I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing three-day weekend with your families!
Last week, we began taking Math Fluency Tests on our Number Bonds (ways to make 3, ways to make 4, etc.) and adding and subtracting math facts through five. These tests will come home every Wednesday and Friday. Please take some time to review these tests, and reinforce and practice these skills at home. Thank you for your support!
A LOOK AHEAD: Our next kindergarten field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, February 7th. We will be going to the Children's Museum of the Desert. It is sure to be an exciting “hands on” experience. We will be leaving school at 8:15 AM and returning at approximately 1:00 PM. Permission slips for our field trip will be coming home as the field trip gets closer. If you are interested in being a chaperone please email me (jcbess@inlandleaders.com) and let me know BY FRIDAY JANUARY 27TH, as we need to give our final head count to the museum. Chaperones are welcome to follow us or ride the bus and will need to pay a small chaperone fee at the door (approximately $5.00) Please remember that school policy states NO SIBLINGS. Thanks! We are looking forward to a wonderful field trip!
We are in need of LOTS of empty Capri Sun boxes!!!! If you have any please send them to school with your child! If every child brings ONE empty Capri Sun box, we will have enough! Thank you very much!!! Note: if you could please open the boxes at the side (not in the middle around the edges) that would really help us out! Thank you!
Monday, January 16: NO SCHOOL
Friday, January 27: 100th DAY OF SCHOOL CELEBRATION
Tuesday, February 7: Field Trip to the Children's Museum
Monday, February 13: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, February 14: Valentine's Day Centers
Monday, February 20: NO SCHOOL
Friday, January 27: 100th DAY OF SCHOOL CELEBRATION
Tuesday, February 7: Field Trip to the Children's Museum
Monday, February 13: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, February 14: Valentine's Day Centers
Monday, February 20: NO SCHOOL
If you are at the store and happen to think of us, we'd love....
Black Expo Markers
Black Expo Markers
Valentines Day stickers
What Are We Learning This Week?:
Sight Words: WOULD, COULD, SHOULD, WALK, TALK.
Letter Team: ANG (like in HANG, SANG) and ANK (like in TANK, BANK).
Reading: This week we are studying and reading about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and equality for all people. Students will be taking home a couple of little paper books about Martin Luther King Jr. this week in their book bags. These paper books will replace our fluency passage this week - please practice these every day for fluent reading!
Writing: We are learning how to write a five sentence paragraph. I have been modeling a structure for paragraph writing called, "Step Up to Writing" for the students. Kindergarten Step Up to Writing is writing a paragraph with a topic sentence, three sentences about that topic, and a conclusion sentence. This week, we will write five sentence step up to writing stories about Martin Luther King Jr.
Math: We will continue our unit on measurement. This week we will focus on comparing how objects are similar or different. For example: If the glue stick is 5 cubes in length and the pencil is 10 cubes in length, which object is longer? The tricky part of comparing is when we ask, "HOW MUCH LONGER?" We will learn that comparing problems are really just subtraction problems (10-5=5 so the pencil is 5 cubes longer). This is very difficult critical thinking for our kindergarten students. You can help at home by asking similar comparing/subtraction questions.
Leadership: As always, we will continue to ROAR. Last week, we learned all about what it means to have a growth mindset. We watched videos, read books, and wrote all about this. This week, we will discuss how to use our growth mindset to accomplish our goals at school and at home.
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