Updates for the Week of February 11, 2013

Recording penny flips with tally marks.

Hundred's grid bingo.

Sofia chooses push ups for 100 exercises.

Last Friday's 100th Day activities and celebration was a big success. The projects were a true demonstration of the children's creativity and understanding of what 100 of something can look like.

Math: We will continue our introduction of addition with adding sets and numbers together to total six and seven. I have assessed each child last week to see who is ready to procede to adding higher numbers and who will benefit from reviewing numbers for adding sums to four, five, and six. Children will begin to work with range cards. I have recorded on these cards the range of numbers that are appropriate for each child to work with on addition facts. The low number is their easy number, the middle number their working number, and the higher number is their challenge number. The ranges are either 4,5,6 or 5,6,7 depending on the understanding level of each child. We will begin to talk about clocks and how to tell time by the hour this week and will be reviewing a wide range of ways objects can be sorted. 

Word Work: We are focusing on correct spelling of our 50 Word Wall words and working on putting them into simple sentences using correct sentence structure and with good handwriting.

Reading: We are adding 10 new words to our Word Wall, five one day and the other five the next day. Copies will go home next week. We are continuing to read "just right" books. Many of the children are moving up a level to read books with more words. The teachers are demonstrating how to change our voices to match different kinds of books and various types of characters.

Writing: We are learning to reread our three page stories and look for ways to make our good writing even better. The children use their new purple revising pens to add more detail to their stories. Today we talked about how to insert words into the body of their stories by crossing out words and changing it to a better word. "We" can become "my family and me."

Social Studies: We will find out about different kinds of homes and why all houses are not the same.

Science:  We will continue to investigate the 20 solid items in our trays. We found out that some of the items only rolled if they were round and some stacked if they were flat. We discovered that some items did both. We recorded these on a venn diagram. February is Dental Health month. As an introduction to our upcoming visit to Dr. Worman's office, the loft has been transformed into a dental office.

Events to Calendar:

Friday, February 1st through Friday, February 15th, online re-enrollment for the 2013-2014 school year is available on the Shorecrest homepage.

Tuesday, February 12th, the Picture Lady/Gentleman will visit our classrooms with fine art to discuss and display.

Wednesday, February 13th, a production of The Little Engine that Could, will take place in the Janet Root Theater for JK and Kindergarten students.

Thursday, February 14th, we will exchange Valentines and rotate through the kindergarten rooms for an activity in each.

Monday, February 18th, school is closed in honor of President's Day.

Monday, February 25th, we will visit Dr. Worman's Dental Office.

Tuesday, February 26th, is class picture day.  Weather prevailing, photos will be taken outside in the courtyard area. Please access order forms at https://www.shorecrest.org/?page=ParentsPage

Thursday, February 28th, kicks off the 2013 Relay for Life with a cookout and the paper links project.  Forms and donation envelopes will be coming home soon.

Friday, March 1st, the annual fundraising gala will take place in the Athletic Center. Tickets are available at http://shorecrestgala.com/