Week of February 29- March 4, 2016

Welcome to Kinder Camp Read S’More!

We had a very exciting start to our reading month today!  We ate some s’mores while listening to stories, watched a Casper ghost story, went on a bear hunt, learned how a tent is put up, learned how to tie a knot, and sang some camp songs! 

We have a tent and lawn chairs in our classroom for quiet reading time.  Each child is encouraged to bring a small stuffed animal and a small flashlight for special reading times.  I was in Walmart and back in the sporting good section they have small flashlights for $1.00!

This Friday, March 4 is dress up like a camper.

                   March 4, Library day!

Friday, March 11 is Favorite character dress up day.

THURSDAY, March 17 we will all wear green for camping and St. Patrick’s

         day—in the afternoon the Irish dancers will perform for us at 2:00.

Friday, March 18 is dress miss-matched day

             March 18              LIBRARY DAY!

Friday, March 25—there is NO school due to Good Friday

Friday, April 1 is our final Reading Month day and it is PJ day with a movie at the end of the day.

Please send children to school in their snow pants as they are supposed to be going outside as soon as they get to school for morning recess.  Once recess is over they have breakfast before we begin our day.  Once the snow is gone, I will let you know when snow pants are no longer needed.  Boots for sure until the mud is gone!!!

I am working on getting RAZ kids set up for the children.  It’s an awesome reading ap!  I will have a note for you to see how to set it up if you have Internet access. 

I have changed out library day to Fridays for now.  We go Friday March 4 and 18.

March is the last month for Book-it from Pizza Hut!  Keep on reading!! J

READING:  This week we will learn how to stay safe in different kinds of weather.

VOCABULARY:  safe, prepare

CATEGORY WORDS:  question words

SIGHT WORDS:  REVIEW:  my, are, have, with, is, little, she was

LETTERS:  REVIEW:  Hh, Ee, Ff, Rr, Bb, Ll, Kk, and ck (ending /k/ for short vowel words such as sock, lack, tick, luck)

WRITING:  We are starting a new March journal.  The format starting this month allows for more writing.  February journals will go home Friday with progress information.

MATH:  Math this week is concentrating on measuring and comparing measurement.  We will also be reviewing 3D shapes and skip counting by 2,5,and 10.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:  We have finished up dental health and are about done with patriotic symbols.  The children heard the Star Spangled Banner this week.  We will continue to talk about weather/seasons that we are reading about with our reading series.

Student of the week:

Grayson:  He likes pizza and spaghetti.  He likes to learn, play video games, play outside and go fishing.  His favorite movie is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  His favorite book is Dinosaur Data.

Week of February 22-26, 2016

Dates:

Tuesday March 1 --we kick off our “Camp Read S’more” reading month

Wednesday March 2—We can read with a SMALL stuffed animal

Friday March 4—We come to school dressed like a camper

Friday March 5—Progress Reports home

Reminder:  Please send your child to school with their snow gear on.  A lot of time is wasted getting dressed instead of getting outside for morning exercise and fresh air. 

Reading Month:

The whole month of March is reading month.  Our theme this year is camping.  We are “Kinder Camp Read S’more”!  Each of the children have made a tent with their picture inside to decorate out above their lockers.  I have a ‘S’more’ that we will put their favorite book on for another bulletin board.  I hope to get a ‘campsite’ set up in the classroom for special reading time.  Each child may bring in a SMALL stuffed animal and a SMALL flashlight for special reading times.  We will be cleaning out their book boxes and sending home their books they brought in at the beginning of the year so we can store our stuffed animals and flashlights there!  Please write their name on both—or I can when they arrive to school! 

There are fun days and dress up days planned throughout the month.  I will send home a calendar with these events on it!

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

AVA:  Ava can ride a bike with no training wheels.  She loves her pink blanket and her bed.  She has a birthday in September.  Her favorite movie is Frozen.  She likes to eat pink fluff, noodles and fruit.  Her goals are to build stuff and work, Ava’s favorite book is Look out Kindergarten here I come.

Tuesday was our 100^th day of school.  We had a great time making our hats out of ten strips of paper with ten things on each strip!  We sang “Happy 100’s day” (to the Happy Birthday tune) and counted by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100!

READING:

This week we are working on the letter Kk and final –ck .  Our new sight words are she & was.  The book we are reading is Rain.  We will be studying various types of weather.

Vocabulary:  predict & temperature

Category words—weather words

Comprehension—We are learning about sequence in stories.  What happen first, next, last.  When you read a story to your child you could ask them to retell you the story by telling what happened first, next and last.

Writing:

I started the children on writing folders.  They each have a ‘word wall’ book in their folder that they will write sight words, color words and friends names in.  I also gave them each a popsicle stick with and eye on it—it’s their ‘space man’.  The ‘spaceman’ is to remind them to leave a space after each word when they are writing a sentence.  We also are keeping their journals and any books they are writing in the folder. 

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We finished up on presidents and have moved in to dental health.  We have a dental assistant coming to see us on Thursday.  We have read informational texts to show teeth, how to care for teeth and what happens when teeth start to wiggle and fall out!

 MATH:

We have done a lot of counting around 100!  We also started to talk about the = and + signs and have practiced some simple adding problems. 

I will be sending home a list of sight words next week for the children to practice as we are nearing another report card period in March. 

Week of January 25-29

Please return all library books.  Our next visit to the library is Monday February 1.  I will not be here on Monday, but Mrs. Sikkema will be and she will get them to the library at their normal time.  They will again be bringing new library books home to read with you.

READING:   Our book this week is A Grand Old Tree.  We will learn names of tree parts and what living things need.

Letter this week is Ee

Sight Words:  are, had

Vocabulary words:  amazing, develop

Category words:  tree parts (trunk, bark, roots, branches)

Writing:  Friday January journals will be coming home with our report cards.

Math:  We are graphing, ten frames, working with shapes—learning 3-d shapes (cube, sphere, triangular and rectangular prism, cone)

Science/Social Studies:  Continuing looking at winter activities and animals.

Student of the week:  Jane

Jane is 6.  She is the youngest of 2, has brown hair and loves water.  She likes to eat spaghetti and tacos.  Her favorite book is a bog book of Frozen and she likes the movies Frozen and also Soul Surfer.