Week of February 10

Welcome to another week of Kindergarten! Last week, Ms. Finocchiaro returned from her maternity leave and the students were thrilled to have her back! We spent a lot of time reviewing our classroom rules, rituals, and routines. As the year progressed our students have gotten very comfortable with each other and the classroom and sometimes need a little reminder of the rules.

This week our resources are Spanish, Media, Music, and P.E. On Tuesday, we will have Spring Pictures taken. Friday is Valentine's Day and students are welcome to wear red, pink, and white, or anything with hearts on it! Ms. Bellot and Ms. Finocchiaro will be bringing in Fun Friday snacks for the class. Please let us know if you want to sign up for a Fun Friday in February or March. We are in high need!!

SKILLS
The students are all participating in the new District Phonics program Reading Mastery. Prior to beginning the program, students were tested to see where their phonics level was. Therefore we have time for limited reading skills in the classroom and fit them in whenever we have a few extra minutes.
So we are currently squeezing in ending sounds, rhyming (word families) and sight words. 

READING

We are reading non-fiction passages about different animals. We are discussing one vocabulary word a day to ficus our sentence writing on. Along with figuring out the main topic and supporting details of each passage.

**On Friday we will read a Valentine's book and pass out the Valentine cards/ candies to our classmates.**

Here are two videos on the animals we will focus on this week~ buffalo and hippopotamus. 

WRITING
This is incorporated into the work we do for Reading. We are practicing writing sentences using the vocabulary we are learning. Students are expected to write complete sentences using sight words and sounds, along with spaces and punctuation.

MATH

We will continue our Addition to 10 Unit. After learning about all the combinations for numbers up to 9, we will finally be focusing on the combinations for the number 10. We will review that adding 1 to a number with one is one more and that a number combined with 0 is still that number. Use the following video to practice combinations for the number 10, or "friends of 10".