I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Please see below for a few highlights from our week. 😊
Announcements:
Emmanuel Day
Friday was truly a special day at Boyden School as we celebrated our friend Emmanuel on his 6th birthday. Emmanuel is a Kindergarten student in Mrs. Fields' class who is currently fighting cancer, and Friday was a very special day that was dedicated to him! Thank you SO much for all of your support and generous donations to Emmanuel's family. It is incredibly appreciated!
A little rain didn't stop us from cheering on Emmanuel as he arrived to school in a firetruck on Friday!
The Kindergarten students also enjoyed the special treat of shopping at the school store. All of the money collected will go directly to Emmanuel's family.💚
Curriculum Update:
Fundations
Last week in Fundations we practiced reading the sight word as. We also continued to practice tapping or sliding CVC words such as hat, mug, and pot. Lastly, we reviewed how to write the uppercase letters I-N.
We also applied our tapping/sliding skills to a new word family! Last week we practice reading words in the "at" family, and had a great time making "at" cats!
Reader's Workshop
In Reader's Workshop we continue to apply our reading superpowers to the books that we read. Last week the students were introduced to "reread power" and learned that readers go back and reread sentences to make them sound smoother and less choppy. The class has been doing a wonderful job during Read to Self time where they go back and reread previously introduced books from their book bag independently. It is so exciting to see the AMAZING progress the children are making with their reading skills at this time of year!
Writer's Workshop
In Writer's Workshop the class continued to work on their narrative/true stories. Many students have completed one whole story and have now moved on to write a new piece. Last week we reviewed the importance of including vowels in the words that we write in order to make them more "readable". We also practiced using writing checklists to make sure our word included all of the necessary components such as starting with an uppercase letter, ending with an ending mark, and including fingers spaces.
Math
Last week in math we continued to practice counting, adding and subtracting. We learned to play a fun new game called Foxes and Dens where the children added two numbers using a "counting up" strategy. This means if they rolled the numbers 5 and 2, they would say "5, 6, 7" instead of starting at one, counting to 5, then counting up two more. We also played a game called Beat You to Twenty where the students rolled a number cube and added that number of unifix cubes to their tower. The first played to 20 wins!
To make introducing Beat You to Twenty even more engaging, we used the Touch View! For this game we played students vs. teachers. Mrs. Dacko and I had a pretty good lead for a while, but the students came from behind and secured a win at the end!
It was also an exciting week as our class had the highest number of puzzles completed in ST Math for the entire school! Mrs. Rinaldi awarded us with the giant JiJi to keep in our classroom for the upcoming week, and it serves as a great reminder and motivator to keep completing our puzzles!
Social Studies
In Social Studies we discussed the important contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. The students watched a portion of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream Speech" and learned about his life through our Let's Find Out magazine.
Science
It was an exciting time in Science last week as we visited Mrs. Arnold's first grade classroom to learn about camoflauge! We watched a great Mystery Doug science video together, then went hunting for butterflies that the first grade students had camoflauged in their classroom. It was a great way to end the week!
Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week. Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 😊
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