We had a blast dressing up, preparing for, and participating in the Knowledge-a-thon last week. The students were so proud after "rocking" their KAT questions! Thanks to all the parent volunteers. If you have pink pledge envelopes around home, you are still welcome turn them in this week!
Don't forget: For the 4th quarter, we are trying out a new school-wide reading/writing calendar for homework (yellow sheet that came home with your child last week). Simply write the number of the activity completed on the date completed. Please send your child's calendar with them to school on Fridays so we can share our adventures in reading/writing together!
Upcoming Dates:
April 12: Family Night: Social Studies/Science and Subs
April 18: No School for students
April 20: Earth Day Community Clean Up (a few days early)
Reading: Our newest unit is entitled Becoming Avid Readers and this week will focus on just that. We will learn about what types of things avid readers do, including reading A LOT, finding places everywhere to read, keeping a stack of books-in-waiting, and really paying attention to books. We will also learn that avid readers react to books and share those reactions with others by using post-its to mark their thinking. As we move back into a mix of fiction and non-fiction books students will hold onto all of the things they learned as experts while also revisiting and creating their own super powers and finding specific words to describe character feelings.
Writing: As we finish our ALL-ABOUT BOOKS Unit this week, we will make a chart of all the ways we know to show and tell information in our books. This chart will be a checklist for a book we feel is finished, but will help us think of a way to add more or different information.We will also be including introduction pages to introduce the topics of our books to our readers. Finally, we will be acting as editors to reread through a piece over and over, each time carefully checking one thing to fix, making sure it makes sense, checking for word wall words to be spelled correctly, proper use of upper and lower case letters, and that we have periods at the end of our sentences.
Math: This week in Kindergarten Math, students will be writing equations to show partners of 10 and identifying an unknown partner of 10. We will be practicing counting to 100 by tens and showing teen numbers as a group of ten ones and extra ones. Students will also tell, retell, and solve addition and subtraction story problems with drawings and equations and visualize teen numbers as 10(two 5-groups) and extra ones.
Social Studies/Science: We are excited to show off some of our All About Me work at our family night on Tuesday and give families a chance to create some of our own. We will be starting our final content unit this week in science: Balls and Ramps! The students are excited to move back into science and some fun hands-on experiments. This week we will build some background knowledge and vocabulary about how and why balls move and bounce the way they do.
Word Work: This is the second week working on the following sight words: of, what, some, how, your
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