Jan 6-10

Important Updates:

January 7:   Classroom Birthday Celebration

January 7:  Matt Wilhelm Assembly about kindness and anti-bullying while incorporating bike tricks

January 10: Classroom Birthday Celebration

January 14:  Classroom 1/2 Birthday Celebration

January 16:  Classroom 1/2 Birthday Celebration

January 17:  Early Dismissal 11:30

January 20: No School

January 21-24: Celebrate NDLC Week!

Here are the dress up days for the week:

January 21: dress up as what you want to be when you grow up

January 22: twin day

January 23: active wear/sports wear

January 24: NDLC wear---crazy purple day

Here's what's happening in K this week: 

Reading: As these readers grow stronger and stronger, they will learn that they can rely on their knowledge of snap words and searching the picture for meaning to solve unknown words. Even after they solve an unknown word, the readers can check their reading to make sure that word makes sense in the book, that it has the letters they hear when they say that word, and that it sounds right in the sentence they are reading.  Toward the end of the week, students will think about how stories to help them think about what might happen next and how using those predictions can help us tackle tricky words.

Writing: We will be learning to write How To books during this unit. Writers will be reminded that with any type of writing, you still follow the steps of the writing process: think of an idea, say how the pages will go, draw, and then write!  To help your child generate ideas to write about, talk through the steps of things your child does at home. For example, a bed time routine, cooking dinner, getting ready for school, etc. What comes first? Next? Last?

Snap words: Here are the words we have learned so far:

the, I, to, a, is, my, go, me, like, on, in, so, we, up, and, it, at, see, he, do, you, an, can, no, am

Math: Mathematicians will continue to solidify our understanding of teen numbers.  We will be making teen number arrangements and working to write equations that show the number of 10's and ones in each teen number.  We will also be revisiting 2D shapes and will work to show how shapes can work together to make new shapes.

Researcher's Workshop: To reboot and start our year off right, we will be reviewing classroom expectations and working on social curriculum. The lessons will include expected/unexpected behavior in a group, how our behavior impacts the feelings of those around us, and listening with our whole body.