Last Friday it was nice to meet all of the grandparents on Grandparents' Day. The children were so excited to share their classroom and school with their grandparents and special friends. This week we are updating you on our kindergarten learning and explorations.
Math: We will continue our introduction of addition with adding sets and numbers together to total five. We will further explore making patterns with three colors.
Word Work: We will be making words using the letter e, such as in met and fed. We will add words to our dictionaries for the letters z and and q.
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| Using our white boards to practice Word Wall words. |
Reading: Monday the children will book shop for eight "just right" books to practice reading this week. Ms. Deegan's second grade class will be in to visit Monday and help the children to practice reading their new books. Flexible reading groups will meet with Mrs. Minke to practice reading books on the children instructional levels. The children will be assessed on reading the 25 core vocabulary words emphasized up until now and also on the 50 sight words that will be our focus for the up coming months. Ten new sight words were added to our word wall for January. Copies of the total list of 50 words from our word wall along with class names will be sent home this week. The children will also have a copy of the 50 words from our word wall in their seat pockets for easy access to use for their writing.
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| Shopping for "Just Right Books" |
Writing: We will write one final three page story about a small moment from our lives as an assessment of each child's growth in writing. We are focusing on doing quality writing, sketching pictures, and being able to write a complete story in 20 to 25 minutes using periods at the end of each sentence. By the end of the week we will be ready to start our new writing unit on revising our stories to make our good writing even better.
Science: Our study of living organisms is drawing to a close with a final discussion on plant parts, uses, and life cycles. We will be starting a unit on Solids and Liquids on Monday afternoon. This unit is extensive and will continue through the end of May.
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| Recording observations about solids. |
Social Studies: We will continue our discussion this week about our families and our homes.
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| The neighborhood grows with every new home. |
Events to Calendar:
Tuesday, January 29th, the Used Uniform Sale will be held in the Student Center from 8:00am - 1:00pm. We also have a special Spirit Day with a whole school photo and quick Pep Rally. Go Charger Girls Varsity Soccer!
Friday, February 1st, the kindergarten classes will take our trip to Heritage Village. The buses will depart at 9:30 and return to campus by 1:30. Parents are invited to come. Please jot us a note if you will be chaperoning.
Thursday, February 7th, is Parent Teacher Conference Day. Unless you have made adjustments, your scheduled time is the same as the fall conference. We will be sending our reminder notices to all.
