Mrs. Bartz's Kindergarten 2022-2023

  February Snack/Leader Calendar

                                         Kindergarten Announcements ELA Students learned to make inferences using what they see in pictures and read in texts.  We used anchor posters to make connections with pictures before learning to find clues in text. We use inference every day, like when we figure out what to wear outside for the weather. Math   S t udents are developing their understanding of addition and subtraction as they represent and solve story problems . Students solved story problems by using drawings, numbers, objects, and actions. Finally they learned that “expressions” is the symbolic way to represent addition and subtraction.   Writing Students continued writing stories about something they have done. We call these personal narratives and these can be about something very exciting or very simple. See if your child remembers what t...

                                 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 s...

I created a Google Photo Album with all of the pictures I have taken of our class this year (and some from Jenny DeLapa). I wanted to share them with all of you. I am hoping this way you can save the photos you want and also add others of our class that you have taken. I have not shared photos in this way before so please let me know if you have any suggestions for making this  experience better.  Kindergarten 2022-2023  

    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 S tudents discover that there are pushes and pulls involved in any kind of work...

  January Snack/Leader Calendar

                                              Kindergarten Announcements Ice Skating We had a wonderful time ice skating on Friday! Everyone did so well and skated the whole time! Thank you to all of the parents that were there to help! It was so nice to be able to share this fun event with our families! We were also treated to a cup of hot chocolate when we were done. Presents The children have been very busy making presents to bring home for their families. These will be coming home tomorrow. Please look for these and enjoy their creativity and hard work! Shoes Now that it looks like the snow might be with us for awhile, please make sure your child has shoes at school every day so they don't have to wear wet boots all day! Login Cards Your child's login card for some of the websites we use in class is coming home today. Please keep this somewhere safe....