We had a busy week in kindergarten, including our special assembly to kick off our March is Reading Month! Included in this letter are some special dates for some fun activities we will do in March to encourage reading. Just this past week Emma Konynenbelt’s mom came and read the book, Lola Dutch, for part of Emma’s up in lights celebration! If any of you would like to come and read a book to our class this month let me know! We would love it!
Important dates:
March 3-Optional Parent/Teacher conferences
Wednesday, March 4: Wear SILLY SOCKS to celebrate reading month with Fox in Socks
Wednesday, March 11: Wear a HAT to celebrate with the book Cat and the Hat
Tuesday, March 17: Wear GREEN to celebrate with the book Green Eggs and Ham
*Reminder that K & 1st grade WILL NOT be participating in the elementary program
Tuesday, March 24-Field Trip to Visser Farms 10:30-11:30. Drivers plan on arriving at school at 10:05. *Dress for any weather as we will be walking to different buildings on the farm. Boots are preferred if there is any snow or wet ground.
Friday, March 27: Wear PAJAMAS to celebrate with the book The Sleep Book
April 3-10 Spring Break
April 17 ZCS Auction
Curriculum:
Bible: This week we continued to learn about the miracles of Jesus. We read the story from the Bible of the disciples casting their nets in a different spot and catching ENORMOUS amounts of fish, we also read the story about Jesus healing the blind man. We have a few more weeks of studying the miracles of Jesus and then we will start our unit on parables.
Word wall word: in (So far this year we have done: I, the, a, am, look, see, at. go, we, me, up, is, like, this, here, come, my, it and on)
Daily 5: We continued to work in our groups continuing to work on sliding through sounds. This is a great thing to practice at home with your child, especially in consonant, vowel, consonant words. Examples would be words such as hat, man and gum. We also wrote our word wall words in gel bags this week!
Phonics: We are continuing our study of word families. This week we added the -an family.
Math: This week we continued to work on making teen numbers and understanding the concept that teen numbers have one group of ten in them. We made stacks with our unifix cubes so that we could “see” the numbers.
Handwriting: This week we finished the uppercase letters with the letter J and started working on our lowercase letters. We practiced both a c and an o.
Writing workshop: This week we did a fun activity to draw a picture and write a sentence on our own of why we like or don’t like snow. I figured that was a good topic for this week as I sense we are all ready for warmer weather! We are also continuing to write books during daily 5. Next we will begin to write how to instructions.
Up in lights: This week Emma Konynenbelt was up in lights. Emma’s mom came to share about her and also read her favorite book, Lola Dutch, and then joined us for lunch. On Friday, Emma’s dad came to have lunch with her! We are so glad Emma is a part of our class. She is extremely full of joy and her sense of humor has us all laughing quite often! She definitely spreads the joy of Jesus in our classroom!