This Week in Kindergarten…
POPCORN WORDS: were, where, there
READING: This week in reading we continued to focus on non-fiction texts and telling the difference between non-fiction and fiction. We looked closely at pigs this week in both reading and writing. We read The Three Little Pigs. We practiced retelling the story of The Three Little Pigs through a craft and using our Shape Go Map. We enjoyed reading some different versions of the story too.
WRITING: In writing this week we focused our all about writing on pigs. We started the week discussing what we know about pigs already. The Kinders love to share what they know! After reading our non-fiction book on pigs, we wrote about what pigs can do, what pigs have and what pigs are. Then we wrote a book all about pigs. We wrote one of the pages together and the Kinders wrote the next two pages all by themselves! They wrote the words, drew pictures and labeled their drawings. Way to go Kinders!
MATH: In math this week, we learned about partners of ten. The Kinders are getting really good at knowing the two partners that add up to equal ten! We also learned about math mountains and the Tiny Tumblers that tumble down the mountain. The Tiny Tumblers are the partners that add up to the total at the top of the math mountain. We continued to practice finding the greater number and the number that is less.
SPLIT LIT: We enjoyed our split lit stations this week! We had fun rotating to different stations and getting to choose what we wanted to work on!
OUTSTANDING STUDENT: Juliet was awarded an OUTSTANDING award from Mrs. Reagan this week. She models the rules of Georgetown…Be Nice, Work Hard, Learn Well. Way to go Juliet, we are so proud of you!
MYSTERY READER: We had 2 mystery readers visit our classroom this week! Mrs. Sliwa, Juliet’s mom read to us on Tuesday. We had fun listening to the story Pet Charms. She picked the perfect book…Juliet is such a cat lover! On Thursday, Mrs. Greer surprised us by visiting our classroom as a mystery reader. She read us Class Two at the Zoo and Billy Bully. They were both great books to listen to!
ST. PATRICK’S DAY FUN: On Friday, we had a fun-filled day of green! We did all of our learning with a St. Patrick’s Day theme! When we got to school, we noticed that there were green leprechaun footprints on our tables!! We couldn’t believe it!! The leprechaun left clues for us that led us on a hunt around the room, leading us to a treasure…green glittery hats for all of us!! We made leprechaun pudding (pistachio pudding is white until you add the milk and then it turns green), made a book with Lucky the Leprechaun and all the places he goes, graphed our Lucky Charms marshmallows, wrote about why we are lucky kids, played shamrock bingo and counted the syllables in St. Patrick’s Day words. We had a great, green day!! Enjoy all of the cute pictures of your Kinders!!
UPCOMING DATES:
Monday, March 19: STEAM; Take-Home books…bring your book!
Tuesday, March 20: PE; Library…remember your library book!
Wednesday, March 21: Music; Take-Home books; Homework due
Thursday, March 22: Art
Friday, March 23: STEAM
Thursday, March 29: All Kindergarten PJ day!!
Friday, March 30: First day of Spring Break!
Monday, April 9: School resumes!
Thank you to all of you for attending conferences! I truly enjoy this time to get to talk with each of you about your sweet Kinder! Enjoy your weekend!
~Jen
