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Peace,
Ms. Joyner and the Jammers
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This Week in Jammerland
We have been busy busy kicking off unit two in math and ela! It's Friday and I'm a tired teacher so I'm going to do a photo story of our reading small groups. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so without any further ado, the Jammers.
Here we are in the literacy loft making what appears to be sight words with the cookie letters👍
The letter of the week was S so we wrote in shaving cream today!
Back from Break
Hello Friends!
We are back from break and ready to roll. This week kicks off our brand new math unit: shapes! Today I ran a few drills with each small group testing their ability to identify shapes, then we played an exciting game of Shape Bingo! It Mrs. Hall's group students further explored the shape of the day: squares, and independently students used shapes to make pictures. We will continue this exciting unit for the next few weeks! Also, we started back on schedule with our library time with Mrs. Aycock. In the library we learned all about Maps, which is one of our theme focuses of the week! The letter I ignited some imaginations as we read our Poem of the Week and circled all of the long I sounds then all of the short ones! When the students return from lunch we will start our next unit Discovering Our World with a quick Venn Diagram of Maps & Globes.
- BEFORE THE BREAK-
We reached our goal of filling up our warm fuzzy friendship jar and had our first celebration! Here are a few photos of that celebration and center time before the break.
We are back from break and ready to roll. This week kicks off our brand new math unit: shapes! Today I ran a few drills with each small group testing their ability to identify shapes, then we played an exciting game of Shape Bingo! It Mrs. Hall's group students further explored the shape of the day: squares, and independently students used shapes to make pictures. We will continue this exciting unit for the next few weeks! Also, we started back on schedule with our library time with Mrs. Aycock. In the library we learned all about Maps, which is one of our theme focuses of the week! The letter I ignited some imaginations as we read our Poem of the Week and circled all of the long I sounds then all of the short ones! When the students return from lunch we will start our next unit Discovering Our World with a quick Venn Diagram of Maps & Globes.
- BEFORE THE BREAK-
We reached our goal of filling up our warm fuzzy friendship jar and had our first celebration! Here are a few photos of that celebration and center time before the break.
Fit Kids
Hello Hello!
Today's tid-bit is a small part of our day, but is definitely beneficial in BIG ways! What could I be talking about other than ORGANIZED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TIME! This 10 minute block of our day really helps with behavior and energy in our classroom AND it is just so much fun! We really get our blood pumping! When our little bodies are kindergarten bodies, we NEED movement time. Since we have begun this fitness adventure with the jammers, I can see behavior improvements as well as heightened focus in academics. Below are some of our favorites:
Today's tid-bit is a small part of our day, but is definitely beneficial in BIG ways! What could I be talking about other than ORGANIZED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TIME! This 10 minute block of our day really helps with behavior and energy in our classroom AND it is just so much fun! We really get our blood pumping! When our little bodies are kindergarten bodies, we NEED movement time. Since we have begun this fitness adventure with the jammers, I can see behavior improvements as well as heightened focus in academics. Below are some of our favorites:
This is Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventures (Click to bring you to their youtube channel) This pleasant lady guides you through yoga positions with stories! We really love this fish one!
Another one of our favorites is Kids Workout with Paul Eugene. This is a very aerobics focused workout for when we have the SUPER wiggles! The movements are easy to follow and we like that he talks directly to us!
Last but not least is our ABSOLUTE FAVORITE WORKOUT! We love to dance along to youtube clips of the Just Dance video game! The most requested song in jammerland is what is.........
Here we are getting our fitness on! We are really getting after it!
EXCELLENT MATH RESOURCE FOR PARENTS!
Hello Jammer Land,
I hope you have had a jammin' weekend! I want to take a minute a share with you a wonderful resource that is yours to take advantage of! The website that I'm featuring is a livebinder created by the Floyd County BOE. This site is FULL of amazing interactive games and tools for you, as parents, to use at home with your kindergarten student. You can get to the site by clicking here or typing into your address bar http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=467626. Please make yourself comfortable with this site! The colorful tabs at the top will take you to various websites that enforce the standards that we are covering in our classroom!
I just want to highlight a few of my favorite finds on this SUPER AWESOME site! First I love the third tab from the beginning it's purple and labeled "kindergarten parent math road map." This is exactly what is behind this tab a detailed clarification of exactly what we will be covering in mathematics this year through the common core standards! I like how this article pulls away all of the educational jargon and really breaks down where we are going with our students, in a way that parents can easily follow! If you have a minute I highly recommend reading through this article to clear up any questions you may have about the mathematics curriculum we will be covering this year.
Another great find on this site is the "math games" green tab it is the sixth from the left. After clicking this tab you are brought to a page with several "sub tabs" with websites names on them (check it out below) these tabs take you to an extensive collection of fun online games to play with your child. IF you don't have constant access to a computer there is a tab directly next to the math games labeled "math printables." This red tab brings you to resources you may print out to use with your child.
I hope you have had a jammin' weekend! I want to take a minute a share with you a wonderful resource that is yours to take advantage of! The website that I'm featuring is a livebinder created by the Floyd County BOE. This site is FULL of amazing interactive games and tools for you, as parents, to use at home with your kindergarten student. You can get to the site by clicking here or typing into your address bar http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=467626. Please make yourself comfortable with this site! The colorful tabs at the top will take you to various websites that enforce the standards that we are covering in our classroom!
Another great find on this site is the "math games" green tab it is the sixth from the left. After clicking this tab you are brought to a page with several "sub tabs" with websites names on them (check it out below) these tabs take you to an extensive collection of fun online games to play with your child. IF you don't have constant access to a computer there is a tab directly next to the math games labeled "math printables." This red tab brings you to resources you may print out to use with your child.
Lastly, I would like to draw your attention to the "summer math practice" tab which is in the bottom center of the tab section of the site. This brings you to a page of resources available for you to get your kindergartener ready for the BIG first grade!
Please don't feel this site is mandatory practice, but it is a great resource that would be beneficial practice for EVERY kindergarten student!! Thanks for checking us out & happy learning!
Love,
Ms. Joyner
Morning Message
Today's Jammer highlight is about our new morning work! We have begun a writing journal called Ms. Joyner's Morning Message. Students begin their day the same as usual, by making their lunch order, unpacking their book-bag, using the restroom and washing their hands, but then when they have handed all of their business is when they begin their BRAND new writing time. Students copy the morning message from the SMARTboard. Each message is a different letter written from me. It is in letter format, and students can choose to illustrate whatever they would like on the top of their journals. Here is an example of today's morning message
Today I added graphics to the top to facilitate ideas pertaining to the letter. Each day has a different content focus. Here is my morning message topic schedule:
This week they have really been a big hit! We will see if they remain popular with the students as we continue, but I feel that they seriously enjoy this outlet to express themselves!
Today I added graphics to the top to facilitate ideas pertaining to the letter. Each day has a different content focus. Here is my morning message topic schedule:
Monday- Reading
Tuesday- Math
Wednesday- Sight Words
Thursday- Unit
Friday- English Language Arts
This week they have really been a big hit! We will see if they remain popular with the students as we continue, but I feel that they seriously enjoy this outlet to express themselves!
Have a TERRIFIC THURSDAY! Thanks for checking out the class blog!
Partner Work!
Today's highlight is on a PARTNER activity that we completed together in pairs! This was our first time working in pairs and it was excellent! During our math block this morning we practiced identifying numbers on dice. Then I modeled on the smart board writing numbers that we roll on our dice.
After I modeled how to count and write the numeral, I asked for volunteers we are VERY good about volunteering when we get a chance to write on the SMARTboard. Once we got the hang of writing the number displayed on the dice. We split up into partners around room, before we got started we talked about the importance of working the whole, working quietly, and working kindly! I passed out the dice to each set of partners and they began working on this:
Students took turns rolling the dice and counting the dots with their partners. Both students recorded each roll! We did AWESOME!! I am so proud of their hard work! Here are some photos for you to see how we did! IF you would like a copy of this to use in your classroom you can find it on teacherspayteachers.com at Kindergartensquared.
Students took turns rolling the dice and counting the dots with their partners. Both students recorded each roll! We did AWESOME!! I am so proud of their hard work! Here are some photos for you to see how we did! IF you would like a copy of this to use in your classroom you can find it on teacherspayteachers.com at Kindergartensquared.
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