Here is a link to the new homework calendar
Here is a link to our school newsletter and lunch menu
Important Dates and Reminders:
January 16-20 Celebrate New Directions Week (more info to come; listed below are the dress up days for the week)
January 16: PJ and Stuffed Animal Day and Family Art Night
January 17: Crazy Hair or Hat Day
January 18: NO SCHOOL
January 19: Sports Day and Family Gym Night
January 20: 1/2 day and Book Character Day
Here is a look at our NEW learning for the NEW YEAR:
Reading: January is such an exciting month for Kindergarten learning as kids just...take off! We will begin a new reading unit called Bigger Books, Bigger Muscles. This unit will build upon the super powers the boys and girls have worked so hard to master and use. The main goal of the unit will be to gain confidence in reading more challenging (and less predictable) books, really using letter sounds to decode words part by part and building stronger reading habits that help to put all of our hard work together to tackle new reading challenges. We will be reassessing student reading levels and you may see different color "dots" coming home in your child's book the next few weeks!
Writing: We said farewell to true story writing before we left for break and will welcome procedural or how-to writing this week. We will explore this type of writing by first reading and discussing many different how-to books and then we'll work together to write a class piece that teaches others, step by step, how to do something we do each day in our class (like making a lunch choice). Then the children will be off to brainstorm teachable topics and write their own teaching books. I know they will just love this type of writing! You can encourage idea generating at home by discussing things they do each day and then listing the steps involved in those tasks. Talking these things through will help them to easily transition to this type of writing.
Math: In math our main focus still remains teen numbers and fluency with addition and subtraction equations. A big part of this unit is also being able to see and name the partners of a number when using math tools or looking at math drawings. This week we will review finding a group of ten in a teen number, practice counting on from 5 to find larger sums and naming partners of numbers 2-6.
Please keep an eye out in folders for parent notes explaining these math concepts!
The math centers we will work in this week are:
- creating a teen number book
- building teen numbers using 10 strip, 5 strips and single chips
- showing partners of a number using dots and break apart sticks
- using dominoes to practice adding and equation writing
Social Studies: We will take this week to review and reboot classroom and school rules and expectations and will be setting goals to be the best learners and friends we can by for 2017!
Word Work: New sight words for the next two weeks are: play, have, get, will, for
Invite your child to try to spell these words in lots of ways: write them using a variety of tools, spell orally in the car, magnetic letters, or on a drawing app
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