Feb. 22nd-24th

Wednesday: We went to P.E. and played a game that had us practice throwing balls over a net.  We read books about Abraham Lincoln including Abraham Lincoln’s Hat and made a project.  In math we learned about pennies and practiced counting them.  We also watched a movie about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  We wrote in our journals about what we did over the long weekend.

Thursday:  We watched a video about magnets.  Today we went to P.E. and played Garbage in our Backyard.  We wrote about George Washington and made a project.  We also read two biographies about George Washington.   In math we played number grid games.   We talked about the difference between “telling” and “tattling.”  We also reviewed the stop, walk, and talk procedure.

Friday: We had Kinconnect with Mrs. Gutmann today.  She read us the book Matreska.  We went to P.E. and played clean up our court.  We had calendar and practiced counting backwards.  In Science we read a story about magnets and made magnets float/repel on a pencil.  We started new learning centers.  We continued to learn about presidents.  We learned about the 44^th president Barack Obama.

All About Me: None this week

Reminders:  March 2- No School

                       March 16- Kindergarten Musical (KW performs at 1:30)

Feb. 13th-17th

Monday:  We went to art and made seaweed for our fish picture.  We also went to music and practiced sign language with a song for our musical.  Our new popcorn word is you and our star letter is Hh.  We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and wrote a list of the foods the caterpillar.  We also brought home our own The Very Hungry Caterpillar book to practice reading.  In math we measured in feet using yardsticks, rulers or measuring tapes. 

Tuesday:  We read Sweet Hearts and Franklin’s Valentines.  We made a rhyming heart book and did a story map.  We also went to music and Mrs. Gutmann read us a Mem Fox story in the LMC.  We passed out Valentine cards and had our party.

Wednesday: Today in math we made a pet graph.  Our class has more dogs than any other pet.  We went to art and painted water for our fish picture.  We read Hedgie’s Surprise and answered a question about the story.  We went to P.E. and played a game to practice throwing and running.  We did learning centers. 

Thursday:  In math, we played the attribute spinner game.  Today we went to P.E. and we played the game racecar track.  We had science and did an experiment to find out if a magnet is attracted through different objects.  We read The Happy Hedgehog and talked about synonyms for happy and wrote about what makes us happy.  Today we had math centers.

Friday:  We went to P.E. and had Fitness Friday.  We read a story called President’s Day.  In math, we found different numbers on the number grid and looked at the patterns.  We finished our chapter book Donovan’s Word Jar.  We practiced our opposite words today.  We also had writer’s workshop today.

All About Me: We learned about Tristan.

Reminders:  Feb. 21^st- No School (President’s Day)

                       Feb. 22^nd- No School (Conferences 1-8:00)

The public library has great books for kindergartners to read independently.  These books have many of our sight words and helpful picture clues to assist students in determining unknown words.  Students should be reading at home daily in order to improve fluency and confidence with this new skill.  Scholastic is also a great place to find “just right” books for kindergartners.

Feb 6th-10th

Monday:  It is the 100^th Day of School!  We wrote a wish for 100 of something in our journal.  Today we read Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100^th Day of Kindergarten and made a class book.  We counted our collections by 10s and 1s.  We went to art and finished our fish pictures.  In music we sang a special song about the 100^th day of school. We started having a pocket person today. 
Tuesday: We went to the LMC and learned about Mem Fox.  In music we acted out the book Stanley.  Today we did handwriting for capital letter L.  In math we practiced counting by 5s and played Roll and Record with 2 dice.  We read Lunch and answered a question and made a project to go with the story.  We wrote sentences that were clues about ourselves.
Wednesday:  We read How Leo Learned to be King and answered a question about the story.  We also made a lion project.  We practiced making “it” words on the computer and then wrote them and read them.  In math, we learned how to write and read tally marks.  We read Marta’s Magnets.  We went to  P.E. and art class.
Thursday:  We read 3 books about ladybugs.  They were all nonfiction books.  Today we went to P.E. and had Fitness Thursday.  We did handwriting for lowercase letter L.  In math we put our tricky teen numbers in order and played the raft game.  We practiced reading words that tell “where.”  Today is open house.
Friday:  We measured in math with our foot, our partner’s foot and the standard foot.  Today we went to P.E. and had Fitness Friday.  We read It Looked Like Spilt Milk and made a class book.  Today was our friend Tyler’s last day in our class and at our school.  We read The Biggest Snowball Ever.  We wrote the L words in our word books too.
All About Me: We learned about Luke.

Reminders: Students are invited to pass out Valentine cards to their classmates on Tuesday, Feb. 14^th.  If your child wishes to pass out Valentine cards, he or she should write their name on the “from” section of the card(leaving the “to” section blank) and bring the cards to school on Tuesday.  No candy will be passed out with Valentine cards.

Jan 30th-Feb 3rd

Monday:  We went to music and practiced a song and learned motions to go with it.  Today we read The Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale.  Our new star letter is Ii and our new popcorn word is in.  We read two books about a character named Jamaica and asked questions before, during and after the story.  This week we are practicing being thinkers when reading by creating “I wonder” statements about the story.  In math we played the guess my number game.

Tuesday:  Today we saw the 4^th grade musical.  We read Imagine and made a class book.  We went to the computer lab and made a slide for our open house slide show.  We did capital letter I handwriting.  In science we experimented with magnets and labeled areas in the classroom where magnets can’t go.

Wednesday:  We went to P.E. and played fitness tag.  In calendar we started the new month February.  In math we counted by 10s and 1s using the calculator.  We went to art and heard the story Rainbow Fish to the Rescue and finished our fish pictures.  Today we read The Itsy-Bitsy Spider  and then we made our own Itsy Bitsy Spider books.  We also practiced thinking while we were reading(wondering).

Thursday:  Today it was Groundhog Day.  We made a puppet and his house and acted out a song.  In math we practiced measuring with our feet.  We went to P.E. and played with the fitness dice.  We read Groundhog Day and Gretchen Groundhog It’s Your Day.  In Science we learned that magnets stick to things made of iron.  We also heard a story and saw how mean things hurt our hearts but kind things help fix our hearts.  

Friday:  Today we went to P.E. and had fitness Friday.  In math we talked about measuring and the standard foot which is our measuring tool called the ruler.  We had writer’s workshop.  We read Pig in a Wig and made “-ig” words.  We also did calendar and found out that it was our 99^th day of school!

All About Me:  We learned about Aidan.

Reminders:   Feb. 6- 100th day; collections due

                        Feb. 8- Book orders due
                        Feb. 9- Open House (2:30-3:00 OR 7:00-8:00)