Last Chance for Play Day T-Shirts!!!

Tuesday 2/18 is the last day to order CLE's Play Day T-Shirts! They are only $10.00 and can be paid in cash or checks (payable to Chimney Lakes Elementary). Online orders are also accepted at https://pswear.com/ChimneyLakes. The final day to turn in orders and payments to us is this coming Tuesday 2/18. 

Zoo Field Trip 2/13

Our students had SO MUCH fun at the Zoo! We want to thank all the chaperones that helped us make this trip a success! Enjoy the pictures that chaperones sent in :)

Valentine's Day

On Friday we plan on having a Valentine's Card/ Candy Exchange. We know many of the students want to bring in items for their classmates. :) We want the passing out to go seamless and we are requesting that the other students names NOT be written down. We want our 40 students to pass out the items to their 40 classmates easily as possible!

This may seem strange to some of you, but we promise it's the easiest way!! Just allow your child to write their own name down. :)

Also, if your child wishes they may make or purchase a container to hold their valentine goodies. Any students that do not have a container will be given a Publix bag to bring them home in.

If you have any questions or want to send in any extra items, please email both of us. 

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".

Week of February 2

Welcome to another week of kindergarten and a new month! We have a lot of activities planned for this month and are looking forward to learning more with our students! Our resources this week are music, art, and P.E. CLE's PTA will be hosting a Game Night this Thursday at 6:00pm. Our Fun Friday Activity is Leap Year Day! The students will be learning more about leap year this week in math and we wanted to incorporate that into our Fun Friday Activity. Students can wear green or frogs on Friday. We still need volunteers to sign up to bring Fun Friday snacks for our class (39 students). Please email us if you are interested in signing up to bring the class snacks.

SKILLS

Our Sight Words for this week can be found below:

READING

Students will continue to read various texts on different animals including elephants, cheetahs, American buffalos, warthogs, and wildbeestes. Students will learn new vocabulary words about each animal and continuing to learn how to identify the main topic and key details of a text.

WRITING

Students will use what they've learned about animals to write informational pieces about an animal of their choosing.

MATH

We will continue with our Addition to 10 unit. Students will learn how to combine sets of objects 7-10 and understand all the possible sets up to 10. Students will also learn that a number combined with 0 is still that number and that a number combined with one is one more. Students will continue to practice counting by 10s and 5s. We will also begin progress report testing for rote counting to 100, counting by 10s, writing numbers up to 15, identifying numbers and groups up to 15. Please review all these skills with your child at home. The following videos will help with some of these skills.

Superbowl Day and Rockstar Day 1/31

Enjoy the fun photos of the students that participated in our Fun Friday Activity: Superbowl Day and the The Great Kindness Week activity: Rockstar Day! Ms. Godbold, one of our paraprofessionals, joined us!

Sight Word Picnic 1/30

Students that knew 40 or more sight words were invited to join our Sight Word Picnic on 1/30! Parents of those students were also invited to join us. The students had so much fun and we are so proud of their accomplishments! We also want to give a shoutout to Amelia who won Ms. Conner's Sight Word Cape because of her outstanding participation and hard work throughout the day!