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Week of January 11-15, 2016

Calendar Notes:

·        Monday, January 16:  Martin Luther King Holiday    No School

·        Thursday, Janaury 26:  Science Fair  This is an optional activity for kindergarten children.  Click here for registration form.

·        Wednesday, February 1:  100^th Day of School!  You should have received a letter this week about the 100^th day.  We can’t wait to see the creative shirts for the parade! 

·        Saturday, February 11:  RCE Goes Gatsby   Auction tickets are on sale now via this link:  https://portal11.bidpal.net/Portal/bpe301953/tickets/preview.html

·        Monday, February 13:  Spring pictures will be taken.  More information to come.

Theme: Winter, Snow, and cold weather

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy stories about winter and cold weather. We are working to improve our retelling by including important details from the beginning, middle and end of the story. 

Writing:  The children continue to make books and develop their writing as they learn to make letter/sound connections and develop their own ideas or writing. This week we are focusing on using illustrations to help tell the story.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was, not, she

NEW WORDS:  this, come

Word Study:  -IP and –IN Word Family 

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to emphasize numeracy and problem solving to 20. Our work to form number sentences with real problems we can act out in class continues as well. 

Science: Weather work continues as we look at the weather experienced in each season.

Social Studies:  We will be reading about and discussing jobs that we do at home.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday: Go on a word hunt around your house.  Make a list of words you find in the -IP and -IN word families. 

·        Tuesday: Roll 2 dice.  Write an addition sentence for the numbers shown.  Practice counting on from the highest dice to find the sum.

·        Wednesday:  Write a sentence that uses quotation marks.  Don’t forget to use a comma, too!

·        Thursday:  Find out what the weather will be tomorrow.  You can watch on TV, look at an app, or check the internet. 

·        Friday:  Pack up your library books and/or home readers to return to school!