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No School for Kindergarten and Young 5’s, Friday, February 2nd

What We Did This Week

We introduced our Alpha Friends, Zelda Zebra (Z) and Edna Elephant (E)

We colored the letters , colored letter pictures, and worked in our poem books.

We introduced the sight word: the

We wrote in our journals using details and recalling characters from stories we read in class.

We continue to enjoy read aloud stories answering the question, what happened in the story in the beginning, middle and end.

We reviewed in our Handwriting books using our “three finger squeeze” and introducing the “magic C” – “big curve”  We now have practiced O’s and Q’s (letters in the magic C family).

We are counting to 100 using songs and our math grid.

We also practiced counting by 10’s to 100.

We continue our number talks and building numbers on the “ten frame.”

We also continue to practice our number formation.

In Science we are tracking the daily weather.  We also learned why penguins have wings! (Ask your student to explain.)

We visited our special classes, Gym, Art, Music and Media

We practice Habit 4 – “Think Win Win” during free choice when we listen to other’s ideas and work with them to have a positive play experience.

In Second Steps we continued in lessons on knowing how to recognize different emotions and we introduced the meaning of empathy.

We rotated through our Daily 5 Literacy Centers.

I have finished January assessments.

Students who were on green 3 days this week got to pick from the prize box.

If you have any questions please let me know.