Short busy week!

This week is going to be another busy one! We are going to be working on adding details to make our stories better and also will be adding a sheet to our writer’s workshop folders to help us become the best writer’s we can be! My friends were very excited about the three page stories we started last week! I am excited for conferences to share with you some of their great writing!

In Math we will be comparing numbers, exploring with shapes, drawing tiny tumblers on our math mountains, and telling and solving story problems. This week Ms. Fisher will also be teaching us a lesson on shapes!

In reading we will be talking about how we take care of different kinds of pets. Our vocabulary words are responsibility, train, depend, compared, and social. We will be reading “The Birthday Pet”, “The Family Pet”, and “The Perfect Pet” and in our crabby books we will read “I Hug Gus”. During guided reading your child will either read “My Cats” or “Their Pets”. We will also be focusing on the letters G and W and learning the words “of” and “they”. This week we will focus on the plot of the story which is usually how the characters figure out or solve a big problem. We will also talk about predictions and how good readers make predictions to figure out what they think will happen next in the story and sometimes readers have to revise their predictions.

In Unit Studies we will continue to do activities from the Nutrition Kit we received last week – my friends and I have loved learning about “my plate” so far and have learned what happens to our food after we eat it! We are excited to learn more about nutrition!

This Friday is going to be a little crazy as Mrs. Schroeders class will be joining us for the day! Their classroom is being painted all day and since we do everything the exact same way we thought we would just invite them over for the day. We will start the day with going to the library, then we will all do our g and w letter projects. Then we have a parent reader. After lunch we will do daily math routines and tell and solve story problems. We also have a dentist coming to visit us and she will talk to us about the importance of brushing our teeth so we will be doing a few activities with our teeth as well. Then we will go to specials and finish the day with activities from our nutrition kit – so I promise we will still have a lot of learning going on but wanted to give you a heads up in case your kindergartener tells you that her friends were with us the entire day – because usually they just come over for a short period of time or for fun games or videos! If we are lucky we might also start trying to assess some of our friends for report cards since we will have two teachers in the room!

Last week you should have received a note about your child’s conference. Please send this back as soon as you can or let me know if you need to switch days or times! Also please plan on bringing your kindergartener to the conference with you – I think it is so important that your child knows that we talk about how they are doing at school and your child has a few fun things to show you! If you have any questions or need to talk to me about something privately please let me know and we can figure out a time to talk without your child! Thank you so much for your help and support! I can’t wait to talk to you all next week!