Important Dates and Reminders
Monday, March 5-NO SCHOOL Parent/Teacher conferences for those registered
Thursday, March 8-Field Trip to Visser Farms *Please dress for any weather, especially shoes. Drivers will be in class at 9 to gather boosters and help with bathroom breaks before we leave 🙂
Friday, March 9-Pajama Day!
If you have any money to donate to the Philippines, you may turn that in next week.
I will also send home reading calendars for March is Reading Monday! This special calendar can earn free tickets to a white caps game and can take place of our regular reading calendar.
This week in Kindergarten…
We continued Daily 5 rotations. Each group was able to meet with Mrs. Bronsink once to receive a new book. I used the remainder of the time to work one on one with students reading and reviewing sight words and sounding out cards. Please continue to read with your child at home and celebrate their learning!
We continue to think of small moment stories. This week we thought of a story to tell a friend. These stories were only 3-5 sentences long, but we were able to focus on the sentence and hear if the story had a beginning, middle and end.
In handwriting we continue to work on lower case letters. This week we practiced letter u and reviewed a d and g.
In phonics we looked at a new family, the an family. It was a little harder to think of three letter an words, but we did! We reviewed a few times throughout the week. If you notice papers coming home with these short words on them, find a good spot to hand them up and read through them a few times with your child. Work on sounding out the letters and saying the word.
We learned about using our Eagle Eye when reading to look at the picture and first letter of a word to figure out an unfamiliar word. We also learned from Lips the Fish to get our lips ready to make the letter sound. These are fun animals to remind us of reading strategies.
In Math, we continue centers practicing addition, number formation and number recognition. We also found different ways to categorize or group things. Each student cut out cards with different colors, sizes and shapes then decided how to group them. It was fun to see the different ways students came up with.
In Bible we continue to read about the miracles Jesus did on earth. We read of the blind man that was made to see again. It was important to point out that the man was not blind because of any sin he or his parents may have done. He was blind from birth so glory could be shown to God. We also read of the ten lepers that were healed. Of the ten, only one came back to thank Jesus. This reminded us to thank God every day for what he has done for us.