In reading we will be starting Unit 7 and this week we will
be talking about how some animals are alike and how some are different. We will
be learning more about the letter U and the words “for” and “have”. We will be
reading “ZooBorns”, “Baby Farm Animals”, and some poetry about animals. Your
child will be reading either “Two Cubs” or “Animal Bodies” during guided
reading and in our crabby books we will be reading “A Pup and a Cub”. Our vocabulary words are appearance,
behavior, exercise, wander, and plenty.
When we are reading Zooborns we will be focusing on rereading as well as
listening for evidence in the text that tells us how the baby animals are alike
and different and then we will fill out a venn diagram together.
In writing we are working hard on making our stories better
by adding more details. We know that adding adjectives are a great way to make
more detailed sentences. We know that we can add what color something is, what
size it is, what it feels like or sounds like to help make our stories more
detailed. I am so impressed with my friends and am looking forward to seeing
the three page stories they will be writing very soon!
In Math this week we will telling and solving story
problems. We will be comparing two numbers and talking about the different
between them. We will again get to
explore more with shapes – my friends loved last week when we got to do this –
we explored with triangles, parallelograms (diamonds), trapezoids, and hexagons
to fill in the pattern grids! This week we will also be learning about math
mountains and the tiny tumblers that live on the math mountains – I will admit
I do love the tiny tumblers and am excited to teach my friends about them
because we will be learning a lot more about number partners!
During Unit Studies we will be talking about Transportation - last week we didn't quite get to it with our snow days but I promise we will this week :) We will be talking about how you can get from one place to another either by land, air, or water!
Also this week we will be celebrating friendships and
Valentine’s Day – please remember non-edible Valentines would be amazing and
that you can send them anytime this week as long as there is one for everyone
in our class.
The Meadow Lane Science Fair is this Thursday, Feb. 11th
at 6:30 please come check out the cool projects if you are able to! Henry, Lily and I
will be there with our skittles and m&m's! As a class we will go and check out the 3rd
– 5th grade projects in the afternoon! I had high hopes of having a classroom science fair project this year but last week threw me off a bit and I will be gone all day on Tuesday working in the district office on some health curriculum - so it might not get done - but I am sure you will hear about it if we do get to it!
Information about conferences will be coming home this week so please be on the lookout! It is going to be another super fun week in kindergarten!
Information about conferences will be coming home this week so please be on the lookout! It is going to be another super fun week in kindergarten!
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