Look into our week 12/15-12/19

Good afternoon parents and guardians, 
I hope you are all enjoying the weekend. We have a really busy week coming up, but as always, I will try to make it fun while my kiddos learn. As a team we decided to not do any official curriculum (as our days will be filled with many school planned activities). If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or stop by the room.

Here are some important date to keep in mind:

12/16

• Christmas performance practice (school wide @ 8am-please have your child arrive to school on time)
• Emergency Drill @ l0:20
• Art with Mr. Ruben

12/17

• Spark of Love- Fire Department to pick-up toys 9:00-10:30am (TK-1 Only)
• Cynthia Fraser Read & Grow Rich Engineering Project (ALL GRADE LEVELS)
• Our class time will be from 8:00-8:45
• Thank you to all those families that have signed up to bring in items!

12/18

• December awards assembly
• Christmas program-performances begin at 2:00 pm
• Continue to practice songs at home
• Video links in previous blog post

12/19

• Pajama Day
• Polar Express party (more information to follow soon)
• Vision and Hearing screenings
• After school program closed

Language Arts:

• Christmas Stories
• Comprehension Questions

Math:

• Shapes (solid and 3D shapes)

Social Studies:

• Continue learning about Winter Holidays
• Christmas and New Years

Science:

• North Pole and Arctic Animals

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or stop by the classroom.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Miss. Maciel

Look into our week 12/8-12/12

Good morning parents and guardians, 

I hope you all have a great week! We have two weeks left and they are going to be busy, busy BUT also very fun! Here is a list of dates and events coming up at our school and in our classroom!

12/10

• Coffee with Director @ 8
• Hour of coding-9:15-10:15 (in the classroom)
• Student will learn about coding 3 different ways
• If you are interested in coming in at this time to help in the classroom please let me know.
• If you are able to come in at this time, it would be great if you could bring in a laptop or iPad/tablet.
• Website if you would like to practice coding at home: Code.org
• Wacky Wednesday-Roller Coasters-10:45-12:15 (in the classroom)
• Student will create the most thrilling roller coaster for a marble.
• Parent volunteers are welcomed during this time to work with the different teams (5)
• If you are interested in coming in at this time to help in the classroom please let me know.

12/12

• Family Lunch Friday
• Report cards go home

12/16

• Emergency Drill @ l0:20
• Art with Mr. Ruben

12/17

• Spark of Love- Fire Department to pick-up toys 9:00-10:30am (TK-1 Only)
• Cynthia Fraser Read & Grow Rich Engineering Project (ALL GRADE LEVELS)
• You may begin to bring in donated items to the classroom

12/18

• December awards assembly
• Christmas program-performances begin at 2:00 pm
• Continue to practice songs at home
• Video links in previous blog post

12/19

• Pajama Day
• Polar Express party (more information to follow soon)
• Vision and Hearing screenings
• After school program closed

If you have any questions on any of the upcoming dates and events please feel free to email me or stop by the classroom.

Here is a look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2-Wk 6 "Jack and the beanstalk"




• Friday: Unit 2 exam

Math:

• Continue and finish up Chapter 6: Numbers 0-20
• Students will be able to compare groups of up to 20 objects.
• Students will be able to order groups of up to 20 objects
• Chapter 6 test
• Begin Chapter 7: Shapes
• Students will be able to recognize and name basic solid shapes.

Science:

• Roller Coasters
• Types and parts of a roller coasters
• This will prepare students create their roller coaster for Wacky Wednesday

Social Studies:

• Continue learning about Winter Holidays
• This week: Kwanza

Leadership:

• Resilience:Never Give Up

Please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.

Enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

Look into our week 12/1-12/5

Good morning parents and guardians,

I hope you all enjoyed this week off and had an even better Thanksgiving Day! Time to get back to work before our next mini vacation. I am looking forwarding to these next few weeks and they will be filled with many fun activities.

Upcoming REACH dates:

• 12/5 End of 1st Trimester
• 12/8 PTO meeting
• 12/10 Wacky Wednesday and Coding (more information to follow soon-Volunteers will be needed)
• Coffee with director @ 8:30 am
• 12/12 Family Friday Lunch
•  Trimester 1 report cards go home
• 12/18 Award Assembly
• Christmas/Holiday performance @ 2pm
• 12/19 Vision and Hearing test

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2 week 5: "A bed for Winter"

• Weekly comprehension exam: Sequence

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 6: Numbers 0-20
• Students will be able to read and write from 10-12
• Students will be able to read and write from 13-16
• Students will be able to read and write from 17-20
• Students will be able to compare groups of up to 20 objects

Social Studies/ Leadership:

• Winter Holidays
• This week students will learn about Hanukkah
• Leadership-Resilience:What is resilience?

Science:

• Gingerbread man-making predictions and what dissolves in water?

Please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. 

Have a great weekend and see you all soon, 

Miss. Maciel

Winter performance

Our Winter Performance will be on Thursday, December 18th at 2pm in the Sanctuary.

We will be performing two songs: Run Rudolph Run and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. We have been practicing in class but PLEASE practice with your student as often as possible.

The links below have the words to the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZEn7Tq0GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkimySRWiiw

Thank you and enjoy your Thanksgiving Break!

Week of 11/17-11/19

Good mooring parents and guardians,

We are approaching the end of another month for us at REACH. This next week will only have three days, but we still have so much to do! Here are some important dates to keep in mind for this short upcoming week:


11/17-11/20 Parent teacher conferences

• Reminders about your time and date were sent home on Thursday

11/19-November award assembly @ 8 am
         -Lego engineering class (our class had to be rescheduled due to the Kaiser Permanente assembly)

         -Emergency Drill 

(please talk to your child about listing to their teacher and lining up quickly. 

Also, please remind them that this is only a DRILL-we are just practicing staying safe in case of a real emergency)

         -Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast-from 10:15-12:00

• THANK YOU to all those families that have signed up to bring in items on this day.  We are still missing our main food dishes (chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes), if you would like to sign up for these or any other item(s) you may be able to donate to the class please stop by our classroom to sign up, or send me an email. Once again, thank you for all the donated items, special fun activities could not be accomplished without your help and support!                  

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• As a Kindergarten team we decided it would be best to begin a new week in our Language Arts curriculum until we come back from Thanksgiving break.
• In our class, during our Language Arts block, we will be learning about the first Thanksgiving along with making some different hats to represent the people present that day.

Math:

• Chapter 6-Numbers 0-10
• Count from 0-10
• Write numbers from 0-10
• Represent numbers 0-10

Science:

• Continue learning about seasons
• Spring and summer

Social Studies:

• Unit 6 lesson1-What is a holiday?
• Students will be able to describe the meaning of a holiday.

Leadership:

• Service: Gratitude and giving back

The Kindergarten team will be sending home a homework packet on Monday 11/17 to be due back Monday 12/1. 

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel to email me or stop by the classroom.

Enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

Look into our week 11/10-11/14

Good morning parents and guardians,

The first week of November is done! There is so much to do, yet so little time with all these days off in November, BUT I'm sure the kids will enjoy it!

Here are some important school dates to keep in mind this month:

• 11/11 NO school-Veteran's day
• 11/12 Coffee with director @ 8am
• 11/14 Family Lunch Friday- Kindergarten lunch @ 11am
• 11/19 Awards assembly for the month of November @ 8am
• 11/20-11/21 NO school-Parent teacher conferences
• 11/25-11/28 NO school-Thanksgiving Break

Classroom Dates: (please make sure your child is present on these day for some fun/educational activities)

• 11/12 
• Kaiser literacy assembly @ 8:30
• Lego engineering class from 9-10 am
• 11/13 Meet the Masters Art class 12:45-2:00 pm

REACH PTO new:

Look into our week

Language Art:

• Unit 2 Week 4-"Bear snores on"




• Weekly comprehension: realism and fantasy

Math:

• Finish Chapter 5 
• Students will understand the concept of same-sized
• TEST-11/13
• Students will be able to describe size and position of objects.
• Begin Chapter 6-Numbers 0-10
• students will be able to count to 10

Science:

• Season
• Fall and Winter

Social Studies:

• Unit 5 lesson1-How can we show time?
• Months of the year, days of the week

Leadership:

• Service:Military

Disguise a Turkey project

Due: 11/12/14

Examples of completed projects

Cant wait to see what our class comes up with, have FUN!

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me.

Thank you and enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

November is here!

Good morning parents and guardians,

Another month has come and gone. This school year seems to be flying by, but I hope your kiddos are enjoying their Kindergarten year at REACH! I wanted to say THANK YOU to all those families that donated items towards our class activities and also to those that donated their time. If you would like to help out more in the classroom please let me know and we can set up a time and date. I already have one parent who comes in during math and works with children.

The month of November will seem like a short month with no school on two consecutive Wednesdays (11/4 and 11/11), no school on 11/20-21 (parents conferences) and of course having the last week off for Thanksgiving break.
Parent conferences: I will be sending home more information soon about parent conferences. Those parents that return their forms will have priority (towards the time slot they choose).

School updates:

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2-Week 3: "Animal babies"

• Comprehension exam: Main idea

Math:

• Chapter 5
• Students will understand the concept of same-sized
• Students will explore the idea that only a few big objects fit into small spaces and many small objects fit into big spaces
• Students will identify positions of objects
• Students will use language such as before and after to describe relative positions in sequence of events

Science:

• Baby animals
• How are babies similar to their parents?
• Farm baby animals
• Ocean baby animals
• Possible donation items for project:
• Lunch sized zip-lock bags
• hair gel (dollar tree or 99 cent store)
• ocean animal stickers

Social Studies:

• Unit 4 lesson 1: How can you find things
• Students will be able to determine the relative location of objects using the terms near/far, left/right and behind/in front.

Leadership:

• How we serve others

Classroom Shutterfly page:

• Ive uploaded about 250 photos so far
• If you would like access to our page please send me an email or stop by the room
• IF you have access already-please feel free to upload any pictures you have taken of our kiddos

As always, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns or stop by the classroom.

Have a great rest of the day!

Miss. Maciel

Look into our week..

Good morning parents and guardians,

What a week! Wow was it fun! I hope your kiddos came home with excitement but also with new information they learned this past week. Thank you to all the families that were able to donate items towards our pumpkin pies and of course our shirts for the color run. All of this could not be done with out you! I am uploading the pictures  I took as I type onto our classroom shutter fly page. If you took any pictures please feel free to upload them to share with everyone. If you would like access to our page, send me an email or speak with me and I will sign you up.

REACH News:

* Our class will be having a small celebration following the festival. You can get in contact with myself our with our wonderful room moms Mrs. Shanta or Mrs. Valenzuela for more information.

Look at our week

Language arts:

• Unit 2-Week 2 "Nature Spy"




• Weekly test: Comprehension (setting)

Math:

• Finish up Chapter 4 (Count and order numbers 0-10)
• Students will understand and how the meaning of less
• Students will use more and less to compare number values
• Chapter 4 test: Wednesday
• Begin Chapter 5 (Size)
• Students will understand the concept of same-sized
• Students will explore the idea that only a few big objects fit into small spaces and many small objects fit into big spaces

Science:

• All about Spiders!!

Social Studies:

• Continue with Halloween around the world
• Czechoslovakia
• England
• Germany
• Mexico

Leadership:

• Famous leaders

Please feel free to email me, or stop by the classroom with any questions or concerns you may have. 

I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you all once again for always donating items to our classroom and helping in any way possible. OUR classroom would not be what it is without your support!

Thank you!

Have a great weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

Educational Websites and Apps

Good evening parents and guardians,

Websites:
Click on a link and enjoy an interactive learning experience with videos, images, games and other activities that will give great practice and help advance reading, writing and mathematic skills!

(Counting by two's) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwydguSKOU

(Counting by five's) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awKlEMyleA

(Time) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBvmO7NgUp0

(Money) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peqc252O1gE

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.seussville.com/

http://www.storylineonline.net

http://youtu.be/U3S3OX6HQm4

http://youtu.be/e0dJWfQHF8Y

http://youtu.be/pfRuLS-Vnjs

www.storybird.com

www.nationalgeographic.com/kids

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities

Apps:

Monkey Word School Adventure

Letter School

Rocket Math

Timmy's Kindergarten Adventure

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

Spelling with Cimo

Monkey Mathschool Sunshine

Peek at our week 10/20-10/24

Good morning parents and guardians,

I hope you all had a great week! The month of October is about half way done, and our class has learned so much and had fun doing it. This week we learned about ways to stay healthy. Some of our week's activities were:
-learning about germs and why it is important to cover your mouth and wash your hand (we had fun with glitter this day)
-We also learned about healthy and junk foods (the students had a scavenger hunt using weekly ads and tried to locate as many healthy food and junk food to place on their paper)
-We discussed different types of marathons. We specifically went over the Color Run to get them more excited about it next week.
-Finally, for our Foody Fun Friday activity this week we made mouths! The kids had so much fun, and got a little messy. The activity was really easy to do, and had a Halloween twist.

• 2 Apple slices smothered with peanut butter. Sandwiched in-between the slices were small marshmallows! Thats it! Easy-peazy!
• Some quotes from yesterday
• "Miss. Maciel this is so much fun!"
• "I love this school!"
• "This is the best day ever!"
• "Can we eat this already?"
• With a full mouth-"This is soooooo good…and healthy"
• I love moments like this in my classroom. I shared pictures of this week on our shutter fly page. If you would like access please let me know and I can sign you up :)

Classroom News:

• Substitute:
• I will be out this Tuesday, October 21, 2014 along with Mrs. Schissler. We are both going through BTSA and will be visiting another charter school and will hopefully be returning with some fun ideas to use in our classrooms.
• Please remind your kiddos to follow all the rules and act the same way as if I was there, thank you!
• Classroom Shutter fly page:

Here is a look at some of the photos I just uploaded

School News:

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2-Week 1: "Flowers"

• Weekly comprehension exam: Compare and Contrast

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 4
• Students will be able to compose and decompose numbers to 5.
• Counting and ordering up to 10
• Students will order numbers 0-10
• Using fingers and toes to count on
• Same number and more
• Students will show and understand the meaning of same and more

Science:

• All about pumpkins!
• parts of a pumpkin
• life cycle of a pumpkin
• Foody Fun Friday- Pumpkin Pies!
• Thank you for all the donations! Fun learning activities like this can not be done with out you!

Social Studies:

• Halloween around the word
• Places covered this week
• Ireland, Australia, Canada and China

Leadership:

• Safety with products and medicine

Please feel free to email me or stop by the room with any questions or concerns. I would be more than happy to help! 

Thank you for all that you do, my class would not be what it is with out YOU! 

Enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

Quick Updates….

B. Y. O. T (bring your own technology)

• If your attended the meeting and sighed the proper paperwork, students may begin to bring their devices. I will be posting a list of apps soon that I am familiar with.
• For now please download a QR reader. I have many stories that are linked to QR codes. If students bring their own headphones they can scan the code and sit quietly anywhere in the room to listen to a story. 

Color Run (next Friday):

Storybook Festival (formerly Harvest Festival):

If you have any questions please feel free to email me or stop by the room.

Thank you, 

Miss. Maciel

Peek at our week 10/13-10/17

Good morning parents and guardians,

I hope you all had a great week! Did your kiddos come home and tell you about the boats we made in class? They were beyond excited during the week as we learned about Christopher Columbus and how different kinds of boats are made. They were even more excited yesterday when I began to set up! Everytime I explained an item they screamed! It was the best feeling for me as a teacher. I try my best to create moments like this, moments of fun learning. Some students got really creative with their boats, it was an amazing day!

Let's take a took at some REACH news:

Our week in the classroom

Language Arts:

• Unit 1-Week 6 

• Unit 1 test
• Student will be taking their first unit test this week
• The test will cover most of the skills learned these past 6 weeks
• Letters sounds
• Sight words (I, am , the, little, a, to)
• Comprehension skills (character, setting, sequence, classify and categorize)

Math:

• Finish up chapter 3 and test
• -Students will order objects by size, length or weight
• Begin Chapter 4
• Composing and decomposing numbers (5)

Science:

• Staying healthy
• With the Jog-a-thon around the corner I thought it would be great to teach the kiddos ways to stay healthy:
• exercise
• staying clean: brushing teeth, washing hands, coughing/sneezing on arm
• food: healthy Vs. junk food
• THANK YOU TO THOSE FAMILIES THAT HAVE SENT OVER THEIR WEEKLY ADS FOR THE KIDS TO USE THIS UPCOMING WEEK!
• Foody-Fun-Friday
• For this week's activity students will be creating a fun healthy snack with a halloween twist!

Social Studies:

• Celebrate Christopher Columbus Day: make hats
• History of running/walking marathons
• Explore the Color Run (this will get the kids even more excited about the one our school will be hosting)

Leadership:

• Listening to others
• Keeping our hands to ourselves
• Being great friends

Classroom news:

        The room moms and I have created a classroom shutter fly page. I thought this would be another great way to stay in contact with each other, and share class pictures in a safe way.

If you would like to become a member please send me an email and we will send you an invitation to get access to our page.

Here is a glimpse of our homepage

As always, please feel free to send me an email or stop by the room with any questions or concerns. Have a great weekend!

Miss. Maciel