Reminders:

Please continue to send in snow gear
Please send in clean towels in a re-use bag on Mondays
Library books are due Wednesdays
Friday, February 4 Kindergarten Winter Olympics We will learn a little bit about the upcoming Winter Olympics by reading books, playing games and making crafts. You are welcome to dress in something that represents your favorite winter sport or country participating in the olympics. We will be learning from all of the kindergarten teachers during this hour.
Monday, February 14 We will have the kids pass out Valentine’s in the classroom. We have 14 students in our classroom. You may have your child simply address the valentines To: my friend instead of each child’s name. 🙂

What We Have Been Learning:

Bible: We are learning more about Jesus’s early ministry. We learned about the 12 disciples leaving their jobs and following Jesus. We read about Jesus making time for children. How special it is that Jesus loves us so much!

Writing Workshop: We have been writing pattern books and I am so proud of our writers! Pattern books have the same few words at the beginning of the sentence and then the last one is different. Students are sounding out the last word in their books and it is hard work. I love that they are trying their best. When a child asks me for help, I ask him/her to say the word slowly and then ask what sound they hear. We work through the whole world this way. At home, you can also work through a word and write it out. We are using sound spelling, so allow children to write the sounds they hear. When it takes a lot of effort, it is best to only write one or two words. It can be helpful to have word wall words on display as students can write those out while looking at them and create many different sentences.

Word Wall: we added come to our wall which now includes: a, at, and, am, come, go, here, I, is, look, like, me, see, the, this, up, we.

Handwriting: We are working on proper handwriting using the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum. We are encouraging kids to write the school way in all of their writing.

Math: We have reviewed adding and subtracting using pictures and writing out the math sentence. This week we also worked on the math test to finish up unit 2.

Phonics: We listened for vowels in the words and graphed the vowels. It was helpful to compare words with the same vowel sound.