Weekly Jungle Update… March 13-17…

March 14-17

Popcorn Words:  Where, There, Were.

Math:  We continued our work in Unit 4.  Finding partners of 10, making teen numbers and working on our fluency of adding and subtracting numbers together.  We are becoming amazing math magicians!!

Writer’s Workshop:  This week we focused on studying bears. We read non-fiction books and watched a video clip on these mammals! We found new facts to write down on our Have, Can, Are, chart. We then took these facts and added them into our complete, All About Bears book.  We then combined non-fiction books about bears in the fairy tale of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. The class had so much fun reading the different versions. Hopefully, they came home and shared the story with you :)We enjoyed trying our own “porridge” on Friday.  Some of us decided we like porridge (oatmeal) and some of us did not.  The Kindergarteners loved making this connection to our fairytale. We’re becoming experts at retelling! We will combine non-fiction writing on goats and the fairy tale, 3 Billy Goats Gruff next week! The kindergarteners really enjoy this unit on informational writing.

Reader’s Workshop:  We are working on non-fiction books.  Discovering all of the features that a non-fiction book has inside.  We have found diagrams, photographs, tables of contents, and many more features.  The students love these books.  We focused on looking closer at the illustrator (photographers) job in non-fiction books! We can learn a lot from closely looking at the pictures!

St. Patricks day Leprechaun: Starting Monday in our classroom, a week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day a special leprechaun has been visiting us every day and leaving their presence. We found our room to be decked out in green shamrocks, green pepper shamrocks were left for painting, shamrock cookies waiting for us, hidden gold and lucky charms, and even green toilet water! We looked like a sea of green Friday when we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day together!! The leprechaun left his footprints Friday around the room! 

Conferences:  Thank you all so much for attending conferences!  It was such a joy to be able to share your child’s progress!!  Please feel free to let me know if you ever have any questions  by emailing at myankee@hpseagles.net

Playground:  Thank you for continuing to pack the right winter gear!! Please watch the weather! Boots are still needed!! 

Mystery Reader:On Friday we had our first older sibling reader!! Hayley, Mady’s big sister in 4th grade at our school came to surprise us! It was so cool to listen to an older sibling read to us! Everyone that had a big sister or brother said they were headed home to ask! Hayley did amazing! She read us the adorable, fun book, Peanut Butter and Cupcake.  If you have an older child at Georgetown that would like to surprise their younger sibling! E-mail me!! I would love to have some more! 

Library:  We had library in our room Friday because of the book fair this week. Many of us checked out a new book, be sure to return it Tuesday! We will be back in the library Tuesday at our regular time!

Upcoming Dates:

  • Monday, March 20…Art, Bring Take Home Book.
  • Tuesday, March 21…Steam, Library, Bring Library Book.
  • Wednesday, March 22…Gym, Bring Take Home Book.
  • Thursday, March 23…Music, Bring Take Home Book.
  • Friday, March 24…Art.  Nolan’s Birthday!!!!!! 
  • Saturday, March 25…Mother/Son Event at BAM in Holland, 2:00-4:00 p.m. 
  • Thursday, March 30…All K P.J. Day (wear your jammies or comfies)
  • Friday, March 31 – Friday, April 7…NO SCHOOL – Spring Break

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