Gift for Miss Corinne

Gifts for the Teachers

Goals of the Week 12/10–12/14

 

• Reviewing letters and sounds for the next two weeks
• Continuation of print awareness & exposure, directionality, words/concepts, voice to print matching, letter recognition
• Poems and Rhyming
• Graphing, Take Away, Number sort
• December Holidays/ Holidays around the world/ Family Traditions

Bones

They have been learning about organs. Ben says, “this picture is about the bones.” Ben says, “Bones are hard and if we did not have bones in our legs we would fall down.”

Goals of the week 12/3–12/7

• Letter and sound recognition for the letter I
• Rhyming Games & Initial/Ending sounds
• Independent writing practice
• Informal letter formation (no writing tools, students will write letters in sand, form with play-doh, etc..)

Character Trait for December is: Empathy – recognize feelings being experienced by another person.

Act of Kindness

Self Portrait

I sense popcorn

Popcorn was used to demonstrate the senses.

http://jmiller2.blogspot.com/2012/11/making-sense-of-our-senses.html

Thankful note from Mrs Miller

Some things Ben did at school this week

Ben’s Healthy Plate

Fruitloop Turkey

Ben made this at school last week.

Leadership Award

Ben got another award this past week.

Puppet Show

Goals of the Week 11/13–11/16

• Letter and sound recognition for the letter G
• Nonstandard methods of measurement (using objects to measure things)
• Using attributes to describe and identify/ problem solving
• Take away/ less than
• Name Writing/ Spelling
• Initial Sounds
• Nutrition/ Health vs Unhealthy Foods

An apple a Day…

Farmer Ben and his Pumpkin

Looks like I missed a couple of things this week.

Goals of the Week 11/5–11/9

• Letter and Sound Recognition for the letter F
• Initial Sounds
• Name writing
• Make predictions
• What it means to be Thankful
• Compare & Contrast / Sorting
• Identifying Solid, Liquid, Gas

Ben’s School Photo

Goals of the Week 10/29 - 11/2

• Letter and sound recognition for the letter E
• Number 20/ Number 1 - 20 value and recognition review
• Initial sounds of letters
• Halloween Safety
• Identifying and understanding concepts: same, similar, different

Ben went on a Fall walk

Then he made this from the things he collected.

Respect Award

 

Ben received this last week. I still have not heard the story behind it.

Goals of the week 10/22–10/26

• Letter & sound recognition for the letter D
• Practice writing uppercase and lowercase D
• Number recognition and value of numbers 15 – 19
• Activating prior knowledge, drawing conclusions using pictures
• Fall (animal habits, seasonal clothing, sports, seasonal activities)
• Patterns, matching (same, similar, different & color, shape, size)

Pumpkin

Goals of the Week 10/15–10/19

• Letter recognition & sound association for the letter C
• Practice writing the uppercase & lowercase C
• Number recognition and practice writing numbers 10 – 14
• Theme: Fall (harvesting, pumpkins, seasons, scarecrows)
• Listening exercises (patterns of sounds, comprehension activities)
• Number sorting, matching amount of objects to written number

B is for Bean, and for Ben

Goals of the week 10/8–10/12

• Recognize uppercase and lowercase B
• Letter B sound recognition
• Words that start with the letter B
• Number recognition, counting and value of 6 – 9 while also reviewing 1 – 5
• The role of farmers and how they help us
• Listening and demonstrating sequence of sounds

Calendar Helper

They have a number of jobs that cycle through each week. This week Ben got to be the Calendar Helper.

Waiting for her Ben

It did not matter that it was raining or that I was waiting in the car with Mason, Julie wanted to stand out there with her Mom to wait for Ben to get out of school.

This weeks art

Ben brought these home throughout the week.

Goals of the week 10/1–10/5

• Recognize Uppercase and Lowercase A
• Letter A sound recognition
• Words that start with A
• Identifying animals that live on the farm
• Number Recognition & Value of 1-5
• Mixing two colors to make a new color

Academic Goals

I am trying to catch up on a few posts. Here are the goals for pre K that was presented to us:

• Recognize and identify all Uppercase Letters
• Rote Count up to 20
• 1:1 Correspondence
• Recognize and Identify all colors and shapes
• Sight words/Dolce Words, Begin to write their name
• Begin to write letters and numbers
• Other(cutting, pencil grip, socialization…)

The Kissing Hand

A couple of weeks ago when we had asked Ben what they had done at school, he said that they had read a book. We asked him what book was read he said The Kissing Hand. Not being familiar with that book, we had to look it up and found it on You Tube.

A latter day, he brought home the following.

Hands

We were presented this at the open house on Thursday.

Goals of the Week 9/24–9/28

Here is what they have planned for next week.

 

• Pets – Domestic Vs. Wild, Pet Care, Identify & Name various animals that can be pets
• What is a pictograph and how to read one? (Graphing the weather for the week)
• Rain Cycle
• Fall Season – Characteristics of fall (colors, harvest, changes in our environment)
• Name recognition games & the letters in our name
• Practice tracing & Writing our names

This Week: Colors and Shapes

They are doing themes/goals for each week. This week was colors and shapes. Each day they wore a different color and brought in a shape for show and tell.

Monday – Wear Red and shape was circle. Ben took a light up ball in.
Tuesday – Wear Orange and shape was square. Ben brought in a Elmo book.
Wednesday – Wear Yellow and the shape was triangle. Ben took an angry bird.
Thursday – Wear Green and the shape was rectangle. Ben took a Domino.
Friday – Wear Blue and the shape was oval. Ben took one of his knee pads.

School Songs

Ben’s teacher sent us a list of links of the songs that they watch/sing. Here are the links. They will be listed on the sidebar as well.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSKcUJOF-Dw&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY6pFWlYNKAy8zQUnIlB1V1w&index=1&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4sWyckBaOM&feature=BFa&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY6pFWlYNKAy8zQUnIlB1V1w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWF86D_UNxc&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY64P6FaJeVmxRLjrRXMdAtu&index=1&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY64P6FaJeVmxRLjrRXMdAtu&index=2&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWp6kkz-pnQ&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY64P6FaJeVmxRLjrRXMdAtu&index=3&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWZu4LDmQM&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY64P6FaJeVmxRLjrRXMdAtu&index=6&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeqUejf3D0&list=PLN-r1N8UmNY64P6FaJeVmxRLjrRXMdAtu&index=5&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-qFNMx-6I&feature=related

Whats the best part of school?

Ben's School Rules

Here are the rules Ben has at school.

Ben, How was your first day of school?

His teacher said he did good. He seemed to have a good day.

I wanted to go too

Ben’s First Day of School!

 

Today is Ben’s first day of Pre-School. He has been so excited.