Creepy Crawly Insects!

This week, we learned about insects! Here are some of the important things we talked about...

Our centers this week included learning about what makes an insect, reading and writing power words, spelling words with silent e endings, working on words with blends, and more. 

In Reading, we listened to and discussed a book about the Moon.  We used the table of contents to preview the book and practiced wondering about the topic. We looked and diagrams and labels to help us build knowledge and purpose. Our vocabulary words this week included overhead, visible, face, and rough.

We are started to work during Writing about our opinions on various topics and trying to be convincing with our reasons.  

We worked on long vowels this Phonics this week and practiced adding silent e's to the end of words. We read and wrote words with long vowels.  We also learned the power word "your". 

In Science, we started talking about the seasons and the weather patterns we notice during each. 

Looking ahead...

Professional Development- No School 4/7

Jump Rope Assembly for American Heart Association 4/10

Passport Parade 4/14

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

Have a great weekend!

Jena

 

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