Jan 13-17

We can't wait to celebrate being super readers this Friday! If you are planning to donate table cloths for our capes, please send them to school by Wednesday. Thanks in advance:) 

Important Updates:

January 14: Classroom 1/2 Birthday Celebration

January 16:  Classroom 1/2 Birthday Celebration

January 17: Half Day

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: We will have our Super Reader celebration this week! Kindergartners will create capes to show that they really are Super Readers! They will build snap word towers to knock down! Swat at letters to match a sound! Read with other Super Readers! It will be a day to celebrate how far we have come as readers!

Writing: These students jumped right into how to writing and are already writing some amazing teaching books!  As we continue to work with How To books, students will work with partners to act out the books to check if the directions/steps make sense. They will add labels to their pictures and diagrams. Finally, they will look at our charts to set goals to create the very best writing they can! For example, students may choose to focus on writing details about their topic. I am excited to see how the students set goals for themselves.

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: This week in math we will take some time to really focus on seeing numbers as a whole and parts.  We will relate using the parts we see in pictures to the way we write equations (part + part = whole). We will also be introduced to a new way to see and organize partners of numbers...math mountains!

Students will use both tools and drawings to show partners and write equations to match.

Researcher's Workshop: We will start to build a base for our Self Study inquiry with a read aloud, video aloud, and song. Students will have whole class conversation about the book It’s Okay to be Different by Todd Parr. We will create a class book after watching a video of a poem called, “I am Me!” Here is the link  to the poem. Each student will add a page that says, “No one _____ the way I ____.” Finally, we will create a self-portrait after listening to  the song “What I Am” by Will.I.Am. Here is the link to the song. I am excited for students to start thinking about what makes them special…we know they are!