Valentine's Day

We forgot to post these photos last week. :) And we couldn't forget them... here are our students spreading LOVE!!

Enjoy!

Week of February 18

We have a fun and busy week planned for our class! Our resources this week are Art, P.E., and Music. On Friday we will have International Day at our school! Students can wear colors of a flag or cultural attire. If you want your child to participate in the International Day Parade, they must be in cultural attire and have a flag or sign with the name of the country they are representing. We will be going over what to expect on International Day throughout the week. Ms. Bellot and her mom and sister will be a presenters on International Day representing Bolivia! She will be out of the room prepping for various International Day activities throughout the week. In Reading and Writing, we will be reviewing animals that live in Africa and writing facts that we learned about them. In Math, we will be reviewing our skills including rote counting, writing numbers, making combinations for numbers up to 10. Detailed progress reports will be going home this week. Logan will be bringing in Fun Friday snacks.

Math Rockstars!

We wanted to congratulate the following students for getting a 100% on their Unit 10 Assessment for Composing Numbers and Numbers Bonds. Congrats go to Sophie, Jason, Mia, Annastacia, Nethanel, Ariana S., Laiyanna, Layla, Maurice, Amaryllis, Noel, Serena, Michael, and Olivia!!!!!!

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".