Nickajack Kindergarten Team '08-'09
Kindergarten Teacher Bios
Linda Barrett
Mrs. Barrett graduated from Kennesaw State University, with a BS in Early Childhood Education. She taught for several years in Pre-K and has taught for ten years in Kindergarten at Nickajack Elementary, "The Greatest School in the Whole Wide World!" Mrs. Barrett is married, to Mr. Barrett, and has one grown up daughter and one grown up son-in-law and one grand daughter. She also has one "snow dog", named Tundra. Ms. Barrett enjoys walking her dog, reading, music, spending time with family and friends and her wonderful Kindergarten Class!
Shannon Terranova
Ms. Terranova graduated from the University of Central Florida and recently moved up to Atlanta from Orlando, FL. This is her fourth year teaching Kindergarten. She has always had a passion for teaching since she was a young girl. Ms. Terranova lives with her Chihuahua in Vinings. Since she works late hours, she has litter box trained her dog. It comes in handy when she is busy planning activities late at school. She enjoys dancing, cheerleading, and spending time with her friends. Ms. Terranova is glad she has been given the opportunity to teach at such a wonderful school, Nickacjack Elementary.
Rachel Justus
Mrs. Justus graduated from Kennesaw State University. This is her second year teaching Kindergarten and her sixth year teaching altogether. She is married and has two beautiful daughters who are fantastic swimmers. Mrs. Justus attends many swimming events all over Atlanta and are practicing for the State Championship. She is a strong advocate on hands on literacy and math centers. Mrs. Justus is proud to be a teacher of Nickajack Elementary.
Alison Pinyan- TBA
Ginny Drew
Ms. Ginny Drew is a native of Atlanta. She has a Master's Degree in Education and has been teaching elementary school for 16 years. Ms. Drew has taught in several metro-Atlanta counties and has spent the last 6 years teaching in the Cobb County School System. Her teaching experience has been concentrated in the primary grades. Ms. Drew loves teaching and watching her students learn, grow and become productive members of our world!
Lorraice Cannady
Mrs. Cannady loves teaching! She has been an educator for 25 plus years. She finds it very rewarding to see the delight on the children's faces when they have that 'lightbulb' moment. Mrs. Cannady and her family love cats and dogs. They also enjoy all aspects of nature.
LEARN THESE WORDS! (Dolch Words)
a
and
away
big
blue
can
come
down
find
for
funny
go
help
here
I
in
is
it
jump
little
look
make
me
my
not
one
play
red
run
said
see
the
three
to
two
up
we
where
yellow
you
Parents...We enjoyed conferencing with our wondeful Kindergarten parents in January. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
Important Upcoming Events
~February 16th- Student Holiday/ Teacher Professional Learning Day
~March 3rd- Early Release Day (School is dismissed at 12:10pm)
~March 25th- Imaginit Museum visits Nickajack Kindergarten 8:15am-10:30 (assembly and small group interactive activities)
~March 26th Math Day at Nickajack Elementary- If you would like, please send in your math supply donations. Thank you for all your support.
~April 2nd- Character Ed Assembly for Tolerance / Commitment / Reading at 8:10am
~April 6th-April 10th Spring Break
~May 21st Character and Academic Students of the Year Assembly at 8:10am
~May 22nd- Last day of school
Home-School Connection
http://eliot.needham.k12.ma.us/technology/lessons/internet_activities/k/k_lit.htm
http://pbskids.org/stories.html
http://www.crayola.com/gamesfun/index.cfm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/math2004/math2004_gr1.html
http://www.netsmartzkids.org/games/index.htm?page=clquest/main.htm
Parents, please continue to read print rich picture story books with your child daily. Continue to allow your child to get ten hours of sleep every night. Thank you for all the wonderful snacks and supplies. It is a pleasure to be a part of a winning team of parents, students, and teachers!
Fun Money Game- We are currently working on Fair Trade in Kindergarten! This is a great way to reinforce what is being taught in class!
Game: Money Conversion
Needed items:
Die with only a 1,2,or 3 on it.
Start by rolling the die.
Level 1: See who gets to five pennies first.
Level 2: See who gets to two nickels.
For help, use a sheet of paper. Divide the sheet in half with a marker. Label one side "pennies" and the other side "nickels". When a player gets five pennies, they must convert them to a nickel by removing five pennies from the pennies side of the paper and placing a nickel on the nickel side. Two nickels wins the game.
Level 3: Three dimes wins. Do the same as above, but divide the paper into thirds.
GAME PLAY:
1. For starters, we roll a die (a die that only has 1, 2 and 3 on it) and try to see who gets to five pennies first. Whoever gets to five pennies first is the winner.
The next level is to play for two nickels. Get a sheet of paper and divide it in half with a marker. One side is labeled "pennies" and the other is of course "nickels". Take turns rolling the die. When a player gets five pennies, they must convert them to a nickel by removing five pennies from the pennies side of the paper and placing a nickel on the nickel side. Two nickels (or however many you want) wins the game!
The next level is a sheet divided into thirds. Use pennies, nickels and dimes. The first to get three dimes (or however many) wins.
Finally, we use a quarter. that is the hardest level, because the child has to pull from two rows to make a quarter (has to pull 1 nickel and 2 dimes -- of course, there are a ! gazillion varieties). For example, before we go to the quarter level where we pull from two rows (nickels and dimes) we just do a penny to quarter conversion where you have to get 25 pennies to win. It's more fun to play to 50 in that case, because then you need two quarters, so one of them actually holds a place for a while until you win with the second quarter. It's fun and easy to do this to 50 cents with all the common coin values in play as well. Pennies convert to two nickels, two nickels convert to one dime, and five dimes convert to 50 cents.
When we play this way however, we use a dime as a stencil to make five circles in the dimes row. This reminds the young student that we need 5 dimes to get 50 cents. This is valuable when working on counting by tens. you can also go forth to a dollar naturally!
