I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Please enjoy a few highlights from our very busy week. 😊
Important Dates:
March 14th:
Parent/Teacher Conferences
5:00-7:00PM
March 22nd:
Early Release Day
12:25pm Dismissal
March 29th:
No School
Day of Low Attendance
Announcements:
Star Student ⭐
Congratulations to Eddie who was our Star Student last week! We look forward to learning about, and celebrating another friend from our class in the week ahead!
March "Math"ness! 🐧
Last week was the kick-off of Boyden's ST Math incentive known as March Mathness! Each week classes will be matched up to compete against each other. The class who completes the most ST Math puzzles will move onto the next round. On Friday we enjoyed getting together with our 5th grade buddies from Mrs. Janke's class to work on ST Math together! The K students had a fun time explaining their puzzles to their buddies, and the 5th grade students were great at helping out if/when we got stuck.
Curriculum Update:
Fundations
Last week in Fundations we learned the sight words we and he. We also continued to practice tapping and/or sliding CVC words such as hat, mug, and pot, and built CVC words using magnetic letters. The class also learned a rule for when to use the letter C or K when writing words. The rhyme "K takes i and e, C takes the other three" (vowels a, e, o) helped us remember this new concept. The students below practiced writing the word "kit" and knew it started with the letter K due to the short i sound.
Reader's Workshop
In Reader's Workshop we continue to boost our reading super powers as we look more closely at the pictures in the books that we read, and use clues in the images to build greater meaning and understanding. It is important to remember that these concepts are being taught to build comprehension of the stories we are reading, NOT as a word reading/decoding strategy.
Last week we practiced the skill of visualizing, or making pictures/movies in our mind! The class listened carefully to a short story I read aloud, then drew what they imagined. We enjoyed taking a gallery walk and looking at everyone's pictures, and noticed how friends "saw" the characters and setting differently in their minds.
Math
In math we continue to review geometry concepts and explored our 3D shapes, also known as solids! We named, described, and identfied cones, cubes, and cylinders last week, and also compared circles (2D) to spheres (3D).
On Friday we enjoyed using the Touch View to find 3D solid shapes.
Writer's Workshop
In Writer's Workshop our "how to" unit was in full swing last week! While our lessons on Monday and Tuesday focused on whole group and shared writing, by Wednesday the class was ready to put what we've been learning into practice. We discussed the steps to making a pb&j sandwich, then numbered and used transition words to label each step. 🥜🍇
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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