Mrs. Bower’s “Beary”
Important News
Week of November 9thNovember 13th
Social Studies
We will be learning about the first Thanksgiving. Our
kindergarten classroom will be a busy place as we get
ready for our Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast on
Friday, November 20th. This week we will begin creating
our Native American costumes. Please remember to
return your child’s Native American Name sheet to
school by Monday. We will be announcing your child’s
Indian Nature Name during Sharing Time.
Our class will be dressing up as Native Americans for
the feast and the children will be making their
costumes at school.
If you would like to donate $3 to cover the cost of the
pillowcases and fabric markers, we would greatly
appreciate your help.
Writing
During Writing Workshop, our class will compare and
contrast Pilgrim life of “long ago” and our lives
“today”. We will learn about chores that Pilgrim
children had to do compared with chores of children in
the year 2015.
We will learn about “Wild Turkeys” using the
informational website, PEBBLE GO and create a graphic
organizer to help us record information about
“TURKEYS”! We will use this information to write one to
two sentences about these funny birds! Did you know
that female turkey “clucks” while the male turkeys
“gobble”?
Math
*Reading Number Words (one-ten) You Tube “The
Number Word Rap” Song
*Comparing sets…..which set has more or less?
*Rote Counting 1-20 and one-to-one correspondence
(counting objects without skipping)
*Numeral Writing 1-20
*Count by 1’s to 100 as we sing to Mark D. Pencil’s
song, “I Can Count to 100” (can be found on You
Tube)
*Subitizing Numbers to 10 (quickly recognizing the
number of objects in a set)
*Use a number line to help us count objects
*Begin Addition Problems to 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estMnWVEjrk (“I
Can Count to 100” Song)
*Social Studies-Our class will honor Veteran’s Day on
11/11.
Science
In Science, our class will compare and contrast
characteristics about day and night. Our standard is for
the children to describe changes from day to night and
as day turns into night (sunset) and night into day
(sunrise).
Health
This week we will have a special visit from WellStar
Health. On Thursday, they will be present the program,
JUST EAT IT, to teach our kiddos about healthy eating
and living.
Our 2nd quarter standard is comparing and contrasting
the five senses and how to keep them healthy.
THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:
*ILC (Innovation Learning Commons)-will be on Tuesday
with Mrs. Dean.
*K9 Reading Program-will begin on Wednesday, 11/18.
Mrs. Rosanne, from the K9 reading program, will be
bringing in Nugget, who is a 12 week old Golden
Retriever puppy in training. During her first visit, the
children will be spending time getting to know Nugget.
*Names-As the weather gets cooler, please be sure to
write your child’s name on coats, sweatshirts, sweaters,
etc.
*Media Center-will be on FRIDAY, 11/13. Please help
your child remember to return his/her library book.
*November Homework Notebooks-Please encourage
your child to produce neat and careful work in his or
her Homework Journal. Encourage proper formation of
draw handwriting lines in your child’s notebook so that
he/she can have a “target” of where to write!
*Turkey Family Homework Projects-Disguised turkeys are
due to school on or by Monday, November 9th for
SHOW & TELL.
*Raz-Kids Reading Program-Remember RAZ-KIDS books
can definitely be counted and recorded as a book
read in your November Reading Logs! HAPPY
READING!
*November Reading Logs-Keep up the great reading!
November Reading Logs will be due on Dec. 1st! 25
books read=a trip to Mrs. Bower’s Treasure Box We
are in need of some new treasures for our class treasure
box…donations are always greatly appreciated and
accepted.
November Birthday
Adriana 11.1
Technology Websites:
www.starfall.com-great letter phonics/reading
website
www.abcya.com-lots of educational games
The website abcya.com has great games that
practices beginning consonant sounds with
Alphabet Bingo and Sight Words with Sight Word
Bingo!
www.cookie.com-great math and language games
2nd Quarter Dolch Sight Words
you
are
run
one
had
two
say
big
on
play
do
ran
did
yes
let
she
yellow
get
for
by
an
not
will
well
his
Have a PAWSITIVELY great
week!
Mrs. Bower 