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Week of February 27- March 3, 2017

Thanks so much to everyone who was able to come today and watch your kindergarten square dance. The kids did a great job and loved having you for their audience!

Friday, March 10 – Report cards come home

March 11 – March 19 – Spring Break

                                   

Theme: Texas, cowboys and the rodeo

Reading:  Shared reading and interactive read-alouds about Texas. We are focusing on predicting events and comprehension.

Writing:  This week, we will be writing about Texas, cowboys and the rodeo.      

                                       

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, this, come, you, are, get, some, with, will, have, went, saw, so

NEW WORDS:  MAKE, UP

Word Study:   We are leaving the world of short vowels and moving into long vowels.  Our work begins with silent e words.  We will look for silent e at the end of a word to makes the initial vowel long.  Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9dwkrUf8s  or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBP-AW29YDk for cute songs that explain how the silent e works.

Math:  We will review identifying coins by name and challenge the kids to identify coins by their value. Problem solving, and combinations of numbers to 7 will also be covered this week. 

Science: Now that we know all about soil, we’ll look at earthworms and how they help make soil rich for plant growth.  Later in the week, we’ll begin our study of plants and living things.

Social Studies:  To go along with our Language Arts focus, we will learn all about the great state of Texas!

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Visit www.raz-kids.com
• Tuesday:  Make a list of 10 silent e words
• Wednesday:   Write three sentences about the great state of TEXAS!!

• Thursday:  Grab a handful of coins, sort them, and label them by name.  Can you tell what each coin is worth?
• Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader! 

Happy Birthday George Washington

Today we have beenot writing letters to George and Abe. We also made a craft of George and a timeliness of some events in his life.

Musical Money

We played Musical Money in Math.  It was like musical chairs but we passed around a bag of money.  If it landed on them they had to pull out a coin and name it.

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Week of February 20- February 23, 2016

Monday, February 20^th – President’s Day  School Holiday

Thursday, February 23^rd – Kindergarten Round Up at 12:25 pm for parents of children entering kindergarten in the fall of 2017.  Please pass the word to your friends and neighbors!

Friday, February 24th - All kindergarten classes will be demonstrating their square dancing skills in the gym at 12:35 pm. Come and enjoy dancing with your little cowboy or cowgirl! Everyone can wear their western clothes to celebrate GO TEXAN DAY at Rummel Creek. (Note: if your cowboy/cowgirl wears boots, please send an extra pair of shoes for playing on the playground.)  There will be time to take photos with your child following their dances.

Thanks to all who attended the Auction last weekend!  We are so thankful for all the ways families support our school.  PTA is offering everyone the chance to buy unsold items or spots for parties.  Click here to see what fun things are still available to purchase.

Theme: Finish Presidents and begin TEXAS

Reading:  We’re doing some assessment of skills to see where we need to focus in our reading groups as we press toward the end of the year. As decoding improves, we spend more time on comprehension of text.  Keep reading home readers and ask your child to tell you details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  Remember to send book bags back each MONDAY.

Writing:  More letter writing, as well as non-fiction writing about Abe Lincoln and George Washington

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, this, come, you, are, get, some, with, will, have, went

NEW WORDS: saw, so

Word Study:    No new word families.  We will review all short vowel sounds. 

Math: We will be identifying finding the value of and comparing attributes of coins.

Science: We will wrap up our exploration of soil.

Social Studies:  Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington; starting Texas at the end of the week.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·                Tuesday:  Practice your short vowel sounds.  Can you make a list of 5 words for each vowel?

·                Wednesday:  Write a letter to someone you love…don’t forget the date, greeting, body, closing, and signature!

·                Thursday:  Find Abe Lincoln on the penny.  Flip your penny 10 times   and record using tally marks how many times you got heads and how many times you got tails.

Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader

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Week of February 13 - 17, 2017

We will be exploring coins over the next few weeks in math.  It would be great for each child to have a variety of coins to examine.  If possible, please send a Ziploc baggie with a variety of coins.  It doesn’t need to be a lot; for example, 7 pennies, 3 nickels, 3 dimes, and 2 quarters would be awesome!  If you are able to send coins, please write your child’s name on the baggie so it can be returned to you!

Our unit on plants will start soon.  In prep for that, each class will need some potting soil so we can get seeds planted and sprouting.  If you can send in a bag (not huge!) of soil, please let us know.  Thanks!

Monday, February 13^th – Picture Day  We will take our class picture and individual spring pictures.  Order forms for the class picture and pose selection for individual pictures came home in folders last week.  You may also order online.

Tuesday, February 14^th – Valentine’s Day  Please remember to send your child with their valentines on Tuesday.  We will help the children “mail” them that morning.  We hope to see you at our class party at 1:00 pm!      

Monday, February 20^th – Presidents Day  No school.

Friday, February 24^th – Go Texan Day  Grab your boots, hat and bandana and come watch your little cowpoke show off their dancin’ skills during our Specials time.  More details to come!

Theme: Friendship and Presidents

Reading:  We are working hard to improve our reading skills in literacy stations and guided reading groups. This week, we’ll be reading more stories about friendship and Valentine’s Day.  Toward the end of the week, we’ll integrate language arts with social studies as we read nonfiction books about several Presidents.

Writing:  Writing a Friendly Letter – We are writing letters and being sure to include all the parts of a friendly letter:  heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature.  Ask your child to sing you the Friendly Letter song!

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, this, come, you, are, get, some, with, will

NEW WORDS:  have, went

Word Study:  -UG and -UN Word Families 

Math:  We’ll finish up our number combinations of six and move into exploration of coins. 

Science: Rocks and Soil

Social Studies:  Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of 10 -UG words.
• Tuesday:  Write a thank you letter to someone in your class.
• Wednesday:   Grab a handful of coins.  Sort them.  Can you find the coin with Abraham Lincoln?

• Thursday:  Flip a penny ten times.  Make tally marks to record how many times you get heads/tails.
• Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader!  Return the home reader bag on Monday.

Letter Writing

We have been learning how to write a letter this week. Yesterday we did some interactive writing and wrote to Mrs. Timmreck's class.  Today we did shared writing and wrote to Mrs. Harn.  Then we practiced writing a letter on our own.
After recess we began decorating our Valentine boxes.

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Week of February 6 - 10, 2017

February 13^th – Picture day  We will take our class group photo and spring pictures.  Order forms for group pictures will come home in the blue folder. 

February 14^th – Valentine’s Day  Please send valentine cards on this day.  We’ll pass them out in the morning before the party.  Thanks to all who have sent in cereal boxes.  We have more than enough to make our mailboxes.  We would love to see you at our Valentine Party!  It will start at 1:00 pm in the classroom.  We have 19 friends in our class.  

February 20^th – President’s Day  No school

Theme: Friendship and Presidents

Reading:  We are working hard to improve our reading skills in literacy stations and guided reading groups

Writing:  Writing a Friendly Letter- Date, Greeting, Body, Closing, and Signature

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, this, come, you, are, get, some

NEW WORDS: with, will

Word Study: -EN Word Family 

Math: This week, our number sense work continues as we work on combinations of 6.  We’ll practice counting on from the higher number to add, recognizing different configurations of 6 (like dots on a dice or tally marks) and exploring ways to make 6.

Science: Rocks and Soil

Social Studies:  Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of 10 -EN words.
• Tuesday:  Write a letter to someone in your family.
• Wednesday:   Make a list of things that come in groups of 5.  How many can you think of?

• Thursday:  Read a valentine book.  What is the problem in the story?  How did it get solved?
• Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader!  Return the home reader bag on Monday!!

102 Days of Kindergarten

Friday in math we made fruit loop necklaces with 102 fruit loops.  We were too busy on the 100th day so we did it Friday.   The kids grouped by 10s and then added 2.  It was great counting practice and fine motor practice too.  Then of course they had a fun snack later.  

100 Day Fun

We had tons of fun rotating to the different Kindergarten classrooms on the 100th day of school.  We also got to meet the author Jerry Pallotta. It was a very busy day!