Review of the week

We had a wonderful Oreo celebration at the end of the day today. Some of us even tried vanilla Oreos for the first time! Thank you for continuing to send in those Box Tops as we work towards the end of the year goal!

Today you will find a red piece of paper coming home. Please use this piece of paper as a start to a 100 day project. We have been working all year towards counting to 100. You child will use the red paper to make cut out a heart shape. Then attach 100 items onto the heart. These items can be anything from buttons to stickers to drawings.

Spoiler alert.....

My heart will have 100 Box Tops on it! :) 

Here is a review of the rest of our week:

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /qu/ and /ou/.

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh, ng, th, qu, ou

Sounds for next week: /oi / and /ue /

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: our, here, out

We read books and poems that included our popcorn words.

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so,  the, you, down, he, she, be

Next week  get, help, now

Every student is coming home today with a list of the current popcorn words they were required to know by progress reports. Please take a look at this list and continue to practice the yellow highlighted words with your child.

This week we practiced our popcorn words using rainbow writing, play dough, and stamps.

Handwriting/ Writing

In handwriting we practiced lowercase letters t, a, and d. We also used the lowercase letters we have already learned to practice writing words like cow, too, and tot. At the writing center we made lists of our January words, cards for our friends, family, and teachers. We also drew pictures and labeled our drawings. Some of us finished our stories from last week about the snowman while others of us wrote stories about a snowball fight.

Reading

During reading we continued visualizing with a poem “Umbrella”.

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, filthy, slam, concerned, moan, observe, enormous, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, cozy and straight.

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Freedom Freedom to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Freedom, freedom, let it ring,

"Let it ring," said Dr. King.

Let us live in harmony

Peace and love for you and me.

Freedom, freedom, let it ring.

"Let it ring," said Dr. King.

To connect with our poem we learned about Martin Luther King Jr and why we celebrate his birthday with a day off of school. We watched a video about his life as well as a song! We had a lot of fun dancing to the song after illustrating our poems today.

Click here for a link to the song

Math 

This week in math we continued building numbers using base ten blocks. (Place value) We also looked at more shapes this week including a hexagon. Next week we will be introduced to more 3D shapes. In our centers we played the game “Bump” while practicing naming our 2D shapes. We also worked on putting numbers 1-100 in numerical order.

Important Reminders

January 31^st Pajama Day!

We are running low on glue sticks. If anyone could donate a few extras we would be very happy. Thank you in advance!

If the weather is below 20 degrees with the wind chill we will not be going outside for recess!

Week of January 13th-17th

Here is a review of our week: 

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /ng/ and /th/. 

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh, ng, th

Sounds for next week: /qu / and /ou / 

Popcorn Words

 This week we learned: he, she, be

We read books and poems that included our popcorn words. 

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so,  the, you, down

Next week our, here, out

This week we practiced our popcorn words using keyboards and wikki sticks

Handwriting/ Writing

We did another writing project this week. After practicing reading our January words and using them in pictures and lists we wrote a story about two kids and a snowman. Some of us had the kids knocking the snowman over. While others wrote about the two kids building the snowman. Each story was unique and included different January words.

Reading

During reading we continued visualizing with the story “Cookie’s Week.”.

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, filthy, slam, concerned, moan, observe, enormous, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, cozy and straight.

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem I’m a Friendly Snowman. It was sung to the tune of  I’m of a little teapot.

Math

This week in math we started looking at shapes. This week’s shapes were circle, triangle, square, and rectangle (2D shapes). Next week we will be looking more at 3D shapes and their characteristics.  We continued building numbers 1-20 (and sometimes beyond) using place value blocks and tally marks.

Important Reminders

No School January 20^th

January 24^th-  We won the box top competition for the month of December. We will be getting a Oreos to celebrate!

Kindergarten winner: Schlagbaum 1,318 box tops

Finn: 682

Maier: 989

Pitassi: 678

Olsen: 901

If the weather is below 20 degrees with the wind chill we will not be going outside for recess!

Enjoy the 3 day weekend!

Back to school!

I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break, especially the extra two days! Thank you to the parents who helped put on a great holiday party before break. It could not have been done without you!

Here is a review of our week: 

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /ch/ and /sh/. 

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh,

Sounds for next week: /ng/ and /th/ 

Popcorn Words

 This week we learned: the, you, down

We read books and poems that included our popcorn words. 

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so

Next week: he, she, be

We are bringing home a sight word poem today called “Can You See a Rainbow” that reviews many of our words as well as one of our new words. This week we practiced our popcorn words using wikki sticks, snap cubes, and stamps.

Handwriting/ Writing

In writing this week we used our new January words to create a list of some of our favorite January words. We also used the words in this center to create a snowman picture and story. In our story we wrote details about our snowman. This project took several days, but we did a great job sounding out tricky words and using resources around the room to spell other words.

Reading

During reading we started a new unit. In this unit we are focusing on visualizing during reading. This week’s story, Cat’s Colors, was a review, however, we did not get to see the pictures. First we had to visualize the pictures using the words in the story, then we compared our pictures to the illustrators pictures.

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, filthy, slam, concerned, moan, observe, enormous, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, cozy and straight.

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Arctic Animals. It was sung to the tune of Up on the Housetop.

Up in the Arctic where it is cold.

There are creatures to behold.

Foxes, wolves and polar bears

Caribous and Arctic hares

Oh! Oh! Oh! White as snow.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Where did they go?

Camouflaged in fur so light.

They disappear from our sight.

Math

This week in math we started looking at place value. We will continue to work on this next week because of the short week. We also searched our classroom for the number 17. We continued counting by 10s to 100 using various place value tools. Next week we will also start looking at shapes.

Important Reminders

Half Day January 15^th

 We won the box top competition for the month of December. We will be getting a snack to celebrate!

 (date to be determined)

Kindergarten winner: Schlagbaum 1,318 box tops

Finn: 682

Maier: 989

Pitassi: 678

Olsen: 901

If the weather is below 20 degrees with the wind chill we will not be going outside for recess!

Enjoy the weekend!