Getting Back into the Swing of Things!

We finished up our Mo Willems unit this week! Some of our center activities included writing about our favorite Mo Willems book, reading and writing power words, writing about our friends, finding blends and writing them, playing power word BINGO, and more!

We started working on numbers to 100 in Math.  This week, our focus was numbers 20-50.  Please continue reading and writing numbers and counting with your child at home.

In Phonics, we worked on -r blends and learned the power words "one" and "once". Ask your child to read and write words with -r blends like grin, trunk, drop, branch, crab, press, etc.

During Reading, we listened to and discussed a nonfiction book about trains.  We used text features like the table of contents and glossary as we read. We made text-to-self connections and made a text-to-text connection to a poem about trains.  We learned the words haul, warn, signal, and mighty.

We wrote poems during Writing and practiced visualizing and discussing them.  We wrote descriptive words about foods and shared our poems with our writing partners. 

In our last Second Steps lesson, we showed what we have learned about solving problems. We suggested ways to solve problems in different scenarios and drew a picture of ourselves using a problem-solving strategy.  If problems or disagreements arise at home, for example, between siblings, ask your child to suggest a way to help solve the problem.

We had fun listening to Mrs. Poskin-Moreno and Mrs. Pennell about their important jobs! Thanks for coming to share with us! 

Looking ahead...

Scholastic Orders due 3/27

Professional Development- No School 4/7

Jump Rope Assembly for American Heart Association 4/10

SAVE THE DATE! PEACE OUT KINDERGARTEN PERFORMANCE 5/15 at 12:45 (more info coming soon!)

Have a great weekend!

Jena

Mo Willems!

We have has a fun week learning and reading books by Mo Willems, our favorite author! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week were packed with Mo Willems activities!  We found pigeon power words and Mo Willems characters around the room and read/wrote them, we played blends games, looked at story elements and made connections, and more! 

In Writing, we heard, visualized, and discussed various poems.  We explored descriptive words (adjectives) and practiced writing poems of our own! 

We started our new Math unit on flat and solid shapes.  Ask your child to tell you the shapes we are learning about!

We read books together during Shared Reading and focused on reading words with blends and digraphs and reading fluently while paying attention to punctuation. 

During Phonics, we learned the new power words "find" and "just". We read and wrote words with blends.

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that apologizing is one way to begin to solve problems. We practiced using the phrases, “I’m sorry. Are you okay? How can I help?” as a way to help solve problems.Ask your child to teach you the three parts of the apology they learned. Encourage them to apologize when the opportunity arises at home.

We learned about Ruby Bridges in Social Studies. Ruby Bridges was a brave six-year-old girl who helped change history. In 1960, she became one of the first Black children to attend an all-white school in New Orleans. We learned that  Ruby showed courage even when she was scared everyone deserves to feel welcome and even kids can make a big difference!

Looking ahead...

There will be no newsletter next week due to our short week and wrapping up for break!

Parent Teacher Conferences 3/10 and 3/11- Don't forget to sign up!

Early Release Day 3/12

Stray Rescue Donations due 3/12

Spring Break 3/13-3/22

Career Day Speaker 3/24

Difference Makers 3/24

Have a great weekend!

Jena