Today we saw Todd Green perform at the high school. I encourage you to head up on Tuesday night 7pm in the high school and check out his show for free. If you have questions please check out his web page at:
http://toddgreen.com/
KB really enjoyed the different sounds they heard!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Bats KWL Chart
What KB Knows!
Bats can Fly
They might have Clear wings
They are Balck and Gray
They have Fur and claws
Bats Drink blood
Bats are Scared of us
They Eat mosquitoes
They have Long teeth
And they Come out at night
What we want to know!
What do they eat?
Where is their family?
Where do they live?
Do they hurt people?
Things we learned.
They eat: bugs, mosquitoes, frogs, fruit, and mice
They live in caves and trees all over the world.
They don’t hurt people
The longest one is over 6ft long and the smallest is the size of a pinky finger and only weighs two pennies.
Bats can Fly
They might have Clear wings
They are Balck and Gray
They have Fur and claws
Bats Drink blood
Bats are Scared of us
They Eat mosquitoes
They have Long teeth
And they Come out at night
What we want to know!
What do they eat?
Where is their family?
Where do they live?
Do they hurt people?
Things we learned.
They eat: bugs, mosquitoes, frogs, fruit, and mice
They live in caves and trees all over the world.
They don’t hurt people
The longest one is over 6ft long and the smallest is the size of a pinky finger and only weighs two pennies.
Monday, October 6, 2008
October News Letter
Reading
I’m very impressed that everyone is doing so well on their letter homework. I hope that you are finding it a way to interact with your student at home. The books may seem a little challenging for some and easy for others. I have done assessments on their reading and they will start traveling a new path in reading at their own level.
Please continue to read aloud to your students and encourage them to read to you even if it may only be a few words.
Multiple Reading Programs
Read a Million Minutes:
Corning Elementary Goal is to read 1,000,000, minutes. This means your reading to them as a parents or them reading aloud too. We will count in the minutes that are read in class.
Please turn in each set of minutes on Friday to Ms. Gray! http://www.corningramm.blogspot.com/
Book It!:
There is no longer a Pizza Hut in Corning, but we are going to continue on with the Book It since many of you travel to Red Oak or Creston. Your student has to hear or read 4 stories each month and draw a picture. They can earn one free pizza. KB made magnets to keep the paper safe of the refrigerator.
Olympics:
Our Olympic kick off will be at the end of the month. Our class decided to be the Orange Cheetahs. Please help your student practice their letters, sounds, and sight words. The popcorn rings have the Olympic words on them.
Popcorn Ring (it is ok if they don’t know them all)
When they get 10 tallies on a word they get a sticker, when they fill up their popcorn chart they get to take home the popcorn bag!
If a student doesn’t know a word, please don’t have them guess say the word a loud and then ask them to take a picture of the word. The student needs to hear and say the word several times to put it in memory.
Writing
Please help your student with their writing. Encourage as much writing on their own as possible. I encourage them to make the sounds they hear. I don’t need them to spell words correctly at their age as long as the sounds are where they need to be. They come in every morning and write in their journal. There has been a large amount of change in their writing in just one month.
Please help remind your child to write their name with a Capital letter at the beginning of their name and the rest in lower case.
Thank You
Thank you to Mrs. Gray for being our Mystery Reader and telling us about the post office.
Thank you to Mrs. Hontz for taking time away from her class to read us a story about bear being sick and all the friends that came to help out.
We thank Miss Iowa for making the trip here to talk about Character Counts! Also to Mr.Gray (Ms. Gray’s dad) for the character books that were handed out to KB students.
We also thank the Corning Varsity Cheerleaders and football players for cheering with the elementary pep squad at our homecoming pep rally!
Parent Teacher Conferences
A conference note will be sent with an assigned time. Please return the note in the FROG binder. If that time doesn’t work for you please let me know as soon as possible.
This is your student’s first parent teacher’s conference, and I’m looking forward to talking with you. Please think of some questions you might have, time will be limited and I want to make sure that you have all the answers you need.
KB’s Behavior Jar!
We have filled the jar more than once. The first time we had a pajama party. The second time we got to watch a movie and now we are working on Ice-cream Sundaes! They are working hard and on making good choices.
October Dates To Remember
October Week 1 Where The Wild Things Are
Wednesday, October 1st
Early Out 1:35
Thursday, October 2nd *Camp Read S’more Kick off!*
October Week 2 Bats Starts on Aday
•Wednesday, October 8th
Early Out 1:35
•Thursday, October 9th
Book Orders Due
October Week 3 Pumpkins Starts on B day
•Monday, October 13th
K-6 Music Concert Presentation
•Wednesday, October 15th
Early Out 1:35
TD’s Birthday
•Friday, October 17th
End of 1st Quarter and Fall Party
October Week 4 Bones Starts on A day
•Thursday, October 23th
Red Ribbon Week (information to come)
•Friday, October 24th
Book It!! Forms Due
October Week 5 Spiders Starts on Bday
•Tuesday, October 28th
Early Out 2:20 Parent Teacher’s Conference
•Thursday, October 30th
Early Out 2:20 Parent Teacher’s Conference
Olympic Kick off
•Friday, October 31st
No School
I’m very impressed that everyone is doing so well on their letter homework. I hope that you are finding it a way to interact with your student at home. The books may seem a little challenging for some and easy for others. I have done assessments on their reading and they will start traveling a new path in reading at their own level.
Please continue to read aloud to your students and encourage them to read to you even if it may only be a few words.
Multiple Reading Programs
Read a Million Minutes:
Corning Elementary Goal is to read 1,000,000, minutes. This means your reading to them as a parents or them reading aloud too. We will count in the minutes that are read in class.
Please turn in each set of minutes on Friday to Ms. Gray! http://www.corningramm.blogspot.com/
Book It!:
There is no longer a Pizza Hut in Corning, but we are going to continue on with the Book It since many of you travel to Red Oak or Creston. Your student has to hear or read 4 stories each month and draw a picture. They can earn one free pizza. KB made magnets to keep the paper safe of the refrigerator.
Olympics:
Our Olympic kick off will be at the end of the month. Our class decided to be the Orange Cheetahs. Please help your student practice their letters, sounds, and sight words. The popcorn rings have the Olympic words on them.
Popcorn Ring (it is ok if they don’t know them all)
When they get 10 tallies on a word they get a sticker, when they fill up their popcorn chart they get to take home the popcorn bag!
If a student doesn’t know a word, please don’t have them guess say the word a loud and then ask them to take a picture of the word. The student needs to hear and say the word several times to put it in memory.
Writing
Please help your student with their writing. Encourage as much writing on their own as possible. I encourage them to make the sounds they hear. I don’t need them to spell words correctly at their age as long as the sounds are where they need to be. They come in every morning and write in their journal. There has been a large amount of change in their writing in just one month.
Please help remind your child to write their name with a Capital letter at the beginning of their name and the rest in lower case.
Thank You
Thank you to Mrs. Gray for being our Mystery Reader and telling us about the post office.
Thank you to Mrs. Hontz for taking time away from her class to read us a story about bear being sick and all the friends that came to help out.
We thank Miss Iowa for making the trip here to talk about Character Counts! Also to Mr.Gray (Ms. Gray’s dad) for the character books that were handed out to KB students.
We also thank the Corning Varsity Cheerleaders and football players for cheering with the elementary pep squad at our homecoming pep rally!
Parent Teacher Conferences
A conference note will be sent with an assigned time. Please return the note in the FROG binder. If that time doesn’t work for you please let me know as soon as possible.
This is your student’s first parent teacher’s conference, and I’m looking forward to talking with you. Please think of some questions you might have, time will be limited and I want to make sure that you have all the answers you need.
KB’s Behavior Jar!
We have filled the jar more than once. The first time we had a pajama party. The second time we got to watch a movie and now we are working on Ice-cream Sundaes! They are working hard and on making good choices.
October Dates To Remember
October Week 1 Where The Wild Things Are
Wednesday, October 1st
Early Out 1:35
Thursday, October 2nd *Camp Read S’more Kick off!*
October Week 2 Bats Starts on Aday
•Wednesday, October 8th
Early Out 1:35
•Thursday, October 9th
Book Orders Due
October Week 3 Pumpkins Starts on B day
•Monday, October 13th
K-6 Music Concert Presentation
•Wednesday, October 15th
Early Out 1:35
TD’s Birthday
•Friday, October 17th
End of 1st Quarter and Fall Party
October Week 4 Bones Starts on A day
•Thursday, October 23th
Red Ribbon Week (information to come)
•Friday, October 24th
Book It!! Forms Due
October Week 5 Spiders Starts on Bday
•Tuesday, October 28th
Early Out 2:20 Parent Teacher’s Conference
•Thursday, October 30th
Early Out 2:20 Parent Teacher’s Conference
Olympic Kick off
•Friday, October 31st
No School
Friday, September 12, 2008
Mystery Reader
Today's Myster Reader was Mrs. Gray (Ms. Gray's mom) She came into talk about the mail carriers job. She told us how we get our mail.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Book Orders Due on the Sept. 11
If you would like to order online:
username: leapnleaners
password: frog
username: leapnleaners
password: frog
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Popcorn Words
Students should be able to recognize/read/write the following:
KB
you
me
I
a
the
in
mom
dad
is
it
Students should recognize/read but they do not have to spell the following correctly:
red
KB
you
me
I
a
the
in
mom
dad
is
it
Students should recognize/read but they do not have to spell the following correctly:
red
orange
yellow
August
September
2008
(all our classmates names)
August
September
2008
(all our classmates names)
Friday, August 29, 2008
Sounds of KB
Chime: It is time to go to group time. We sit on our lilly pads.
Bells: It is time to sit in a circle. We sit around our pond.
Click: We need to fix ourselves so our bodies are doing what they are suppose to be doing.
3 Claps: freeze, stop what we are doing and look at Ms. Gray
Recess Sounds
one whistle means freeze
second whistle means to line up ready to go inside
Mystery Reader: Mrs. Hardisty
Mrs. Hardisty chose to read her daughters' favorite stories to our class today! KB helped her count in her Pokey story.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
September Newsletter
Reading
KB has been working on stretching sounds with (bubble gum) Pathways to Reading helps us focus on the connections between letters, sounds, and the way our mouths form to create the sounds.
Mm /m/ sound is one we have worked on and we will continue on this upcoming month with the Nn /n/ , Ff /f/, and Vv /v/, sounds. I will be sending activities home so students can practice “popcorn words” words students need to know by sight because they will “pop” up in their reading. Our first list: the, of, a, to , and, in, is, you, that, it. Students should be able to recognize them and then later be able to write them.
Math
Every morning we take a look at the calendar, including, the month, year, days of week, and date. We are counting by one’s. Also we take a look at the weather and create a graph were we can compare our data.
We also have looked at several manipulatives like teddy bear counters and pattern blocks. We are going to continue working on numbers, counting, and graphing over the next few weeks.
Writing
We have already started our Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) writing program. We have a packet that stays at school that we write in. Please help your students practice writing their name using lower case letters and only a capital at the beginning. HWT has writers starting at the top to make their letters, help prompt your student to start at the top every time. We have worked with the letter M and numbers 1, 2, 3. We are going to continue on with letters F, N, E, and D. Also we will keep working on our numbers 0-9.
Communication
What is the best way to make sure your child is doing great in school? Ask your child questions. Ask your child what they did in school that day, have them show you some of the things they have been practicing.
Ask your teacher questions. Please don’t feel like you need to wait until conferences to find out information about your student’s progress in school. Please use the FROG binders.
Email is the best way to communicate quickly. I will normally check my inbox during lunch and while they are at specials. If you are letting me know about a change in after school travel arrangements or a child’s absence. I will always send a response to let you know the message has been read.
Who does my child see everyday?
I’m Ms. Gray, this is my second year teaching kindergarten in Corning. Prior to that I taught 5th grade down in the Ozarks after graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in Elementary Education and Special Education. I’m also a former graduate of Corning.
Mrs. Hardisty, is a proud mother of 2 wonderful girls. She will be helping out in the classroom, with recess, and in with lunch as our para educator.
Your child will have at least one special a day. Ms. Winter teaches art, Mr. Naugle will keep them active in P.E.., Ms. Docker works with the students in music, Mrs. Goldsmith will have them in library, and Mrs. Morales will be teaching them Spanish.
Your student may also visit other classrooms during the day. Mrs. Reynolds does Title I Math and Mrs. Thompson will be working with students in Title I Reading this year.
Book orders
Book orders are due on Thursday, Septembe11 , 2008. Please do not feel obligated to purchase books. Each month I will send home a stack of book orders. Scholastics is a great way to build up your students home library. You may send in cash or make checks out to Scholastics.
September Dates To Remember
September Week 1 Fall
Monday, September 1st
No School
Tuesday, September 2nd
FV’s Birthday
Wednesday, September 3rd
Early Out 1:35
Friday, September 5th
BA'sBirthday
September Week 2 Apples
Wednesday, September 10th
Early Out 1:35
Thursday, September 11
Book Orders Due
Saturday, September 13
Cheerleading Clinic 1-4pm
September Week 3 Leaves
Tuesday, September 16th
BVand BV's Birthdays
Wednesday, September 17th
Early Out 1:35
September Week 4 Fire Safety
Thursday, September 25th
Homecoming Pep Rally
(Elementary Spirit Squad Cheers)
Friday, September 26th
Homecoming-Early Out
(Elementary Spirit Squad Cheers)
KB has been working on stretching sounds with (bubble gum) Pathways to Reading helps us focus on the connections between letters, sounds, and the way our mouths form to create the sounds.
Mm /m/ sound is one we have worked on and we will continue on this upcoming month with the Nn /n/ , Ff /f/, and Vv /v/, sounds. I will be sending activities home so students can practice “popcorn words” words students need to know by sight because they will “pop” up in their reading. Our first list: the, of, a, to , and, in, is, you, that, it. Students should be able to recognize them and then later be able to write them.
Math
Every morning we take a look at the calendar, including, the month, year, days of week, and date. We are counting by one’s. Also we take a look at the weather and create a graph were we can compare our data.
We also have looked at several manipulatives like teddy bear counters and pattern blocks. We are going to continue working on numbers, counting, and graphing over the next few weeks.
Writing
We have already started our Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) writing program. We have a packet that stays at school that we write in. Please help your students practice writing their name using lower case letters and only a capital at the beginning. HWT has writers starting at the top to make their letters, help prompt your student to start at the top every time. We have worked with the letter M and numbers 1, 2, 3. We are going to continue on with letters F, N, E, and D. Also we will keep working on our numbers 0-9.
Communication
What is the best way to make sure your child is doing great in school? Ask your child questions. Ask your child what they did in school that day, have them show you some of the things they have been practicing.
Ask your teacher questions. Please don’t feel like you need to wait until conferences to find out information about your student’s progress in school. Please use the FROG binders.
Email is the best way to communicate quickly. I will normally check my inbox during lunch and while they are at specials. If you are letting me know about a change in after school travel arrangements or a child’s absence. I will always send a response to let you know the message has been read.
Who does my child see everyday?
I’m Ms. Gray, this is my second year teaching kindergarten in Corning. Prior to that I taught 5th grade down in the Ozarks after graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in Elementary Education and Special Education. I’m also a former graduate of Corning.
Mrs. Hardisty, is a proud mother of 2 wonderful girls. She will be helping out in the classroom, with recess, and in with lunch as our para educator.
Your child will have at least one special a day. Ms. Winter teaches art, Mr. Naugle will keep them active in P.E.., Ms. Docker works with the students in music, Mrs. Goldsmith will have them in library, and Mrs. Morales will be teaching them Spanish.
Your student may also visit other classrooms during the day. Mrs. Reynolds does Title I Math and Mrs. Thompson will be working with students in Title I Reading this year.
Book orders
Book orders are due on Thursday, Septembe11 , 2008. Please do not feel obligated to purchase books. Each month I will send home a stack of book orders. Scholastics is a great way to build up your students home library. You may send in cash or make checks out to Scholastics.
September Dates To Remember
September Week 1 Fall
Monday, September 1st
No School
Tuesday, September 2nd
FV’s Birthday
Wednesday, September 3rd
Early Out 1:35
Friday, September 5th
BA'sBirthday
September Week 2 Apples
Wednesday, September 10th
Early Out 1:35
Thursday, September 11
Book Orders Due
Saturday, September 13
Cheerleading Clinic 1-4pm
September Week 3 Leaves
Tuesday, September 16th
BVand BV's Birthdays
Wednesday, September 17th
Early Out 1:35
September Week 4 Fire Safety
Thursday, September 25th
Homecoming Pep Rally
(Elementary Spirit Squad Cheers)
Friday, September 26th
Homecoming-Early Out
(Elementary Spirit Squad Cheers)
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