Dates to Remember:
March is Reading Month and our theme this year is Go for the Gold and be an Olympic Reader!
Students brought home a calendar of events/activities and a weekly reading sheet. Please help your child fill in the reading logs, cut them out and return them on Fridays. Students who meet their weekly goal will earn a sticker for their classroom bulletin board and will be entered into a classroom drawing for lunch with the principal. Also, the class with the most reading minutes will earn a class reward.
Every Thursday – check your calendar students will put an Olympic fact in their pocket. Please help your child at home and have them write a fact on paper and put it in their pocket.
If you would like to be a guest reader in our class I will have a sign-up outside my classroom with posted times to sign-up.Guest readers will provide a short story book age-appropriate for kindergarten.
Monday, March 5 – 100th day celebration of school. To celebrate we will celebrate by dressing up as a 100 year old. Suggested ideas: Girls can wear a skirt, pearls, eyeglasses, sweater, wig or curled hairstyle, knee high stockings, large purse, scarf. Boys can wear a button down shirt, flannel shirt, suspenders, tie, eyeglasses, drawn on mustache or beard. We will take the “ig” word family spelling test on Monday since we did not have school on Friday.
Thursday, March 8 – Library return and check-out.
Friday, March 9 – Spelling Test for “op” word family.
Spelling words for Week – “op” family words – hop, top, pop sight words – two, three
Math – Measurement – comparing objects to find if there are enough, using more than and the same as, comparing fewer than and the same as. Relating more and less to length and comparing sets using more, less and fewer. Base-ten blocks understanding how many ones and tens there are in units and how many more are needed to make a given number.
Social Studies – Geography we learned about maps last week and how they are useful to us. This week we will begin making our own mini-maps of our city, state, country and continent.
Reading – We are learning about fairy tales. We created a chart and studied the elements of a fairy tale – characters, events, happily ever after endings, villains, once upon a time beginnings and settings in fairy tales. Last week we read and studied The Three Little Pigs. We learned about the author’s message in the story, studied the characters and reviewed how to retell a story with a beginning, middle and end. This week we will continue with fairy tales – Cinderella.
Writing – We will continue with writing personal narratives. We have learned about the elements of a personal narrative – the story is about you and a small moment in your life, and there is a beginning, middle and end. We write about Who was with us? Where were we? What were we doing in the story? How did we feel in the moment?
Now that students are more experienced writers we have started some writing goals in our classroom. I have a chart with writing goals such as; starting sentences out with a upper-case letter, spaces between words, ending with punctuation, making sentences neat and legible to read and does my sentence make sense? Each student will be working on a writing goal to improve their sentence writing.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Polgar