DAY 180: Morning work was writing what they want to be when they grow up!
Drew, Trent and Grafton - Engineers Ameila, Anna, Clare and Elise - Artists and Art Teachers Leila, Andy and Shane - police officers and S.W.A.T. officer Lily - Doctor and Mom Matteo - Video Game Designer Finn - Kimono Dragon Isaiah - Julian Edelman Patriots football player Luke - Scientist Valentina - model All the Kindergartners met their new first grade classmates and first grade teachers. They are SO excited already for next year! After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Miss Bindergarten's Last Day of Kindergarten and My Very Own Fairy Tale By: Maia Haag about a fairy named Amelia, for the day Amelia was born. After P.E., we did our last CIRCLE ROUND THE ZERO for DAY #180!! WE MADE IT!!!! Mrs. Carroll read, When It's the Last Day of School By: Maribeth Boelts. I made it to the last page and then cried when the last sentence said "When the last bell rings, I'm going to give my teacher my strongest hug ever!" The teacher said, "I've so enjoyed having you in class, have a wonderful summer!" We ended our day with Go Noodle singing and dancing!! HAVE A VERY HAPPY, SAFE and FUN SUMMER VACATION!!! P.S. No going by ROOM 121 next year without hugs!! Day 179: Morning Work was writing numbers 1-30 again for practice. We did a little yoga this morning to center ourselves and calm ourselves down before starting the day! After recess they watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab while eating their snack. We cleaned out our cubbies and lockers, before Music. (Everything should have come home today, or they can bring it home tomorrow!) Then they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read,
Rooster's Off to See the World By: Eric Carle. After free choice, Mrs. Carroll read, The Secret BIrthday Message By: Eric Carle, in honor of everyone's birthdays and Andrew's Loose Tooth By: Robert Munsch, in honor of all the kindergartners who lost a tooth ( or more than one) this year :)) Day 178: Morning Work was writing numbers 1-30. After P.E., they did Go Math Lesson 8.6 Count to 100 by ones worksheets. After snack/recess, Isaiah won the drawing for our class froglet!! He named it "Pickles" :)) We sent home directions to order your own "Grow A Frog", if you really want one!
Ms. Perroni read, Makeup Mess By: Robert Munsch and then we did a dance on the smartboard to "This is Going to be the Best Day of My Life"! Then Trent's mom, Amelia's mom, Andy's mom and Isaiah's mom helped with our end of the year party!! They decorated picture frames for a class photo and they all autographed each others frames. For lunch we had a PIZZA PICNIC PARTY! Before recess, Ms. Perroni read, Tackylocks and the 3 Bears By: Helen Lester. After recess, Ms. Perroni read, Creepy Crawly Birthday By: James Howe. We sang Happy Birthday to Valentina (her birthday was today) and we sang Happy Birthday to Drew and Andy for their summer birthdays :)) They did Razkids and math apps on ipads and we ended our day with free choice time! Whew! Thanks to all our students and generous families for our nice gifts! It's been a GREAT YEAR!!!! Day 177: At the last Glover K-3 Community Meeting, we had a very "moving" Moving On ceremony for Grade 3 students! Each grade sang a special song to the third graders and the 3rd grade class gift to Glover School was butterfly bushes for all their years of "growing and learning and having fun at Glover"! At the end of the day, all K-2 students lined the hallway to "high five" the third graders as they left school!! After community meeting, Ms. Perroni did Second Steps Lesson 20: Inviting to Play. They reviewed how to state a problem and think of possible solutions to the problem. The buddy bench has been a great addition to the playground for people looking for friends to play with at recess. After snack/recess, they wrote their own fiction or non-fiction little books. Before lunch/recess, they did Go Math Lesson 8.3 Count and Order to 20 worksheets and we used the smartboard for math problems. After Library, they finished their writing of end of the year memories.
Day 176: Ms. Perroni read, Come to the Ocean's Edge By: Laurence Pringle, before we went Tide Pooling at Grace Oliver's Beach with Mrs. Thomas' and Ms. Mostyn's classes. Thanks to Drew's dad, Matteo's mom and Amelia's mom for joining us this morning. Everyone found SO MANY tide pool creatures today! We saw mussels, sea gulls, barnacles, slipper shells, periwinkles, crabs, hermit crabs, green sea lettuce and brown & purple seaweed! When we got back to Glover after snack at the beach, we had Reader's Workshop. What a great way to start the first day of summer :)) Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Does Anyone Know Where a Hermit Crab Goes? By: Michael Glaser. Thanks to Matteo's mom, everyone saw a hermit crab up close! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read,
Waiting is Hard By: Mo Willems. After quiet time, they worked on writing their End of the Year Memories little book. Day 175: Reminder: We're going Tide Pooling on Monday morning! Please be sure your child wears water shoes, sunscreen, a hat and brings a pail and shovel.
This morning we took our last walk to Wyman Woods after Mrs. Carroll read, We're Going on a Nature Hunt By: Steve Metzger. We hope you will go on some fun nature hikes this summer! Thanks to Matteo's mom, Finn's mom and Isaiah's dad for joining us today. Mrs. Thomas read an Eric Carle poem about insects when we got to Wyman Woods. Ask your child how many legs an insect has and how many body parts! Then they looked for 4-5 different kinds of insects with magnifiers. We saw everything from ants to daddy long legs to pill bugs! During snack, Ms. Perroni read, Bugs Are Insects By: Anne Rockwell and told us some fun ANT facts! Then our class planted our pumpkin seedlings in the Community Garden. After P.E., we put together our Father's Day SURPRISE :)) After lunch/recess and Art, they had free choice time. Have a great weekend!! Day 174: Reminder: We're walking to Wyman Woods tomorrow morning. Please have your child wear sneakers, sunscreen and a hat. Please return library books and book bags tomorrow.
We were SO HAPPY to see SO MANY families and our learning buddies from Mrs. Moss' class at our Poetry Jam this morning :)) Everyone had fun performing today! Principal Ota stopped by to say he was amazed at all the poems and songs they learned :)) They worked on puzzles and after recess watched The Magic School Bus visits the Coral Reef during snack. Then we worked on our Father's Day SURPRISE project. After Music, we finished our Father's Day surprise. After lunch/recess, we had Kindergarten Community Meeting with music from Dara VanRemoortel. She taught us lots of new songs. We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, A Perfect Father's Day By: Eve Bunting. Day 173: Reminder: Our Poetry Jam is TOMORROW at 8:30AM in the cafetorium!!!!!
Please return Glover Library books and Room 121 Book Bags. Please return the Tide Pooling permission slip. Morning Work was Book Look. After P.E., we practiced our show one LAST time!! For Go Math, we did Lesson 8.2 Count and Write to 20 worksheets. After snack/recess, we worked on a top secret SURPRISE for Father's Day! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, The Wolf Who Cried Boy By: Bob Hartman. Then they continued working on their Father's Day surprise. Then they had free choice time and played board games together. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me By: Eric Carle and Father's Day By: Anne Rockwell. Day 172: Reminders: Please send in all Glover Library books and Room 121 Book Bags.
Also, please send in permission slip for Tide Pooling. Our Poetry Jam is Thursday, June 16th at 8:30AM in the cafetorium for Room 121 families! At Glover K-3 Community Meeting this morning, the 3rd Grade chorus sang the school song and a round. Principal Ota announced the "Rocky" Rock Star students that earned the special recognition for their outstanding behavior and kindness the past two weeks. Unfortunately, no one in our class earned the honor this time :( However, EVERYONE in our class was a super "ROCK STAR" when we performed our Poetry Jam for the whole school:)) So many teachers and the principal were impressed with how many poems and songs they learned so well!! After snack/recess, they had free choice time and started a surprise art project. Then we practiced the show with some technology before lunch. After recess and Library, Amelia read, Rip and Rap By: Amanda White and Ms. Perroni read a classic, Make Way for Ducklings By: Robert McCloskey. We ended our day with some outdoor recess with our Learning Buddies from Mrs. Moss' third grade class. Day 171: Reminders: Our POETRY JAM show for parents and families is on Thursday, June 16th at 8:30AM in the cafetorium. We hope everyone can come!
Please return your child's Book Bag, if you haven't already. We will not be sending them home these last two weeks of school. Please return your Tide Pooling permission slip for the field trip on June 20th. Morning Work was RazKids and Math apps on the ipads. Then we had a wonderful African drumming and dancing enrichment program with the first graders. We all learned a dance to celebrate the birth and naming a child after an ancestor. Then we learned a dance to celebrate picking and sharing the harvest with everyone in the village. Then we watched a dance honoring the hunters and warriors that feed and protect the villagers. After snack and Music, they all signed their beautiful tie-dyed shirts for the show. We will be performing our show tomorrow at Community Meeting at 8:30AM for grades K-3!! Then we had a quick rehearsal in the cafeteria before lunch. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, a non-fiction book, Starfish By: Edith Hurd and a fiction book, The Story of the Sea Glass By: Anne Dodd. After a short free choice time, we had another enrichment program presented by the Village School chorus. We ended our day with the rest of our free choice time. Day 170: Mrs. Carroll missed the big field trip to the Franklin Park Zoo :( Thanks to Matteo's mom, Amelia's mom, Clare's mom, Drew's mom and Shane's dad for chaperoning! I also missed Circle Round the Zero for Day 170 :(( Can't believe 9 1/2 days left of school with this class! This year has truly flown by SO fast!!
Day 169: Full house today...except for Mrs. Carroll! We (ME) miss you!!!!
We started the morning by finishing our seahorse collages based on Mr. Seahorse They did an awesome job! Maddie G. came in from first grade to be our guest reader and read "Boogie Monster" by Josie Bissett. Next was the chapter 11 GO Math Assessment! All about measurement is done! After snack and recess, Mrs. Perroni read " Put Me in the Zoo" by Rober Lopshire and "Alligator Baby" by Robert Munsch...our favorite! Off to music we went. For getting ready for the zoo, we classified animals into categories: fish, bird, insect, mammel, reptile and amphibian. Thank you to Trent's mom and Clare's mom for helping out with lunch and recess. We had another drawing lesson after recess...Pout Pout fish when he is pouting and when he is happy. They are doing great with directed drawing. They wrote what made them pout/smile. Mrs. November came in and gave them a token because they were quiet and listening. (First time all day!!!LOL) Off to Mrs. Thomas' room for Kindergarten Meeting and then we are done! Day 168: Morning Work was Book Look. After P.E., we practiced our whole Poetry Jam from the beginning to the end outside by the front door and a Marblehead policeman stayed and watched us!
He thought they were amazing learning all those words!! After snack/recess, we tie-dyed our shirts for our show. Thanks to Matteo's mom & Amelia's mom and grandmother for helping with the whole assembly line with the tie-dying!! Before lunch, Ms. Perroni read, The Pout-Pout Fish By: Deborah Diesen. After lunch/recess, they finished painting their big Seahorse and then watercolored the background for the ocean and glued on strips of tissue paper. We ended our day learning about the Franklin Park Zoo animals on their website. Day 167: Morning Work was Book Look. At Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Principal Ota recognized the token challenge winner for the past two weeks was Ms. Yanow's class for good behavior throughout the school and in the classroom. We had a demonstration of the new Glover Buddy Bench for recess. When someone can't find a friend to play with, they can sit on the Buddy Bench and someone will join them to play :)) For Go Math, we did Lesson 11.3 Problem Solving - Direct Comparison worksheets. Then we practiced all our poems for our Poetry Jam and we are
"rock solid" ready :)) After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Good Night, Gorilla By: Peggy Rathmann and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? Illustrated by: Eric Carle. Ms. Perroni explained the differences between birds, mammals, amphibian, reptiles, fish and insects we might see at the zoo. For Learning Buddies, they played a game with their buddy and then they read an "ocean" book together. For Writer's Workshop, they chose an animal they would want to take home from the zoo and why. After lunch/recess and Library, Ms. Perroni read another true story by: Eric Carle, Mister Seahorse. Then we watched a video on the smartboard that showed the male seahorse giving birth to 50-1500 baby seahorses. Trent's sister was our surprise guest reader. She read, There's an Alligator Under My Bed By: Mercer Mayer. We ended our day with Ms. Perroni doing a guided drawing lesson of a big Seahorse. Day 166: Reminder: Please send in your permission slip for the Zoo with a check for $5 made out to Marblehead Public Schools, if you haven't already done so. They all did a WOW job on their Morning Work today! They practiced handwriting Upper and Lower case alphabet letters. We practiced a few songs and poems for our show. Ms. Perroni loved the "cherry pitter" Matteo brought in to demonstrate how it works! Mrs. Carroll read, Frogs! By; Nic Bishop. We set our ladybugs free at snack/recess. It was time for them to "spread their wings"! After snack/recess and Music, Ms. Perroni read, 1,2,3 to the Zoo and 10 Little Rubber Ducks By: Eric Carle. The Rubber Duck story is based on a true story. In 1992, a shipment of 29,000 rubber ducks fell overboard off a container ship and ended up washing ashore all over the world!
For Writer's Workshop, they wrote where they would fly to if they were a ladybug and why they would go there. We shared our writing with the microphone before lunch! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Picture Walk "in One Tide Pool" By: Anthony Fredericks. In small groups, they brainstormed a list of what you could find in a tidepool and drew a picture of the sea creatures. Then they took their cut out 12" foot and measured items longer than a foot, around the room. We ended our day with reviewing our sight word songs. Day 165: What a GREAT FIELD DAY we had today!!! All the Kindergartners dressed in BLUE walked to Eveleth School and had so much fun doing all the different stations Mr. Fargo and Mrs. Breed organized with SO MANY parents volunteering to help run each station! Thanks to Matteo's mom, Shane's dad, Isaiah's mom and Trent's mom for walking with us and helping at Field Day!
We did the parachute, relays, ate italian ice, water balloons, drip, drip, splash and crazy kickball!! Everyone was ready for lunch when we returned and after recess they had fun making their own art creations. We also celebrated Ms. Perroni's birthday today! We danced in the halls this morning to "Celebrate Good TImes, Come On!" The class did a great job making a book about "Why Ms. Perroni is the BEST teacher!" By: Room 121. Each child had a letter of her name and wrote a sentence describing Ms. Perroni with their letter and they illustrated their writing, too! She LOVED it! We ended the day with the best birthday song and dance ever! Have a great weekend :)) Day 164: Reminder: Have your child wear a BLUE shirt, sneakers and hat for Field Day tomorrow (and please apply sunscreen at home).
For Morning Work they used the ipads for handwriting and math apps. Mrs. Carroll read, How Many Baby Pandas? By; Sandra Markle. We practiced our Poetry Jam show on the stage in the cafeteria and they earned a gold token for doing such a fabulous job remembering all the words and having a great time performing! After snack/recess, they watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab. Then we practiced our letters and sounds before Music. After Music, they finished puzzles in small groups. Mrs. Carroll read the two books she donated to the class this year, What a Wonderful World Illustrated by: Tim Hopgood to lyrics by: Bob Thiele and George David Weiss and sung by Louis Armstrong (MY FAVORITE Kindergarten song!) and Friendshape "An Uplifting Celebration of Friendship" By: Amy Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. At our Kindergarten Community Meeting, we did our Kindergarten Pledge and watched a live video cam shot of baby eagles in DC that are all grown up and flying now. They were recently named Liberty and Freedom and their parent eagles are President Obabma and First Lady. Then we learned a tidepool song with hand motions. We ended our day with Leila sharing her birthday card her dad drew of Dr. Seuss. Day 163: REMINDER: Send in permission slips for Field Day.
Wear BLUE for Field Day on Friday. We started the day with Book Look followed by PE. Mrs. Breed gave the class a token for wonderful hallway behavior! After PE, Mrs. Carroll made Ms. Perroni leave the room so that they could work on her birthday surprise. Recess was a huge success and then we had Writing Workshop. The choice was weekend news or some other 'true' story. Details were encouraged, as well as spaces and neat writing. For math we learned about length and height, cut out a one foot 'foot' and measured the room. Lunch and recess were a GOLD TOKEN event. Ms. Perroni read one of her favorites, "Stella, Star of the Sea" by Marie Louise Gay and Ms. Yanow gave the class a token for great classroom behavior! Afternoon choice was iPads or puzzles and the whole class chose to do puzzles first! Some continued with puzzles while others switched to Raz Kids. It was another great day in Room 121! Day 162: Reminder: Have your child wear neon colors tomorrow (not required). Please send in your child's permission slip for Field Day (Friday, June 3), if you haven't already. Also, send in your child's "Book Bag" to get another "Book Bag" before we stop sending them home. We have lots of different bags for them to read with you.
Morning Work was working on new puzzles in small groups. At the Glover School Community Meeting this morning for grades K-3, Amanda Lockerbee announced the Rocky "Rock Star" awards and our class chose Matteo this week. Matteo is a conscientious worker and takes extra care doing all his work well.He is kind to all his classmates, always excited to do whatever we are doing and a pleasure to have in class. Over the long weekend: Our tadpole started growing his two hind legs!! His job is to eat and grow! His strong tail is great for swimming. Our ladybugs went from the grub stage to pupa stage to ladybug stage with red or orange wings with black spots! Our pumpkin seeds have grown 4"!! And our kindergartners keep GROWING rapidly right in front of our eyes every day - expanding their minds, bigger bodies and great social interaction growth, too :)) After Community Meeting , they did Go Math Lesson 11.1 worksheets on measurement for length and height. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, From Head to Toe By: Eric Carle and they had to guess the missing word by looking at the picture and then the first letter of the word. This is a good strategy to use for learning how to read words you don't recognize. Mrs. Carroll finished reading, Frog and Toad Are Friends By: Arnold Lobel. Our third grade Learning Buddies from Mrs. Moss' class came to our classroom to pair up with new buddies. Our kindergartners dictated a story (fiction or non-fiction) to the third grade buddy who was their scribe, to write down their story. The scribe echos back each sentence as they go along. Before lunch, they used their whiteboards to practice handwriting words with digraphs: "th", "sh" and "ch" and sentences. Then they practiced their letters and sounds. After lunch/recess and Library, we sang Happy Birthday to Finn!!! Then they practiced the poems and songs for our Poetry Jam. SAVE THE DATE: June 16th at 8:30AM to come see our REALLY BIG SHOW!!! We did a little tree frog math story sentence and ended our day with some free choice time. Day 161: Reminder: No School Monday, May 30th in honor of Memorial Day.
Morning Work was Book Look. We had another beautiful day for our walk to Wyman Woods this morning. Thank you to Matteo's mom, Shane's dad and Isaiah's mom for joining chaperoning today. We hiked the path with new partners from Mrs. Thomas' class to write our Wyman Woods book: "I looked in the woods and what did I see? I saw a ____________, but it didn't see me! Everyone sketched and wrote about something different they saw on our hike in the woods, i.e. a boulder, tree, flower, bird, birch tree, field mice, etc., A volunteer Marblehead group, SPUR, has helped to clean up Wyman Woods and paint a chalkboard in the cabin and they tilled the community garden to plant vegetables for the Marblehead Food Pantry. In your child's folder is a pamphlet describing what else they are involved in doing around town. They are looking for volunteers with young children to help weed and take care of the garden at Wyman Woods this summer. After P.E., we sang a jazzy Happy Birthday to Luke! Then Leila brought in 100 white beans and Matteo and Trent estimated exactly 100 for our last estimation jar day!!!! Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Memorial Day Surprise BY: Theresa Golding about an abuelo, grandfather, that was a hero in a Memorial Day Parade. Then Mrs. Carroll shared Isaiah's Library Birthday Book, My First Book of Football! by: Sports Illustrated all about how to play football! After lunch/recess and Art, they had quiet time and ended the day with some free choice time. Day 160: Reminder: We will walk to Wyman Woods tomorrow morning. Please have your child wear sneakers and sunscreen and pack a snack with a drink. Morning Work was gluing the number that comes after worksheet. We sang Happy Birthday to Leila in the "Cha Cha" style :)
This morning we learned about Toucans that live in the canopy layer of the rainforest. Then we all followed an artist's guided lesson to draw our own Toucans with Ms. Perroni. After snack/recess and Music, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 160th day of School!!! WOW!!! Only 20 more days with these wonderful kindergartners! After lunch/recess, we had quiet time. Then Luke brought in 49 crayons and Leila estimated the closest, without having a turn. She will be our last person to bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. For Kindergarten Community Meeting in Ms. Mostyn's room, we saw a peregrine falcon mother and father with their one day old chick and eggs in a live stream from UMass Amherst. Then all 4 kindergarten classes went outside together to play "When the Warm Wind Blows", to get to know each other better and what people have in common. We ended our day with Luke sharing a plaque from China about a brave warrior lady. Day 159: Morning Work was Book Look. During P.E., our class went to the Health Fair in the cafeteria. They went to different stations to learn about nutrition, hydration, heart health, dental care, traffic safety tips, sun protection and they brought home a tiny "worry doll" to help when they are upset about something. We practiced our letters and sounds to get quicker at saying and identifying them.
Ms. Perroni started Second Step Unit 4 Problem Solving. Lesson 19: Solving Problems was about how to calm yourself down first by taking deep belly breaths or stop and walk away for a minute and count to ten. The next step is to say the problem. Use your words to describe or name the problem. The next step is to think of some solutions to the problem. We practiced naming different problems and coming up with solutions. (homework not required) We will go over the last steps next week: S- Say the problem T- Think of solutions E - Explore consequences P - Pick the best solution After snack/recess, Isaiah brought up a problem at recess with wall ball rules. When you throw the ball over the fence, you get a second chance to stay in the game. Valentina brought in 75 hard candies. Luke was the closest estimator, without having a turn, so he will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. Ms. Perroni finished reading, Koko's Kitten after they retold what they remembered happened in the story from yesterday. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about what they liked about Koko's KItten for reader's response to the book. Then everyone shared their writing with each other using the microphone. Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, The Sand Castle Contest By: Robert Munsch. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Fish is Fish By: Leo Lionni about a tadpole and minnow that were friends in a pond and then they turned into a frog and a fish! Lily showed everyone her shark tooth. After quiet time, they used ipads for Raz Kids and we ended our day with free choice time. Day 158: Reminder: Tomorrow is NOT pizza day. French Toast will be the hot lunch served.
For Morning Work they did roll the dice and say the sight word "race to the pond" with a new partner. Ms. Perroni and I were SO PROUD of Room 121 at Glover K-3 Community Meeting when Principal Ota recognized our class for earning Rocky and the special tables at lunch for earning the most tokens the past two weeks for safe, respectful and responsible behavior in and out of the classroom :)) Then Grade 1 and Grade 3 Learning Buddies presented a wonderful Memorial Day performance with the pledge led by cub scouts, we all sang God Bless America and then we listened to patriotic poems and songs including, the Gettysburg Address! (I had to memorize that in 7th grade - not easy to do!) It was a very respectful and moving performance and we ended with a moment of silence while taps was played on a trumpet by a Glover alumni, Craig VanReMoortel. After indoor recess, Lily's grandmother, a retired kindergarten teacher, was a guest reader. She read Swimmy By: Leo Lionni about teamwork and cooperation and helping each other to solve a problem. Then she read, The Rainbow Fish By: Marcus Pfister, all about kindness, sharing and making friends. She brought in all the supplies needed for everyone to make their own Rainbow Fish windsocks! During snack, we watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab. Then we had Learning Buddies with Mrs. Moss' third graders. Fist everyone tried to solve a haiku riddle poem with their buddy (see if you can solve it). Then our kindergartners told a story to their learning buddy (non-fiction or fiction) and their 3rd grade buddy scribed what they said. We shared all their stories at the end of the day. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, a true story, Koko's Kitten By: Dr. Francine Patterson. After they finished their Rainbow Fish windsocks, they went to see the traditional Second Grade Spring Celebration in the gym (due to the rain). The rain did not dampen our schoolwide Spring Celebration and May Pole Dance!! Day 157: Reminder: Please send in permission slips for Second Grade Spring performance tomorrow and permission slip for Field Day (Kindergarten will have normal lunch service).
Morning Work was roll and say sight words "Race to the Pond" with a partner. Amelia was a great teacher's helper today. She read the whole job chart for everyone. She chose an ET "bonjour" morning greeting at circle time. We shared one thing we did over the weekend. We did handwriting practice on our whiteboards. They practiced writing sentences with upper and lower case letters, using spaces between words and using punctuation. After snack/recess and Music, Ms. Worrick brought in 85 popsicle sticks. Ms. Perroni estimated closest with 63, but Valentina was the next closest without having a turn, so she will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. For Weekend News, they wrote about one thing they did this weekend. Before lunch they had Reader's Workshop. After lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll introduced Go Math Chapter 11 Measurement and Data. They compared parts of plants that were longer, shorter and the same. We also went over what plants need to live: air, water, sun and soil and how they can make their own food! Then we watched a video on the smartboard of polliwogs and tadpoles slowly changing into frogs in a pond. They were so excited to see the newest addition to our classroom - a live tadpole!! Then they made their own frog life cycles and named their own frogs. We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading two chapters of Frog and Toad Are Friends By: Arnold Lobel. The class earned a gold token for helping Mrs. Carroll so much to get their work done :) Day 156: Reminder: Please have your child bring in their Book Bag on Monday, so they can bring home another Book Bag to read with you. For Morning Work, they played roll & cover with a partner. We hiked to Wyman Woods with Mrs. Thomas' class on this beautiful sunny day! Ms. Perroni showed everyone pictures of all different kinds of seeds in a book called Seeds By: Ken Robbins. Then everyone and their partner from the other class went on a different kind of scavenger hunt together. They searched for different living or non-living pieces of nature that were smaller than a fingernail, bigger than their hand, smaller than their foot, longer than their armor bigger than a house, etc. They each did their own drawings and labels for their objects. When we got back to class, Anna brought in 100 rainbow loom elastics. Ms. Perroni estimated the closest with 99!! Ms. Worrick, our ELL tutor, was the next closest without having a turn, with 63. She will bring in the estimation jar on Monday. We explained to her all the rules and how to do it the right way. After P.E., for Writer's Workshop, they wrote about one place they visited on our Town Tour or Wyman Woods field trips. Mrs. Carroll saw a lot of WOW illustrations. After lunch/recess and Art, we watched "The Magic School Bus Gets Planted" on the smartboard. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Have a great weekend :)) Day 155: For Morning Work, they played board games or did puzzles together. Matteo was a great teacher's helper today. He read everyone's job on the job chart and helped the teachers SO MUCH!
We discussed measurement and why it's so important to measure accurately for building and cooking things the right way. They learned how to start the measurement in the right place and end their measurement in the right place to get an accurate length of an object. They measured their own handprints compared to their huge gorilla handprints. Then they went around the room with their 10-cube train and measured lots of objects smaller than 10 cubes. Then we watched a story about a king with a problem in How Big Is A Foot? on the smartboard. The king used his big foot to measure a bed for the queen, but the apprentice measured with his smaller foot for the same number of feet, and the bed came out TOO SMALL! They practiced the LONGEST poem for our show and they almost have the WHOLE poem memorized! WOW!! After snack/recess, Shane brought in 85 small candies. Mrs. Carroll was the closest with an estimation of 80!! Anna was the next closest with 70, without already having a turn. She will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. Before Music, Ms. Perroni read, Andrew's Loose Tooth By: Robert Munsch. After Music, they had free choice time. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, From Head to Toe By: Eric Carle. After free choice time, Ms. Perroni read, Ladybugs and Grub to Ladybug By: Melvin Berger. We observed our Ladybug habitat has a lot of grubs growing right now. They will shed their skin before they turn into the pupa stage. At Kindergarten Community meeting in our room, we listened to a narration of If You Give a Moose a Muffin By: Laura Numeroff. Then we all did an action song "making muffins" and did a "moose dance"! All Kindergartners took home recipes to make Chocolate Mud Muffins and Corny Corn Muffins at home! We ended our day playing, "I have 0, who has all the way to 20?" Day 154: For Morning Work they played Rainforest Roll & Cover addition with dice and a partner.
After P.E., Isaiah's mom was guest reader in honor of his birthday today! She read, Bats at the Ballgame By: Brian Lies. Before snack/recess, they did the Go Math Chapter 7 assessment. After snack/recess, they watched a true story video about KoKo the Gorilla that was raised by a doctor that taught KoKo sign language to communicate. We saw KoKo mothering kittens and enjoying her 42nd birthday presents! We will see gorillas at the Franklin Park Zoo in June! Then Ms. Perroni read, Actual Size By: Steve Jenkins about measurements and great illustrations of different body parts of different animals. Then they planted our pumpkin seeds to plant seedlings at the Wyman Woods community garden. They used ipads for writing wizard and Math apps. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni gave a watercolor painting lesson for painting beautiful lilacs! Trent brought in 75 golf tees and Mrs. Carroll estimated exactly 75!! Shane was the next closest with 35, without having a turn yet, so he will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. Then they measured their gorilla handprint with cubes and compared the measurement of their own handprint. They also worked on their own lilac watercolor painting. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Trouble on the T-Ball Team By: Eve Bunting about all the players losing their teeth, not games!! We have had a lot of lost teeth over the school year, too :)) Day 153: After Book Look, we went our Marblehead Town Tour with Ms. Yanow's class. We went by bus past Wyman Woods, The Devereux House Nursing Home and Abbot Library (our previous field trip destinations) and ended up in "Old Town". We learned a lot about the early settlers' life in Marblehead from our tour guides at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion and the J.O.J. Frost Museum. They drew on a cod shape, just like J.O.J. Frost did his "folk art" scenes of Marblehead on wood shaped like a cod. Then we walked up the hill for a visit with the Town Historian, Wayne Butler, in the Selectmen's room at Abbot Hall. We learned a lot about the fishermen, who salted and dried the cod on "fish flakes" racks, that they caught far away on the Grand Banks near New Foundland. Jeremiah Lee was the wealthiest merchant and shipowner in New England through his trade of fish and he helped the Patriots by smuggling ammunition in his wooden barrels (used to ship fish). We saw General John Glover's house and grave and learned how he and Glover's Regiment of fishermen helped General George Washington and his men cross the Delaware. President George Washington visited Marblehead later to thank the people of Marblehead for their help in winning the war for our independence and celebrated at the Lee Mansion with dignitaries. Then we went past the Old Town House and Powder House to Redd's Pond and Burial Hill. We saw Wilmett Redd's grave, General John Glover's grave and the monument dedicated to the men and boys that died at sea in the "Gale of the 1800's, which left 155 children fatherless and almost wiped out the fishing industry in Marblehead. We had lunch at the pier at the Landing, then walked to Glover's Square to see General John Glover's house before returning to Glover School. Before Library, Grafton brought n 53 plastic animals and Trent was the ONLY one who guessed 30 without going over 53! Trent will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. After LIbrary, they had a well-earned free choice time for being so respectful and such good listeners on the field trip. They earned a gold token today!! Also, Ms. Perroni and I are so proud of Grafton, who received a "Rocky Rock Star" recognition today at Community Meeting from Mrs. Fraser for treating students and staff with respect and is always ready with a smile and a hello when she sees him in the hallway. In music class he is focused and responsible. His hard work shows in the musical skills he has developed this year. We chose Finn for the "Rocky Rock Star" recognition this week because he is so happy in school and always smiles. He has a great sense of humor and makes sure that the teachers are doing what they said they would do. He is quick to help a friend or a teacher. He is a good friend, always watching out for others and including them. We were on our field trip during Glover K-3 Community Meeting, but, we're so happy that both Grafton and Finn were
announced as "Rocky Rock Stars" at community meeting this morning :)) Thank you to Matteo's mom and Elise's mom for chaperoning the Town Tour today. Thank you to Clare's mom, Elise's mom, Trent's mom and Matteo's mom for helping at Wyman Woods last Friday. Day 152: Busy, busy Monday! We started the day with fine motor activities...start out slow and socialize a bit. They loved it! Mrs. Carroll was on Town Tour with the other kindergartens so Mrs. Bowden is our guest aide. We love her! The kids practiced The Poetry Show and we are ALMOST ready! We need to nail down Mr. Bleezer's last few lines. After we did a teeny bit of math...Ms. Perroni filled the Estimation Jar on Friday and thought she would remember the number so she didn't write it down. Mrs. Bowden had to go count while the kids guessed how many plastic sandwich bags were inside. The total was 19 (Mrs. Perroni guessed 23!) and both Grafton and Isaiah had the same closest guess of 14. Isaiah has had a turn, so Grafton is bringing the Jar home tonight. Recess, snack and music. For the second half of snack, Elise suggested Elegant Dining...we put the music on and shut the lights off...it was lovely. Following music we practiced dictating sentences and wrote our Weekend News. They are really turning into great writers:) The class earned two tokens from Mrs. Bowden for such wonderful hallway behavior! In the afternoon, Ms. Perroni read "Elephants Cannot Dance" by Mo Willems...it was loved by all. We played a math game called "Addition Bump" in partners using THREE dice. Such a challenge! We finished out the day with extra indoor recess - 10 Brownie Points. Mrs. Carroll got us all ready for our field trip, teaching us all about historical Marblehead!
Day 151: We started the day with another wonderful walk to Wyman Woods, walking with a partner from Mrs. Thomas class. We gathered in the cabin and Ms. Perroni explained what a scavenger hunt was...and off they went with their kindergarten partner to fill their bag with something straight, smooth, rough, fuzzy, round, something that makes noise, something beautiful, two different types of leaves and a pinecone. They used their sense of touch and sight this week. In small groups, with an adult, the children shared their treasures and then we packed the bags back up for a week at school. After sharing, we headed back into the cabin for snack and Ms. Perroni read "The Busy Tree", by Jennifer Ward. It was great to be learning outdoors again and we look forward to next week.
Back at school, we did the Estimation Jar and Lily brought in 57 pennies. Ms. Perroni won with the closest guess of 52:) Off to P.E. and then Ms. Perroni read, "I'm So Embarrassed", by Robert Munsch followed by a write the room activity. The volunteer moms arrived, Betsy Cruikshank and Jessica Heller so that Ms. Perroni could go to the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon (Mrs. Carroll was gone for the day). THANK YOU! YUM!!! The kids hid in the room and yelled surprise when Ms. Perroni came in and showered her with lovely cards!!! The day/week ended with choice time. Happy Weekend! Day 150:Reminder: We will walk to Wyman Woods in the morning tomorrow, weather permitting. Be sure your child wears sneakers and coat or sweatshirt, if needed. Wow! Only thirty more school days. Morning work was using the iPads to practice handwriting and sight words with Writing Wizard. We then practiced for our poetry show. Yesterday afternoon our ladybugs arrived so we watched a video about ladybugs and learned about their life cycle: egg, larvae, pupa and adult. They are very excited to examine the ladybugs in their ladybug home...they are in the larvae stage. We ended the early morning with Raz-kids since we had the iPads out for the morning. After recess, we had a snack picnic on the picnic tables outside the kindergarten wing and it sure felt wonderful to be in the warm spring sunshine. Clare brought in 46 pieces of sea glass in the estimation jar. (Ms. Perroni's guess was over by one!) Anderson came the closest with 44 but since he already had a turn, Lily brings home the Estimation Jar with a guess of 32. We had music and finished up the morning with Circle 'round the Zero up to 150 under the front portico. UP TO THIS POINT THEY EARNED 5 TOKENS!!! One was a golden one from Ms. Perroni for having such a friendly recess and snack in which the class showed kindness, respect and responsibility. Instead of quiet time, we listened to "Sitting Like a Frog", a quiet, still program by Eline Snel. The kids were ready to nap! We rounded out the day with choice time and the Kindergarten Community Meeting. Mrs. Thomas taught everyone a few ocean songs. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Mrs. McTats and her Houseful of Cats By: Alyssa Capucilli.
Day 149: Morning Work was Book Look. After P.E., they practiced their poems and songs for the poetry show. After snack/recess, for Science we introduced Ladybugs! Mrs. Carroll read, Grub to Ladybug By: Melvin Berger. They all did a great listening job so they could write 4 fun facts about what they learned about ladybugs. Then Mrs. Carroll finished Second Step Unit 3 Emotion Management. Lesson 17: Managing Disappointment and Lesson 18: Handling Being Knocked Down were both about calming yourself down with belly breaths and using self talk. When someone bumps into someone else it is kind to ask if they are OK and let them know it was an accident. Then people's feelings don't get hurt. Matteo brought in 59 rocks in the estimation jar and Clare estimated the closest with 52. She will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. We ended the day coloring our little "Today is Monday" Eric Carle books.
Day 148: Reminder: Tomorrow, May 11, is an Early Release Day at 11:55. No lunch will be served.
Morning Work was counting the different small objects and recording the number in the ten frames. They love this activity! At Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Principal Ota announced the classes that earned the most tokens the past two weeks. Mrs. Thomas' class won the token challenge last time and this time!! WOW! Before snack/recess, we practiced all our poetry show poems. After recess, Amelia brought in 76 clear stones in the estimation jar. Mrs. Carroll estimated 75! Matteo was the next closest with 66, so he will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. Then we split into two groups and played Tic Tac Teens with 10 frame numbers. Then we sang the "teen songs' on the smartboard. Then we did Go Math teens on the smartboard. Before lunch/recess, we had Reader's Workshop. What great readers everyone has become :)) After lunch/recess and Library, they had free choice time. We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Nest By: Jorey Hurley. All about robins building nests and their baby robin growing up and building her own nest! Day 147: Reminder: Please have your child bring in their "Book Bag" and Activities, so they can take home another Book Bag for this week. Morning Work was roll two dice, draw the dots and numbers and add the two numbers. We practiced our show songs. Isaiah brought in 90 paperclips in the estimation jar. Mrs. Carroll and Amelia estimated 90!! Amelia will bring the estimation jar in tomorrow. Our teacher's helper, Clare, chose a sitting down, toe-tapping morning greeting. They earned a Brownie Point for being so respectful, sincere and great eye contact with each other. We did a whip to hear about everyone's Mother's Day. It sounds like lots of moms shared their muffins with their kids :)) Instead of Writer's Workshop for Weekend News, they could draw what they did this weekend. A lot of people went to the Carnival! After snack/recess & Music, they wrote about anything they've learned about the Rainforest and illustrated it. For Go Math, they did Lesson 7.4 Count and Write 13 & 14 worksheets and they did the mid-chapter checkpoint for Chapter 7. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Verdi By: Janell Cannon about a young yellow-striped python that didn't want to grow up to be a big, green, lazy, boring snake. But, when he turned green, he discovered he he could still play with the young yellow striped snakes! Then they counted different small objects and wrote the numbers in a 10 frame. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 146: Morning Work was Book Look. We hiked from Glover to Wyman Woods, near Gatchell's Park, for our first trip to explore the Camp Shore Lea Nature Center. We used our eyes and ears to see and hear all kinds of plant and animal life along the path through the woods. We saw buds, blossoms, moss, lichen, dead trees that had fallen, bird nests and a brook flowing downhill. We heard lots of different kinds of birds. We were so lucky to have a nice day for our nature hike. We are also lucky to have such a nice "Nature Classroom" right here in Marblehead within walking distance from Glover School. We will return next Friday, weather permitting, to see what changes we will find in the habitat and explore everything closer up with magnifiers. Thank you to Matteo's Mom for walking with us today and helping at the Nature Center. When we got back to school, Ms. Perroni read, The Gift of the Tree By: Alvin Tresselt. Elise brought in the estimation jar with 48 straws and Isaiah estimated the closest with 46. He will bring the estimation jar in on Monday. After P.E., we demonstrated how to do our mass assembly line to finish our Mother's Day Surprise! Please put your surprise bag in the fridge when it comes home today and open it Sunday morning :)) Before lunch they had a little free choice time. After lunch/recess and Art, they put together their Mother's Day SURPRISE and we ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, My Mom By: Anthony Brown.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY :)) Day 145: Mr. Katis, aka Mr. K, was our sub today because Ms. Perroni had a professional development conference. For Morning Work they all worked really hard decorating their Mother's Day Surprise :) Mrs. Carroll read a Mother's Day book about exactly the same surprise we're working on for Mother's Day! We had a special PTO sponsored enrichment program this morning. The Northeastern Nahant Marine Science Center brought different "live" tide pool creatures to Glover for students to get a close-up view and be able to touch them gently and learn more about what we'll maybe find when we go tide pooling in June. They saw live periwinkles, barnacles, crabs, a lobster, a big horseshoe crab, seaweed, mussels, starfish, hermit crabs, sea urchins, snails and a shell collection of lots of different kinds of shells. After snack/recess, Andy brought in the estimation jar with 72 toothpicks and Elise and Finn estimated the closest with 60. Elise will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow. After Music, we continued to work on another part of our Mother's Day SURPRISE :)
After lunch/recess, we had quiet time. Then Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 15 Handling Waiting and Lesson 16 Managing Anger (homework optional). We learned to take deep breaths or count to ten, or use "self talk" to calm ourselves down when it's hard to control our feelings. Then Mrs. Carroll read, When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry ... By: Molly Bang. Mr. K read, The Way I Feel to three girls who didn't like the Sophie book when they read it before. Then they wrote down Rainforest words that they found all around the room before Kindergarten Community Meeting. At Community Meeting they saw live eagles on the smartboard and heard the Rainbow Fish story. We ended our day practicing our poems for Mr. K. Day 144: Morning Work was Book Look. After P.E., Matteo's mom joined our SURPRISE Mother's Day
production crew and we swore her to secrecy from telling anybody about the SURPRISE :)) Even Principal Ota joined our production crew, when he visited our class this morning! Everyone colored a little non-fiction "All About the Rainforest" book with "real" colors for trees and animals of the Rainforest. After snack/recess, we made estimations of the 98 pom poms that Drew brought in. Andy estimated the closest with 92, so he will bring back the estimation jar tomorrow. Then they illustrated their poems and wrote about anything they wanted to for Writer's Workshop. Then we practiced reading words like "musical chairs"! Pass the word around until the music stops, then read the sight word. Then they wrote sight words around the room. Before lunch, Ms. Perroni read from the BIG BOOK, The Rainforest. She read the Rainforest Song By: Bobbi Katz and we looked at a HUGE poster of the different layers and animals that live in the different layers of the Rainforest. She read a folktale from Brazil, Tiny, Tiny Monkeys Retold by: Nancy Van Laan. They solved riddles about animals and plants from the Rainforest by looking at pictures of different kinds of animals and plants and listening to the clues. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Snakes By: Patricia Demuth all about snakes!! Then they made colorful boa constrictors hiding in the tall, tall grass for the hallway :)) Day 143: Reminder: Scholastic Book Orders are due tomorrow. (not required)
Morning Work was practicing handwriting upper and lower case letters. At the Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Principal Ota announced the class Rocky "Rock Star" awards. Amelia was recognized this week from our class for being kind, respectful, and responsible. She quietly does the right thing without being asked. She follows directions and pays attention when teachers or other students are speaking. Amelia is eager to participate in all activities. She gets ready and transitions quietly. She is quick to help friends in need. For Go Math, they did Lesson 7.5 Model and Count and Write 15 and Lesson 7.6 Problem Solving - Use Numbers to 15 worksheets. After snack/recess, they wrote Mother's Day poems and had free choice Writer's Workshop. Then Ms. Perroni read, The Great Kapok Tree By: Lynne Cherry. Then they played Rainforest Roll and Cover with a partner and dice. We started our homemade Mother's Day surprise production crew today - hope nobody spoils the SURPRISE before Sunday :)) After lunch/recess and Library, they made little sloths to hang in the hallway and Ms. Perroni read, "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth By: Eric Carle. We ended our day watching real baby sloths on the smartboard and grown up sloths learning how to climb and hang. Day 142: Morning Work was Roll, Read and Trace sight words. We didn't earn any gold tokens last week towards our goal of everyone being extra kind to each other, so, Mrs. Carroll read, Friends
By: Elaine Scott which gave them more tips on how to be a good friend to someone: - Enjoy being together at work and play - Teach each other new things to do together - Help each other - Share good times and bad times together to make things better - Friends share their friendships with others by including more friends - Friends respect their friend's feelings - Friends solve disagreements without being mean to each other (flip a coin, use a timer to take turns) We practiced a few poems and songs for our show. For Go Math, they did Lesson 7.5 Model, Count and Write 15 worksheets. After snack/recess and Music, Finn brought in 44 football cards and Drew estimated the closest with 42! He will bring in the estimation jar tomorrow! After Writers' Workshop for Weekend News, Ms. Perroni explained the homework for May. They will be taking special "Book Bags" home with activities to do with a parent or older sibling. Please return everything in the bag when you are done and your child can pick another "Book Bag". Ms. Perroni read, The Grouchy Ladybug By: Eric Carle and used a clock to show how to tell time with the large hand on the twelve and small hand on different numbers for o'clock time on the hour. After lunch/indoor gym recess, Ms. Perroni read, The Day The Babies Crawled Away By: Peggy Rahmann. Ms. Perroni made a list of animals people want to learn about, that live in the Rainforest. They learned a Rainforest song about the different layers of the Rainforest: floor, understory, emergent and canopy. They also learned about some animals that live in each layer. Then they watched The Magic School Bus Visits the Rainforest on the smartboard. We ended our day with free choice time. Have a fun Screen-Free Week!! Day 141: Morning work was highlighting and illustrating "-ay" words in "Sail Away May poem. Amelia was a great teacher's helper today. She choose a toe-tapping "Good Morning" greeting for everyone.
Great eye contact with everyone around the circle! We shared one favorite thing we did this week and what they might want to do in school before the year is over! Most students said they want to do nature walks and tide pooling, which we are planning to do :)) Then Ms. Perroni introduced everyone to the "estimation jar", which everyone will bring home and fill with not more than 100 of one type of object, for everyone to estimate the amount. The correct amount will be written on a piece of paper taped inside the cover. Guess who guessed 25 pieces of sea glass today??? Mrs. Carroll!! We did count by 5's and 2's songs. Then Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 14: Calming Down Strong Feelings about naming your feelings and we demonstrated the proper way to take a deep belly breath to help yourself calm down. Breathe in through your nose and push your belly out and breathe out through your mouth and your belly goes in. Slow, deep breaths lower your blood pressure and heart rate and fast breathing from the chest can make you feel more upset. Mrs. Carroll read, The Way I Feel By: Janan Cain about different feelings and they guessed from the color of the illustrations and the expressions on the characters' faces what emotion they were feeling. Then we sang the "Feelings" song: - You see them on your faces - You feel them in your bodies - You hear them in your voices "The feelings that you feel" are different all day long :)) (Homework is optional) After snack/recess, they made math 0-5 addition fact flash cards to practice at home. After lunch/recess and Art, Mrs. Carroll had 33 jumbo paper clips in the estimation jar and Finn cam closest with an estimation of 30. He will bring the estimation jar in on Monday. We ended our day with some free choice time. Have a great weekend :)) Day 140: Morning work was doing the Play-Doh 10 squares for numbers 1-20 again. We practiced all our songs for our poetry jam. Then they did a digraph worksheet after they sang the "sh" and "th" songs on the smartboard. Before snack/recess, Anna read, Someday By: Alison Meghee about a mother and her new baby. Oh, my!! What a "tearjerker" for Mrs. Carroll!! My babies are turning
27 and 25 this June, but I'm so happy I spend school days with 5 and 6 year olds :)) Before Music, Ms. Perroni described that she felt like "purple" this morning - her mind was racing in millions of directions. Then she read a poem she wrote about all her different colored days. Then everyone started writing their very own "My Many Colored Days" original poems. After Music, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 140th day of school! Only 40 days left!! Time flies when you're having fun :)) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni had a discussion with the class about the difference between someone doing or saying something mean to you and you just not liking what another person decides to play or do or their answer to a question, etc. Sometimes we don't like what our friends choose to do or say, but that doesn't always mean that they are being "mean" to you. Ms. Perroni read, Smelly Socks By: Robert Munsch and Purple, Green and Yellow By: Robert Munsch. After quiet time, we had Kindergarten Community Meeting in Ms. Mostyn's room. They acted out a story about a giant. We ended our day practicing a few poems for our poetry show. Day 139: Morning Work was filling 10 frames with Play-Doh balls and making the numbers with Play-Doh. After P.E., they practiced some poems for our poetry jam. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll
read a few poems from Dinosaur Dinner By: Dennis Lee, before poetry month is over! For Go Math, we sang our tricky teen song on the smartboard and then they did Lesson 7.3 Model and Count 13 and 14 worksheets. Then Ms. Perroni gave a lesson on the "ay" sound in the poem, "Sail Away May". Then they practiced the song "Today is Monday". Ray Gouley, from the Marblehead Light Department, presented a video and lesson on electrical safety. Now our students will watch out for "Mr. Ouch" on electrical boxes or gates around town. Hopefully they'll "Stop, Think and Stay Away and remember it's a Safe Way to Play". Mr. Gouley said our class was very well-behaved :)) Before lunch, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores By: James Howe and I'm Still Here in the Bathtub By: Alan Katz. After quiet time, they ended their day with RazKids on ipads and then free choice on the ipads. Day 138: Morning Work was coloring, cutting and gluing numbers 11-15 in order. At the Glover K-3
Community Meeting this morning, we were all treated to an amazing Poetry Recitation Day of poems memorized by representatives from each class. Lily did a great job representing our class with her poem, "Books" By: Helen Moore. Isaiah did a great job as our class alternate, being ready with his poem, "The Cheetah" By: Douglas Florian and he read two poems with all the alternates. Principal Ota introduced golden tokens for teachers to recognize their own classes going above and beyond our core values. Our class is working on earning them this week and next for being kind to everyone and following the "golden rule" - treat others the way you like to be treated. After they finished their morning work, Mrs. Carroll read, Toot and Puddle By: Holly Hobbie. One of my favorite books about two friends. Toot loves to travel the world and Puddle has fun every day where he lives, but they both miss doing everything with each other. After snack/recess, for Go Math, they did Lesson 7.2 Count and Write 11 and 12 worksheets with counters. Then they practiced handwriting "cvc" words and tapping and writing sentences on their whiteboards. For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to. After lunch/recess and Library, they played Egg Head math game with dice and we ended the day with free choice time. Day 137: Reminder: Homework this week is to continue April Journal entries.
Morning Work was Book Look. We did a "whip" to share one thing we all did over vacation. Ms. Perroni was in France the whole vacation!! For Go Math, we did the tricky teen song and "Numbers in the teens have a group of ten" song on the smartboard. Then they did Lesson 7.1 Model and Count 11 and 12 worksheets with counters. After snack/recess and Music, Lily read, Little Miss, Big Sis By: Amy Rosenthal. Then they practiced lower case letters on their whiteboards. They tapped out the "cvc" words and then wrote them and did a few sentences. Then they practiced their handwriting of upper and lower case alphabet letters. Before lunch, Ms. Perroni read, My Many Colored Days By: Dr. Seuss. Poems about how colors make you feel different or different days you feel like different colors :) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Skippy Jon Jones Cirque de Ole By: Judy Schachner and Goatilocks and The Three Bears By: Erica Perl. For Weekend News, they could write about something they did over vacation. We ended the day with free choice time! Day 136: Reminder: Spring Vacation April 18-22 NO SCHOOL! Happy Passover!
April Journal writing is optional over April vacation. Morning Work was writing upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. Elise & Ainsley, first graders, were teachers' helpers this morning for our Numbers 0-20 Bingo game. For Go Math, they worked on Lesson 6.5 Algebra - Write Subtraction Sentences worksheets. During snack, they watched Fizzy Lunch Lab on the smartboard (entertaining nutrition lessons). Before P.E., they did Go Math Lesson 6.6 Algebra - Write Some More Subtraction Sentences worksheets. After P.E., the whole class surprised Mrs. Carroll with birthday cards and a special book they wrote, Mrs. Carroll is the Best Teacher Because ... By: Room 121. I LOVE what everyone wrote and illustrated :) After lunch/recess and Art, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time! HAVE A WONDERFUL VACATION :)) Day 135: Thank you for the paper towels and magic erasers!
For Morning Work, they played Egg Head with a partner and 2 dice for addition practice. For Writer's Workshop, everyone wrote a poem about themselves with 7 question prompts: I am, I can, I know, I feel ... Our guest reader this morning was first grader, Carolyn Black. She read, The Princess and the Pig By: Jonathan Emmett. After snack/recess and Music (lots of different types of instruments were demonstrated by students during music), they partnered up to re-tell The Very Hungry Caterpillar story with their "pieces of the story" in the order of events. See if your child can tell you the story with the pieces in their baggie they brought home today! After lunch/recess, they practiced rhythm stick patterns. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, Ms. Perroni read a few poems from Splish Splash By: Joan Graham and You and Me Poems of Friendship By: Salley Mavor. Then we got to know each other better by playing "Musical Silent Wave" when the music stopped we gave a silent wave to people next to us or made groups of three. We ended the day with the Chicken Dance in the hall!! Day 134: Reminder: Your child can bring in a musical instrument, or picture of one, to share in Music tomorrow. (not required).
Morning Work was Book Look. After P.E., they cut out all their pieces to retell The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll taught Second Step Lesson 13: Managing Frustration. They learned last week how to identify their feelings and this week we talked about when feelings grow from small to intense and what we can do to calm ourselves down. We learned a "Calm Down" song to remind us to: 1. Put our hands on our tummy 2. Say "STOP" 3. Name your feeling 4. Take a deep belly breath 5. Calm down You'll be able to think of what to do to solve the problem and feel better. (no homework) Then we read some of the random acts of kindness people have done to fill our Room 121 Bucket :)) Amelia read, Eloise Breaks Some Eggs By: Kay Thompson to the class and Lily and Isaiah practiced their poems for Recitation Day. Before lunch, they did "List" poems. Then for Go Math, they did Lesson 6.3 Problem Solving - Act Out Subtraction and 6.4 Algebra - Model and Draw Subtraction Problems worksheets. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a few poems that students and she wrote, that were actually published in A Celebration of Poets Grades K-3. After quiet time, they watched a puppet show of The Very Hungry Caterpillar on the smartboard. We ended our day with RazKids and sight word writing on the ipads. Day 133: Morning Work was coloring parts of The Very Hungry Caterpillar story to put in order later.
At Glover K-3 Community Meeting this morning, Principal Ota announced the students that were recognized for the "Rocky Star" award for demonstrating kindness, respect, responsibility and safety. Andy was chosen from our class for being especially kind at recess recently, when he noticed the new girl in Mrs. Thomas' class was all by herself with no one to play with. He came up to Mrs. Carroll all on his own and wanted me to introduce him and some kids from our class to her and she played with them :)) After community meeting, we had a practice lockdown drill for 5 minutes and they earned 2 Brownie Points for being silent the whole time! After snack/recess, they wrote their Weekend News or a real story and then shared their stories with everyone. Before lunch, we did a math game with counters, Shake 5, Spill 5, Count 5 - match red and yellow counters to add up to 5 worksheet. Then they had Reader's Workshop and read independently. Then Ms. Perroni read, Elmo the Pig By: Wendy Kanno and they predicted what words were on the page using illustration clues, sounding out the first letter sounds and making a guess or asking someone for help. After lunch/recess and Library, we learned a choreographed exercise dance. The whole school was treated to a Boston Celtics dunking demonstration at the end of the day with the team mascot, Lucky and Boston Green Team dunking and cheering!!! GO CELTICS!!! GOOD LUCK IN THE NBA PLAY-OFFS!!! Day 132: Reminder: Please return your child's April Journal for homework, if you haven't already, for the first week. Also, continue to have your child write in their journal and return it this Friday, April 15 and it will be optional to do over April Vacation.
Before Morning Work, we sang "Sweet Caroline" in the hallway and half the class recited the Pledge and our Fenway Opening Day poem, "Tomorrow" By: Milton Bracker for morning announcements, for the whole school! Then they made Red Sox "fans" and badges for Morning Work. Then we practiced our poetry jam poems and songs. After snack/recess and Music, Mrs. Carroll read, F is For Fenway By: Jerry Pallotta. Then Lily practiced her poem, "Books" by: Helen Moore to represent Room 121 at the Poetry Recitation Day for K-3 on April 26th. Isaiah is our alternate and he recited "Cheetah". Elise and Anna did a great partner reading of "My Snake" By: Mary Ann Hoberman. Before lunch, Ms. Perroni taught Lesson 6.1 Subtraction - Take From for Go Math on the smartboard. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read poems from Read A Rhyme, Write A Rhyme, poems selected by Jack Prelutsky. After quiet time, Ms. Perroni read, The Very Hungry Caterpillar By: Eric Carle. Then they did an art project, "a finger" painting, using one finger, to make the very hungry caterpillar. We ended our day with some free choice time and sang "Sweet Caroline" for GOOD LUCK! HOPE THE RED SOX WIN TODAY! Day 131: Reminder: Wear Red Sox clothes or red & blue for Opening Day at Fenway Spirit Day!
Our class will recite a poem about Opening Day for morning announcements on Monday. Morning Work was handwriting practice and rhyming words. Isaiah's mom was a guest reader this morning. Isaiah wanted to change the names of the characters to people in our class. He was the teacher. She read, Going Places By: Peter and Paul Reynolds. Mrs. Lika, our substitute teacher, gave our class tips on good first grade behavior because she taught first grade when Mrs. Tully was absent. We practiced our opening day poem all together and our poetry jam poems (old and new ones) for Mrs. Lika. Before snack/recess, we showed Mrs. Lika how we do Circle Round the Zero (no time yesterday) to celebrate 130 Days of School!! Only 50 days left!! After watching Fizzy's Lunch Lab during snack, Mrs. Carroll read, How A Seed Grows By: Helene Jordan because after doing their last observation and scientific drawing of their bean sprouts and seedlings, they are bringing them home to plant in the dirt (once it's warm enough outside). and maybe they'll actually grow beans :)) After P.E., they did Oh, Nuts counting how many nuts they could find around the room on letter cards. Then Mrs. Carroll read Valentina's book of poems about Kindergarten in Kindergarten, Here I Come! By: D.J. Steinberg. I loved all these poems about Kindergarten :) It makes me so sad to think we only have 50 days left together before the end of the year!! They even had a poem about "Growing Seeds"! After lunch/recess and Art, Mrs. Lika read, Mmmm Cookies! By: Robert Munsch after they told her all the "schema" they know about Robert Munsch books: crazy, funny, silly loud noises, etc. Then they did a Reader's Response and drew a scene of their favorite part of the story. We ended the day practicing "Tomorrow" for our Opening Day poem for Monday's morning announcements on the loud speaker! Also, Elise and Clare read a partner poem, "The Dime". Day 130: Reminder: PIZZA day tomorrow! Morning Work was a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time. Luke, Isaiah & Drew are great at putting puzzles together! Trent and Matteo did cupstacking, Leila loved Connect Four, Lily, Anna, Elise, Clare, Amelia & Valentina love watercolor painting, Shane, Grafton Finn & Andy love big Legos. Mrs. Carroll started Second Step Unit 3 Emotion Management Lesson 12: We Feel Feelings in Our Bodies. We talked about looking for clues in how our bodies feel to identify when we're feeling worried, scared, angry, sad or happy. Does your tummy hurt? Is your heart racing? Are you crying? Are you smiling? Then we talked about what adults you can talk to about your feelings in different situations to feel better i.e. parents, teachers, grandparents, babysitters, etc. Then we brought out our Class Kindness Bucket and explained ho if they DO something more than say "Are you OK?" to be kind to someone, we will fill our Kindness Bucket until it's overflowing by the end of the year :)) (homework not required).
Carolyn Black and Maria Sokolov, first graders, were guest readers this morning. They read, You are Not Small By: Anna King. Then Nathan, another first grader, came to be a teacher's helper. We played sight word BINGO and Nathan read the words for us. After snack/recess, For Go Math, Ms. Perroni introduced subtraction number sentences with the minus sign and equals sign. We practiced subtraction number stories and sentences. After Music, the last group re-told the Mole's Hill story with their scenery and Mole puppet. They remembered the characters, setting, problem and solution for the story. Ms. Perroni read, "Good Books, Good Times" by: Lee Bennett Hopkins and "DIrt on My Shirt" by: Jeff Foxworthy and "Song of the Train" by: David McCord. After lunch/recess and quiet time, they had Reader's Workshop and we ended the day with practicing our poems and Mrs. Carroll finished Fancy Nancy Poet Extraordinaire! By: Jane O'Connor. Day 129: Morning Work was Race to the Pond with a new partner. Roll the dice and say the rhyming word you land on. After P.E., we taught them "Tomorrow!" By: Milton Bracker, a poem about baseball's opening day! If your child wants to memorize this poem, they can recite it during morning announcements on Monday - Fenway Opening Day :)) (not required) Then we practiced our poetry jam poems. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni re-read, Mole's Hill By: Lois Ehlert. Then the groups retold the story with their group project background that they drew together and their mole puppet. They remembered the characters, fox, skunk, raccon and the main character, Mole. They remembered the setting was in the forest. They remembered the problem to be solved was that Mole's hill was in the way of the path to the pond. They remembered the problem was solved when he planted flowers on the hill and dug a tunnel to get to the path. Each group did a great job telling the story one person at a time from beginning to middle to the end of the story. Every group did an AMAZING job coloring the scenery and including all the details :)) Then Mrs. Carroll read, Seed to Plant By: Melvin and Gilda Berger to show how their seeds have sprouted little stems, roots and leaves. They made observations with their magnifiers and did their Day 3 scientific drawings. We ended our day with Ms. Perroni showing them how to do an art project with umbrellas for "April Showers" to decorate our hallway.
Day 128: Reminder: Tomorrow is an Early Dismissal Day for Professional Development at 11:55. No lunch will be served. Morning Work was roll and cover - add two dice and cover the sum. At the Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Mrs. Smith's 3rd Graders and Mrs. Shapiro's 1st Graders (Learning Buddies) recited a few poems for
April National Poetry Month. A notice went home today describing how your child can volunteer to try out to be our class representative or alternate for the Poetry Recitation Day at Community Meeting on April 26th. Children who are interested, will memorize a short published poem and we will choose two students to participate in this Glover tradition. Principal Ota announced that Ms. Mostyn's kindergarten class won the token challenge for good behavior this week. We practiced our poetry jam poems and songs after Shane shared two funny poems, "Captain Hook" and "Warning" by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends. After snack and all the fun in the SNOW, we reviewed what a digraph is? Two letters that make one sound. We did digraph shake a pokey songs on the smartboard. The "h" brothers add an "h" to other letters to make digraphs - "wh", "ch", "sh" and "th". Then they did a worksheet to sort digraph words. Then they had Writer's Workshop to write about anything they wanted to write about. Before lunch, we looked at our bean seeds and sprouts again and did a scientific drawing of their growth for Day 2. After lunch/recess and Library, they played Race to the Pond with a partner to identify rhyming words. We ended the day with free choice and Mrs. Carroll read, Fancy Nancy, Poet Extraordinaire! By: Jane O'Connor. |
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Day 127: Morning Work was handwriting practice. Finn was a great teacher's helper today. He chose to just have everyone say "Hi" to each other for morning greeting. We talked a little bit about being kind to each other and what you can do for yourself if someone hurts your feelings: 1. tell them they hurt your feelings and why
2. remove yourself from the situation and play with someone else 3. tell a grown-up. We did a quick whip for weeekend news brainstorming. We practiced our poems and Ms. Perroni read, "Finger Paint" by Brad Bagert.
During April Poetry Month, if any teacher asks your child to recite a short poem or they can read a poem in their pocket, they will give them a "Rocky" lobster tatoo. For Weekend News, they concentrated on making spaces between their words. During snack, Ms. Perroni read "Snack Time" By: Brad Bagert. After Music, Mrs. Carroll
was so excited because their bean seeds "sprouted" over the weekend! They did scientific observations with magnifiers and made scientific drawings in their Seed Journals. Then they finished their Weekend News.
Ms. Perroni read, "The Eel" and "The Whale" poems from In The Swim Poems and Paintings By: Douglas Florian.
Before lunch, they had a Go Math Chapter 5 assessment. After recess, Ms. Perroni read, "Gold, Brown, Blue, Black and White" poems from Adventures in Color Hailstones and Halibut Bones By: Mary O'Neill. After quiet time, we sang "Sweet Caroline" in honor of the Red Sox Opening Day game in Cleveland today :)) Then they did musical sight words and ended the day with free choice time.
2. remove yourself from the situation and play with someone else 3. tell a grown-up. We did a quick whip for weeekend news brainstorming. We practiced our poems and Ms. Perroni read, "Finger Paint" by Brad Bagert.
During April Poetry Month, if any teacher asks your child to recite a short poem or they can read a poem in their pocket, they will give them a "Rocky" lobster tatoo. For Weekend News, they concentrated on making spaces between their words. During snack, Ms. Perroni read "Snack Time" By: Brad Bagert. After Music, Mrs. Carroll
was so excited because their bean seeds "sprouted" over the weekend! They did scientific observations with magnifiers and made scientific drawings in their Seed Journals. Then they finished their Weekend News.
Ms. Perroni read, "The Eel" and "The Whale" poems from In The Swim Poems and Paintings By: Douglas Florian.
Before lunch, they had a Go Math Chapter 5 assessment. After recess, Ms. Perroni read, "Gold, Brown, Blue, Black and White" poems from Adventures in Color Hailstones and Halibut Bones By: Mary O'Neill. After quiet time, we sang "Sweet Caroline" in honor of the Red Sox Opening Day game in Cleveland today :)) Then they did musical sight words and ended the day with free choice time.
Day 126: Morning Work was practicing handwriting rhyming words in "-og" word family. We enjoyed the Mother Goose enrichment program to kick off April Poetry month. They found lots of rhyming words in the Mother Goose poems and had fun singing and acting out the rhymes with Mother Goose aka Dara vanRemoortel. After snack/recess, our teacher's helper, Drew, chose a toe=tapping "NiHao" Chinese morning greeting to each other. Mrs. Drayer was our substitute teacher today and we all shared April Fools jokes we did at home to others or they did to us! Mrs. Carroll read, April Fool! Watch Out at School! By: Diane de Groat before P.E. and April Foolishness
By: Teresa Bateman, after P.E. Then we practiced our poetry jam poems and a song for Mrs. Drayer. She gave us some great suggestions for our show: sing clearly, with expression and SMILE :) After lunch/recess and Art, for
Science, Mrs. Carroll read, From Seed to Plant By: Allan Fowler and then they spritzed their bean seeds and colored their own little "Plant LIfe Cycle" book. Then they cut, sorted and glued living and non-living things on a worksheet. Have a great weekend :))
By: Teresa Bateman, after P.E. Then we practiced our poetry jam poems and a song for Mrs. Drayer. She gave us some great suggestions for our show: sing clearly, with expression and SMILE :) After lunch/recess and Art, for
Science, Mrs. Carroll read, From Seed to Plant By: Allan Fowler and then they spritzed their bean seeds and colored their own little "Plant LIfe Cycle" book. Then they cut, sorted and glued living and non-living things on a worksheet. Have a great weekend :))
Day 125: Morning Work was practicing upper and lower case alphabet letters. For Go Math, they did Lesson 5.11
Algebra - Number Pairs for 9 worksheets on the smartboard. We practiced our poetry jam poems and songs.
After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni re-read Mole's Hill By: Lois Ehlert to see what everyone remembered about the story. In small groups, they worked as a team to make a huge illustration of Mole's Hill with certain requirements: hill, flowers, grass, pond, racoon, fox and skunk. They will retell the story with "Mole" another day. After Music,
we did guided level reading groups. Please return your child's book and baggie tomorrow. After lunch/recess, they finished their Mole Hill group projects. Then they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. At Kindergarten Community meeting, Mrs. Thomas read 4 different versions of the eensy weensy spider. We ended the day with "Madagascar" - WE LIKE TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!!!
Algebra - Number Pairs for 9 worksheets on the smartboard. We practiced our poetry jam poems and songs.
After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni re-read Mole's Hill By: Lois Ehlert to see what everyone remembered about the story. In small groups, they worked as a team to make a huge illustration of Mole's Hill with certain requirements: hill, flowers, grass, pond, racoon, fox and skunk. They will retell the story with "Mole" another day. After Music,
we did guided level reading groups. Please return your child's book and baggie tomorrow. After lunch/recess, they finished their Mole Hill group projects. Then they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. At Kindergarten Community meeting, Mrs. Thomas read 4 different versions of the eensy weensy spider. We ended the day with "Madagascar" - WE LIKE TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!!!
Day 124: 2016 March Madness Read-a-Thon Grand Total: 128,106 minutes read by K-3 Glover Students!!! WOW!!! Keep Reading!!
Morning Work was handwriting practice of upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
After P.E., Ms. Perroni did partner reading Mother Goose rhymes with students. We practiced our poetry jam poems. After snack/recess, for Go Math they did Lesson 5.10 Algebra - Number Pairs for 8 worksheets on the smartboard with cube trains. Then we did handwriting practice on our whiteboards. Everyone needs extra practice with our "worm line" letters (lower case "g", "j", "q" and "y". For Science, Mrs. Carroll read, The Tiny Seed By: Eric Carle about how seeds travel in the wind and hopefully land where they can grow in good soil, get lots of sun and water to grow into big plants or flowers. Hopefully, birds and animals won't eat the seeds before they can grow! Before lunch, they all examined their own bean seeds with magnifiers and then planted 3 bean seeds with a damp paper towel. Hopefully, they will grow super tall :)) Then we sang "Today is Monday" and "Sweet Caroline" for our show! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Diary of a Worm By: Doreen Cronin because the month of April's homework will be to write in their journal. (Assignment will be sent home next week) Then they did watercolor paintings of SPRING flowers to brighten up our hallway :)) We ended the day doing Razkids on the ipads. Mrs. Carroll read, Oh, the Places You'll Go! By: Dr. Seuss, which I gave to my son when he graduated from high school!
Day 123: Morning Work was a quick book= look before K-3 Glover School Community Meeting. We loved seeing all the students that dressed up today as their favorite book characters! In our class, Trent was the Cat in the Hat, Anna was Pippi Longstocking and Matteo was Harold with his purple crayon :)) Principal Ota announced the winners from each class that model our core values of choosing kindness, respect, responsibility and safety. Isaiah earned the honor this week because he follows directions, raises his hand to speak, helps others, he's ready and quiet in line, volunteers to hold the door for others and is always cheerful and excited to learn :))
The Cat in the Hat, aka Ms. Perroni, announced that K-3 Glover students read 124,219 total minutes for the
2016 March Madness Read-a-Thon. We went over our goal of 100,000 minutes, however, we are collecting more minutes read until tomorrow and we believe we can go over 125,000 minutes!! Then Ms. Perroni read, Mole's Hill
By: Lois Ehlert. We're practicing retelling the story with lots details tomorrow. We practiced our poetry jam poems. After snack/recess, for Go Math we used cube trains to make higher numbers for Lesson 5.9 Algebra -
Number Pairs for 6 and 7 worksheets on the smartboard. Then for Writer's Workshop, they had a choice to write a "list poem", card for someone or a writing piece. For Reader's Workshop, Ms. Perroni went over schema we know about Eric Carle books. She read, Today is Monday, By: Eric Carle.
Tools for READING BOOKS:
- read the words or sound out the words
- sound out the first letter of a word
- retell the story
-look at the pictures for a picture walk
We had Reader's Workshop for 5 minutes, where they picked 5 new books (2 leveled books) to read from their book bags. After lunch/recess and Library, for Science, we learned the difference between living and non=living things. Living things can grow, move, eat and reproduce. They sorted living and non=living things on the smartboard. Anna was a great teacher's helper today. We ended our day with some free choice time.
The Cat in the Hat, aka Ms. Perroni, announced that K-3 Glover students read 124,219 total minutes for the
2016 March Madness Read-a-Thon. We went over our goal of 100,000 minutes, however, we are collecting more minutes read until tomorrow and we believe we can go over 125,000 minutes!! Then Ms. Perroni read, Mole's Hill
By: Lois Ehlert. We're practicing retelling the story with lots details tomorrow. We practiced our poetry jam poems. After snack/recess, for Go Math we used cube trains to make higher numbers for Lesson 5.9 Algebra -
Number Pairs for 6 and 7 worksheets on the smartboard. Then for Writer's Workshop, they had a choice to write a "list poem", card for someone or a writing piece. For Reader's Workshop, Ms. Perroni went over schema we know about Eric Carle books. She read, Today is Monday, By: Eric Carle.
Tools for READING BOOKS:
- read the words or sound out the words
- sound out the first letter of a word
- retell the story
-look at the pictures for a picture walk
We had Reader's Workshop for 5 minutes, where they picked 5 new books (2 leveled books) to read from their book bags. After lunch/recess and Library, for Science, we learned the difference between living and non=living things. Living things can grow, move, eat and reproduce. They sorted living and non=living things on the smartboard. Anna was a great teacher's helper today. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 122: Reminder: Your child can dress as his/her favorite book character tomorrow (not required).
Morning Work was book look. Andy was a great teacher's helper today. He chose to have everyone do an ET
"Hola" morning greeting to each other. For yoga, Mrs. Carroll used a non-foction book, The ABC's of Yoga for Kids
By: Teresa Power to teach everyone poses for letters A to D. See if your child can teach you a pose! I couldn't do "dolphin" and the "do nothing" pose was the easiest and most relaxing to calm our minds and bodies :))
We practiced our poems before snack/recess. Our class read the most minutes this last week of the March
Madness Read-a-Thon! (or turned in the most minutes) Our class read 1,887 minutes, the most of all the Kindergarten classes this week!! Isaiah read the most minutes (300 minutes) this week, so he pulled the winner out of the Cat in the Hat's hat, HIMSELF, for reading over 100 minutes!! WOW!! After Music, Ms. Perroni read,
Miss Mary Mack By: Mary Ann Hoberman, with lots of verses I never heard before! Then Ms. Perroni showed an example on the smartboard of a Kindergartner's writing piece from another class and we were writing detectives to see what they did well i.e. great illustration, spaces between words, neat handwriting, letters written well on the lines and using punctuation at end of their sentences and lots of details in the writing about what happened.
Then they gave ideas on what the writer could do to improve their writing. Draw more people, give more information in their story (where did she loose her tooth?) Before Weekend News, they thought about one thing they could do better in their writing or illustration today. After lunch/recess, they had quiet time and then
Ms. Perroni read There's a Wocket in My Pocket and compared it to The Foot Book By: Dr. Seuss. Then they each wrote a page for a Book of Baby Advice for Ms. Angela, OT, who is having a baby in April. They came up with very thoughtful ideas of how to take good care of the baby!! We ended our day singing our sight word songs to review how to spell them, because some people are forgetting how to spell their sight words. Keep practicing!
Morning Work was book look. Andy was a great teacher's helper today. He chose to have everyone do an ET
"Hola" morning greeting to each other. For yoga, Mrs. Carroll used a non-foction book, The ABC's of Yoga for Kids
By: Teresa Power to teach everyone poses for letters A to D. See if your child can teach you a pose! I couldn't do "dolphin" and the "do nothing" pose was the easiest and most relaxing to calm our minds and bodies :))
We practiced our poems before snack/recess. Our class read the most minutes this last week of the March
Madness Read-a-Thon! (or turned in the most minutes) Our class read 1,887 minutes, the most of all the Kindergarten classes this week!! Isaiah read the most minutes (300 minutes) this week, so he pulled the winner out of the Cat in the Hat's hat, HIMSELF, for reading over 100 minutes!! WOW!! After Music, Ms. Perroni read,
Miss Mary Mack By: Mary Ann Hoberman, with lots of verses I never heard before! Then Ms. Perroni showed an example on the smartboard of a Kindergartner's writing piece from another class and we were writing detectives to see what they did well i.e. great illustration, spaces between words, neat handwriting, letters written well on the lines and using punctuation at end of their sentences and lots of details in the writing about what happened.
Then they gave ideas on what the writer could do to improve their writing. Draw more people, give more information in their story (where did she loose her tooth?) Before Weekend News, they thought about one thing they could do better in their writing or illustration today. After lunch/recess, they had quiet time and then
Ms. Perroni read There's a Wocket in My Pocket and compared it to The Foot Book By: Dr. Seuss. Then they each wrote a page for a Book of Baby Advice for Ms. Angela, OT, who is having a baby in April. They came up with very thoughtful ideas of how to take good care of the baby!! We ended our day singing our sight word songs to review how to spell them, because some people are forgetting how to spell their sight words. Keep practicing!
Day 121: Reminder: NO SCHOOL TOMORROW in honor of Good Friday. Happy Easter!
Please send in your child's total minutes read on Monday, for the last Week #4 of March Madness
Read-a-Thon!
Morning Work was Morning FUN with families joining us for Breakfast 'n Books, in P.J's with stuffies :)) After a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra indoor recess, they had choice of either indoor or outdoor snack/recess. During snack, they watched Horton Hears a Who! By: Dr. Seuss on the smartboard. Can you believe it's the end of March and we still are reading Dr. Seuss books without any repeats!! In Music, Lily, Grafton and Shane were recognized for singing solos! Before lunch, they did their last scientific observation drawing of their forsythia branch for their Plant Journals (budding scientists!) After recess, Ms. Perroni finished Chapter 3 of Ramona The Brave By: Beverly Cleary. After quiet time, we shared "Meet My Stuffie" and they told us all about their favorite stuffie. For Kindergarten Community Meeting, they saw the baby eagles born in DC on the smartboard and practiced a reading song for K-3 community meeting. We ended our day with Lily reading her story about her stuffie.
HAVE A NICE LONG WEEKEND :))
Please send in your child's total minutes read on Monday, for the last Week #4 of March Madness
Read-a-Thon!
Morning Work was Morning FUN with families joining us for Breakfast 'n Books, in P.J's with stuffies :)) After a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra indoor recess, they had choice of either indoor or outdoor snack/recess. During snack, they watched Horton Hears a Who! By: Dr. Seuss on the smartboard. Can you believe it's the end of March and we still are reading Dr. Seuss books without any repeats!! In Music, Lily, Grafton and Shane were recognized for singing solos! Before lunch, they did their last scientific observation drawing of their forsythia branch for their Plant Journals (budding scientists!) After recess, Ms. Perroni finished Chapter 3 of Ramona The Brave By: Beverly Cleary. After quiet time, we shared "Meet My Stuffie" and they told us all about their favorite stuffie. For Kindergarten Community Meeting, they saw the baby eagles born in DC on the smartboard and practiced a reading song for K-3 community meeting. We ended our day with Lily reading her story about her stuffie.
HAVE A NICE LONG WEEKEND :))
Day 120: Reminder: Tomorrow is Breakfast 'n Books! Please bring in your own breakfast for your family (siblings welcome) and your child can wear P.J.'s and bring in a stuffie.
Everyone dressed SO WACKY and backwards today :)) Morning Work was BIG BOOK LOOK. After P.E.,
Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 11: Caring and Helping for our last lesson for Unit 2 on Empathy. We talked about "compassion" and they thought of examples of not only understanding and recognizing how someone else is feeling (sad, happy, angry, scared, lonely, etc.), but how to show they care, by saying or doing something kind
(i.e. listening, asking them how they feel or if they are ok, or doing something to help the person feel better).
Homework tonight is not required. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni asked the class to write a "List Poem" all together. No rhymes, just one word that describes the Title. They wrote:
SCHOOL
Book
Teachers
Tables
Chairs
Math
Friends
Learning
Library
Then they all wrote their own "List Poems" on any topic they chose. We shared their poems using the microphone. Then they did their second scientific observation drawing for their Plant Journal.
(a few buds have bloomed into flowers already!)
Then they practiced writing the letters of the alphabet upper case and lower case backwards!
Before lunch/recess, they picked 5 new books to share with you tomorrow in their book bags. After recess,
Ms. Perroni finished reading The Three Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic Shark, after they retold what they remembered happened in the story. After quiet time, they used ipads for handwriting practice, my words (cvc words) and then they could do RazKids. We ended WACKY WEDNESDAY with Circle Round the Zero for
Day 120!!!!! Two thirds of the year is over! Only 60 days left!!! TIME IS FLYING BY TOO FAST!!!!
By the way, GLOVER SCHOOL K-3 students have read 94,534 minutes!! So far, so great toward our goal of over 100,000 minutes for the March Madness Read-a-Thon! KEEP READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone dressed SO WACKY and backwards today :)) Morning Work was BIG BOOK LOOK. After P.E.,
Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 11: Caring and Helping for our last lesson for Unit 2 on Empathy. We talked about "compassion" and they thought of examples of not only understanding and recognizing how someone else is feeling (sad, happy, angry, scared, lonely, etc.), but how to show they care, by saying or doing something kind
(i.e. listening, asking them how they feel or if they are ok, or doing something to help the person feel better).
Homework tonight is not required. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni asked the class to write a "List Poem" all together. No rhymes, just one word that describes the Title. They wrote:
SCHOOL
Book
Teachers
Tables
Chairs
Math
Friends
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Then they all wrote their own "List Poems" on any topic they chose. We shared their poems using the microphone. Then they did their second scientific observation drawing for their Plant Journal.
(a few buds have bloomed into flowers already!)
Then they practiced writing the letters of the alphabet upper case and lower case backwards!
Before lunch/recess, they picked 5 new books to share with you tomorrow in their book bags. After recess,
Ms. Perroni finished reading The Three Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic Shark, after they retold what they remembered happened in the story. After quiet time, they used ipads for handwriting practice, my words (cvc words) and then they could do RazKids. We ended WACKY WEDNESDAY with Circle Round the Zero for
Day 120!!!!! Two thirds of the year is over! Only 60 days left!!! TIME IS FLYING BY TOO FAST!!!!
By the way, GLOVER SCHOOL K-3 students have read 94,534 minutes!! So far, so great toward our goal of over 100,000 minutes for the March Madness Read-a-Thon! KEEP READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Day 119: Reminder: Tomorrow is WACKY WEDNESDAY! Your child can wear something WACKY :)) (not required)
Tomorrow is PIZZA DAY!
Morning Work was a quick book look before Glover K-3 Community Meeting. At Community Meeting, Principal Ota
announced that Ms. Yanow's class won the token challenge for good behavior in Kindergarten. The whole third grade did a fabulous job singing songs about reading and making connections to self, text and the world, while you're reading. Then Mrs. Shevory read her favorite book, The Gruffalo, while 4 Glover "artists" drew what they pictured he looked like and what he was doing, while she read the story. Ms. Perroni did a great illustration of the Gruffalo, with orange eyes, black tongue, purple spikes and a wart on the end of his nose! We practiced poems for our poetry jam. Valentina was a great teacher's helper. She chose an ET "hola" greeting this morning to each other. We did a whip for Weekend News brainstorming. After snack/recess, Trent read the most minutes, 150, so he picked Week #3's gift certificate winner out of the Cat in the Hat's hat, Drew, for reading over 100 minutes! Half our class didn't bring in their minutes read :(( So, you can still send the minutes read in tomorrow, to add to our grand total. Our class read a total of 1,046 minutes for Week #3 and stay tuned for how many minutes the whole Glover School read... towards our goal of over 100,000 minutes!! For Go Math, they worked in pairs on Lesson 5.9
Algebra - Making Number Pairs for 6 and 7 worksheets. Then they did addition problems on the smartboard.
For Weekend News they worked on details in their writing and adding details to their illustrations. Then we listened to Wacky Wednesday By: Dr. Seuss on the smartboard. Can't wait to see all the wackiness tomorrow in our classroom :)) They also listened to What Was I Scared of? By: Dr. Seuss. After lunch/recess and Library,
Ms. Perroni read, Planting a Rainbow By: Lois Ehlert. Then they made scientific observation drawings of a branch of forsythia with buds that haven't opened yet. Show your child if you have forsythia in your yard and they'll see when it blooms! We ended the day drawing SPRING pictures for their lockers to the "Rainbow Connection" song!
Tomorrow is PIZZA DAY!
Morning Work was a quick book look before Glover K-3 Community Meeting. At Community Meeting, Principal Ota
announced that Ms. Yanow's class won the token challenge for good behavior in Kindergarten. The whole third grade did a fabulous job singing songs about reading and making connections to self, text and the world, while you're reading. Then Mrs. Shevory read her favorite book, The Gruffalo, while 4 Glover "artists" drew what they pictured he looked like and what he was doing, while she read the story. Ms. Perroni did a great illustration of the Gruffalo, with orange eyes, black tongue, purple spikes and a wart on the end of his nose! We practiced poems for our poetry jam. Valentina was a great teacher's helper. She chose an ET "hola" greeting this morning to each other. We did a whip for Weekend News brainstorming. After snack/recess, Trent read the most minutes, 150, so he picked Week #3's gift certificate winner out of the Cat in the Hat's hat, Drew, for reading over 100 minutes! Half our class didn't bring in their minutes read :(( So, you can still send the minutes read in tomorrow, to add to our grand total. Our class read a total of 1,046 minutes for Week #3 and stay tuned for how many minutes the whole Glover School read... towards our goal of over 100,000 minutes!! For Go Math, they worked in pairs on Lesson 5.9
Algebra - Making Number Pairs for 6 and 7 worksheets. Then they did addition problems on the smartboard.
For Weekend News they worked on details in their writing and adding details to their illustrations. Then we listened to Wacky Wednesday By: Dr. Seuss on the smartboard. Can't wait to see all the wackiness tomorrow in our classroom :)) They also listened to What Was I Scared of? By: Dr. Seuss. After lunch/recess and Library,
Ms. Perroni read, Planting a Rainbow By: Lois Ehlert. Then they made scientific observation drawings of a branch of forsythia with buds that haven't opened yet. Show your child if you have forsythia in your yard and they'll see when it blooms! We ended the day drawing SPRING pictures for their lockers to the "Rainbow Connection" song!
Day 118: Reminder: Please send in the total minutes your child read for Week #3 of the Read-a-Thon on Monday! Morning Work was book look. We practiced a few songs and poems for our poetry jam. We were very happy to present Valentina with her "Choosing Kindness Recognition" award for our class, for her many acts of kindness to everyone! They did RazKids and Math apps on the ipads. So cute watching them read with their stuffies this morning in their P.J.'s :)) Watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab during snack on smartboard. Elise showed everyone how to make an origami penguin. After P.E., they could write about anything they wanted to for Writer's Workshop. Ms. Perroni started reading, The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic Shark By: Donivee Laird.
After lunch/recess and Art, they glued their sock with the one their partner copied onto background paper.
We ended our day with free choice time. Before we left, Ms. Perroni read, Fancy Nancy Pajama Day
By: Jane O'Connor and they learned a few more "fancy" big words! Have a great weekend :))
After lunch/recess and Art, they glued their sock with the one their partner copied onto background paper.
We ended our day with free choice time. Before we left, Ms. Perroni read, Fancy Nancy Pajama Day
By: Jane O'Connor and they learned a few more "fancy" big words! Have a great weekend :))
Day 117: Reminder: Tomorrow is P.J. & Stuffy Day! (NOT breakfast 'n books with families, which will be on March 24th) (not required)
Morning Work was cleaning up all the mischief a Leprechaun did in our room overnight! He dumped over legos, opened cabinets, turned over books & job names, put out yoga mats with stuffed animals, spilled our dice basket and tool boxes, etc. etc. He even put shamrocks on everyone's locker for GOOD LUCK :)) We made Leprechaun hats and colored and traced words in a little St. Patrick's Day words book. They listened to Irish music while they worked. We did guided level reading groups. Please return the little books in their baggies tomorrow. After snack/recess, we watched Kermit the Frog sing "It's not easy being GREEN!" on the smartboard. Then we tallied how "GREEN we are" 0- cars, 0-pets, 0 - houses, Most - wearing green today, Second most - favorite color, etc.
After Music, Mrs. Carroll read a non-fiction book about Ireland and St. Patrick's Day. After lunch/recess, they did 2 St. Patrick's math worksheets and 2 St. Patrick's reading worksheets. At Kindergarten Community Meeting,
they shared what mischief Leprechauns did in our classrooms or at home!! They did some Mother Goose rhymes
and everyone met a new girl, Saraya, who joined Mrs. Thomas' class today. HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!!!
Morning Work was cleaning up all the mischief a Leprechaun did in our room overnight! He dumped over legos, opened cabinets, turned over books & job names, put out yoga mats with stuffed animals, spilled our dice basket and tool boxes, etc. etc. He even put shamrocks on everyone's locker for GOOD LUCK :)) We made Leprechaun hats and colored and traced words in a little St. Patrick's Day words book. They listened to Irish music while they worked. We did guided level reading groups. Please return the little books in their baggies tomorrow. After snack/recess, we watched Kermit the Frog sing "It's not easy being GREEN!" on the smartboard. Then we tallied how "GREEN we are" 0- cars, 0-pets, 0 - houses, Most - wearing green today, Second most - favorite color, etc.
After Music, Mrs. Carroll read a non-fiction book about Ireland and St. Patrick's Day. After lunch/recess, they did 2 St. Patrick's math worksheets and 2 St. Patrick's reading worksheets. At Kindergarten Community Meeting,
they shared what mischief Leprechauns did in our classrooms or at home!! They did some Mother Goose rhymes
and everyone met a new girl, Saraya, who joined Mrs. Thomas' class today. HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!!!
Day 116: Reminder: Have your child wear GREEN tomorrow for St. Patrick's Day! (not required)
Morning Work was book look. After P.E., we went over all the "extraordinary words" people brought in today and what they mean: appropriate, leprechaun, eclectic, stupendous, photosynthesis and winnowing!!
We practiced our poetry jam poems. Ms. Perroni read, Fancy Nancy Bon Jour Butterfly By: Jane O'Connor because Nancy likes to use "fancy" words! After snack/recess, For Go Math, they did Lesson 5.8 Algebra - Number Pairs to 5 worksheets on the smartboard with cube trains. Chloe Rowland, Elises's 2nd grade sister, was our guest reader today. She read, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs By: Judi Barrett. Then we did a math game in pairs, Connect Four - roll two dice, color in the sum, first to get four in a row circles colored wins! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire! By: Jane O'Connor. They had to come up with words that have "an" in them and circle the "an". Then they cut out their fancy designed socks and did a little "-an" word family book. Earlier today, Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 10: Accidents. We are working on saying, "I'm sorry I bumped into you. It was an accident. Are you ok?" Anderson automatically said sorry to Ms. Perroni for knocking over some papers by accident :)) Try to reinforce this at home because if they know someone didn't mean to do something to them, they won't get as upset with that person. "An apology helps clarify the situation for the hurt child or their hurt feelings". We ended our day talking about the mischief that Leprechauns like to do for fun and how they hide their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow! Mrs. Carroll read, That's What Leprechauns Do By: Eve Bunting.
Morning Work was book look. After P.E., we went over all the "extraordinary words" people brought in today and what they mean: appropriate, leprechaun, eclectic, stupendous, photosynthesis and winnowing!!
We practiced our poetry jam poems. Ms. Perroni read, Fancy Nancy Bon Jour Butterfly By: Jane O'Connor because Nancy likes to use "fancy" words! After snack/recess, For Go Math, they did Lesson 5.8 Algebra - Number Pairs to 5 worksheets on the smartboard with cube trains. Chloe Rowland, Elises's 2nd grade sister, was our guest reader today. She read, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs By: Judi Barrett. Then we did a math game in pairs, Connect Four - roll two dice, color in the sum, first to get four in a row circles colored wins! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire! By: Jane O'Connor. They had to come up with words that have "an" in them and circle the "an". Then they cut out their fancy designed socks and did a little "-an" word family book. Earlier today, Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 10: Accidents. We are working on saying, "I'm sorry I bumped into you. It was an accident. Are you ok?" Anderson automatically said sorry to Ms. Perroni for knocking over some papers by accident :)) Try to reinforce this at home because if they know someone didn't mean to do something to them, they won't get as upset with that person. "An apology helps clarify the situation for the hurt child or their hurt feelings". We ended our day talking about the mischief that Leprechauns like to do for fun and how they hide their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow! Mrs. Carroll read, That's What Leprechauns Do By: Eve Bunting.
Day 115: Reminder: Tomorrow is bring an "extraordinary word" to school day (on a piece of paper). (not required)
Morning Work was book look. At Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Ms. Doben's 2nd graders read a story related to all the Glover core values; Respect, Responsibility and Safety, What If Everyone Did That? The ending was great :))
Principal Ota has added a new recognition of the student in each class that "chooses kindness" and is a good role model for others of our core values. Our class chose Valentina because she always includes everyone and cheers up people when they are sad. Congratulations, Valentina :)) Then The Cat in The Hat, aka Ms. Perroni, announced that K-3 students read 36,208 minutes for Week #2 of the Read-a-Thon which brings our grand total to 62,126 minutes read :)) WOW!! KEEP READING!! Before snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read Fox in Socks By: Dr. Seuss. Warning: Lotsof tongue twisters on every page! Ms. Perroni took a photo of all our CRAZY socks (Anna and Elise designed their own crazy socks!) for our website. We danced to "What Does the Fox Say?" on the smartboard. They listened to Fox in Socks on the smartboard. (Ms. Perroni read the tongue twisters twice as fast!) After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Charlie Cook's Favorite Book By: Julia Donaldson, in honor of all the different "favorite" books everyone is reading for the Read-a-Thon :)) Elise read a short story she wrote. We sang Zero the Hero on the smartboard. Ms. Perroni read, "Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" By: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (one of our Poetry Jam poems) and then she read in the BIG BOOK all about a poet, Jack Prelutsky. His poems make us laugh, he takes long walks and has hundreds of toys and books in his studio for inspiration. We agree that he is a "big kid" who loves to "show us that poetry, like life, is full of funny, happy wonderful, absolutely ridiculous things." Then Ms. Perroni read a poem about a lonely little Puffin and a poem about a Walrus By: Jack Prelutsky. Our guest reader today was Micah, Isaiah's 2nd grade brother. He read, Ten Apples of Top By: Dr. Seuss. Can't believe he picked a Dr. Seuss book that we haven't read yet! For Go Math, we did Lesson 5.7 Algebra - Write More Addition Sentences worksheets on the smartboard. Before lunch, Anna started reading Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year 2010, Press Here By: Henre Tullet (a great interactive reader participation book) Anna did a great job reading upside down while showing the pictures and calling on everyone to have a turn doing what each page said to do. After lunch/recess and Library, Anna finished Press Here. We ended our day with Ms. Perroni showing everyone how to make an origami fox. Then they colored a sock any way they wanted to and someone else had to color a sock just like theirs.
Morning Work was book look. At Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Ms. Doben's 2nd graders read a story related to all the Glover core values; Respect, Responsibility and Safety, What If Everyone Did That? The ending was great :))
Principal Ota has added a new recognition of the student in each class that "chooses kindness" and is a good role model for others of our core values. Our class chose Valentina because she always includes everyone and cheers up people when they are sad. Congratulations, Valentina :)) Then The Cat in The Hat, aka Ms. Perroni, announced that K-3 students read 36,208 minutes for Week #2 of the Read-a-Thon which brings our grand total to 62,126 minutes read :)) WOW!! KEEP READING!! Before snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read Fox in Socks By: Dr. Seuss. Warning: Lotsof tongue twisters on every page! Ms. Perroni took a photo of all our CRAZY socks (Anna and Elise designed their own crazy socks!) for our website. We danced to "What Does the Fox Say?" on the smartboard. They listened to Fox in Socks on the smartboard. (Ms. Perroni read the tongue twisters twice as fast!) After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Charlie Cook's Favorite Book By: Julia Donaldson, in honor of all the different "favorite" books everyone is reading for the Read-a-Thon :)) Elise read a short story she wrote. We sang Zero the Hero on the smartboard. Ms. Perroni read, "Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" By: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (one of our Poetry Jam poems) and then she read in the BIG BOOK all about a poet, Jack Prelutsky. His poems make us laugh, he takes long walks and has hundreds of toys and books in his studio for inspiration. We agree that he is a "big kid" who loves to "show us that poetry, like life, is full of funny, happy wonderful, absolutely ridiculous things." Then Ms. Perroni read a poem about a lonely little Puffin and a poem about a Walrus By: Jack Prelutsky. Our guest reader today was Micah, Isaiah's 2nd grade brother. He read, Ten Apples of Top By: Dr. Seuss. Can't believe he picked a Dr. Seuss book that we haven't read yet! For Go Math, we did Lesson 5.7 Algebra - Write More Addition Sentences worksheets on the smartboard. Before lunch, Anna started reading Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year 2010, Press Here By: Henre Tullet (a great interactive reader participation book) Anna did a great job reading upside down while showing the pictures and calling on everyone to have a turn doing what each page said to do. After lunch/recess and Library, Anna finished Press Here. We ended our day with Ms. Perroni showing everyone how to make an origami fox. Then they colored a sock any way they wanted to and someone else had to color a sock just like theirs.
Day 114: Reminder: Scholastic Book orders are due tomorrow. Also, tomorrow is wear Crazy Socks Day!
(both not required). Also, if you forgot to send in the total minutes read for Week #2, please send them in tomorrow to add to our grand total minutes read!
Morning Work was Book Look. Elise, Clare, Isaiah, Lily, Drew and Anna sang our school song over the loud speaker
this morning! We learned two new poems for our Poetry Jam - lots of poems and songs to learn! Ms. Perroni read, Oh, The Things you can Think! By: Dr. Seuss. Then she went over what "onomatopoeia" means: when the sound of a word is associated with that word i.e. moo, buzz, pop, choo choo, slurp, knock and boom. We made Dr. Seuss door hangers for "Do Not Disturb, I'm Reading" or "Come In and Play". Then they did a worksheet of rhyming words from the "-ink" word family and colored the stripes of cat in the hat's hat and an addition worksheet.
Miss Angela, OT and Andy demonstrated "Brain Gym" to exercise our brains! (Fit February was all about exercising our bodies and March Madness is all about exercising our brains!!) :
1. Brain Buttons: Take a sip of water to hydrate. Press right hand under neck on your clavicle. Press left hand on belly button. Take 5 deep breaths while you move your eyes like an owl back and forth.
2. Cross Crawls: Touch right hand to left ankle. Touch left hand to right ankle. Alternate in front of your body slowly.
3. Hook Ups: Cross your feet. Arms straight out, thumbs point to floor, cross wrists and roll under. Do owl eyes.
4. Brain Talk: Fingertips touch each other in front of you and bend gently.
All of these exercises help both sides of the brain "talk to each other"!
After snack/recess and Music, they finished their 3 worksheets. For Go Math, we talked about math addition problems. They did Lesson 5.6 Algebra - Write Addition Sentences worksheets on the smartboard.
Congratulations, Matteo! He won the random drawing for a gift certificate to Spirit of '76, for reading over 100 minutes! Our class total was 1,328 minutes read for Week #2 (but a lot of people didn't send in their minutes total for Week #2) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni finished reading Chapter 2 of Ramona The Brave By: Beverly Cleary, after they discussed what they remembered happened in the story so far. We played Sight Word Bingo. We ended our day with some free choice time.
(both not required). Also, if you forgot to send in the total minutes read for Week #2, please send them in tomorrow to add to our grand total minutes read!
Morning Work was Book Look. Elise, Clare, Isaiah, Lily, Drew and Anna sang our school song over the loud speaker
this morning! We learned two new poems for our Poetry Jam - lots of poems and songs to learn! Ms. Perroni read, Oh, The Things you can Think! By: Dr. Seuss. Then she went over what "onomatopoeia" means: when the sound of a word is associated with that word i.e. moo, buzz, pop, choo choo, slurp, knock and boom. We made Dr. Seuss door hangers for "Do Not Disturb, I'm Reading" or "Come In and Play". Then they did a worksheet of rhyming words from the "-ink" word family and colored the stripes of cat in the hat's hat and an addition worksheet.
Miss Angela, OT and Andy demonstrated "Brain Gym" to exercise our brains! (Fit February was all about exercising our bodies and March Madness is all about exercising our brains!!) :
1. Brain Buttons: Take a sip of water to hydrate. Press right hand under neck on your clavicle. Press left hand on belly button. Take 5 deep breaths while you move your eyes like an owl back and forth.
2. Cross Crawls: Touch right hand to left ankle. Touch left hand to right ankle. Alternate in front of your body slowly.
3. Hook Ups: Cross your feet. Arms straight out, thumbs point to floor, cross wrists and roll under. Do owl eyes.
4. Brain Talk: Fingertips touch each other in front of you and bend gently.
All of these exercises help both sides of the brain "talk to each other"!
After snack/recess and Music, they finished their 3 worksheets. For Go Math, we talked about math addition problems. They did Lesson 5.6 Algebra - Write Addition Sentences worksheets on the smartboard.
Congratulations, Matteo! He won the random drawing for a gift certificate to Spirit of '76, for reading over 100 minutes! Our class total was 1,328 minutes read for Week #2 (but a lot of people didn't send in their minutes total for Week #2) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni finished reading Chapter 2 of Ramona The Brave By: Beverly Cleary, after they discussed what they remembered happened in the story so far. We played Sight Word Bingo. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 113: Reminder: Please send in the total minutes your child read for Week #2 on Monday for
March Madness Read-a-Thon!
Morning Work was a quick Book Look before Mrs. Thomas was a guest reader for our class. She read, The LIttle Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear By: Don and Audrey Wood and Silly Sally rhyming book By: Audrey Wood. Then Ms. Perroni did a guided art project with the class drawing a "Dr. Seuss" type BIG fish! They watercolored them and "1 Fish, 2 Fish, 16 Fish" look amazing hanging in the hallway!!
Then Ms. Perroni read, Go, Dog Go! By: Dr. Seuss and we listened to "Green Eggs and Ham" on the smartboard.
Then we had our Book Swap! Everyone that brought in books to swap went home with new "used" books to read!
Keep on Reading those minutes for Week #2 of the Read-a-Thon :)) After snack/recess and P.E., for Go Math we did Lesson 5.5 Algebra - Write Addition Sentences for 10 worksheets on the smartboard, after doing add to 10 problems on the smartboard. After lunch/recess and Art, we had Learning Buddies with Mrs. Moss' 3rd graders. They read their favorite books to our kindergartners and played a game outside with them.
Have a great weekend :))
March Madness Read-a-Thon!
Morning Work was a quick Book Look before Mrs. Thomas was a guest reader for our class. She read, The LIttle Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear By: Don and Audrey Wood and Silly Sally rhyming book By: Audrey Wood. Then Ms. Perroni did a guided art project with the class drawing a "Dr. Seuss" type BIG fish! They watercolored them and "1 Fish, 2 Fish, 16 Fish" look amazing hanging in the hallway!!
Then Ms. Perroni read, Go, Dog Go! By: Dr. Seuss and we listened to "Green Eggs and Ham" on the smartboard.
Then we had our Book Swap! Everyone that brought in books to swap went home with new "used" books to read!
Keep on Reading those minutes for Week #2 of the Read-a-Thon :)) After snack/recess and P.E., for Go Math we did Lesson 5.5 Algebra - Write Addition Sentences for 10 worksheets on the smartboard, after doing add to 10 problems on the smartboard. After lunch/recess and Art, we had Learning Buddies with Mrs. Moss' 3rd graders. They read their favorite books to our kindergartners and played a game outside with them.
Have a great weekend :))
Day 112: Reminder: Tomorrow is Book Swap Day! (not required) Your child can bring in up to 10 gently used age appropriate books to swap! Also, tomorrow is Pizza Day!
Morning Work was book look. We practiced our Poetry Jam poems. Then Ms. Perroni went over tips for writing:
1. Write with pictures
2. Write with words
3. Write with labels (label the people in your pictures)
For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything and label their picture.
Our class earned 2 Brownie Points for walking quickly and quietly during a fire drill this morning. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Amelia Bedelia's FIrst LIbrary Card By: Herman Parish. Has your child gotten any books at Abbot Library to read for the Read-a-thon?? After Music, they used magnetic tiles to spell "cvc" words and practiced tapping the words. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
By: Dr. Seuss. Can you guess how many books Dr. Seuss wrote? Mrs. Carroll read to Mrs. Thomas' class as a guest reader and Mrs. Bowden was guest reader for our class. She read, One Nighttime Sea By: Deborah Lee Rose ,
How To Paint a Portrait of a Bird By: Jacques Prevert and Imogene's Antlers By: David Small. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, everyone came to OUR classrroom! We all practiced the Glover School song together. Then we all did "Shake It Off" for adding one to different numbers. We ended the meeting with Ms. Perroni and
Mrs. Carroll using Piggie and Gerald finger puppets to read, My Friend is Sad By: Mo Willems to everyone. It's fun to act out stories using finger puppets, or make your own puppets with socks, paper bags, popsickle sticks or just use your hands. Before we left for the day, Mrs. Carroll started Chapter Two of Ramona The Brave By: Beverly Cleary.
Morning Work was book look. We practiced our Poetry Jam poems. Then Ms. Perroni went over tips for writing:
1. Write with pictures
2. Write with words
3. Write with labels (label the people in your pictures)
For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything and label their picture.
Our class earned 2 Brownie Points for walking quickly and quietly during a fire drill this morning. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Amelia Bedelia's FIrst LIbrary Card By: Herman Parish. Has your child gotten any books at Abbot Library to read for the Read-a-thon?? After Music, they used magnetic tiles to spell "cvc" words and practiced tapping the words. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
By: Dr. Seuss. Can you guess how many books Dr. Seuss wrote? Mrs. Carroll read to Mrs. Thomas' class as a guest reader and Mrs. Bowden was guest reader for our class. She read, One Nighttime Sea By: Deborah Lee Rose ,
How To Paint a Portrait of a Bird By: Jacques Prevert and Imogene's Antlers By: David Small. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, everyone came to OUR classrroom! We all practiced the Glover School song together. Then we all did "Shake It Off" for adding one to different numbers. We ended the meeting with Ms. Perroni and
Mrs. Carroll using Piggie and Gerald finger puppets to read, My Friend is Sad By: Mo Willems to everyone. It's fun to act out stories using finger puppets, or make your own puppets with socks, paper bags, popsickle sticks or just use your hands. Before we left for the day, Mrs. Carroll started Chapter Two of Ramona The Brave By: Beverly Cleary.
Day 111: Today is a palindrome number! Ask your child what that means?? Morning Work was Book Look on ipads for RazKids. After P.E., we practiced our new school song with hand motions. (Can't get this great song out of our heads!) Then we practiced our Poetry Jam poems. Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 9: Same of Different Feelings. It's OK if people have different feelings about the same situation. We're working on developing empathy for other people's feelings at this age and learning to not tease others that don't feel the same as them about certain situations. After Puppy and Snail showed that they felt different about going fast or slow on a merry-go-around, pairs of our students showed on their faces and with their bodies how they felt in different scenarios. It was fun to see if they would feel the same or different. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read,
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish By: Dr. Seuss (lots and lots of rhyming words!) For Writer's Workshop, they wrote an illustrated "why" they like or don't like reading Dr. Seuss books. Almost everyone said they like his books because they are funny! Then they paired up to use ipads for Math apps. Then Mrs. Carroll read,
The Children Who Loved Books By: Peter Carnavas, after we explained about the Book Swap on Friday. Not required, but if they want to bring in up to 10 gently used, age-appropriate books to trade for up to 10 other used books - they can swap books in our class on Friday. We ended the day beating our speed record for the
"I have, Who has "cvc" word game!! Have a nice afternoon :))
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish By: Dr. Seuss (lots and lots of rhyming words!) For Writer's Workshop, they wrote an illustrated "why" they like or don't like reading Dr. Seuss books. Almost everyone said they like his books because they are funny! Then they paired up to use ipads for Math apps. Then Mrs. Carroll read,
The Children Who Loved Books By: Peter Carnavas, after we explained about the Book Swap on Friday. Not required, but if they want to bring in up to 10 gently used, age-appropriate books to trade for up to 10 other used books - they can swap books in our class on Friday. We ended the day beating our speed record for the
"I have, Who has "cvc" word game!! Have a nice afternoon :))
Day 110: Reminder: Tomorrow is an Early Release Day for Professional Development at 11:55 (no lunch served). Also, tomorrow is "Wear a Shirt to Read" Day! (not required)
Morning Work was a quick book look before Glover K-3 Community Meeting. We worked so hard for 2 weeks to earn tokens! Ms. Perroni and I are SO PROUD of our class because Principal Ota announced that our class and Ms. Yanow's class tied for the token challenge for Kindergarten for good behavior in the hall, cafeteria, playground and classroom :)) Then the Cat in The Hat, aka Ms. Perroni, announced that Glover students K-3 read 25,918 minutes
for Week #1 WOW!!! We're on our way to our goal of 100,000 minutes for March Madness Read-a-thon!
KEEP READING :)) Then the first graders sang our new school song and Mrs. Shapiro read one of her favorite
books, Ira Sleeps Over By: Bernard Waber. She read the "old school" way in a rocking chair with a teddy bear, without ipads and smartboards, because she LOVES reading to children of all ages!! We practiced a few poems for our Poetry Jam. Then Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll demonstrated "partner reading" from You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very short stories to Read Together By: Mary Ann Hoberman. Some parts a partner reads alone and some parts partners read together. During snack, Ms. Perroni read, Are You My Mother? By: Dr. Seuss for readers' theater. For Go Math, we went over adding zero to any number doesn't change that number at all. Then for adding one to any number we did "shake it off" to the side that was the number one higher on the whiteboard and then one less. Then they did Lesson 5.4 Algebra - Model and Draw Addition Problems worksheets on the smartboard. Then we did guided level reading groups during Reader's Workshop. Before lunch/recess, we did Circle Round the Zero for Day 110!! Time flies when you're having so much fun!! After Library, Mrs. Carroll read,
Franklin Goes to the Hospital By: Paulette Bourgeois. Amelia and lots of other students shared stories about their trips to the hospital. They were all very brave and we're so happy everyone is feeling great now! We ended our day with a new matching card game, "Super Genius first words". They tried to be the first to match a word or a picture on two cards. Ms. Perroni read, Put my in the Zoo, By: Robert Lopshire before we left for the day!
Morning Work was a quick book look before Glover K-3 Community Meeting. We worked so hard for 2 weeks to earn tokens! Ms. Perroni and I are SO PROUD of our class because Principal Ota announced that our class and Ms. Yanow's class tied for the token challenge for Kindergarten for good behavior in the hall, cafeteria, playground and classroom :)) Then the Cat in The Hat, aka Ms. Perroni, announced that Glover students K-3 read 25,918 minutes
for Week #1 WOW!!! We're on our way to our goal of 100,000 minutes for March Madness Read-a-thon!
KEEP READING :)) Then the first graders sang our new school song and Mrs. Shapiro read one of her favorite
books, Ira Sleeps Over By: Bernard Waber. She read the "old school" way in a rocking chair with a teddy bear, without ipads and smartboards, because she LOVES reading to children of all ages!! We practiced a few poems for our Poetry Jam. Then Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll demonstrated "partner reading" from You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very short stories to Read Together By: Mary Ann Hoberman. Some parts a partner reads alone and some parts partners read together. During snack, Ms. Perroni read, Are You My Mother? By: Dr. Seuss for readers' theater. For Go Math, we went over adding zero to any number doesn't change that number at all. Then for adding one to any number we did "shake it off" to the side that was the number one higher on the whiteboard and then one less. Then they did Lesson 5.4 Algebra - Model and Draw Addition Problems worksheets on the smartboard. Then we did guided level reading groups during Reader's Workshop. Before lunch/recess, we did Circle Round the Zero for Day 110!! Time flies when you're having so much fun!! After Library, Mrs. Carroll read,
Franklin Goes to the Hospital By: Paulette Bourgeois. Amelia and lots of other students shared stories about their trips to the hospital. They were all very brave and we're so happy everyone is feeling great now! We ended our day with a new matching card game, "Super Genius first words". They tried to be the first to match a word or a picture on two cards. Ms. Perroni read, Put my in the Zoo, By: Robert Lopshire before we left for the day!
Day 109: Reminder: Please send in total minutes read for Week #1 of Read-a-thon tomorrow,
if you forgot today. Our class read 1,432 minutes for Week #1!! Keep READING :))
Congratulations to Finn Kelly for reading over 100 minutes and winning the first drawing for a gift certificate to Spirit of '76!
Morning Work was BIG Book Look. Then we practiced some poems for our Poetry Jam. We did Yoga in the cafetorium for Mindful Monday. Nice way to start the week! For Go Math, they did Lesson 5.3 Problem Solving and Act Out Addition Problems worksheets. Then they acted out a few math addition problems to make number sentences. After snack/recess and Music, for Weekend News they shared with a partner details of what they did over the weekend to write about. "Who, what, where, when, and why ???" helps them add details to their story.
They shared their writing using the microphone before lunch/recess. After lunch/recess and quiet time,
Ms. Perroni started a chapter book, Ramona the Brave By: Beverly Cleary, about a girl with "spunk".
Then they did a ladybug math worksheet with counters to make different combinations to add up to 5. Our listening center with the ipad now includes a few books to listen to in nook library and QR code scanner will get the 9 books they can choose from our choices i.e. Pete The Cat, First Day Jitters, Skippy Jon Jones, etc.
We ended the day with free choice time.
if you forgot today. Our class read 1,432 minutes for Week #1!! Keep READING :))
Congratulations to Finn Kelly for reading over 100 minutes and winning the first drawing for a gift certificate to Spirit of '76!
Morning Work was BIG Book Look. Then we practiced some poems for our Poetry Jam. We did Yoga in the cafetorium for Mindful Monday. Nice way to start the week! For Go Math, they did Lesson 5.3 Problem Solving and Act Out Addition Problems worksheets. Then they acted out a few math addition problems to make number sentences. After snack/recess and Music, for Weekend News they shared with a partner details of what they did over the weekend to write about. "Who, what, where, when, and why ???" helps them add details to their story.
They shared their writing using the microphone before lunch/recess. After lunch/recess and quiet time,
Ms. Perroni started a chapter book, Ramona the Brave By: Beverly Cleary, about a girl with "spunk".
Then they did a ladybug math worksheet with counters to make different combinations to add up to 5. Our listening center with the ipad now includes a few books to listen to in nook library and QR code scanner will get the 9 books they can choose from our choices i.e. Pete The Cat, First Day Jitters, Skippy Jon Jones, etc.
We ended the day with free choice time.
Day 108: Thanks for all the supplies people sent in for our class, off our wish list! Also, great HATS today and thanks for the donations for the Marblehead family in need after their fire.
Reminder: Please return your child's total minutes read for Week #1 on Monday. If they read 100 or more minutes, their name will go into the drawing for a gift certificate at a book store!
After Book Look, Mrs. Thomas came into our room and read, Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda! By: Lauren Alderfer and Ms. Perroni read The Three Blairs to her class. We talked about being mindful when you are eating, walking, working, reading, playing, etc. Keep your mind in the present moment whatever you are doing and try not to have your mind jump from one thing to another. (Easier said than done!) "Mind-full, like your mind is full of the present, full of right now!" Then Ms. Perroni finished reading, The Lorax By: Dr. Seuss. It touched Ms. Perroni's heart :)
Then they wrote a reader's response about what they liked or didn't like about The Lorax story. We even watched "The Lorax" on the smartboard during snack time!! Hope everyone got great books to read at the Book Fair today.
Keep adding those minutes of reading for the Read-A-Thon! After P.E., Mr. Fargo was our mystery guest reader!!
He said he was nervous because we were his first class he read to in 10 years!!! He read, Randy Riley's Really Big Hit By: Chris Van Dusen (our favorite author). We all thought he did a great job and we hope he comes back to read to us again! Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Excuse Me, I'm Trying To Read! By: Mary Jo Amani.
This is a NAESP Children's Book of the Year winner! The author and Illustrator began community lending libraries in rural villages of Mozambique and wrote this book after their travels. During indoor recess, most kids wanted to read their new books :)) After Art, we had our very first Learning Buddies with third graders from Mrs. Moss' class.
They read Dr. Seuss books together and got to know their buddies. They ended their time having free choice with our kindergartners enjoying legos, puzzles, painting and pattern blocks together. Another great Glover tradition!
We loved seeing past Kindergartners reading to our present Kindergartners :))
Have a great weekend!
Reminder: Please return your child's total minutes read for Week #1 on Monday. If they read 100 or more minutes, their name will go into the drawing for a gift certificate at a book store!
After Book Look, Mrs. Thomas came into our room and read, Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda! By: Lauren Alderfer and Ms. Perroni read The Three Blairs to her class. We talked about being mindful when you are eating, walking, working, reading, playing, etc. Keep your mind in the present moment whatever you are doing and try not to have your mind jump from one thing to another. (Easier said than done!) "Mind-full, like your mind is full of the present, full of right now!" Then Ms. Perroni finished reading, The Lorax By: Dr. Seuss. It touched Ms. Perroni's heart :)
Then they wrote a reader's response about what they liked or didn't like about The Lorax story. We even watched "The Lorax" on the smartboard during snack time!! Hope everyone got great books to read at the Book Fair today.
Keep adding those minutes of reading for the Read-A-Thon! After P.E., Mr. Fargo was our mystery guest reader!!
He said he was nervous because we were his first class he read to in 10 years!!! He read, Randy Riley's Really Big Hit By: Chris Van Dusen (our favorite author). We all thought he did a great job and we hope he comes back to read to us again! Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Excuse Me, I'm Trying To Read! By: Mary Jo Amani.
This is a NAESP Children's Book of the Year winner! The author and Illustrator began community lending libraries in rural villages of Mozambique and wrote this book after their travels. During indoor recess, most kids wanted to read their new books :)) After Art, we had our very first Learning Buddies with third graders from Mrs. Moss' class.
They read Dr. Seuss books together and got to know their buddies. They ended their time having free choice with our kindergartners enjoying legos, puzzles, painting and pattern blocks together. Another great Glover tradition!
We loved seeing past Kindergartners reading to our present Kindergartners :))
Have a great weekend!
Day 107: Reminder: Tomorrow is HAT Day! Your child can wear any hat they want all day at school! Also, the Glover students K-3 are donating $1 to help the family in Marblehead that had a fire in their home.
(not required).
Morning Work was Book Look. Anna was a great teacher's helper today. We started learning a few poems this morning for our BIG Poetry Jam Show at the end of the year. These poems are some grade 1-3 students' favorites, that they did in past poetry jams! We did guided leveled reading groups, before snack/recess. Have your child read their books to you tonite for read-a-thon minutes! Then they did Roll, Read and Trace "-ed" and "-ad" family words. Practiced writing numbers 1-20. After snack/recess, for Go Math, they did Lesson 5.2 Addition: Put together worksheets on the smartboard. Before Music, Ms. Perroni read, I am Not Going to Get Up Today!
By: Dr. Seuss. After Music, Ms. Perroni started reading The Lorax By: Dr. Seuss. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, a "text to text connection" book Get Out of Bed! By: Robert Munsch. Then they played "I have who has" with CVC words. They did "write the room" with their clipboards - find at least 10 words you know in the room and write them down. After quiet time, we had Kindergarten Community Meeting in Mrs. Thomas' room. Mrs. Thomas talked about all kinds of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. they can read for the read-a-thon and she read from a joke book. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Born to Read By: Judy Sierra and Reading Makes You Feel Good By: Todd Park in honor of the Read-A- Thon!! Let the READING BEGIN and CONTINUE ...
(not required).
Morning Work was Book Look. Anna was a great teacher's helper today. We started learning a few poems this morning for our BIG Poetry Jam Show at the end of the year. These poems are some grade 1-3 students' favorites, that they did in past poetry jams! We did guided leveled reading groups, before snack/recess. Have your child read their books to you tonite for read-a-thon minutes! Then they did Roll, Read and Trace "-ed" and "-ad" family words. Practiced writing numbers 1-20. After snack/recess, for Go Math, they did Lesson 5.2 Addition: Put together worksheets on the smartboard. Before Music, Ms. Perroni read, I am Not Going to Get Up Today!
By: Dr. Seuss. After Music, Ms. Perroni started reading The Lorax By: Dr. Seuss. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, a "text to text connection" book Get Out of Bed! By: Robert Munsch. Then they played "I have who has" with CVC words. They did "write the room" with their clipboards - find at least 10 words you know in the room and write them down. After quiet time, we had Kindergarten Community Meeting in Mrs. Thomas' room. Mrs. Thomas talked about all kinds of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. they can read for the read-a-thon and she read from a joke book. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Born to Read By: Judy Sierra and Reading Makes You Feel Good By: Todd Park in honor of the Read-A- Thon!! Let the READING BEGIN and CONTINUE ...
Day 106: Reminder: We LOVE having guest readers during March Madness Read-A-Thon month (or any time!) Morning Work was BIG Book Look and they take turns at the Listening Center (listen to CD and follow along with the book) and using ipad for listening to stories. After P.E., we did brainstorming for words that rhyme with
"he" and "she" and then they did "he" and "she" little books and we read them together on the smartboard.
After snack/recess, for Writer's Workshop, they wrote either a non-fiction or fiction story and we shared everyone's story using the microphone! Before lunch/recess, we counted to 100 with the Jack Hartman workout song on the smartboard. Then they put red counters in a ten frame and added yellow counters to make an addition number sentence. Then Ms. Perroni read, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back By: Dr. Seuss.
After lunch/recess, Anna read from The Fourteen Bears Summer and Winter By: Evelyn Scott book she brought in.
Then they did word families on the smartboard with rhyming words. Then they did Roll Read and Trace "-ad"
word family words. We ended our day with ipads for RazKids and reading and writing apps.
"he" and "she" and then they did "he" and "she" little books and we read them together on the smartboard.
After snack/recess, for Writer's Workshop, they wrote either a non-fiction or fiction story and we shared everyone's story using the microphone! Before lunch/recess, we counted to 100 with the Jack Hartman workout song on the smartboard. Then they put red counters in a ten frame and added yellow counters to make an addition number sentence. Then Ms. Perroni read, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back By: Dr. Seuss.
After lunch/recess, Anna read from The Fourteen Bears Summer and Winter By: Evelyn Scott book she brought in.
Then they did word families on the smartboard with rhyming words. Then they did Roll Read and Trace "-ad"
word family words. We ended our day with ipads for RazKids and reading and writing apps.
Day 105: Everyone looked great in their red & white today! After Morning Work BOOK LOOK, we had Glover
Community Meeting with The Cat in the Hat, aka Ms. Perroni and Thing Two, aka Mrs. Thomas to kick off our annual MARCH MADNESS READ-A-THON. After the 2nd graders sang our new school song, The Cat in the Hat taught all K-3 students how to READ the words to a new read-a-thon song to the tune of Howdy Dowdy!
Then the Cat and the Hat and Thing Two challenged the Glover students to read 100,000 minutes in the month of March OR MORE!!! We know they can do it!!! Then all K-3 students repeated the Readers' Oath. Before our field trip to Abbot Library, Mrs. Carroll read, The Best Book To Read By: Debbie Bertram & Susan Bloom about a field trip to the library and discovering all kinds of books from non-fiction to fiction to borrow with a library card. After snack/recess, our class went to Abbot Library and enjoyed "Paperback Jukebox with Spencer Garfield". He read stories and sang songs with his guitar and we caught bubbles! Then the librarian assistant let our students explore the Children's Library books. Thanks to our chaperones: Trent's mom, Matteo's mom, Drew's mom and Andy's mom and to the library for the goodie bags we sent home today. Before lunch/recess, we wrote a thank you letter to the Abbot librarian and Spencer. Then Valentina read a story she wrote about an elf. After LIbrary,
we all made individual get well cards for Amelia and Birthday cards for Principal Ota. We ended our day with Anna reading from a book she brought in today.
Community Meeting with The Cat in the Hat, aka Ms. Perroni and Thing Two, aka Mrs. Thomas to kick off our annual MARCH MADNESS READ-A-THON. After the 2nd graders sang our new school song, The Cat in the Hat taught all K-3 students how to READ the words to a new read-a-thon song to the tune of Howdy Dowdy!
Then the Cat and the Hat and Thing Two challenged the Glover students to read 100,000 minutes in the month of March OR MORE!!! We know they can do it!!! Then all K-3 students repeated the Readers' Oath. Before our field trip to Abbot Library, Mrs. Carroll read, The Best Book To Read By: Debbie Bertram & Susan Bloom about a field trip to the library and discovering all kinds of books from non-fiction to fiction to borrow with a library card. After snack/recess, our class went to Abbot Library and enjoyed "Paperback Jukebox with Spencer Garfield". He read stories and sang songs with his guitar and we caught bubbles! Then the librarian assistant let our students explore the Children's Library books. Thanks to our chaperones: Trent's mom, Matteo's mom, Drew's mom and Andy's mom and to the library for the goodie bags we sent home today. Before lunch/recess, we wrote a thank you letter to the Abbot librarian and Spencer. Then Valentina read a story she wrote about an elf. After LIbrary,
we all made individual get well cards for Amelia and Birthday cards for Principal Ota. We ended our day with Anna reading from a book she brought in today.
Day 104: Reminder: Please have your child wear RED & WHITE tomorrow and bring in their favorite
Dr. Seuss book (be sure their name is on the book) or they can bring in any favorite book to kick off
MARCH MADNESS READ-A-THON month and Dr. Seuss' birthday!!
Morning Work was practicing Upper and Lower case letters with the spaceman spacer again!
"Practice makes perfect!" Shane was a great teacher's helper. He chose a toe-tapping, Ni Hao greeting to each other this morning. Ms. Perroni led Monday Mindfulness Yoga in the cafetorium for our class. They did yoga poses and a minute of silent stillness. After snack/recess and Music, they retold The Mitten story By: Jan Brett
to each other with their paper bag mitten and 8 animal characters. See if they can retell the story to you!
Before lunch/recess, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra recess. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a few nursery rhymes from Mother Goose By: Tomie dePaola. She also read a few funny poems from
Where the Sidewalk Ends By: Shel Silverstein. Lily shared some of her writing (everyone's name) from her journal. We ended the day making Thing 1 or Thing 2 out of shapes.
Dr. Seuss book (be sure their name is on the book) or they can bring in any favorite book to kick off
MARCH MADNESS READ-A-THON month and Dr. Seuss' birthday!!
Morning Work was practicing Upper and Lower case letters with the spaceman spacer again!
"Practice makes perfect!" Shane was a great teacher's helper. He chose a toe-tapping, Ni Hao greeting to each other this morning. Ms. Perroni led Monday Mindfulness Yoga in the cafetorium for our class. They did yoga poses and a minute of silent stillness. After snack/recess and Music, they retold The Mitten story By: Jan Brett
to each other with their paper bag mitten and 8 animal characters. See if they can retell the story to you!
Before lunch/recess, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra recess. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a few nursery rhymes from Mother Goose By: Tomie dePaola. She also read a few funny poems from
Where the Sidewalk Ends By: Shel Silverstein. Lily shared some of her writing (everyone's name) from her journal. We ended the day making Thing 1 or Thing 2 out of shapes.
Day 103: Ms. Perroni was absent today and Mrs. Drayer was our wonderful substitute. It wasn't as much of a FUN FRIDAY without Ms. Perroni! I forgot to play the dancing music in the hallway! Everyone looked great in their
Marblehead School Spirit Red and Black colors today! For Morning Work we practiced Upper and Lower case letters with the "spaceman" spacer again (third times the charm!) After Morning Meeting, we did Go Math worksheets for Chapter 5 Lesson 5.1 Addition: Add to on the smartboard. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll
read We Love Fruit! and Vegetables, Vegetables! By: Fay Robinson and Eating the Alphabet Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z By: Lois Ehlert. We learned that bananas are eaten more than any other fruit and we learned about lots of fruits and vegetables we never heard of or tried before! Our class loves FRUITS and VEGETABLES :))
After P.E. they colored, cut, sorted and glued healthy foods and unhealthy foods on a worksheet. After lunch/recess and Art, we made a get well card for Amelia and hope she's feeling better over the weekend!
We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, The Mitten By: Jan Brett and they glued a white mitten on a paper bag to put all 8 pictures of the animals in the bag to retell the story to you next week (didn't have time to finish and retell the story to each other.) Have a great weekend :)
Marblehead School Spirit Red and Black colors today! For Morning Work we practiced Upper and Lower case letters with the "spaceman" spacer again (third times the charm!) After Morning Meeting, we did Go Math worksheets for Chapter 5 Lesson 5.1 Addition: Add to on the smartboard. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll
read We Love Fruit! and Vegetables, Vegetables! By: Fay Robinson and Eating the Alphabet Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z By: Lois Ehlert. We learned that bananas are eaten more than any other fruit and we learned about lots of fruits and vegetables we never heard of or tried before! Our class loves FRUITS and VEGETABLES :))
After P.E. they colored, cut, sorted and glued healthy foods and unhealthy foods on a worksheet. After lunch/recess and Art, we made a get well card for Amelia and hope she's feeling better over the weekend!
We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, The Mitten By: Jan Brett and they glued a white mitten on a paper bag to put all 8 pictures of the animals in the bag to retell the story to you next week (didn't have time to finish and retell the story to each other.) Have a great weekend :)
Day 102: Reminder: Have your child RED and BLACK Marblehead colors or a Marblehead team shirt tomorrow for Spirit Day! (not required)
Morning Work was practicing ABC handwriting using spacemen spacers. After the pledge and singing the new Glover School song with the 3rd graders on youtube, Ms. Perroni read, The Cat in the Hat By: Dr. Seuss. She LOVES Dr. Seuss books because they have silly rhyming words and are so much fun to read, but mostly because the "Cat in the Hat" is the same age as she is ...58!! The kids practiced rhyming to the story. Then they did guided drawings of the Cat in the Hat and after drawing two, they chose one to paint for the hallway to kick off
March Madness Read-a-Thon next week and celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday!! During Snack they watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab on the smartboard. After Music and lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Trouble in the Barkers' Class
By: Tomie de Paola. Then they drew a picture and wrote about their favorite part of the story for response writing. After quiet time, we had Kindergarten Community Meeting. All the Kindergarten classes learned all the words to the new Glover School song. This great song was written by our 3rd graders with help from a singer/songwriter who was funded by a grant from the Friends of Marblehead Public Schools.
We ended our day with "CVC" words song on smartboard.
Morning Work was practicing ABC handwriting using spacemen spacers. After the pledge and singing the new Glover School song with the 3rd graders on youtube, Ms. Perroni read, The Cat in the Hat By: Dr. Seuss. She LOVES Dr. Seuss books because they have silly rhyming words and are so much fun to read, but mostly because the "Cat in the Hat" is the same age as she is ...58!! The kids practiced rhyming to the story. Then they did guided drawings of the Cat in the Hat and after drawing two, they chose one to paint for the hallway to kick off
March Madness Read-a-Thon next week and celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday!! During Snack they watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab on the smartboard. After Music and lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Trouble in the Barkers' Class
By: Tomie de Paola. Then they drew a picture and wrote about their favorite part of the story for response writing. After quiet time, we had Kindergarten Community Meeting. All the Kindergarten classes learned all the words to the new Glover School song. This great song was written by our 3rd graders with help from a singer/songwriter who was funded by a grant from the Friends of Marblehead Public Schools.
We ended our day with "CVC" words song on smartboard.
Day 101: Morning Work was working together on building structures out of 100 objects using: dominoes, legos, pattern blocks or stringing colored rings. After P.E. and snack/recess, they practiced writing upper and lower case letters using a "spaceman" spacer between sets of letters. For Reader's Workshop, they could read books of their choice in their book bags. For Go Math, we did Chapter 10 review of "positional words": between, next to, beside, above, over and under on the smartboard. Then they did the Chapter 10 assessment. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Somebody and The Three Blairs By: Marilyn Tolhurst. It's an opposite story of the Three Bears where a bear causes a mess in the Blair's house and it is one book they want us to read over and over again!!
Then they counted by 10's to 100 forward and backward and counted and danced to 100 by 2's. We ended our day using the ipads for RazKids and writing letters, numbers and words.
Then they counted by 10's to 100 forward and backward and counted and danced to 100 by 2's. We ended our day using the ipads for RazKids and writing letters, numbers and words.
Day 100: WOW!!! The 100th day of school already!!
Morning Work was making our "100 Days Smarter" crowns! At the Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Principal Ota announced the token challenge winners for each grade for good behavior throughout the school day (we are going to try harder for the next 2 weeks!). The MHS sports team captains and the high school Athletic Director gave great advice to our K-3 students about how to embrace sports they love and how to become a team captain by: 1. Listening and following the rules of coaches, teachers and parents
2. Do well in school
3. Be kind to others
4. Hard workers that are responsible and good leaders that are liked and admired by friends get voted to be
team captains by their peers.
We hope to see some of our current students come back to visit us as team captains when they're at MHS!!
After snack/recess, we had a great enrichment program, Bubbleology - all about the science of bubbles. You need water and trapped air to make all sizes and shapes of bubbles! Then Ms. Perroni read, The Wolf's Chicken Stew
By: Keiko Kasza and they wrote and illustrated their favorite part of the story. After lunch/recess and Library, we visited some of the portraits of Helen Keller, Einstein and President LIncoln on the way back to class.
Then they shared what they liked and learned at the Bubble presentation. Ms. Perroni read Lily's book, Good Night Yoga By: Miriam Gates and we did a few yoga poses. Then we shared our 100 objects and how we counted them to 100 (groups of 10, etc.). Mrs. Carroll read, How Many Jelly Beans? A Giant Book of Giant Numbers!!
By: Andrea Menotti because it showed one million jelly beans on huge fold out pages in the book!!
We ended the day making a 100 number collage and putting stamps into 10 ten frames to add up to 100.
OF COURSE, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 100th Day!!! Time is REALLY flying now - only 80 days left of school - hard to believe!!
Morning Work was making our "100 Days Smarter" crowns! At the Glover K-3 Community Meeting, Principal Ota announced the token challenge winners for each grade for good behavior throughout the school day (we are going to try harder for the next 2 weeks!). The MHS sports team captains and the high school Athletic Director gave great advice to our K-3 students about how to embrace sports they love and how to become a team captain by: 1. Listening and following the rules of coaches, teachers and parents
2. Do well in school
3. Be kind to others
4. Hard workers that are responsible and good leaders that are liked and admired by friends get voted to be
team captains by their peers.
We hope to see some of our current students come back to visit us as team captains when they're at MHS!!
After snack/recess, we had a great enrichment program, Bubbleology - all about the science of bubbles. You need water and trapped air to make all sizes and shapes of bubbles! Then Ms. Perroni read, The Wolf's Chicken Stew
By: Keiko Kasza and they wrote and illustrated their favorite part of the story. After lunch/recess and Library, we visited some of the portraits of Helen Keller, Einstein and President LIncoln on the way back to class.
Then they shared what they liked and learned at the Bubble presentation. Ms. Perroni read Lily's book, Good Night Yoga By: Miriam Gates and we did a few yoga poses. Then we shared our 100 objects and how we counted them to 100 (groups of 10, etc.). Mrs. Carroll read, How Many Jelly Beans? A Giant Book of Giant Numbers!!
By: Andrea Menotti because it showed one million jelly beans on huge fold out pages in the book!!
We ended the day making a 100 number collage and putting stamps into 10 ten frames to add up to 100.
OF COURSE, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 100th Day!!! Time is REALLY flying now - only 80 days left of school - hard to believe!!
Day 99: Ms. Perroni and I were SO HAPPY to see everyone back and rested from their winter week off :))
Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives: dominoes, geo boards, sorting, 3D shapes and pattern blocks.
Clare was a great teacher's helper! She chose our morning toe-tapping greeting to each other. Then we each shared one thing we did over vacation. For Writer's Workshop, they added one detail to their writing pieces. After snack/recess and Music, they finished their writing. Then they came up with some very good questions for the MHS captains of sports teams, who will be visiting Glover School community meeting tomorrow morning. During lunch/recess time, members of our class took turns jump roping for their hearts for the last day. We know our class will continue eating healthy snacks and exercising after Fit February ends because they all enjoy both as part of their every day life already! Then Ms. Perroni read, The 100th Day Worries By: Margery Cuyler. Your child can bring in 100 of a small item or not - NO WORRIES!! (not required).
Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives: dominoes, geo boards, sorting, 3D shapes and pattern blocks.
Clare was a great teacher's helper! She chose our morning toe-tapping greeting to each other. Then we each shared one thing we did over vacation. For Writer's Workshop, they added one detail to their writing pieces. After snack/recess and Music, they finished their writing. Then they came up with some very good questions for the MHS captains of sports teams, who will be visiting Glover School community meeting tomorrow morning. During lunch/recess time, members of our class took turns jump roping for their hearts for the last day. We know our class will continue eating healthy snacks and exercising after Fit February ends because they all enjoy both as part of their every day life already! Then Ms. Perroni read, The 100th Day Worries By: Margery Cuyler. Your child can bring in 100 of a small item or not - NO WORRIES!! (not required).
Day 98: HAVE a GREAT WINTER VACATION FEB. 15-19!!
Morning Work was coloring a little book, "Snowy Day" about what you can do on a snowy day. We had Yoga in the cafetorium to calm ourselves for Fun Friday. We were perfectly still for one minute, then we thought about loving ourselves and every part of our own bodies from our feet to legs to belly to back to arms and our faces! We sent out loving thoughts to everyone :)) During snack, we watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab on the smartboard about fruits, vegetables and a healthy heart! After snack, Trent's 3rd grade sister, Carley, read, Five Minutes Peace! (Hope you get this over vacation!) After P.E., Trent's mom was another surprise guest reader today! She read, The Night Before Valentine's Day By: Natasha Wing (great series of books).Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, We're in a Book By: Mo Willems with finger puppets of Piggy and Gerald. After lunch/recess and Art, they ended the day with a little quiet time. HAVE A WONDERFUL VACATION!!
Morning Work was coloring a little book, "Snowy Day" about what you can do on a snowy day. We had Yoga in the cafetorium to calm ourselves for Fun Friday. We were perfectly still for one minute, then we thought about loving ourselves and every part of our own bodies from our feet to legs to belly to back to arms and our faces! We sent out loving thoughts to everyone :)) During snack, we watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab on the smartboard about fruits, vegetables and a healthy heart! After snack, Trent's 3rd grade sister, Carley, read, Five Minutes Peace! (Hope you get this over vacation!) After P.E., Trent's mom was another surprise guest reader today! She read, The Night Before Valentine's Day By: Natasha Wing (great series of books).Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, We're in a Book By: Mo Willems with finger puppets of Piggy and Gerald. After lunch/recess and Art, they ended the day with a little quiet time. HAVE A WONDERFUL VACATION!!
Day 97: As the Beatles sang: "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE" :)) We started our day sharing the LOVE by enjoying breakfast and books with our families and stuffies by the "cozy fire" on the smartboard. Somehow, it really makes you feel warmer just looking at a roaring fire! Then we shared MORE LOVE with each other by passing out VALENTINES and having fun looking at all the different ones we received :)) After snack/recess, for Writer's Workshop, they could finish previous writing or start a new piece of work. After Music, Mrs. Carroll read, Foxy in Love By: Emma Dodd about making a valentine card for someone special you LOVE :)) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, How Full is Your Bucket? By: Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer about how doing nice things for other people, without being asked, fills their bucket and your bucket (because it makes you feel good too!). After quiet time we had Kindergarten Community Meeting. We did the Kindergarten Pledge, Ms. Mostyn read a valentine mystery. we talked about how to spread the LOVE outside of schoool (helping out at HOME), and did a Zumba exercise on the smartboard! We ended the day with Ms. Perroni reading, Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink By: Diane DeGroat about how to get along with everybody.
WE TRULY LOVE OUR ROOM #121 CLASS THIS YEAR :))
WE TRULY LOVE OUR ROOM #121 CLASS THIS YEAR :))
Day 96: Reminder: Tomorrow is our Valentine's Share the Love Breakfast! Your child can wear P.J.'s and bring a stuffie and you and siblings can bring breakfast to join us for reading books at 8:15. Please bring in valentine's for 15 students signed by your child. (no need to address, easier to pass out).
Morning Work was decorating their valentine's bags before leaving for our field trip at the PEM! We saw exhibits in the Double Happiness Gallery and then saw the real Chinese House they brought from China and rebuilt without any nails for the PEM. They saw how life in a house with no windows, electricity, plumbing or modern technology was for a family of 20-30 people!! After snack/recess, they finished decorating their bags and made placemats for Valentine Breakfast tomorrow. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Katy and the Big Snow By: Virginia Burton and then she read, The Snowy Day By: Ezra Jack Keats. They did a "text to self" connection worksheet about what Peter did in the snow and what they do like him in the snow. We ended the day with doing RazKids on the ipads and Mrs. Carroll read, Dragon Dance By: Joan Holub because I loved learning all about the Chinese New Year!!
Morning Work was decorating their valentine's bags before leaving for our field trip at the PEM! We saw exhibits in the Double Happiness Gallery and then saw the real Chinese House they brought from China and rebuilt without any nails for the PEM. They saw how life in a house with no windows, electricity, plumbing or modern technology was for a family of 20-30 people!! After snack/recess, they finished decorating their bags and made placemats for Valentine Breakfast tomorrow. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Katy and the Big Snow By: Virginia Burton and then she read, The Snowy Day By: Ezra Jack Keats. They did a "text to self" connection worksheet about what Peter did in the snow and what they do like him in the snow. We ended the day with doing RazKids on the ipads and Mrs. Carroll read, Dragon Dance By: Joan Holub because I loved learning all about the Chinese New Year!!
Day 95: Reminder: Tomorrow is our field trip to the Peabody Essex Museum to see the real Chinese house and exhibits. We'll be back in time for snack and school lunch.
Everyone looked great wearing RED today for healthy heart awareness and the Chinese New Year celebration!
Morning Work was coloring a monkey for "Year of the Monkey"! At Glover School K-3 Community Meeting,
Mr. Fargo said that Jump rope for heart started today. Then K-3 students watched a movie about a young dinosaur's first visit to the dentist. After the movie, a special visitor, the "Tooth Fairy" explained how important it is to brush and floss twice a day and eat healthy fruits and vegetables to keep our teeth healthy. She also gave all students a wonderful goodie bag filled with stickers, coloring book, toothbrush, floss and toothpaste! Our class was the first ones on the playground "full of snow" this morning. They had so much fun playing in the snow :))
At snack we watched more of the video Big Bird in China. He found the Great Wall of China! Our whole class did an amazing "teamwork" job of making an AMAZING super long Dragon/Lion for our Dragon Dance through the hall. GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! Happy New Year! Year of the Monkey! and May you Prosper! Then we played a Chinese number game, NIM, with fifteen popsicle sticks. Directions were sent home to play with 2 people at home.
Then we used rhythm sticks to tap out the Chinese zodiac animal syllables to the beat. Directions went home today to show you. Everyone ate lunch together in our room after a quick lesson on eating with chopsticks! They took home their chopsticks and a "RED ENVELOPE" with a coin in it for GOOD LUCK! (they get these red envelopes in China for New Year's good luck). After lunch/recess and Library, we finished watching Big Bird's trip to China video. WHEW! What a busy, FUN day!!
Everyone looked great wearing RED today for healthy heart awareness and the Chinese New Year celebration!
Morning Work was coloring a monkey for "Year of the Monkey"! At Glover School K-3 Community Meeting,
Mr. Fargo said that Jump rope for heart started today. Then K-3 students watched a movie about a young dinosaur's first visit to the dentist. After the movie, a special visitor, the "Tooth Fairy" explained how important it is to brush and floss twice a day and eat healthy fruits and vegetables to keep our teeth healthy. She also gave all students a wonderful goodie bag filled with stickers, coloring book, toothbrush, floss and toothpaste! Our class was the first ones on the playground "full of snow" this morning. They had so much fun playing in the snow :))
At snack we watched more of the video Big Bird in China. He found the Great Wall of China! Our whole class did an amazing "teamwork" job of making an AMAZING super long Dragon/Lion for our Dragon Dance through the hall. GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! Happy New Year! Year of the Monkey! and May you Prosper! Then we played a Chinese number game, NIM, with fifteen popsicle sticks. Directions were sent home to play with 2 people at home.
Then we used rhythm sticks to tap out the Chinese zodiac animal syllables to the beat. Directions went home today to show you. Everyone ate lunch together in our room after a quick lesson on eating with chopsticks! They took home their chopsticks and a "RED ENVELOPE" with a coin in it for GOOD LUCK! (they get these red envelopes in China for New Year's good luck). After lunch/recess and Library, we finished watching Big Bird's trip to China video. WHEW! What a busy, FUN day!!
Day 94: Reminder: If your child wears RED tomorrow for American Heart Association Awareness Day, they will get a heart token! (not required).
Morning Work was coloring and tracing words in a little Chinese New Year book. Then we really worked as a whole team to paint and make the head and body parts for our HUGE Dragon for our Dragon Dance parade on Monday for Chinese New Year! We had a picnic snack while we watched "BIg Bird in China" video on the smartboard. They saw Tai Chi and learned how to say: hello, goodbye and I love you in Chinese! After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll
read, Happy New Year! By: Kung-HsiFa-Ts'ai. We learned more about the 15 day long Chinese New Year celebration that always happens in Jan. or Feb. They prepare by doing their house spring cleaning and spring plantings and then enjoy feasting, Dragon dancing parades, lantern festivals and fireworks! After Music, we did guided leveled reading groups. (Thanks for reading the books with your child and returning them the next day). After lunch/recess, they did Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star in Chinese with rhythm sticks in the hallway and we practiced our lion/dragon dance in the hall. We counted by 5's around the perimeter of the rug. They partnered up to make "High Fives" to 100 and we ended our day with 3 different math worksheets doing addition math sentences and tally mark addition.
Morning Work was coloring and tracing words in a little Chinese New Year book. Then we really worked as a whole team to paint and make the head and body parts for our HUGE Dragon for our Dragon Dance parade on Monday for Chinese New Year! We had a picnic snack while we watched "BIg Bird in China" video on the smartboard. They saw Tai Chi and learned how to say: hello, goodbye and I love you in Chinese! After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll
read, Happy New Year! By: Kung-HsiFa-Ts'ai. We learned more about the 15 day long Chinese New Year celebration that always happens in Jan. or Feb. They prepare by doing their house spring cleaning and spring plantings and then enjoy feasting, Dragon dancing parades, lantern festivals and fireworks! After Music, we did guided leveled reading groups. (Thanks for reading the books with your child and returning them the next day). After lunch/recess, they did Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star in Chinese with rhythm sticks in the hallway and we practiced our lion/dragon dance in the hall. We counted by 5's around the perimeter of the rug. They partnered up to make "High Fives" to 100 and we ended our day with 3 different math worksheets doing addition math sentences and tally mark addition.
Day 93: Everyone wore a different favorite sports shirt today - GREAT Sports Spirit Day :))
After Morning Work Book Look with leveled books and P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Amelia was a great teacher's helper. She did calendar, weather and sight words. Then Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 8:
Identifying Anger (no homework this week). We talked about different situations that make us feel angry, mad or frustrated. We came up with ideas to help us calm ourselves down when we're upset about something:
1. Take a breath
2. Sit still for a minute and close your eyes
3. Exercise or do something you enjoy to get your mind off of the upsetting situation
4. Talk to someone about it.
(Same ideas for how to stop worrying about a situation that makes you anxious!)
Then we sang our "Feelings" song - "you see them on your faces, feel them in your body and say them with your voices" - "How you know the way you feel!"
At snack time, everyone earned their first healthy choice token for eating a fresh fruit and/or vegetable. We're putting their tokens for Fit Feb. on a ring on their snack lunchboxes. Then we did counting to 10 in Chinese, Tricky Teen song and counting by 5's exercise song with Jack Hartman on the smartboard. Then Ms. Perroni read
a non-fiction book about celebrating Chinese New Year traditions in Chinatown, NY, Lion Dancer By: Kate Waters.
All about music, feasting, long Lion or Dragon dance parade through town, fireworks and red envelopes with money for good luck!! For Fundations, we spelled "cvc" words with magnetic tiles and then sang the BIG PIG song.
we did " -at" rhyming words on the smartboard and made an " -ed" family rhyming words bracelet. Before lunch/recess, they had their well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time. After recess, Ms. Perroni read a Cinderella story from China, Yeh-Shen Retold By: Ai-Ling-Louie. They discovered what was the same and different in the two versions of the same story. Then they made Chinese New Year Dragon puppets. We ended our day
with ipads for Razkids.
After Morning Work Book Look with leveled books and P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Amelia was a great teacher's helper. She did calendar, weather and sight words. Then Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 8:
Identifying Anger (no homework this week). We talked about different situations that make us feel angry, mad or frustrated. We came up with ideas to help us calm ourselves down when we're upset about something:
1. Take a breath
2. Sit still for a minute and close your eyes
3. Exercise or do something you enjoy to get your mind off of the upsetting situation
4. Talk to someone about it.
(Same ideas for how to stop worrying about a situation that makes you anxious!)
Then we sang our "Feelings" song - "you see them on your faces, feel them in your body and say them with your voices" - "How you know the way you feel!"
At snack time, everyone earned their first healthy choice token for eating a fresh fruit and/or vegetable. We're putting their tokens for Fit Feb. on a ring on their snack lunchboxes. Then we did counting to 10 in Chinese, Tricky Teen song and counting by 5's exercise song with Jack Hartman on the smartboard. Then Ms. Perroni read
a non-fiction book about celebrating Chinese New Year traditions in Chinatown, NY, Lion Dancer By: Kate Waters.
All about music, feasting, long Lion or Dragon dance parade through town, fireworks and red envelopes with money for good luck!! For Fundations, we spelled "cvc" words with magnetic tiles and then sang the BIG PIG song.
we did " -at" rhyming words on the smartboard and made an " -ed" family rhyming words bracelet. Before lunch/recess, they had their well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time. After recess, Ms. Perroni read a Cinderella story from China, Yeh-Shen Retold By: Ai-Ling-Louie. They discovered what was the same and different in the two versions of the same story. Then they made Chinese New Year Dragon puppets. We ended our day
with ipads for Razkids.
Day 92: Reminders: Scholastic Book Order due tomorrow (not required).
Your child can wear a favorite professional team shirt or his own favorite sports team shirt or Marblehead colors red & black tomorrow for Sports Spirit Day tomorrow (not required).
Tallying for healthy snacks will start tomorrow for Fit February and Principal Ota will be checking for healthy lunches in the lunchroom.
We watched Punxsutawney Phil on the smartboard tell us our prediction for early spring was the winner because he didn't see his shadow this morning in PA! YAY!!! For Morning Work, they rolled a dice and colored parts of a
groundhog. At Glover School Community Meeting, Principal Ota announced the K-3 token challenge winners for safe, responsible and respectful behavior. Nurse Dawn and Ms. Doben showed K-3 students how to be good food detectives when they go food shopping with you. They learned to look at the list of ingredients and not be fooled by the attractive packaging to see if the first ingredient (the most) is healthy fruit, vegetable, protein, grain or dairy vs. sugar or fat. After Community Meeting, we did some exercise to Go Noodle Cha Cha Zumba! After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Go to Sleep, Groundhog! By: Judy Cox about a groundhog that couldn't fall asleep when he should've been hibernating in his burrow. Then they colored a little "Phil the Groundhog" book and highlighted the sight words. We did guided leveled reading groups. We did Morning Meeting before lunch. Anna was a great teacher's helper. After lunch/recess and LIbrary (proud to say that everyone in our class has been awarded the Student of the Week pencil for Library!), Ms. Perroni read, Interrupting Chicken By: David Stein. For team building, they told a story with different picture cards and you had to continue the story line with whatever picture card you got. The story started with a rain forest frog named Bugsy and ended with Trent saying all the characters in the story were just toys! We ended our day with some free choice time.
Your child can wear a favorite professional team shirt or his own favorite sports team shirt or Marblehead colors red & black tomorrow for Sports Spirit Day tomorrow (not required).
Tallying for healthy snacks will start tomorrow for Fit February and Principal Ota will be checking for healthy lunches in the lunchroom.
We watched Punxsutawney Phil on the smartboard tell us our prediction for early spring was the winner because he didn't see his shadow this morning in PA! YAY!!! For Morning Work, they rolled a dice and colored parts of a
groundhog. At Glover School Community Meeting, Principal Ota announced the K-3 token challenge winners for safe, responsible and respectful behavior. Nurse Dawn and Ms. Doben showed K-3 students how to be good food detectives when they go food shopping with you. They learned to look at the list of ingredients and not be fooled by the attractive packaging to see if the first ingredient (the most) is healthy fruit, vegetable, protein, grain or dairy vs. sugar or fat. After Community Meeting, we did some exercise to Go Noodle Cha Cha Zumba! After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Go to Sleep, Groundhog! By: Judy Cox about a groundhog that couldn't fall asleep when he should've been hibernating in his burrow. Then they colored a little "Phil the Groundhog" book and highlighted the sight words. We did guided leveled reading groups. We did Morning Meeting before lunch. Anna was a great teacher's helper. After lunch/recess and LIbrary (proud to say that everyone in our class has been awarded the Student of the Week pencil for Library!), Ms. Perroni read, Interrupting Chicken By: David Stein. For team building, they told a story with different picture cards and you had to continue the story line with whatever picture card you got. The story started with a rain forest frog named Bugsy and ended with Trent saying all the characters in the story were just toys! We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 91: Reminder: For Fit February, we will earn tally marks for every healthy snack (fresh fruit and/or vegetable) our students eat. (not required) We will start tallying on Wed. Feb. 3rd.
Morning Work was coloring, cutting & gluing 3D shape little books. At Morning Meeting, Valentina was a great teacher's helper. We made a prediction of if the Groundhog will see his shadow or not tomorrow -
9 people said YES and 8 people said NO. We counted to 5's and 10's in an exercise mode! We learned a Groundhog poem and new February Maurice Sendak poem. We did math sentences that showed if you add 0
to any number, it will equal that number! Stays the same! In Music, Amelia, Drew and Andy were recognized for doing solos. After Music, they watched a video about a real groundhog on the smartboard. For Go Math,
they learned positional terms i.e.: over, under, beside, next to, top, bottom, etc. and they sang the tricky teen song.
For Weekend News they worked on spacing between words. After lunch/recess, they finished Weekend News.
Ms. Perroni read, Lon PoPo By: Ed Young (a red-riding hood story from China) and Chinese New Year By: David Marx. After a nice extra time outdoors, we ended the day with quiet time.
Morning Work was coloring, cutting & gluing 3D shape little books. At Morning Meeting, Valentina was a great teacher's helper. We made a prediction of if the Groundhog will see his shadow or not tomorrow -
9 people said YES and 8 people said NO. We counted to 5's and 10's in an exercise mode! We learned a Groundhog poem and new February Maurice Sendak poem. We did math sentences that showed if you add 0
to any number, it will equal that number! Stays the same! In Music, Amelia, Drew and Andy were recognized for doing solos. After Music, they watched a video about a real groundhog on the smartboard. For Go Math,
they learned positional terms i.e.: over, under, beside, next to, top, bottom, etc. and they sang the tricky teen song.
For Weekend News they worked on spacing between words. After lunch/recess, they finished Weekend News.
Ms. Perroni read, Lon PoPo By: Ed Young (a red-riding hood story from China) and Chinese New Year By: David Marx. After a nice extra time outdoors, we ended the day with quiet time.
Day 90: Morning Work was coloring different shapes worksheet. Then Ms. Perroni explained that half of something has to be the same size as the other half to be an equal half! She read, Eating Fractions
By: Bruce McMillan. Then they drew a line of symmetry to make each of their shapes equal halves.
Our class visited Ms. Yanow this morning, so she could get to know everyone better and her class visited Ms. Perroni. Everyone shared one of their favorite things they have done in the first half of their kindergarten year.
"These are a few of our favorite things ..."
Finn & Drew - Sitting at the special tables in the cafeteria
Trent - Earning tokens
Grafton - Lunch time
Luke & Matteo - Field trips
Andy - Earning Rocky the Lobster
Shane - Go Noodle song & dance
Leila - Art projects
Isaiah - Reading books
Elise - Art Class
Clare - MY TEACHERS :))
Anna - House Tours
Valentina - Fizzy's Lunch Lab at Snack time
Amelia - Puppy, Snail and Bunny puppets for Second Step lessons
Then we all did Zumba together on the smartboard.
Before snack/recess, they cut out their shapes and made a half year crown. We had a picnic snack time on the rug and watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab (Valentina's favorite) to learn about healthy food choices!
Before P.E., they finished their crowns. After P.E., Ms. Perroni led a rhythm stick activity to the tune of
"Mother Gooney Bird" in the hall. After lunch/recess and Art, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 90th Day!
Can't believe we are half way through this Kindergarten Year!!! We ended our day playing Chinese
ping-pong and Chinese jump rope. What a FANTASTIC FUN FRIDAY :)) Have a great weekend :))
By: Bruce McMillan. Then they drew a line of symmetry to make each of their shapes equal halves.
Our class visited Ms. Yanow this morning, so she could get to know everyone better and her class visited Ms. Perroni. Everyone shared one of their favorite things they have done in the first half of their kindergarten year.
"These are a few of our favorite things ..."
Finn & Drew - Sitting at the special tables in the cafeteria
Trent - Earning tokens
Grafton - Lunch time
Luke & Matteo - Field trips
Andy - Earning Rocky the Lobster
Shane - Go Noodle song & dance
Leila - Art projects
Isaiah - Reading books
Elise - Art Class
Clare - MY TEACHERS :))
Anna - House Tours
Valentina - Fizzy's Lunch Lab at Snack time
Amelia - Puppy, Snail and Bunny puppets for Second Step lessons
Then we all did Zumba together on the smartboard.
Before snack/recess, they cut out their shapes and made a half year crown. We had a picnic snack time on the rug and watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab (Valentina's favorite) to learn about healthy food choices!
Before P.E., they finished their crowns. After P.E., Ms. Perroni led a rhythm stick activity to the tune of
"Mother Gooney Bird" in the hall. After lunch/recess and Art, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 90th Day!
Can't believe we are half way through this Kindergarten Year!!! We ended our day playing Chinese
ping-pong and Chinese jump rope. What a FANTASTIC FUN FRIDAY :)) Have a great weekend :))
Day 89: Reminder: Tomorrow is the 90th Day of School! Please have your child wear half and half outfits and bring a half and half snack! (not required)
Morning Work was coloring a fun fact China little book and they added one fact they've learned themselves on the last page. We read the book all together. At Morning Meeting, Finn was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, cvc words with tapping, sight words and 3D shapes. For Go Math - we used red and blue cubes to solve addition math problems that were horizontal sentences and vertical math sentences. After snack/recess,
Mrs. Carroll read Dashing Through the Snow. In Music, Lily, Isaiah, Finn and Leila got recognized for singing solos today. After Music, they did Go Math worksheets for Lesson 10.6 Problem Solving - Two and Three Dimensional Shapes. After lunch/recess, we did more guided level reading groups. Then they did addition problem sentences on their whiteboards and learned about tally marks. Then we sang the count by 5's song. We ended our day with
Kindergarten Community Meeting. Ms. Perroni read, Tiki Tiki Tambu and showed everyone her slides of her trip to China and Tibet. We shared what our class has been learning all about CHINA :))
Morning Work was coloring a fun fact China little book and they added one fact they've learned themselves on the last page. We read the book all together. At Morning Meeting, Finn was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, cvc words with tapping, sight words and 3D shapes. For Go Math - we used red and blue cubes to solve addition math problems that were horizontal sentences and vertical math sentences. After snack/recess,
Mrs. Carroll read Dashing Through the Snow. In Music, Lily, Isaiah, Finn and Leila got recognized for singing solos today. After Music, they did Go Math worksheets for Lesson 10.6 Problem Solving - Two and Three Dimensional Shapes. After lunch/recess, we did more guided level reading groups. Then they did addition problem sentences on their whiteboards and learned about tally marks. Then we sang the count by 5's song. We ended our day with
Kindergarten Community Meeting. Ms. Perroni read, Tiki Tiki Tambu and showed everyone her slides of her trip to China and Tibet. We shared what our class has been learning all about CHINA :))
Day 88: Morning Work was Book Look with leveled books. After P.E., Mrs. Carroll did Second Step Lesson 7: More Feelings about Empathy. We shared some of our "I'm happy when ____" writer's workshop stories to see what situations make us feel happy :) Then they looked at a picture of a girl "interested" in something her friend was telling her. Lily noticed it made the girl happy if they liked to talk about similar interests. Matteo noticed the girl's eyes were focused on her friend and she was listening. Then they looked at a picture of a boy that looked "scared" to go down a pole from the top of a playground structure. Notice if your child can identify their own feelings or other people's feelings in certain situations, i.e. happy, sad, surprised, interested and scared). No homework for this lesson. After snack/recess, we did a few guided leveled reading groups and Morning Meeting. Then they used new whiteboards to write "cvc" words and sentences with a period at the end. Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, The Pet Dragon By: Christoph Niemann. Each page showed Chinese characters for different words in the story. Then they took 3D shapes with a partner and sorted their shapes into two groups. They chose to sort by color or shape, flat side or no flat side. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
By: Arnold Lobel. We ended our day with Ipad time for RazKids and then we acted out Anna's story,"The Skating Adventure" and Luke's story, "The Magic Jet".
By: Arnold Lobel. We ended our day with Ipad time for RazKids and then we acted out Anna's story,"The Skating Adventure" and Luke's story, "The Magic Jet".
Day 87: Morning Work was tracing Chinese characters for numbers 1-10. At Glover K-3 Community Meeting some older students demonstrated different jump roping skills to help kick off our annual Glover School Fit February. Mr. Fargo, a representative from the American Heart Association and Nurse Dawn explained how important daily exercise, healthy nutrition (eat 5 fruits & vegetables/day), good sleep habits and drinking lots of water help to keep our hearts, bodies and minds strong and healthy :)) During the month of February our class will be tallying how many fresh fruits and vegetables they eat at snack time (maximum two/person) (not required). More information will come home regarding Jump Rope for Heart and Eating Healthy. (raising funds for American Heart Association is voluntary). After snack/recess, Kindergarten and Grade 1 enjoyed an enrichment program, Wingmasters. Jim Park has been sharing his rescued, handicapped birds of prey with students for 20 years. They were able to learn about falcons, hawks and owls up close and they were a great respectful audience for the whole hour :))
Before lunch/recess, we had Morning Meeting. Valentina was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, 3D shapes, letter sounds, Jan. poem, number sentences and digraphs. Then they started their well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. After lunch/recess and Library, they did an owl "torn paper" art project.
Before lunch/recess, we had Morning Meeting. Valentina was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, 3D shapes, letter sounds, Jan. poem, number sentences and digraphs. Then they started their well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. After lunch/recess and Library, they did an owl "torn paper" art project.
Day 86: Morning Work was finishing their Good Luck Chinese characters and poking holes in the paper to shine the light through it. At Morning Meeting we did calendar, weather, 3D shapes, count to ten in Chinese and went over digraphs "sh", "th", "ch" and "ing". We did the exercise Cowboy Dance. We did Yoga for Mindful Monday. They have learned different yoga poses and then we ended with a meditation story where we took off in our own spaceship and saw the Earth get smaller and smaller and went past the moon and back to Earth and landed back home safely! In Music, the following students were recognized for singing solos today: Grafton, Elise, Trent and Clare. We did the 3D Shape song on the smartboard. For Weekend News, they could write about one thing that happened over the weekend: Pats lost :( It snowed :) We shared what we like to do on a snowy day. Ms. Perroni read, What Can We Do in Winter? By: Caroline Hutchinson. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Something Good By: Robert Munsch. After quiet time, Mrs. Carroll read a few books about owls and owlets and then we went "owling" VERY QUIETLY through Glover School until we heard the sound of an owl in the cafetorium!! Tomorrow they will see and learn about REAL Owls thanks to a great enrichment program sponsored by the PTO called
Wingmasters. We ended our day with free choice time.
Wingmasters. We ended our day with free choice time.
Day 85: It was great to see everyone wearing Patriot's colors today!! GO PATS!! For Morning Work we did an exercise video on the smartboard to get in physical shape like the Patriots! After a morning greeting they acted out Clare's story in "theater in the round" about her dad making a fire and then they went to school and made a snowman with friends and played snowdogs at recess. Our class visited Ms. Mostyn and Ms. Perroni read to Mrs. Thomas' class this morning, so the Kindergarten teachers could get to know everyone better. We did a fun
greeting "____________ is here today! Today is going to be a great day because ________ is here today!" and then we played "Who's the Boss?" which is a really fun game. You guess who is changing the motions we all are doing in a circle. Isaiah's mom was a guest reader before snack/recess. She read, A Library Book for Bear By: Bonny Becker.
Then we acted out Andy's story about the magic race car that turned real and it couldn't stop! We did Morning
Meeting speedy quick! Elise was a great teacher's helper. She did calendar, weather, sight words and we did
3D shapes and our January poem. After snack/recess, we counted to 100 by ones to exercise our bodies and minds :)) Then we counted by 10's forward and backward to and from 100. Then we counted by twos to different dances to 100. Jack Hartman on the smartboard is great!! After P.E., for Go Math we did 3D shapes - a flat surface on the shape is called a "face". They identified how many "faces" are on different 3D shapes. Then they identified 3D shapes on the smartboard. After lunch/recess and Art, Ms. Perroni read, The Seven Chinese Brothers
By: Margaret Mahy. We ended our day with coloring the symbol for "GOOD LUCK" and used push pins to have the light shine through their picture. Have a wonderful weekend :))
greeting "____________ is here today! Today is going to be a great day because ________ is here today!" and then we played "Who's the Boss?" which is a really fun game. You guess who is changing the motions we all are doing in a circle. Isaiah's mom was a guest reader before snack/recess. She read, A Library Book for Bear By: Bonny Becker.
Then we acted out Andy's story about the magic race car that turned real and it couldn't stop! We did Morning
Meeting speedy quick! Elise was a great teacher's helper. She did calendar, weather, sight words and we did
3D shapes and our January poem. After snack/recess, we counted to 100 by ones to exercise our bodies and minds :)) Then we counted by 10's forward and backward to and from 100. Then we counted by twos to different dances to 100. Jack Hartman on the smartboard is great!! After P.E., for Go Math we did 3D shapes - a flat surface on the shape is called a "face". They identified how many "faces" are on different 3D shapes. Then they identified 3D shapes on the smartboard. After lunch/recess and Art, Ms. Perroni read, The Seven Chinese Brothers
By: Margaret Mahy. We ended our day with coloring the symbol for "GOOD LUCK" and used push pins to have the light shine through their picture. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Day 84: Reminder: Have your child wear Patriot's gear or red & blue tomorrow for Spirit Day!! (not required)
Morning Work was roll a dice and write the sight word. In honor of Anna's birthday, her mom was a guest reader this morning! She read, Rosie Revere the Engineer By: Andrea Beaty. At Morning Meeting, Isaiah was a great teacher's helper. He did calendar, weather, a number sentence and then we described how 3D shapes are different than 2D shapes. We sang the 3D shape song on the smartboard which showed lots of examples of spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes and pyramids. Try to see if your child can find some 3D objects at home!
Then we sang the days of the week song. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Please, Mr. Panda By: Steve Antony all about being polite and saying "please and thank you". Then Mrs. Carroll read, Owl Moon By: Jane Yolen all about "owling" on winter's night with a full moon to help find and hear owls in the woods. Grafton and Trent are taking an "owl class" after school right now. In Music, Luke, Anna, Shane and Valentina received awards for singing a "solo" in music class today :)) Before lunch/recess, we had a morning greeting. Isaiah chose to have everyone say hello in Japanese (sounded like ohio) and do a toe touch greeting. Then Ms. Perroni read Elise's story about two elves disappearing at her house. After recess, they acted out Elise's story. After quiet time, Ms. Perroni read,
A true book CHINA By: Ann Heinrichs and D is for Dragon Dance By: Ying Chang Compestine. We ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting.
Morning Work was roll a dice and write the sight word. In honor of Anna's birthday, her mom was a guest reader this morning! She read, Rosie Revere the Engineer By: Andrea Beaty. At Morning Meeting, Isaiah was a great teacher's helper. He did calendar, weather, a number sentence and then we described how 3D shapes are different than 2D shapes. We sang the 3D shape song on the smartboard which showed lots of examples of spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes and pyramids. Try to see if your child can find some 3D objects at home!
Then we sang the days of the week song. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Please, Mr. Panda By: Steve Antony all about being polite and saying "please and thank you". Then Mrs. Carroll read, Owl Moon By: Jane Yolen all about "owling" on winter's night with a full moon to help find and hear owls in the woods. Grafton and Trent are taking an "owl class" after school right now. In Music, Luke, Anna, Shane and Valentina received awards for singing a "solo" in music class today :)) Before lunch/recess, we had a morning greeting. Isaiah chose to have everyone say hello in Japanese (sounded like ohio) and do a toe touch greeting. Then Ms. Perroni read Elise's story about two elves disappearing at her house. After recess, they acted out Elise's story. After quiet time, Ms. Perroni read,
A true book CHINA By: Ann Heinrichs and D is for Dragon Dance By: Ying Chang Compestine. We ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting.
Day 83: Morning Work was Book Look of leveled books before P.E. After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Clare was a great teacher's helper today. She did calendar, weather, sight words and we learned a new digraph (two letters that make one sound), "ch" for China! They came up with lots of "ch" words!! We counted to 10 in Chinese and learned 2 Chinese nursery rhymes. Ms. Perroni put lots of interesting items around the room from China:
tea set, rice bowls, chop sticks, Chinese hat, newspaper, fan abacus, doll and tangrams. After snack/recess, for
Go Math we did the assessment for Chapter 12 on Classify and Sort Data. Then we tapped "cvc" words and used our magnetic tiles to make words. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about one thing, person or place that makes them HAPPY :)) Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll started Social Skills Unit 2: Empathy Lesson 6: Feelings. Learning to recognize your own feelings and feelings of others through physical/emotional cues helps us to all get along and help each other to feel better and comfortable. They did Think, Turn and Tell to share what makes them happy with a partner. Amelia showed with her face and body how someone looks when they are happy or sad.
We listened to the new "Feelings" song. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni finished reading, I Really Like Slop
By: Mo Willems. After quiet time, Ms. Perroni read Leila's story about the whole class going on a rocket ship to Pluto. They all acted it out together. We ended the day with Ms. Perroni reading a non-fiction book, A Visit to China By: Peter Roop and a fiction story, The Magic Fan By: Keith Baker. Then they all got to decorate their very
own fan made of bamboo and paper!!
tea set, rice bowls, chop sticks, Chinese hat, newspaper, fan abacus, doll and tangrams. After snack/recess, for
Go Math we did the assessment for Chapter 12 on Classify and Sort Data. Then we tapped "cvc" words and used our magnetic tiles to make words. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about one thing, person or place that makes them HAPPY :)) Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll started Social Skills Unit 2: Empathy Lesson 6: Feelings. Learning to recognize your own feelings and feelings of others through physical/emotional cues helps us to all get along and help each other to feel better and comfortable. They did Think, Turn and Tell to share what makes them happy with a partner. Amelia showed with her face and body how someone looks when they are happy or sad.
We listened to the new "Feelings" song. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni finished reading, I Really Like Slop
By: Mo Willems. After quiet time, Ms. Perroni read Leila's story about the whole class going on a rocket ship to Pluto. They all acted it out together. We ended the day with Ms. Perroni reading a non-fiction book, A Visit to China By: Peter Roop and a fiction story, The Magic Fan By: Keith Baker. Then they all got to decorate their very
own fan made of bamboo and paper!!
Day 82: Reminder: Tomorrow is Domino's Pizza day. Please send in boots and snowpants (label with name) in a waterproof bag on snowy days. We usually go out for recess, unless it is cancelled due to frigid temperatures. Your child will not be allowed to play in the snow without boots and snowpants, hat and waterproof mittens or gloves are best for not getting soaked.
Morning Work was roll the dice, add the numbers and color the winter hats. At the Glover Community Meeting,
Prinicipal Ota announced the winners for each grade level for the respectful behavior token challenge. Then we were all treated to a wonderful Grade 3 fine arts Winter Concert performance! It included beautiful winter scene artwork in the cafetorium, many different types of percussion instruments played by students, folk dancing and most of all beautiful singing voices :)) After snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting, our teacher's helper was absent today, so Ms. Perroni did calendar, weather, sight words, letter sounds, tapping cvc words, count by two's and we learned to count to 10 in Chinese with a woman from China on the smartboard - very hard to learn!
(sent home a list of the characters and words for numbers 1-10 in Chinese - not required to learn!) For Go Math, we did math sentences with shapes on the smartboard. For reading new words, we went over how to sound the word out, skip it or look at the pictures to figure out the word. For Reader's Workshop, they read 1 China book,
1 leveled book and 1 book of their choice. We also did guided leveled reading groups. Afterwards, they shared what they read about China or wondered about China. Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a Chinese story about Chinese characters for words that like pictures. They guessed what word the Chinese character looked like.
The book is In the Snow By: Huy Voun Lee. For Weekend News, they wrote about one thing they did over the long weekend after we shared our stories with each other. After lunch/recess and Library, Ms. Perroni read Amelia's Weekend News story to the class and then we chose volunteers to act out her story about skiing with her dad.
Then Ms. Perroni read Lily's story and the acted out Lily and her friends making hallah bread together. Then
Ms. Perroni finished reading, In the Snow. We ended our day with a short free choice time. Whew! Back in full swing :))
Morning Work was roll the dice, add the numbers and color the winter hats. At the Glover Community Meeting,
Prinicipal Ota announced the winners for each grade level for the respectful behavior token challenge. Then we were all treated to a wonderful Grade 3 fine arts Winter Concert performance! It included beautiful winter scene artwork in the cafetorium, many different types of percussion instruments played by students, folk dancing and most of all beautiful singing voices :)) After snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting, our teacher's helper was absent today, so Ms. Perroni did calendar, weather, sight words, letter sounds, tapping cvc words, count by two's and we learned to count to 10 in Chinese with a woman from China on the smartboard - very hard to learn!
(sent home a list of the characters and words for numbers 1-10 in Chinese - not required to learn!) For Go Math, we did math sentences with shapes on the smartboard. For reading new words, we went over how to sound the word out, skip it or look at the pictures to figure out the word. For Reader's Workshop, they read 1 China book,
1 leveled book and 1 book of their choice. We also did guided leveled reading groups. Afterwards, they shared what they read about China or wondered about China. Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a Chinese story about Chinese characters for words that like pictures. They guessed what word the Chinese character looked like.
The book is In the Snow By: Huy Voun Lee. For Weekend News, they wrote about one thing they did over the long weekend after we shared our stories with each other. After lunch/recess and Library, Ms. Perroni read Amelia's Weekend News story to the class and then we chose volunteers to act out her story about skiing with her dad.
Then Ms. Perroni read Lily's story and the acted out Lily and her friends making hallah bread together. Then
Ms. Perroni finished reading, In the Snow. We ended our day with a short free choice time. Whew! Back in full swing :))
Day 81: Reminder: No School on Monday, Jan. 18th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our class showed great team spirit to help the PATRIOTS win tomorrow!! Morning Work was free choice time from 10 well-earned Brownie Points! At Morning Meeting, Leila was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, letter sounds, sight words, sang Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King, Jr. and did our January poem. We did the count and dance by Two's song. Mrs. Thomas' class visited our class to hear Ms. Perroni's true story about her trip to CO to climb Mt. Evans with her daughter and son-in-law. They made it to the top of the mountain even though she was afraid of heights! She did it!! It started to hail and the Ranger wouldn't let them hike down. Someone drove them down and they saw a rainbow below them on the way down! It was her BEST DAY EVER! Then a few students acted out the story and Principal Ota was in the audience! We will do this again with students' telling their stories. At snack, they had a picnic on the rug and watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab. Then they finished their snowmen watercolor paintings and had free painting time. After P.E., they had Reader's Workshop. After
lunch/recess and Art, they used the ipad app Writing Wizard to trace sight words. We ended our Fun Friday with a short free choice time. Have a wonderful LONG weekend :))
Our class showed great team spirit to help the PATRIOTS win tomorrow!! Morning Work was free choice time from 10 well-earned Brownie Points! At Morning Meeting, Leila was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, letter sounds, sight words, sang Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King, Jr. and did our January poem. We did the count and dance by Two's song. Mrs. Thomas' class visited our class to hear Ms. Perroni's true story about her trip to CO to climb Mt. Evans with her daughter and son-in-law. They made it to the top of the mountain even though she was afraid of heights! She did it!! It started to hail and the Ranger wouldn't let them hike down. Someone drove them down and they saw a rainbow below them on the way down! It was her BEST DAY EVER! Then a few students acted out the story and Principal Ota was in the audience! We will do this again with students' telling their stories. At snack, they had a picnic on the rug and watched Fizzy's Lunch Lab. Then they finished their snowmen watercolor paintings and had free painting time. After P.E., they had Reader's Workshop. After
lunch/recess and Art, they used the ipad app Writing Wizard to trace sight words. We ended our Fun Friday with a short free choice time. Have a wonderful LONG weekend :))
Day 80: Reminder: Tomorrow is PATRIOTS SPIRIT DAY! Please have your child wear red & blue or Patriots gear! Also, tomorrow is the last day for the 3rd Grade Brownie Book Drive. Thanks for all the great books that students have donated for other children to read :))
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in a little book, Snow Friends. Before Morning Meeting,
Ms. Perroni showed on the smartboard how to read Snow Friends by doing a picture walk first to see what you think the story is about and then use your pointer finger to try to sound out each word. Then we did count by Two's action song. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, recorded first snow day of the year and they came up with questions about what they want to know about China. After recess, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 80th day of school! Time flies when we're having fun :)) After snack, Ms. Perroni read a Chinese folk tale, Two of Everything By: Lily Toy Hong and the students visualized the illustrations in their heads. They had to think of the problem that might happen with the pot that makes two of everything and how to solve the problem. We did guided leveled reading groups and your child brought home one or two books to read to you. Please return the books in the baggie tomorrow. Before lunch, we did RazKids on the smartboard. Drew read "Applesauce" and answered all the questions at the end about the story right :)) After recess & quiet time, Mrs. Thomas told a story and both classes acted it out. For Kindergarten Community Meeting, we went over rules for two finger tag at recess, did a button factory action song and we all did our January poem together. We ended our day with
Ms. Perroni reading, Tiki Tiki Tambo By: Arlene Mosel . Two students will bring home book bags with Chinese stories and activities over the next two weeks. Please return the book bags the next day.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in a little book, Snow Friends. Before Morning Meeting,
Ms. Perroni showed on the smartboard how to read Snow Friends by doing a picture walk first to see what you think the story is about and then use your pointer finger to try to sound out each word. Then we did count by Two's action song. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, recorded first snow day of the year and they came up with questions about what they want to know about China. After recess, we did Circle Round the Zero for the 80th day of school! Time flies when we're having fun :)) After snack, Ms. Perroni read a Chinese folk tale, Two of Everything By: Lily Toy Hong and the students visualized the illustrations in their heads. They had to think of the problem that might happen with the pot that makes two of everything and how to solve the problem. We did guided leveled reading groups and your child brought home one or two books to read to you. Please return the books in the baggie tomorrow. Before lunch, we did RazKids on the smartboard. Drew read "Applesauce" and answered all the questions at the end about the story right :)) After recess & quiet time, Mrs. Thomas told a story and both classes acted it out. For Kindergarten Community Meeting, we went over rules for two finger tag at recess, did a button factory action song and we all did our January poem together. We ended our day with
Ms. Perroni reading, Tiki Tiki Tambo By: Arlene Mosel . Two students will bring home book bags with Chinese stories and activities over the next two weeks. Please return the book bags the next day.
Day 79: We missed Ms. Perroni SO MUCH today while she was at a professional development class. Morning Work was Book Look with leveled reading books. After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Lily was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, Martin Luther King, Jr. song and January poem. Then Mrs. Carroll did the last Lesson in Unit One for the Second Step program on being assertive. The first unit was all about tools they can use to be better learners: focus, stop talking, listen, body still, self-talk and being assertive by asking an adult for help, when they can't figure it out by themselves or by asking a friend. We talked about asking for help respectfully and using the right tone of voice. They did "Think, Turn, Tell" in pairs to take turns telling each other about times when they might need to ask for help and who could they ask for help when they don't remember or understand the directions. After snack/recess, we did a snowman "last name" project and they did a GREAT job following directions and helping each other. Mrs. Carroll read a fiction book, All You Need for a Snowman By: Alice Schertle and a non-fiction book, Stranger in the Woods By: Carl Samms II about making snowmen! In the non-fiction book, a brother and sister make a real snowman in the woods and they wanted the animals & birds in the woods to eat the birdseed, carrot nose and corn they used to make the snowman. We didn't have time for any
free choice time today!
free choice time today!
Day 78: Reminder: Tomorrow is an Early Release Day at 11:55 for professional development day.
Morning Work was changing their books in their book bags. At our Glover Community Meeting, Principal Ota reviewed our core values and the K-3 students came up with great examples and reasons to be safe, respectful and responsible in the hall, cafetorium, playground and classroom. Valentina read a pop-up book, Bunny to the class. At Morning Meeting we practiced our sitting still & quiet for one minute. Drew was a great teacher's helper.
We did calendar, weather, tapped more "cvc" words, we saw the Chinese flag on our morning message and the word "Ni hao" means hello in Chinese. Then we looked at a photo and thought of I see, I think and I wonder
observations before Ms. Perroni told us it was the longest glass bottom bridge in the world in China. We did our Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream song. Then we did our count by two's song. Ms. Perroni read, Happy BIrthday, Martin Luther King By: Jean Marzollo and Look What Came From China By: Miles Harvey. After snack/recess, for Go Math they used tangrams, which come from China. They are an ancient puzzle with 7 different shapes used to make different shaped animals and objects. Ms. Perroni read, Grandfather Tang's Story
"A Tale Told with Tangrams" By: Ann Tompert. Then they each had their own set of tangrams to try to figure out how to use all 7 shapes to make one big square! Then they did Go Math Lesson 12.6 Problem Solving - Sort and Count worksheets. After lunch/recess and LIbrary, Ms. Perroni shared her photos from her trip to China and Tibet
on the smartboard. We saw what they eat, how they dress, where they live and go to school, where they worship, how they write symbols for letters, what a panda bear, red panda and yak look like and how long the Great Wall of China is!!!! We ended the day with free choice time. (Drew and Luke got the Student of the Week pencils for being good listeners in the Library today!)
Morning Work was changing their books in their book bags. At our Glover Community Meeting, Principal Ota reviewed our core values and the K-3 students came up with great examples and reasons to be safe, respectful and responsible in the hall, cafetorium, playground and classroom. Valentina read a pop-up book, Bunny to the class. At Morning Meeting we practiced our sitting still & quiet for one minute. Drew was a great teacher's helper.
We did calendar, weather, tapped more "cvc" words, we saw the Chinese flag on our morning message and the word "Ni hao" means hello in Chinese. Then we looked at a photo and thought of I see, I think and I wonder
observations before Ms. Perroni told us it was the longest glass bottom bridge in the world in China. We did our Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream song. Then we did our count by two's song. Ms. Perroni read, Happy BIrthday, Martin Luther King By: Jean Marzollo and Look What Came From China By: Miles Harvey. After snack/recess, for Go Math they used tangrams, which come from China. They are an ancient puzzle with 7 different shapes used to make different shaped animals and objects. Ms. Perroni read, Grandfather Tang's Story
"A Tale Told with Tangrams" By: Ann Tompert. Then they each had their own set of tangrams to try to figure out how to use all 7 shapes to make one big square! Then they did Go Math Lesson 12.6 Problem Solving - Sort and Count worksheets. After lunch/recess and LIbrary, Ms. Perroni shared her photos from her trip to China and Tibet
on the smartboard. We saw what they eat, how they dress, where they live and go to school, where they worship, how they write symbols for letters, what a panda bear, red panda and yak look like and how long the Great Wall of China is!!!! We ended the day with free choice time. (Drew and Luke got the Student of the Week pencils for being good listeners in the Library today!)
Day 77: Reminder: Scholastic Book Orders are due tomorrow (not required). Morning Work was a worksheet all about the sight word "can". We had 3 first grade guest readers from Mrs. Shapiro's class this morning. Maddie, Avery and Lucy read, Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox By: Grace Macccarone.
Then Ms. Perroni had something in the Mystery Box - they guessed it, a stuffed Panda Bear! She told them we are going to start learning about China today and described when she taught in China and had the chance to hold a panda bear! At Morning Meeting, Amelia was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather and learned a Martin Luther King Jr. song. For Fundations, we continued to tap "cvc" words and use our magnetic tiles to form 3 letter "cvc" words on our cookie sheets. They colored their vowel letters orange for their homework this week to form "cvc" words at home with you. After snack/recess and Music, they wrote their Weekend News. Weekend News will come home every week now so you can see how their writing is improving and the rest of their writing will stay in their writing folders. We're still working on Upper case letter and lower case letters for their name and adding the date to their writing papers. We shared our Weekend News with each other before lunch/recess. After recess, Ms. Perroni read, Moira's BIrthday By: Robert Munsch.
Then we brainstormed what they already know about China:
1. They love to wear red.
2. Red and Gold are lucky colors
3. They speak a different language
4. They eat sushi
5. Panda Bears live there
6. Bamboo grows there
7. Their roofs are curved
8. Gun ho means working together
Then we saw a map of China on the smartboard and Ms. Perroni told us some fun facts about the time difference being 1:00 in the day here is 1:00 at night in China, the Great Wall of China being so long and big you could see it from outer space, they say their last name first and then we listened to a person say, "hello, bye, thank you,
your welcome and Happy New Year" in Mandarin Chinese. Luke shared about a few places he has seen in China,
including the zoo! We ended our day with some free choice time.
Then Ms. Perroni had something in the Mystery Box - they guessed it, a stuffed Panda Bear! She told them we are going to start learning about China today and described when she taught in China and had the chance to hold a panda bear! At Morning Meeting, Amelia was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather and learned a Martin Luther King Jr. song. For Fundations, we continued to tap "cvc" words and use our magnetic tiles to form 3 letter "cvc" words on our cookie sheets. They colored their vowel letters orange for their homework this week to form "cvc" words at home with you. After snack/recess and Music, they wrote their Weekend News. Weekend News will come home every week now so you can see how their writing is improving and the rest of their writing will stay in their writing folders. We're still working on Upper case letter and lower case letters for their name and adding the date to their writing papers. We shared our Weekend News with each other before lunch/recess. After recess, Ms. Perroni read, Moira's BIrthday By: Robert Munsch.
Then we brainstormed what they already know about China:
1. They love to wear red.
2. Red and Gold are lucky colors
3. They speak a different language
4. They eat sushi
5. Panda Bears live there
6. Bamboo grows there
7. Their roofs are curved
8. Gun ho means working together
Then we saw a map of China on the smartboard and Ms. Perroni told us some fun facts about the time difference being 1:00 in the day here is 1:00 at night in China, the Great Wall of China being so long and big you could see it from outer space, they say their last name first and then we listened to a person say, "hello, bye, thank you,
your welcome and Happy New Year" in Mandarin Chinese. Luke shared about a few places he has seen in China,
including the zoo! We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 76: Morning Work was enjoying the free choice they didn't get at end of the day yesterday. We had another first grader, Maria Sokolov, as a guest reader this morning. She read, Hop on Pop By: Dr. Seuss. Then we did yoga for Fun Friday!!! Different members of the class showed everyone else how to do a pose shown on yoga cards chosen by Ms. Perroni. Clare did shark, Shane did waterfall, Isaiah did fish, Drew did Hero and Valentina did bird.
Our story at the end was called, "Loving Kindness"! They were so quiet and still listening to the story about sending love to yourself and loving your feet and legs for helping you move, loving your belly for filling up with food you love, and loving your arms and hands for doing so much for you and then we sent love to people we love and even some people that might hurt your feelings some times. It made us all feel more love being sent to us and from us to everyone :)) During snack we listened to nutritional tips from Fizzy's Lunch Lab on the smartboard.
After snack/recess, we parcticed more "cvc" words with our magnetic alphabet tiles and trays. One letter goes in each square to make a three-letter word. After P.E., they finished their snowman watercolor art project. After lunch/recess and Art, we ended our day with free choice time with Mrs. Thomas' class.
Our story at the end was called, "Loving Kindness"! They were so quiet and still listening to the story about sending love to yourself and loving your feet and legs for helping you move, loving your belly for filling up with food you love, and loving your arms and hands for doing so much for you and then we sent love to people we love and even some people that might hurt your feelings some times. It made us all feel more love being sent to us and from us to everyone :)) During snack we listened to nutritional tips from Fizzy's Lunch Lab on the smartboard.
After snack/recess, we parcticed more "cvc" words with our magnetic alphabet tiles and trays. One letter goes in each square to make a three-letter word. After P.E., they finished their snowman watercolor art project. After lunch/recess and Art, we ended our day with free choice time with Mrs. Thomas' class.
Day 75: Morning Work was roll the dice and write the sight word. We had a first grader, Carolyn Black, from our kindergarten class last year, read, The Circus Ship By: Chris Van Dusen. She's become a great reader with lots of expression and fluency! At Morning Meeting, we did another great job sitting still without making a sound for one whole minute (harder than you think!) Matteo was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, practiced tapping a few "cvc" words and practiced saying our letters and sounds. Then we counted by 10"s to 100 and the last KIndergartner left standing was Shane! After snack/recess, they used their magnetic letters on trays to make "cvc" words in 3 squares for each letter. We did word families of -at words and -ug words. After Music, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time for great classroom behavior and focusing their attention on learning and listening this morning. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, 50 Below Zero By: Robert Munsch. Then Ms. Perroni led a guided drawing art project where they sketched a snowman and will watercolor over crayon tomorrow. At our Kindergarten Community Meeting, we all discussed proper rules for playing tag on the playground and safety rules for recess. We ended the day with Zap It, Zap It, Make it Happen with all the Kindergarten classes!
Day 74: Morning Work was tracing numbers 1-10. After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Andy was a great teacher's helper today. We did calendar, weather, tapped a few cvc words and poems. Then they sang vowel bat!
Before snack/recess, Ms. Perroni discussed schema and reading strategies before reading Splat the Cat Blow, Snow, Blow By: Rob Scotton. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll taught Lesson 4: Self-Talk for Staying on Task and Helping to Follow Directions from the Second Step program. We reviewed saying "focus" to ourselves and using our attent-o-scopes help us pay attention. We reviewed eyes watching, ears listening, voices quiet and bodies still to help us follow directions and be better learners. Self-talk (in our head) can help us remember directions, keep from getting distracted by others while doing our work and stay on task. Then we did leveled guided reading groups and had a short Reader's Workshop time to read on their own from their book bags. Ms. Perroni went over reading strategies for when they are reading a book on their own:
1. Look at Cover/title page - to figure out what the book is about
2. Do a picture walk to see what the book is about
3. Tap our "cvc" words to sound them out
4. Look at pictures to figure out words on that page
5. Ask for help
Then we did a "Stars of the Show" energizer on the smartboard which used breathing and balance! They also love Pop See Ko action songs on the smartboard. Then we brainstormed Writing Topics for Writer's Workshop when they can write about anything they want and have a hard time coming up with an idea:
A few ideas they came up with to write about:
1. Something they see
2. Something they made
3. Something they play
4. nature
5. presents
6. birthdays/holidays
7. playdates
8. Weekend News/Vacations/Trips
9. Beach
10. Artwork
After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni finished reading, Splat the Cat Blow, Snow, Blow, after reveiwing what happened so far in the story. After some quiet time, they used ipads individually to work on Raz Kids reading at their own pace.
We ended our day with cat and dog energizers!!
Before snack/recess, Ms. Perroni discussed schema and reading strategies before reading Splat the Cat Blow, Snow, Blow By: Rob Scotton. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll taught Lesson 4: Self-Talk for Staying on Task and Helping to Follow Directions from the Second Step program. We reviewed saying "focus" to ourselves and using our attent-o-scopes help us pay attention. We reviewed eyes watching, ears listening, voices quiet and bodies still to help us follow directions and be better learners. Self-talk (in our head) can help us remember directions, keep from getting distracted by others while doing our work and stay on task. Then we did leveled guided reading groups and had a short Reader's Workshop time to read on their own from their book bags. Ms. Perroni went over reading strategies for when they are reading a book on their own:
1. Look at Cover/title page - to figure out what the book is about
2. Do a picture walk to see what the book is about
3. Tap our "cvc" words to sound them out
4. Look at pictures to figure out words on that page
5. Ask for help
Then we did a "Stars of the Show" energizer on the smartboard which used breathing and balance! They also love Pop See Ko action songs on the smartboard. Then we brainstormed Writing Topics for Writer's Workshop when they can write about anything they want and have a hard time coming up with an idea:
A few ideas they came up with to write about:
1. Something they see
2. Something they made
3. Something they play
4. nature
5. presents
6. birthdays/holidays
7. playdates
8. Weekend News/Vacations/Trips
9. Beach
10. Artwork
After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni finished reading, Splat the Cat Blow, Snow, Blow, after reveiwing what happened so far in the story. After some quiet time, they used ipads individually to work on Raz Kids reading at their own pace.
We ended our day with cat and dog energizers!!
Day 73: Morning Work was putting new books in their book bags. They have 2 leveled books and 3 any choice books. We had Glover Community Meeting and CONGRATULATIONS to our class for winning the token challenge this week for safe, responsible and respectful behavior in the hall, cafeteria and on the playground. Now, we're adding "classroom behavior" for earning tokens!! At Morning Meeting Finn was a great teacher's helper. He also received the Student of the Week award (penicil) in LIbrary! We did calendar, weather, and learned what a digraph is - two letters that make one sound i.e. "th" and "sh" (or welded sounds). For Go Math we did sorting and classifying on the smartboard by color or shape. Then we did a graphing lesson to determine less than or greater than. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni taught everyone how to tap out sounds in "CVC" (consonant-vowel-consonant) words with fingers or on your arm. Ask your child to show you how to tap out s-i-t or c-a-t or any "cvc" word! For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about anything they wanted to. They are keeping all their writing in a writing folder and they can finish writing anything they started the day before.
Before lunch/recess, they finished their snowman art project. They tore paper to add the hat, eyes, scarf and arms to their coffee filter watercolored snowmen and snowy pattern snowmen. They all chose to bring home the coffee filter snowmen and have their snowy snowmen in the hall. "Deck the halls with JOLLY SNOWMEN" :))
After lunch/recess and Library, we did musical painting where everyone added on to each other's painting when the music stopped. We discussed what people liked and didn't like about the activity. It was hard to use one color and only paint a little and stop and hard to see your picture get painted over, but, they had fun working as a team and wondered how their painting would turn out when it the music ended. We may do this activity again in smaller groups or add to the painting without painting over what someone painted first. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading The Biggest, Best Snowman By: Margery Cuyler and The Missing Mitten Mystery By: Steven Kellogg. Makes you kinda wish for a SNOW DAY??? (Not after all the snow we had last year!!!!)
Before lunch/recess, they finished their snowman art project. They tore paper to add the hat, eyes, scarf and arms to their coffee filter watercolored snowmen and snowy pattern snowmen. They all chose to bring home the coffee filter snowmen and have their snowy snowmen in the hall. "Deck the halls with JOLLY SNOWMEN" :))
After lunch/recess and Library, we did musical painting where everyone added on to each other's painting when the music stopped. We discussed what people liked and didn't like about the activity. It was hard to use one color and only paint a little and stop and hard to see your picture get painted over, but, they had fun working as a team and wondered how their painting would turn out when it the music ended. We may do this activity again in smaller groups or add to the painting without painting over what someone painted first. We ended the day with Mrs. Carroll reading The Biggest, Best Snowman By: Margery Cuyler and The Missing Mitten Mystery By: Steven Kellogg. Makes you kinda wish for a SNOW DAY??? (Not after all the snow we had last year!!!!)
Day 72: Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll were SO EXCITED to see all our Kindergartners and get the New Year off to a great start this morning :)) Morning Work was illustrating our lockers for January and our calendar for January in the classroom. Then we had a quick whip around the circle to share ONE thing everyone did over vacation.
Sounded like everyone had a wonderful time with friends and family! For Writer's Workshop, we are working on having everyone write their name with first letter upper case and rest of letters lower case. We are also learning strategies to sound out words we don't know how to spell because we're done with sight words for now. They can keep practicing their sight words with the cup game at home because those are frequently used words in reading and writing. After snack/recess and Music, we had Morning Meeting. Shane was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, reviewed old sight words and all our sign language for the New Year and learned a 2016 poem and our new Maurice Sendak's January poem. Then we made 2016 New Year's Hats with all 12 of the months on them!! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Squirrel's New Year's Resolution By: Pat Miller and we discussed what a resolution is. Then they came up with some good resolutions for themselves: sing more, help someone bike ride, play piano more, grow a garden, to be a better fashion designer and don't be naughty! After some quiet time, they started a Snowman art project with coffee filters and watercolors for the hallway :))
Sounded like everyone had a wonderful time with friends and family! For Writer's Workshop, we are working on having everyone write their name with first letter upper case and rest of letters lower case. We are also learning strategies to sound out words we don't know how to spell because we're done with sight words for now. They can keep practicing their sight words with the cup game at home because those are frequently used words in reading and writing. After snack/recess and Music, we had Morning Meeting. Shane was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, reviewed old sight words and all our sign language for the New Year and learned a 2016 poem and our new Maurice Sendak's January poem. Then we made 2016 New Year's Hats with all 12 of the months on them!! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Squirrel's New Year's Resolution By: Pat Miller and we discussed what a resolution is. Then they came up with some good resolutions for themselves: sing more, help someone bike ride, play piano more, grow a garden, to be a better fashion designer and don't be naughty! After some quiet time, they started a Snowman art project with coffee filters and watercolors for the hallway :))
Day 71: Reminder: Winter Vacation until Jan. 4!! ENJOY :))
Morning Work was Book Look. After P.E., Ms. Perroni read, Stella, Queen of the Snow By: Marie-Louise Gay, about
a big sister that has an answer for all her little brother's questions about snow! At Morning Meeting, Valentina was an awesome teacher's helper. She got every sight word right without any help at all! We did calendar, weather, songs and gummy bear dance and the month-a-rena. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, The Dot
By: Peter Reynolds, about a little girl who realized painting a dot can be art! Then we painted the longest Kindergarten Class Mural ever with circles and dots to spread Happiness after Ms. Perroni read,
"Dasi's Circles of Happiness" By: Dasi Rabinovich, z'l. It took real teamwork to paint it and hang it in the hall :))
"May you always create lots of circles of happiness for others. And by doing this, your circle will grow too."
Before lunch/recess, they watched "A Charlie Brown Holiday" movie and then we listened to How the Grinch Stole Christmas By: Dr. Seuss, being read dramatically on the smartboard, from the book. After lunch/recess,
Ms. Perroni read, Harold at the North Pole By: Crockett Johnson. They remembered some schema from Harold and the Purple Crayon and how he draws from his imagination what he needs to get out of a situation or solve a problem. They had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time. We ended the day and the year with
Mrs. Carroll reading one last gingerbread story, The Gingerbread Mouse By: Katy Bratun.
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and have a wonderful winter vacation :))
Day 70: Reminder: Tomorrow is a FULL Day of School until 2:25.
Morning Work was roll 2 dice and add the numbers and write the number. At the Glover K-3 Community Meeting, the staff winners of the "Ugly Sweater Contest" (voted by students) were announced #3 - Principal Ota,
#2 - Mrs. Kuszmar and #1 - our very own Ms. Perroni!! She was the big winner this year! Then we all had a community Holiday sing-a-long together. Then we went to the Devereux House with Mrs. Thomas' class to spread some Holiday Cheer by caroling on the 1st and 2nd floors. We saw lots of smiles! When we returned, we did our Circle Round the Zero for the 70th Day of School! Time really flies when we're having FUN! After snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting. Luke was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and the Gummy Bear dance. One more day before VACATION!!!
Morning Work was roll 2 dice and add the numbers and write the number. At the Glover K-3 Community Meeting, the staff winners of the "Ugly Sweater Contest" (voted by students) were announced #3 - Principal Ota,
#2 - Mrs. Kuszmar and #1 - our very own Ms. Perroni!! She was the big winner this year! Then we all had a community Holiday sing-a-long together. Then we went to the Devereux House with Mrs. Thomas' class to spread some Holiday Cheer by caroling on the 1st and 2nd floors. We saw lots of smiles! When we returned, we did our Circle Round the Zero for the 70th Day of School! Time really flies when we're having FUN! After snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting. Luke was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and the Gummy Bear dance. One more day before VACATION!!!
Day 69: Reminder: Tomorrow is Early Release Day at 11:55 for Parent Conferences. Please have your child wear Holiday Colors or attire for our field trip to The Devereux House and singing our Holiday songs at Glover Community Meeting.
Morning Work was watercolor painting the words "are" and "put" handwriting worksheets. Then we had Yoga for Mindful Monday. Then Ms. Perroni read, Snow Dance By: Lezlie Evans before Morning Meeting. Elise was a great
teacher's helper today. We did calendar, weather, sight words & sign language. Ms. Perroni read, Pajama Day
By: Lynn Plourde for Reader's Theater during snack time. After Music, Mrs. Thomas' class practiced our holiday songs with us for the Devereux House field trip and community meeting for Glover School K-3 tomorrow. Instead of Weekend News writing, we all shared with the microphone what we did over the weekend - lots of fun activities!
After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Dragon's Merry Christmas By: Dav Pelky. They have a lot of schema about Dragon stories! Then lots of moms came in to help with our class Pajama Holiday Party: Trent's mom, Matteo's mom, Luke's mom, Shane's mom & grandmother, Amelia's mom, Isaiah's mom, Finn's mom and Clare's mom set up cookies & milk while the kids watched "Frosty the Snowman" and after the movie they made a snowman craft! Everyone took home a book, The Biggest Snowman Ever By: Steven Kroll from Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll to read over vacation. THANK YOU to all our wonderful Kindergartners and families for the BIG baskets overflowing with lots of GOODIES for Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll :)) WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!
Morning Work was watercolor painting the words "are" and "put" handwriting worksheets. Then we had Yoga for Mindful Monday. Then Ms. Perroni read, Snow Dance By: Lezlie Evans before Morning Meeting. Elise was a great
teacher's helper today. We did calendar, weather, sight words & sign language. Ms. Perroni read, Pajama Day
By: Lynn Plourde for Reader's Theater during snack time. After Music, Mrs. Thomas' class practiced our holiday songs with us for the Devereux House field trip and community meeting for Glover School K-3 tomorrow. Instead of Weekend News writing, we all shared with the microphone what we did over the weekend - lots of fun activities!
After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Dragon's Merry Christmas By: Dav Pelky. They have a lot of schema about Dragon stories! Then lots of moms came in to help with our class Pajama Holiday Party: Trent's mom, Matteo's mom, Luke's mom, Shane's mom & grandmother, Amelia's mom, Isaiah's mom, Finn's mom and Clare's mom set up cookies & milk while the kids watched "Frosty the Snowman" and after the movie they made a snowman craft! Everyone took home a book, The Biggest Snowman Ever By: Steven Kroll from Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll to read over vacation. THANK YOU to all our wonderful Kindergartners and families for the BIG baskets overflowing with lots of GOODIES for Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll :)) WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!
Day 68: Reminder: Monday, Dec. 21 is Pajama Day and our class holiday party!!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Xx book and practicing handwriting "x" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, Isaiah was a great teacher's helper. Mrs. Thomas was SO IMPRESSED with our one minute of being still and quiet. We did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and poems. Mrs. Carroll read,
The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School By: Laura Murray, about a gingerbread man the class baked and when they went out for recess he went all over the school looking for the children that made him. He found them back in their classroom and they made a gingerbread desk, chair and house for him! Drew's mom was our guest reader this morning. She read, Olive, the other Reindeer By: Vivian Walsh, about a dog that flew with the reindeer and earned her "reindeer antlers"! After snack/recess, we discovered our Room 121 gingerbread man left the cookie sheet we put him on to cool and after snack we went on a scavenger hunt through the whole Glover School to find him. He ended up being back in Room 121, which he LOVES best! After P.E., they did find a "gingerbread" sight word hunt with their clipboards. Before lunch, Ms. Perroni read, Tacky's Christmas By: Helen Lester. After Art,
they had free choice time and we ended the day practicing our holiday songs for our trip to the Devereux House next week. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Xx book and practicing handwriting "x" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, Isaiah was a great teacher's helper. Mrs. Thomas was SO IMPRESSED with our one minute of being still and quiet. We did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and poems. Mrs. Carroll read,
The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School By: Laura Murray, about a gingerbread man the class baked and when they went out for recess he went all over the school looking for the children that made him. He found them back in their classroom and they made a gingerbread desk, chair and house for him! Drew's mom was our guest reader this morning. She read, Olive, the other Reindeer By: Vivian Walsh, about a dog that flew with the reindeer and earned her "reindeer antlers"! After snack/recess, we discovered our Room 121 gingerbread man left the cookie sheet we put him on to cool and after snack we went on a scavenger hunt through the whole Glover School to find him. He ended up being back in Room 121, which he LOVES best! After P.E., they did find a "gingerbread" sight word hunt with their clipboards. Before lunch, Ms. Perroni read, Tacky's Christmas By: Helen Lester. After Art,
they had free choice time and we ended the day practicing our holiday songs for our trip to the Devereux House next week. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Day 67: Reminder: Tomorrow is Wear Your Favorite Color Day! (not required)
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting the sight words for their little Yy book and practicing "y" handwriting worksheet. Then they took the Go Math assessment for Chapter 9 - Shapes. At Morning Meeting, Clare was a
great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, worked on sight words, sang vowel bat and tricky teen songs and did the gummy bear dance. Ms. Perroni read, Alphabet Rescue By: Audrey & Bruce Wood. After snack/recess, Clare picked a RazKids book, Fruit, to read on the smartboard with the class. Then Luke picked a book, Big, about big things. Ms. Perroni, read our Room 121 Gingerbread Class book. Everyone illustrated their own gingerbread boy or girl page. WOW illustrations!! After Music, we watched a wonderful animated gingerbread man story on the smartboard. It's all about the GINGERBREAD!!!! They LOVE it :))
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting the sight words for their little Yy book and practicing "y" handwriting worksheet. Then they took the Go Math assessment for Chapter 9 - Shapes. At Morning Meeting, Clare was a
great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, worked on sight words, sang vowel bat and tricky teen songs and did the gummy bear dance. Ms. Perroni read, Alphabet Rescue By: Audrey & Bruce Wood. After snack/recess, Clare picked a RazKids book, Fruit, to read on the smartboard with the class. Then Luke picked a book, Big, about big things. Ms. Perroni, read our Room 121 Gingerbread Class book. Everyone illustrated their own gingerbread boy or girl page. WOW illustrations!! After Music, we watched a wonderful animated gingerbread man story on the smartboard. It's all about the GINGERBREAD!!!! They LOVE it :))
Day 66: Reminder: Tomorrow is Early Release Day at 11:55 for Parent Conferences. No Lunch will be served.
Morning Work was using a template they traced shapes into a picture and colored it. Everyone did a great job and everyone made different pictures!! (snowman, spaceship, bird, boat, house, people, tree, teapot and cups, balloon, etc.) After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Trent was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language, songs & poems. For "Worry-less Wednesday" they came up with 6 WONDERFUL
ways to stop worrying about anything: 1. close eyes and calm down 2. think of something nice to feel happy and get your mind off it 3. go do something for exercise 4. sit still for one minute to calm down 5.don't think about it
6. talk to someone about it. We can all take this advice from our Kindergartners during this fun, but at times
stressfu,l holiday season :)) Mrs. Carroll shared Lesson 3 of our Second Step Program: Following Directions with puppy and snail helping me give directions to everyone. We went over how important it is to listen to the directions and repeat them to yourself to remember the directions or ask for help. After snack/recess, Trent read, Biscuit Goes to School By: Alyssa Capucilli. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about "how they would catch the gingerbread man"! Then they shared their writing and illustrations with each other. Then they did a little
"have" book cutting and gluing the letters h-a-v-e. After lunch/recess, we did 5 Gingerbread activity centers.
After free choice time we practiced our holiday songs with Mrs. Thomas' class for our field trip.
Morning Work was using a template they traced shapes into a picture and colored it. Everyone did a great job and everyone made different pictures!! (snowman, spaceship, bird, boat, house, people, tree, teapot and cups, balloon, etc.) After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Trent was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language, songs & poems. For "Worry-less Wednesday" they came up with 6 WONDERFUL
ways to stop worrying about anything: 1. close eyes and calm down 2. think of something nice to feel happy and get your mind off it 3. go do something for exercise 4. sit still for one minute to calm down 5.don't think about it
6. talk to someone about it. We can all take this advice from our Kindergartners during this fun, but at times
stressfu,l holiday season :)) Mrs. Carroll shared Lesson 3 of our Second Step Program: Following Directions with puppy and snail helping me give directions to everyone. We went over how important it is to listen to the directions and repeat them to yourself to remember the directions or ask for help. After snack/recess, Trent read, Biscuit Goes to School By: Alyssa Capucilli. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about "how they would catch the gingerbread man"! Then they shared their writing and illustrations with each other. Then they did a little
"have" book cutting and gluing the letters h-a-v-e. After lunch/recess, we did 5 Gingerbread activity centers.
After free choice time we practiced our holiday songs with Mrs. Thomas' class for our field trip.
Day 65: Reminder: Tomorrow is Domino's Pizza day for lunch.
Morning Work was roll two dice and add the numbers and color the gingerbread boy or girl. At the Glover School Community Meeting, Third Grade Brownies explained the Book Drive to K-3 students. Collection boxes will be in the halls for one month for gently used books for grades K-6 to be donated to The REAL Program, an after school literacy program in Lynn. It's been really nice to see the entire Glover community contribute to acts of Kindness for our troops, the Plummer House and now a literacy program!! The "Rocky Lobster" award for good behavior and most tokens earned went to Ms. Yanow's class this week! We keep doing a great job every day, trying to do our BEST, all the time. At Morning Meeting, Leila was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language for the whole alphabet and our songs and poems. For Go Math, Ms. Perroni introduced some new shapes: rhombus and trapezoid. She read, Mouse Shapes By: Ellen Walsh, about making other shapes by putting different shapes together i.e. square and triangle make a house. Then they used pattern blocks to make new shapes from using other shapes i.e. 2 squares make a rectangle and 6 triangles make a hexagon. After snack/recess, Ms.Perroni read easy reader pentagon and rhombus books. Then they did Go Math Lesson 9.12 Problem Solving - Draw to Join Shapes worksheets with 2-D flat shapes. Then they did "plane" flat 1=D shapes with Curious George on the smartboard. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about shapes. Then we had a 5 minute Reader's Workshop. Before lunch, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time. After lunch/recess and Library, Ms. Perroni read, The Gingerbread Cowboy By: Janet Squires. When you've never read a book before, you look at the picture and title on the cover to see what it's about. Then you do a picture walk to see what "schema" you know from other "gingerbread" stories are same or different in this story.
Congratulations to Trent for receiving the "Student of the Week" pencil for good behavior in Library today!
We practiced "x" and "y" handwriting on our whiteboards and ended the day with free choice time before practicing our holiday songs.
Morning Work was roll two dice and add the numbers and color the gingerbread boy or girl. At the Glover School Community Meeting, Third Grade Brownies explained the Book Drive to K-3 students. Collection boxes will be in the halls for one month for gently used books for grades K-6 to be donated to The REAL Program, an after school literacy program in Lynn. It's been really nice to see the entire Glover community contribute to acts of Kindness for our troops, the Plummer House and now a literacy program!! The "Rocky Lobster" award for good behavior and most tokens earned went to Ms. Yanow's class this week! We keep doing a great job every day, trying to do our BEST, all the time. At Morning Meeting, Leila was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language for the whole alphabet and our songs and poems. For Go Math, Ms. Perroni introduced some new shapes: rhombus and trapezoid. She read, Mouse Shapes By: Ellen Walsh, about making other shapes by putting different shapes together i.e. square and triangle make a house. Then they used pattern blocks to make new shapes from using other shapes i.e. 2 squares make a rectangle and 6 triangles make a hexagon. After snack/recess, Ms.Perroni read easy reader pentagon and rhombus books. Then they did Go Math Lesson 9.12 Problem Solving - Draw to Join Shapes worksheets with 2-D flat shapes. Then they did "plane" flat 1=D shapes with Curious George on the smartboard. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about shapes. Then we had a 5 minute Reader's Workshop. Before lunch, they had a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra free choice time. After lunch/recess and Library, Ms. Perroni read, The Gingerbread Cowboy By: Janet Squires. When you've never read a book before, you look at the picture and title on the cover to see what it's about. Then you do a picture walk to see what "schema" you know from other "gingerbread" stories are same or different in this story.
Congratulations to Trent for receiving the "Student of the Week" pencil for good behavior in Library today!
We practiced "x" and "y" handwriting on our whiteboards and ended the day with free choice time before practicing our holiday songs.
Day: 64: Reminder: RazKids directions and passwords for online leveled reading books and
new sight words for little cup game, went home in folders today.
Morning Work was putting mixed up alphabet letters in order: puzzles, tiles, magnets and games.
At Morning Meeting, Ms. Perroni read a rhyming book, The Mixed Up Alphabet By: Steve Metzger.
We praceticed sitting still, quietly for one minute for Mindful Monday. It's harder than you think!
Grafton was a great teacher's helper today. We did calendar, weather and introduced our last letter and sounds and sign language for "x" and "z" and new sight words: are, from and put. Of course we learned new songs/poems for these words. We are done with color words and the 26 letters of the alphabet!! Whew! We did it! YAY :))
We did a "Texas style" holiday dance! For Go Math, we did Lesson 9.11 Algebra - Compare Two-Dimensional Shapes. They sorted curve and no curve shapes. Then we sang the Shape song and a sign language song with signs for letters and word motions. After snack/recess and Music, Ms. Perroni reviewed how to listen, read and answer questions when reading a book on RazKids. They can earn stars to buy objects to decorate their room online. For Reader's Workshop, they could choose leveled books or books from their book bag to read to themselves for 7 minutes. We're building up our reading stamina! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read,
The Legend of The Poinsettia By: Tomie dePaola. After Free Choice time, Ms. Perroni read the easy reader books for Q, X, Y and Z. We ended our day learning and practicing our holiday songs with Mrs. Thomas' class for our field trip to The Devereux House next Tuesday to spread Holiday Cheer :))
new sight words for little cup game, went home in folders today.
Morning Work was putting mixed up alphabet letters in order: puzzles, tiles, magnets and games.
At Morning Meeting, Ms. Perroni read a rhyming book, The Mixed Up Alphabet By: Steve Metzger.
We praceticed sitting still, quietly for one minute for Mindful Monday. It's harder than you think!
Grafton was a great teacher's helper today. We did calendar, weather and introduced our last letter and sounds and sign language for "x" and "z" and new sight words: are, from and put. Of course we learned new songs/poems for these words. We are done with color words and the 26 letters of the alphabet!! Whew! We did it! YAY :))
We did a "Texas style" holiday dance! For Go Math, we did Lesson 9.11 Algebra - Compare Two-Dimensional Shapes. They sorted curve and no curve shapes. Then we sang the Shape song and a sign language song with signs for letters and word motions. After snack/recess and Music, Ms. Perroni reviewed how to listen, read and answer questions when reading a book on RazKids. They can earn stars to buy objects to decorate their room online. For Reader's Workshop, they could choose leveled books or books from their book bag to read to themselves for 7 minutes. We're building up our reading stamina! After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read,
The Legend of The Poinsettia By: Tomie dePaola. After Free Choice time, Ms. Perroni read the easy reader books for Q, X, Y and Z. We ended our day learning and practicing our holiday songs with Mrs. Thomas' class for our field trip to The Devereux House next Tuesday to spread Holiday Cheer :))
Day 63: Morning work was playing board games with a partner. (Sorry, Connect Four, Checkers and Candy Land.
We sang sight word songs for: for, look, said and you. At Morning Meeting we went over alliteration with "f" words: fun, fabulous, fantastic for Friday! Lily was a great teacher's helper today. Valentina is in the Marblehead production of the Nutcracker! Great show, my daughter was in it for many years!!! Then we started work on a "positional word" little book project: Where is the Gingerbread Man? (in, beside, in front of, between, below, above and inside) After the K-3 Glover School students enjoyed a special holiday concert performed by the MVMS Select Chorus we had P.E. Before lunch/recess, they finished their little books. After Art, we wrote a thank you note to Mr. Tirelli, Music Teacher at MVMS, for teaching us how to conduct the Select Chorus and the great show they performed for us! Then Mrs. Carroll read, This Is The Dreidel By: Abby Levine. We ended the day with some
"FUN" Free Choice time. Have a wonderful weekend :))
We sang sight word songs for: for, look, said and you. At Morning Meeting we went over alliteration with "f" words: fun, fabulous, fantastic for Friday! Lily was a great teacher's helper today. Valentina is in the Marblehead production of the Nutcracker! Great show, my daughter was in it for many years!!! Then we started work on a "positional word" little book project: Where is the Gingerbread Man? (in, beside, in front of, between, below, above and inside) After the K-3 Glover School students enjoyed a special holiday concert performed by the MVMS Select Chorus we had P.E. Before lunch/recess, they finished their little books. After Art, we wrote a thank you note to Mr. Tirelli, Music Teacher at MVMS, for teaching us how to conduct the Select Chorus and the great show they performed for us! Then Mrs. Carroll read, This Is The Dreidel By: Abby Levine. We ended the day with some
"FUN" Free Choice time. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Day 62: Reminder: Tomorrow is WHITE Day! Please have your child wear white and bring in a white snack!
(not required)
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Qqu books and practicing handwriting "qu" worksheet. Elise read, Sleep Dog By: Harriet Ziefert to the class. Anyone can bring in a book they want to read to the class (good practice). Then we did the penguin dance song. At Morning Meeting Drew was a great teacher's helper. We went over what an exclamation point and question mark are used for in our morning message??!!
They did the Cookie Crunch sight word game on the smartboard again. For Go Math, they did Lesson 9.9
Identify and Name Hexagons worksheets. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, What Does it Mean to be Kind?
By: Rana DiOrio. Then they finished their Go Math worksheets. After Music, they learned how to read a book, Baby Animals, on Raz Kids website on the smartboard again. You click on your name and type in your password. Go to the bookroom. LIsten, then read, then answer questions for comprehension. You earn stars to build a robot or rocket ship and decorate your room. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Matza Ball Boy By: LIsa Shulman. They told what "schema" they know about gingerbread stories they've already read.
At KIndergarten Community Meeting Ms. Perroni read, Catch That Cookie! By: Hallie Durand, did five finger Gingerbread poem, did a gingerbread dance and a gingerbread song!!! It's all about the gingerbread today :))
(not required)
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Qqu books and practicing handwriting "qu" worksheet. Elise read, Sleep Dog By: Harriet Ziefert to the class. Anyone can bring in a book they want to read to the class (good practice). Then we did the penguin dance song. At Morning Meeting Drew was a great teacher's helper. We went over what an exclamation point and question mark are used for in our morning message??!!
They did the Cookie Crunch sight word game on the smartboard again. For Go Math, they did Lesson 9.9
Identify and Name Hexagons worksheets. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, What Does it Mean to be Kind?
By: Rana DiOrio. Then they finished their Go Math worksheets. After Music, they learned how to read a book, Baby Animals, on Raz Kids website on the smartboard again. You click on your name and type in your password. Go to the bookroom. LIsten, then read, then answer questions for comprehension. You earn stars to build a robot or rocket ship and decorate your room. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Matza Ball Boy By: LIsa Shulman. They told what "schema" they know about gingerbread stories they've already read.
At KIndergarten Community Meeting Ms. Perroni read, Catch That Cookie! By: Hallie Durand, did five finger Gingerbread poem, did a gingerbread dance and a gingerbread song!!! It's all about the gingerbread today :))
Day 61: Morning Work was Book Look with little leveled reading books. After P.E., we had Morning Meeting.
Amelia was a great teacher's helper with calendar and weather. We got rid of a few sight words on the smartboard from our long list, that everybody knows by now! We did our new sight word songs and December poems and learned a new "Five Yummy Gingerbread" poem! Then Mrs. Carroll went over our Second Step Skills
for Social and Academic Success Lesson 2: Focusing Attention. We reviewed how to be a good listener:
1. eyes watching 2. ears listening 3. voice quiet 4. body still. Then we learned how to turn on our "attent-o-scopes" to help us focus on the teacher or whoever is talking or giving directions, etc. We played a Simon Says game with "playful puppy" and "shy snail" (puppets) to practice focusing on Snail giving directions and NOT being distracted by Puppy talking. After snack/recess, we sang the Maurice Sendak Months of the Year Chicken Soup songs and our How to be a Good Learner song from Second Step skills. For Go Math, we listened to our favorite Shape Song on the smartboard. The shapes went all the way up to a 12-sided dodecagon!! Then they did Lesson 9.7
Identify and Name Rectangles worksheets. Then they played Cookie Crunch on the smartboard to identify sight words. During Writer's Workshop we also did guided level reading groups. Then we sang the BIG PIG rhyming song on the smartboard. We ended the day learning a "sh" digraph song (two letters that make one sound).
Then they did their favorite PIRATE song before leaving early for the day!!
Amelia was a great teacher's helper with calendar and weather. We got rid of a few sight words on the smartboard from our long list, that everybody knows by now! We did our new sight word songs and December poems and learned a new "Five Yummy Gingerbread" poem! Then Mrs. Carroll went over our Second Step Skills
for Social and Academic Success Lesson 2: Focusing Attention. We reviewed how to be a good listener:
1. eyes watching 2. ears listening 3. voice quiet 4. body still. Then we learned how to turn on our "attent-o-scopes" to help us focus on the teacher or whoever is talking or giving directions, etc. We played a Simon Says game with "playful puppy" and "shy snail" (puppets) to practice focusing on Snail giving directions and NOT being distracted by Puppy talking. After snack/recess, we sang the Maurice Sendak Months of the Year Chicken Soup songs and our How to be a Good Learner song from Second Step skills. For Go Math, we listened to our favorite Shape Song on the smartboard. The shapes went all the way up to a 12-sided dodecagon!! Then they did Lesson 9.7
Identify and Name Rectangles worksheets. Then they played Cookie Crunch on the smartboard to identify sight words. During Writer's Workshop we also did guided level reading groups. Then we sang the BIG PIG rhyming song on the smartboard. We ended the day learning a "sh" digraph song (two letters that make one sound).
Then they did their favorite PIRATE song before leaving early for the day!!
Day 60: Reminder: Tomorrow is Early Release Day at 11:55 for Parent Conferences.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Zz book and practicing handwriting "z" worksheet. They also did a roll and color addition with dice worksheet. At Morning Meeting, Anna was a great teacher's helper. She chose a Shalom "ET" greeting. We did calendar, weather, sight words, sounds & sign language, new songs and December poems. After snack/recess, for Go Math, they listened to The Greedy Triangle By: Marilyn Burns on the smartboard, about a triangle that went to a shape shifter to change his shape with more sides, but decided he liked being a triangle most of all. Then they did Lesson 9.5 Name and Identify Triangles
worksheets. Then they did a "Triangle Trees" scene with watercolors. For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to. Before lunch/recess, they practiced writing "qu" on their whiteboards.
After lunch/recess and Library, they did a "slow motion" action song on the smartboard!! Then we did Circle Round the Zero for the 60th Day of School!! Woo Hoo! Time flies when you're having FUN :)) We ended the day with anyone who wanted to enter their artwork in a voluntary Glover School Art Gallery exhibit getting it ready and some free choice time. It was all about TRIANGLES today! Ask your child how many vertices a triangle or square has???? ( 3 and 4 corners) How many sides does a triangle or square have???
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Zz book and practicing handwriting "z" worksheet. They also did a roll and color addition with dice worksheet. At Morning Meeting, Anna was a great teacher's helper. She chose a Shalom "ET" greeting. We did calendar, weather, sight words, sounds & sign language, new songs and December poems. After snack/recess, for Go Math, they listened to The Greedy Triangle By: Marilyn Burns on the smartboard, about a triangle that went to a shape shifter to change his shape with more sides, but decided he liked being a triangle most of all. Then they did Lesson 9.5 Name and Identify Triangles
worksheets. Then they did a "Triangle Trees" scene with watercolors. For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to. Before lunch/recess, they practiced writing "qu" on their whiteboards.
After lunch/recess and Library, they did a "slow motion" action song on the smartboard!! Then we did Circle Round the Zero for the 60th Day of School!! Woo Hoo! Time flies when you're having FUN :)) We ended the day with anyone who wanted to enter their artwork in a voluntary Glover School Art Gallery exhibit getting it ready and some free choice time. It was all about TRIANGLES today! Ask your child how many vertices a triangle or square has???? ( 3 and 4 corners) How many sides does a triangle or square have???
Day 59: Morning Work was ABC and number puzzles. At Morning Meeting, Matteo was a great teacher's helper. We did calendar, weather, introduced new letters and sign language for Z and Qu "for Queen Perroni"!!
Our new sight words are "for", "they" and "have". Our new color of the week is WHITE. Mrs. Carroll read,
The Bear By: Raymond Briggs (He also wrote The Snowman), about a little girl's imaginary Polar Bear visit to her room one night! After snack/recess and Music, we did guided level reading groups and then they had Reader's
Workshop before a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. After lunch/recess, Anna read/sang
The Twelve Days of Christmas. Then Ms. Perroni read two chapters of Adventures of Frog and Toad
By: Arnold Lobel about how they became best friends. Then we had a Philosphy CIrcle to discuss "FRIENDSHIP".
After alphabet handwriting practice to music, they had a little free choice. Mrs. Carroll read two Hanukkah poems before we left for the day By: Lee Hopkins.
Our new sight words are "for", "they" and "have". Our new color of the week is WHITE. Mrs. Carroll read,
The Bear By: Raymond Briggs (He also wrote The Snowman), about a little girl's imaginary Polar Bear visit to her room one night! After snack/recess and Music, we did guided level reading groups and then they had Reader's
Workshop before a well-earned 10 Brownie Point free choice time. After lunch/recess, Anna read/sang
The Twelve Days of Christmas. Then Ms. Perroni read two chapters of Adventures of Frog and Toad
By: Arnold Lobel about how they became best friends. Then we had a Philosphy CIrcle to discuss "FRIENDSHIP".
After alphabet handwriting practice to music, they had a little free choice. Mrs. Carroll read two Hanukkah poems before we left for the day By: Lee Hopkins.
Day 58: Morning Work was trace and write numbers 1-5. We had a guest reader this morning! Isaiah's mom read,
a holiday classic, The Polar Express By: Chris Van Allsburg. After a toe-tapping morning greeting, Ms. Perroni
had them do yoga poses: m ountain, tree, star and moon for balance. They also learned to calm themselves down by pressing their hands together or making a fists by their sides and release after a few minutes. Then we did a fun letter/sounds workout on the smartboard. Before snack/recess, we traced our watercolor bird parts for our
Lois Ehlert art project. Before P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Andy was a great teacher's helper. He helped with the calendar and weather. We practiced sight words, letter sounds, December poems and sang our songs!
We did a rhyming song with the word p-i-g. Before lunch/recess, they cut out long strips of white paper and turned them into birch trees for our art project. After lunch/recess and Art, they glued birch trees and birds on background paper and spattered with white paint for a snowy winter scene! They look BEAUTIFUL for the hallway:)) We ended the day with Ms. Perroni reading, Pie in the Sky By: Lois Ehlert, which inspired this art project.
Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Hanukkah!
a holiday classic, The Polar Express By: Chris Van Allsburg. After a toe-tapping morning greeting, Ms. Perroni
had them do yoga poses: m ountain, tree, star and moon for balance. They also learned to calm themselves down by pressing their hands together or making a fists by their sides and release after a few minutes. Then we did a fun letter/sounds workout on the smartboard. Before snack/recess, we traced our watercolor bird parts for our
Lois Ehlert art project. Before P.E., we had Morning Meeting. Andy was a great teacher's helper. He helped with the calendar and weather. We practiced sight words, letter sounds, December poems and sang our songs!
We did a rhyming song with the word p-i-g. Before lunch/recess, they cut out long strips of white paper and turned them into birch trees for our art project. After lunch/recess and Art, they glued birch trees and birds on background paper and spattered with white paint for a snowy winter scene! They look BEAUTIFUL for the hallway:)) We ended the day with Ms. Perroni reading, Pie in the Sky By: Lois Ehlert, which inspired this art project.
Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Hanukkah!
Day 57: Reminder: Tomorrow is Glover Patriots Spirit Day! Wear Patriots clothing or red and blue colors!!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Ww book and practicing "w" handwriting worksheet. At Morning Meeting we did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language and letter sounds, songs and our December poem. We had a guest reader this morning! Grafton's mom read, If I Built a House
By: Chris Van Dusen. Before snack/recess, they did cut and glue numbers 1-20 and roll and write the sight word
worksheets. After snack/recess, we listened to Square Cat By: Elizabeth Schoonmaker on the smartboard.
For Go Math, they did Lesson 9.3 Identify and Name Squares worksheets. After Music, they chose which shape they'd rather be, a square or circle and they stood up for different "shape attributes" ie. curve, vertices, etc.
After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Wishy Washy Day By: Joy Cowley after they told her what "schema" they remembered from the other Wishy Washy books we read before. Ms. Perroni read, The Best Hanukkah Ever
By: Barbara Goldin and The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes By: Linda Glaser, in celebration of Hanukkah.
For Kindergarten Community Meeting they watched a sign language story on the smartboard and sang songs.
Before dismissal, Mrs. Carroll read, Celebrating Chanukah Eight Days By: Debbie Martinez. In recognition of Hanukkah, starting on Dec. 6th, there will be no homework next week.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Ww book and practicing "w" handwriting worksheet. At Morning Meeting we did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language and letter sounds, songs and our December poem. We had a guest reader this morning! Grafton's mom read, If I Built a House
By: Chris Van Dusen. Before snack/recess, they did cut and glue numbers 1-20 and roll and write the sight word
worksheets. After snack/recess, we listened to Square Cat By: Elizabeth Schoonmaker on the smartboard.
For Go Math, they did Lesson 9.3 Identify and Name Squares worksheets. After Music, they chose which shape they'd rather be, a square or circle and they stood up for different "shape attributes" ie. curve, vertices, etc.
After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Wishy Washy Day By: Joy Cowley after they told her what "schema" they remembered from the other Wishy Washy books we read before. Ms. Perroni read, The Best Hanukkah Ever
By: Barbara Goldin and The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes By: Linda Glaser, in celebration of Hanukkah.
For Kindergarten Community Meeting they watched a sign language story on the smartboard and sang songs.
Before dismissal, Mrs. Carroll read, Celebrating Chanukah Eight Days By: Debbie Martinez. In recognition of Hanukkah, starting on Dec. 6th, there will be no homework next week.
Day 56: Reminder: Tomorrow is PINK DAY! Have your child wear pink and bring in a pink snack??? (not required)
Morning Work was coloring objects to sort first letter sounds. After P.E., they cut out their objects and sorted and glued by first letter sound. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll started a new program, Second Steps: SKills for Social and Academic Success, to help with learning and social skills. We'll be doing one short lesson a week and homework will come home to help you reinforce the skills they learn at home. Lesson 1: Learning to Listen was how to be a good listener. Our friend, Puppy, showed how hard it is to listen when we're all excited and need to calm down and pay attention. We learned that 1. eyes watching 2. ears listening 3. voice quiet 4. body still
will help us be better listeners at school and at home.They sang the "Learner Song" to help them remember these
tips. For Go Math, they did Lesson 9.1 Identify and Name Circles worksheets. We learned about all kinds of shapes on the smartboard, even decagons!!! For Writer's Workshop, they continued to work hard on figuring out all their letter sounds and words independently, with less and less help from the teachers! After lunch/recess,
they finished working on a watercolor winter art project.
Morning Work was coloring objects to sort first letter sounds. After P.E., they cut out their objects and sorted and glued by first letter sound. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll started a new program, Second Steps: SKills for Social and Academic Success, to help with learning and social skills. We'll be doing one short lesson a week and homework will come home to help you reinforce the skills they learn at home. Lesson 1: Learning to Listen was how to be a good listener. Our friend, Puppy, showed how hard it is to listen when we're all excited and need to calm down and pay attention. We learned that 1. eyes watching 2. ears listening 3. voice quiet 4. body still
will help us be better listeners at school and at home.They sang the "Learner Song" to help them remember these
tips. For Go Math, they did Lesson 9.1 Identify and Name Circles worksheets. We learned about all kinds of shapes on the smartboard, even decagons!!! For Writer's Workshop, they continued to work hard on figuring out all their letter sounds and words independently, with less and less help from the teachers! After lunch/recess,
they finished working on a watercolor winter art project.
Day 55: Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Vv book and practicing handwriting "v" worksheet. At Community Meeting we cheered for Ms. Mostyn's Kindergarten class winning the token challenge this week! Now all 4 Kindergarten classes have earned the special tables for lunch and Rocky the lobster privileges. Mrs. Moss' 3rd Grade class put on two short plays they have worked on in class to act out Tall Tales they have been reading and bringing to life! Then our class did an assessment for ABC letters, beginning letter sounds, writing numbers 1-20 and recognizing shapes. After snack/recess, we did the vowel bat song. For
Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to and they are working really hard on sounding out their letters and words themselves. Then Ms. Perroni showed them how to read RazKids books on the smartboard. First listen to the story. Second read each word as you say it. And last, take a short quiz about the story for understanding the content. Everyone will get an account/password to do RazKids at home soon.
At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, "December" Maurice Sendak poem, songs and they illustrated our December paper calendar and their locker pictures for December. Ms. Perroni read,
The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers By: Lisa Ernst. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Congratulations, Lily Hammer received the "student of the week" pencil in Library today :)
Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to and they are working really hard on sounding out their letters and words themselves. Then Ms. Perroni showed them how to read RazKids books on the smartboard. First listen to the story. Second read each word as you say it. And last, take a short quiz about the story for understanding the content. Everyone will get an account/password to do RazKids at home soon.
At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, "December" Maurice Sendak poem, songs and they illustrated our December paper calendar and their locker pictures for December. Ms. Perroni read,
The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers By: Lisa Ernst. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Congratulations, Lily Hammer received the "student of the week" pencil in Library today :)
Day 54: Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives: geo boards, stencils, little blocks and colored cubes. At
Morning Meeting we did a whip to share what everyone did over the long weekend. Everyone ate a lot and had a lot of fun!! We did calendar, weather and added new sight words: "of", "you" and "she" and new letters: "w" and "v". Of course, there were new songs to learn! Then they did a pre-assessment for Go Math Chapter 9 all about shapes, curves, sides and vertices, to assesswhat they already know or don't know about shapes.
Ms. Perroni read, Bear in a Square By: Stella Blackstone. After snack/recess and Music, they did their Weekend News and tried to sound out all the words by themselves. For Fundations, they practiced handwriting "w" and "v" on their whiteboards. After lunch/recess, Amelia read A Fish out of Water "Dr. Seuss style". We learned a "Chicken Soup with Rice" song about all the month, from a CD that Leila brought in. Then they picked out numbers from our paper calendar and took off their locker turkeys! They practiced rhyming words on the smartboard. After free choice time, we ended the day sharing our Weekend News stories! They are becoming great writers and illustrators :))
Morning Meeting we did a whip to share what everyone did over the long weekend. Everyone ate a lot and had a lot of fun!! We did calendar, weather and added new sight words: "of", "you" and "she" and new letters: "w" and "v". Of course, there were new songs to learn! Then they did a pre-assessment for Go Math Chapter 9 all about shapes, curves, sides and vertices, to assesswhat they already know or don't know about shapes.
Ms. Perroni read, Bear in a Square By: Stella Blackstone. After snack/recess and Music, they did their Weekend News and tried to sound out all the words by themselves. For Fundations, they practiced handwriting "w" and "v" on their whiteboards. After lunch/recess, Amelia read A Fish out of Water "Dr. Seuss style". We learned a "Chicken Soup with Rice" song about all the month, from a CD that Leila brought in. Then they picked out numbers from our paper calendar and took off their locker turkeys! They practiced rhyming words on the smartboard. After free choice time, we ended the day sharing our Weekend News stories! They are becoming great writers and illustrators :))
Day 53: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Morning Work was Book Look choosing books from their book bags. After P.E., we emptied out all the book bags and sorted the Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving books and put all the books away! For Go Math, we did a Turkey Family project. They had to draw their turkey family and count how many beaks, heads, eyes, feet and feathers
they had!! After snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting, calendar, weather and then we played
"Swat a Sight Word" with fly swatters! Mrs. Carroll loved demonstrating the game with Ms. Perroni :))
Then they made a "We Like to" Thanksgiving flip book and a little "I Like Fall" color book. We ended the day with some free choice time. We wish all of you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving :))
Morning Work was Book Look choosing books from their book bags. After P.E., we emptied out all the book bags and sorted the Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving books and put all the books away! For Go Math, we did a Turkey Family project. They had to draw their turkey family and count how many beaks, heads, eyes, feet and feathers
they had!! After snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting, calendar, weather and then we played
"Swat a Sight Word" with fly swatters! Mrs. Carroll loved demonstrating the game with Ms. Perroni :))
Then they made a "We Like to" Thanksgiving flip book and a little "I Like Fall" color book. We ended the day with some free choice time. We wish all of you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving :))
Day 52: Reminder: Please send in a change of clothes long pants, long sleeve shirt, underwear and socks for winter months and a spare hat and mittens to keep in your child's locker, if needed.
Morning Work was a quick Book Look before we got ready for our Thanksgiving Show! Our class did their BEST
performance ever for their families this morning :)) We are so thankful for all your wonderful children and enjoy watching them grow and learn, in so many ways, every day!! Elise read her library book, The Deep Blue Sea, A Color Book, to the whole class! At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, letter sounds, songs and poems. They love the action song, "Go Bananas"! For Go Math, they did Lesson 4.7 Compare Two Numbers
worksheets. After snack/recess, we did reverse bingo with our magnetic alphabet tiles. We did the the turkey dance before Mrs. Carroll read, Thanksgiving Day By: Anne Rockwell - all about what our class has learned about the very first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts from England and the Wampanoag Native Americans taught them how to grow corn and hunt turkeys to survive. In the story the children put on a play and made costumes just like our paperbag vests and headbands with feathers!! Then we made a great Thanksgiving project! They made a "story bracelet" with different colored beads that symbolized a different part of their little
"My Thanksgiving Story Bracelet" book. Ask your child what each color stands for on their bracelet
(i.e. black - pilgrims, white - sails of Mayflower, blue - water. etc.) after they read their little book with you.
After lunch/recess and Library, they finished cutting and ordering the pages of their Thanksgiving little book. Then they did Writing WIzard on the ipads. Congratulations to Anna for being chosen "Student of the Week" in Library!
Morning Work was a quick Book Look before we got ready for our Thanksgiving Show! Our class did their BEST
performance ever for their families this morning :)) We are so thankful for all your wonderful children and enjoy watching them grow and learn, in so many ways, every day!! Elise read her library book, The Deep Blue Sea, A Color Book, to the whole class! At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, letter sounds, songs and poems. They love the action song, "Go Bananas"! For Go Math, they did Lesson 4.7 Compare Two Numbers
worksheets. After snack/recess, we did reverse bingo with our magnetic alphabet tiles. We did the the turkey dance before Mrs. Carroll read, Thanksgiving Day By: Anne Rockwell - all about what our class has learned about the very first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts from England and the Wampanoag Native Americans taught them how to grow corn and hunt turkeys to survive. In the story the children put on a play and made costumes just like our paperbag vests and headbands with feathers!! Then we made a great Thanksgiving project! They made a "story bracelet" with different colored beads that symbolized a different part of their little
"My Thanksgiving Story Bracelet" book. Ask your child what each color stands for on their bracelet
(i.e. black - pilgrims, white - sails of Mayflower, blue - water. etc.) after they read their little book with you.
After lunch/recess and Library, they finished cutting and ordering the pages of their Thanksgiving little book. Then they did Writing WIzard on the ipads. Congratulations to Anna for being chosen "Student of the Week" in Library!
Day 51: Reminder: Please have your child wear a white shirt tomorrow for our Thanksgiving Show. We hope to see you at 8:30 in the Cafetorium for the BIG SHOW :)
Monday Morning Manilpulatives for fine motor skills were small wood blocks, dominoes, and sorting.
At Morning Meeting we did a toe-tapping greeting to each other and brainstormed alliteration words that started with "m". For Go Math, we did a pattern song and a worksheet of AB, AABB, AAB and ABC patterns. Then they did a little Counting Pumpkins book with number sentences. After snack/recess and Music, we had Weekend News to do for Writer's Workshop. Then they learned a turkey dance before our First Grader, Mark Vinokur, was our guest reader. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, It's Thanksgiving By: Jack Prelutsky and Skippy jon Jones
By: Judy Schachner. We ended the day with free choice time and Afternoon Meeting. They did calendar, weather,
sight words and songs.
Monday Morning Manilpulatives for fine motor skills were small wood blocks, dominoes, and sorting.
At Morning Meeting we did a toe-tapping greeting to each other and brainstormed alliteration words that started with "m". For Go Math, we did a pattern song and a worksheet of AB, AABB, AAB and ABC patterns. Then they did a little Counting Pumpkins book with number sentences. After snack/recess and Music, we had Weekend News to do for Writer's Workshop. Then they learned a turkey dance before our First Grader, Mark Vinokur, was our guest reader. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, It's Thanksgiving By: Jack Prelutsky and Skippy jon Jones
By: Judy Schachner. We ended the day with free choice time and Afternoon Meeting. They did calendar, weather,
sight words and songs.
Day 50: Reminder: Scholastic Book Orders due on Monday, Nov. 23 (not required)
Morning Work was "How to Draw a Turkey" step by step drawing instructions and they did a WOW job!!
We had two First Grade guest readers today. Carolyn Black and Maria Sokolov were in our Kindergarten class last year. It's great to see what wonderful readers they have become! They read, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish By: Dr. Seuss. Morning Meeting was calendar, weather, they know all their sight words and sign language and sounds for 20 letters, songs, poems and Leila did a number sentence for 10 counters in a 10 frame. We did Circle Round the Zero for the 50th Day of School!! Time flies when you're having FUN :)) After snack/recess, For Go Math we did Lesson 4.6 Compare by Counting Sets to 10. After P.E., theyh had a 10 Brownie Point extra recess. After lunch/recess and Art, we played a less than, greater than dance game. Then we played I have __________,
Who has ______________ sight word game. We ended our day with free choice time. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Morning Work was "How to Draw a Turkey" step by step drawing instructions and they did a WOW job!!
We had two First Grade guest readers today. Carolyn Black and Maria Sokolov were in our Kindergarten class last year. It's great to see what wonderful readers they have become! They read, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish By: Dr. Seuss. Morning Meeting was calendar, weather, they know all their sight words and sign language and sounds for 20 letters, songs, poems and Leila did a number sentence for 10 counters in a 10 frame. We did Circle Round the Zero for the 50th Day of School!! Time flies when you're having FUN :)) After snack/recess, For Go Math we did Lesson 4.6 Compare by Counting Sets to 10. After P.E., theyh had a 10 Brownie Point extra recess. After lunch/recess and Art, we played a less than, greater than dance game. Then we played I have __________,
Who has ______________ sight word game. We ended our day with free choice time. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Day 49: Reminder: Tomorrow is GRAY DAY! Wear gray and bring in a gray???snack! (not required)
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Pp book and practice handwriting "P" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we sang Happy Birthday to Matteo :)) We did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language and sounds for 20 alphabet letters. We also sang the days of the week and month-a-rena.
For Go Math, they did Lesson 4.5 Problem Solving - Compare by Matching Sets of 10 worksheets. We had our Thanksgiving Show dress rehearsal today for the whole Glover School! They did an AMAZING job and each Kindergarten Class looked great in their costumes!! After snack/recess and Music, Matteo's mom was our guest reader. She read a great story, If I Built a Car By: Chris Van Dusen. After lunch/recess, we did counting by 2's song and dance and count by 10's to 100. Then they cut and pasted letters A to Z in order on a worksheet. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, we practiced our Thanksgiving Show songs all together again for the Parents' Show on Nov. 24 at 8:30AM. We ended the day with Anna sharing her book about Egyptian symbols.
Also, Congratulations to Leila for being chosen the "Student of the Week" in Library yesterday!
Also, thanks to Grafton for making writing workshop papers for everyone in the class to use!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Pp book and practice handwriting "P" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we sang Happy Birthday to Matteo :)) We did calendar, weather, sight words, sign language and sounds for 20 alphabet letters. We also sang the days of the week and month-a-rena.
For Go Math, they did Lesson 4.5 Problem Solving - Compare by Matching Sets of 10 worksheets. We had our Thanksgiving Show dress rehearsal today for the whole Glover School! They did an AMAZING job and each Kindergarten Class looked great in their costumes!! After snack/recess and Music, Matteo's mom was our guest reader. She read a great story, If I Built a Car By: Chris Van Dusen. After lunch/recess, we did counting by 2's song and dance and count by 10's to 100. Then they cut and pasted letters A to Z in order on a worksheet. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, we practiced our Thanksgiving Show songs all together again for the Parents' Show on Nov. 24 at 8:30AM. We ended the day with Anna sharing her book about Egyptian symbols.
Also, Congratulations to Leila for being chosen the "Student of the Week" in Library yesterday!
Also, thanks to Grafton for making writing workshop papers for everyone in the class to use!
Day 48: Morning Work was a quick Book Look with their book bags and they can choose any 5 books from the room to put in their book bags to read. After P.E., we practiced our Thanksgiving show songs on the risers with their shopping bag vests on, to get used to wearing them! Ms. Perroni read, Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving Dinner
By: Lillian Hoban. After snack/recess, for Go Math they did Lesson 4.4 Count and Order to 10 worksheets. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote "I like, I went or I can" stories. Then they colored and highlighted their little Jj books and practiced handwriting "j" worksheet. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a worldwide favorite, The Story of Ferdinand By: Munro Leaf about a peaceful bull who doesn't like to fight, but would rather smell the flowers!
We made a PEACE chart with "peace words" they came up with: harmony, quiet, calm, soft music, nice, using sign language, thankful, whispering and playing nicely. They listened to "Let There Be Peace on Earth" while coloring their peace symbol. We ended our day practicing for our Thanksgiving Show with all the Kindergarten classes.
You're going to love it!!!
By: Lillian Hoban. After snack/recess, for Go Math they did Lesson 4.4 Count and Order to 10 worksheets. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote "I like, I went or I can" stories. Then they colored and highlighted their little Jj books and practiced handwriting "j" worksheet. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read a worldwide favorite, The Story of Ferdinand By: Munro Leaf about a peaceful bull who doesn't like to fight, but would rather smell the flowers!
We made a PEACE chart with "peace words" they came up with: harmony, quiet, calm, soft music, nice, using sign language, thankful, whispering and playing nicely. They listened to "Let There Be Peace on Earth" while coloring their peace symbol. We ended our day practicing for our Thanksgiving Show with all the Kindergarten classes.
You're going to love it!!!
Day 47: Morning Work was a quick Book Look with easy reader books before a K-3 Glover School Community Meeting. We learned which classes won the token challenge for the past two weeks being respectful, reponsible, safe and kind in the halls, lunchroom and at recess. We thanked everyone for bringing in so much of their Halloween candy for our donation to "Treats for Troops"! They will really appreciate us thinking of them and sharing our candy with them!
Our next Glover School act of kindness will be explained further, but, at community meeting we discussed raising money for the Plummer House in Salem by Glover students earning money by doing chores for family and friends.
We had a whole Kindergarten rehearsal for our Thanksgiving Show that went really well with the music teachers.
At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and for Go Math they did a number 6 -10
worksheet practicing writing the number and representing the number in sets and 10 frames. After snack/recess,
Mrs. Carroll read, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving By: Dav Pilkey. Then we practiced handwriting "j" and "p" on our whiteboards and words pig, jig, log and dog. For Writer's Workshop, they could choose to write from one of these sentence starters: I can _____________, I like ______________ or I went _________________. They earned a 10 Brownie Point extra recess before lunch. After lunch/recess and Library, we made patterns for our Native American headbands for our costumes.
Our next Glover School act of kindness will be explained further, but, at community meeting we discussed raising money for the Plummer House in Salem by Glover students earning money by doing chores for family and friends.
We had a whole Kindergarten rehearsal for our Thanksgiving Show that went really well with the music teachers.
At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and for Go Math they did a number 6 -10
worksheet practicing writing the number and representing the number in sets and 10 frames. After snack/recess,
Mrs. Carroll read, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving By: Dav Pilkey. Then we practiced handwriting "j" and "p" on our whiteboards and words pig, jig, log and dog. For Writer's Workshop, they could choose to write from one of these sentence starters: I can _____________, I like ______________ or I went _________________. They earned a 10 Brownie Point extra recess before lunch. After lunch/recess and Library, we made patterns for our Native American headbands for our costumes.
Day 46: Morning Work was Monday Morning Manipulatives i.e. geo boards, cube grids, dominoes, pattern blocks and stencils. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, songs and poems. Our new sight words are "went", "am" and "dad". Our new letters are "p" and "j" and our new color for the week is "gray". For Mindful Monday they thought of ideas of how they could be mindful today to earn more tokens? Lots of good ideas: share swings at recess, wait in line to go down slide one at a time, be quiet in the hall or when a teacher asks you to focus in class, etc. For Go Math, they did combinations of 10 with red and yellow counters and recorded their answers after shaking up counters in a cup and putting them in a 10 frame. After snack/recess and Music, for Weekend News they brainstormed and wrote about "I went _____________" over the weekend. For more Go Math, they did Lesson 4.2 Count and Write 10 worksheets. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni went over Reader Stategies such as:
pointing to words as you read each word, making predictions looking at the pictures, using your schema about what you know about the story and then she read the easy reader books for "j", "p" and Splishy-Sploshy
By: Joy Cowley. After free choice time, we ended our day practicing our Thanksgiving songs.
pointing to words as you read each word, making predictions looking at the pictures, using your schema about what you know about the story and then she read the easy reader books for "j", "p" and Splishy-Sploshy
By: Joy Cowley. After free choice time, we ended our day practicing our Thanksgiving songs.
Day 45: Morning Work was finishing a-n-d little books and coloring and highlighting Kk little books and handwriting "k" worksheet. Morning Meeting was calendar, weather, sight words, songs, sign language, November poem, math problem with 5 red counters and 5 yellow counters equals 10 counters in the 10 frame. They all painted Native American symbols (i.e. for weather, hunting, designs, etc.) on their ""animal skin" shopping bag vests, for our costumes for the Thanksgiving Show. They look AWESOME :)) After snack/recess and P.E., we watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" on the smartboard. One of our all-time favorites from our childhood days! After lunch/recess and Art, we practiced our Thanksgiving Show songs, illustrated our BLACK poems for their poetry notebooks and ended the day with a well-earned free choice time. Have a wonderful weekend!!
Day 44: Reminder: Tomorrow is BLACK Day! Wear black and bring in a black snack. (not required).
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Hh book and practice handwriting "h" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words (difficult ones are "me", "my", "was",
"with" and "it". We went over our 18 letters, sounds and sign language. We thought of words that rhyme with
"cake". We learned our "November" Maurice Sendak poem. We did 10 frame number sentences with red and yellow counters. For Go Math, we did showing 10 with pictures, numbers and words on the smartboard. After snack, we went to see the First Grade Veterans Day performance. They did a great job singing patriotic songs and songs about World Peace :) We also recognized Mr. Ota, Mr. Mace( former Glover custodian) and Silas (nurse's assistant) for their service in the armed forces. After recess, we practiced handwriting l,h,k, g, s, e and t on our whiteboards. After Music, they worked in pairs to make trains of 10 in all different combinations of red and blue cubes. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, A Turkey For Thanksgiving By: Eve Bunting. Then they colored, cut and glued a-n-d on a little AND book. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, they practiced our Kindergartners Choose Kindness Pledge, "November" poem By: Maurice Sendak and all the Thanksgiving songs for our show!
We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, This First Thanksgiving Day, A Counting Story By: Laura Melmed.
They listened to see what was the same and what was different in this book compared to The First Thanksgiving book that Ms. Perroni read yesterday!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little Hh book and practice handwriting "h" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words (difficult ones are "me", "my", "was",
"with" and "it". We went over our 18 letters, sounds and sign language. We thought of words that rhyme with
"cake". We learned our "November" Maurice Sendak poem. We did 10 frame number sentences with red and yellow counters. For Go Math, we did showing 10 with pictures, numbers and words on the smartboard. After snack, we went to see the First Grade Veterans Day performance. They did a great job singing patriotic songs and songs about World Peace :) We also recognized Mr. Ota, Mr. Mace( former Glover custodian) and Silas (nurse's assistant) for their service in the armed forces. After recess, we practiced handwriting l,h,k, g, s, e and t on our whiteboards. After Music, they worked in pairs to make trains of 10 in all different combinations of red and blue cubes. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, A Turkey For Thanksgiving By: Eve Bunting. Then they colored, cut and glued a-n-d on a little AND book. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, they practiced our Kindergartners Choose Kindness Pledge, "November" poem By: Maurice Sendak and all the Thanksgiving songs for our show!
We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, This First Thanksgiving Day, A Counting Story By: Laura Melmed.
They listened to see what was the same and what was different in this book compared to The First Thanksgiving book that Ms. Perroni read yesterday!
Day 43: Reminder: No School tomorrow in honor of Veterans Day.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little "Ll" books and practicing writing the letter "l" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we sang Happy Birthday to Grafton! We did calendar, weather, sight words, songs, and 10 frame math problems. They all shared their AMAZING disguised turkeys before we hung them in the hall. Mrs. Carroll read, A Plump and Perky Turkey By: Teresa Bateman about a turkey that hid among "turkey themed arts and crafts turkeys, to escape being cooked for dinner! They colored a little book about the Little Old Lady Who ate Some Pie. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, The First Thanksgiving By: Garnet Jackson and we
talked about how the Pilgrims left England and landed in Plymouth, MA and after they survived the winter, they celebrated with the Native Americans who had taught them how to fish, hunt and grow crops. They had the very first big Thanksgiving feast together to celebrate all they were thankful for. Then they practiced "l", "h" and "k" handwriting on their whiteboards. Then they wrote about four different things that started with I like ____________.
Before lunch/recess, they made different combinations of 10 with red cubes and blue cubes to make a 10 cube train. After lunch/recess and Library, they did alphabet centers. Amelia earned the "Student of the Week" award in Library this week. Congratulations :) We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Veterans Day By: Mir Ansary
to explain why we have no school tomorrow, to honor the men and women in the armed services that give their service and lives for our country.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their little "Ll" books and practicing writing the letter "l" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we sang Happy Birthday to Grafton! We did calendar, weather, sight words, songs, and 10 frame math problems. They all shared their AMAZING disguised turkeys before we hung them in the hall. Mrs. Carroll read, A Plump and Perky Turkey By: Teresa Bateman about a turkey that hid among "turkey themed arts and crafts turkeys, to escape being cooked for dinner! They colored a little book about the Little Old Lady Who ate Some Pie. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, The First Thanksgiving By: Garnet Jackson and we
talked about how the Pilgrims left England and landed in Plymouth, MA and after they survived the winter, they celebrated with the Native Americans who had taught them how to fish, hunt and grow crops. They had the very first big Thanksgiving feast together to celebrate all they were thankful for. Then they practiced "l", "h" and "k" handwriting on their whiteboards. Then they wrote about four different things that started with I like ____________.
Before lunch/recess, they made different combinations of 10 with red cubes and blue cubes to make a 10 cube train. After lunch/recess and Library, they did alphabet centers. Amelia earned the "Student of the Week" award in Library this week. Congratulations :) We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Veterans Day By: Mir Ansary
to explain why we have no school tomorrow, to honor the men and women in the armed services that give their service and lives for our country.
Day 42: Reminder: Disguised turkeys are due tomorrow to decorate the hallway :)
Morning Work was Monday fine motor manipulatives: geo boards, peg boards and pattern blocks. At Morning Meeting, Ms. Perroni was so HAPPY to hear the class earned 10 Brownie points while she was out sick and the sub was so impressed with how awesome our class behaved and how well they did their work. We introduced our new letters, sounds and sign language for "h", "k" and "l" and new sight words "said", "like" and "yes" and the color "black". We learned all the new songs! For Go Math, we used counters to show different ways to make 5, 6 and 7 in a 10 frame. After snack/recess and Music, they shared ideas for their Weekend News in a circle. We're working on "mindful Monday" to make "WOW" illustrations - using lots of color and paying attention to include lots of details in their pictures. Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Dragon Gets By By: Dav Pelky. Everyone told Ms. Perroni their "schema" or what they know about Dragon before she read the story. After the story, they added more descriptions of Dragon that they learned from this story. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read the easy
reader books for "h", "l", "k" and "black". Then they had their well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra recess outdoors. Then they did rainbow sightwords - write the word and trace it with 3 different colors. We ended the day
practicing our Thanksgiving songs.
Morning Work was Monday fine motor manipulatives: geo boards, peg boards and pattern blocks. At Morning Meeting, Ms. Perroni was so HAPPY to hear the class earned 10 Brownie points while she was out sick and the sub was so impressed with how awesome our class behaved and how well they did their work. We introduced our new letters, sounds and sign language for "h", "k" and "l" and new sight words "said", "like" and "yes" and the color "black". We learned all the new songs! For Go Math, we used counters to show different ways to make 5, 6 and 7 in a 10 frame. After snack/recess and Music, they shared ideas for their Weekend News in a circle. We're working on "mindful Monday" to make "WOW" illustrations - using lots of color and paying attention to include lots of details in their pictures. Before lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Dragon Gets By By: Dav Pelky. Everyone told Ms. Perroni their "schema" or what they know about Dragon before she read the story. After the story, they added more descriptions of Dragon that they learned from this story. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read the easy
reader books for "h", "l", "k" and "black". Then they had their well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra recess outdoors. Then they did rainbow sightwords - write the word and trace it with 3 different colors. We ended the day
practicing our Thanksgiving songs.
Day 41: Morning Work was illustrating their BROWN poem for their poetry notebooks and doing roll and color the turkey with dice. At Morning Meeting we did calendar, weather, songs and they took turns saying all our sight words by themselves!! We have learned so many color words that they did a great job coloring a turkey using almost all the colors we have learned (except blue and purple). For Go Math, they did the Chapter 3 assessment on Numbers 6 through 9. After snack/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, Leaf Man By: Lois Ehlert. Everyone used leaf tracers to make their own leaf person or animal. Maybe they will find a "Leaf Man" outdoors this weekend when the leaves are blowing around! After P.E., we had a nice yoga class with Mrs. Thomas' class. We've learned lots of different poses and how to keep our whole bodies still for one whole minute! After lunch/recess and Art, they had some free choice time either outside or inside! We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading,
1,2,3 Thanksgiving! By: W. Nikola-Lisa, a counting to 10 book. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)
Hope Ms. Perroni is feeling better! We miss you! See you Monday :)
1,2,3 Thanksgiving! By: W. Nikola-Lisa, a counting to 10 book. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)
Hope Ms. Perroni is feeling better! We miss you! See you Monday :)
Day 40: Reminder: Tomorrow is BROWN DAY! Wear brown and bring in a brown snack. (not required)
Family Turkey Disguise projects went home in folders today. Please return your turkey in disguise by Nov. 10th for the hallway!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Ee book and they did a practice handwriting
"e" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and a math sentence problem.
They all did a great job and really impressed Mrs. Bowden, who helped us today because Ms. Perroni was out sick.
Mrs. Carroll read, Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten By: Joseph Slate. They knew every kind of animal in the story that began with a different letter of the alphabet. They practiced letters "u" and "e" and "s" on their whiteboards. For Go Math, we did Lesson 3.9 Problem Solving worksheets. After Music, they did roll and color the turkey with a dice. After lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll went over Ms. Perroni's lesson on how to draw pictures with lots of different colors and lots of details. Mrs. Carroll read, Thanksgiving is For Giving Thanks
By: Margaret Sutherland. Then they did WOW illustrations for I am Thankful for __________ with SO MANY colors
and details :) Ms. Perroni will be SO PROUD of hard they worked on their artwork! Then we went outside to do
Circle Round the Zero for the 40th day of School with School Secretary, Mrs. Hawlena! Time flies when you're having fun!! Before Kindergarten Community Meeting, Mrs. Carroll read, Wishy Washy Day By: Joy Cowley after
they shared the schema they already know about the story, from reading Mrs. Wishy Washy yesterday. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, after we said our Choose Kindness Pledge, Ms. Mostyn read, Turkey Trouble about a turkey that disguised himself to keep from getting eaten on Thanksgiving Day. We went over the family Turkey Disguise or Costume or dress-up project with everyone. We sang a few songs they have learned for our Kindergarten Thanksgiving Show. We ended our day with a little quiet free choice time :)
Family Turkey Disguise projects went home in folders today. Please return your turkey in disguise by Nov. 10th for the hallway!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Ee book and they did a practice handwriting
"e" worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, sight words, songs and a math sentence problem.
They all did a great job and really impressed Mrs. Bowden, who helped us today because Ms. Perroni was out sick.
Mrs. Carroll read, Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten By: Joseph Slate. They knew every kind of animal in the story that began with a different letter of the alphabet. They practiced letters "u" and "e" and "s" on their whiteboards. For Go Math, we did Lesson 3.9 Problem Solving worksheets. After Music, they did roll and color the turkey with a dice. After lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll went over Ms. Perroni's lesson on how to draw pictures with lots of different colors and lots of details. Mrs. Carroll read, Thanksgiving is For Giving Thanks
By: Margaret Sutherland. Then they did WOW illustrations for I am Thankful for __________ with SO MANY colors
and details :) Ms. Perroni will be SO PROUD of hard they worked on their artwork! Then we went outside to do
Circle Round the Zero for the 40th day of School with School Secretary, Mrs. Hawlena! Time flies when you're having fun!! Before Kindergarten Community Meeting, Mrs. Carroll read, Wishy Washy Day By: Joy Cowley after
they shared the schema they already know about the story, from reading Mrs. Wishy Washy yesterday. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, after we said our Choose Kindness Pledge, Ms. Mostyn read, Turkey Trouble about a turkey that disguised himself to keep from getting eaten on Thanksgiving Day. We went over the family Turkey Disguise or Costume or dress-up project with everyone. We sang a few songs they have learned for our Kindergarten Thanksgiving Show. We ended our day with a little quiet free choice time :)
Day 39: Reminder: Our Field Trip to Hammond Nature Center is cancelled for tomorrow. Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sightwords in their little Uu books and practicing handwriting "u" on a worksheet. After P.E., they finished morning work. At Morning Meeting we learned a turkey dance song and sang our Living and Non-living poem song. Mrs. Carroll read the easy reader books for Brown, "u" and "e". After snack/recess, we did Go Math on the smartboard, Model, Read and Write 9. Then they did Go Math Lesson 3.8 Count and Write 9 worksheets. Ms. Perroni read, Mrs. Wishy-Washy By: Joy Cowley
and then they colored their Who is in the Tub? little books. Before lunch/recess, they illustrated our November calendar dates and made turkeys by tracing their hands for their lockers. After lunch/recess, we played musical Alphabet, write the letters and they used the ipads in pairs to practice handwriting and alphabet and math apps.
Miss Angela, Glover occupational therapist, visited our class before dismissal to go over the proper way to use some seating cushions and exercises you can do in your seat, to help our posture and focus our attention for better learning.
and then they colored their Who is in the Tub? little books. Before lunch/recess, they illustrated our November calendar dates and made turkeys by tracing their hands for their lockers. After lunch/recess, we played musical Alphabet, write the letters and they used the ipads in pairs to practice handwriting and alphabet and math apps.
Miss Angela, Glover occupational therapist, visited our class before dismissal to go over the proper way to use some seating cushions and exercises you can do in your seat, to help our posture and focus our attention for better learning.
Day 38: School photos went home in the folders today :)
Morning Work was sorting living and non-living things on a worksheet. At Glover Community Meeting,
Principal Ota announced that our class won the token challenge by 1 token!!! We have "Rocky the Lobster"
in our classroom and they get to seat at special tables in the cafe for two weeks! Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll
are so PROUD of our class for working so hard to earn this honor by being kind, safe, respectful and responsible :)
We had a quick Morning Meeting and snack/recess before a special enrichment program, Hansel and Gretel, performed by the Tanglewood Marionettes. After the show, they had Writer's Workshop to write about their favorite part of the performance. Before lunch/recess, we started an art project and after Library we finished our colorful turkeys. We ended our day practicing a few of our Thanksgiving songs for our Thanksgiving Show on
Nov. 24th for Kindergarten parents. Congratulations to Grafton for being chosen for the Student of the Week in Library. (If I don't always catch who gets the "student of the week" pencil, you'll know when your child brings it home).
Morning Work was sorting living and non-living things on a worksheet. At Glover Community Meeting,
Principal Ota announced that our class won the token challenge by 1 token!!! We have "Rocky the Lobster"
in our classroom and they get to seat at special tables in the cafe for two weeks! Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll
are so PROUD of our class for working so hard to earn this honor by being kind, safe, respectful and responsible :)
We had a quick Morning Meeting and snack/recess before a special enrichment program, Hansel and Gretel, performed by the Tanglewood Marionettes. After the show, they had Writer's Workshop to write about their favorite part of the performance. Before lunch/recess, we started an art project and after Library we finished our colorful turkeys. We ended our day practicing a few of our Thanksgiving songs for our Thanksgiving Show on
Nov. 24th for Kindergarten parents. Congratulations to Grafton for being chosen for the Student of the Week in Library. (If I don't always catch who gets the "student of the week" pencil, you'll know when your child brings it home).
Day 37: Reminder: Please return your signed permission slip for our walking field trip on Nov. 5th to Hammond Nature Center. Keep sign language sheet at home. You'll be surprised at how many signs your child knows already! Please return the baggie and books to school tomorrow after reading the books with your child.
Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives with pattern blocks and using tweezers for sorting small objects.
We had another guest reader this morning. Amelia's brother, 3rd grader Nate read, Pete The Cat and the New Guy By: Kimberly and James Dean. Nate is performing in The Jungle Book production at the North Shore Music Theater on Nov. 20 at 7PM and Nov. 22 at 2PM. For our "MIndful Monday" morning meeting we took a moment to listen to what SOUNDS they could hear in the quiet classroom. After calendar, weather and going over sight words, we introduced new sight words: "me", "in" and "and" and the color BROWN and letters "u" and "e".
They practiced handwriting "u", "e" and "9" on whiteboards. Ms. Perroni read, WItches' Holiday By: Alice Low,
because Leila brought it in to share today. After Music, they wrote and illustrated their Weekend News and everyone shared their stories. Then we did leveled guided reading in pairs and they brought their books home to read with you. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, It Could Still be a Leaf and How do You Know It's Fall
By: Allan Fowler. They learned the difference between living and non-living things and sorted them on the smartboard. Living things need water, food and air to live and they move and grow. Then they went outside to find something that fit in their hand and got in a circle to decide if what they found was living or non-living.
We ended our day with some free choice time.
Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives with pattern blocks and using tweezers for sorting small objects.
We had another guest reader this morning. Amelia's brother, 3rd grader Nate read, Pete The Cat and the New Guy By: Kimberly and James Dean. Nate is performing in The Jungle Book production at the North Shore Music Theater on Nov. 20 at 7PM and Nov. 22 at 2PM. For our "MIndful Monday" morning meeting we took a moment to listen to what SOUNDS they could hear in the quiet classroom. After calendar, weather and going over sight words, we introduced new sight words: "me", "in" and "and" and the color BROWN and letters "u" and "e".
They practiced handwriting "u", "e" and "9" on whiteboards. Ms. Perroni read, WItches' Holiday By: Alice Low,
because Leila brought it in to share today. After Music, they wrote and illustrated their Weekend News and everyone shared their stories. Then we did leveled guided reading in pairs and they brought their books home to read with you. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, It Could Still be a Leaf and How do You Know It's Fall
By: Allan Fowler. They learned the difference between living and non-living things and sorted them on the smartboard. Living things need water, food and air to live and they move and grow. Then they went outside to find something that fit in their hand and got in a circle to decide if what they found was living or non-living.
We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 36: Morning Work was coloring their October Maurice Sendak poems and puppets to share with you and illustrating their PURPLE poem for their poetry notebooks. They did a count and write the number candy worksheet, too. We went to see the 4 first grade classes do their Wax Museums and they had amazing costumes and they all stayed frozen like statues for SO LONG! Our Kindergartners will love doing this Glover tradition next year! Then the 4 Kindergarten classes went by bus to the Devereux House to spread our Halloween spirit!!
Everyone loved our songs and they especially loved seeing the Kindergartners in all their great costumes and their smiling faces :)) After P.E., they saw our class pumpkin turn into a jack-o-lantern!! Ms. Perroni scraped out the inside and Mrs. Carroll carved the face - TEAMWORK :)) Then they saw all the Glover decorated pumpkins on display before lunch/recess. After Art, Ms. Perroni read, Click, Clack, Boo By: Doreen Cronin. For a treat, we ended our day with some free choice time :)) Congratulations to Finn Kelly for winning the random drawing of a gift certificate for a book, for decorating a pumpkin today. Hope everyone has a SAFE and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Everyone loved our songs and they especially loved seeing the Kindergartners in all their great costumes and their smiling faces :)) After P.E., they saw our class pumpkin turn into a jack-o-lantern!! Ms. Perroni scraped out the inside and Mrs. Carroll carved the face - TEAMWORK :)) Then they saw all the Glover decorated pumpkins on display before lunch/recess. After Art, Ms. Perroni read, Click, Clack, Boo By: Doreen Cronin. For a treat, we ended our day with some free choice time :)) Congratulations to Finn Kelly for winning the random drawing of a gift certificate for a book, for decorating a pumpkin today. Hope everyone has a SAFE and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Day 35: Reminder: Please have your child wear their costume over their clothes tomorrow (no masks and no accessories) and if you decorated a pumpkin for the Glover Pumpkin Display, please leave it by the front door at drop-off and pick it up at pick-up to take it home.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Ss books and practicing handwriting letter s worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather and went over all our sight words and sounds and sign language for all our letters. We practiced letter "s" and "8" on our white boards. Mrs. Carroll read a non-fiction book, Halloween By: David Marx about Halloween traditions and staying safe while trick or treating. After indoor
recess, we had our Halloween Class Party :)) Thanks to Trent's mom, Isaiah's mom, LIly's mom, Andy's mom and
Amelia's mom for organizing the supplies and setting up the fun Halloween BINGO game, crafts and snack stations. Also, thanks to everyone that sent in supplies! After Music, Ms. Perroni read. Monster Goose
By: Judy Sierra, "Halloween Mother Goose Rhymes". After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Arthur's Halloween
By: Marc Brown. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, we said our Choose Kindness pledge and practiced all our Halloween songs and "God Bless America" to bring some Halloween spirit to the Devereux House tomorrow.
They also sang 'Dem Bones :0 We ended our day with the Pirate action song!!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Ss books and practicing handwriting letter s worksheet. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather and went over all our sight words and sounds and sign language for all our letters. We practiced letter "s" and "8" on our white boards. Mrs. Carroll read a non-fiction book, Halloween By: David Marx about Halloween traditions and staying safe while trick or treating. After indoor
recess, we had our Halloween Class Party :)) Thanks to Trent's mom, Isaiah's mom, LIly's mom, Andy's mom and
Amelia's mom for organizing the supplies and setting up the fun Halloween BINGO game, crafts and snack stations. Also, thanks to everyone that sent in supplies! After Music, Ms. Perroni read. Monster Goose
By: Judy Sierra, "Halloween Mother Goose Rhymes". After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Arthur's Halloween
By: Marc Brown. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, we said our Choose Kindness pledge and practiced all our Halloween songs and "God Bless America" to bring some Halloween spirit to the Devereux House tomorrow.
They also sang 'Dem Bones :0 We ended our day with the Pirate action song!!
Day 34: Reminder: Tomorrow is PURPLE day! Wear purple and bring in a purple snack. (not required)
Our Halloween class party is tomorrow morning.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Dd books and practicing handwriting "d" worksheets. After P.E. and Morning Meeting, we practiced "God Bless America" for our field trip to Devereux House and they love Vowel Bat!! After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Dragon's Halloween By: Dav Pilkey. Before she started, they shared their "schema" about what they already know about Dragon. For Go Math, they did Lesson 3.6 Count and Write to 8 worksheets. Then we had guided level reading groups and a little Reader's Workshop time when they can read books they have chosen to read from our classroom that they put in their book bags. Mrs. Carroll read, It Didn't Frighten Me By: Janet Goss and Jerome Harste and they illustrated two pages of themselves in their bed and an animal in a tree for another Class book. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Moonlight the Halloween Cat By: Cynthia Rylant and Stellaluna By: Janell Cannon. They did a ven diagram of what's the same and different about bats and birds. After alphabet centers they paired up and had some ipad time with letter apps. We ended our day with a Dr. Seuss video about bats with the Cat in the Hat and echolocation!
Our Halloween class party is tomorrow morning.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Dd books and practicing handwriting "d" worksheets. After P.E. and Morning Meeting, we practiced "God Bless America" for our field trip to Devereux House and they love Vowel Bat!! After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Dragon's Halloween By: Dav Pilkey. Before she started, they shared their "schema" about what they already know about Dragon. For Go Math, they did Lesson 3.6 Count and Write to 8 worksheets. Then we had guided level reading groups and a little Reader's Workshop time when they can read books they have chosen to read from our classroom that they put in their book bags. Mrs. Carroll read, It Didn't Frighten Me By: Janet Goss and Jerome Harste and they illustrated two pages of themselves in their bed and an animal in a tree for another Class book. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Moonlight the Halloween Cat By: Cynthia Rylant and Stellaluna By: Janell Cannon. They did a ven diagram of what's the same and different about bats and birds. After alphabet centers they paired up and had some ipad time with letter apps. We ended our day with a Dr. Seuss video about bats with the Cat in the Hat and echolocation!
Day 33: Morning Work was making little spider books with a different number of "fingerprint" spiders with 8 legs, on each page. Then we had community meeting with grades K-3 and the whole school sang our Kindergarten Halloween songs together. The first grade described the Wax Museum Glover tradition that the rest of the school will be "treated" to see on Friday. The second grade described the "Treats for Troops" act of kindness idea for donating some of your Halloween candy and other items to be collected at Glover after Halloween and sent to our troops. You will also get a flyer explaining the Glover Pumpkin Day tradition where your child can bring a decorated pumpkin to school on Friday. The pumpkins are on display from drop-off until you take your pumpkin home at pick-up. (not required, but anyone participating will get a pencil and chance for a gift certificate to a book store). Before snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read another non-fiction book, Spiders By: Gail Gibbons. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, weather, our songs and filled our 10 frame with seven counters because 7 is the number of the day! For Go Math, they did Lesson 3.4 Count and Write to 7 worksheets. After snack, we did a graph to see how many people like spiders or not. Our information, or data, showed that more people like spiders and only girls in the class don't like spiders! Ms. Perroni read, The Very Busy Spider By: Eric Carle about a spider spinning her web all day long. Then they did a worksheet to show what the web looked like in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Then they practiced drawing an "artistic" web on the back. They did a "Mondrian" web with only red, blue and yellow colors and added a black spider with 8 legs to finish their project. We played "pumpkin, pumpkin big and round, pick a pumpkin and make the letter sound"! After lunch/recess and Library,
we had a philosophy circle about "is friendship important?", but the taking turns and really listening didn't work so well. We'll try again another day :) They did do a FANTASTIC job working together in small groups to create a Haunted House with different items needed for the whole project to be complete. GREAT TEAMWORK!! Everyone helped and they worked out who would draw what for their team project. We ended our day with more sharing photos of their families on the smartboard.
we had a philosophy circle about "is friendship important?", but the taking turns and really listening didn't work so well. We'll try again another day :) They did do a FANTASTIC job working together in small groups to create a Haunted House with different items needed for the whole project to be complete. GREAT TEAMWORK!! Everyone helped and they worked out who would draw what for their team project. We ended our day with more sharing photos of their families on the smartboard.
Day 32: Reminder: Our class party is on Thursday this week for Halloween. The sign up genie came via email for you to help out the room mothers planning our party. Thursday will be PURPLE day because on Friday your child will wear their costume over their clothes for our Halloween field trip to the Devereux House.
Morning Work was making patterns. For "Mindful Monday" Ms. Perroni read, What Does it Mean to be Present?
By: Rana DiOrio. Present is not about the President or presents, but it is about trying a few of the following:
- listening carefully when others speak
- noticing when someone needs help and taking the time to help them
- focus on what's happening right now vs. what's next
- wait patiently for your turn
- understanding that making mistakes is how we learn and grow
- being grateful for your family, friends and school
(we can concentrate on each of these and work on them all year long at home and at school)
At Morning Meeting, we introduced our new letters: "s" and "d" with sign language. We are half way through the alphabet already!!! 13 letters to go! Our new sight words are: "go", "to" and "my". We have 18 sight words so far!
We sang new songs for our sight words and the color PURPLE. For Go Math, Ms. Perroni introduced the
10 frame and how to write the number 6 and represent it with counters in a 10 frame. Before snack/recess, we did Go Math Lesson 3.2 Count and Write to 6 worksheets. Mrs. Carroll read, The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin By: Joe Troiano and Happy Halloween Mittens By: Lola Schaefer. After Music, Ms. Perroni read our
easy reader books for "s" and "d" and "purple". Then they practiced handwriting "s" and "d" on their whiteboards and the word dogs! For Weekend News, they wrote about one special thing they did this weekend and we shared our stories before lunch/recess. After recess, Ms. Perroni read a non-fiction book, Super Spiders By: Jason Blake
and introduced whawt "schema" is (relating what you already know to a new story). We ended our day with a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra outdoor recess :))
Morning Work was making patterns. For "Mindful Monday" Ms. Perroni read, What Does it Mean to be Present?
By: Rana DiOrio. Present is not about the President or presents, but it is about trying a few of the following:
- listening carefully when others speak
- noticing when someone needs help and taking the time to help them
- focus on what's happening right now vs. what's next
- wait patiently for your turn
- understanding that making mistakes is how we learn and grow
- being grateful for your family, friends and school
(we can concentrate on each of these and work on them all year long at home and at school)
At Morning Meeting, we introduced our new letters: "s" and "d" with sign language. We are half way through the alphabet already!!! 13 letters to go! Our new sight words are: "go", "to" and "my". We have 18 sight words so far!
We sang new songs for our sight words and the color PURPLE. For Go Math, Ms. Perroni introduced the
10 frame and how to write the number 6 and represent it with counters in a 10 frame. Before snack/recess, we did Go Math Lesson 3.2 Count and Write to 6 worksheets. Mrs. Carroll read, The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin By: Joe Troiano and Happy Halloween Mittens By: Lola Schaefer. After Music, Ms. Perroni read our
easy reader books for "s" and "d" and "purple". Then they practiced handwriting "s" and "d" on their whiteboards and the word dogs! For Weekend News, they wrote about one special thing they did this weekend and we shared our stories before lunch/recess. After recess, Ms. Perroni read a non-fiction book, Super Spiders By: Jason Blake
and introduced whawt "schema" is (relating what you already know to a new story). We ended our day with a well-earned 10 Brownie Point extra outdoor recess :))
Day 31: Morning Work was illustrating and highlighting sight words for their BLUE poem. Then they played Monster Roll the dice and cover the number with a friend. We went right into finishing our FUN FRIDAY pumpkin art project for the hallway this morning! Everyone did a great job making their own silly pumpkin faces - each one came out totally different with lots of the artist's personality showing :))
After yoga and snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting and did calendar, weather, days of the week, months, sight word songs and of course, the BLUE song. We showed them the globe and pointed out continents, our country, state and town and school address for geography. After P.E., they had a Science Investigation with Mrs. Carroll where they made scientific observations and predictions about our BIG pumpkin: the outside is, how many lines are on the pumpkin? how many cubes tall is the pumpkin? and toughest question, will it sink or float???? Then Mrs. Carroll read, Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night By: Anne Rockwell. All about picking and carving out a pumpkin.
After lunch/recess and Art, we found out the actual results for our pumpkin investigation. Ask your child if pumpkins sink or float and WHY????? We ended our day with the 12 Days of Halloween song on the smartboard.
After yoga and snack/recess, we had Morning Meeting and did calendar, weather, days of the week, months, sight word songs and of course, the BLUE song. We showed them the globe and pointed out continents, our country, state and town and school address for geography. After P.E., they had a Science Investigation with Mrs. Carroll where they made scientific observations and predictions about our BIG pumpkin: the outside is, how many lines are on the pumpkin? how many cubes tall is the pumpkin? and toughest question, will it sink or float???? Then Mrs. Carroll read, Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night By: Anne Rockwell. All about picking and carving out a pumpkin.
After lunch/recess and Art, we found out the actual results for our pumpkin investigation. Ask your child if pumpkins sink or float and WHY????? We ended our day with the 12 Days of Halloween song on the smartboard.
Day 30: Reminder: Tomorrow is BLUE day! Wear something blue and bring in a blue snack (not required).
Also, tomorrow is PIZZA day! Also, thanks for being great parents and returning permission slips, etc. so fast, much appreciated :))
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little "Gg" books. At Morning Meeting we talked about spaces between words in our morning message. We also talked about what makes a word rhyme with another word - they have the same ending sound. We so enjoyed having our first Guest Reader of the Year -
Matteo's big brother, 3rd Grader, Leonardo!! Ms. Perroni and I had in Leonardo in our first ever Double K kindergarten class! He read one of his family's favorite books, Harold and the Purple Crayon By: Crocket Johnson.
A MHS student based her commencement speech on that book! We practiced guided level reading groups for the first time with small groups. First we do a picture walk to see what the book is about and then we use our pointer fingers to read each word together. Amazing how many sight words they know and the pictures and sounding out the letters help them learn to figure out the words they don't recognize. You will be amazed down the road when they bring home a leveled book to READ to you or a sibling :) We finished up Morning Meeting with calendar, weather and patterns on the smartboard turned into "body pattterns" they come up with themselves. Before snack/recess, we did CIRCLE ROUND THE ZERO for the 30th day of school!!! After recess, Mrs. Carroll read,
The Costume Parade By: Rozanne WIlliams and The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin By: Margaret Wise Brown.
After Music, they worked on their little "Oo" books and handwriting practice the letter "g" worksheet. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Scaredy Cat, Splat By: Rob Scott and they finished their work and painting for an art project tomorrow. They read their O and G little books to themselves and brought them home today to read to you and put in their book boxes. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, we practiced our Kindergartners Choose Kindness Pledge, our Halloween songs for visiting The Devereux House next week and they sang Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom!
Also, tomorrow is PIZZA day! Also, thanks for being great parents and returning permission slips, etc. so fast, much appreciated :))
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little "Gg" books. At Morning Meeting we talked about spaces between words in our morning message. We also talked about what makes a word rhyme with another word - they have the same ending sound. We so enjoyed having our first Guest Reader of the Year -
Matteo's big brother, 3rd Grader, Leonardo!! Ms. Perroni and I had in Leonardo in our first ever Double K kindergarten class! He read one of his family's favorite books, Harold and the Purple Crayon By: Crocket Johnson.
A MHS student based her commencement speech on that book! We practiced guided level reading groups for the first time with small groups. First we do a picture walk to see what the book is about and then we use our pointer fingers to read each word together. Amazing how many sight words they know and the pictures and sounding out the letters help them learn to figure out the words they don't recognize. You will be amazed down the road when they bring home a leveled book to READ to you or a sibling :) We finished up Morning Meeting with calendar, weather and patterns on the smartboard turned into "body pattterns" they come up with themselves. Before snack/recess, we did CIRCLE ROUND THE ZERO for the 30th day of school!!! After recess, Mrs. Carroll read,
The Costume Parade By: Rozanne WIlliams and The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin By: Margaret Wise Brown.
After Music, they worked on their little "Oo" books and handwriting practice the letter "g" worksheet. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read, Scaredy Cat, Splat By: Rob Scott and they finished their work and painting for an art project tomorrow. They read their O and G little books to themselves and brought them home today to read to you and put in their book boxes. At Kindergarten Community Meeting, we practiced our Kindergartners Choose Kindness Pledge, our Halloween songs for visiting The Devereux House next week and they sang Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom!
Day 29: I missed everyone! Glad to be feeling better! Morning Work was roll the dice and cover the number game with a partner. After P.E., we had morning meeting and went over calendar, weather, new sight word songs for
"was", "with" and "he" and practiced our new letters "o" and "g". Before snack/recess, we had a
Go Math Chapter 2 assessment on same as, greater than and less than. We sang LOOK song and learned the
vowel Bat song to Batman tune! For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to write about. We thought about how to make their illustrations amazing or WOW drawings! They shared all their great illustrations and stories with each other. We ended the day with Alphabet BINGO and watched the retelling of
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything By: Linda Williams on the smartboard.
Have a nice afternoon :))
"was", "with" and "he" and practiced our new letters "o" and "g". Before snack/recess, we had a
Go Math Chapter 2 assessment on same as, greater than and less than. We sang LOOK song and learned the
vowel Bat song to Batman tune! For Writer's Workshop, they could write about anything they wanted to write about. We thought about how to make their illustrations amazing or WOW drawings! They shared all their great illustrations and stories with each other. We ended the day with Alphabet BINGO and watched the retelling of
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything By: Linda Williams on the smartboard.
Have a nice afternoon :))
Day 28:
Another busy day in Room 121. We started the day with Math Games and then headed off to Community Meeting to see who would win Rocky, the coveted lobster, and the primo seats in the cafetorium. We came OH SO CLOSE...but congratulations to Mrs. Thomas' class. We are going to try even harder the next two weeks. In the morning we continued to learn about 'greater than, less than and the same' in GO Math and practiced handwriting our new letters, 'o' and 'g' and there were never better lower case g's in all of kindergarten. After snack and recess, we had a big Reader's Workshop. Ms. Perroni read aloud, "There Was an Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda D. Williams and we colored and cut out story props to retell the story. We refilled out book reading bags and read silently and independently for 7 minutes! In the afternoon, we had a great library class where Mrs. Colby froze all the children in place! Ms. Perroni could NOT figure out what was going on. We rolled right our first Philosophy Circle and the topic was FRIENDSHIP. It was not the most amazing philosophy circle...but it takes baby steps:) Of course, the last 25 minutes was free choice time...ahhh!
WE MISS YOU MRS. CARROLL! FEEL BETTER SOON!
Another busy day in Room 121. We started the day with Math Games and then headed off to Community Meeting to see who would win Rocky, the coveted lobster, and the primo seats in the cafetorium. We came OH SO CLOSE...but congratulations to Mrs. Thomas' class. We are going to try even harder the next two weeks. In the morning we continued to learn about 'greater than, less than and the same' in GO Math and practiced handwriting our new letters, 'o' and 'g' and there were never better lower case g's in all of kindergarten. After snack and recess, we had a big Reader's Workshop. Ms. Perroni read aloud, "There Was an Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda D. Williams and we colored and cut out story props to retell the story. We refilled out book reading bags and read silently and independently for 7 minutes! In the afternoon, we had a great library class where Mrs. Colby froze all the children in place! Ms. Perroni could NOT figure out what was going on. We rolled right our first Philosophy Circle and the topic was FRIENDSHIP. It was not the most amazing philosophy circle...but it takes baby steps:) Of course, the last 25 minutes was free choice time...ahhh!
WE MISS YOU MRS. CARROLL! FEEL BETTER SOON!
Day 27:
The morning was chilly, so we started the day with the virtual, crackling fireplace on the team board! Morning work consisted of water coloring our leaf resist coloring from Friday. The fireplace was a great setting for a read aloud, so we switched it up and listened to a story before Meeting. Ms. Perroni read "I Will Take a Nap!" by Mo Willems and "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves" by Lucille Colandra. Matteo chose the greeting for meeting and we learned our new words: was, with, he and blue. We sang "Happy Birthday", jazzy version, to Lily. We headed out to a chilly recess...don't forget to send your child with a sweater/jacket and soon to be added, gloves and hats. LABEL EVERYTHING! We came in, started snack, headed off to music and then finished snack. Writer's Workshop was started with a sharing of fall activities that took place over the weekend. Our focus was on detailed illustrations, beginning our writing with either 'I' or 'We' and trying some sounds on our own or with a teacher. Morning extra recess in the driveway for earning TEN Brownie Points, followed by lunch and more recess!:) After lunch, Ms. Perroni read the letter books, 'o' and 'g' as well as the BLUE book. And of course another Lucille Colandra book - "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!". It's such fun to have the children join in with the repeating phrases. Quiet time, with a choice of Playdoh, reading or sketch pads for ten minutes and then we moved into alphabet games played in partners or with three. Mrs. Smith was so impressed walking by that she gave us a token:) We find out tomorrow which K class gets the special tables. Wish us luck! We have worked so very hard to get the most tokens, but Mrs. Thomas' class is tied with us! We ended the day with the Mystery Box and Anna guessed a roll of tape. FEEL BETTER, MRS. CARROLL!!!! WE MISS YOU:(
The morning was chilly, so we started the day with the virtual, crackling fireplace on the team board! Morning work consisted of water coloring our leaf resist coloring from Friday. The fireplace was a great setting for a read aloud, so we switched it up and listened to a story before Meeting. Ms. Perroni read "I Will Take a Nap!" by Mo Willems and "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves" by Lucille Colandra. Matteo chose the greeting for meeting and we learned our new words: was, with, he and blue. We sang "Happy Birthday", jazzy version, to Lily. We headed out to a chilly recess...don't forget to send your child with a sweater/jacket and soon to be added, gloves and hats. LABEL EVERYTHING! We came in, started snack, headed off to music and then finished snack. Writer's Workshop was started with a sharing of fall activities that took place over the weekend. Our focus was on detailed illustrations, beginning our writing with either 'I' or 'We' and trying some sounds on our own or with a teacher. Morning extra recess in the driveway for earning TEN Brownie Points, followed by lunch and more recess!:) After lunch, Ms. Perroni read the letter books, 'o' and 'g' as well as the BLUE book. And of course another Lucille Colandra book - "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!". It's such fun to have the children join in with the repeating phrases. Quiet time, with a choice of Playdoh, reading or sketch pads for ten minutes and then we moved into alphabet games played in partners or with three. Mrs. Smith was so impressed walking by that she gave us a token:) We find out tomorrow which K class gets the special tables. Wish us luck! We have worked so very hard to get the most tokens, but Mrs. Thomas' class is tied with us! We ended the day with the Mystery Box and Anna guessed a roll of tape. FEEL BETTER, MRS. CARROLL!!!! WE MISS YOU:(
Day 26: Reminder: Any little books that come home can go in your child's Book Box, if they fit!
Morning Work was illustrating their YELLOW and GREEN poems and highlighting the sight words for their Poetry Notebooks. We went on our first field trip for FUN FRIDAY :) We went by bus on our House Tour of Room 121 "Stars"! We had to walk down a few dead end streets, but it was great exercise and they picked up colorful leaves for an art project we did later in the day. Thanks to Matteo's mom, Trent's mom and Shane's dad for chaperoning!
After snack and P.E., we sorted our leaves from smallest to biggest. For our art project we did leaf rubbings with our leaves with the vein side up. They rubbed with a crayon over the leaf and Monday we will paint watercolors over the crayon to make it really bright! Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll read Leaf Jumpers By: Carole Gerber, all about different colors of leaves on different kinds of trees. We ended our day with free choice time.
Have a great weekend :))
Morning Work was illustrating their YELLOW and GREEN poems and highlighting the sight words for their Poetry Notebooks. We went on our first field trip for FUN FRIDAY :) We went by bus on our House Tour of Room 121 "Stars"! We had to walk down a few dead end streets, but it was great exercise and they picked up colorful leaves for an art project we did later in the day. Thanks to Matteo's mom, Trent's mom and Shane's dad for chaperoning!
After snack and P.E., we sorted our leaves from smallest to biggest. For our art project we did leaf rubbings with our leaves with the vein side up. They rubbed with a crayon over the leaf and Monday we will paint watercolors over the crayon to make it really bright! Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll read Leaf Jumpers By: Carole Gerber, all about different colors of leaves on different kinds of trees. We ended our day with free choice time.
Have a great weekend :))
Day 25: Reminder: Please put your child's STAR on your front door before our House Tour tomorrow AM.
Morning Work was coloring their little "LOOK" book and highlighting sight words they know. We did a math assessment to identify numbers 1-10. They made patterns using different colored cubes. They showed us
"less than", "greater than" and "same as" with the cubes to make longer and shorter and same length cube trains.
Then the whole class made a giant long cube train :) The best part was they put all the colored cubes back in trains of 10 to be ready for next time! At Morning Meeting we reviewed patterns. After snack/recess, we had a fire drill and our class did a great job lining up and walking to our designated area quietly. Then Ms. Perroni showed us her GIANT apple which went with one of her favorite books, A Friend For Dragon By: Dave PIlkey. It's all about a making friends. After Music, she finished the story about Dragon and his "apple" friend. After lunch/recess,
Ms. Perroni read, This is My House By: Arthur Dorros. We discussed different kinds of houses and learned about different kinds of houses that people live in all around the world. We did a whip and shared what is so special about our own houses. After free choice time, we ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting. They did their October poem and practiced our Halloween Songs for the Devereux Nursing Home field trip Oct. 30th.
Morning Work was coloring their little "LOOK" book and highlighting sight words they know. We did a math assessment to identify numbers 1-10. They made patterns using different colored cubes. They showed us
"less than", "greater than" and "same as" with the cubes to make longer and shorter and same length cube trains.
Then the whole class made a giant long cube train :) The best part was they put all the colored cubes back in trains of 10 to be ready for next time! At Morning Meeting we reviewed patterns. After snack/recess, we had a fire drill and our class did a great job lining up and walking to our designated area quietly. Then Ms. Perroni showed us her GIANT apple which went with one of her favorite books, A Friend For Dragon By: Dave PIlkey. It's all about a making friends. After Music, she finished the story about Dragon and his "apple" friend. After lunch/recess,
Ms. Perroni read, This is My House By: Arthur Dorros. We discussed different kinds of houses and learned about different kinds of houses that people live in all around the world. We did a whip and shared what is so special about our own houses. After free choice time, we ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting. They did their October poem and practiced our Halloween Songs for the Devereux Nursing Home field trip Oct. 30th.
Day 24: Reminder: Mini cups went home today to play the sight word or letter recognition game with your child. Also, Scholastic Book Order forms went home today and are due Oct. 21 (not required).
We were all SO HAPPY to see Ms. Perroni greet us all in the hall this morning :) After Book Look Morning Work and P.E., we had Morning Meeting. It was "Whispering Wednesday" to help Ms. Perroni feel better! We practiced ABAB and ABCABC patterns. For geography we learned: I've been in Kindergarten
At the Glover School
on 9 Maple Street
in the town of Marblehead
in the state of Massachusetts
in the country of USA
on the continent of North America
on the planet Earth
for 24 days!
We learned the "look" song. After snack/recess, we made our colorful stars for the "Stars" of our House Tour
by bus on Friday. Then Mrs. Carroll read the little book, Houses and they all colored their own little Houses book red, blue, pink, yellow, green and purple. After lunch/recess, they practiced Fly, Fly, Witchy in whispering singing voices! They were SO EXCITED to use the ipads for the first time today! Working in pairs they found letter writing, math games and geo boards to reinforce what they're learning in class. We ended our day with reviewing the days of the week and months of the year with fun songs on the smartboards.
We were all SO HAPPY to see Ms. Perroni greet us all in the hall this morning :) After Book Look Morning Work and P.E., we had Morning Meeting. It was "Whispering Wednesday" to help Ms. Perroni feel better! We practiced ABAB and ABCABC patterns. For geography we learned: I've been in Kindergarten
At the Glover School
on 9 Maple Street
in the town of Marblehead
in the state of Massachusetts
in the country of USA
on the continent of North America
on the planet Earth
for 24 days!
We learned the "look" song. After snack/recess, we made our colorful stars for the "Stars" of our House Tour
by bus on Friday. Then Mrs. Carroll read the little book, Houses and they all colored their own little Houses book red, blue, pink, yellow, green and purple. After lunch/recess, they practiced Fly, Fly, Witchy in whispering singing voices! They were SO EXCITED to use the ipads for the first time today! Working in pairs they found letter writing, math games and geo boards to reinforce what they're learning in class. We ended our day with reviewing the days of the week and months of the year with fun songs on the smartboards.
Day 23: Reminder: NO SCHOOL Oct. 12 - Columbus Day Holiday and Oct. 13 - Professional Development Day
Everyone looked good wearing GREEN today! We played music in the hall this morning and did the chicken dance, in Ms. Perroni's honor for FUN FRIDAY!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Rr book. Their Book Boxes are coming home today with some of their little books in it. When more little books come home in the future, they can read them to you and put them in their box. After Morning Meeting, Mrs. Carroll taught everyone a Christopher Columbus song and then we discussed the difference between a fiction, or make believe book and a non-fiction, or true story.
I read their first biography, Christopher Columbus By: Marion Bauer and then they did an AMAZING coloring job on their own little This IS Christopher Columbus books!! They had to write "is" on every page. After snack/recess,
Mrs. Carroll read, A House is a House for Me By: Mary Hoberman about how all animals, plants and things have different kinds of "houses" or places they live in. Even thoughts can be "housed" in your head! After P.E., we shared Yoga time with Mrs. Thomas' class. We learned yoga poses for volcano, slide, cat, cow mountain and flamingo. Good balancing and mindfulness practice. After lunch/recess and Art, we ended our day with a movie, Where the Wild Things Are and other stories by Maurice Sendak. That pretty much sums up our week! We survived and learned a lot, but, we all can't wait for Ms. Perroni to get better and be back in Room 121 :)
Have a wonderful LONG weekend!!!
Everyone looked good wearing GREEN today! We played music in the hall this morning and did the chicken dance, in Ms. Perroni's honor for FUN FRIDAY!
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words in their little Rr book. Their Book Boxes are coming home today with some of their little books in it. When more little books come home in the future, they can read them to you and put them in their box. After Morning Meeting, Mrs. Carroll taught everyone a Christopher Columbus song and then we discussed the difference between a fiction, or make believe book and a non-fiction, or true story.
I read their first biography, Christopher Columbus By: Marion Bauer and then they did an AMAZING coloring job on their own little This IS Christopher Columbus books!! They had to write "is" on every page. After snack/recess,
Mrs. Carroll read, A House is a House for Me By: Mary Hoberman about how all animals, plants and things have different kinds of "houses" or places they live in. Even thoughts can be "housed" in your head! After P.E., we shared Yoga time with Mrs. Thomas' class. We learned yoga poses for volcano, slide, cat, cow mountain and flamingo. Good balancing and mindfulness practice. After lunch/recess and Art, we ended our day with a movie, Where the Wild Things Are and other stories by Maurice Sendak. That pretty much sums up our week! We survived and learned a lot, but, we all can't wait for Ms. Perroni to get better and be back in Room 121 :)
Have a wonderful LONG weekend!!!
Day 22:Reminder: Please wear GREEN tomorrow and bring in a GREEN snack for GREEN DAY :)
(not required) Also, please return House Tour permission slips tomorrow because no school Mon. & Tues.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words their little Ii books. At Morning Meeting, Mrs. Carroll was AMAZED at how everyone could point at EACH sight word (9 words total to date) and say or read most of them 100%!! WOW!!! Then for Fundations we reviewed writing all 9 lower case letters and Mrs. Carroll was AMAZED again at the GREAT handwriting of all their letters!!! Then for Go Math we did Lesson 2.3 Less Than worksheets and a review worksheet on SAME, GREATER THAN and LESS THAN and Mrs. Carroll was AMAZED again at how great they all did on the review sheet!! After snack/recess and Music, Mrs. Carroll read, The PIgeon Finds a Hot Dog By: Mo Willems. Then they colored 3 toppings of any kind on their own hot dog! After lunch/recess, they worked in the most AMAZING quiet, kind, sharing way to decorate their book boxes for their little books.
Everyone said "this is more fun than a movie"! They loved decorating and took their time doing a great job.
They also did an AMAZING clean up job before all the other Kindergarten classes joined us for Kindergarten Community Meeting in our classroom. The whole Kindergarten sang Happy Birthday the Jazzy way to Elise :)
We practiced our Kindergarten Pledge and we learned two songs we're going to sing when we visit the
Devereux House at the end of the month to spread some Halloween Cheer. Please practice the words for Fly, Fly Witchy and the 5 Days of Halloween at home with your child. We ended our AMAZING DAY but we ALL MISS
Ms. Perroni SO MUCH! She is getting better and will return next week:)))))
(not required) Also, please return House Tour permission slips tomorrow because no school Mon. & Tues.
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words their little Ii books. At Morning Meeting, Mrs. Carroll was AMAZED at how everyone could point at EACH sight word (9 words total to date) and say or read most of them 100%!! WOW!!! Then for Fundations we reviewed writing all 9 lower case letters and Mrs. Carroll was AMAZED again at the GREAT handwriting of all their letters!!! Then for Go Math we did Lesson 2.3 Less Than worksheets and a review worksheet on SAME, GREATER THAN and LESS THAN and Mrs. Carroll was AMAZED again at how great they all did on the review sheet!! After snack/recess and Music, Mrs. Carroll read, The PIgeon Finds a Hot Dog By: Mo Willems. Then they colored 3 toppings of any kind on their own hot dog! After lunch/recess, they worked in the most AMAZING quiet, kind, sharing way to decorate their book boxes for their little books.
Everyone said "this is more fun than a movie"! They loved decorating and took their time doing a great job.
They also did an AMAZING clean up job before all the other Kindergarten classes joined us for Kindergarten Community Meeting in our classroom. The whole Kindergarten sang Happy Birthday the Jazzy way to Elise :)
We practiced our Kindergarten Pledge and we learned two songs we're going to sing when we visit the
Devereux House at the end of the month to spread some Halloween Cheer. Please practice the words for Fly, Fly Witchy and the 5 Days of Halloween at home with your child. We ended our AMAZING DAY but we ALL MISS
Ms. Perroni SO MUCH! She is getting better and will return next week:)))))
Day 21: Morning Work was Book Look with Level 1 and Level 2 easy readers. After P.E., we did a morning greeting with Mrs. Bowden and our little pumpkin. At Morning Meeting we did calendar, weather, all our letters and sign language and sight word review. After snack/recess, they did a great job on Go Math Lesson 2.1 Same Number and 2.2 Greater Than on the smartboard and worksheets. Mr. Ota visited our classroom during our math lesson and he gave us a token for working so hard! Then they did a little Apple Picking book about numbers 0-5 and colors red, yellow and green. Before lunch/recess, Mrs. Carroll read, The Napping Book By: Audrey Wood and they colored all the characters in the story. After recess, they cut out all the characters and remembered what order in the story they each slept on top of each other to glue on the paper they brought home today. For Writer's Workshop, they wrote about something they did or are going to do starting with the letter I or We. We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 20: Morning Work was alphabet choices: puzzles, stamping, chain links or checkers: NAME THAT LETTER!
We had a special enrichment program this morning with the whole Glover School K-3 enjoying the master storyteller, Odds Bodkin. He played an African instrument while telling a story from Africa about animals on the plain and a little turtle was the hero that remembered the name of the magic tree to drop it's fruit filled with water for all the animals. He told a story about the difference between the wind and the sun using warmth and kindness vs. cold and harshness to get someone to take off their coat and solve a problem together. His last story was from Italy about a sister that helped with chores and a sister that was lazy and not helpful. All his stories were filled with different voices and sound effects and music from his harp or guitar. We used our imaginations to picture the stories coming to life and think about choosing KINDNESS! After snack/recess, Mrs. Quinn read a few Fall poems and then we had Morning Meeting. We did calendar, weather and our new letters "i" and "r" and new sight words
look, we and mom. Before lunch/recess, we did a roll a dice and color the number worksheet and then practiced our writing 3's and 4's worksheets. After Library, they watercolored their fall leaf art project. We ended our day with doing Circle Round the Zero for DAY 20 with Mrs. Thomas' class.
We had a special enrichment program this morning with the whole Glover School K-3 enjoying the master storyteller, Odds Bodkin. He played an African instrument while telling a story from Africa about animals on the plain and a little turtle was the hero that remembered the name of the magic tree to drop it's fruit filled with water for all the animals. He told a story about the difference between the wind and the sun using warmth and kindness vs. cold and harshness to get someone to take off their coat and solve a problem together. His last story was from Italy about a sister that helped with chores and a sister that was lazy and not helpful. All his stories were filled with different voices and sound effects and music from his harp or guitar. We used our imaginations to picture the stories coming to life and think about choosing KINDNESS! After snack/recess, Mrs. Quinn read a few Fall poems and then we had Morning Meeting. We did calendar, weather and our new letters "i" and "r" and new sight words
look, we and mom. Before lunch/recess, we did a roll a dice and color the number worksheet and then practiced our writing 3's and 4's worksheets. After Library, they watercolored their fall leaf art project. We ended our day with doing Circle Round the Zero for DAY 20 with Mrs. Thomas' class.
Day 19: Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives and patterns. They all made wonderful patterns with geo boards, peg boards, cubes and pattern blocks. At Morning Meeting, everyone was AMAZING again with raising their hands with the RIGHT answers this morning about calendar (days of the week, months, year and dates) and
weather. We introduced new letters "r" and "i" and reviewed all our sign language. Our new sight words for the week are: we, look, MOM and green. After we did our new songs and October poem in a "witchy" voice,
Mrs. Carroll read the easy reader little books for Rr, Ii and Green. For Fundations, they practiced writing the letter "i" and "r" on their whiteboards and the words "rat", "cat", "car" and "far". Great handwriting today :)
Ms. Perroni was absent today and our sub, Mr. Levy, read one of his favorite Dr. Seuss books, It Happened on Mulberry Street before snack/recess. After Music, Mr. Levy read, The Teeny Tiny Ghost and the Monster
By: Kay Winters. We did a Morning Greeting with "Snowy" the owl to each other and brainstormed our
Weekend News ideas that could have a picture of themselves in the illustration. After lunch/recess, we had a fun Science activity. We made some educated guesses why leaves turn color before Mrs. Carroll read,
Why Do Leaves Change Color? By: Betsy Maestr. They learned that the cold temperatures, less sunlight and water in the Fall in New England are prime conditions for the green leaves to stop making sugar and when the green
"chlorophyll" fades the other bright pigments shine through like red, orange, and yellow. Then they traced and colored with crayons all different shapes and sizes of leaves to watercolor over tomorrow. Mrs. Carroll read,
The Leaves are Falling One By One By: Steve Metzger while they colored their bright leaves fall colors. For Reader's Workshop, they read any Fall book in the room for 5 min. We ended our day with a 10 Brownie Point well earned free choice time.
weather. We introduced new letters "r" and "i" and reviewed all our sign language. Our new sight words for the week are: we, look, MOM and green. After we did our new songs and October poem in a "witchy" voice,
Mrs. Carroll read the easy reader little books for Rr, Ii and Green. For Fundations, they practiced writing the letter "i" and "r" on their whiteboards and the words "rat", "cat", "car" and "far". Great handwriting today :)
Ms. Perroni was absent today and our sub, Mr. Levy, read one of his favorite Dr. Seuss books, It Happened on Mulberry Street before snack/recess. After Music, Mr. Levy read, The Teeny Tiny Ghost and the Monster
By: Kay Winters. We did a Morning Greeting with "Snowy" the owl to each other and brainstormed our
Weekend News ideas that could have a picture of themselves in the illustration. After lunch/recess, we had a fun Science activity. We made some educated guesses why leaves turn color before Mrs. Carroll read,
Why Do Leaves Change Color? By: Betsy Maestr. They learned that the cold temperatures, less sunlight and water in the Fall in New England are prime conditions for the green leaves to stop making sugar and when the green
"chlorophyll" fades the other bright pigments shine through like red, orange, and yellow. Then they traced and colored with crayons all different shapes and sizes of leaves to watercolor over tomorrow. Mrs. Carroll read,
The Leaves are Falling One By One By: Steve Metzger while they colored their bright leaves fall colors. For Reader's Workshop, they read any Fall book in the room for 5 min. We ended our day with a 10 Brownie Point well earned free choice time.
Day 18: Morning Work was cutting out their crows to add to their Fall colored background for our hallway art project. (THEY LOOK AMAZING!) We had community meeting with all Glover School this morning for Mr. Ota
to announce the winners for each grade for the two weeks of earning tokens. Our class was SO CLOSE, so we are VERY PROUD of how they have been choosing to be respectful, safe and responsible and KIND. They cheered for the winners this week and we hope it will be us another time. Keep up the good work!! After Morning Meeting, we had a little indoor tide pool fun. We watched a "real tide pool" song video from Maui on the smartboard. There were hand motions we learned to the song and they saw real sea stars, sea anemones, and hermit crabs! After snack/recess, we watched a tide pool video from Cape Cod with real crabs, razor clams, hermit crabs sea slugs and minnows. It was as if we were right in the tide pool seeing the real sea creatures under water! Everyone shared what sea creatures they have seen when they went tide pooling. After P.E., we did an estimation jar with 25 pieces of sea glass. Everyone guessed a number under 50, but nobody guessed 25! Then we made a graph of which sea creature they would like to be Crab, Clam or Fish and CRAB won!! Mrs. Carroll read, In One Tidepool, Crabs, Snails and Salty Tails By: Anthony Fredericks. After lunch/recess and Art, we did our own INDOOR TIDE POOL exploration in the water table and sand table!!! They uncovered or scooped up samples of tide pool creatures and looked at their samples under magnifiers. Then they sketched a drawing of what they found in our INDOOR TIDE POOL :)
We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Does Anyone Know Where a Hermit Crab Goes? By: Michael Glaser
and Starfish By: Edith Hurd. Have a wonderful weekend :))
to announce the winners for each grade for the two weeks of earning tokens. Our class was SO CLOSE, so we are VERY PROUD of how they have been choosing to be respectful, safe and responsible and KIND. They cheered for the winners this week and we hope it will be us another time. Keep up the good work!! After Morning Meeting, we had a little indoor tide pool fun. We watched a "real tide pool" song video from Maui on the smartboard. There were hand motions we learned to the song and they saw real sea stars, sea anemones, and hermit crabs! After snack/recess, we watched a tide pool video from Cape Cod with real crabs, razor clams, hermit crabs sea slugs and minnows. It was as if we were right in the tide pool seeing the real sea creatures under water! Everyone shared what sea creatures they have seen when they went tide pooling. After P.E., we did an estimation jar with 25 pieces of sea glass. Everyone guessed a number under 50, but nobody guessed 25! Then we made a graph of which sea creature they would like to be Crab, Clam or Fish and CRAB won!! Mrs. Carroll read, In One Tidepool, Crabs, Snails and Salty Tails By: Anthony Fredericks. After lunch/recess and Art, we did our own INDOOR TIDE POOL exploration in the water table and sand table!!! They uncovered or scooped up samples of tide pool creatures and looked at their samples under magnifiers. Then they sketched a drawing of what they found in our INDOOR TIDE POOL :)
We ended our day with Mrs. Carroll reading, Does Anyone Know Where a Hermit Crab Goes? By: Michael Glaser
and Starfish By: Edith Hurd. Have a wonderful weekend :))
Day 17: Reminder: Tomorrow is YELLOW day! Wear yellow and bring a yellow snack (not required).
Please return PTO forms and disregard if you already returned the forms. PTO orders and Scholastic book orders went home today.
Morning Work was painting with Fall watercolors a background for our Fall Artwork project for our hallway!
Then they colored and highlighted sight words in their little "Aa" books. Coloring is already so much better than a month ago! At Morning Meeting, we changed our smartboard to an OCTOBER calendar and did weather, songs and sight words: see, can, at and no. After snack/recess we had a Go Math assessment for Chapter One on
writing and counting numbers 0-5. After Music, Mrs. Carroll read, Room #121's new class book,
In Fall That Means ______________ and a library book, I Know It's Autumn By: Eileen Spinelli. After lunch/recess,
Ms. Perroni read her all time favorite book, Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake By: Michael Kaplan.
Everyone knows how much Ms. Perroni LOVES CHOCOLATE :) After quiet time we did literacy centers:
painting ABC's, Go Fish alphabet, Alphabet cups, Alphabet checkers and alphabet stamps. We ended our day with our Kindergarten Community Meeting in Mrs. Thomas' classroom. We learned some Fall poems and
month-a-rena! Ms. Perroni did fit in the mystery box before we left for the day and Finn guessed a piece of sea glass after hints: hard, different colors and search for it at the beach!!
Please return PTO forms and disregard if you already returned the forms. PTO orders and Scholastic book orders went home today.
Morning Work was painting with Fall watercolors a background for our Fall Artwork project for our hallway!
Then they colored and highlighted sight words in their little "Aa" books. Coloring is already so much better than a month ago! At Morning Meeting, we changed our smartboard to an OCTOBER calendar and did weather, songs and sight words: see, can, at and no. After snack/recess we had a Go Math assessment for Chapter One on
writing and counting numbers 0-5. After Music, Mrs. Carroll read, Room #121's new class book,
In Fall That Means ______________ and a library book, I Know It's Autumn By: Eileen Spinelli. After lunch/recess,
Ms. Perroni read her all time favorite book, Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake By: Michael Kaplan.
Everyone knows how much Ms. Perroni LOVES CHOCOLATE :) After quiet time we did literacy centers:
painting ABC's, Go Fish alphabet, Alphabet cups, Alphabet checkers and alphabet stamps. We ended our day with our Kindergarten Community Meeting in Mrs. Thomas' classroom. We learned some Fall poems and
month-a-rena! Ms. Perroni did fit in the mystery box before we left for the day and Finn guessed a piece of sea glass after hints: hard, different colors and search for it at the beach!!
Day 16: Reminder: Due to rain and cold weather on Friday our Tide Pool field trip is cancelled :(
We will do fun indoor Tide Pool activities and we will go to Grace Oliver's Beach in the Spring :)
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their Cc little book. After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. We did all our songs and letters and sight words. Different classmates picked a letter to do sign language and we guessed the letter. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni gave the class a lesson on how to draw a person with details from "head to toe". We're trying to draw people that don't look like "stick figures".
For Writer's Workshop, they drew themselves and wrote about something they like to do. After Readers
Workshop, we did Go Math Lesson 1.8 Count and Order to 5 worksheets. Mr. Ota visited our class during our math lesson and he gave our class a TOKEN for doing such great work! Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll were SO PROUD of everyone for paying attention and working so hard! After lunch/recess and their 10 Brownie Point extra recess, we illustrated our new October calendar dates and made a Fall picture for their lockers. Then we played musical tracing numbers and Cover That Number with a dice and cubes with a partner.
We will do fun indoor Tide Pool activities and we will go to Grace Oliver's Beach in the Spring :)
Morning Work was coloring and highlighting sight words for their Cc little book. After P.E., we had Morning Meeting. We did all our songs and letters and sight words. Different classmates picked a letter to do sign language and we guessed the letter. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni gave the class a lesson on how to draw a person with details from "head to toe". We're trying to draw people that don't look like "stick figures".
For Writer's Workshop, they drew themselves and wrote about something they like to do. After Readers
Workshop, we did Go Math Lesson 1.8 Count and Order to 5 worksheets. Mr. Ota visited our class during our math lesson and he gave our class a TOKEN for doing such great work! Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll were SO PROUD of everyone for paying attention and working so hard! After lunch/recess and their 10 Brownie Point extra recess, we illustrated our new October calendar dates and made a Fall picture for their lockers. Then we played musical tracing numbers and Cover That Number with a dice and cubes with a partner.
Day 15: Morning Work was all about the number 5! Trace it, write it and find it!
At Morning Meeting Luke did calendar and Clare did weather. We did the count by 5's song and Yellow, see, no, yes and can songs. We really thought about our Kindergarten Pledge and how to do our best all the time!
For Go Math, we showed different ways to show 5 with yellow and red counters i.e. 1 + 4, 2 + 3, 5 + 0 on the
smartboard. Then they did Lesson 1.7 Algebra - Ways to Make 5 worksheets. We made the LONGEST cube train in the classroom connecting ALL our red and blue train cubes. Valentina said "This took TEAMWORK to make this super long train together!" :)) After snack/recess, we put all the long cube train cubes into sets of 10. We went over all our letter sounds and sign language. We practiced writing the letter "c" and "a" on our whiteboards. We wrote the word "cat" and "fat". For Weekend News, they could write about something they did over the weekend or anything they wanted to write about. Ms. Perroni read, You Will be My Friend By: Peter Brown. Before lunch/recess, they watched Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom on the smartboard. Ms. Perroni started to read an easy
reader book, The Colors of Fall and then Isaiah showed how he can read the book by looking at the pictures to help with the words. Mrs. Carroll read, Going on a Leaf Hunt By: Steve Metzger. If your child finds a colorful leaf, please send it in for our class collection of different colored leaves: RED, ORANGE, or YELLOW! (Just like our color words - what a coincidence! HA!HA!) We brainstormed for writing It's Fall and That Means _______________
for another Room 121 book. After lunch/recess and Library, they finished illustrating our Fall Book pages.
Shane was our first classmate to earn the "student of the week" pencil in Library. Congrats, Shane!!
Ms. Perroni read, A Fine, Fine School By: Sharon Creech. We think Mr. Ota and everyone at Glover thinks that
Glover School is a fine, fine school :)) We ended our day with some free choice time.
At Morning Meeting Luke did calendar and Clare did weather. We did the count by 5's song and Yellow, see, no, yes and can songs. We really thought about our Kindergarten Pledge and how to do our best all the time!
For Go Math, we showed different ways to show 5 with yellow and red counters i.e. 1 + 4, 2 + 3, 5 + 0 on the
smartboard. Then they did Lesson 1.7 Algebra - Ways to Make 5 worksheets. We made the LONGEST cube train in the classroom connecting ALL our red and blue train cubes. Valentina said "This took TEAMWORK to make this super long train together!" :)) After snack/recess, we put all the long cube train cubes into sets of 10. We went over all our letter sounds and sign language. We practiced writing the letter "c" and "a" on our whiteboards. We wrote the word "cat" and "fat". For Weekend News, they could write about something they did over the weekend or anything they wanted to write about. Ms. Perroni read, You Will be My Friend By: Peter Brown. Before lunch/recess, they watched Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom on the smartboard. Ms. Perroni started to read an easy
reader book, The Colors of Fall and then Isaiah showed how he can read the book by looking at the pictures to help with the words. Mrs. Carroll read, Going on a Leaf Hunt By: Steve Metzger. If your child finds a colorful leaf, please send it in for our class collection of different colored leaves: RED, ORANGE, or YELLOW! (Just like our color words - what a coincidence! HA!HA!) We brainstormed for writing It's Fall and That Means _______________
for another Room 121 book. After lunch/recess and Library, they finished illustrating our Fall Book pages.
Shane was our first classmate to earn the "student of the week" pencil in Library. Congrats, Shane!!
Ms. Perroni read, A Fine, Fine School By: Sharon Creech. We think Mr. Ota and everyone at Glover thinks that
Glover School is a fine, fine school :)) We ended our day with some free choice time.
Day 14: Morning Work was all about the alphabet!! Alphabet puzzles, lotto and bingo!
We were the first class for School pictures today :) The photographer said our kindergartners were better at following directions than high schoolers!! We earned so many Brownie Points and Tokens today for being good in the hall, at picture taking and in Music :)) At Morning Meeting we introduced the letters "a" and "ca" and reviewed all our sign language for all the letters we've learned. Mrs. Carroll spelled C-A-T with sign language because now we know C - A- T sign language!! I have two cats :) We learned new songs for YELLOW, and sight words: no, yes,
at and see. Elise did calendar and Luke did the weather today. We did the count by 5's song.
After snack/recess and Music, Ms. Perroni read, If You Take a Mouse to School By: Laura Numeroff.
Before lunch/recess they did a little book: I See (2 of different things). Ms. Perroni read the little easy reader books Aa, Cc and Yellow. Then they illustrated their ORANGE poems for their poetry notebooks and highlighted the letter "a" and "c" in their September poems and made a puppet for paddling down the chicken soupy Nile!
After lunch/recess they played the Sight Work cup game (they will get a small cup version to play at home with you soon). Then they played Alphabet BINGO!! We ended our day with some Free Choice time.
We were the first class for School pictures today :) The photographer said our kindergartners were better at following directions than high schoolers!! We earned so many Brownie Points and Tokens today for being good in the hall, at picture taking and in Music :)) At Morning Meeting we introduced the letters "a" and "ca" and reviewed all our sign language for all the letters we've learned. Mrs. Carroll spelled C-A-T with sign language because now we know C - A- T sign language!! I have two cats :) We learned new songs for YELLOW, and sight words: no, yes,
at and see. Elise did calendar and Luke did the weather today. We did the count by 5's song.
After snack/recess and Music, Ms. Perroni read, If You Take a Mouse to School By: Laura Numeroff.
Before lunch/recess they did a little book: I See (2 of different things). Ms. Perroni read the little easy reader books Aa, Cc and Yellow. Then they illustrated their ORANGE poems for their poetry notebooks and highlighted the letter "a" and "c" in their September poems and made a puppet for paddling down the chicken soupy Nile!
After lunch/recess they played the Sight Work cup game (they will get a small cup version to play at home with you soon). Then they played Alphabet BINGO!! We ended our day with some Free Choice time.
Day 13: Reminder: Monday is School Photo Day!
Morning Work was coloring the word orange in the farmer's tree. At Morning Meeting Shane did calendar, Elise did weather and we did our count by 5's to 100 song. Of course we sang our ORANGE song and red, it, is the and can songs. Ask you child to recite the September poem - I bet they know the whole poem by the end of each month! Ms. Perroni did a WONDERFUL Yoga exercise for FUN FRIDAY :) At the end of the session, we closed our eyes and imagined being in a forest of all kinds of fruit trees, candy trees, make a wish trees, etc. You could pick your favorite tree and feel the bark, smell/taste the fruit or candy, climb to the top and rest against the tree when you climbed back down and breathe in the oxygen from the tree and give the tree your exhaled CO2.
After snack/recess, we did Mega Math with Tally on the smartboard counting cows on a tightrope. Then we did
Go Math Lesson 1.5 Model and Count 5 worksheets. After P.E., they had earned an extra 10 Brownie Point free choice time for the whole class being AWESOME walking quietly in the hall to yoga, doing yoga so well on their mats and rolling up their own mats and putting them away the right way :)) After lunch/recess and Art, they had free choice time. Have a wonderful FALL weekend!!
Morning Work was coloring the word orange in the farmer's tree. At Morning Meeting Shane did calendar, Elise did weather and we did our count by 5's to 100 song. Of course we sang our ORANGE song and red, it, is the and can songs. Ask you child to recite the September poem - I bet they know the whole poem by the end of each month! Ms. Perroni did a WONDERFUL Yoga exercise for FUN FRIDAY :) At the end of the session, we closed our eyes and imagined being in a forest of all kinds of fruit trees, candy trees, make a wish trees, etc. You could pick your favorite tree and feel the bark, smell/taste the fruit or candy, climb to the top and rest against the tree when you climbed back down and breathe in the oxygen from the tree and give the tree your exhaled CO2.
After snack/recess, we did Mega Math with Tally on the smartboard counting cows on a tightrope. Then we did
Go Math Lesson 1.5 Model and Count 5 worksheets. After P.E., they had earned an extra 10 Brownie Point free choice time for the whole class being AWESOME walking quietly in the hall to yoga, doing yoga so well on their mats and rolling up their own mats and putting them away the right way :)) After lunch/recess and Art, they had free choice time. Have a wonderful FALL weekend!!
Day 12: Reminder: Wear orange and bring in an orange snack tomorrow for ORANGE day! (not required)
Morning Work was making their little Nn Books. At Morning Meeting Mrs. Worrick, ELL Tutor, gave the class a token for paying attention and participating so well during brainstorming rhyming words for H-A-T.
Valentina learned how to do calendar on the smartboard and Shane did the weather. We did our songs and poems for Mrs. Worrick and during our Lock Down drill she gave our class another token for being SO QUIET and sitting still the whole entire time we practiced sign language silently. Everyone in the class did an AWESOME job :)
For Go Math, they worked on Lesson 1.4 Count and Write 3 and 4 worksheets. Before snack/recess,
Clare and Elise sang a song for us and Anna read, Cooking with the Cat By: Dr. Seuss. We practiced days of the week, months of the year, phone numbers and addresses. After Music, they brainstormed ideas for writing and
illustrating "I can ____________". After lunch/recess, they learned Days of the Week, "Adams Family style" song.
Ms. Perroni read, Cookies Week By: Cindy Ward and Illustrated by: Tomie dePaola.
Then they watched another version of Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom and colored and stamped coconut trees that showed the beginning, middle and end of the story. We ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting.
They practiced the Kindergarten Choose Kindness Pledge, Going on a Bear Hunt and the September poem.
After a short Quiet Time, it was time to pack up and go home.
Morning Work was making their little Nn Books. At Morning Meeting Mrs. Worrick, ELL Tutor, gave the class a token for paying attention and participating so well during brainstorming rhyming words for H-A-T.
Valentina learned how to do calendar on the smartboard and Shane did the weather. We did our songs and poems for Mrs. Worrick and during our Lock Down drill she gave our class another token for being SO QUIET and sitting still the whole entire time we practiced sign language silently. Everyone in the class did an AWESOME job :)
For Go Math, they worked on Lesson 1.4 Count and Write 3 and 4 worksheets. Before snack/recess,
Clare and Elise sang a song for us and Anna read, Cooking with the Cat By: Dr. Seuss. We practiced days of the week, months of the year, phone numbers and addresses. After Music, they brainstormed ideas for writing and
illustrating "I can ____________". After lunch/recess, they learned Days of the Week, "Adams Family style" song.
Ms. Perroni read, Cookies Week By: Cindy Ward and Illustrated by: Tomie dePaola.
Then they watched another version of Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom and colored and stamped coconut trees that showed the beginning, middle and end of the story. We ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting.
They practiced the Kindergarten Choose Kindness Pledge, Going on a Bear Hunt and the September poem.
After a short Quiet Time, it was time to pack up and go home.
Day 11: Reminder: NO SCHOOL TOMORROW in honor of Yom Kippur. Scholastic Book orders are due Thursday, Sept. 24. (not required).
Morning Work was making their little Mm Books. Please send in a shoebox or cereal box for your child to decorate. They will keep all their "little books" in their own Book Box at home to share with you. Before Morning Meeting we had Community Meeting. Mr. Ota told the school that our lobster mascot's name is ROCKY and he's been happy with the hallway and lunchroom behavior :) K and 1st grade had a fun program with Officer Phil to go over safe, respectful and responsible behavior in school and tips to remember what to do if a stranger bothers you. Students should remember: 1. "If you don't know, DON'T GO!" 2. Run and yell for help 3. Go to a safe place to tell an adult what happened. They all enjoyed the magic tricks and the Buddy the Dog puppet! A fun workbook went home today to do with your child. At Morning Meeting, Finn did calendar and weather for someone absent.
Ask your child what a palindrome number is?? 22 or 131 (same forwards or backwards!) We did the September poem and Kindergarten Pledge about choosing to be kind to each other. They love our orange, red, is, it, the and can songs. Trent showed how to use a five frame to count 3 items. After snack/recess, we did Go Math
Lesson 1.3 Model and Count 3 and 4 worksheets. Then we practiced writing 3 and 4 on our whiteboards.
We made a little book See the Fall Fun and cut and paste letters for t-h-e before lunch/recess. After Library,
we played Musical Alphabet writing. We ended our day with free choice and Mrs. Carroll read,
Apples, Apples, Apples By: Nancy Wallace for everyone going apple picking this FALL!!!!
Morning Work was making their little Mm Books. Please send in a shoebox or cereal box for your child to decorate. They will keep all their "little books" in their own Book Box at home to share with you. Before Morning Meeting we had Community Meeting. Mr. Ota told the school that our lobster mascot's name is ROCKY and he's been happy with the hallway and lunchroom behavior :) K and 1st grade had a fun program with Officer Phil to go over safe, respectful and responsible behavior in school and tips to remember what to do if a stranger bothers you. Students should remember: 1. "If you don't know, DON'T GO!" 2. Run and yell for help 3. Go to a safe place to tell an adult what happened. They all enjoyed the magic tricks and the Buddy the Dog puppet! A fun workbook went home today to do with your child. At Morning Meeting, Finn did calendar and weather for someone absent.
Ask your child what a palindrome number is?? 22 or 131 (same forwards or backwards!) We did the September poem and Kindergarten Pledge about choosing to be kind to each other. They love our orange, red, is, it, the and can songs. Trent showed how to use a five frame to count 3 items. After snack/recess, we did Go Math
Lesson 1.3 Model and Count 3 and 4 worksheets. Then we practiced writing 3 and 4 on our whiteboards.
We made a little book See the Fall Fun and cut and paste letters for t-h-e before lunch/recess. After Library,
we played Musical Alphabet writing. We ended our day with free choice and Mrs. Carroll read,
Apples, Apples, Apples By: Nancy Wallace for everyone going apple picking this FALL!!!!
Day 10: Reminder: Math workbooks are coming home today and should stay at home all year.
You can return math homework or keep at home. The homework is to reinforce what we do in class.
Morning Work was alphabet puzzles, alphabet lotto, matching upper and lower case letters.
At Morning Meeting we explained that Glover tokens are starting to be given out this week for good behavior and acts of kindness noticed by other staff members. Luke and Grafton earned our first two tokens for sharing the swings and asking if someone was OK at recess. We assigned classroom jobs today and everyone will get a different job every day. Isaiah did calendar and Finn did weather today. We learned a new sight word "can" song and went over the orange, red, it, is and the songs. We did our September poem and the Kindergarten Pledge.
We voted for our Glover Lobster mascot name. Our class picked Rocky. Have to wait and see what name gets the most votes. For Weekend News we shared our stories with the microphone before snack/recess. After Music,
Ms. Perroni read, Click, Clack, Moo By: Doreen Cronin. For Go Math, we used the smartboard to count and identify 3 and 4. For Reader's Workshop, they could Look at Pictures, Read Words or re-tell the Story for 2 min. We build up stamina over time for reading for more minutes to themselves. Ms. Perroni read, Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom By: Bill Martin and John Archambault and illustrated by Lois Ehlert, to work on our lower case leters. They colored a worksheet with a palm tree and all the letters of the alphabet. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read an
alphabetical adventure, Click, Clack, Quackety, Quack By: Doreen Cronin. After Quiet Time, we played
Musical Alphabet writing. When the music stopped, they wrote the letter where they stopped. Before Free Choice time, we went outside and made a BIG CIRCLE for our first class Circle Round the Zero for being in school for
10 days!!! Time flies when you're having fun :))
You can return math homework or keep at home. The homework is to reinforce what we do in class.
Morning Work was alphabet puzzles, alphabet lotto, matching upper and lower case letters.
At Morning Meeting we explained that Glover tokens are starting to be given out this week for good behavior and acts of kindness noticed by other staff members. Luke and Grafton earned our first two tokens for sharing the swings and asking if someone was OK at recess. We assigned classroom jobs today and everyone will get a different job every day. Isaiah did calendar and Finn did weather today. We learned a new sight word "can" song and went over the orange, red, it, is and the songs. We did our September poem and the Kindergarten Pledge.
We voted for our Glover Lobster mascot name. Our class picked Rocky. Have to wait and see what name gets the most votes. For Weekend News we shared our stories with the microphone before snack/recess. After Music,
Ms. Perroni read, Click, Clack, Moo By: Doreen Cronin. For Go Math, we used the smartboard to count and identify 3 and 4. For Reader's Workshop, they could Look at Pictures, Read Words or re-tell the Story for 2 min. We build up stamina over time for reading for more minutes to themselves. Ms. Perroni read, Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom By: Bill Martin and John Archambault and illustrated by Lois Ehlert, to work on our lower case leters. They colored a worksheet with a palm tree and all the letters of the alphabet. After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read an
alphabetical adventure, Click, Clack, Quackety, Quack By: Doreen Cronin. After Quiet Time, we played
Musical Alphabet writing. When the music stopped, they wrote the letter where they stopped. Before Free Choice time, we went outside and made a BIG CIRCLE for our first class Circle Round the Zero for being in school for
10 days!!! Time flies when you're having fun :))
Day 9: Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives. At Morning Meeting we did calendar, weather, the orange, red, it, is and the songs and we went over the Kindergartners Choose Kindness Pledge and September poem.
Everyone is doing a great job learning sign language and sounds for "t", "'b", "f", "m" and "n". After meeting, they colored and cut their butterflies for yoga spots. After snack/recess, they brainstormed ideas of things that are RED
for illustrating their first poem "RED" for their poetry notebooks. After P.E., Ms. Perroni read both Room 121 books that the class made for our Open House: In Kindergarten I Can ________________ and Don't Let the Pigeon drive __________. Then they played "I have __ letter, Who Has ___ letter?" before lunch/recess. After Art, we had free choice with Mrs. Thomas' class. It was great to see so many parents last night at our Parents' Night!
Have a great weekend :))
Everyone is doing a great job learning sign language and sounds for "t", "'b", "f", "m" and "n". After meeting, they colored and cut their butterflies for yoga spots. After snack/recess, they brainstormed ideas of things that are RED
for illustrating their first poem "RED" for their poetry notebooks. After P.E., Ms. Perroni read both Room 121 books that the class made for our Open House: In Kindergarten I Can ________________ and Don't Let the Pigeon drive __________. Then they played "I have __ letter, Who Has ___ letter?" before lunch/recess. After Art, we had free choice with Mrs. Thomas' class. It was great to see so many parents last night at our Parents' Night!
Have a great weekend :))
Day 8 : Morning Work was fine motor manipulatives: water and sand tables, geo boards, tweezers to pick up and sort objects, or building geo shapes. At Morning Meeting we did calendar and weather. They know the orange, red, is, it and the songs. We went over our letters and sign language for "t", "b", "f", "m" and "n". We did our September poem and ended with our Morning Message. Mrs. Carroll gave the class a Brownie Point for being such good listeners and raising their hands with amazing answers!! For Fundations we practiced writing"m" and "n" on our whiteboards and we practiced writing the number 1 and 2. For Go Math, we did Lesson 1.2 Count and Write 1 and 2 worksheets. Then we had time for the "it" song and "is" song on the smartboard and we listened to Pete The Cat and the New Guy on the smartboard, too! After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni showed them how to read our easy reader little books using the pictures to sound out the "m", "n" and color words. After Music, they wrote "In Kindergarten I can ___________" to make a book for Room 121. After lunch/recess, we voted on our lobster mascot name: Slither! Ms. Perroni read, Pete the Cat and the New Guy By: Kimberly & James Dean and they came up with "schema" about what they know about Pete the Cat from reading different books about him.
After some Quiet Time, they had a turn at a different Center: Pop, Go Fish, Alphabet Puzzles or practice handwriting on whiteboards. We ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting in Ms. Mostyn's room.
We learned our Kindergarten Pledge to "Choose Kindness" by being respectful, safe and responsible in many different ways throughout the day, i.e. "play fair", "clean up after myself" and "be the best that I can be, all the time!".
Mrs. Carroll read, The Color Box, By: Dayle Ann Dodds and Illustrated by Salem cut-paper artist, Giles
Laroche, in honor of all the colors we are learning about before we left for the day.
After some Quiet Time, they had a turn at a different Center: Pop, Go Fish, Alphabet Puzzles or practice handwriting on whiteboards. We ended our day with Kindergarten Community Meeting in Ms. Mostyn's room.
We learned our Kindergarten Pledge to "Choose Kindness" by being respectful, safe and responsible in many different ways throughout the day, i.e. "play fair", "clean up after myself" and "be the best that I can be, all the time!".
Mrs. Carroll read, The Color Box, By: Dayle Ann Dodds and Illustrated by Salem cut-paper artist, Giles
Laroche, in honor of all the colors we are learning about before we left for the day.
Day 7: Reminder: Open House is tomorrow at 6-7PM. Hope to see you all in Room 121 after general meeting in the cafetorium at 6:00. Morning Work was Book Look before Community Meeting. Principal Ota explained to all the students K-3 that they can earn a token for good behavior from any staff member that's not their classroom teacher. Tokens earned by students will be collected at the main office and every two weeks classroom totals will be tallied and the class with the highest number per grade level will get to sit at the window tables for two weeks at lunch time. This is a schoolwide goal to promote and support positive behavior throughout Glover School. At Morning Meeting,
we learned a new sight word song for "is" and the orange song. We also introduced new letters and sign language for "m" and "n". They earned their first 10 Brownie Point extra recess this morning!! After snack/recess, we did
Curious George Math on the smartboard to learn numbers 1 and 2 with pictures, numbers and words.
Then we did worksheets for Go Math Lesson 1.1 Hands on Model and Count 1 and 2. They used counters to show 1 and 2 counters in a five frame! After an elbow greeting with each other, we brainstormed ideas for
Weekend News. We did a whip around the circle of one favorite thing they did over the long weekend. After writing (sounding out first letters of words) and illustrating we shared our stories.
Mrs. Carroll read, The PIgeon Finds a Hot Dog! By: Mo Willems, before lunch/recess. After recess,
Ms. Perroni read, My Friend Is Sad By: Mo Willems. After Quiet Time, they had a choice of one center today and will do the rest tomorrow. Center Choices were: Pop game with alphabet letters, Go Fish, Practice handwriting letters on whiteboards and BIG Alphabet puzzles. We ended our day with free choice time.
we learned a new sight word song for "is" and the orange song. We also introduced new letters and sign language for "m" and "n". They earned their first 10 Brownie Point extra recess this morning!! After snack/recess, we did
Curious George Math on the smartboard to learn numbers 1 and 2 with pictures, numbers and words.
Then we did worksheets for Go Math Lesson 1.1 Hands on Model and Count 1 and 2. They used counters to show 1 and 2 counters in a five frame! After an elbow greeting with each other, we brainstormed ideas for
Weekend News. We did a whip around the circle of one favorite thing they did over the long weekend. After writing (sounding out first letters of words) and illustrating we shared our stories.
Mrs. Carroll read, The PIgeon Finds a Hot Dog! By: Mo Willems, before lunch/recess. After recess,
Ms. Perroni read, My Friend Is Sad By: Mo Willems. After Quiet Time, they had a choice of one center today and will do the rest tomorrow. Center Choices were: Pop game with alphabet letters, Go Fish, Practice handwriting letters on whiteboards and BIG Alphabet puzzles. We ended our day with free choice time.
Day 6:
We finished up our last letter book of the week - f fun 'f' and then played the Race to the Cup game. We practiced the Pledge of Allegiance so that we can keep up with Mr. Ota's morning announcement!
Our first yoga class took place in the cafe at 9AM. Ask about the butterflies and the resting story about riding in a hot air balloon. The kids loved it and were excellent at rolling up their mats! We had recess indoors as it was a bit drizzly...look for the pics under the photo tab. Since we were inside, Ms. Perroni took the opportunity to measure all the kids and mark it on the closet with tape. After snack, we read our three little books all together, practicing pointing to the words.
Finally!!! We had a full PE class! Mr. Fargo practiced a fire drill and a lockdown. After gym we practiced a lockdown in the classroom. In kindergarten, we explain a lockdown as a reverse firedrill and we have to sit quietly. It is when we need to stay in for whatever reason. An example of a downed electrical wire was given. We try to keep the reasons as light and general as we can. None of the kids seemed concerned, but let us know if there is an issue.
Our first GO Math lesson with the Smartboard was next. The kids did two pages and then played a math game with a partner. Success!
Time for lunch, followed by recess and our first art class with Mrs. Guthartz. We had Friday choice time with Mrs. Thomas' class. We swapped half a class. HAPPY LONG WEEKEND!
We finished up our last letter book of the week - f fun 'f' and then played the Race to the Cup game. We practiced the Pledge of Allegiance so that we can keep up with Mr. Ota's morning announcement!
Our first yoga class took place in the cafe at 9AM. Ask about the butterflies and the resting story about riding in a hot air balloon. The kids loved it and were excellent at rolling up their mats! We had recess indoors as it was a bit drizzly...look for the pics under the photo tab. Since we were inside, Ms. Perroni took the opportunity to measure all the kids and mark it on the closet with tape. After snack, we read our three little books all together, practicing pointing to the words.
Finally!!! We had a full PE class! Mr. Fargo practiced a fire drill and a lockdown. After gym we practiced a lockdown in the classroom. In kindergarten, we explain a lockdown as a reverse firedrill and we have to sit quietly. It is when we need to stay in for whatever reason. An example of a downed electrical wire was given. We try to keep the reasons as light and general as we can. None of the kids seemed concerned, but let us know if there is an issue.
Our first GO Math lesson with the Smartboard was next. The kids did two pages and then played a math game with a partner. Success!
Time for lunch, followed by recess and our first art class with Mrs. Guthartz. We had Friday choice time with Mrs. Thomas' class. We swapped half a class. HAPPY LONG WEEKEND!
Day 5: For Morning Work they did their Little Letter "Bb" Book today and earned a Brownie Point for WOW
coloring and getting right to work. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar and went over the months of the year and learned who had a birthday in each month of the year. We learned our September poem By: Maurice Sendak
all about chicken soup with rice! They know the R-E-D and T-H-E songs already :)) For Fundations we went over
"t", "b" and "f" with sign language.
Ms. Perroni went over Three ways to Read a Book:
1. Read the words
2. Read the pictures
3. Retell the story
They did a Pete's Groovy Buttons book with stamping the right number of buttons for Pete the Cat.
We practiced writing "f" on our whiteboards. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read Pete The Cat and His Groovy Buttons. Before Music, they made a little frog art project for the letter "f" and we hang our 16 frogs in the hall
for all to see :) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus By: Mo Willems.
After Quiet Time, they made our first Room 121 Class Book: Don't Let the Pigeon drive the ___________.
They played Race to Fill the Cup Game with 1 dice and cubes. We ended our day with our Kindergarten
Community Meeting with all the Kindergarten Classes. Everyone thought of ideas of how Kindergartners can be Respectful, Safe and Responsible in the classroom and throughout Glover School. Then we did the Macarena Month Song all together. We also did the Birthday Month song with everyone and they stood up when we sang the month their birthday is in.
coloring and getting right to work. At Morning Meeting, we did calendar and went over the months of the year and learned who had a birthday in each month of the year. We learned our September poem By: Maurice Sendak
all about chicken soup with rice! They know the R-E-D and T-H-E songs already :)) For Fundations we went over
"t", "b" and "f" with sign language.
Ms. Perroni went over Three ways to Read a Book:
1. Read the words
2. Read the pictures
3. Retell the story
They did a Pete's Groovy Buttons book with stamping the right number of buttons for Pete the Cat.
We practiced writing "f" on our whiteboards. After snack/recess, Ms. Perroni read Pete The Cat and His Groovy Buttons. Before Music, they made a little frog art project for the letter "f" and we hang our 16 frogs in the hall
for all to see :) After lunch/recess, Ms. Perroni read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus By: Mo Willems.
After Quiet Time, they made our first Room 121 Class Book: Don't Let the Pigeon drive the ___________.
They played Race to Fill the Cup Game with 1 dice and cubes. We ended our day with our Kindergarten
Community Meeting with all the Kindergarten Classes. Everyone thought of ideas of how Kindergartners can be Respectful, Safe and Responsible in the classroom and throughout Glover School. Then we did the Macarena Month Song all together. We also did the Birthday Month song with everyone and they stood up when we sang the month their birthday is in.
Day 4: For Morning Work they did their first Little Letter Book "Tt". They wrote "t", highlighted "t's" and "a" and colored their book. During P.E., Mr. Fargo assisted our class for a bus evacuation drill with the other Kindergarten classes. He said our class earned their first Brownie Point of the year for sitting quietly on the bus when the fireman gave us directions about wearing seatbelts and filing slowly and quietly off the back of the bus, if we needed an emergency exit. The WHOLE class can earn a Brownie Point for good behavior from any teacher at Glover and after they earn 10 Brownie Points, the class will get an extra recess!! At Morning Meeting, we did calendar, the R-E-D song (to learn to spell our colors) and the T-H-E song (to learn to spell our sight words).
Mrs. Carroll started a "toe tapping" morning greeting to help us learn our new friends' names. After snack/recess,
Ms. Perroni read, Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner By: Amy Schwartz. For Fundations, we used our whiteboards to practice writing "t" and "b". They did a fabulous job!! Then we worked on a "T" worksheet for writing and cutting practice, and gluing Upper case and Lower case t's in separate boxes. For Go Math, we started Chapter 1
Represent, Count and Write Numbers 0 to 5. They watched Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons on the Smartboard. After lunch/recess, they enjoyed quiet time. Ms. Perroni read, Kindergarten Rocks! By: Katie Davis.
We played "I Have, You Have ABC's" game. We ended the day with reading easy reading RED books and t, b or f
books to each other. STAY COOL :)
Mrs. Carroll started a "toe tapping" morning greeting to help us learn our new friends' names. After snack/recess,
Ms. Perroni read, Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner By: Amy Schwartz. For Fundations, we used our whiteboards to practice writing "t" and "b". They did a fabulous job!! Then we worked on a "T" worksheet for writing and cutting practice, and gluing Upper case and Lower case t's in separate boxes. For Go Math, we started Chapter 1
Represent, Count and Write Numbers 0 to 5. They watched Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons on the Smartboard. After lunch/recess, they enjoyed quiet time. Ms. Perroni read, Kindergarten Rocks! By: Katie Davis.
We played "I Have, You Have ABC's" game. We ended the day with reading easy reading RED books and t, b or f
books to each other. STAY COOL :)
Day 3: National Literacy Day! For Morning Work they did fine motor manipulatives i.e. pattern blocks, geo boards, legos or stringing beads. For Morning Meeting we said the Pledge, did a "Greet by Name" and introduced letters
"t", "b" and "f" with sign language! Homework went home today and can be returned the following Monday (or first day back to school after the weekend). For a Brain Break, they learned the action song, "Mother Gooney Bird". We had 6th grade Reading Buddies visit our class today (they walked all the way from Village School) to read to our Kindergartners. After snack/recess, we practiced another fire drill and everyone did a great job walking quickly and quietly. For Math today, we sang the Body Part Song and counted to 10 forwards and backwards.
Ms. Perroni read, Math Every Day, Counting 1 to 10 By: Daniel Nunn. Then we showed them their Go Math Workbooks. We worked on Fall Festival worksheets on Number and Operations, "Count How Many".
Then they did a Back to School roll and color worksheet with 1 dice to identify their numbers.
For Writer's Workshop they did their Weekend News. They can draw an illustration or write their words first. They practiced writing "I". We had time to share our stories with the microphone!! Everyone had a wonderful Labor Day Weekend :) We did our Count By 5's song before lunch/recess. They had their first Library class with
our Librarian, Mrs. Colby. They can check out a book the next time they have library if they return their library homework. We ended our day with practicing our letters for the week, "t", "b" and "f" and they had free choice before dismissal. We all survived the HOT, HOT day :))
Day 2: Morning Work was Roll and Color the Number with 1 dice. At Morning Meeting we celebrated our first birthday of the year because Trent's birthday is tomorrow! We sang Happy Birthday! and he got a birthday sticker.
We went over a poem, "My First Day" and circled the word "see". Then they made Pete the Cat puppets to use when Pete the Cat sang in Pete The Cat, I Love My White Shoes. Mrs. Perroni went over what "cause and effect" in a story means i.e. because Pete stepped in water, then his shoes got wet!! They did a fun worksheet with Mrs. Perroni using the overhead to show what color Pete's Shoes changed to because of what he stepped in.
Mrs. Carroll read, Pete the Cat and The New Guy By: Kimberly and James Dean. After snack/.recess, they worked on a little counting book, "I see" and highlighted "I". After Music with Mrs. Fraser, they finished their writing about something they did over summer vacation and illustrated it. After lunch/recess, we all needed a "spritz" again! They watched Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes on the Smartboard. We LOVE our Smartboard!! Quiet time choice was playdoh or sketch pads. We practiced our first fire drill and they did a great job walking and being quiet! We will practice again on Tuesday morning. After Free Choice time, all the four Kindergarten classes got together for a community meeting and to get to know each other :)) Before we left for the day, Mrs. Carroll read,
The Weirs, A Winnipesaukee Adventure By: Andy Opal because it's her favorite place to go from Memorial Day to Columbus Day! It's been a great start to the school year :)) Have a wonderful, long Labor Day Weekend!!
"t", "b" and "f" with sign language! Homework went home today and can be returned the following Monday (or first day back to school after the weekend). For a Brain Break, they learned the action song, "Mother Gooney Bird". We had 6th grade Reading Buddies visit our class today (they walked all the way from Village School) to read to our Kindergartners. After snack/recess, we practiced another fire drill and everyone did a great job walking quickly and quietly. For Math today, we sang the Body Part Song and counted to 10 forwards and backwards.
Ms. Perroni read, Math Every Day, Counting 1 to 10 By: Daniel Nunn. Then we showed them their Go Math Workbooks. We worked on Fall Festival worksheets on Number and Operations, "Count How Many".
Then they did a Back to School roll and color worksheet with 1 dice to identify their numbers.
For Writer's Workshop they did their Weekend News. They can draw an illustration or write their words first. They practiced writing "I". We had time to share our stories with the microphone!! Everyone had a wonderful Labor Day Weekend :) We did our Count By 5's song before lunch/recess. They had their first Library class with
our Librarian, Mrs. Colby. They can check out a book the next time they have library if they return their library homework. We ended our day with practicing our letters for the week, "t", "b" and "f" and they had free choice before dismissal. We all survived the HOT, HOT day :))
Day 2: Morning Work was Roll and Color the Number with 1 dice. At Morning Meeting we celebrated our first birthday of the year because Trent's birthday is tomorrow! We sang Happy Birthday! and he got a birthday sticker.
We went over a poem, "My First Day" and circled the word "see". Then they made Pete the Cat puppets to use when Pete the Cat sang in Pete The Cat, I Love My White Shoes. Mrs. Perroni went over what "cause and effect" in a story means i.e. because Pete stepped in water, then his shoes got wet!! They did a fun worksheet with Mrs. Perroni using the overhead to show what color Pete's Shoes changed to because of what he stepped in.
Mrs. Carroll read, Pete the Cat and The New Guy By: Kimberly and James Dean. After snack/.recess, they worked on a little counting book, "I see" and highlighted "I". After Music with Mrs. Fraser, they finished their writing about something they did over summer vacation and illustrated it. After lunch/recess, we all needed a "spritz" again! They watched Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes on the Smartboard. We LOVE our Smartboard!! Quiet time choice was playdoh or sketch pads. We practiced our first fire drill and they did a great job walking and being quiet! We will practice again on Tuesday morning. After Free Choice time, all the four Kindergarten classes got together for a community meeting and to get to know each other :)) Before we left for the day, Mrs. Carroll read,
The Weirs, A Winnipesaukee Adventure By: Andy Opal because it's her favorite place to go from Memorial Day to Columbus Day! It's been a great start to the school year :)) Have a wonderful, long Labor Day Weekend!!
Day 1: Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Ms. Perroni and Mrs. Carroll are SO EXCITED to start your child's
Kindergarten "magical, mystery ride" with you this year!!! We all survived the first day of school and the heat
and we have to say your children already know how to walk in the halls quietly, clean up after themselves, take turns, etc. etc. and most of all have fun learning :)) We look forward to a great year ahead!
Our day started with everyone coming into class to music of one of our favorite songs, "What a Wonderful World"!
They all made impressive crowns to wear to community meeting which said, "This is what a Kindergartner looks like"! We had a quick visit with Mr. Fargo in the Glover gym to talk about P.E. (Remember to have your child wear sneakers on Wednesdays and Fridays). Then the whole Glover School, K-3 had a Community Meeting with our new principal, Mr. Brian Ota and new School Psychologist to go over our Glover School Core Values:
"Choose Kindness" and Respect, Safety and Responsibility for the entire school community. We went back to class and went over a few Recess Rules before snack/recess. Mrs. Perroni read, Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten By: Joseph Slate. For Free Choice time, they could use blocks, dollhouse, kitchen, watercolor paints, Legos or draw. For Morning Meeting we went over calendar, weather and got to know each other.
During Writer's Workshop, the practiced writing their name first, using "I" to tell a story about what they did over summer vacation and they illustrated their story using lots of colors!! After lunch/recess and a little "spritz" to cool off, Mrs. Perroni read, Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes By: Eric Litwin. They enjoyed a little "Quiet Time" to look at books, color or use play-doh before our class took a tour of the WHOLE school. We met Nurse Dawn and the
school secretaries, Mrs. Hawlena and Mrs. Kuszmar and saw the principal's office. We ended our day with
Free Choice of tracing, geo boards, sort bears and patterns or play-doh or coloring.
I wonder if they went home as tired as the teachers???? They did a great job today and everyone had fun getting to know each other :))
Kindergarten "magical, mystery ride" with you this year!!! We all survived the first day of school and the heat
and we have to say your children already know how to walk in the halls quietly, clean up after themselves, take turns, etc. etc. and most of all have fun learning :)) We look forward to a great year ahead!
Our day started with everyone coming into class to music of one of our favorite songs, "What a Wonderful World"!
They all made impressive crowns to wear to community meeting which said, "This is what a Kindergartner looks like"! We had a quick visit with Mr. Fargo in the Glover gym to talk about P.E. (Remember to have your child wear sneakers on Wednesdays and Fridays). Then the whole Glover School, K-3 had a Community Meeting with our new principal, Mr. Brian Ota and new School Psychologist to go over our Glover School Core Values:
"Choose Kindness" and Respect, Safety and Responsibility for the entire school community. We went back to class and went over a few Recess Rules before snack/recess. Mrs. Perroni read, Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten By: Joseph Slate. For Free Choice time, they could use blocks, dollhouse, kitchen, watercolor paints, Legos or draw. For Morning Meeting we went over calendar, weather and got to know each other.
During Writer's Workshop, the practiced writing their name first, using "I" to tell a story about what they did over summer vacation and they illustrated their story using lots of colors!! After lunch/recess and a little "spritz" to cool off, Mrs. Perroni read, Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes By: Eric Litwin. They enjoyed a little "Quiet Time" to look at books, color or use play-doh before our class took a tour of the WHOLE school. We met Nurse Dawn and the
school secretaries, Mrs. Hawlena and Mrs. Kuszmar and saw the principal's office. We ended our day with
Free Choice of tracing, geo boards, sort bears and patterns or play-doh or coloring.
I wonder if they went home as tired as the teachers???? They did a great job today and everyone had fun getting to know each other :))