Weekly Update

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Posted by jstutz1 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 20, 2018

2/12 – 2/16

Popcorn Words: how, now, map

100’s Day:  Oh what fun it was to start our week with the celebration of our 100th day of school celebration!  The Kinders each brought in their own 100 collections and shared it with their classmates.  It was really fun to see the wide variety of collections!!  We had a fun filled day of celebrating being 100 days smarter!!

Special Visitors: This week we had Miss Yankee’s 2nd graders come to our classroom for a visit!  They came and read us their fiction stories they have worked hard on writing. We enjoyed listening to their stories!

Split Lit: During split lit time this week, we enjoyed trying some new centers to choose from! We practiced reading big books, practiced our popcorn words (using Play-Dough, we made paper watches and did do-a-dots),  listened to books, built words and worked with Mrs. DeGroot (a para-pro working with us). We worked so hard this week during our split lit time!

Reading: This week in reading, we used our voices to bring our books to life! We talked about how it sounds when we read like a robot compared to how it sounds when we read smooth. The Kinders then practiced sounding like a smooth reader when they read! We also noticed punctuation at the end of sentences.

Math: In math this week, we finished up our learning in Unit 2. We will be taking our test for Unit 2 next week. We practiced teen numbers, shapes, adding numbers together and subtracting.

Writing: This week in writing, we continued to write small moment stories. We practice telling our stories in order (first, next and last), sketching our stories in order, starting our sentences with a capital letter, ending our sentences with punctuation, stretching out our words…listening for all of the sounds we hear in words.  We will be doing our first “on demand” story writing soon!  This is a “test” for writing for our Kindergartners.  Kindergartners will have a chance to show everything they have learned and write all on their own during our writing time.

Social Studies:  This week we started our study about what a map is.  The Kindergartners enjoyed making a map of our classroom and drawing a path to a symbol on their map.  It has been fun exploring the different parts on a map.Mystery Readers:

  • Colin was soooo excited to see his Mom walk in as our Mystery Reader on Thursday this week.  Mrs. Wear shared with us the funny book about wanting to always be first, Me First by Helen Lester.  In the end of this funny story we all saw the valuable lesson of maybe not always needing to be first!!  Thanks for visiting with us Mrs. Wear!!

  • On Friday Quinn was totally shocked to see his Dad come through our door as Mystery Reader.  Mr. Byrne shared with us the hilarious book, Orangutangled by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen.  A funny book about animals getting into a big mess. We also got to hear another funny story, You Are Not Small by Anna Kang.  An adorable story about how differences are all relative.  Thank you so much for reading to us Mr. Byrne!

Valentine’s Party: We had a super fun Valentine party!!  We had so much fun playing Valentine games, making slime and having Valentine snacks…such a fun-filled day!! Thank you to everyone for helping to make our holiday parties so much fun this year!!

Valentine’s Craft: On Friday, we had fun making a cute Valentine craft! We made adorable dogs that are decorating our classroom right now!!

Upcoming Dates:

  • Monday, Feb. 19…MUSIC, Bring Take Home Book.
  • Tuesday, Feb. 20…ART, Bring Take Home Book.
  • Wednesday, Feb. 21…STEAM, LIBRARY, Math Homework Due, *Bring library book.
  • Thursday, Feb. 22…GYM
  • Friday, Feb. 23…MUSIC, Bring Take Home Book, Archer’s B-Day!
  • Friday, March 9…Early Release Day…12:15 p.m. dismissal.
  • March 12 & 14…Parent/Teacher Conferences.  Confirmation times will be sent home soon.
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