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Kindergarten in Mrs. King's Classroom

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Daily Schedule		Welcome to Kindergarten in Mrs. King's class at Milton Elementary School in Milton, Vermont. My students attend kindergarten in a full day program. Here we are on our second day of kindergarten. Mrs. King's class now has 18 students. Welcome Caiden to our class. We are eager to explore and have fun this year. We have a student teacher from the University of Vermont working with us this semester. Her name is Miss Phalon. She will be working in our classroom on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Here is an outline of what kindergarten in Mrs. King's class will be like.

8:45 - 9:00	Welcome Activities and Morning Meeting
9:00 - 9:15	Calendar
9:15 - 9:30	Morning Message
9:30 - 9:45	Whole Group Literacy Read A Loud - including comprehension
9:45 - 10:50	Literacy - small groups
10:50 - 11:15	Recess
11:15 - 11:40	Lunch
11:40 - 12:00	Quiet Time/Quiet Reading
12:00 - 12:20	Handwriting
12:20 - 12:50	Science
12:50 - 1:20	Math
1:20 - 1:40	Choice Time
1:45 - 2:30	Unified Arts Classes M - Library - library books need to be returned Tu - Music W - PE - students must wear sneakers Th - PE - students must wear sneakers F - Art - students must have a paint shirt
2:30 - 2:45	Snack Time
2:45 - 3:00	Sharing
3:00 - 3:15	Clean Up, Pack Up
3:20	Dismissal

Social Skills

Our school is implementing PBIS - Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports.

Our focus for the month is to review the School-wide expectations - ABC's.

Literacy

Our theme this week in Literacy is: Sunshine and Raindrops
Skills we are learning: learning to blend sounds to make words	We are learning about word families.
The new letters we are learning this week are: We have learned all of our letters and will continue to review them.	The letters we are reviewing this week are: Ss, Mm, Rr, Tt, Bb, Nn, Hh, Vv, Cc, Aa, Pp, Gg, Ff, Ll, Kk, Qq, Ii, Dd, Zz, Xx, Oo, Ww, Yy, Ee, Jj, Uu
The new sight words we are learning this week are: said, big, in. We are also working with word families - at, an, it	The sight words we are reviewing are: I, we, see, the, can. here, is, have, a, am, this, look, my, like, this, yes, will, up, to, me, at, go, and, here, dog, cat, for, have, red, not,
Click here to view Letter Chart for all letters. (Used with permission from Houghton Mifflin Company.)

Math

Math concepts we are working on this week are:

Calendar Math

Students are practicing many different math concepts during this time including: days of the week, place value, recognizing numerals and more!

Counting

Students will be learning to count to 50 or higher - really focusing on teen numbers

Students are practicing how to count back from 15

Place Value

We are learning to build numbers with tens and ones.

Numeral Writing

We are working on writing numerals from 0 - 50 correctly. (Some children are writing numerals to 100 or more. Keep up the good work!)

Recording Data

We have been recording data in different ways. We are making bar graphs, tally charts and sorting to gather information about things.

We celebrated our 100th day of school. Click here to view our 100 Projects.

Special Activities

We went to Hackett's Apple Orchard in September. Mother Nature finally agreed to cooperate so we could go!
	We went to Mazza's Pumpkin Patch. We had a lot of fun!
We went to The Flynn Theater on January 25th to see Duck for President and other stories. We had a lot of fun!	We celebrated our 100th day of school on Thursday, February 9th. We did a lot of counting and shared our 100 projects.