Mrs. Walthour (Kindergarten)

Week of February 15

Subject	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES				CLASSWORK: Home address activity!
RELIGION		CLASSWORK: Discuss the importance of prayer every day; prayer hands activity	CLASSWORK:	CLASSWORK:
MATH	CLASSWORK: Workbook pages 183-184	CLASSWORK: Workbook pages 185 HW: Practice workbook page 68	CLASSWORK: Workbook pages 186-187 HW: Workbook page 69	CLASSWORK: Workbook pages 188
LANGUAGE ARTS	CLASSWORK: New SK Friends TIC TOC AND TAC, and do pages 1 & 2 HW: Worksheet “The Letters Ss and Tt”	CLASSWORK: SK TIC TOC AND TAC pages 3 & 4	CLASSWORK: Read and write SIGHT WORDS 11-20.	CLASSWORK: Use SIGHT WORDS to complete sentences. HW: “My Itsy Bitsy Letter T Book”–color and cut out or fold into a book
ART WITH Mrs. W.					CLASSWORK: Final 3-D Gingerbread house!

I’m⛅️🌨⛈🌧🌥🌦💦🌩🌨💧

ACADEMICALLY

In LANGUAGE ARTS we are taking a short break from our SuperKids friends. Of the twelve, we have now been introduced to Cass, Golly, Oswald, Alf, Doc, Sal, Lily, and Icky. Soon we will introduce our 9th friend and letter. In the mean time we have jumped into the kindergarten sight words. These are 52 words that our students are learning to read and write; these are commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize with little to no decoding.

The first ten sight words are (alphabetically): all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, and came. Children wrote each of these words (handwriting) and many came up with sentences using the words. We will continue learning additional sight words this week.

In MATH the students continue to learn about two digit numbers. They are practicing writing the numbers, counting the numbers and comparing the numbers with other numbers. They are learning and using the math phrases “greater than, less than and equal to”.

In RELIGION we have been focusing in on the season of Lent. We began by celebrating Ash Wednesday. We joined the whole school in participating in the mass virtually at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC. We then walked to the church and received ashes on our foreheads. We wrote about our experience and discussed the importance of trying new behaviors during this important church season. Kindness, patience, and honesty were several that came up in conversation. .

In ART with Mrs. W. we were able on learn more about storytelling and puppetry. Even online with Zoom, students showed their enthusiasm for creating their own puppets with materials found at home. Many enjoyed not only making the characters into puppets but trying out different voices for the characters. Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs were quite popular. Other kids very creatively placed themselves in one of the stories. A+ for student enthusiasm and creativity!!

RESPONSIBILITIES

The kindergarteners are learning the importance of FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS! I know that the idea of routines and schedules are so important for kindergarteners (and teachers!). But sometimes we need to be flexible and learn to do some things differently. This past week we had a couple of days where the students were asked to pull out the extra papers that were sent home IN CASE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER. The majority of the children found them in their homework folder. However, many said that they were at home. Prior to sending these papers home we had reminded the kids to simply leave them in their homework folder.

Since the lessons were scheduled during their regular times, we went ahead and taught them. Unfortunately, the kids who did not have their papers had to look on. We realize that this is a rare event that happened but a good reminder to all of the children to listen to the teachers’ directions. WAY TO GO to the many children who did just that 🙂

GOD BLESS,

Mrs. Walthour

Well, I tried to post this picture onto our school website but seemed to have lost it along the way! So, here it is…just me and the snowman 🙂 ENJOY!

Me and Snowman

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Mrs. W.

KINDERGARTEN WEEKLY SCHEDULE (updated regularly!)

MONDAYS (COMPUTERS & SPANISH) 2/22/21

7:45-8:05 SEAT WORK WB HA

8:05-8:10 WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYER WB HA

8:15-8:35 COMPUTERS HA/OPENING WB (H BREAK)

8:35-9:00 COMPUTERS WB/OPENING HA (W BREAK)

9:00-9:05 5 MINUTE BREAK! WA HB

9:05-9:45 LANGUAGE ARTS WA/CENTERS HB

9:45-10:00 SNACK WA HB

10:00-10:15 STRETCHES & SONGS WA HB

10:15-11:00 LANGUAGE ARTS WB/CENTERS HA

11:00-11:15 STORIES WB HA

11:15-11:35 RECESS WB HA

11:35-11:55 LUNCH WB HA

12:10-12:40 REST TIME WB HA

12:45-1:30 MATH WA/MATH MANIPULATIVES HB

12:45-1:30 MATH WB/MATH MANIPULATIVES HA

1:30-2:00 SHARE WA HB

2:00-2:30 SPANISH WA/HW REVIEW & PACK UP HB (W BREAK)

2:30-3:10 SPANISH WB/HW REVIEW & PACK UP HA (W BREAK)

3:10 PRAYER & GOODBYES WB HA

TUESDAYS (P.E) 2/23/21

7:45-8:05 SEAT WORK WA HB

8:05-8:10 WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYER WA HB

8:10-9:00 LANGUAGE ARTS WA/CENTERS HB

9:00-9:25 P.E. WA/OPENING HB (W BREAK)

9:25-9:45 P.E. HB/OPENING WA (H BREAK)

9:45-10:00 SNACK WB HA

10:00-10:45 LANGUAGE ARTS WB/CENTERS HA

10:45-11:00 STRETCHING & SONGS WB HA

11:00-11:15 STORIES WA HB

11:15-11:35 RECESS WA HB

11:35-12:05 LUNCH WA HB

12:10-12:40 REST TIME WA HB

12:45-1:30 MATH WA/MATH PRACTICE HB

1:30-1:35 5 minute BREAK WB HA

1:35-2:20 MATH WB/MATH PRACTICE HA

2:20-2:40 RELIGION WB/SHARE, HW REVIEW & PACK UP HA

2:40-3:00 RELIGION WA/SHARE, HW REVIEW & PACK UP HB

3:00-3:10 PRAYERS & GOODBYES WA HB

WEDNESDAYS (GENIUS HOUR) 2/24/21

7:45-8:05 SEAT WORK WB HA

8:05-8:10 WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYER WB HA

8:10-8:40 OPENING WB/GENIUS HOUR HA (H BREAK)

8:40-9:10 OPENING HA/GENIUS HOUR WB (W BREAK)

9:10-9:20 STRETCHING WB HA

9:20-10:05 LANGUAGE ARTS WB/CENTERS HA

10:05-10:20 SNACK WA HB

10:20-11:05 LANGUAGE ARTS WA/CENTERS HB

111:05-11:15 STORIES WA HB

11:15-11:35 RECESS WB HA

11:35-12:05 LUNCH WB HA

12:10-12:40 REST TIME WB HA

12:45-1:30 MATH WB/HANDS ON MATH HA

1:30-2:15 MATH WA/HANDS ON MATH HB

2:15-2:20 5 MINUTE BREAK WA HB

2:20-2:40 RELIGION WA/SHARE, HW REVIEW, PACK UP HB

2:40-3:00 RELIGION WB/SHARE, HW REVIEW, PACK UP HA

3:00-3:10 PRAYERS & GOODBYES WB HA

THURSDAYS (ART) 2/25/21

7:45-8:05 SEAT WORK

8:05-8:10 WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYER

8:10-8:20 OPENING

8:20-9:05 LANGUAGE ARTS/CENTERS

9:05-9:15 STRETCHES & SONGS

9:15-9:30 SNACK

9:30-10 ART/

10-10:30 ART/

10:30-11:15 LANGUAGE ARTS/CENTERS

11:15-11:35 RECESS

11:35-12:00 LUNCH

12:10-12:40 REST TIME

12:45-1:30 MATH /HANDS ON MATH

1:30-2:15

2:15-2:20 5 minute BATHROOM/WATER BREAK

2:20-2:50 RELIGION

2:50-3:00 HW REVIEW, PRAYERS & GOODBYES

FRIDAYS (MUSIC)

8:05-8:10 WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYER

8:10-8:25 OPENING

8:25-9:10 STORYTELLING & PUPPETS w/ Mrs. W.

9:10-9:15 STRETCHES

9:15-9:30 SNACK

9:30-10:15 CENTERS

10:15-10:30 STORIES

10:30-11:15 MUSIC

11:15-11:35 RECESS

11:35-12:05 LUNCH

12:10-12:40 REST TIME

12:45-1:30 ART: Creating Puppets w/ Mrs. W.

1:30-1:45 SONGS & STRETCHES

1:45-2:30 PLAYDOUGH w/ Miss H.

2:30-2:50 VIDEO

2:50-3:00 PRAYERS & GOODBYES

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************FRIDAY Half Day Schedule************** 2/26/21

7:45-8:05 SEAT WORK WB HA

8:05-8:10 WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYER WB HA

8:10-9:10 ART w/Mrs. W. WB/PLAYDOUGH HA

9:10-10:10 ART w/ Mrs. W. WA/PLAYDOUGH HB

10:10-10:30 STRETCHING & SHARE WA HB

10:30-10:50. MUSIC WA/ OPENING WB (W break)

10:50-11:15 MUSIC HB/OPENING WA (H break)

11:15-11:45 WB HA

11:45-12:00 PACK UP, PRAYERS & GOODBYES WB HA

“SEAT WORK”

Mondays Math worksheet

Tuesdays Color page

Wednesdays Straighten desk

Thursdays SuperKids practice page/Language Arts worksheet

Fridays Free Draw

**MATH MANIPULATIVES**

MONDAY-TEN GRID with beads

TUESDAY-TEN GRID with counters, worksheet “Making Tens”

WEDNESDAY-MAKING TENS with cubes

THURSDAY-MAKING TENS worksheet “Coloring Two Groups to Make Bigger Numbers”