A Peek At Our Week!

 I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and enjoying this beautiful weather! Please take a moment to enjoy a glimpse of all the great learning that happened in Room 202 last week. The children are working incredibly hard and I couldn't be more proud of them!

Important Dates:

Winter Break

December 24th-January 3rd

Announcements:

Chromebooks

A friendly reminder that the Kindergarten students will be bringing their Chromebooks to and from school each day in the event that we go remote unexpectedly. Please be sure your child has their Chromebook in their backpack every morning as we will be using them in class as well . Thank you so much for all of your help!

Curriculum Update:

Math

Last week in math we started Unit 7 which focuses on addition! We began our exploration by learning about the concept of joining, or putting groups together. This was followed by the introduction of the + and = signs. We will continue to practice adding and writing addition number sentences in class this week before we transition to subtraction.

 Before introducing the students to the concept of addition, we first explored the idea of joining, or putting groups together. The students above can be seen practicing this skill as they joined cube "trains" together and counted their new total number of cubes.

Fundations

In Fundations the children learned about the letters X and Y and were introduced to the sight/snap words "and" and "this".

Writer's Workshop

In Writer's Workshop we have been working hard to make our work more "readable". This means we must remember to keep our handwriting neat, include lots of letters in our words, and use finger spaces. The class did a wonderful job helping me revise one of my writing pieces to make it more readable before applying these skills to their own true stories. 

Reader's Workshop

It was a VERY exciting time for Reader's Workshop last week as the class learned about their final reading superpower, persistence power! We learned that a persistent reader never gives up and may even have to use more than one superpower when tackling an unknown word.

On Friday we celebrated all of our reading superpowers with a very special super readers celebration! Be sure to check your child's Seesaw page for a video of us reciting our superhero pledge, and a picture of your super reader with their special certificate!

 

The class was SO excited to receive a very special mystery gift from the League of Super Hero Readers! We absolutely LOVED the superhero capes and masks they sent us!

                                                Even Mr. Dearborn joined in on the fun!

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to see all that is new in Room 202! :)