Look into our week: 9/26-9/30

Good afternoon parents and guardians, 
I had an amazing time at The Ron Clark Academy. It was such an inspiring trip as a teacher. I am looking forward to trying some new things in class and as a school. Big amazing changes are coming, stay tuned! I will be out this week once again for one day this week (Monday). Ms. Tenorio will be taking my class once again. Hopefully this will be the last time I am out for a while!

 Please continue to reinforce the following hand signals and rules: 

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

Sept News Letter:Newsletter

Here is a look into our week

-New "Homework" newsletter going home this week
-The Kinder team will now be sending home Bi-weekly practice pages. Feel free to place them in sheet protectors or laminate them for multiple uses. These pages are meant to be fun and used at home to review concepts taught in class.

Language Arts: Unit 1-week 4: "Miss. Kindergarten takes a field trip"

Words to talk about: words found in the story

Words to read: HFW/Sight words

• Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)
• Song we review in class:  Parts of a story song
• This week's focus: CLASSIFY AND CATEGORIZE
• High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by seeing them.
• This week's words: the, little
• Sight Word Sundaes: (HFW word list): Every time your child passes a word list, they will be given the next list to practice and will be given a part of their Sundae. Please color, cut out at home and return back to me. I will be hanging these up in the classroom.

Math: Unit 2-numbers to 5 (2.4-2.8)

• Unit 2
• Students will be able to count and show items up to 5
• Students will be able to make different shapes of 3 and 4
• Students will be able to graph up to 5
• Students will be able to separate items up to 5 to make the same number
• Students will be able to count and say up to 5-trace 1

Science: Apples

• Students will be able to describe parts of an apple.
• APPLE CELEBRATION: Wednesday
• Donation list outside the classroom (THANK YOU TO THOSE THAT ALREADY SIGNED UP!!)
• Feel free to bring in items starting tomorrow

Social Studies: Unit 3-Lesson 1-"What job to people do?"

• Students will match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.
• Social Studies test on Friday.

Writing: The Writing house

• Hanging letters

Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Gil

Look into our week: 9/19-9/23

Good morning parents and guardians, 

My kiddos had a good half day with their first sub. I will be out this week for two days (Thursday and Friday). Ms. Tenorio will be taking my class once again on Thursday and another sub will be taking over on Friday. I am fortunate enough to be flying to Atlanta to visit The Ron Clark Academy! I am looking forward to learning some new things, to use in our classroom.

 Please continue to reinforce the following hand signals and rules: 

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

Sept News Letter:Newsletter

Here is a look into our week

-New "Homework" newsletter going home this week
-The Kinder team will now be sending home Bi-weekly practice pages. Feel free to place them in sheet protectors or laminate them for multiple uses. These pages are meant to be fun and used at home to review concepts taught in class.

Language Arts: Unit 1-week 3: "Plaidypus Lost"

Words to talk about: words found in the story

Words to read: HFW/Sight words

• Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)
• Song we review in class:  Parts of a story song
• This week's focus: SEQUENCE
• High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by seeing them.
• This week's words: the, little
• Sight Word Sundaes: (HFW word list): Every time your child passes a word list, they will be given the next list to practice and will be given a part of their Sundae. Please color, cut out at home and return back to me. I will be hanging these up in the classroom.

Math: Finish Unit 1-Matching and sorting and begin Unit 2-numbers to 5 (2.1-2.3)

• Unit 1 test on Tuesday
• Students will be able to show same and different
• categories: color, shape, size, pattern
• Students will be able to show partners
• Spoon/fork, paper/pencil, etc.
• Unit 2
• Students will be able to count to 5
• Student will be able to count and show items up to 3
• Students will be able to count and show items up to 4

Science: Chapter 2: Solving Problems (test on Friday)

• Students will be able to identify a problem and a design and materials for solving it.
• Students will note that one can draw and plan, create and test solution
• Students will explain that solutions can be shared in different ways.

Social Studies: Unit 1-Lesson 3-"What can we learn from stories?"

• Student will know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions.
• Social Studies test on Friday.

Writing: The Writing house

• Tall letters

Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Gil

Look into the week 9/12-9/16

Good morning parents and guardians, 

Once again what a great week! I am so proud of my kiddos and how far they have come in just two weeks. We began centers and the class did amazing, working the entire time (while our classical music was on) and using their whisper voices to talk to their partners! Also, during journal time the class worked quietly for 7 minutes! Our class goal is 12 minutes, so we are closely building our stamina to reach this goal. 
 Please continue to reinforce the following hand signals and rules: 

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

Sept News Letter:Newsletter

Here is a look into our week
-This week we will begin our benchmark exam (STAR early literacy).
-We will be testing students (12 at a time) on Tuesday/Wednesday and will do makeups of Thursday from 8:00-8:45 am.
(Mrs. Juarez class will do the same the following week.)
-Please encourage your child to stay focused, stay on the test page while on the iPad and not play with their headphones.

-I will be out for a half day on Friday (after lunch). I will still be on campus but will be conducting some CELDT tests. Our classroom substitute will be Ms. Tenorio. She has been subbing for REACH for almost 3 years now. She is amazing and will always be my go-to sub.

Language Arts: Unit 1-week 2: "We are so proud"

Words to talk about: words found in the story

Words to read: HFW/Sight words

• Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)
• Song we review in class:  Parts of a story song
• This week's focus: SETTING
• High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by seeing them.
• This week's words: I, am (same as last week's)
• Sight Word Sundaes: (HFW word list): Every time your child passes a word list, they will be given the next list to practice and will be given a part of their Sundae. Please color, cut out at home and return back to me. I will be hanging these up in the classroom.

Math: Unit 1-Matching and sorting (lessons 1.5-1.9)

• Students will be able to show same and different
• categories: color, shape, size, pattern
• Students will be able to show partners
• Spoon/fork, paper/pencil, etc.

Science: Finish Chapter 1-The Nature of Science

• Students will be able to tell about working together to ask and answer questions.
• Students will identify ways to record and share information about observations and tests.
• Science Test on Thursday

Social Studies: Unit 1-Lesson 2-"Who are good citizens?"

• Student will able to learn examples of honesty, courage, world history from stories and folklore.
• Social Studies test on Friday.

Writing through the year: Writing is just telling on paper

• student will begin to write in their journals (pictures or sentences)

Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Gil

Back 2 School Power point presentation

Hello Parents and Guardians, 

Here is the presentation I will be showing in class tomorrow.

Hope to see you there! My first session will begin at 5:00 pm in our classroom.

B2S presentation 16-17

Have a great rest of the week!

Mrs. Gil

First week of full curriculum...9/6-9/9

Good afternoon parents and guardians, 

First week is done, we did it...yaaaay! I am so proud of my kiddos and how far they have come. First week is always important when it comes to setting the expectation for your classroom because it will set the tone for the rest of the school year. We practiced the rules (on a daily basis), we practiced classroom procedures all day long (how to sit at our table/carpet spot, how to put away items, how to use our white board markers, and many other routines) and of course we got to learn about each other. Please reinforce the following hand signals and rules: 

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

Sept News Letter:Newsletter

Here is a look into our week

Language Arts: Unit 1-week 1: "The Little School Bus"

*Parents and Guardians will be given access to this curriculum and Science curriculum online this Tuesday. Students will be able to rematch the videos we watch in class for review.

Math: Unit 1-Matching and sorting (lessons 1.1-1.4)

• Students will be able to show same and different
• categories: color, shape, size, pattern

Science: Chapter 1-The Nature of Science

• Students will be able to tell about working together to ask and answer questions.
• Students will identify ways to record and share information about observations and tests.

Social Studies: Unit 1-Lesson 1-"Why do we follow the rules?"

• Student will be bale to follow rules, such as sharing and taking turns and know the consequences of breaking them.

Writing through the year: Writing is just telling on paper

• student will begin to write in their journals (pictures or sentences)

Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Gil