Newsletter February 27-March 3

Dear Families,

This week we talked about blends.   We learned about the pl, sl, and cl blends.  We made words and sorted out pictures.  We worked on the star words "if" and "out."  We reviewed these words in this week's stories, poems, and writing.  We continue to review all words and assess through the year! Please continue to work on these words with your child.  

The story this week was Monster Trouble. While reading the story, we practiced the skills of predicting, retelling, making connections, and answering questions.  We learned about the important skill of perseverance.  That is the character trait of not giving up and trying even when things get hard.  Ask your kindergartner how Winifred AND the monsters showed perseverance in the story.

Please enjoy the story.

Check out the cute monsters we made to go with our story!

We work on a poem each week.  This week's poem is called "Your Body"  We created movements, looked for rhyming words, and sorted out word families.  We are sure you all have heard this poem often at home!

In math, we are continuing our work with identifying shapes.  We have learned about many of the 3D shapes.  The students loved learning to draw some of the 3D shapes.  Ask your kindergartner to draw them for you!  We are also continuing our work at identifying if a number is greater than or less than another number.  We played a fun game where a student would ask for a number, and we would cross out numbers that were greater or less than that number.  The game would continue until the correct number was found.

Here is a peek at our game board!

Reminders:
Tomorrow is an early release day!  Thank you, families, for making plans for your kiddos!  Teachers will be in meetings.

Ensure your kindergartner has two snacks a day- one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  No hangry students!  :)