Kingman Elementary & Middle School Recognized for Making the STANDARD of EXCELLENCE in READING & MATH Building-Wide for 2010-2011 School Year!! The following Grade levels were also recognized for making the Standard of Excellence: 4th Grade Reading & Math; 5th Grade Reading & Math; 6th Grade Math; 7th Grade Reading; 8th Grade Reading
HappyBirthdayKansas!
Next week we will be celebrating Kansas's 151st Birthday! We will read stories aboutour great state, use the writing process to write about Kansas including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing and presenting.We will have a Kansas packet to identify on a map of the United States where Kansas is, on a map of Kansas where the capital, Topeka, is and find where our county, Kingman is. We will talk about statesthat border Kansas, the state symbols, the Kansas flag and motto. We will make a Kansas Day Matching Game to play, do sunflower estimation with sunflower seeds, and do Kansas Day pattern block puzzles. On Friday we will play a Kansas trivia game to see what we've learned! Check out the slideshow for more pics!
Class Announcements
Class Announcements
Mrs.Schoenhofer'sWeeklyHelpers! Paper Passer:Sukesh Line Leader:Abbie Class Pet: Wyatt Messenger:Peyton Radio:BlyLynn Resets the behavior chart:Izabella Lunch Count:Logan Calendar: Marley
Class Tasks
Math: find missing input and output #'s in "what's my rule", identify quarter and know value, exchange coins, tell time on digital and analog clock and tell time to quarter hour
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness: deletion of initial and final sounds; /j/ ge, gi; /o/ o, o_e; /e/ e, e_e;
Reading Theme and Focus Question: Our theme question is: What does history teach us? Our focus question is: What can we learn from stories of our family?
Reading: We are learning about our history. We will recall and retell, use picture clues, practice fluency, activate prior knowledge, visualize and draw conclusions, homophones
Science/Social Studies: Unit 5-Stories of Our Past- What can we learn from stories of our family?, Why do we tell stories from long ago?, What can we learn from stories of the past?
Spelling: Long /o/ words: home, go, vote, joke, most, both, cold, zero, love, come
Writing: This week we will begin the writing process by prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and presenting
We made skeletons to study our bones and found which bones are connected to which and used our skeletons to perform The Skeleton Dance!
Discuss (3 comments)
Dr. Seuss Website A website full of reading and games the kids love from no other than Dr. Seuss!
Every Day Math Online Your children will receive a username/password and this website allows them to play games that we learn in class during our math time. I have posted their usernames/passwords in a folder under files.
Funschool This website is full of educational games that are fun and interactive for your child to help build skills needed to be better readers and mathematicians!
Lead 21 This is the link to our reading program website. The kids can use their logins (in their G.O. Books) and log on and play games and read the books we're working on and play games!
Literactive This website has fantastic games the children love to play! It has all kinds of reading/phonics standards.
Username: lschoen
Password: bikegebe
Math is fun! This is a neat website with lots of fun activities! The kids like the symmetrical artist under geometry.
Rainforest Math This website includes interactive games and activities to help your child excel in math!
Spelling City This website lets your child enter his/her spelling words then teaches them the word, quizzes them and lets them play games with their words.
Starfall Reading This is a website that has fun, interactive games to help your child to learn to read or to advance their reading skills!