Greetings from Room 301! It’s been a short, but fun-filled busy week for our kids. We celebrated Groundhog’s Day, the Chinese New Year and even had a special technology coach come and teach us how to use a new program in the Dublin computer lab!
Reader’s Workshop
This week in Workshop we have been working on building our sight word list. We’ve picked out words from book that we see often, added them to our classroom word wall and have been finding them in books we read. (We’ve even been making sure to use these words – spelled correctly – in our writing pieces). Guided Reading Groups met every day this week with an exception to Thursday. Thursday was a different day as we celebrated the Chinese New Year and had our time in the computer lab with Mrs. Getosian (Mrs. G.) our technology coach! Thank you for making sure guided reading book bags are being returned on time!
Writer’s Workshop
This week in Workshop we have had one motto, “When we write sentences we use lowercase letters in our words.” The kids have been striving to remember capital letters for the first letter of a sentence and then making sure the rest of the letters are lowercase. Our kids will be expected in first grade to write with lowercase letters. Why not start practicing now as we are getting better and better at writing our lowercase letters? We have also been talking about the three parts of a story (beginning, middle and end) and how we should include these parts in our writing.
Math
In math this week we have been back on a measuring and weighing series of lessons. The kids have been using standard and non-standard forms of measurements to measure items and distances in our classroom. We were introduced to tape measures and used these tools to measure different objects in our room. We also used our feet to measure and talked about how using my foot would give us a different number than a Kindergarten foot!
Social Studies
An important part of our Social Studies curriculum is introducing the kids to a variety of holidays. February 3rd started the celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rabbit. To celebrate we began the day on Thursday by making dragon masks. We talked about how the masks can be used in parades to celebrate at festivals in China. Then we read a story about a rabbit (keeping with the theme of the year). Last we created paper lanterns to use to decorate for the holiday. Everyone also found a fun treat waiting for them in their folders to celebrate at home! :-)
Important Info
If you have not done so already, PLEASE make sure to send in your child’s Valentines’ box (one large cereal box) so that we can begin decorating them on Monday!
Snack Leaders: Monday: Nick; Tuesday: Carly; Wednesday: Ava; Thursday: Thomas; Friday: Lily
Have a fabulous weekend – Enjoy the snow! Mrs. Weckstein
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