Weekly Update 1/28-1/31

Language Arts

It's been another eventful week in kindergarten! We've learned another sight word, "was," this week. Please remember to continue practicing all sight words and reading the paper books already at home so that your student continues to get practice reading both the sight words and using their reading skills.

We have been discussing the important traits of a new fiction genre, folk tales, throughout the month. Last week we read many versions of The Mitten and discussed that folk tales are stories that were passed down from generation to generation by mouth, there are many different versions of the same story, and they are repetitive. This week, we continued our reading groups by reading a different version of The Mitten that includes new characters we've not seen before. Also, we noticed that in this version, a little girl looses her mitten where all of the other versions the character has been a boy.

Math

We've successfully finished our work in Chapter 6! We have completed a few assessments this week and will begin work in Chapter 8 next week. We've also been continuing our discussion of 3-D shapes in our Daily Calendar work.

Science

This week we continued our exploration of matter. Last week we focused on liquids and gas during our Bubble Workshop and this week we're back to exploring solids. We took a tour around the classroom using magnetic wands to find out what types of metal is attracted to magnets. We discovered that some of the things found in our classroom this week - cans, pennies - aren't magnetic and figured out that only some metals are magnetic.

Important Reminders

*February Vacation is coming up - February 17-21.
*We're still running low on baby wipes - any sized package is appreciated!