Thursday, April 26, 2018

April 27, 2018



Dear Families,

Books Read: A wide variety of weather and spring books

If any of you are out and about this weekend and come across any frog eggs we would love to have some in our classroom! Thank you~

During writing time they are; writing in their how-to books as well as a short narrative time to share what we did over April vacation, visualizing places and people to write about, adding words (letters) to their pictures, rehearsing what they want to say about what they wrote, taking turns sharing their ideas and writing with partners, adding spaces between words and punctuation at the end of a sentence, going back into their writing pieces and revising what they have written by changing or adding to what they wrote and continuing to build up their confidence as writers.  

Animated Alphabet is our approach to phonemic awareness and spelling. The letters are taught through a multi sensory approach of music, dance, characters and signs which help the students hold onto that information. We have been writing words and sentences using our characters and this week we met The White Whale and Zachary and Zena Zebra. We only have 2 characters left in this program!

In math we are working with two digit numbers, measurement, addition and subtraction practice, counting and number recognition, solving number stories, and continuing our calendar routines. Our routines at calendar time include; counting to the calendar number of the day, weather observations, tracking the number of days we have been in school and days of the week.

We are learning about the Woolwich Way! The Woolwich Way is made up of 6 qualities that will help us to be the best we can be! (Courtesy- I can use good manners, Compassion-I can help others, Respect- I can treat others kindly, Honesty-I can tell the truth, Responsibility- I can take care of myself and my stuff, Quality- I can do my best even when things are hard)

Upcoming Events: 

May 16 & 17 NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS ONLY (kindergarten screening for next year~wow~)

May 28 Memorial Day- No School

June 18 Last Student Day- 1/2 day