Shhh…I think Spring is on it’s way!  We are enjoying these warmer temperatures by having Recess!!  Yipee 🙂

READING-Unit 8  Week 2  SEEDS AND PLANTS  

ORAL LANGUAGE-Building Background

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Recognize text structure

COMPREHENSION SKILL-Retelling

WRITING-We’ll write an Informational Book.

SPELLING- Thank you for your help at home with the spelling words.  Not only does it help your student to do well on the weekly tests, but it shows and teaches them good study habits and the importance of completing assignments.  In addition to our reading unit words,  we will be working with the “ug” chunk.  Look for some words in your daily/evening reading with your child.  Here’s this week’s list:

                              here  was  bug  hug  mug  tug  plug  plants

MATH-A Study Guide went home today…VERY easy.  I will be checking them next week for those concepts on the Study Guide.  Simple Addition/Subtraction, > < =, missing numbers in a sequence, 10 frames (back side of Guide).  Again, VERY easy!  The students are doing quite well in MATH and READING/WRITING.  Thanks Parents!

SCIENCE-Plants 🙂  What do plants need to live?  We’ll make a flip chart.

What grows from seeds?

What are some different ways seeds travel?  How do they get from here to                                   there?

Looking Ahead…

3/15  Spring Pictures

3/18  Roller Skating Party (P.T.A. sponsored event    A Flyer went home today with details.)

End of third quarter

3/25-4/1   NO SCHOOL   Spring break

I think that’s it for now.  Stay well.  I have fever, flu, strep and ear infections in here.

Enjoy your weekend and Keep Reading!

Mrs. Smith

We finished our unit about WEATHER and now move on to Unit 8 PLANTS.

READING-Week 1 of Unit 8  How Trees Grow

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Recognize text structure

COMPREHENSION SKILL-Retelling

WRITING-STEPS IN A PROCESS

WORDS-little   said

LETTERS-K k   Ck

SPELLING WORDS-  up  down  cop  hop  mop  pop  stop  grow  trees

MATH-Money!!  Adding coins    quarters, nickels, dimes, pennies

Let them count your change.  Like many other things in life, practice, practice, practice!!  

SCIENCE-We’ll be observing plants.  Observation is a keep step in the Scientific Process.  

Since March is Reading Month, I would invite some “guest readers” to come in and read a story for 10-15 minutes.  Days and times are:

9:00-9:15    Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,or  Fridays

3:00-3:15   Mon-Friday

If you are interested in reading a short story to the class, please see me to schedule a time.

Enjoy the remaining snow??

Mrs. Smith

Here is a class picture of my 100 year old students.

There are menu changes for next week.

1st choice 2-29 Basco Sticks

3-1  Hummus and Pita Bread

3-2  Galaxy Pizza

3-3 Fish Patty on a bun

3-4 Bean and Cheese Burrito

2nd choice is Cheese Pocket Pizza

Wasn’t yesterday’s Snow Day a pleasant surprise!  I’m hearing about lots of family activities-sledding, making snowmen, drinking hot cocoa, eating pancakes, staying in their pajamas all day… 🙂

The dioramas look fantastic and the students are so proud of their work!  I hope you enjoyed watching the project evolve.

I also have some “100 year old looking” folks in here today.  How adorable!!  I’ll post pictures later today.

For next week…

MARCH IS READING MONTH   Our school theme is “Earthlings, take me to your Reader.”  I made spaceships and put their picture in the spaceship.  I posted the spaceships around the “Earthling…” title.  They look cute!

READING-Week 3 of Unit 7  How Weather Affects Us.  (rain, temperature changes, cloudy)  We’ll talk about Hibernation. Who hibernates?  Why do they hibernate?      We’ll be reading a story about a bear who hibernates and we’ll read The Mitten.  On Friday we will compare and contrast the two texts.

WRITING-writing a chart

WORDS-Review Week   and  what  this  do  

LETTERS-Review week  B b    L l   E e       Practice the “b”   (not “d”)

SPELLING WORDS-We will work with the “et” chunk.

Here are next week’s words:    said   little   pet  get  set  net  fret   hibernate

MATH-graphing     the quarter (25 cents)  Have your child count your change-pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.  Remind them to start with the largest coin first and then add on the rest.  For example, when adding up pennies, nickels, and dimes, start with the dimes (“ten, twenty, thirty”  and then add on the nickels “five, ten, fifteen” and then add on the pennies “) Practice!  Practice!  Practice!   Count Daddy’s money,  Mom’s money,  Grandma’s money

As if we haven’t had a busy enough week this week with Dioramas, the 100th Day and a Snow Day, here’s some more excitement for next week.  Next week is HOWARD SCHOOL SPIRIT WEEK!  A note went home on Wednesday with the details.

Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Smith

“Train your mind to see the good in everything.

Positivity is a choice.  

The happiness of your life depends on the quality

of your thoughts.”

Could Spring be right around the corner???  That would be so lovely-I think we are ready to have warmer temperatures so we can get outside a little more.

Unit 7  Week 2  SEASONS

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Visualize

COMPREHENSION SKILL-Identify Setting

WRITING-Writing a list

WORDS-and    What   what

LETTERS-B  b   L  l

SPELLING WORDS-We’ll work with the “an” family.

   ban   tan   plan   man  and   what   season

SCIENCE-Seasons    Weather    Temperature

MATH- graphing several things

– continuing to add and subtract fluently from 0-20

SOCIAL STUDIES-Working in Groups on posters about Seasons.

**HOME PROJECT**  Your child is to make a diorama about a season and an activity one can do in that season.  They can choose any season.  I am sending home a note with examples of some diorama. 

This Home Project will be due next Thursday, Feb., 25.  You can start working on this right away so the project will be completed on time.  🙂  (Good Study Skills, Responsibility)

Also happening next week …

FRIDAY, FEB 26 (the day after the Home Project is due) is our 100th day of Kindergarten!!  I will have several thing planned for them to do to celebrate the day.  We thought it would be fun to dress up as  a 100 year old person. 🙂  So, check your wardrobes, garage, attic, etc for something to wear on our 100th Day on Friday.  Have fun with this!

REMINDER-Students need to WEAR their boots to school and pack their shoes.  It’s quite snowy, slushy, muddy outside and those spots become magnets for 5-6 year olds!  It all gets tracked into the room, onto the carpet, and they sit in it.  YUK!  Thanks for your help with this.

Enjoy your weekend.

Mrs. Smith

January Students of the Month…always making good choices, doing their best work, being a good friend and citizen.  Way to go!

Juliette Giedeman       Sarah Abdelfattah      Avalina Saleh

MONDAY-NO SCHOOL

READING-We will start a new unit!  Unit 7 WEATHER

Week 1 of the unit is KINDS OF WEATHER.

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Visualize

COMPREHENSION SKILL-Identify Main Idea and Details

WORDS-This   this    Do  do

LETTERS-E  e  (short e sound, like in “egg”)

SPELLING WORDS-bed  red   fled  led  this  do  weather

MATH-We will be working with the 100 chart, filling in missing numbers, making patterns, etc.  You can make your own grid at home so your child can practice numbers from 0-100.

Keep counting money too!  Dimes, nickels, and pennies…count, count, count.

SCIENCE-We will work with Landforms, mountains, rivers, etc.

Looking ahead…

Next week (Feb. 22-26) our reading unit theme will be SEASONS.  Students will have a home work assignment of making a diorama of their favorite season.  Shoe boxes work great for the dioramas.  I will talk with the students next week and the dioramas will be due Thurs., Feb. 25.  More details next week.

Also, Fri., Feb 26 will be the 100th day of Kindergarten.  I thought the kids might enjoy dressing up as a 100 year old person. 🙂  Please don’t go out and buy anything special for this. Just wanted to let you start think about this…me too!

Enjoy your long weekend and HAPPY ST. VALENTINE’S DAY!

Mrs. Smith

MATH-Yesterday we made a Tally Graph of our favorite ice cream flavor.

Today, using our stuffed animals,  we made a Bar Graph.  After graphing all of the animals, I asked them questions and they had to use the graph to figure out the answer.  For example, I asked, “What is the total number of tigers, reindeer, alligators, and Pandas?”  “Which animal group has 1 less than the tigers?”  etc.  No pencil/paper…just using their brains.  They had lots of fun!

Mrs. Smith

A reminder that your child may bring in Valentines tomorrow to pass out to classmates.