.de.us if you'd like the link to our photo album!

This Week...

Math: counting 6-10

Science: pumpkin review, Why do leaves change color?

Phonics: How does the letter a help me make words? -at and -am word families

Reading: How does the sequence of events help me retell a story?

Writing: How can we make our writing easy to read? (write neatly, in a straight line)

Handwriting: capital letters

Ms. T is taking over!!!

Hello! 

This week is Ms. T's solo week for student teaching! Here is what she will be covering...

Math: numbers 6-10

Science: pumpkins

Phonics: Aa, /a/ sound, blending -at and -am to make words

Reading: review sequence and beginning, middle, end

Sight Words: we, go

Writing: using verbs and details in our writing

On Tuesday, we will be walking to the Smyrna Fire Station.

Next Tuesday, we will be visiting Filasky's Produce in Middletown to see a real pumpkin patch!

Have a fantastic week!

Week of Oct. 8th

This week is red week and Fire Safety week!

Math: continuing to compare groups made up of numbers 0-5

Social Studies: Fire Safety

Phonics: letters Pp and Cc

Reading: Stories have a beginning, middle, and end, just like steps in a process. When we understand the sequence of events, we have a clear understanding of stories and directions.

Writing: continuing to use adjectives like color words and number words

Handwriting: letters B and R

Our walking trip to the Smyrna Fire station will the the 16th! Please turn in your permission slips asap!

Oops!

Sorry I missed a week!

With Miss T taking over more of the classroom and general end-of-September craziness, updating the website just got pushed aside. I hope I didn't confuse anyone!

Next week's plan will be updated tomorrow :)

Apples!!!!!!!!!

This week, we will be incorporating apples into our science and social studies units because it is Johnny Appleseed's birthday on Wednesday!

As a final wrap-up activity, we will be making applesauce on Friday in class. Of course, we need some help with ingredients!!! Please send ONE APPLE (any color/flavor) to school with your student by Thursday, 9/27.

As always, thank you for your help! Our students appreciate it more than you can imagine!

Week of 9/24

Here's the plan for this week!

Color: Brown, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" by Eric Carle

Math: Comparing numbers 0-5 using the words more, less, and equal

Science/Social Studies: Johnny Appleseed's birthday is the 26th, so this week we're going all out with apples!

Phonics: R says "rrrr", beginning sounds of words

Reading: What kinds of words are there? (color, number, action)

Sight Word: my

Writing: Keep on labeling! Students will label their own pictures with letters representing beginning sounds.

Handwriting: capital E, capital P

Have a wonderful week!

Wishlist

Hello Parents!

I know it's still early in a year, and you were all simply wonderful at bringing in all the supplies we needed to start off the school year on the right foot! A big part of being in kindergarten and learning how to share, honing fine motor skills, and practicing self control comes from art and cooking activities. To help us get started, we created a wishlist for some items. If possible, please consider donating any of the listed items to our classroom!

Our Wish List

Thank you!

Week of 9/17

Here is what's on the agenda this week:

Math: Numbers 4 & 5, using a "five frame" to show how many

Science: What is a tree? What are the parts of a tree?

Phonics: letters and sounds for Mm and Ss

Reading: What is a sentence? and the sight word: a

Writing: What is a label? Drawing a person and labelling with their name and a favorite object that starts with one of our letters.

Handwriting: capital F and E

Color: my favorite....GREEN! Try to wear green on Friday and bring a green item for show and tell!

Welcome Mrs. Hall!!!

Hooray! Kindergarten has a NEW teacher! She is the wonderful, fantastic Mrs. Hall! And the best part is that she's right across the hallway from us, so our friends who are moving away aren't going to be so far after all. :)

We are very excited to have her join our awesome kindergarten team! Ella, Ethan, Darryl, Avyn, and Toby are super excited to start meeting with their new teacher on Thursday.

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Hi family and friends! Here's what we're learning this week:

      Math: reading, writing and counting numbers 1-3

      Social Studies: responsibility and perseverance, learning the Smyrna Elementary School pledge

                    "I pledge to be a Superior Soaring Eagle.

                      I will show compassion by being kind.

                      I will be respectful all the time.

                      Integrity brings the trust I earn.

                      I will be responsible for what I learn.

                      I will persevere by giving it my best try.

                      So let's start each day with a high five!"

      Phonics: rhyming one and two syllable words

      Reading: letters of the alphabet, saying the alphabet without singing, sorting letters/words/numbers

      Writing: using labels to label people

      Handwriting: pre-writing skills (tracing and pencil grip)

Forms for volunteer opportunities will be sent home next week. Thank you for all your interest in lending a hand in the classroom!