Monday, April 13, 2015

April 13

Hi!

Here are some quick items to highlight:


  • End 68 Hours of Hunger is looking for granola bar donations this month
  • We are looking for bags of flour for our texture table
  • I am also in search of an apron for our dramatic play restaurant servers to wear
  • We have been using a great app called Numberlines (there is a frog on a lily pad if you are searching for it)
  • There is an early release this Wednesday, 4/15 for conferences
  • April vacation is 4/27-5/1
  • The tentative last day of kindergarten is Tuesday, 6/16 to allow time to screen in-coming kindergarten students. (The rest of SMS has a tentative last day of Friday, 6/19.) 
Enjoy this beautiful day!
Kristen

Thursday, April 2, 2015

April 2, 2015

Hello!

Thank you to all of our chaperones for the Music Hall trip today. The performance was wonderful! The children seemed to love all 3 stories.

Here is a summary of our past 2 weeks:

Writers' Workshop: We are wrapping up our "How To" unit. The children chose their piece to edit and will continue with this work into next week.

Readers' Workshop: I hope you are enjoying listening to your readers each week. The children are working hard and applying those sight words to their independent reading. We will be re-visiting reading strategies to use when we come to a tricky word/part during our next unit. This week we worked on using Post-it notes to mark when we were thinking about our books. The children are writing a "thinking bubble" on the Post-it note when they predicted or were thinking about something. Tomorrow, they will learn how to write L.O.L. when they read something funny.

Math Workshop: We have been doing lots of counting by 1s and 10s this week. We played an attribute spinner game where the children had to pick out the correct object using 4 different attributes. We continue to work on (-) and (+) number stories and adding and disappearing train games. We even mixed the two symbols this week and had a tough time tricking these kindergarten math thinkers!

Dramatic Play:  Our Fish Class grocery store will be closing tomorrow and our dramatic play area will be a restaurant next week.

Donation Requests:

  • bags of flour for our texture table
Up-coming Events:
  • 4/8 & 4/15 will be early release days for conferences. School will end at 12:50 on those days
  • 4/27-5/1 School Vacation week
  • 6/1 Grandparent Luncheon (More info to follow)
Have a wonderful weekend!
Kristen