Here we come 2016!

I can’t believe that we are half way done with kindergarten and are starting the second semester of school. I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday and all of my friends had a fabulous break. I am ready to get back into the school routine and see what my friends can learn this semester!

This week we will be reviewing a lot of our school routines and rules! We have new desks, new literacy station partners, and maybe even a new spot to sit at on the carpet - we are starting the new year off with a bang!  We will also get a chance to make some goals for the new year – we are going to be reading, writing, and solving problems like crazy in 2016!

In math this week we will be focusing on teen numbers, solving story problems, and getting back into the routine of our daily math routines!

In reading we will be starting Unit 5 Week 2 and will be talking about how living things change as they grow. We will be focusing on the letter E and learning the word “are”. Our vocabulary words are develop, amazing, content, enormous, and imagine. I am excited to see how we will use these words in sentences! We will be reading “A Grand Old Tree”, “The Pine Tree”,  “From a Seed to a Tree”, and “Ed and Ned”. During guided reading we will be again practicing our routine and reading either “The Tree” or “Many Trees”.

In Unit Studies we will start talking about the four seasons and reading some great books! We will start to make our own seasons book this week as well!

During writing we will be reviewing what good writers do and writing about the fun things we did over our break! 

This Friday, January 8th is a spirit day where we get to wear our pajamas to school! Please just make sure your child has good shoes to go outside during recess with!

Again I am very excited to get back into the routine of things and I know that we are going to have a great week and year for that matter! Also in case your kindergartner didn't tell you or you haven't seen me lately I am having a baby in March. I am working on finding a wonderful sub who will fill in for me the 5 weeks I will be gone. I am hoping the baby comes during spring break so that will be counted as one of my 6 total weeks I will take off. Please know I plan on coming back to school for the last 4-6 weeks (depending on when Baby Woita decides to come out) to finish out the year with all of my friends! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns - but hopefully it will be an easy transition! Now I just have to get organized so everything is ready to go for my friends!