Weekly Newsletter January 24-28

Dear Families,

It was a great week in Kindergarten! The Thorson Winter Wonderland Olympics was a blast and the Kinderland Ice Bears were all GOLD MEDAL Winners!!

ELA

This week our main story was Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. While listening to the story, students were working on visualizing, predicting, inferring, and stating their opinion.  We also practiced the 5 Finger retelling strategy to retell the story - be sure to ask your child to share this with you at home (hold up hand and point to each finger as they retell 1-characters 2-setting 3-beginning 4-middle and 5-ending).

Here are our 2 highlighted vocabulary words.  Can your child tell you what they mean or use them in a sentence???

Our phonics focus was the -sh digraph.  We learned that a digraph is 2 letters that work together to make one sound.  We practiced making, reading and writing words that begin and end with -sh.  We could practice this at home, too.  Try asking us to write fish, wish, dash, cash, shot, shed, sham or ship!

                                            Begins with sh like shed  &  Ends with sh like wash

Sticking with the snowman theme - our new poem this week was My New Friend! The kids loved the actions for this poem - be sure to ask us to sing it for you at home!

Our 2 new sight words were said and that.  Be sure to ask your child where the hat, scarf and mittens were hiding in our game below.

Writing

This week we continued our How To writing.  We brainstormed ideas that we could write about on our own.  We come up with so many topics...how to build a snowman, how to do a cartwheel, how to get dressed, how to make breakfast, how to play soccer...be sure to ask your child what he/she is writing about!

Math

In math we focused on sorting 2D shapes in a variety of ways.  We sorted by shape, color, size, straight lines and curved lines, and corners and no corners.  After we sorted the shape cards, we then compared the numbers in each group using our vocabulary words of greater than, less than and equal to.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

*If your child would like to pass out Valentines, we have 32 students between our two rooms.  Your child does not need to address each envelope- just make sure that he/she signs their name on each valentine.  You can start sending in Valentines on Wednesday, February 9th.

*On Thursday, February 10th we will be celebrating 101 days in school! Your child is welcome to dress like a Dalmation for our special celebration.

*Calling ALL Doctors!! On Monday February 14th, we will have our Kinder Cardiology Day - Our little heart surgeons will have fun reviewing their skills in our hospital room transformation! Your child is welcome to dress like a doctor for our special day!