There are lots of fun dress up days and activities planned this week for Read Across America!
It will also be great to see everyone at family night!
It's not too late to sign up to help with Family Night:
Serving Cookie for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/bpmTYNJ
Donate Cookies for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/cDtSDdE
February 25-March 1st is Read Across America Week.
Monday, Feb 25th: Dress Like Your Parents
Tuesday, Feb 26th: Dress Like a Game and Family Night 6-7
Wednesday, Feb 27th: Crazy Hair Day
Thursday, Feb 28th: Dress Like A Book Character
Friday, March 1st: Camp Out Day, Dress in Camping Wear
Reading:We have been loving digging into non-fiction books and showing and sharing our thinking with our reading partners and playdate groups. We are learning that to remember our thoughts This week we will continue with some non-fiction work and will meet in topic clubs to do more talking about and comparing books.
Writing: Kindergartners begin writing opinion pieces this week! As you may have seen in your child's folder, each student is welcome to bring 4 items from home that they have strong feelings about. For example, it could be their favorite toy OR a picture of a food that they do NOT like. We will use these items to start discussions and generate ideas for our writing. The goal is for students to start their writing with "I like/do not like_____" and then add reasons to each page of the book. I can't wait to learn more about the opinions in our classroom!
Math: This week a major focus in math will be identifying and quickly recalling partners of a number or two numbers that combine to form a larger numbers. Students will play a game called Missing Partner where they will have a set number of tools (2-5) and a part of the group will be removed and they will need to say the quantity that remains and then figure out the quantity that is missing. Ex. I see 2, 3 are missing, 2 and 3 are partners of 5.
Science: For science this week, students will be wrapping up science centers and learning how to use Seesaw to share our learning. This year we're going to use a new tool to share what we're learning in class called Seesaw. Your child will have his or her own learning journal, and you can get notified when your child adds new items. It's completely private -- only you can see your child's journal outside of class. I will be sending out a link to access Seesaw later this week!
Monday, February 25, 2019
Friday, February 15, 2019
February18-22
This week will be short and sweet and will hopefully not involve any snow days! Check out the fun we had this week!!
Our biggest school fundraiser will be here soon!
Please see the link below to sign up to help out with this fun event!
http://signup.com/go/imLqCBE
Important Dates and Reminders:
February 21: Funset Boulevard
February 26: Family Art Night--includes art auction, art projects, and a cookie sale!
Serving Cookie for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/bpmTYNJ
Donate Cookies for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/cDtSDdE
February 25-March 1st is Read Across America Week.
Monday, Feb 25th: Dress Like Your Parents
Tuesday, Feb 26th: Dress Like a Game
Wednesday, Feb 27th: Crazy Hair Day
Thursday, Feb 28th: Dress Like A Book Character
Friday, March 1st: Camp Out Day, Dress in Camping Wear
Reading: This week as Super Avid Readers we will look more closely at non-fiction or informational texts and how we can really learn from what we read in them. To pique our interest in looking more closely at non-fiction topics we will watch this video. The kids do seem to really like this video and learn so much from watching it, but some may find it a tad scary a first. There will be lots of discussion around it so I wanted it to be available to you as well :). Some of the ways we will work with non-fiction books this week we will be: to use new vocabulary we have learned about our topics when talking about our books, finding multiple books on a topic that interests us and comparing and contrasting various books we read
Writing: Writers will pick a how to book to revise, edit and make their best this week. We will use the charts below to help us make sure our writing teaches all it should and is easy for others to read!
Math: This week we will begin Unit 4. The main concepts of this unit are finding partner numbers for 6-10 and identifying 3 dimensional shapes. The unit also reinforces teen number composition and decomposition. Please note that any partner work within 6-10 is expected to be done with math tools and drawings and students are by no means expected to be fluent in knowing their facts or partners to 10. We will continue to work toward automaticity with addition and subtraction within 5. Did you know there are 21 addition facts from 0-5 that students need to be automatic with?!
Science: The scientists will spend next week rotating through centers to gather and share information about plants. The centers are:
The scientists will take notes about their learning and will compile all of this information together to share in the form of a poster or presentation.
100 cup stacking
What can we build with 100 legos?
100 Gumballs!
Keeping track of how many times we licked our suckers...
Making beautiful necklaces with 100 beads!
Our biggest school fundraiser will be here soon!
Please see the link below to sign up to help out with this fun event!
http://signup.com/go/imLqCBE
Important Dates and Reminders:
February 21: Funset Boulevard
February 26: Family Art Night--includes art auction, art projects, and a cookie sale!
Serving Cookie for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/bpmTYNJ
Donate Cookies for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/cDtSDdE
February 25-March 1st is Read Across America Week.
Monday, Feb 25th: Dress Like Your Parents
Tuesday, Feb 26th: Dress Like a Game
Wednesday, Feb 27th: Crazy Hair Day
Thursday, Feb 28th: Dress Like A Book Character
Friday, March 1st: Camp Out Day, Dress in Camping Wear
Reading: This week as Super Avid Readers we will look more closely at non-fiction or informational texts and how we can really learn from what we read in them. To pique our interest in looking more closely at non-fiction topics we will watch this video. The kids do seem to really like this video and learn so much from watching it, but some may find it a tad scary a first. There will be lots of discussion around it so I wanted it to be available to you as well :). Some of the ways we will work with non-fiction books this week we will be: to use new vocabulary we have learned about our topics when talking about our books, finding multiple books on a topic that interests us and comparing and contrasting various books we read
Writing: Writers will pick a how to book to revise, edit and make their best this week. We will use the charts below to help us make sure our writing teaches all it should and is easy for others to read!
Math: This week we will begin Unit 4. The main concepts of this unit are finding partner numbers for 6-10 and identifying 3 dimensional shapes. The unit also reinforces teen number composition and decomposition. Please note that any partner work within 6-10 is expected to be done with math tools and drawings and students are by no means expected to be fluent in knowing their facts or partners to 10. We will continue to work toward automaticity with addition and subtraction within 5. Did you know there are 21 addition facts from 0-5 that students need to be automatic with?!
Science: The scientists will spend next week rotating through centers to gather and share information about plants. The centers are:
- Plant photographs--students can sort, label, and discuss the photographs
- Books--students will look through and read plant books
- Ipads--students will research plants on Pebblego
- Art--scientists will create plants using different art materials
The scientists will take notes about their learning and will compile all of this information together to share in the form of a poster or presentation.
Friday, February 8, 2019
February 8-15
What a busy and exciting time of year! See below for a list of the upcoming school events and dress up days. Thank you to the families that donated snacks and supplies for our celebrations!
Upcoming Events:
Upcoming Events:
February 11: 100th Day of School--dress like you are 100 years old
February 11: Culver's Night
February 11: Culver's Night
February 14: Class Valentine Exchange and Red, White and Pink Day
February 21: Funset Boulevard
February 26: Family Art Night--includes art auction, art projects, and a cookie sale!
Serving Cookie for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/bpmTYNJ
Donate Cookies for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/cDtSDdE
February 21: Funset Boulevard
February 26: Family Art Night--includes art auction, art projects, and a cookie sale!
Serving Cookie for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/bpmTYNJ
Donate Cookies for Feb 26 Family Night: http://signup.com/go/cDtSDdE
February 25-March 1st is Read Across America Week.
- Monday, Feb 25th: Dress Like Your Parents
- Tuesday, Feb 26th: Dress Like a Game
- Wednesday, Feb 27th: Crazy Hair Day
- Thursday, Feb 28th: Dress Like A Book Character
- Friday, March 1st: Camp Out Day, Dress in Camping Wear
Reading: As we continue to learn about becoming avid readers, students will have "playdates" during their partner reading time. According to research on cognitive development, children increase focus, stamina, self-regulation abilities, and abstract thinking through play. During the "reading playdates", book clubs will meet and can choose from a variety of fun activities to do with books. These activities could include: acting books out, playing school, having a read aloud, hunting for snap words, etc. Try one of these fun games while reading with your child at home!
Writing: As we head toward the end of our how to unit, we will work on adding introductions and conclusions to our books. We will also learn to use comparisons in our writing to give more specific directions. Finally, writers will be reminded to use all the strategies they know to make their how to books easy to read.Writers will continue to work on "writing with flow" to get even more books done. Here are some of the ways we figured out how to write with flow:
Math: To continue to build our fluency within five, the mathematicians will explore the +1 and -1 pattern this week. We will study what happens each time you subtract a number; it's just like counting backwards! Students will also find that inversely, each time you add 1 to a number, it's like forward counting. Here are some poems we will learn to help us remember these patterns automatically.
Science: We have a class pet! Meet Pocahontas. After researching what a fish needs to survive, students were surprised with a fish! It was so much fun!
This week, we will be shifting our focus to plants. We will find out what plants need to survive and plant our own seeds.
Writing: As we head toward the end of our how to unit, we will work on adding introductions and conclusions to our books. We will also learn to use comparisons in our writing to give more specific directions. Finally, writers will be reminded to use all the strategies they know to make their how to books easy to read.Writers will continue to work on "writing with flow" to get even more books done. Here are some of the ways we figured out how to write with flow:
Math: To continue to build our fluency within five, the mathematicians will explore the +1 and -1 pattern this week. We will study what happens each time you subtract a number; it's just like counting backwards! Students will also find that inversely, each time you add 1 to a number, it's like forward counting. Here are some poems we will learn to help us remember these patterns automatically.
- When you have a number and you add one more, you count up to the number next door.
- When you have a number and you take one away, it's like counting backwards, hip, hip, hooray!
Science: We have a class pet! Meet Pocahontas. After researching what a fish needs to survive, students were surprised with a fish! It was so much fun!
This week, we will be shifting our focus to plants. We will find out what plants need to survive and plant our own seeds.
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