A Peek At Our Week 2/1/16

Good morning Huard Huddle Families!

I can't believe January has come and gone and FEBRUARY is here!

 

Lots of exciting things happening in February!

 

Monday we will discuss Groundhog Day! We will be making our predictions if there will be an early Spring or 6 more weeks of winter!

Please sign and return the Progress Reports! 

Box Tops: if you have any please send them in! 

 

Friday, February 12 we will celebrate our friendships! We will have a little Valentines Day celebration in the afternoon. We will pass out valentines and have some delicious treats. 

If you wish to send some treat in please let me know!

For our valentines please send in enough for 18 students. We don't need to put names on them. Just have your child sign their name so we know who it's from. 

Monday, February 15 will be our 100th day of school! We will celebrate this magnificent day by doing many 100 day activities! We will also be dressing like a 100 year old man or woman! Here is a picture of my own son when he celebrated his 100th day in kindergarten 4 years ago!

 

Readers/Writers Workshop: This week we are continuing our NON FICTION study! We will be reading INFORMATIONAL and FICTION books about groundhogs.Students are working on different non fiction pieces. Some are continuing with their bear books while others are working on informational books about groundhogs!

We will also be reading great stories about upcoming holidays; Valentines Day and Presidents Day. February is a short month but we will be busy!

We are learning all about the features of NON-FICTION, INFORMATIONAL books. 

*photographs vs. drawings

*headings

*table of contents

*bold print

*italics

*highlighted text

*pictures with captions

*tables/charts

*index

*glossary

 

Math: We are continuing our unit on numbers 11-20. We have been enjoying this song each morning:

 

 

We have been looking at one teen number each day. Last week we worked on 11-15. This week will be 16-20.  We are learning how to write the numbers, make tally marks, and show each number on a ten frame and with tens and ones blocks! It is very important for my kinders to know that 11 is made with 1 full group of 10 and 1 extra! 

Science: We are amazed with our Amaryllis! It has grown so much! Last week it grew 2 cubes in just one night! It is now 28 cubes tall and 4 blossoms are opening up! I know we are anxious to see it's progress Monday morning! I love the sparkle in their eye each morning when they come in to check on it! Science is such a wonderful thing!

Word Work:  I did not introduce new words last week. We needed a little more time the four words from the previous week. We have introduced all of the lowercase letters of the alphabet. We will be focusing on syllables, beginning sounds and clapping out CVC words.

Sight Words: me, him

Sight Word Reader: Look At Me

 

Week of January 19

Good morning Huard Huddle Families,

It was great being back with my Huard Huddle!  I'm pleased to say we have JUMPED right into 2016 with tons of energy and enthusiasm! The children are ready to tackle all the challenges the curriculum has to offer throughout the next 90 + days of school. We took our time easing back into our kindergarten routine after vacation. We spend time reviewing classroom expectations and school rules! 


I apologize for not posting recently! I hope to be back in full swing! We are so busy with three boys playing travel basketball that I can't seem to catch my breath! I know how busy you all are as well!


If you have any box tops please send them in~ Thank you for your recent box tops we are doing well!


Readers Workshop/ Writers Workshop: We have been working on studying features of NON FICTION books. Some things we have noticed about them are...






Our class enjoyed visiting our Weston Library last week because Miss V showed us where the NON FICTION books are and most of us chose to take one out! Happy reading!

Now that we know what features are in a non fiction book we are looking closely at BEARS! We have been working with partners to create a list of ideas for what BEARS   can do, what they have and what they are! We will then turn this list into sentences and eventually into a NON FICTION book about BEARS that we have written and illustrated ourselves! PHEW!!!!! We are HARD AT WORK!

Sight Words: his, her, will, come
Sight Word Reader: She Will Come
Letters; our last two letters will be introduced this week; y and x! We are also learning about the H BROTHERS!

Math: We have been wrapping up our unit on 2D and 3D shapes. Our assessment was on Friday and we will continue with it into next week. Kindergarten expectations are:

Unit 3- Shapes

MAS.M.G.K.1
 - Locate and describe objects in the environment using names of shapes and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

MAS.M.G.K.3 - 
Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”).

MAS.M.G.K.4
 - Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/“corners”) and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

MAS.M.G.K.5 - 
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.

MAS.M.G.K.6 - 
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, ‘Can you join these two squares to make a rectangle.

Our next unit will be NUMBER SENSE (numbers 11-20). We call these the TRICKY TEENS!  


Science: 2 weeks ago we planted an AMARYLLIS bulb! We have enjoyed watching it grow. We made predictions about how tall we thought it might get. We will be doing some "scientific journaling" about this wonderful learning opportuinty. We have discussed what all living things need to survive so we are being responsible about taking good care of this LIVING THING!