Halfway through January!

Last Friday we got to spend a lot of time discussing and learning about Dr. King, we read a few books about him and his life. We learned that he had a dream for peace in the world and we even got to write down one dream that we have for the world. We also got to make a colorful world with our hands and a freedom bell! Our projects are up in the hallways so if you are in the building you will have to stop by and check them out!

This week in Literacy we are starting Unit 6 “Weather for All Seasons “and will be talking about how weather and seasons affect us which ties in very nicely with our Unit Studies book we are making about the weather this week! Our essential question this week is “How are the seasons different?” and our vocabulary words are weather, seasons, migrate, active, and spot. We will be reading “Mama, Is It Summer Yet?”, “A Tour of the Seasons”, and some poems about the seasons. In our crabby book we will read “Is it Hot?” and during guided reading your child will read either “It is Hot?” or “Little Bear”. Again this week we will be learning two new words and focusing on two letters they are “is” and “little” and B and L, we sure are moving right along! We will reading three different genres of books this week and will be comparing them to see if we can make any connections between them. We will also be using the “visualize” strategy this week while we read our stories and of course blending sounds together and listening for certain sounds.

In writing we will be continuing to work on stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end and remembering all the things that good writers do! We have also been learning about pronouns – yes that is what I said pronouns! We know that a pronoun replaces a noun in a sentence and we are getting really good at finding them and using them. Also watch out this week because we will even be talking about plural nouns and that is on our homework this week!!

In Math we of course will be focusing on the number 100 – but we will also be starting Unit 4 which will focus on adding, comparing numbers, writing numbers 1-30, and number partners. Also we will be getting ready for the 100th day of school – we enjoy counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s during daily math routines and we can’t wait until we make a new group of 10 and finally 1 group of one hundred. Remember this Friday we will be celebrating our 100th day of school and I would love for you to do a project at home using 100 objects –and then bring your projects to school so your child can show all of their friends and explain what they did. Also your child can dress up like they are 100 years old! It is going to be a super fun memorable day! We will make hats/crowns and counting mats and talk about the fun things we will be doing to celebrate being 100 days smarter in the coming days! We might even get to look at some fun projects on pinterest and pictures of older people – remember I would love for you and your family to do a project using 100 of something – but if you don’t have time for a project your child can bring in 100 of something. I can't even believe we have been in school for 100 days- time sure does fly when you are having fun!! I know it is going to be a great week!!!

Also I apologize because I had on our calendar that report cards were coming home last week but I was wrong- they are coming home this week- so make sure to look in your child's kindergarten folder for the report card and as always please let me know if you have any questions!!