Yesterday, we learned the "ch" letter sound in Jolly Phonics. The motion for this sound is to pretend to be a steam train moving your arms like piston rods saying, ch, ch, ch. Both classes did wonderful learning this "new" digraph sound and applying what they learned into finding words that had this sound at the beginning, middle and end of a word. Yay, K-1 and K-3!

 In math, I did a lesson with both classes where they learned that fingers can represent a set of objects up to 5 and fingers and toes together can represent a set of objects up to 20. They LOVED showing me the teen numbers with using their feet and their fingers together to show me a given number! Math was filled with a lot of giggles and smiles! They thought it was so silly to use your toes for counting! 

For the last hour of our day in both classes, we had our Halloween party (A-K last names had their party on Thursday and L-Z had their party yesterday). Thank you to all the wonderful room parents for their planning and organizing! Both classes had SO much fun! I kept hearing, "Mrs. Naughten, this is the best day ever!" So cute! Here are some pictures from our Halloween fun in both classes:

It was a fun-filled week in K-1 and K-3! Remember that we don't have school Monday due to Institute Day and Tuesday due to Election Day. Happy Halloween everyone and have a great LONG weekend! 

Below is an important letter about the "Just Jump" fundraiser we are having at Olive from November 2-16th. We would LOVE everyone to participate! I sent it out in a class email last week so please check your email to learn more about it and the link to the "Just Jump" fundraiser.

In Jolly Phonics today we learned the letter Yy and the sound it makes. The motion for this letter is to pretend you are eating yogurt from a spoon saying y, y, yogurt with each spoonful. They did such a great job learning the letter sound and applying what they learned into finding words that began with Yy. Great job, K-1 and K-3

For writing today, I read them the story called The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid Of Anything. They loved listening to this fun story as I read it out loud to them and chiming in to the repetitive parts of the story. It was fun acting out the parts of the story together! When I finished reading the book, I taught them a few things that good writers do such as:

-Begin a sentence with a capital letter.

-Put finger spaces between your words.

-Put punctuation at the end.

-Sound out the words you want to write by using your best "brave spelling."

Next, I asked them to write one sentence about something they are afraid of and draw a picture to go along with it. I also asked them to add detail to their picture and color it too. When they were done with their picture, the last thing I asked them to do was to label it. I was so impressed with how well they all wrote sentences on their own and labeled their picture with their "brave spelling." Way to go, K-1 and K-3!

In the morning class, I had a bit more time in our day because we didn't have gym and music like the afternoon class.  With this extra time, I did a reader's workshop lesson reading a book with the characters Charlie and Lola. We talked about different genres of books and we discussed what kind of books everyone in the class likes to read. We discovered that everyone likes to read all different kinds of books and how it's fun to read something we may not have originally thought we'd like to read. I told them to have an open mind while picking out books. They did a great job in reader's workshop today!

It was another fun day in K-1 and K-3! I'm looking forward to our fun Halloween parties tomorrow and Friday. Our Room parents did a great job planning a few fun crafts and games. Thank you to all who helped to plan and organize our parties! Have a great night, everyone!

 In Jolly Phonics today, we learned the double oo sound. We learned that it makes two sounds.  The little and long oo. The action for oo is to imagine being the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock, jutting your head forward and back, saying the call of the cuckoo: u, oo; u, oo.  We learned it makes the sound:

little oo- such as in cook, book, look, hook

long oo- such as in moon, soon, tooth

Both classes did a wonderful job learning this new double letter sound and thinking of words that had both oo sounds. I was so impressed! At the end of our lesson today, we read some words with the double oo sound and I was amazed with how well they are all doing sounding out the words on their own. They are all on their way to becoming strong, confident readers! Wow!

In math, we did some practice pages in our workbook. On these pages, it gave my kindergarten friends more practice learning one-on-one correspondence, adding one more and figuring out the total and adding two small numerals together to get a total. Whenever we do math, I can tell that both classes really enjoy working with numbers and the challenge of it. 

The rest of our day was filled with art and some independent work time on the things we learned today. I am so proud of everything my kindergarten friends are learning! It was a great day! Have a wonderful night, everyone!

 It was a fun filled last couple days in K-1 and K-3! All my little owls have been very busy learning Jolly Phonics, math, handwriting and writing. Today I did a fun "Five Little Pumpkins" project with the class and they had so much fun following my step-by-step directions in making their own! I am SO proud of everything my kindergarten friends have learned already! Below are some pictures of some things we have learned the last couple days in kindergarten. Have a great weekend, everyone!