What a crazy week with a snow day thrown in the middle!
This week, we started our penguin unit and today we watched a fascinating video from a National Geographic photographer. We will be reading a lot of expository texts to learn all about these amazing animals. We will incorporate science, social studies, reading, writing, and math in our penguin unit. Doesn’t get any better than that! We started by reading some of the Tacky the Penguin fiction books where we compared the characters and the story lines. We also practiced our fine motor and listening skills and made our own Tacky the penguin!
We started a schema chart about penguins. Our schema is the knowledge we already have on a subject. We also talk about misconceptions and had a few show up on our chart. We are gathering facts so that they can later write their own facts about penguins. We started a fact book today and learned about labeling and drew and labeled a penguin. We also made marshmallow penguins because….well, because it’s kindergarten and sometimes you just gotta throw in some marshmallow fun!!
We added the sight words that and go this week. We did the letters Yy and Qq and we are done reviewing the letters! We have worked on and will continue practicing the chunks, ch, sh, wh, th, ar, oo, ou, and ow. We have actions for all of those, ask your child to show you. We’re working hard to find those chunks in words when stretching words out.
In math, we reviewed addition and practiced with some fun games. Next week, we will start subtraction which always seems to be a little trickier.
We worked on the second step lesson of waiting and when to wait patiently and how to wait patiently. It was a good follow up to self control. We are working on our leadership notebooks and will be ready to share those at conferences.
Speaking of, conference notes went home today. Please sign, cut, and return next week!
Book orders came home today and will be due the 4th so that we can get Valentine books back if you would like to order some.
Date reminders:
Monday Jan. 28th 100 posters are due. snack note will go home
Friday Feb. 1st No school
Mon. Feb. 4th the 100th day of school (as long as there are no snow days) Come dressed as a 100 year old! Bring your 100 piece snack that day. I still need 2 volunteers. Please email me if you can come. (No siblings)
Wed. Feb. 6th and Thurs. Feb. 7th Conferences Wed. will be a regular day and I will start conferences at 4:30. Thurs., there is no school and I will start conferences at 11:00.
Friday Feb. 8th no school
Thurs. Feb. 14th Valentine party. I will sending a note home about making valentine boxes. Please do not send anything in until that day.
I think that’s it for today. Enjoy your weekend and stay warm!
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