Reminders:

Please wash and return towel in a reuse bag and snow gear (when needed) in a separate bag. Thank you!  🙂

Kindergarten students will have report cards coming out towards the end of January.

Monday, January 16: No School, Teacher PD

Wednesday, January 18: Chapel 9:30am

Wednesday, February 8: Kindergarten and First Grade Chapel, 9am

February 17-20: Winter Break (no school)

What We Are Learning:

Math: This week we wrapped up our unit on shapes. We worked with our pattern blocks and discovered we could put shapes together to make new shapes. We also worked on finding out how many different ways we could make a hexagon. The class found at least 6!!!

Phonics: We learned what a long vowel is and what the 5 long vowels say. . Next week we will look closely at the vowel E. We will also come back to review these at the end of the year. One practice that is helpful for beginning readers is when they read a word and it sounds incorrect to try the word again with the long vowel sound. We talked about how our word wall word like would sound like lick if we didn’t use the long i sound.

Word Wall: we added like to our wall.

Writing: We are working on pattern books. This week we worked on a book together for the first  page and then the last two, or even three, were completed with the students trying on his/her own and then with some assistance from me or an assistant.  Writing words is a lot of work! We always say the word slowly a few times. Then we figure out the sound we hear first and figure out what letter to write. We continue slowly throughout the word, checking our work. We are using sound spelling. Proper spelling with come later. This year we focus on sounds and spelling word wall words correctly.

Bible: This week we focused on Jesus’ disciples. We read about who his disciples were and how they responded to Jesus’ call. We realized how important it is to be a disciple of Jesus in how quickly the disciples stopped what they were doing, and even quit their jobs, to respond to Jesus’ call. We had a long discussion on what it means to be a disciple and how others will know we are His disciples by how we live.