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  Friday Note - 3/04/16

Events of the Week: Our theme this week was Dr. Seuss. We read a few Dr. Seuss books, including The Cat in the Hat, The Sleep Book, Wacky Wednesday, Green Eggs and Ham, and more.  We also had a lot of fun eating green eggs and ham that we made and dressing up during the week!  Finally, we were busy with third quarter assessments.

Math: In math we reviewed addition and subtraction.  Please continue to work on this skill at home since switching between the two is often difficult in kindergarten.  Remind them to pay extra close attention to the + and – to know which operation they need to use. I also assessed making ten and decomposing numbers in more than one way.  If your child is still having trouble with these skills, please practice at home.  I will reassess next week. 

Writing Workshop: We practiced writing an opinion piece together as a class using a graphic organizer to help us prepare our thoughts.  An opinion piece consists of three sentences (or more).  The first sentence states an opinion (I like green eggs and ham).  The next two (or more) sentences give reasons why. The students then wrote an individual piece using the same organizer and then transferred their writing to paragraph form.

Reading Workshop: Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am meeting with small groups to focus on different reading skills.  During independent reading time, students are practicing the skills they are learning during small groups and using their reading strategies.  I hope that you are able to see them using these reading strategies when they are reading with you at home.

Word Study: We enjoyed finding the silly rhyming words in the Dr. Seuss books and completing activities involving word families (for example, the -at family consists of words like cat, bat, mat, sat, etc). 

 

Important Dates:

March 10th - Reading Challenge Ends
March 11th - Reading Challenge Reward
March 11th - End of 3rd Quarter
March 14th - March 18th - NO SCHOOL - Spring Break
March 21st - 4th Quarter begins

April 1st - Day in K - for incoming Kindergartners
April 5th - Spring pictures
April 28th - April 29th - Kindergarten screening

April 29^th- NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten students

The Character Word for March is:

Honesty

Always tell the truth

   

Sight Words—Keep practicing!

I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be  have   it   he   she

to   can   with   go   we   me   you   and   are   they  in  of  do  not

Reading Challenge

The reading challenge ends March 10^th.  Please remember to return your child’s book bag every Friday.

Next Week:                             

§  We will review all sight words learned thus far.

§  We will continue reviewing addition and subtraction.

§  We will learn about different types of weather.

§  We will have fun learning to make simple words.

                                        

Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs. Wenger