Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a great week off with lots to be thankful for! Reading: We continued our discussion on main idea and details while learning about Thanksgiving and turkeys. We learned about how the first Thanksgiving occurred, how it was different in the time of the Pilgrims and Native Americans and how it was almost lost until a woman named Sarah Hale convinced Abraham Lincoln to make it a national holiday. We hope your kiddos share off all they learned at the dinner table this week. Please remember to work on the Thanksgiving project that was sent home earlier in the week. Math : We moved further into measurement working on measuring weight. We discussed vocabulary like heavy, light, weight and scales. We played with balance scales and even balanced bunnies. Writing: We worked on exclamatory sentences and how they must be yelled. We made some exclamatory sentences that showed excitement, anger and fear! We played the “Punctuation Out of the Bag” g...

Progress reports are coming home with your child today. Please take a moment to look through it, sign the bottom portion and return it to us here at school. As always, if you have any questions, please let us know!

We sent home the project sheet and supplies for our Thanksgiving Project today. Please take time to look it over and ask any questions!!!! A copy of what the project entails is below: My Thanksgiving Customs Project One of our social studies standards asks the students to “describe the diversity of American culture by explaining the customs and celebrations of various families and communities.” In order to help students reach this standard we are asking each child to complete a “My Thanksgiving Customs” Project with their families. For this project, your child will be asked to draw, take photographs or cut out pictures showing how your family celebrates Thanksgiving. Their completed project should have:         A title and cover for the booklet.         Two drawings or pictures of Thanksgiving foods they traditionally eat in the booklet.         Two drawings or pictures of t...

Brrrr…..cold start to the week! We even had to do indoor recess a couple of days. Though our topic this week was hibernation, the kids were wide awake and showing off all they can do in class. Reading: We continued our discussion on main idea and details through the topic of hibernation. We consulted multiple sources to find as many details as possible and figured out it takes more than one source to get all the important information. Fact they seemed to like the most???? Hibernating animals do not go potty while they hibernate. Math : We reviewed classifying rules and then began diving into our measurement unit. We are starting with length and how we measure it! Writing: We focused on writing a question correctly as we played the, “You Can Get What You Want Game.” If students wrote a question asking us for something with correctly capitalization and a question mark, they were eligible to get what they asked for from us. We gave out toy cars, hugs, lollipops. Mermaid dol...