Weekly News Jan 27-31

Important Dates and Reminders:
February 7: 100 day of school (more info to come)
February 14: Valentine day celebration- here is a list of names for valentines
February 17: NO SCHOOL
February 27: PAC Field Trip (more info to come)


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

Reading: As we continue to learn about becoming avid readers, students will have "playdates" during their partner reading time. According to research on cognitive development, children increase focus, stamina, self-regulation abilities, and abstract thinking through play. During the "reading playdates", book clubs will meet and can choose from a variety of fun activities to do with books. These activities could include: acting books out, playing school, having a read aloud, hunting for snap words, etc. Try one of these fun games while reading with your child at home!


Writing: As we head toward the end of our how to unit, we will work on adding introductions and conclusions to our books. Writers will be reminded to use all the strategies they know to make their books easy to read and include all of the things that our mentor texts taught us how to writers do (like add tips, comparisons, zoomed in pictures, covers, and more!) We will celebrate by having a friend read through our book and act out what they are learning how to do!


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, went, are, this


Math: This week mathematicians will work with story problems and will learn to listen closely to math stories and solve them using tools, drawings or fingers.  We will also focus on deepening our understanding of part-part-whole.  We will be building numbers and breaking them apart to see how the parts or 'part'ners work together to make the whole or the total. We will also continue to really understand teen numbers and know that teen numbers can be read and written two ways:  as two digits or was a group or drawing of ten objects with some extra.

Researcher's Workshop: After starting to think about what makes them so special, students will have a chance to show what makes them unique in the following centers:

Photographs—We will sort pictures on a timeline. Then students will create their own timelines.
Books—read All About Me books and write own
Collage—Kindergartners will look through magazines and cut out things that represent them. They will glue these onto a poster. We will share these at closing circle.
Starfall.com—Students will work with partners on Ipads to “write” about themselves