First I have some updates from the school! Back to Football Friday! Are you ready for some FOOTBALL? Teasley's Physical Education department is proud to partner with the NFL and their PLAY60 program to bring you BACK TO FOOTBALL Friday on September 7th. Back to Football Friday is a school-wide event that encourages students to get active and excited about the upcoming football season. Students are encouraged to wear their favorite NFL football gear. During their specials time the students will participate in football related stations testing their throwing, catching, kicking, punting, and speed/agility. Like any school-wide event, WE NEED YOUR HELP. To volunteer please use this link http://signup.com/go/WscGUKW. Should you have any questions please feel free to contact Coach Homansky at [email protected] or Coach Sonny at [email protected]. Frozen Friday! FROZEN FRIDAYS are coming! Support our 5th graders by purchasing a FROZEN FRIDAY pass. With a FROZEN FRIDAY pass, your child will receive a real fruit, no sugar added frozen treat every Friday of the school year. You can purchase an annual pass for $30 or a quarterly pass for $10. Buying an annual pass saves you $10! See the order form for additional details. Teasley Attendance Extra! Extra! Read all about it! As we jump into a new school year, the Teasley Attendance Team wants to reward those students who come to school on time every day. Students who have perfect attendance at the end of the first 9 weeks, ending on Wednesday, October 10th, will receive a free dress down day, a surprise treat, and 1 entry into the end of the year drawing for a BRAND NEW BIKE! Furthermore, those students who have perfect attendance for the entire school year will have the opportunity to participate in a end of year celebration during the last week of school as well as FOUR entries into the drawing for the bike! Thank you so much for your support with getting your student to school on time every day. Our Week This week we will continue to talk about ourselves by learning more about our school and home communities and comparing the two. Students are continuing their All About Me presentations as well.
We will be talking about what a bucket filler is this week and how we can be one. Bucket Fillers do kind and helpful things for others around them and these acts of kindness help fill the buckets of the people around them. It encourages students to think about their impact on those around them and ways they can be kind within their communities. We will also continue focusing on defining and identifying the character, setting, author and illustrator as we discuss our daily read alouds. We are learning the letters j, k, p, and b this week. Students began learning how to read and write three letter words last week and they are really starting to catch on! I have been so impressed with how quickly they are learning their daily letter sounds and beginning to blend them together. We also practice rhyming, identifying syllables, and identifying the beginning sounds of words on a daily basis. In math we are continuing to practice counting to 100 and will also begin to encourage students to count on from a given number. Students will practice using a ten frame to help them count groups of objects accurately and will begin comparing groups of objects and identifying which one has more or less. On Friday we will be completing a weekly word problem to keep up our critical thinking skills! Just a heads up, I will be out of the building on Monday for jury duty, and on Thursday I will be in the building but will be in an all day planning session with the rest of the kindergarten team. Don't forget that Wednesday is also an early release day! It's going to be a fun but quick week! Thanks for all that you do! Ms. Vernon
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This week we will be focusing on your student! Part of our IB (International Baccalaureate) unit on communities is having students identify what communities they are a part of and what role they play within these communities. We will be discussing what the students would like to know about each other, what makes them special, what they want to share with their classmates that communicates who they are, and how they want to communicate this information. We will be discussing ways people communicate, through videos, drawing, writing, objects, art, music, etc. and I will let you student decide how they want to tell the class all about them! I'm hoping they will get creative and choose different ways to present themselves. This week we will work on the projects and see how they are going and hopefully next week students will be able to present. We will be working on this in the classroom, whether your student would like to work on it at home or use objects from home is completely optional. This is my first time letting students lead the All About Me focus in this way so we will see how it turns out!
We will be reading books about characters who celebrate what makes them special, such as Chrysanthemum, I Like Myself, Spoon, and Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon. In writing, students are working on labeling their pictures with the sounds they hear in the word. Everyday students will be drawing a picture of something that is important to them and labeling it. We have also started learning and practicing different reading centers. Last week we practiced Read to Self and Word Work centers. This week we will introduce Buddy Reading and our Work on Writing centers. The students have been working together so well during this time! In phonics we will be learning the letters L, H, T, and I, and will begin learning how to blend sounds to read and write three letter words (CVC-consonant, vowel, consonant). We will also introduce and practice the sight words: a, I, am, at, to. I've uploaded a copy of the sight word list to the parent resources tab on this website. Just focus on the first 10 under Level A for now! We will also continue on proper letter formation for the letters we have learned so far. In math we will continue practicing counting to 100 and counting sets of objects accurately. We also are working on subitizing, being able to see a group of objects and automatically know how many there are, up to 10. Think of it as the dots on a dice, we automatically know how many dots there are without needing to count them, this is subitizing. We are also practicing forming our letters to ten correctly and figuring out more strategies to count groups of objects efficiently. Every Friday we solve a simple word problem, right now using numbers up to 5, to build student's ability to problem solve. It should be a fun-filled week! Students are getting used to classroom procedures and expectations which has made our days run smoothly. Thanks for sharing your wonderful children with me! Ms. Vernon Well the first week of kindergarten is wrapping up and it has been a wonderful one! Your students have practiced new classroom procedures, made new friends, and learned tons of new things! We have begun to introduce the letters of the alphabet, including their names, sounds, and how to write them correctly. We also have been making a craft to go with some of them, including the martian hats that came home on their heads on Tuesday! For each letter we also brainstorm words that begin with the sound the letter makes and the students have come up with some very creative examples, check them out below: Every morning when your student comes in they practice tracing and writing their names. We also ripped pieces of colored construction paper to make our very own rainbow name mosaics that are now up on our classroom wall.
We also love singing songs in our room! Ask your students about our morning meeting greeting, 'Up the Ladder, Down the Ladder' or our hallway song. Thank you so much for sharing your children with me, I am so lucky that I get to work with them every day! As always, please check out the Seesaw app for even more pictures and videos from our week!
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