Happy March!! Can you believe that it’s already March? Slow down time, please.

March is Reading Month. I invite parents, grandparents, to come in and read to my class for 10-15 minutes. I have a sign up list in my room. Please come in to sign up for a time slot. Nothing long, maybe a favorite story of your child’s bedtime books.

Coming home today is a calendar with details about our Howard school March is Reading Month activities. Our theme is

“Say ALOHA to a Good Book.” Check out the activities that your family can do together.

Here’s what’s coming up next week…

SPELLING- go in my he mop top hop flop chop shop stop

Blends/digraphs- l-blends: gl, pl, sl

Phonemic Awareness ( cvc focus)-short o (-op) See spelling words

READING COMPREHENSION- Weather: retelling stories, using key details

GRAMMAR- Nouns (Introducing)

WRITING- Personal Narrative First, Next, Last

MATH-Lessons 19-23 Subtraction Within 0-8

SOCIAL STUDIES-Geography: Directions, compass Rose, Environmental Directions, Personal Words to identify location

When your child is melting down,

Try to remind yourself…

“We get grumpy when we are hungry, too.

We get anxious with change, too.

We get frustrated when things don’t go our way, too.

We get overwhelmed when things seem too big, too.

We are all learning

and we ALL need a little patience,

a listening ear, and a LOT of grace. “

Have a great (warmer??) weekend.

Mrs. Smith

First off…thanks to my homeroom moms, Mrs. Dabajeh and Mrs. Hamad for their help with our Valentine’s Day Party. The students had lots of fun decorating their bags, passing out their Valentines and just being together. These days create loving, fond memories of Elementary School.

SPELLING- a we and come wig pig jig dig big

Watch the difference between “b” and “d”

BLENDS- L-Blends fl bl cl

PHONEMIC AWARENESS (cvc FOCUS) Short i (ig)

READING COMPREHENSION-Places in our immediate environment-retelling

WRITING-Personal Narrative First, Next Then, Last

MATH-Lessons 16-20 Composing and Decomposing Numbers in teens

SOCIAL STUDIES- Geography Maps, Globes

Have a wonderful Mid-winter Break. I will miss the kids . Enjoy them!

Mrs. Smith

Check out our Comparing and Contrasting of Polar Bears and Penguins

We will begin having weekly SPELLING WORDS. Here are this week’s words:

from red love get bet set met

PHONICS- BLENDS/DIGRAPHS review

PHONEMIC AWARENESS-(cvc focus) short e (-et)

READING COMPREHENSION-Opinion Piece We will talk about “Friendship.” Why do we like a certain person? How can we be a friend? We’ll do some brainstorming activities.

WRITING- Personal Narrative We’ll review what a Personal Narrative looks like. We’ll discuss adjectives. “My friend’s name is __________. I like __________ because___________.

MATH-MODULE 4 Decomposition of 6,7,8 into number pairs, using story situations, number bonds, linking cubes, etc

SOCIAL STUDIES-We are discussing things from the past-old phones, bikes, washer machines, etc. and daily timelines (morning, afternoon, night, weekly)

VALENTINE’S DAY- We will be celebrate St. Valentine’s day this Friday. Students are welcome to bring in Valentines for their classmates. We have 26 students. No need to label with the others’ names… , just have your child write his/her name on each of the Valentines. Thanks.

Reminder about BOOTS. Our students go outside every day. Our play ground is covered in snow. Students are not allowed on the playground without boots. Kindergarteners love to run and play but they can’t go in the snow without boots. Please make sure that your child has boots. Thank you

Corrected report cards are coming home today. 🙂

Have a good week.

Mrs. Smith

We had 10 different snacks. We took 10 of each snack. We ended up with 100 snacks in our bag!!

Here are pictures of our snacks.

Oh my goodness parents! You outdid yourselves with these “old folks!” They look adorable and are so very excited. I know they don’t look very excited in these pictures but they really are happy to see each other’s creations and compare. I always take my class down to the office to show Mrs. Jumaa how cute we look and she’s already called me and asked when I’m bringing down the Old Folks. Our sign holder in the middle is our new student from Ohio…

VERA CARLSON!

Welcome to our class Vera!

I now have 26 bright Kindergarteners in my class.

Thanks for the efforts that you put into today. These are the days that they will remember.

Mrs. Smith

Tomorrow is LATE START and Library Books are due.

Math Packets coming home today.

We’re back on schedule with Reading Groups with Book Bags. I am pleased with the reading strategies that they are using with their reading…like looking at the pictures, making beginning sounds, pushing through the words, flipping vowels, skipping a word and going on to see if they can figure out a word, remembering phonics rules, like “when 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking” as in “heat” e a go walking, but only e does the talking, and e at the end of a word makes the vowel long, as in cape

Thanks for the help and support at home.

This Wednesday, Feb. 5 LATE START

Thursday, Feb. 6 100th Day for Kindergarten

Friday, Feb. 7 NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN