Happy New Year! We had a great week back from vacation. It didn't take long for the K2ers to get back into the swing of things. Monday was a pretty quiet day...lots of sleepy people, including ME!
In ELA our essential question was "How can people help to make your community better?" We listened to the stories Roadwork, The Bundle of Sticks and A Community Garden. Our vocabulary words were harvest, quarrel, community, confused and improved. We also reviewed the letters Nn, Ii, Cc, Oo, Dd and the sight words to, and, go, you, do. I took all of the K2ers to see how many of the introduced sight words they fluently knew. I will send home the sheet this coming week. If there is a smiley face next to the word, that means they knew it. If there is a check mark next to the word and then they wrote the word, that means they need to check that word over and practice it at home. At learning centers we did a lot of review activities with the letters and sight words introduced, we wrote in our journals about something we have improved at since the start of kindergarten, and we read stories with words we could "tap the sounds" to blend and read.
In Math we continued with Topic 6 which is all about Addition. We talked about the plus sign and the equal sign and started writing equations to match groups of items or to match a word problem. Each day we show different ways we can solve a problem. It is amazing to see the K2ers come to the same answer in different ways! We will finish up our unit on Addition this week.
On Friday we also used the MacBook cart for the first time. Students who finish up their center work as well as their required time for the week on Lexia get to choose from various educational websites. This week some chose to use Lexia while others chose starfall. The kindergarten teachers have signed out the cart each Friday so it is a great incentive for the K2ers to get their work done during the week so they can use a MacBook or an iPad on Friday. With the cart, there is a small number of headphones. Last year I asked parents to send in a pair on headphones for their child to leave at school. Headphones can be inexpensively bought at places such as Dollar Tree or Five Below. It is not required for your child to have their own pair but if you can send a pair in it will help to ensure all kids in each class have a pair of headphones to wear. Your child's headphones will stay in a bucket in their cubby where they hang their coat and their headphones will never be shared with another student. If you are able to send in a pair, please do so by Friday and please label with your child's first name.
Thank you to all that sent in tissues. If you would still like to donate a box, we will gladly accept them. It is amazing how quickly we go through them during this time of the year.
Now that the winter is here, as a reminder, gym day is on Thursday and students need to wear sneakers to participate in gym class. If your child wears boots to school please pack a pair of sneakers in your child's back pack for them to change into on Thursdays.
One last reminder...now that the colder weather is here, please send your child in a winter jacket, hats and mittens/gloves as we try to go outside for recess each day if it is not too cold.
Enjoy your Sunday!
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