January 22nd Newsletter

                        Kindergarten Announcements

ELA

We had a great week with our Reader’s Theater book called “We Like Fruit”.  We practiced the rise and fall of our voice, smooth reading, and pausing at periods.  We discussed other fruits that we like and wrote a new sentence to add to the book.  Our spelling words are: pit, top, cat, can.  Our new sight words are:  do, some, yes, like, we, you


Math 

Students acted out and told stories to demonstrate addition and subtraction.  We told stories about classmates playing at recess and then wrote numbers to represent the action in the story problems.  They learned to represent and solve story problems in a way that makes sense to them. 


Writing

Students are working on writing a personal narrative.  We have come up with our story idea, thought about who the characters are and what the setting is. We are working on writing the story in order from beginning to end so that it makes sense.   

  

Science

In this Read-Along lesson, we read a story about a girl who watches a house being built and wonders why the builders need so many big machines. Students then acted out the “work words” of their favorite machine. 


P2: Perspective

Perspective helps you consider what other people experience or feel. It can make you a better friend and even help you better understand yourself!


NWEA:

This week we will be taking the NWEA test on Monday and Wednesday mornings. This is the same test we took at the beginning of the year and the same one we will take again in May. The results of this test will come home with your child's next report card.


Classroom needs:

-Plastic cups (for getting a drink when someone forgets their water bottle)

-Napkins

Upcoming events:

February 13- 100th Day of School

February 14- Kindness party

March 6: Trip to Planetarium (no parents needed)

April 21:  Field trip to Sarett Nature Center


Mrs. Triemstra, Matthew's mom, was our guest reader this week!











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