HAPPY SPRING!
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that
knows poems by heart. -Rainer Marie Rilke
Thank You, Parents!
Thank you for taking time to conference
with me about your child’s growth in kindergarten. I look forward to partnering with you for the
remainder of the year as your child gears up for first grade.
Literacy Highlights
We are reading and writing up a storm in kindergarten! We are focusing on using a variety of strategies
to read instructional level books. We
are learning how to recognize spelling chunks and little words inside of big
words to read and write tricky words. This week we worked on the initial consonant blends bl, fl, gr, br and
we added –ut, -ud, -ag to our list of known word families. During Writer’s Workshop we wrote more ‘How
To’ books and started our 5 Senses books. We also ‘changed out’ our classroom library to reflect the spring season, with an
emphasis on informational books. Make time to read and write with your blooming child everyday!
Math Highlights
We are learning how to represent and solve addition and
subtraction story problems using objects, number sentences, props, math talk and
our math hands. We are working hard to solve
problems in more than one way and to justify our math thinking. We know that when we work hard, persevere through stuck points and share our thinking our brains grow and we feel good!
We are beginning to learn about measurement and will have opportunities to use math tools to measure capacity, weight, temperature and
length. Help your child locate and use
measuring tools in your home.
We are learning about two-dimensional and three
-dimensional shapes. Go on a shape walk
and identify circles, spheres, squares, cubes, triangles, cones, rectangles,
and rectangular prisms. Ask your child
to teach you all about shapes and their different attributes.
Science Highlights
We began a unit on our 5 senses (seeing,
hearing, tasting, smelling, touching). Next week will focus on hearing and smelling. The students will explore high, low,
loud, and soft sounds with instruments. They will study a model of the human ear and conduct an experiment to learn
how sound travels and how our ears work. Take a listening walk with your child and talk about what you hear. The core idea of this unit is that our 5 senses
and brains work together to help us experience the world around us!
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| Special Guest Mr. Marino visited our class! He read us a book and taught us all about his trumpet. |
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| Spring is in the air! We are busy reading fiction and informational books all about the spring season and weather . |
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| We celebrated the first days of spring by working on a special art project with Ms. Rowntree's class. The children love getting together as a whole kindergarten community! |
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| We can read and write two more trick (high-frequency words). The children are feeling good about their ability to read and write these words quickly. |
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| Digraph Bingo We sorted objects with the sh, th, and ch sounds and played digraph bingo. |
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| We can hear and record shot vowel sounds in CVC words. |
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| Spring Time Poem Activity The children memorized a beautiful poem about early spring time and pussy willows. |
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| We can read these little words in a snap! |
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| We are color word experts! |
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| Real or Nonsense Words? The children had lots of laughs rolling consonants and vowels to build real and nonsense words. |
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| We read The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins and then wrote our own version of this windy story. |
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| Number Corner Look at all the different ways we can think about and represent numbers! |
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| Measuring We measured with unifix cubes and recorded our findings. |
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| Mr. Feeley, an expert mathematician, joined our math class. He was VERY impressed by the students math talk and big math thinking. |
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| Four Winds We learned all about deer and their important role in the ecosystem. |
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| Let's Play! |
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND WITH
YOUR DELIGHTFUL CHILDREN!
