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:
Social Stories
Science:
Composting
Spring
Planting and caring for Vegetables in the garden boxes
The Solar System
Kindergarten Playlist:
Come Together, The Beatles
La Bamba, Ritchie Valenzuela
Octopus's Garden, The Beatles
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.)
Across The Universe (We sing "Alligator's Universe" in class), The Beatles
At Last, Etta James
Do Wah Diddy, Manfred Mann
Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
You Send Me, Sam Cooke
One Love, Bob Marley
All you need is Love, The Beatles
Three Little Birds, Bob Marley
Let's Stay Together, Al Green
Lovely Day, Bill Withers
Imagine, John Lennon
Times like these, Foo Fighters
Tracks of my Tears, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
From Me to You, The Beatles
Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys
Everlong, Foo Fighters
Everyday People, Sly and The Family Stone
Scrambled Eggs, Sing it to the tune of 'Yesterday'
Hello, Goodbye, Help, Hard Days Night, The Beatles
Under The Boardwalk, The Drifters
Don't Worry, Baby, The Beach Boys
Making Plans for Nigel, XTC
Penny Lane, The Beatles
Revolution, The Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, George Harrison
Waiting, Green Day
Can I Kick it? A tribe called Quest
Jet, Paul McCartney
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.
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.