Upcoming dates and reminders:
Monday: Please turn in library books and book bags.
February 11: Chapel at 9am. Kindergarten classes are helping 8th grade lead this chapel.
February 13: 100th Day and Valentine Celebration  Kids may dress up as a superhero or princess to celebrate the super fun day!
We will also have the kids pass out valentines. They DO NOT need to fill in the To section, but please have them write their name in the From section. Valentines can be very simple, store bought or homemade. 🙂
No PM bussing
February 14-17 No School
This week in Kindergarten…
We began the week learning about Zeeland Christian’s AMOR (Acceptance, Mindfulness, Ownership, Responsibility) initiative. We traveled the school listening to different teachers talking to us about behavior expectations. During the week I have been encouraging that expected behavior have seen the class take more ownership of behavior. We are excited as a school to continue to see this develop. We also were very excited to meet our new mascot, Ronin the Ram.
In Daily 5 we continue to work on reading strategies-what to do when we come to a word we do not know. We look at the whole word (is it long or short, beginning sound and ending sounds), we slide through each sound and then put the sounds together. We also re read the sentence to check if it makes sense.
Writing Workshop: The class continues to show me what wonderful writers they are by writing their own pattern books. They are working so hard on writing!
Phonics: We met the at family this week. We learned there are many words with the “last name” at. Ask you child to think of a few 🙂 We will continue word families for several weeks.
Word Wall: We added to to our growing list. (a, at, and, am, come, go, here, I, is, look, like, me, my, see, the, this, to, up, we)
Math: We are learning about teen numbers. We made towers of ten unifix cubes to represent the tens and added a few loose cubes to make a teen number. We are working on understanding tens and writing teen numbers.
Engaging God’s World: This week we planned (thought of an idea, talked with our partner and drew out a plan) to have a stuffed animal move down a ramp and then stop. It was so fun to see the engineering brains working in our students!
