POPCORN WORDS: as, has

READING: This week in reading we finished up our unit on non-fiction. We finished up talking about non-fiction and fiction text features. We had fun making a poster that describes non-fiction and fiction features. We sorted some sentences…telling what type of book each sentence would be.

  

WRITING: The Kinders worked hard on their on-demand writing this week! We learned all about wolves before they started their writing. They told me all the things they already knew about wolves, we read a book about wolves and together we made a list of what wolves can do, what wolves have and what wolves are. Then, the Kinders had to write a book all about wolves all by themselves! They had to write sentences (trying to use capital letters in the correct place and punctuation), draw pictures and add labels. Wow…that was a lot of hard work! Way to go Kinders!!

     

MATH: In math this week, we continued practicing adding and subtracting numbers. We are getting good at it! We practiced dot-to-dots with numbers all the way up to 20. We also started a making a teen number book, learning all about teen numbers. We finished the week with some bunny subtraction and “peep” math.

MYSTERY READER: Ava’s dad surprised her this week and was a mystery reader in our class! He read the book Pete the Cat’s Big Easter Adventure. Pete the Cat is a favorite of ours, so we were excited to hear that story! Thank you so much for coming to read to us!

 

UPCOMING DATES:

Monday, April 9 – Back to school; PE; Bring back take-home book

Tuesday, April 10 – Music; Library…remember your library book

Wednesday, April 11 – Art; Bring take-home book

Thursday, April 12 – STEAM

Friday, April 13 – Art; EARLY RELEASE DAY…dismissal at 12:15; Please email Mrs. Baker if your son/daughter will need a lunch from food service for early release. 

THANK YOU…to the Duwe family for the pizza party!! We had a lot of fun…enjoy the pizza pictures and pajama day fun pictures!

Have an enjoyable and relaxing Spring break!! I will look forward to seeing all of my sweet Kinders on Monday, April 9!!                         ~Mrs. Baker  🙂

Just a reminder that tomorrow is an all Kindergarten pajama day!! If your Kinder would like to wear his/her pajamas, they may. Please leave stuffed animals, pillows and blankets at home. Pajamas and slippers are welcome!!

We are also have a pizza party in our class tomorrow!! Remember to send your child with a drink for the party. 

We are looking forward to a fun day before Spring break!!

Pizza Lunch…

The Duwe family (Jasper’s parents) are providing our class with a pizza and breadstick lunch from Little Caesars on Thursday. Please send your son/daughter with something to drink for lunch. If they don’t want to participate in the pizza lunch, please email me to let me know. We will enjoy a fun pizza party thanks to the Duwe family!! Thank you!!

Welcome Spring!!

POPCORN WORDS: could, would, should

   

READING: In reading this week, we continued studying non-fiction and fiction texts. We focused our reading and writing on goats this week. We looked for text features in non-fiction books and got to show them on the document camera in front of the class…that was fun!! We also read the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We talked about that story being fiction and the differences with fiction and non-fiction. We also talked about the problem in the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and the solution. We had a lot of fun with The Three Billy Goats Gruff story! Since it was the first day of Spring this week, we also enjoyed listening to new books from the book fair about Spring!

 

WRITING: In writing this week, we wrote informational books All About Goats. We started by telling everything we knew about goats (which was quite a bit). We read about goats and wrote about what goats can do, what goats have and what goats are. Then we each wrote a book All About Goats. We wrote information on each page about goats, drew pictures to go with each page and labeled the pictures. We are getting really good at writing informational books!

MATH: In math this week, we continued our work on unit 4 in our math books. We have worked really hard at practicing math mountains and the tiny tumblers that go down each side of the mountain. We also practiced our teen numbers (10 + how many extra ones), addition and subtraction equations. 

SPLIT LIT: During our split lit time this week, we practiced many different skills. The kids enjoy split lit time during the day! It’s always fun to try new activities!

MYSTERY READER: We had 2 mystery readers come and read to us this week. Juliet’s mom came and read us a fun Disney book. She read us Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Adventures.  After she read, she surprised us and brought yummy Golden Oreos as a treat!  Evelyn’s grandma surprised Evie and was a mystery reader this week too. She read us 2 stories. One of them, The Doorbell Rang, was a favorite of her kids from when they were little. The other book she read to us was, The Best Mouse Cookie. Since both of her books were about cookies, she brought us a yummy Oreo treat!

UPCOMING DATES:

Monday, March 26: PE; Take-Home books

Tuesday, March 27: Music; Library…remember to bring your book back!

Wednesday, March 28: Art; Take-Home books

Thursday, March 29: STEAM; All Kindergarten PJ Day…wear your PJ’s Kinders!!

Friday, March 30: First day of Spring Break…enjoy our week off of school!!

Monday, April 9: Welcome back to school!! Brink back your Take-Home book.

A couple of notes…

• Please remember to send your Kinder with 2 snacks each day!
• Please remember to check and empty your Kinder’s blue take home folder each day so there is room for new things each day!

Enjoy these cute pictures…

   

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

Conference Reminder…

Just a reminder that conferences are this week…Monday, March 12 and Wednesday, March 14. I’m looking forward to talking with you about your sweet Kinder!! 

 

Tonight is…Jet’s Pizza night!!

If you order Jet’s Pizza tonight, a percentage of sales are donated to Georgetown Elementary. Order Jet’s Pizza and mention that your daughter or son is in Mrs. Baker’s class. The class with the most orders wins a class pizza party.  🙂

This Week in Kindergarten…

POPCORN WORDS: and, get

 

READING: This week in reading we learned about fiction and nonfiction books. We are becoming so good at telling the difference between the two. We learned about nonfiction text features in books. The topic we studied this week was…chickens!  We had fun reading and learning all about them! We each have our own nonfiction chicken book. Then we read The Little Red Hen and were able to tell why that is a fiction story. We also talked about the heart of the story…helping others. We will continue to study nonfiction next week. We will be learning all about bears!

WRITING: We continued learning about nonfiction in writing also! We wrote about what chickens can do, what chickens have and what chickens are. We then turned our learning page into a book all about chickens! We wrote sentences about the chickens and pictures with labels. We are becoming nonfiction writers!

       

CHICKENS: We had so much fun learning all about chickens this week! One of the friends in our class, Evelyn, has chickens at her house and is a chicken expert! She even has her very own chicken! She took pictures of the chickens that live at her house. She brought in eggs from the chickens and the grain she feeds them. She taught the class all about chickens!

     

MATH: In math this week, we practiced different math skills. We learned about partners of 10. We added 2 different numbers that equal 10. We used our grocery store fruit and vegetables to to add and subtract numbers. We also used our number cubes to show numbers 11 and bigger. For example, the number 11 is a group of ten and 1 extra one. We used cubes to show numbers from 11 all the way up to 20!

        

DR. SEUSS’S BIRTHDAY: On Friday, the Kinders celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday!! If Dr. Seuss were still alive, he would’ve been 114 years old today…wow!! The day was filled with fun Dr. Seuss activities!!

MYSTERY READER: We enjoyed listening to two mystery readers this week! We get so excited when a mystery reader comes to visit our class and read to us! The first mystery reader we had this week was Kaylee’s dad. He read us the book The Day the Crayons Quit. We all loved the book…it was a fun one to listen to! The next mystery reader that read to us was Lauren’s grandma. She read us the book Giraffe’s Can’t Dance. Lauren was excited to hear the book because she had just started dance class with Quinn (who is in our class too)!

SPORTS DAY: We had a fun sports day this week! Mrs. Baker brought us to the second and third grade playground so that we could use the basketball hoops! It was nice outside, so we got to be outside playing! Way to go Kinders…good job earning your star reward day!

     

UPCOMING DATES:

MONDAY, MARCH 5: Art; Take-Home books

TUESDAY, MARCH 6: STEAM; Library; Happy Birthday Ava!! 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7: PE; Take-Home books; Homework due

THURSDAY, MARCH 8: Music; Jet’s Pizza Night

FRIDAY, MARCH 9: Music; Early Release Day – 12:15 dismissal…please email Mrs. Baker if your child will need a sack lunch that day. 

MARCH 12 & 14: Parent-Teacher Conferences

MARCH 11: Daylight Savings…spring forward! 

MARCH 15: Book Fair (our class buy day)