Snow Daze ⛄

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: is, how, find, be, will, for, this, go

2. Identify, sound and write: Dd, Rr, Ii, Gg

3. Identify and solve addition and subtraction in many ways
4. Identify, write, and show teen numbers (11-19)

5. How-to writing essentials
6. Our new science unit focus

Kindergarten penguins enjoying the snow and ice patch 🐧

🦁 Lions ROAR with pride again! We have filled our class paw jar to the brim! We celebrated on Friday with extra iPad time- ask your child what their favorite iPad activity is.

🍎 Huge thank you to all who have brought in snack for the class. The students have loved the variety and are very grateful. Thank you!

💯 If we have no school cancellations, our 100th day of school will be next Friday, February 7th! We will celebrate by doing many 100 activities. To help your child prepare, count with them orally, using objects, and by looking at different numbers to figure out if it is more or less.

💕 The following Friday, February 14th, will be our Valentine's day celebrations! We will have this towards the end of the day for about one hour, followed by our afternoon recess. Our celebration will include special activities and treats! If your child decides to bring Valentine's to school, please ensure you have one for each of our 21 students.

We are readers! We read the entire book all together!

📚 These past few weeks we have worked on several skills! We use a great effort to gather evidence from the words and pictures to help us predict what might happen next and to help us analyze why an author might have chosen to write this story. We used phrases such as: "I saw in the picture....", "The character said they felt... so I think that means ....", and "I think the author wanted us to know... because they showed us a lot about ...." We also worked on retelling a story using major sequence of events. We remind ourselves of the beginning, middle, and end which helps us determine what is the big picture. Then we use major happenings to retell.

🔢 In math we have finished our addition and subtraction of numbers 1-10 and have moved to recognizing and practicing teen numbers. Although many of us can orally count these numbers (and beyond), many of us still forget how to write teens or swap numbers when counting objects. Have your child show you how a teen number fits into a ten frame and has more left over. Help them identify the one group of ten and connect it to the 1 they write first on their paper- then identify how many are left over and connect it to the number they write next to the one group of ten. The will help your child conceptually understand how teen numbers and place value work.

🖊 We have wrapped up out short true story unit and have begun our how-to unit. We have examined a few different stories to decide whether they are stories or how-to. We have come to the conclusion that how-to writing explain something to their reader. They often provide items that are needed, and go through step by step to tell us how to complete the task the author is telling. Help your child explain each step of a task to help them identify each little thing they do and need to tell to their audience.

       

🌳 Our materials and motion kit is on our second material: paper! We have examined how different types of paper react to being folded, colored, and getting wet. We have also begun manipulating paper in new ways. This week we recycled toilet paper to make a new sheet of our very own paper! We also created strong bowls from paper by layering it with a special mixture!