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March 2-6

Dear Parents,

We have had so much snow in the past few weeks. It was great to finally have a full week of school! 

This week started with Read Across America Day. Building up to it we all had fun with the theme days the week before.  On Monday, everyone came dressed in black, red & white. We even had a visit from the Cat in the Hat himself as well as Thing 1 and Thing 2! We had some guest speakers all through the day. We heard a story from Congressman Tom Kean, Mr. Toor from the board of Ed, Mrs. Moore and some middle schoolers. They lead a project I prepared for the class of the Cat in the Hat. At the end of the day, Mr. Cook read to us and we read with our Buddy Class.  It was a really fun day.

Morning Meeting- We have a morning message to outline each day's activities. We had a greeting each day. In the past few weeks some of our greetings have been:   spin and greet, Yoga pose greeting,   Some of our shares have been: What is your favorite thing to do outside? What is your favorite kind of muffin?   and some of our activities have been:  Find a sticker, get a sticker (sight word practice) , around the world with sight words.  Wiggle it Wednesday song,  the old game of telephone.

Writing: We wrote in our journals about our weekends. We got new journals with lines on it. Everyone has been working on a sentence and working on correct letter formation within the line spacing. . We  practiced sight words. We did a label it of a rainbow and a pot of gold. 

Being a Reader Program-The last two weeks in reading, we have been working on Non Fiction books that give us true facts. Last week we a story about Different kind of Schools.  This past week we read two stories about Libraries. We have been working on comprehension skills and remembering what we heard in the story. We have also been working on comparing and contrasting two stories (what is the same and what is different)
 
Handwriting- We have been working on writing the lowercase and uppercase letters on lined paper.
 
 Phonics- This week we worked on naming letters quickly, segmenting sounds orally, listening for the same ending sounds in 3 words, blending CVC words. taking endings off words to hear what is left, changing endings with other sounds to change the word, etc... The students are learning to manipulate letters and sounds through this practice.  One of their favorite activities was trying to figure out what nonsense word I was saying when their only clue was a category the word belonged in. For example, if the category was items in a classroom. I would say the nonsense word: plizzars and the class had to guess the correct word (scissors) ,  laper (paper),  fooks (books), etc...
 
Sight Words: Everyone has been learning different sight words in their Guided Reading Groups.  They do get put in each time they get a new book to read. Please continue to practice the words in your child's sight word book with them. It is crucial to their reading development.  The books they are reading consist of CVC words and High Frequency words (sight words).  We do practice at school, but some children need extra practice at home.

 Independent Work-The children worked in 3 centers each week: read to self, writing and word work. We have been practicing reading CVC words. We have done this on worksheets, through fun games the kids can play with a classmate, word wheels, etc...  We have been working on writing during this time, reading to ourselves and sight words practice.

Math-  We finished up addition and subtraction.  The class learned that the = can be at the front of the sentence. They learned that whatever is on one side of the equals sign has to be the same as what is on the other side.  so 4+6=10  can also be written as 10= 4+6.   We had some fun Dr. Seuss addition .  We started Lesson 16 on numbers 11-20 or teen numbers. We learned this that a teen number is made up of a group of ten and then some more. We saw this by using two ten frames. Everyone practiced counting by looking at their ten frames and starting with 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.   They also practice the number formation for the teen numbers.  

Science/Social Studies

We learned about St. Patrick's Day and how some people celebrate it. We learned about the saying- "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.  We made lion projects.  

Last week we had a visit from Jenkinson's Aquarium and met a real penguin.  We also had a weekly reader about penguins.

We met Congressman Tom Kean Jr. and he read to us on Friday.  Everyone got a book signed by him!

It was a great week in Kindergarten!  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fishelman & Mrs. Keirstead

 

 

 



 

 

 

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