Yeah…our blogs are finally back up! \u00a0It was down all weekend and I had taken pictures that I wanted to post. \u00a0I will try to post them this weekend.<\/p>\n
We are in Week 2 of our 3 weeks about We Are Special. \u00a0You may have noticed papers coming home with words on them about:<\/p>\n
-things our hands can do<\/p>\n
-things our nose can do<\/p>\n
-things our feet can do<\/p>\n
We also read 2 books and compared the texts. Wow! \u00a0We read\u00a0Jasper\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Curious George Goes to School<\/span>. <\/strong> We found :<\/p>\n -Both stories are about monkeys<\/p>\n -Both stories have a monkey who doesn’t follow directions and gets into trouble<\/p>\n -Both stories have words<\/p>\n -Both stories have pictures<\/p>\n Writing-<\/strong>Check out the writing going on in here! \u00a0Lots of watching, listening, \u00a0following directions, and trying! \u00a0I can see improvement in just a few days. \u00a0Way to go Kindergarteners!<\/p>\n This week we began our Daily Five with\u00a0Read To Self.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0We made a chart that tells what\u00a0Read to Self<\/strong> should look like. \u00a0We will be working with these steps:<\/p>\n 1. Find our spot and stay there<\/p>\n 2. Eyes on our book<\/p>\n 3. Keep on reading<\/p>\n As we read, we will be building stamina. Building stamina will help us become strong readers. \u00a0Today we read for 8 minutes!<\/p>\n Math<\/strong>-We jumped right in with writing numbers and \u00a0making connections between objects and numbers. \u00a0Our daily Calendar Time is loaded with math. \u00a0We figure out the date<\/b>. \u00a0We have a 100’s chart<\/strong>\u00a0on which we are counting the days we are in school. \u00a0We also have a Place Value Chart<\/strong>\u00a0(ones, tens, hundreds) into which we add a straw for each day that we are here. \u00a0Lastly, we have a\u00a0Money Chart<\/strong> where we add a penny for each day in attendance. \u00a0Since today is day 8. we have already made a trade of 5 pennies for 1 nickel (and 3 more pennies).<\/p>\n Of course, our daily\u00a0Lunch Count<\/strong> provides us with daily story problems and number sentences. \u00a0Today we had 9 buying pizza and 2 buying stuffed sandwich. \u00a0So, 9 + 2 = 11. \u00a0We counted on from 9 and got 11 very quickly.<\/p>\n Our words this week are\u00a0I\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0can. \u00a0<\/strong>We have been spelling and writing these words. \u00a0Practice with your child.<\/p>\n Students should also be writing their name-with\u00a0only 1 capital letter at the beginning.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/span> All other letters are lower case.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Looking ahead…<\/p>\n MONDAY 9\/16 -PICTURE DAY Payment envelopes were sent home last week. \u00a0Bring them in next Monday, along with your smile \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n WEDNESDAY 9\/18-PEACE ASSEMBLY at 2:30<\/p>\n THURSDAY 9\/17 OPEN HOUSE 6:00-8:00PM you will have a chance to sign up for a conference at that time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are learning so many things in Kindergarten!<\/p>\n Enjoy the cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah…our blogs are finally back up! \u00a0It was down all weekend and I had taken pictures that I wanted to post. \u00a0I will try to post them this weekend. We are in Week 2 of our 3 weeks about We Are Special. \u00a0You may have noticed papers coming home with words on them about: -things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}