It's an exciting time of year in Kindergarten! Please enjoy a few pictures and updates below!! 😊
Important Dates:
February 5th:
The 100th Day of School!
February 9th:
Half Day of School
Report Cards are Available on Aspen/X2
February 14th:
Valentine's Day
February 19th-22nd:
No School
February Vacation Week
Announcements:
100th Day!
We had a wonderful time celebrating the 100th day of school yesterday! The students enjoyed 100th day read alouds, math centers, and the main event, our fashion show! Click the links below to watch the students in Room 115 walk the runway!
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We were so excited to count to 100 by tens during Number Corner!
Happy 100th Day!!
Valentine's Day
Our class will be celebrating Valentines Day on Wednesday, February 14th! As part of our celebration we will be exchanging valentines. Please click here for some helpful hints and tips for making our celebration an enjoyable one for your child. Please note food and candy is not allowed. A hard copy of this notice was also sent home last week.
Star Student ⭐
Congratulations to Addie who was our Star Student last week! We look forward to learning about, and celebrating another friend from our class in the week ahead!
Curriculum Update:
Fundations
Last week in Fundations we practiced reading the sight word go. We also continued to practice tapping or sliding CVC words such as hat, mug, and pot.
Learning about long and short vowel sounds was another objective last week. The students above practice this skill with a picture sort!
We also brainstormed and practiced reading words in the -ig word family! The class had a fun time making their own -ig pigs. Please encourage your child to practice reading the pig decodable reader that they brought home last week.🐷
Reader's Workshop
Last week in Reader's Workshop the students continued to apply their reading superpowers to decodable texts. They were introduced to a new superpower known as "word part power". This superpower encourages the children to look for small sight words such as it, in, and at inside of the bigger words that they encounter in texts. They can use their knoweldge of that small word to help them read the larger word. For example, the little word "an" can help a child when reading the word "fan". In our class we have also been calling this superpower "Chunky Monkey" as the children as looking for "chunks" of the word that they know.
Math
In math last week we spiraled back to geometry, a concept that we previously taught in Number Corner. During our lessons the children practiced naming, describing, and sorting two dimensional shapes.
The class also participated in math centers that had them writing about different attributes of 2D shapes, sorting pictures, and matching real like objects to their two dimensional figure.
Writer's Workshop
The personal narrative or true story writing continued in Writer's Workshop. Last week our lesson's focused on editing our work to make it the best it can be. The students enjoyed using highlighters to add missing punctuation and capital letters at the beginning of their sentences. The highlighters also helped us show finger spaces and add even more letters to our words.
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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