Important Dates and Reminders:
Unclaimed Square One art orders that were unbreakable have been sent home in backpacks. If you have not received your order, it is in the office waiting for you! Please let me know if you'd like me to send it in your child's backpack or if you plan to pick up in the office! Thanks!
Unclaimed Square One art orders that were unbreakable have been sent home in backpacks. If you have not received your order, it is in the office waiting for you! Please let me know if you'd like me to send it in your child's backpack or if you plan to pick up in the office! Thanks!
December 13: NO SCHOOL
December 14: College Wear Day
December 22: Super Hero Day in Kindergarten (a note will come home this week)
December 23-January 2: No SCHOOL
I am so excited to be back with the boys and girls for (an almost) full week this week. I had the chance to learn about the latest and greatest thinking in the teaching of reading and cannot wait to begin that work with these perfect readers!
A peek at our week:
Reading: We have really been doing the heavy lifting of using our strategies (powers) to learn to read the past month or so. We are now going to take some time to learn how readers can keep track of their learning and understanding of the books they read by jump starting our partnerships. We will focus on the ways partners listen to one another during reading and the questions they can ask after to help their partner share their thinking. You may notice that your child's books may come home with post-its on the pages, this means that they stopped to do some thinking while they were reading. When reading at home ask them to explain their thinking on that page and ask questions like: "Why do you think that?" "How do you know?" and "Can you tell me more about that?"
Writing: We are nearing the end of our writing unit on true stories. This week we will look back at our old stories and be sure to check if they included in both pictures and words: WHO was in the story, WHERE the story took place, WHAT HAPPENED in the story and HOW the characters felt and what they SAID. This is serious revising work!!
Math: This week we will begin a new math unit. The main focuses of this unit will be:
developing awareness of numbers 11-20 and recognizing these numbers as groups of 10 tens and extra ones. As in all units we will continue deepen our understanding of addition and subtraction and showing expressions that match story problems as well as writing our own story problems to demonstrate our knowledge of addition and subtraction equations.
The math centers we will work in this week will be:
developing awareness of numbers 11-20 and recognizing these numbers as groups of 10 tens and extra ones. As in all units we will continue deepen our understanding of addition and subtraction and showing expressions that match story problems as well as writing our own story problems to demonstrate our knowledge of addition and subtraction equations.
The math centers we will work in this week will be:
- going on a teen number hunt and recording teen numbers as a group of ten and extra
- using foam ten frames to construct teen numbers
- finding partners of numbers 1-10 and recording equations to show them
- using buttons to demonstrate subtraction equations
Science: This week will take some time to compare and contrast the skin of amphibians and reptiles and discuss why their skin type impacts where they live and how they protect themselves. We will also be doing some fun art projects to deepen our understanding of these skin types
Word Work: The new words we will be introduced to this week are: one, two and three.
These words will help us in our reading and writing and we will also come across them in math!!
These words will help us in our reading and writing and we will also come across them in math!!
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