Ms. Reams' Kindergarten Class

updated on Sunday, October 8


Important Dates 

October 10: Fundraiser ends: Fundraiser packets due back to school.

October 16: No school Teacher Work Day

October 19: Fall carnival 5-7

October 26: Parent Teacher Conferences I will be sending home a sign up genius for times soon. I will need to meet with everyone for 20 minutes. I will have times from 8 am-7:20 pm



I am always here! 

I am always here to answer any questions or to talk about any concerns you might have.   Please always feel welcome to message me or email me.    Dojo is the best way, but you can also email me at kreams@bpsk12.net   

Welcome!

This will be our central hub for information.   This is where you will find links to all of the important information for our class.   Please look through the website and links to see where important information can be found.  

Phonemic awareness is a very important skill that we will be working on this year.   It is an important preskill to reading.   Phonemic awareness works just with sounds.  There is no print.  If you click on the link below, there is a lot of information about what phonemic awareness is and how to develop this skill.    

Phonemic Awareness Link


Sound walls

Sound walls are a tool we will use to learn sounds.    When we learn a letter, we will learn what our mouth will look like.  We will talk about the placement of our lips and tongue, as well as talk about what kind of air movement we use.    For this week we talked about the letter t.   It is a stop sound.   It doesn't keep going.   Your tongue goes behind your teeth and your mouth is opened slightly.   We put our hand on our sound box (our throat) and it does not vibrate, so it is an unvoiced sound.  The letter b is also a stop sound.   Your lips begin closed, but then you open them and let out some air.   Your sound box does vibrate, so it is a voiced sound.   It is very important to not put an "uh" after the b sound.  So we put our hand under our chin to make sure it doesn't move.   These are all concepts that the students will soon be able to verbalize.   I took a picture of our sound wall before I covered each letter with a picture of a lock.  Each week we will unlock a new letter.   We even have a magical wand to help us.   Students have their own mirror to look at to make sure their mouth is making the right movement.  We also then do sky writing to learn how to write the letter.  The kids know about the sky line, plane like, grass line and plane line.  



Classroom News 

 Click on the newsletter link above for my newsletter.   This is where I will share specific information about what we are learning.   There is no newsletter at this time.   But this is where I will link it.   


Time To Eat!

Click on the links to see the breakfast/lunch menus and our class snack calendar. 

If you click on the picture to the left it will take you to our goals page.  If they know all of their letters they can go to the green page.   If they are still working on their letters, then they go to the blue page.    It has a lot of great resources to practice some of our literacy goals (rhyming, vowels, letters, blending, segmenting, etc)

Reading Logs:   Every night when you read to your child 1-2 books, write down the name of the book on the reading log.  When the log is full, they will get prizes at school.    I have signed up with a program with Pizza Hut for reading books and the school will give them a prize as well.  These can be books you read to them right now.   Later in the year, you will add books they read to you.   Please read to your child.  It is one of the best indicators for success at school.   If a digital form will be better for you, please let me know and I can make that happen.  

Learning Links

How to navigate through my bitmoji classroom 

Scholastic Book Orders

You can order books from this class page.   When you do this, you do not have to send money to school.  You pay for it online and it ships straight to your house.  You can also send the link to grandparents if they want to buy books for your child.   

Class Page:     https://orders.scholastic.com/GYQB8

CLASS CODE   GYQB8

With a $25 order, you can pick a FREE $5 Book (use code: READS). 



Click on my bitmoji to learn more about me.  

  If you ever need to talk, I am always here.   The best way is through class dojo.   You can always email me as well.   My email is kreams@bpsk12.net  


Classroom News (older documents)

Information about what we are learning!