We finished our winter testing for reading. Reading levels will be on your child's report card which will be going home the beginning of February. Reading groups are starting back up again with more books and some word family poems.
We have been fiercely writing narrative stories - stories about something that happened in our lives. We are using graphic organizers to make sure we have a beginning, middle and end to our stories. We are also editing our work for upper and lower case letters, spaces between words, correct spelling of our sight words and punctuation. Yep, all in kindergarten!
In math, we are still counting to 100 but by 1s and 10s now. We also started decomposing numbers. For example, 3 and 4 make 7, 2 and 5 make 7. This will lead us into adding and subtracting.
Our mealworms came in right after winter break. We are watching them change into pupa and then into Darkling Beetles. Its not as bad as it sounds. They don't crawl out of their boxes and the beetles don't fly. We are learning about what animals (including bugs) need to survive and will learn about different animal life cycles.
Remember there's no school Friday, January 20 or Friday, January 27.
A letter will be going home soon about our Valentine's Day party. We are asking for a $ donation to cover snacks and I will send home a list of our students so, if you choose to, your child can make cards for everyone. There will be alternative activities if you prefer that your child does not participate in Valentine's Day. Please send me a note to let me know.
Ok, we're all caught up. Have a nice weekend.
