Junior Kindergarten Blog

Art with Ms. Dougherty

Posted by jdougherty

This week and next we will be working on building wood block sculptures.  If you have any wood scraps at home that you would like to get rid of, send them to school with your child.  

Mrs. McCaw and Mrs. Pelser

Posted by hmccaw and kpelser

This Week in Junior Kindergarten:

March 1 – March 5

  •   Phonograms:  We will review the phonograms a-t, and introduce the phonogram /u/.   We will continue to practice rhyming words and identifying beginning sounds. 

  • Literature: Our main sources of literature this week will be Swimmy and Big Al.   Setting, main character, precise language, and emotional appeal will be the  literary terms of emphasis this week.  We will practice making predictions about the story.

 

  •  Unit Study: We will complete our study of the ocean habitat this week.  This week we will discuss the tides and the shoreline, starfish, sand dollars and shells. 

 

  •  Bible Story:  The story of  Jesus Walks on Water

 

  •  Math:  We will  practice writing numbers to 9.  We will  practice ordering on number lines and will find the missing numbers on a line.

We are  learning about the virtue of Justice and the habits of Respect and Attention.

Dates to Remember:  (Please see the calendar on the home page of the website for a complete listing of our school events.) 

Show and Tell:  Friday, March 5th. 

Spring Break:  March 8 – 12 

Mrs. Dawn Holmes (a former Junior Kindergarten Teacher at Live Oak)  will be subbing for Mrs. McCaw on Friday, March 5th and Monday, March 15th.

 Reach us at:hmccaw@liveoakclassical.com  and   kpelser@liveoakclassical.com

Music with Mrs. Still

Posted by cstill

MARCH IN GRAMMAR OF MUSIC CLASSES

Here are some highlights of our planned studies for the month of March:

  • Our composers in focus this month are Frederic Chopin of Poland and Claude Debussy of France. We are focusing on some of their beautiful piano pieces.  We will hear Chopin’s “Minute Waltz”, his “Raindrop Prelude”, and several of his preludes, mazurkas, and nocturnes.   We will enjoy Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”, “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk”, and “Arabesque 1″.
  • Our folk songs this month will have a nautical theme – “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”, “Cockles and Muscles”, “Blow the Man Down”, and other songs of the sea.  How fitting after our recent “Pirates” musical!
  • News by Grade Level:  All students in K through 6 will share music and recitations at designated moments throughout the Grandparents Day on Friday, March 19.  K-garten will listen to “Carnival of the Animals” over the weeks ahead.  Grammar 1 will be learning “Eerie Canal” to tie in with their history studies and will be listening to “Peter and the Wolf”.  Grammar 2 will take time in the weeks ahead to learn about Verdi’s opera set in Egypt, “Aida”.  G3 will continue to learn about medieval and renaissance music and will continue recorder studies.  G4 and G5 will resume recorder studies and will work on music for their Texas and frontier themed plays for Grandparents Day.

If you have questions, please contact me at cstill@liveoakclassical.com.