November 26-30

We have so much to be thankful for in Kindergarten!  Students took time to share and reflect on what they were most thankful for!  We are certainly thankful for the wonderful students and families we have the chance to work with!  We hope you enjoyed this time with your families!

Important Dates and Reminders:

December 11: No School
December 13: Family Night-more info to come!
December 24-January 2: No School 

NDLC Service Group December Project   

The NDLC Service Group will be tying fleece blankets during the December 13th family night.  Blankets are prepped and will be ready to be tied in various rooms through the school.  There will be a specific way to tie the blankets based on how they have been prepped.  We are asking that families stop by one of the rooms and help tie a blanket. A volunteer will be stationed in each room to help teach you how to tie.   We will have 34 blankets to be tied.  Blankets will be donated to Children’s Hospital in Neenah. 

What's happening in K this week?

Reading: Beginning this week, students will be bringing home a book bag each night. These book bags will have 2 books your child is interested in reading. One of our main goals is to have the students fall in love with reading. Feel free to read the book to your child! If your child is wanting to do some of the reading, here are a few ways you could support your reader with the books they bring home:

•  Have your child hunt for snap words they know
• Give your child the pattern on the first page of the book, then let them read the rest 
• Encourage your reader to point one time under every word as they read 
• Remind them to check the picture if they get stuck!

Please send the book bag back to school every day so we can exchange the books!

Writing: The writers will begin to work on true stories this week. In Kindergarten, we work on oral storytelling and transferring those stories to paper.  We will think about writing stories that people are excited to read. Then, we will make sure they can read them by adding drawing and making our sentences easy to read by using spaces and many letter sounds.

Math:  This week the mathematicians will be starting to review many of the concepts we have learned in unit 2. We will practice writing numbers using wikki sticks, paint in a bag, salt writing and more! We will learn about the characteristics of a hexagon and continue to review the characteristics of the other shapes we have learned. Students will apply their knowledge of the +1 and -1 patterns by playing different dice games.

Science: The scientists spent the last week gathering information by looking at photographs, reading books, and listening to iPads to learn more about weather. They took notes about their learning and will compile all of this information together to share in the form of a poster or presentation. We will be sharing our learning on Thursday and checking our learning with a weather assessment on Friday.