A Peek At Our Week!

  I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! It was a short, but busy week in Room 115. Please enjoy a few updates below!

Important Dates:

November 22nd:

Early Release Day

12:25pm Dismissal

November 23rd and 24th: 

Thanksgiving Break

No School

Announcements:

Turkey Projects

A friendly reminder that your child's turkey in disguise project is due tomorrow (Monday). I am looking forward to seeing all of their creative designs!

Happy Birthday Teddy Bears!

On Thursday, November 16th the kindergarten classes will celebrate the 120th birthday of the teddy bear! The children are invited to wear their comfy pjs and bring a teddy bear (or other furry friend) to school on this day to celebrate. We will also be participating in many fun teddy-themed activities in class. It is sure to be a beary exciting day! 

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations the children learned about the letters p and j. We also practiced reading the sight words "at" and "up". Our color of the week was brown!

The class enjoyed playing a digital memory game where they had to match a Fundations letter with its picture! 

As a fun end of the week project the students made polka dotted pink and purple Ps! 💗💜

Math

Last week in math we continued to explore numbers 0-10. Our week began by learning about tally marks and how they can be helpful for organizing our numbers and counting by fives. The class had a great time representing numbers 5-10 by using popsicle sticks as tally marks!

Reader's Workshop

Our unit on retelling old familiar storybooks is coming to an end, and as a culminating activity the class enjoyed creating puppets to help them retell one of our favorite storybooks, Mrs. Wishy Washy! These puppets, as well as an overview of the story, was send home with your Kindergartner last week. See if they can tell you the story using character voices and exact words from the story!

Writer's Workshop

Last week in Writer's Workshop we started our very first multi-page books! While each child is creating their own Show and Tell text, we are all writing about the same topic, Boyden School! The topic of each child's first page was all about our classroom. They are now working on subsequent pages about different places in our building including the cafeteria, media/stem lab, playground, and gym!

Social Studies

In Social Studies we learned about Veterans Day and the heros in the armed forces who keep us safe from the land, air, and sea. We also discussed what it means to be patriotic and how we show our patriotism each day as we say The Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you to all of our veterans both past and present! 

ST Math

Thursday was an exciting day as ST Math's mascot, JiJi, paid all of the classrooms a special visit! JiJi also brought us a certificate celebrating Room 115's progress, as we have completed 15% of our journey as a group. I couldn't be more proud of everyone's effort and hard work with ST Math! 🐧

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! 🍎📖🚌