February 22-25

I can't believe it is the third week of February already! Time flies when you're having fun and learning lots! 

Upcoming events:

• February 25th: Half Day
• February 26th: No School 
• February 29th: Family Night-Music, Munchies, and Masterpieces

What’s happening in Kindergarten this week?

Reading: Rereading is our big focus this week! Here are the reasons why it is so important! Readers reread to: 

• read with a smooth voice
• figure out confusing parts
• figure out tricky words
• find new information or details
• make your voice match the character's feeling

Writing:  Opinion writers are on a roll writing letters to fix problems they see! Don't be surprised if you see some letters coming home about problems that can be changed. Writers are looking at a sample opinion letter to check to make sure they are doing the same things in their writing. The students can learn a lot from studying an example, which we call a mentor text. Talk with your child about possible problems they could write about. What do you see that could be better at home? The bus? The grocery store? How can they fix it?

Math: Students will rotate through the following centers:

• Students will flip over 5 playing cards. They will put two cards together that make a sum of ten. Then they will add more cards and continue to find more partners of ten!  
• We will roll two dice and write the numbers that we see. Then, students will show greater than, less than, or equal to. 
• Students will choose a number between 1 and 10. Then, they will show dots/numbers for the same as, more than, and less than. 

Word Study: Our sight words are jump, funny, go, find, & not. 

Here are our sight words.

Science: Scientists will do folding paper tests! They will work together to determine which paper samples are easiest and hardest to fold. We will figure out which paper is the strongest and how to fold it to make it sturdier. It is impressive to listen to their conversations and reasoning during these simple experiments!