Mrs. Neuville & Mrs. Rocky's Kindergarten Class: Our Weekly News Feb. 6-9

Dear Families,

How can it already be 100 Days in School??!! Ask your child about our Pirate Pete Adventure!

So much fun!!

We can't wait to see how much fun day 101 will be!!

ELA:

This week we focused on the story Just Going To The Dentist by Mercer Mayer. While listening to the story, we worked on the strategies of predicting, retelling, inferring, making connections and stating our opinions. Be sure to ask your child his/her favorite part!

Our 2 vocabulary words were numb and cavity. Be sure to ask us what they mean!

Sticking with the Tooth Theme - our poem was Loose Tooth! We loved singing about our friends! Be sure to ask your child to show you our hand motions, too!

Our 2 new sight words were /got/ and /then/. Ask your child where the 3 tooth fairies were hiding in our smartboard review game! Be sure to continue practicing these words with your child at home.

Our phonics focus this week was the digraph /ck/. We know that a digraph is 2 letters that make one sound. In the picture below, you can see that we now know the following digraphs - /sh/ /ch/ /th/ /wh/ and /ck/. Be sure to review these digraph sounds with us at home!

Look at our adorable Tooth Fairy!! We had fun writing labels for her during our Shared Writing time. During reading centers, we will get a chance to "read the room" and we can take a pointer into the hallway and practice reading all of the labels we wrote...learning is so fun in kindergarten!!!

Writing:

We started our new Informational Writing Unit!! Thank you for helping us fill out our graphic organizer on the animal book we brought home. We are looking forward to writing our own book on our special animal! Remember to return the book and graphic organizer by Wednesday, February 15th. Thanks for your help from home!

We know that nonfiction/informational books only contain facts...not opinions!

Science:

Did your kids tell you about our Rokenbok Unit??!! They are loving it! We have had the opportunity to free build with the Rokenboks - and today, we learned about engineers and what they do! We had to think like an engineer and create a measurement tool to measure different things around our classroom! Here is a peek at our little engineers!