January 15th Newsletter

  Kindergarten Announcements

It was SO great to see everyone again this week! I really missed all of your children and we have had a fabulous week being back together! I hope everyone had a great winter break!

ELA

We continued to read The Enormous Watermelon listening to the reader’s use of expression to determine how a character is feeling.  We also practiced identifying the characters, setting, problem and solution in the story. 


Math 

In our new unit, students develop their understanding of addition and subtraction as they represent and solve story problems.  They are understanding addition as putting together and

subtraction as taking away from.


Writing

We began our unit on Narrative writing this week.  We learned to first “Think” about our story, “Picture” our story in our minds, and then “Say” our story to a friend before writing words on paper.  


Science

Students discover that there are pushes and pulls involved in any kind of work, including the work done by machines. In the activity, we pretended to be a Digging Machine. Students pretended to use shovels and excavators to dig a hole for a swimming pool.


P2: Love of Learning

A love of learning helps you experience new things, make discoveries, and better understand the world around you.  


Upcoming events:

January 16:  No school


Ada's Dad, Mr. Leman, was our guest reader this week!







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