Mrs.

Coffeys Kindergarten
November 12th, 2012

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Indian Valley Elementary

Reading Focus:
Upcoming Events/Notes

unit 3: home and family

Field Trip 12/11- need 6 chaperonesplease see page 2 for details! Thanksgiving Break! No school Wed, Thurs, Fri of next weeksee you on Monday, November 26th! No newsletter will come out next week with our super short week Early release 11-27 Book Orders due 11/30

Theme Question: What makes a home? Focus Question of the Week: What do families do at home? Sight Words: too not Fiction/Nonfiction Text Review: Flower Garden by: Eve Bunting and Home Sweet Home Letters: working on sounds A-Z (www.starfall.com) Phonological Awareness review: beginning, middle, and ending sounds, onset and rime (putting 2 parts of a word together: c-at= cat) Fluency Piece: Some Families (was sent home Monday- focusing on pacing, punctuation marks, fluency, pointing to words as they are read) Vocabulary review: stairs alike busy family home Pre-Decodable Reader: review of all Comprehension: review of all from unit 3 Inquiry project: finished our project today- took family data and made a class graph to show how we are similar and different. Log-on at home: www.wglead21.com (I am always happy to resend usernames and passwords!)

Math Focus:

Everyday math section 3

Daily Kim Sutton Math drills (we call it Number Party Math) Monday: Counting by 5s Tuesday: Pattern Necklaces Wednesday: Roll and Record (# writing)/graphing Thursday: Pan Balance (weight) Friday: Domino Concentration

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Social studies focus(current

Wildnerness Science Center Field Trip:
6 Chaperones Needed! December 11th10:50-12:20 (will leave around 10:20).
Please e mail if interested by Monday Nov. 19th- I will draw names and notify you on Tuesday, No.v 20th

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integration):

science focus:

Homes and families Pilgrims and Native Americans Thanksgiving Weather (calendar) Season of fall Nature unit starting in reading after Thanksgiving!

writers workshop:

unit: wordless stories Students worked all week on their wordless stories, focusing on quality illustrations that tell a story without words. Students were able to share their stories with the class and put their published books in our class library if they wanted to. Our next unit will begin after Thanksgiving!

Our Specials Schedule:

Day A: PE/Music Day B: Spanish/PE Day C: Music/Spanish Day D: Art Day E: REAL/Computer (reading program)

Indian Valley Elementary 11600 Knox Street Overland Park, KS 66210 School Phone: (913) 239-6400 Mrs. Coffeys Room: (913) 239-6471 Mrs. Coffeys E-mail: macoffey@bluevalleyk12.org Classroom Blog: http://www.mrscoffeyskinders.blogspot.com/