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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Last Week of January: January 29th-February 2nd (Monday 2 hour Delay/Friday Early Release: Afternoon PD)


Monday's read-aloud.


Mystery Science


Can animals sense a storm before humans?


Learning how scientists use animals to learn about the weather.



Quiet Time Option on Monday: Color by set (Peace).







Math
Practicing addition.  Finding the sum.  The total.


Practicing touch counting to be sure you have the correct sum.


Fingers or other counters are good strategies.
Practicing drawing a picture to add.

Math


Addition
Using multiple ways to solve addition problems.
Drawing a picture to add.

Kindergarten Goal: Be able to solve addition problems to ten.



New at Choice Time: iPads


Two or three children a day on a six-day rotation.
Your child has a choice to do the iPad on their day.


Art Table: Play-Doh.



Tuesday's Morning Meeting Share
See how your child responded.


Tuesday's read-aloud
This is a great book.  The children enjoyed it!


Reading
Practicing their powers by reading a winter book.


Phonics
Word study this week: (to) and (do).


Independent word work practice.





School lunch in the cafeteria.

Handwriting this week: 
Frog Jump Letters
Capital F & E.





Please encourage top-to-bottom formation.
Both hands have a job.
















Choice time drawing.


Choice Time:
Building with Spaghetti Betty.







Writing

Making a cover for his story.






Sharing a journal from his trip!



Dr. Record visited our classroom for writing and our snack on Thursday!


Snack is a social time, a chance to get to know classmates.
When the children are done with their snack they can stay at the table and talk or go to the carpet.
Sharing a book is a choice on the rug while waiting for peers to finish snacks.




Thursday's read-aloud.
The children helped with the rhyming words.




Coloring and cutting a groundhog for a stick puppet.









Predicting what the groundhog will do on February 2nd!

Math

Our Groundhog Day picture graph.






January comes to a close.
Our pattern: Snowman, snowman, mittens.
Our AAB


Thursday's SEL with Mrs. McDermott.


A lesson on community.


Partner work.






Watch your partner carefully!





 
A copying exercise, watch closely and learn from your partner.


Thursday's read-aloud.


Super Readers read and reread with punctuation in mind.


Reading work with an emergent reader.


A groundhog book that incorporates the snap word (and).

Solving tricky words.


Morning Routine

Greet your teachers.
Hand them your Home/School Folder.
Wash your hands with soap and water, dry them.

Sign in at the sign-in table.
The children are now signing in and practicing their last names.


Groundhog dot to dot 1-20.




                                 Coloring



Friday's Read-aloud.
A cutout book.
I especially like this one.
The children like the illustrations and cutouts.


Choice Time

Beginning our Valentine's Day Pockets.


Sponge painting with tempera paint.









Ta Da!
More decorating coming next week after the paint is dry!





Our high school mentor was able to join us Friday.
He is working with students at the drawing and writing table at choice time.


Choice time
Play-Doh creativity.


Friday's Early Release meant lunch in the classroom.

On Friday, Groundhog Day we learned that the groundhog did not see his shadow 
as the children predicted!


Make-up NWEA testing occurred this week.

Next Week:
School Counselor's Week! ♥️

Preparing for Valentine's Day! 
Sending in your Valentine's Day cards 
when completed would be helpful, thanks!💌

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