Two Week Update! - Nov 4-15

It's been a few busy weeks! Sorry for the lateness of the posts!

Language Arts

Over the past two weeks we've been learning a lot and putting our newly acquired skills to good use!

In our Daily 5 routine we've added in two new activities - read to someone and listen to reading. We rotate our stations each Daily 5 time and the students will have the opportunity to read to self and read to someone each day. On Fridays, we're lucky enough to have the iPads in our classroom and use the Storia app from Scholastic to listen to reading. The students used the iPads as a whole class on Wednesday this week and nine students used the iPads on Friday and did an amazing job!

Fundations has been moving along and we've learned four new letters! Ee, Rr, Jj and Pp are the new letters from the past two weeks we've been working on. Please continue to work with your student on their letters both the sounds they make and how to write them the kindergarten way.

We've learned two new site words, are and for, over the last two weeks. We now have 10 sight words that the students have been introduced to. It's very important that you add the new sight words to your sight word ring and practice the words with your student at home.

Math

 We've completed chapter two and have started chapter 4. Last week we wrapped up chapter 2 with assessments that will be coming home shortly.

This week, we began learning the very important skill of composing and decomposing numbers to 5. This chapter will also focus on counting from 0 to 10.

Science

We continue to learn about our senses and learned about our sense of smell this week. We smelled different jars that contained four different smells - orange, onion, coffee and peppermint. The students did blind smell tests and had to decide as a group what they thought was in each. Next week - the sense of taste!

Important Messages

*The Kindergarten teachers will be giving the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow as our gift to each Kindergarten student next month during our book swap!
*Early release on Wednesday, November 27th at noon - no lunch is served that day.
*Parent/Teacher conferences will take place on Friday, December 13th. This day is also an early release, lunch will not be served.
*Our Kindergarten Winter Concert is scheduled for Wednesday, December 18th at 9:15 am. We will have the holiday part immediately following the concert.
*Your student will participate in a Holiday Book Swap! Please make sure that the book is suitable for either a boy or a girl and the book is no more than $4.00. Please wrap the book and have your student's name on the gift as the giver.