March 29: Crazy Hair/Hat Day
March 28 and 30: Parent Teacher Conferences
April 3: Sports Day
April 7: Knowledge-a-thon in the the AM
April 7: PAC field trip in the PM
April 11: Egg Crack Off and Class Color Day
April 12-17: NO SCHOOL
April 21: Wear Green and Blue for Earth Day
April 28: Funky Friday (dress as silly as you want)
PSC Sign Ups
Book Fair
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Knowledge-A-Thon
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What's Happening in Room 82:
Reading: As we continue to learn about becoming avid readers, students will have "playdates" during their partner reading time. According to research on cognitive development, children increase focus, stamina, self-regulation abilities, and abstract thinking through play. During the "reading playdates", book clubs will meet and can choose from a variety of fun activities to do with books. These activities could include: acting books out, playing school, having a read aloud, hunting for sight words, etc. Try one of these fun games while reading with your child at home!
Writing: Writers will set goals to fix up their writing. They could choose to fix up spelling or punctuation. They could also choose to elaborate by adding more drawings and labels, telling more reasons to convince others of their opinions, or adding speech bubbles. These writers have done a wonderful job finding problems and writing about ways to make them better. They are quite convincing!
Math: These Kindergarten mathematicians have dug deep into the meaning behind the plus and minus sign. We will learn that we need to pay close attention to what sign is used in an equation in order to solve problems correctly. We will discuss what strategies work best for these mathematicians when solving problems. They might use their fingers, make a drawing, build with tools, count on from a number or visualize the problem. These are all great ways for Kindergarten students to be solving equations.
Word Study: We will continue to work with transferring our sight word and sort knowledge into our reading and writing.
Social Studies: After starting to think about what makes them so special, students will have a chance to show what makes them unique in the following centers:
- Books—Students will read All About Me books. Then they will write their own!
- Photographs—We will sort pictures on a timeline. Then students will create their own timelines.
- Collage—Kindergarteners will look through magazines and cut out things that represent them. They will glue these onto a poster. We will share these at closing circle.
- Starfall.com—Students will work with partners on Ipads to “write” about themselves.
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| A guest reader visited for St. Patrick's Day! |
I was SO impressed with how readers met in groups to act out, read, and talk about their books!
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