Hello January!

Ask Your Child About..

1. Identify and write: this, find

2. Identify, sound and write: Gg

3. Determine if a story is addition or subtraction

4. Show addition and subtraction in many ways

5. Our new friends!

⛄ I hope you all had a wonderful winter break filled with plenty of relaxation and fun! We were all excited to see our friends at school again and tell each other a favorite part of our break. As we get back into our daily routines here at school, the kiddos become more excited (and tired). Please help your child get plenty of rest this weekend so they are ready for another full week ahead. 😊

🦁 Starting Monday, January 13th, the Kindergarten students will meet in the cafeteria before school. The other grades have been doing this all year, and a few classes are now meeting in their rooms right away. This leaves some extra space for our Kinders to join in the cafeteria. This will help with supervision and hallway congestion when heading to classrooms. Please help remind your child to head into the cafeteria every morning starting Monday. Thank you!

🍎 Thank you to those who have already brought in some tasty snack options for our class to enjoy. If you would like to bring a snack for the class please remember to check the healthy snack list on the school website and send it with your child in the morning. Thank you so much for such a great supply!

📚 In reading this week we focused on inferring and drawing conclusions. We were able to practice this skill with each of our books this week. We looked at the pictures to help us figure out how a character was feeling and listened to the words for special details. We also transferred this skill into our daily routines! We were able to draw conclusions during math, infer how friends were feeling about certain activities, and so much more! Keep this skill going at home by prompting and asking your child questions that require them to dig a little deeper.

🔢 We have continued to explore our understanding of addition and subtraction in math this week. We worked on identifying addition and subtraction problems and showing our understanding in different ways. This means we can use mathematical words, drawings, and equations to explain our thinking! We also looked at equations "forwards" and "backwards". It is a common confusion that the equal sign has to be at the end, but we know it can be at the beginning as well!

🖊 Writing required our detective skills this week as we completed mystery sentences. These consist of pictures that use their first letter as a part of a word. We identify each letter, put the words together, and are able to read a secret sentence. The kids loved this mystery work! We then used these sentences to help us tell short stories.