Leaf Reporting

The K2ers were busy with the leaves they collected and brought into school. They used magnifying glasses to look at the leaves closely, measured them using cubes and chose their favorite one to "report" on. As a class they filled in a chart about leaves after reading the story "Fall Leaves."

We have also been watching the same tree right out our classroom window since the beginning of the school year to see how it changes. After we did our leaf reporting we went outside to check it out closely and we even had some fun with some leaves that have fallen already!

 

 

 

 

 

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The Best Helpers!

Monday morning the K2ers were busy helping Thiago and his mom fill approximately 120 goodie bags to be delivered to the UMass pediatric floor and clinic. They had so much fun and the best part was that they knew they were helping children who are sick or injured have a Happy Halloween even if they can't go trick-or-treating.

It was such an AWESOME experience...Thank you for including us!

 

 

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Week in Review ~ October 11th - 14th

I hope everyone enjoyed the Columbus Day weekend. We had a great shorter week in K2 where as usual we were busy learning many new things! In ELA we finished up week 2 in Unit 1 where we introduced and practiced using the vocabulary words arrived, exciting and exhausted. I was so impressed with how well the K2ers remembered the meaning of each word and how they could use it in a sentence. Way to go! We continued to focus in on the letter Aa and the short sound /a/. We also began "tapping out" sounds in words. Ask your K2er to tap out the sounds in simple cvc words (consonant vowel consonant) such as mat, pot and cat. We read the Aesop Fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" and talked about what slow and steady wins the race means. We also reviewed all of our sight words introduced so far: I, can, the, we.

In math we are close to wrapping up Topic 2 where we are comparing numbers 0-5. We used the vocabulary words greater than, less than, equal to and we also focused in on the terms before and after once I saw that many were confused by those terms. A suggestion on how to practice before and after at home would be to have your K2er collect 5 or 6 small objects and then have them line them up on a table according to your directions. For example, in class we used the small bear counters so I asked them to put the yellow bear before the red bear, put the blue bear after the red bear, etc... We will be finishing up Topic 2 this week.

Each Friday the kindergarten students get a chance to use the iMac cart where they can use MacBooks or iPads during our ELA center time. There are very few sets of headphones on the cart so it makes it difficult for the K2ers to hear what they are suppose to do when they can hear each other's iPad or MacBook. Years past I have asked the K2ers to bring in a set of headphones to keep in their cubby for when we use the iMac cart on Fridays and it has worked out well. Headphones can be found at both Dollar Tree and Five Below for a reasonable price. If you can send in a set of headphones for your K2er, that would be greatly appreciated. Please be sure to write their name on them in case they get put in the wrong cubby.

 

As a reminder the Magazine Drive is still going on and don't forget...

 

Enjoy this beautiful fall weekend!

 

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Week in Review ~ October 3rd - 6th

It was one crazy week in K2! Monday morning we had the magazine drive assembly, Tuesday morning we had picture day and Wednesday we had Walk to School Day. In between all of those fun things we started Unit 1 Week 2 in ELA where we talked about how animals move. We read the story "Pouch!," introduced the vocabulary words movement and adventure and the sight word we, and focused in on the letter Aa. We will be continuing with week 2 next week.

In math we started Topic 2 where we are comparing numbers 0-5. We talked about the terms equal and greater than. To reinforce the terms we worked with a partner and used counters and dice to make an equal group or to make a group with a greater amount.

We will be continuing on with Topic 2 this coming week where we will introduce the term less than.

The magazine drive is in full swing at JA! Each day whichever class returns the most magazine sales from the K and 1 classes wins the class mascot for the day. K2 was the day 1 winner and Thiago the Monkey was excited to have the comfy emoji pillow to sit on!

Keep returning those magazine sales...I think Thiago the Monkey was sad we had to give the pillow to a 1st grade class!

As a reminder there is No school Monday...enjoy the long weekend!

 

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