February!

I can’t believe it is already February – we are just soo busy and the time is flying by!

Today was Groundhog’s day and we missed it because of the snow and unfortunately we may be seeing more of the snow if Punxsutawney Phil is right! But not to worry we can still read our Groundhog’s Day books a day late and I am sure all of my friends will be super excited about the snow! If we are lucky and the weather cooperates we may even build a snowman together this week!

This week we will also be getting ready for Valentine’s Day. This year I am asking that if student wants to bring Valentine’s for their friends that it a non-edible item or a hershey’s kiss. A more detailed note will be coming home about this soon so please be on the look out!

In reading we will be reviewing all of the letters and words we have learned so far. But we will be learning some new vocabulary words and they are safe, prepare, notice, celebration, and enough. Our essential question is “How can you stay safe in bad weather?” and we will be discussing this and also practicing this at school. We will also be reading “Waiting Out the Storm”, “Rainbow Crow”, and “Be Safe in Bad Weather”. During guided reading your child will either read “Bad Weather” or “Getting Ready” and we will read “Mack and Ben” in our crabby books. We are really becoming such good readers – we know the difference between genres of books, we can visualize, make predictions and find key details, and we can even make connections between stories. This week we will be talking a lot about question words that start with “who, what, when, where, and why”.

In math we will be telling story problems using fruits and vegetables, and comparing two groups of numbers using the words more and fewer. We will also be looking at numbers 11-20 on our counting mats and will be using our teen equations cards and discussing our teen numbers. We will also be reviewing different shapes and how you can put them together to make new shapes and practicing patterns. Also this past week we were lucky to have gotten two new practicum students assigned to our classroom to help us learn more about math! We are excited to have Ms. Taylor and Ms. Fisher in our kindergarten room – we love them both already!!!

In writing we will be working on adding details to our stories and using transitions words to write about what happens in our stories. We are also working hard on using good handwriting and writing our last name! I am amazed at some of the sentences my friends are able to write!

We finished up our weather and seasons unit and will start learning more about our body! We know that we have to be healthy to be the best student that we can be. We will be making a book and talking about what our body needs so we can grow up strong, happy, and healthy!

The Meadow Lane Science Fair is next Thursday, Feb. 12^th and I would love to see you all there if you don’t have any plans for that evening – I understand you may not want to do a project this year but I urge you to come and check it out. Henry and I will be doing a project I hope– the topic is still yet to be decided… seeing as we can not agree on anything yet (my five year old is quite stubborn and opinionated :) and obsessed with hunting at the current moment)  last year we researched Elk and found some fun facts and pictures to share and it was so much fun that we will definitely be doing something again this year for the Science Fair! If you have any questions about this please let me know!

Well it is going to be another fast fun week in kindergarten! I hope to post our video about the 100^th day and Math Night by the end of the week!