Reminder…When writing notes to your child, please help them read by writing out the word “love,” instead of drawing a “heart” for the word love.

Love,   (instead of drawing a heart for the word “love”)

Mom

Thanks!

Wow…what a fun week!  Lots of celebrating and learning too.  Here’s to a week off and then back at more learning.

READING-We will begin Unit 7 WEATHER.  Our weekly theme will be Kinds of  Weather.

WRITING-What else…we’ll write about different kinds of weather, our favorite type of weather, what constitutes that weather, etc  You can begin this conversation during the break.

Beginning, Middle, End will be revisited again.  Try this with stories that you read at home.  What happened first?  Middle of the story?  Last in the story?

MATH-Lots of “counting on from a given number.”

SCIENCE-Water!!  Waterproof?  Why?  Why not?  Try this at home too

SPELLING WORDS-Please help your child study these words.  Have them write the words.  All letters must be written correctly.  If not, the word is incorrect.  For example, today several folks missed “jet” because the lower case j was written above the line.  Also, some wrote it going in the wrong direction.  Same thing with “for”  “f” and ‘r” were backwards.  That’s why it is important to have the student write the words so that you/they can check each letter.

We will be working with the ‘ig” family.  (MAKE SURE THE g HOOKS BELOW THE LINE!  ALSO CHECK THAT THE b and d ARE GOING IN THE CORRECT DIRECTION)

pig  big   dig  are  what  and  rain  

Thank you for sharing your children with me.  Every day they bring me such joy!

Enjoy your week.

Mrs. Smith

Parents….you out did yourselves! The kids looked darling!  Thank you from them for participating and supporting what is done in the classroom.

Since September we have entered a number for each day our school was in session.  FINALLY , after entering a numeral for all of these days, we could finally put up the numeral 100!!  They were so excited.  100= 1 hundred, 0 tens, and 0 ones.

Here are some pictures of our class of 100 year-old looking folks.  BEYOND ADORABLE!!

My boys

My girls

Unfortunately, 5 friends were out ill today.  We missed you Houda, Noor, Mahdi, Nevaeh, and Gabriella.  Fell better soon.

For Math today, I brought in 10 different foods and they had to get 10 pieces of each item.  10 pieces of 10 things = 100 things.

Have a look…

They had fun!

Mrs. Smith

Lots of busy writers, readers, mathematicians, and thinkers in here!  I’m so happy to be back with them.  They make me laugh every day!

Here comes a busy week.  Take a look…

READING-We will finish Unit 6, Our Neighborhood  Our weekly theme is  “Neighborhood Workers.”

LETTERS-J j   U u

WORDS-play (written correctly with the p and y going below the line and the l is the tallest letter)

see  for  do  love  jet  vet  pet

WRITING-We will be making a writing/math book about 5 Valentines.

MATH-Story problems with 5      5 + 7   5  + 4   5 + 6    The number 5 should be in their head and they should practice “counting on from 5,” and not having to go all the way back to 1.

SCIENCE-We will continue with LAND FORMS.  They are really enjoying this area of Earth Science.

I thought you might enjoy seeing your little ones in Centers this afternoon.  Math and Literacy are going on while I help with final Publishing of this week’s writing, which by the way, was FANTASTIC!!!  Wow

They were to choose 2 animal characters and the characters were to have a conversation.

First animal asked a question.  Need a capital letter at the beginning, spaces between words, and a question mark at the end.  Also, ready for it…“Quotation marks!!” 

Second character answers with same capital letter, spaces, period, and quotation marks.  Lots of practice and scaffolding occurred and they got it.  I am very proud of their writing.

Take a peek.  Can you find your little ones? (I do have 5 out this afternoon.)

 Hadi made an American Flag on the Geo Board

   Isabella, Dena, and Laila make numbers with 10 rods and 1’s.

  Maya, Houda, Nevaeh, Sarah, Noor, and Madleen create words using magnetic letters.

  Evelyn is putting numbers in order.

Claire, Brooke, Milena, Sophia, create sentences from phrase cards.

Remember that Tuesday is St. Valentine’s Day.  Students may bring Valentines fro their classmates.

Wednesday is our 100th Day of Kindergarten.  Students may dress up as a 100 year old person.

Stay warm this weekend.

Mrs. Smith

“Everything comes to you in the right moment.

Be patient.”

“When you see something beautiful in a person, tell them.  

It may take seconds to say, but for them, it could last a lifetime.”

St. Valentine’s Day and our 100th Day of School are quickly approaching!

St. Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, will be celebrated on Tuesday 2/14.  Students are invited to bring a Valentine for their classmates.  They like to write the names of their classmates so here is the class list.

Gabriella   Noah Beydoun   Claire   Madleen    Sophia    Chloe    Laila   Noor

Dena   Houda   Isabella   Rami    Mahdi   Milena   Maya   Hadi   Marcel   Brooke

Mila    Mousa   Evelyn   Jenna   Sarah   Noah Zahr    Nevaeh                25 students

For the 100th Day of Kindergarten, we just thought it would be fun to dress up as a 100 year-old person.  Please don’t g our and buy anything.  Just use or borrow what you have around the house.  It’s just for fun.  I’ll take lots of pictures.

FYI…I sent home 3 students today due to a stomach bug.  Wash hands, door knobs, remote controls, keep clean towels and separate drinking glasses, etc.

Mrs. Smith

I’m back!!!!  What an interesting experience.  I took my responsibility as a Juror very seriously and am proud of our Judicial system.   Now back to my little loves!  I really missed them.  Sometimes I found my mind wandering as to” what are my kids doing right now??”

READING-Unit 6 Week 2 of Our Neighborhood.  This week’s theme is People and Places in our Neighborhood.

WRITING-Dialogue!!!  Speech Bubbles and Quotation Marks   You can look for them in your bedtime stories.

SPELLING WORDS-man  ran  fan  said  go  to yes  I have been putting a list of the words in their Book Boxes and they use the list for several in class Literacy activities.

LETTERS-E  e    Y  y

MATH- We will revisit the penny, nickel, and dime.  We’ll make trades with the coins.  Practice at home.

SCIENCE-Land Forms  We will begin with oceans and lakes.

Wednesday we will add Mountains and Plains.   Add “Where do sand, water, and soil lie?”

SPELLING TEST went very well today!  I wanted to start them with easy words, both familiar and patterns from word family “an.”  Thanks for helping them study on the home front.  They felt proud.  Beginning with next week’s list, I will be looking for ALL letters to be written correctly.  No capital letters in the middle of words, letters going in the correct direction, y, g, q, p, j dipping below the line, etc.  Practice writing them at home with a line.  Their name also needs to be written neatly and correctly…only 1 capital letter in their name and all letters on (or below if appropriate).

In case you were wondering, I work with their writing in a specific routine that I have developed through the years with young writers.

On Mondays I introduce a new idea, concept, or build on one from the previous week.  For example, last week I introduced dialogue.

On Tuesdays we create a writing together.  Last week it was writing dialogue between 2 charachers.

On Wednesdays they write a piece themselves, using the skill taught on Monday and Tuesday.  This is called Prewrite.

On Thursdays I conference with them about their writing.  This is called Revise and Edit.

On Fridays they publish their writing and share with the class.  This is called Publishing.

As you can see, this process is how you would have learned to write your papers in school.  It does take a lot of time and they each want to share their published work, which also takes time.  But is is worth the investment!!

Next Monday I will introduce quotation marks.

Have a glorious week!

Mrs. Smith

“No matter how cool,

talented,educated,

or rich you think you are,

how you treat people

tells all.

Integrity is everything.”