Sharing and Giving This Holiday Season

A Christmas Reader's Theater shared with family and friends was a great way to celebrate this wonderful holiday!

The Gingerbread Baby Reader's Theater Tomorrow!!!

December 18, 2014

Dear Parents and Families,

We will be having our Christmas Reader’s Theater tomorrow, December 19, 2014, at 8:30 a.m.  Our Reader’s Theater is called The Gingerbread Baby. The students will be retelling the story to you using their voice and working together.  I am so proud of them!

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRACTICE LINES TONIGHT!

Most of the students are doing very well, but rereading to tell the story will improve their accuracy and fluency :)

Also I wanted to let you all know that we will be having our Classroom Christmas Party on Monday, December 22, 2014.  The students in my classroom will be shopping at  Mrs. Lieck’s Christmas Store.  They will be looking for gifts for one of their classmates.  We are learning how it is so important to give rather than receive.

See you tomorrow,

Mrs. Lieck

POETRY IS SO MUCH FUN TO READ!

Collaborative Reading :)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

These little elves were quite excited to trim the tree today :)

Run Run As Fast As You Can!!!

The students listened to two different versions of The Gingerbread Man and compared and contrasted characters in both stories.

 

Also in both stories, the gingerbread man gets eaten by a fox at the end of the story.  So, the students decided to write a new ending to the story.  Today some of them shared how they would of ended the story if they were the authors :)

 

Making Connections, Inferences and Visualizations!

We are having fun making connections, inferences and visualizing with Jan Brett's story The Gingerbread Baby!

Our young readers love to share their stories when it is their turn to be have the job of Author's Chair :)

Ending the day how it begins with a story!

Sharing Stories and Working With Words :)

We love learning how to read and write words :)

Oh and we love to share stories with each other!

 

Our December Family Project!

Your child will be bringing home the necessary paper to make your December Family Project.  

The project is due on December 8th :)

You can visit the below link also to take a look at the project.

Kindergarten December Family Project

Happy Thanksgiving!

Who Will Help Me Make Some Bread?

After reading the story The Little Red Hen and Who Will Help Me?  

The students reread the story to each other and then retold the story using story elements. 

Then they made connections by making bread together!

Click on movie below or on this link - Happy Thanksgiving? Who Will Help Me Make Some Bread?

What a GREAT day to explore THANKFULNESS :)

Excited to Share Videos, Pictures and More!

Keep checking back over the Thanksgiving break and you will be so amazed :)

Do You Like Dinosaurs?

Three New Picture Books About Dinosaurs!

What Does It Look Like to Retell a Story?

The students used picture cues to help them retell the story and match the pictures to the words!

 

They Simply Amazing ME!

We Love to Read, Write, Play and Learn!

Sharing What We Know About Weather!

Having Fun Sharing What We Learned About Weather by using +GoAnimate 

The students also showed their friendship and caring while sharing their cards with Mollie!

Out in the Woods!

Today the students performed Out in the Woods, a Five Senses Readers Theater. I am so proud of them! If you didn't get an opportunity to attend the performance or you would like to watch it again click on the link below:

We Are Readers!

HODAG PAWS!

Counting by tens!  Choosing to save or spend! Always choosing to be Safe, Respectful, Responsible and Healthy!  Having fun shopping at the #HODAG PAWS store!  #pbis 

 

Curious About What We Will See, Hear, Smell, Touch and Taste!

Out in the Woods Reader's Theater 

Today during Shared Reading the students worked together to tell a story.  They will perform this Five Senses Reader's Theater on Friday at 8:30 a.m.

Sharing What We Learned About Pumpkin Seeds With Each Other!

How do photos/illustrations in informational text help us as a reader?

What have we learned from this text?

Smile, Laughing and Learning Together!

Happy Halloween! 

Click on Video above or link below :)

Halloween 2014

Chapter Review of 3D shapes!

From Pumpkin Seed to Jack-o-Lantern

From Pumpkin Seed to Jack-o-Lantern!

 http://www.readinga-z.com/

Our Shared Reading is a book called From Pumpkin Seed to Jack-o-Lantern!  Today we found different text features within the book and look for nouns and adjectives while reading. Next we had fun exploring how to make a Jack-o-Lantern!

Go Bat!

Fun Sight Word Game

We have been working with words in our reading and writing.  Tomorrow I am sending home a game I created for the kids to have fun learning our sight words.  We call it Go Bat! Click on this link to see the game:

Go Bat Sight Word Game!

You can play this game similar to Go Fish or you could play Concentration or a Matching Game with these sight words.

I have also put these words on my Spelling City site.  Spelling City provides free educational activities to have fun learning words.  Follow the link below to my site:

http://www.spellingcity.com/mrslieck/

We LOVE Fall!

PBIS CLASSROOM INCENTIVE!

We went outside and enjoyed having fun in the beautiful weather!

Choose the video above or click on the link below :)

Beautiful Fall Day!

We Became Bats and Had Fun Learning About Echolocation!