February 1-5

February is here! We have so many fun events to celebrate: the 100th day of being Kindergarteners, Valentine's Day, Family Night! We are so excited! 

Here is the February homework calendar.   

Here is the lunch menu.


Upcoming events:

• February 8th: 100 day of school celebration! Don't forget to send back your 100 things poster! 
• February 9th: Half Day
• February 12th: Valentine's Day Party 
• February 17th: Field Trip
• February 25th: Half Day
• February 26th: NO SCHOOL
• February 29th: Family Night-Music, Munchies, and Masterpieces

What’s happening in Kindergarten this week?

Reading: As we continue to grow as readers, we will make sure we are asking ourselves, "Does this word make sense? Does it look right? Does is sound right?" If something doesn't seem quite right when solving a tricky word, readers need to go back to fix it up! This week, we will be focusing on thinking of the whole book and using our prior knowledge to decide what would make sense. As you read with your child, make sure to use those 3 questions when they are working to figure out a tricky word! 

Writing:  This Friday will be our How-to unit celebration. We will review all the different parts of a How-to book using our whole-class book, How-to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.  We will edit our books and prepare to publish at the end of the week. We will test out our class how to book by making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a snack! Hopefully we follow the book’s suggestion to clean up the sticky jelly if it gets on the table!

Math:

• Students will use a Math Expressions activity page to practice shape recognition and position words.  
• We will build teen numbers with real objects. 
• Students will play go fish with teen number cards (14 and 10+4 would be a match). 
• Students will challenge each other’s’ adding and subtracting skills by showing a partner a number of chips. Then, they will cover some of the chips with a cup. The partner will need to look at the pieces remaining to determine the number of chips under the cup. This is a great way to practice number sequencing and number sense!  

Word Study: Our new sight words are with, new, away, down, & do.

Here are our sight words.

Science: Back to science this week! We are going to be studying wood and paper. Students will explore different types of wood and study how it feels, looks, smells, etc. Then, we will test whether wood will float or sink.