Week of February 10, 2020

 We had a great time celebrating the 100th day of kindergarten!

Reader’s Workshop

     We have become quite skilled in the parts of a story. Next time you read a story to your child ask them the following four questions.

1. Who was the character in the story?

2. What is the setting of the story?

3. What was the problem in the story?

4. How was the problem solved?

     These are all questions we have been asking for the past few weeks during Readers and Writers Workshop. We have talked about story problems and how they are solved and even chatted about many different character traits (ie. brave, shy, silly, persistent…)

Writer’s Workshop

       We continued our work on our Eric Carle inspired stories this week. All of the children picked out their main character, the setting and the problem for their individual stories. Next week we will work on putting our stories together and hopefully start our work as illustrators and create our pictures using collage just like Eric Carle. This unit will most likely continue into the week after our Winter break.

Morning Meeting

GREETING: Skip greeting

ACTIVITY: Sparkle

Math

   This week we celebrated the 100th day of kindergarten! We made special headbands, we counted to 100 in a variety of ways, we made necklaces out of 100 Froot Loops and counted 100 of many things. We even had a special visitor. Zero the Hero came to visit us via Facetime from a land far, far away! This week the children discovered that 100 isn’t as large as they thought.

Fundations

  We are learning about digraphs. A digraph is when two letters work together to make one sound. This week we focused on the sound /th/ makes with the letters ‘t’ and ‘h’. ‘Th’ is a digraph.

Valentine’s Day

      The children really enjoyed passing out the cards they had for each other. It was a little chaotic and some of the valentines may have been placed in the wrong bags but they had a blast. Your child brought home a bag full of cool Valentine cards yesterday. Hopefully you all had a chance to open the bag and enjoy reading the cards. Thank you to everyone for sending in special treats for our afternoon snack.

We painted "Love Bugs" for Valentine's Day

Big Change Round Up

Keep those coins coming in. The children are really

excited about raising money for the UVM Children’s Hospital.

Next week is the last week to collect the coins.