Students are currently using their literacy skills to share personal opinions. They have been working hard to not only develop an opinion, but to defend their opinion and compare it with their peers. We especially love sharing our opinion about books we are reading!
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Our kiddos spent the month of March focusing on shared research projects. We have learned so much through nonfiction reading and writing and had a blast going on virtual field trips!
I hope you all have been enjoying the snow days over the past couple of weeks! I want to remind you all of some special upcoming events next week that will hopefully not be impacted by weather :)
Monday, March 2- Read Across America day. Students can wear their pajamas to school and come prepared for a fun day of reading! We will stay in homeroom classes all day on Monday. Please let me know if you would like to come in and read or do a craft with our kiddos on Monday! Friday, March 6- Field trip to Safety Town! Please make sure that you have given me your signed permission slip for your child to attend the field trip with us on Friday. We could use a couple more parent volunteers to help our class that day, so please consider joining us on the field trip as a chaperone! Dads are invited to join us for a special morning on Friday, Feb. 13th at 7:15. We hope that you can come enjoy this special time with your child :)
Our students began their informational writing through teaching or telling others how to do something. We had the most fun writing "How to Make Lemonade" after actually attempting to make lemonade as a class, and reading and following the steps from our book about "How to Make a House".
Friday was the 100th day of school! Our kindergarteners celebrated the day by creatively writing what they thought their lives would be like at age 100. All the kids thought they would be in a wheel chair because their legs would be very tired after walking around for 100 years :) They also followed the steps in a process to create an illustration of themselves as a 100 year old person! Thank you, Mrs. Sharp, for volunteering in our room and helping us with the project!
Since returning from winter break, we have been reviewing letter sounds and blends, sight words, and reading strategies. Our reading and writing groups have been doing a wonderful job supporting one another and helping a buddy with decoding words when reading and spelling when writing. I love to see them COLLABORATE which was a huge push for us first semester!
A special thank you to Mrs. Sniecinski, who was our mystery reader last Friday! The students listened to a book on dinosaurs, then each received a keepsake dino to take home. They were also given a special pencil and fancy eraser to write their own amazing stories! Thank you!! I can't wait to see my sweet kindergarteners tomorrow! I'm sure that their fun times over winter break will make for awesome share journal stories this week! We are going to dive right into reading groups and review all of the strategies we can use to decode words, such as looking at the pictures to help us, stretching out the word, or chunking the words into phonics parts that we know. Please keep working hard on the sight word lists (reading AND writing them!)
I am including some pictures from our winter party. It was a special day and the kiddos were so happy and excited! Thank you so much to our parent volunteers for all that you did to make our celebration a success! Hello Parents! We have been rockin' and rollin' in Kindergarten and I am so proud of all that our kiddos have learned! We will continue working on letter sounds and how they relate to words. We are learning new blends and words that belong in short vowel word families such as cat, hat, mat, fat, pat, rat, etc. Through lessons with me, literacy centers, working on letter sounds/sight words, and shared journal, our learners are growing up fast! Thank you so much for all of your support and for being so kind in sending in snacks and treasure box items for our class!
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April 2015
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