Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Happy Tuesday!
We had a fantastic day!
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Library Time - Ms. Hayward read us a book about Halloween and students spent some time reading books from the library (which is the "read to self" daily five).
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Library Time - Ms. Hayward read us a book about Halloween and students spent some time reading books from the library (which is the "read to self" daily five).
Recess and lunch
Language/Arts – we put on our detective hats and found all Es on our paper.
Music Class - please visit Mr. Flower's blog: https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com/
Math – today we used plastic spiders to count and place them on the "web".
Language/Arts – we put on our detective hats and found all Es on our paper.
Music Class - please visit Mr. Flower's blog: https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com/
Math – today we used plastic spiders to count and place them on the "web".
Recess and
Lunch
Centers – for centers today JKs had wooden blocks, kitchen and lego.
Centers – for centers today JKs had wooden blocks, kitchen and lego.
French - please visit
Mme. Jessica's blog: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com/
Pack up and story time.
Have a great evening everyone!
Pack up and story time.
Have a great evening everyone!
Monday, October 29, 2018
Happy Monday!
We had a fantastic Monday!
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs. Today we also shared something exciting we did over the weekend.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks. Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – today we learned our new phonics song for the letter E. We also reviewed the ones we learned so far. Then we made a list of words that begins with E or that has E in the middle.
Recess and lunch
Language/Arts – today we used play dough to make the upper case and lower case E.
Math – we tied our UOI and Math with our mini Halloween unit. JKs had to cut and paste sorting the treats and healthy food.
Language/Arts – today we used play dough to make the upper case and lower case E.
Math – we tied our UOI and Math with our mini Halloween unit. JKs had to cut and paste sorting the treats and healthy food.
Recess and Lunch
Centers - today we had cars, blocks and dress up.
French - please visit Mme. Jessica's blog: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com/Centers - today we had cars, blocks and dress up.
Pack up and story time
Have a great evening!
Friday, October 26, 2018
Happy Friday!
We had a great day!
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – we sang the jolly phonics song and had the show and tell presentations for letters C and K.
Centers – today we had blocks, puzzles and crafts.
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – we sang the jolly phonics song and had the show and tell presentations for letters C and K.
Recess and lunch
Language/Arts – today we had our awesome reading buddies.
Music Class - please visit Mr. Flower's blog: https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com
Language/Arts – today we had our awesome reading buddies.
Music Class - please visit Mr. Flower's blog: https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com
Recess and
Lunch
Slime - JKs had fun making slime. Next week we will try a different recipe as we want to find out which slime stretches the most. This is our experiment for the Science Fair coming up.
Centers – today we had blocks, puzzles and crafts.
French - please visit
Mme. Jessica's blog: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com/
Pack up and story time.
Have a great evening everyone!
Pack up and story time.
Have a great evening everyone!
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Happy Thursday!
We had a fantastic day! Picture Day was a success!
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – we sang the letter group 1, C and K songs. Then we watched this sesame street video: https://youtu.be/f9JAVSruaeA
Recess and lunch
Language/Arts – today we made a list of words which that with K and C.
Fine motor Activity/Math - today we looked into our new unit on sorting. We understood the sorting chart and completed an activity where we practiced sorting the pumpkins by size.
Next, we used Halloween mini erasers to sort.
Recess and Lunch
Pack up and story time
Have a great evening everyone!
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – we sang the letter group 1, C and K songs. Then we watched this sesame street video: https://youtu.be/f9JAVSruaeA
Recess and lunch
Language/Arts – today we made a list of words which that with K and C.
Fine motor Activity/Math - today we looked into our new unit on sorting. We understood the sorting chart and completed an activity where we practiced sorting the pumpkins by size.
Next, we used Halloween mini erasers to sort.
Recess and Lunch
Centers -
JKs had lego, lacing and stamps. Pack up and story time
Have a great evening everyone!
FYI - In our class I often use the "brain break" technique/strategy. Brain Breaks for kids is the simple technique in which young students are given a short mental break taken at regular intervals. Benefits of using brain breaks include helping kids to be calmer, remain focused while also stimulating physical activity.
A little bit of our "brain breaks" for you:
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Happy Wednesday!
We had a great day!
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – we sang our group 1 jolly phonics songs. The letters we have learned so far are: S, A, T, I, P and N. Please feel free to hear the songs with your child: https://youtu.be/1he7WQ0N-_M Support from home makes a huge difference! This week we started group 2. Here are the songs for C and K: https://youtu.be/0s1SOVyZbzQ
For the JK Language curriculum we use a combination of Jolly Phonics and Daily Five activities. With a priority of developing fine motor skills. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using *synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks which students complete daily. In our class, because of how our schedule works, we are not able to complete all the 5 tasks daily. But students have plenty of exposure throughout the week to the following: read to self, read to someone, work on writing, listen to reading and word work (the word work will be more evident in term 3).
*Synthetic Phonics is a way of teaching reading. Children are taught to read letters or groups of letters by saying the sound(s) they represent – so, they are taught that the letter l sounds like llllll when we say it. Children can then start to read words by blending (synthesising) the sounds together to make a word.
Morning Circle Time - JKs participated in our circle time where the special helper put the number on the calendar and counted, checked if Johnny had the proper outfit for the today's weather, added a popcorn to our 100th day of school counting and as a class we sang our calendar songs.
Snacks - JKs were encouraged to eat their healthy snacks.
Gym Class - please visit Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/
Jolly Phonics – we sang our group 1 jolly phonics songs. The letters we have learned so far are: S, A, T, I, P and N. Please feel free to hear the songs with your child: https://youtu.be/1he7WQ0N-_M Support from home makes a huge difference! This week we started group 2. Here are the songs for C and K: https://youtu.be/0s1SOVyZbzQ
For the JK Language curriculum we use a combination of Jolly Phonics and Daily Five activities. With a priority of developing fine motor skills. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using *synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks which students complete daily. In our class, because of how our schedule works, we are not able to complete all the 5 tasks daily. But students have plenty of exposure throughout the week to the following: read to self, read to someone, work on writing, listen to reading and word work (the word work will be more evident in term 3).
*Synthetic Phonics is a way of teaching reading. Children are taught to read letters or groups of letters by saying the sound(s) they represent – so, they are taught that the letter l sounds like llllll when we say it. Children can then start to read words by blending (synthesising) the sounds together to make a word.
Recess and lunch
Language/Arts – we put on our detective hats and dabbed all the Cs and Ks on our paper.
Music Class - please visit Mr. Flower's blog: https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com/
Math – today we completed some Halloween numeracy activities. Students used little spiders to count and then they dabbed the correct number.
Language/Arts – we put on our detective hats and dabbed all the Cs and Ks on our paper.
Music Class - please visit Mr. Flower's blog: https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com/
Math – today we completed some Halloween numeracy activities. Students used little spiders to count and then they dabbed the correct number.
Recess and
Lunch
Centers – for centers today JKs had dress up, kitchen and cars.
Centers – for centers today JKs had dress up, kitchen and cars.
French - please visit
Mme. Jessica's blog: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com/
Pack up and story time.
Have a great evening everyone!
Pack up and story time.
Have a great evening everyone!
FYI - if you are wondering why your child is not bringing any (completed in class) work home here is why...
At SJA we collect students work throughout the term. The teacher will assist students to choose 1-2 work samples to add to their IB portfolio. The IB portfolio is a collection of "My Best Work", "Something I worked my hardest on", "Something I need to improve" and "A way I showed a learner profile". The IB portfolio will remain at the school and be passed on to the next grade level teacher. At the end of your child's school life at SJA, he/she will have a great collection of all their work.
Any work not selected will be sent home along with the report card, which will take place November 30th. Please let me know if you have any questions, it might sound complicated, but it is quite simple. :)
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