March 11-15

Important Dates and Reminders:
March 15: Wear Green
March 19 & 21: Conferences- sign up here: https://ptcfast.com/schools/NDLC
March 22: No School

LIBRARY CHECKOUT DAYS: 
Thursday March 14
Monday March 25
Tuesday April 2
Wednesday April 10
Tuesday April 23

The PSC is in need of some help during conferences:
Conference Meal 
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Book Fair 
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KAT Dance Volunteers
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Here's what's happening in K this week! 

Reading: This week we kick off a new reading unit called Growing Expertise in Little Books.  This unit has a focus on non-fiction reading and really reading to gain understanding and learn from the books we read.  This week we will sort our classroom library to get all of our informational books organized so they are easier for us to shop for.  We will learn that as we read about a topic we become experts on it and learn to share that information with others by telling the main topic of a book and giving key details learned in the book. We will also work on stopping and asking questions while we read.

Writing:I hope your child has shared with your some of the important topics they are writing about to persuade others.  Please know you may receive some books or letters regarding "problems" your child might want to persuade others to fix at home or in your neighborhood.  We are really working on using our words as a way to let people know about a problems see and ways we think it can be fixed.  This week we will work on keeping our writing stamina up by thinking of lots of causes to write about and will work on revision and spelling strategies.

Math: This week we will focus on using the +1 pattern automatically. 
One way we will be working on the +1 pattern is by playing the game speed.  Students play as a pair and hold 5 cards each in their hand, they then flip one card over from the deck and need to lay down the card the comes after that card as quickly as they can.  This is a fun way for them to practice using the +1 strategy and to recognize that addition pattern automatically. We will also work on using strategies for equations that do not have a pattern (2+2, 4-3, 2+3, 3-2...).  We will learn that using fingers and tools can help use to visualize what happens in these equations.  We will also make our own bead racks use as a tool.  Stay tuned to see how we use these on SeeSaw!

Social Studies: As we get ready to start our self study unit, students spent time this past week learning to think about others. Here is a quick video of one of our students explaining some of that learning.