DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Friday, Jan. 25th—Report Cards Home
-Thursday, Feb. 14th—Valentine’s Party (pm)
-Friday, Feb. 15th—No School—Professional Development
-Monday, Feb. 18th—No School—Presidents Day
STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Our student of the week is Dayvi Mondragon-Macedo. Dayvi enjoys playing sports and gaming on his DS. His favorite place to visit is Game Stop and he would like to be a professional football player when he grows up! Congratulations to Dayvi on being Student of the Week!
REPORT CARDS:
Report cards will be coming home with students this Friday. At this point in the school year, Kindergarteners are expected to recognize and name all of their uppercase and lowercase letters and know 80% of their sounds to be at grade level. We have introduced 15 sight words so far and students who have mastered 80% of those are at grade level. As indicated on the report card, a √ means they ‘meet the standard’ and any areas that your child receives a — or √— are areas that they need to work on. I am always happy to discuss your child’s progress with you, as we won’t have a chance to ‘formally’ meet for conferences until the end of February. :) It is absolutely amazing to see their progress thus far and so exciting to look ahead to all we have yet to learn in Kindergarten!
**Please note: you will be receiving your child’s DIBELS and AIMSWEB results in a few weeks, as they are still finishing up with assessing the students.
LIBRARY:
We will visit the library again this Friday, February 25th. Please help your child return their book on or before Friday, so that they can check out a new book.
READING:
Our focus texts for this week are The Three Little Kittens & Kitten’s First Full Moon, which we will use to practice summarizing. Our focus letter for the week is Rr, and we will introduce the sight words little & have. We have two new beanie babies to meet this week, both for Comprehension: Repair Bear is a strategy that reminds us to monitor our comprehension as we read and if we realize that we aren't understanding what we are reading, we need to stop, go back, and re-read to try to figure it out. Digger the Dog reminds us dig for the ‘big idea,’ important details, and the author’s purpose in the texts that we read. We will be practicing both of these strategies this week during whole group reading and read-to-self time.
WRITING:
We will celebrate the completion of our I See booklets by reading them to Mrs. Green’s Jr. Kindergarten class, and then bring them home to share with our families. We will continue our study of pattern books, as we explore pattern books that have surprise endings. Students will begin writing a new pattern book this week, using all of the strategies that we have learned so far. They will also complete a journal page about what they like to do on a snow day.
MATH:
This week we will practice building the teen numbers using base 10 blocks, practice identifying missing numbers, work on representing addition stories using manipulatives, and review symmetry. We will also be introduced to some new and exciting math
materials—calculators, geoboards, and tangrams.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will continue our study of winter this week—as we read several stories about snowmen. We will also begin learning about ways to keep our bodies clean and healthy and the importance of good nutrition and healthy choices. We will take some time to learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his commitment to promoting equality, fairness, & justice—values that we embrace today.
**Reminder—Every Friday is Cookie Day—students can purchase a cookie @ lunch for 25¢.
