Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

Hello Parents! All Addison students now have access to Student Interactives on  www.quavermusic.com   which is a resource we use in the music room. Use the PowerPoint provided as your guide for logging into the website. If you have any questions, please email me at  michele.champion@cobbk12.org . THANKS! Dr. Sampson  

 Hello again Kindergator Parents! I am watching the tiny snowflakes fall and picturing the kiddos outside, mouths open, catching them on their tongues. Hmmm…now I am picturing us grown up doing it too! Here’s what we worked on while we weren’t obsessing about snow this week. Reading: We continued working on “2 vowels go walking” tricks in all our reading groups. In some of our groups we have moved on to “putting all the tricks together” and you will notice lots of color coding on the books they bring home as we highlight the different tricks we notice. A few of our groups are now focusing much more on comprehension strategies. Our goal is to help them stop and think about what they read after they have learned to sound out all the words.   We also want them to start asking questions after they realize they do not understand a part. In whole group reading we kept working on comparing and contrasting fairy tales and thinking about the character traits the character...

Our next STEM activity is quickly approaching! We need your help in obtaining the materials the students will need to complete the project. Please consider sending in any of the following materials: -quilt filling (looks like a big bag of cottony material) -sugar cubes -tissue/shoes boxes (empty) -toilet paper rolls / paper towel rolls -Saran Wrap – blue color only -aluminum foil -construction paper -chenille sticks -tissue paper-white, green, blue -cotton balls -Playdough or Crayola Air Dry Clay- White -Anything the students could use to depict an arctic habitat

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching.   Our class will exchange valentines on Friday the 14 th .   If your child wishes to give valentines  to his/her classmates, please read the following guidelines:   1.      Please send your child to school that day with a decorated box or bag to bring home their valentines in. 2.       We will be exchanging valentines first thing in the morning (before 8:00am) so please ensure your child is on time to school on the 14 th . 3.     Be sure that your child writes his/her name on every valentine he/she is giving away.   Otherwise, the other students won’t know who gave it to them.   4.     Please use the class list attached to this letter to locate the names of your child’s classmates. Please encourage your child to use capital letters to begin each name.   We ask that you include all students so that nobody feels left out. ...

Hello again Kindergator Parents! We have had a fun week laughing, learning and programming. Here are some things we worked on this week: Reading: We continued working on the “tricks” of “two vowels go walking” and “bully-e” in our reading groups. We began working on putting together the two reading skills of being able to sound out words and taking time to think about what they mean. At this age, the two skills are separated, but we want to plant the seed that thinking about what you read is important too. Mr. Webster began our lessons on Presidents’ day and dove into all of the fascinating places that they would take a president. We got some pretty interesting places such as Papa’s house and Disney land to Taco Bell. Math : This week we really started to dive into the evil villain of subtraction and it’s four nasty abilities (take-away, make less, make smaller, break apart). We will start to focus on working with subtraction a little more in the upcoming weeks. Wr...