March 24th- 28th

Our week in review:

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week: -en, and -et

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, oi, ue, er, ar

 Word Families: at, an, ap and am, it, in, ip, ing

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: who, what, where

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, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one ,two, three, four, nine, said, this that new, soon, went, come, do, all, there

Reading

This week we the story Tools. It was a nonfiction book about different tools around the world. Before we started reading we thought tools were only going to be things you find in a tool box (hammer, screwdriver, etc.) After reading the story though we learned that we use tools all day long. Ask us what tools we used today.

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Under the Rainbow

First comes the rain cloud passing by
Dropping raindrops in my eye!
Then comes the sunshine up so high

Now a rainbow in the sky!

Our weekly reader this week was all about Wind!

Math

In math we continued working with measurement. We measured how tall and how long (wide) leprechauns were in math centers. We also learned the vocabulary words weight, heavy, and light. Then we compared objects around the room and had to use our Kindergarten math words to describe the objects (no big or little allowed!). In math we also continue to practice our addition and subtration facts. Please work on these with us over the break. We only have to know facts 1-5 however anything more is great. For example we would do have to know 1+5 in kindergarten because the answers is more than the number 5, but many of us can practice these anyways because we know the pattern of adding one. Any questions please ask.

If you are leaving for a trip be safe and have lots of fun. If you are staying home like me remember to take time to relax. I will see everyone April 7th!

Important Reminders

No School March 31st- April 4th (Spring Break!)

Please return our April family project by the 10th of April.

Weekly Review

Our week in review:

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week: short i words

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, oi, ue, er, ar

 Word Families: at, an, ap and am, it, in, ip, ing

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: do, all, there

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, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one ,two, three, four, nine, said, this that new, soon, went, come

If you need ideas to practice the words please take a look at the tab at the top of the page named popcorn words.

Reading

This week we read St. Patrick's Day themed books. We read several Irish folktale stories including The Leprechaun's Gold and Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato. We compared how these stories were alike and different. We also looked at the characters in the story and answered the question "Who would you decide to help and why?" We had many though provoking answers to this question. Some of us wanted to help the kind, caring, and generous old man get new strings for his harp so he could play for the whole town while some of us wanted to help young Tom become a nicer person. All of the answers were correct as long as they could give a reason 

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Splish! Splash! to the tune of Home on the Range

Our weekly reader this week was all about Spring!

Math

In math we started our measurement unit. We learned the vocabulary words, longest, shortest, and tallest. It was tricky to remember that when measuring width we use shortest and longest, but we also use shortest (and tallest) for measuring height. We practiced making taller and shorter and longest and shortest block towers. We also found our tallest and shortest friends.

Important Reminders

No School March 31st- April 1st

Please return any unwanted Spring photos to school. Payments can be made online or through check for photos you plan on keeping.