We have been busy, busy in Kindergarten these last couple of weeks! The kids are very excited for Valentines' Day tomorrow and have done an awesome job filling out and passing out their Valentines cards. Remember that our party starts at 3pm and all are welcome to come and join us in the classroom from 3-4pm. A special thank you to Erin Callico and her team of parents who are helping to make the day so special.
Reader's Workshop
Reading groups are well underway for ALL of our readers! Yay! Please make sure to sign the reading slip when you complete sharing a story with your child at home. I will do my best to see groups on a regular basis and appreciate your help when the schedule gets off a day or two! Lately we have been catching up from snow days and groups have been meeting on different days. Thank you for your help with this!
In Reader's Workshop we have been working with a new fluency strategy called "Slippery Snake". This skill teaches your child to run their finger under a tricky word, slowly stretching out the sounds each letter makes and then putting the parts of the word together into one word. Try to use this one at home with your son or daughter when they get stuck!
Writer's Workshop
Our Writer's have been BUSY!! We have been working hard on writing sentences. We've spent time learning about letters, how you put them together to make words, and then how you put those words together to make a sentence. We have been working on lowercase letters and periods at the ends of our sentences. Thank you for your help practicing with this at home! It's amazing to see such great writing at school and at home! Please make sure folders come back to school on Monday.
New Word Wall Words include: black, brown, all, he, she, am, at, ate, did, do, are
Math Workshop
We have been doing all sorts of math lately! Approaching the 100s day of school has us practicing our counting daily! We've been working on learning the months of the year, using tally marks, counting with base-ten blocks and practicing writing our numbers! Math stations have got us learning how to use geoboards, making shapes with play-dough and using number tiles to count to 100.
Important Information
- No School - February 16-20: Mid-Winter Break
- School Resumes - February 23rd
- 101 Dalmatian Day - February 24th - 2:30-3:30pm
- Dental Health Assembly for K - February 25th - 1:30pm
- All Day Crop - February 28th - 9:30am-9:30pm (Come join me!!)
- No School - March 3: Professional Development
