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

Small boxes needed!

Good evening parents and guardians, 

I just found a really cute math craft I would like to create for my kiddos to use in a center. 

I am in need of small empty snack boxes (exp: granola bar box, fruit snack box). I would like to get about 10. If you have any of these boxes please feel free to send them over :)

Thank you, 

Miss. Maciel

Meet our room parents!!!!!

Hello Parents and Guardians:

We just wanted to take a quick second and introduce ourselves to you, as we will be the Room Parents for Miss Maciel’s amazing Kindergarten class this year. My name is Regina Shanta (Norah’s mom) and I, along with Nieves Valenzuela (Samantha’s mom) will be helping throughout the year in organizing class parties, projects, and any other events that may require parent involvement.

There will be times we may need to ask for donations for items needed in the room or for supplies necessary for fun activities. We understand that it is not always easy to spend extra money but if we all can pitch in just a little every now and then it will enable our children to have so many more fun and learning experiences than many other schools are not able to provide! It will be our kids who reap the benefits of your generosity and kindness!!

If you can provide either Miss Maciel or us with your email address we think it would be a much easier form of communication, as it seems letters sent home in backpacks could often be lost.  Anytime you have a question or would like to help in anyway please feel free to contact us.

Reach is such a special school and Miss Maciel is beyond an extraordinary teacher; we look forward to getting to know you all as we enjoy this magical year of Kindergarten together!! Thank you!!

Fondly,

Regina Shanta: text: 951-500-7494 email: reginashanta@att.net

Nieves Valenzuela: nieves.valenzuela@gmail.com

BRING YOUR OWN TECHNOLOGY MEETING...

Scheduled for Monday October 13 @ 5:30 pm.

Look into our week 10/6-10/10

Good morning parents and guardians,
Our first month of school and come and gone! October is going to be filled with lots of learning and fun activities, just like the month of September. October is also the month we begin Kindergarten leveled rotations and school wide rotations for ELD, RTI and second language. Students last week were sent home with a letter stating where they will be going. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

Lets begin with some school news:

Also, coming soon to REACH:

Look at our week

• I will be out of my classroom once again this upcoming week, but only for the second part of the day (M, T, TH, F). I will be out the entire day on Wednesday. I will still be on campus testing and will be checking in on my class from time to time. Please remind your children to follow all the directions and rules, just as if I was there.
• THANK YOU!

Language Arts:

Math:

• Finish up Chapter 2 and test
• Numbers 0-9 (write and compare numbers)
• *We pushed back the date to accommodate the leveled rotations starting this week
• Begin Chapter 3
• Students will order objects by size.
• Students will use comparing words and pair up sets of objects.
• Students will order objects by length

Social Studies:

• Christopher Columbus

Science:

• Boats (sink or float)
• How are different kinds of boats made
• What makes boats float?
• Experiment (FRIDAY)
• Students will make their own boats out of straws, tape, aluminum paper, wax paper, Popsicle sticks
• *If you are able to donate any of these items please feel free to email me :)

Leadership:

• Leading by example

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or stop by my classroom.

Thank you and enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel