Pelham Kindergarten 21/22


Welcome to Kindergarten! We are so excited to have you join our family and excited to get to know you. Please feel free to contact me, lawriew@arps.org, if you ever have any questions.

In kindergarten we love to find our voices through creating and playing with others. We sing, we dance, we play and we learn all day long.

The kindergarten team is here to help you feel safe and proud of who you are. We can't wait to learn and grow with you this year. Let's do this!

Big ideas: June 13th-June 17th

Last Day of School, Friday June 17th @12:30PM




All School Read Aloud: Pride Month

  • The GayBC's


ELA: Letter Identification, CVC Words, writing, reading

  • Super Kids: Letter Z

    • Beginning, Middle and Ending Sounds

    • Sight words: a, it, got, like, is, I, the, is, of, no, for, put, let's, said, you, was,

    • Reading Comprehension, Story Retelling

    • Decoding CVC words

    • word families

  • Learning Without Tears Workbook: Lowercase Letters and Words for Me or Building Writers: Kindergartners are currently working independently on their Orange journals


Math: Geometry

  • Exploring Shapes

    • Shape ID

    • Shape Properties

    • Pattern Block creations

    • 3d Shapes

    • Playground Maps


Social Studies:

  1. Social Stories


Science:

  1. Composting

  2. Spring

  3. Planting and caring for Vegetables in the garden boxes

  4. The Solar System


Kindergarten Playlist:

  1. Come Together, The Beatles

  2. La Bamba, Ritchie Valenzuela

  3. Octopus's Garden, The Beatles

  4. Gotta Get Away, Stiff Little Fingers (In class we sing silly lyrics, the song itself is appropriate if you want to listen to the original versions at home. This is the first punk rock song Mr. Lawrie learned how to play on guitar.)

  5. Across The Universe (We sing "Alligator's Universe" in class), The Beatles

  6. At Last, Etta James

  7. Do Wah Diddy, Manfred Mann

  8. Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones

  9. You Send Me, Sam Cooke

  10. One Love, Bob Marley

  11. All you need is Love, The Beatles

  12. Three Little Birds, Bob Marley

  13. Let's Stay Together, Al Green

  14. Lovely Day, Bill Withers

  15. Imagine, John Lennon

  16. Times like these, Foo Fighters

  17. Tracks of my Tears, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

  18. From Me to You, The Beatles

  19. Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys

  20. Everlong, Foo Fighters

  21. Everyday People, Sly and The Family Stone

  22. Scrambled Eggs, Sing it to the tune of 'Yesterday'

  23. Hello, Goodbye, Help, Hard Days Night, The Beatles

  24. Under The Boardwalk, The Drifters

  25. Don't Worry, Baby, The Beach Boys

  26. Making Plans for Nigel, XTC

  27. Penny Lane, The Beatles

  28. Revolution, The Beatles

  29. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, George Harrison

  30. Waiting, Green Day

  31. Can I Kick it? A tribe called Quest

  32. Jet, Paul McCartney

  33. Next Year, Foo Fighters

Weekly Mantra:

Love is Knowledge and Knowledge is love!




Student Sites and other links

Lunch Order for week of 6/13-6/17


Math Choice Board (To be used at your discretion at home. There are some fun games and puzzles to try if you would like)


SuperKids Online Fun Parent Portal: Please email me if you have any questions about logging in! (ELA extension activities for home and school to use at your discretion)

Science for Families (Resources and idea to do at home or outside of school provided by the district)

School Pictures organized by Month and Inside or Outside Time

Kindergarten Art Walk Pictures

Clever: Please watch my video to show you how to log in to clever at home.


District Calendar

Who is Mr. Lawrie?

This is my fifth year teaching Kindergarten at Pelham Elementary. Even though I get such amazing joy from teaching I still want to be a Beatle.

After living in New Jersey, Boston, MA and Madison, WI, I moved to Amherst in 2014 with my family. I was lucky enough to stay home with our newborn at the time for nearly two years before I got back into education. I worked in Early Intervention at an organization called Reach, as a paraeducator in Northampton and finally at Pelham as the Kindergarten Teacher.

Before getting into education, I worked for John Hancock, started my own dog walking business and played in several bands in New Jersey and Boston, MA. I loved the experience of meeting new people whenever I played shows (or walked dogs) while creating and expressing myself through music.

I take great pride in teaching the kindergarten class pop, rock, punk, and soul songs. My classroom is a band; we support each other when we need it, and pick each other up when we need help.