How can it possibly be the end of January already...I cannot believe that Monday is the first day of February!
This week in ELA our essential question was "What kinds of things grow on a farm?" Our vocabulary words were raise, fresh, beneath, delicious, and special. Ask your K2er if they remember the meanings of any (or all) of them. We read the stories An Orange in January, Farms Around the World, and Farmer's Market. We talked about how food that is grown faraway gets to us at the grocery store. We worked on the letters Ff and Rr and introduced the sight words he, with. At this point of the year most weeks we will have 2 new sight words. It is super important to practice the sight words at home so that it doesn't get too overwhelming for your child. If you need another set of sight word flash cards to practice at home just put a note in your child's message tube and I will be happy to send a set home.
In learning centers we sorted pictures by their first sound, worked on our sight words, practiced writing the letters Ff and Rr and wrote in our journals about things grown on a farm. I also introduced a new game called "Bump It!" that once again, seems like a favorite as in years past.
In Math we started Topic 7 titled Subtraction. We started talking about taking away objects from a set to tell how many are left as well as separating a number of objects into two groups. Next week we will use the minus sign in an equation and find the difference between two numbers. Here is a song we listened to this week about subtraction. A notice went home on Thursday about a 100th Day of school food drive we are having in kindergarten. Our goal is collect 100 pieces of food to donate to Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz. On the right side of my blog page you will see a "100th Day of School Food Drive Tracker" that will be updated daily so that you and your K2er can see how close we are to meeting our goal. On my previous post a list of items that can be donated is included.
And speaking of the right side of my blog, you may notice a new Poll feature that I have added. Our first question is "What is your favorite season?" Next week we will be talking about the four seasons in our ELA block so I thought it would be fun to see what our blog readers' favorite season is. Please take a moment to vote. The poll question will close on Thursday night at 11:59 pm so that I can share the results with the K2ers on Friday. Please look for a new question each week that goes along with something we are learning about!
Have a great weekend...seems like some spring-like weather is heading our way!
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