Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

 Our class was very excited at Friday's Fish Meeting to win 3 Golden Awards: Art, Guidance, and Secret Teacher.  That makes 5 Golden Awards that we have earned. So on Monday we will be voting for a special class incentive that we will do this upcoming week!  Way to go kindergarteners!

Here are some of this week learning activities:

Literacy: The children are listening and reading books on their level on RazKids which they can do at home too. On their iPads, they are working on different apps practicing sight words and writing letters.

Math: We are working on correct number formation by reciting rhymes to go with the number. We are doing some adding, comparing numbers, and counting up from a number. During one of their rotations, the children go on Dreambox which you can access at home too.

Inquiry: Our essential question is: Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? We will learn about the Native Americans and the Pilgrims.

Writer's Workshop: We are working on beginning a sentence with a capital letter and putting an end mark.

 Here are some pictures of recent classroom activities.

Veteran's Day -  Ian with his Dad's uniform

Sharing a book about the Marines

Conductor Fransisco

Learning how to conduct

Our Autumn Tree for the Ace Program with Leaves made by our class.

Mrs. Richards Reports from Room 137

Monday is Veteran's Day, a special time for us to remember those who have served and died for our country.  Ian will be bringing in some of his Dad's things to talk about and to share with our class.

We have also rescheduled our ACE conductor presentation for this Monday afternoon.

In Literacy, our Guided  Reading groups are actively engaged and doing lots of reading and sharing. The Daily 5 rotations are running smoothly.

In Writer's Workshop, students are working on narrative writing and making lists.

In Math, students are practicing writing and counting numbers. We are comparing using these symbols:  >, =,  and <.

In Inquiry, we are going to begin to answer the question: Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?

Mrs. Reports from Room 137

Students were engaged in writing their New Learning about different water animals.

These pictures are from Field Day which had to be 

moved to the gym and the field house due to the rainy weather.

The outdoor pictures are from High Interest Day one day later.

Making and eating smores was a nice ending to High Interest Day

Showing off the wind chimes made during High Interest Day

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

What a special week with Field Day on Thursday and High Interest Day on Friday.
The sun came out for High Interest Day....yeah!

Pictures will be coming to highlight these days......

Here's what we've been up to...

Literacy / Inquiry:  We are researching water animals on pebble go.

Math Topics:  fractions, shapes, and subtraction

Writing: Writing letters, making connections to world, and forming opinions

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

Thank you Parents for all of the gifts and best wishes for Teacher's Appreciation Week!

What a busy week we had! Here are some highlights!

Our Spring Concert....We were a hit!

Poetry Reading

Author Jackie Cole gave a talk on Friday about her book.

The title of her book is: Blue Moon: A Cat's Wish
It's about a homeless cat.



Planting our Bean Seeds. We are keeping a Learning Log.

Planting our Mother's Day marigolds.

More Pictures with our author!





Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

MAPS Testing for our classroom is over, and the students took their time and did very well. I'm proud of their accomplishments!

Here is the scoop for this week:

Literacy / Inquiry: We will start our inquiry of animals that live in the water.
                            5K students are being tested with the PALS Kit in reading skills.

Math: Topics.... 2-D and 3-D shapes, Fractions, and graphing

Writing: We are working on writing an opinion and giving good reasons for it.

*  We are working on "being respectful" in the classroom, on the playground, and throughout our school.
    If we show respect and have less behavior referrals, and receive caught ya's, we will earn a PJ Day.

* Due to the "lice" problem, I will be sending home the "art" smocks on Tuesday. Please wash and return it by next Tuesday May 14th. in a zip lock bag with your child's name on the bag written in marker.

Mrs. Richards'Reports from Room 137

We have been working hard to prepare for the MAPS testing in Math and Reading.  Today my students brainstormed how "good test takers" get ready for an important test. In small groups, they created posters which we then displayed in the hallway by the lunch room.  We are hoping these posters will help others students to get ready for the test too! 

Bennett, Dominic, Audrey, Hannah

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Dhruv, Tyler, Lucas

Jack, Gavin, Jaylen

Students at work on their posters.

Adding more information and good ideas

Cora, Addisen, Isiah