Monday is the 100th day of school: Please remember to send in 100 snack items for our mix (For example, you could count out 100 goldfish). We will celebrate with 100 day activities in the afternoon!
Tuesday is Valentine's Day: We will exchange valentine cards with the class! Here is a list of student names. Contrary to the note I sent home, students CAN write their friends' names on the cards if you would like!
Upcoming events:
February 23: Half Day
February 24: No School
February 27: Family Night: Music, Masterpieces and Munchies
March 7: Field trip to the Paper Discovery Center-the permission slip will be sent home soon
March 7: Field trip to the Paper Discovery Center-the permission slip will be sent home soon
Reading: The nonfiction books have been a huge hit in our room! It's so fun to listen to the students ask questions and share knowledge about the topics they are reading about. This week, we will take that work a step further by asking readers to name the main topic of their book and then say some key details they learned while reading. Readers don't just say what they learned, they can point to where they learned that in the book-we call that text evidence. It is amazing to hear these young learners using this academic language!
Writing: Our focus this week is to elaborate in our all about books. Writers are working hard to add more than one sentence to a page, add examples, and choose descriptive words to teach more about their topics. Toward the end of the week, we will study another author's all about book to see what else we could add to our books. Writers might add bold words, diagrams, sidebars, definitions and more! Our nonfiction reading unit and all about writing unit provides a strong connection across the curriculum.
Math: After meeting with our math staff developer, I am anxious to work some of his ideas and suggestions into our workshop. We will be focusing on three main concepts to review before our Unit 3 test on Friday. Students will play math games, participate in whole class discussions and explore the following big ideas:
- Partners are made of part-part-whole
- Teen numbers are a group of ten and extras
- 5 groups help us organize to see number quickly
Word Study: Our sight words are jump, funny, go, find, & not. We have been working really hard to make sure we are using uppercase and lowercase letters in the correct places in our writing. Whenever you are writing at home, encourage lowercase letters unless it the is beginning of a sentence or a name!
Science: These Kindergarten scientists are getting really good at writing/drawing the scientific method in their science notebooks. For each experiment, they ask a question, make a hypothesis, plan an experiment, and come to a conclusion. We will continue to use this process as we study paper.
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