Week of March 2

Can you believe it's March?!? It's crazy to think only a few months are left of Kindergarten. :) Our students have grown up and been learning SO MUCH!! We are going to be testing soon, so make sure to be practicing all the items that were listed on the detailed conduct sheet. We want lots of Mastery to happen!! Also, just a reminder that Spring Break is next week (March 9-13).
But more important... This Friday is PLAY DAY! Our time is 8:55-10:10. Parents- if you would like to come in and Volunteer please contact our PE Teacher Coach Reed. Also, Snowasis will be selling shaved ice. :) We believe the price is $3.00 and we plan on visiting them after our lunch time. 

SKILLS

We finished our A Word Families. Now we will be working on some E word families. Please discuss them with your child. The verbal practice helps with rhyming and reading unknown three letter words. A few that we will practicing are: -en, -ed, -ell, -est.

We have been practicing chanting what makes a blend. If you notice your child mumbling it, here are the exact words... "A blend is 2 letters that come together to make 1 sound!" The students even show their two pointer fingers and then quickly move to only having 1 finger pointing out in front of them. It's adorable!!Here is a blend slideshow I made to figure out if the word begins with a single letter or a blend. Enjoy practicing with it!

Finally our Sight Words. :) This week are: as, may, his & f.  

READING

In Reading this week we will be reading multiple Dr. Seuss books, starting with "Green Eggs and Ham." While reading the books we will discuss rhyming words, retelling the stories and we will use our journals to write our opinions of each book. We will also touch on the man behind the name Dr. Seuss~ Theodor Seuss Geisel. We'll find out how he got the name Dr. Seuss, where he's from and how old he would be if he was still alive today. (He would be 116 years old!)

MATH

We have learned so much about addition this past week! We learned that addition is combining sets of numbers like we've been doing with number combinations and we learned how to use the plus sign. We will be learning about the equal sign and how to use it replace the vocabulary we've been using all year (i.e. 2 and 3 makes 5 will now be 2+3=5). We will also be working on addition story problems to continue practicing our skills.