Superhero Friday!

Pizza!

We are working on "how to" stories in writing. Today we learned "how to make a pizza" and then we wrote out all the steps. It was a delicious writers workshop :) 

This Friday is SUPERHERO Friday!!! 

What’s going on in room 3143?

Academics:

Our sight words for the week are: yes, run

Reading: We are learning how to do Read to Someone. The boys and girls love it SO much! We will also be learning about Quarrelsome Queen and Vicky Violet in Letterland. We are also working on Text to Self and Text to Text connections

Writing: We are learning how to write “How-To” stories. How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, how to brush our teeth, how to blow a bubble and how to make a pizza!

Math: We are finishing up our study on Shapes!

Science: WEATHER!

Upcoming Dates:

January 27- Report Cards go home!

February 5: Kindergarten Informance 2pm

February 13: Early Release/ Valentines Celebration

February 16- Interims go home

February 26: Arts Night

March 6: Early Release

March 23-27: Spring Break

Fun math Friday!!

Today the boys and girls enjoyed some of their favorite math related games for a fun math Friday! Learning can be so fun! 

Read to someone!

Today we started read to someone! The kids rocked it!!! 

Today we made a Rainstorm with our bodies

Here is what we did! You can try this at home too!

·         Rub hands together

·         snap fingers (can’t snap-clap with only TWO fingers….)

·         gently patting knees

·         Stamp feet

·         Increase the noise by switching to hand clapping as the storm reaches it height.

·         With a hand signal, have everyone shout, "BOOM!" on the count of three to represent thunder.

·         Backwards thru sequence to simulate storm subsidence

Fancy Friday!

This Friday is....

FANCY FRIDAY!!!!

Dress in your fanciest clothes!!!

What can you wear??? Great Question! You can wear dresses, suits, top hats, boas, tiaras, etc.

Get creative!

Winter Informance

Our Winter Informance will be on February 5th. It will be at 2pm in the Gym. Mark your calendars for this sweet show! 

Welcome back!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful, restful and enjoyable break! I am excited to start the second part of our year! We will be starting the year off with a bang! Our mid year assessments will be going on this month, so be sure your child is getting plenty of rest at home because school is going to be very busy for them!

What’s going on this month with academics?!

Reading: We will continue to work on retelling with stories we read to ourselves and stories we share as a whole group. When we retell a story we focus on; Who are the characters? What is the setting? What are the major events? We will also be working on CVC, CCVC and CVCC words. While we read we will be working on inferring, summarizing, learning about informational text and making predictions.

We will also continue to work on learning our sight words. Our words for this month are:

Week of:

January 5^th:  for, have

January 12^th: went, he

January 19^th: will, they

January 26^th: yes, run

Writing: In writing we will continue to work on writing true events. We will continue to work on spelling words to the best of our ability, using our sight words, spacing between our words, using punctuation. We will begin to learn how to write “How to” writings

Math:  In math we are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes!

Science: We begin our unit on weather! This is a very fun unit!

          Dates to remember this month  

Month of January: Mid year assessments

January 19- No school

January 20- Teacher Workday

January 27- Report cards!

*** Please remember to keep your kiddos home if they are not feeling well. The flu is still around and we don’t want any more of our friends out sick!***

If your child has not learned how to tie their shoes, they really need to practice!