Weekly Update, March 6-10…

Popcorn Words:  could, would, should.  We looked at how these words all had the “ould” pattern in them.  We worked on finding them in our morning messages and throughout our popcorn books!

Math:  Ask them to name all 4, 3D Shapes!!! We explored more with shapes! We continued to explore teen numbers and adding and subtracting numbers.

Writer’s Workshop:  The Kindergarteners are becoming wonderful informational writers.  This week our focus was “All About Pigs”. We read about pigs and watched a video clip on goats to write down facts about these farm animals. We then took our facts on pigs to put together our very own “All About Pigs” book. I love how creative the students are getting with adding in features that they’re seeing in other non-fiction books. We’re adding fun facts, zoomed in pictures, labels, and diagrams to make our books full of information! We even had Brysen Kuiek, 5th grader at our school and Mrs. Kuiek second grade teachers son come and teach us about pigs! He is raising a couple of pigs for H4 club. He created a whole powerpoint to teach us about this cute animals. 

We also had a special guest visitor on Tuesday this week!!! My boyfriend, Zach came in to visit the class and tell us all about fish!!! We were so excited!! We got to see what fish start from- fish eggs, take turns using his reel, check out the longest rod, and try to guess and learn about different fish! Many of us knew our fish!! It was so fun to se their excitement with learning about fish!! We have so many fisherman in our class and Zach is an avid fisherman so he was also in his glory! 🙂 Thanks Zach for visiting us!! We LOVED having you!!! 

Reader’s Workshop:  We are continuing to explore all of the features that a Non-Fiction book contains.  Diagrams, cut-aways, table of contents, photographs, drawings, and bold words. It has been fun to see the Kindergarteners find these features in our Non-fiction books in our classroom.  They get very excited when they spot these features.  We are also continuing to combine our fairy tales with non-fiction books.  Showing the Kindergarteners a fairy tale story.  This week we have explored the story of The 3 Little Pigs. We read and compared a few different versions of this fairy tale classic. Then we used our retell skills to create a story board to retell this story to a partner! Hopefully we also retold this story at home to you with our fun story setting and character props! 

Parent Teacher Conferences :  Our Spring Conferences will be held Monday, March 13 – Wednesday, March 15 from 4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Conference time reminders were sent home  with your kinder. Please let me know if you will not be able to attend conferences or if you have a conflict so that we can reschedule. Report cards will be sent home Monday.  If possible, please take a moment to review it.  We will be looking at it together. Please arrive on time, as we have 15 minutes to discuss your wonderful kinder! I will  do my best to stay on schedule.  I can’t wait to share your Kindergartener’s progress with you!! They are AMAZING!!!

TIME CHANGE:  Don’t forget to move  your clocks forward one hour Saturday night. Remember the saying….. “SPRING AHEAD”

Upcoming Dates:

  • Monday, March 13 Bring take home book 
  • Tuesday, March 14…Bring library book! Preview the book fair 
  • WednesdayMarch 15Bring take home book, word list and Literacy-handwriting and Math Homework 
  • Thursday, March 16…bring take home book, purchase book fair books (If you would like to have your kinder purchase books, please send the money inside an envelope labeled with their name.  Parent volunteers will be available to help your kinder shop.); parent teacher conferences
  • Friday, March 17Wear Green for St. Patty’s Day Celebrations!!!
  • Thursday, March 30.. Kindergarten PJ Reading Day!  
  • Friday, March 31-April 7…Spring Break…NO SCHOOL!