The Buzz in Room 103: February 12-16: VALENTINE'S DAY!

Hello Families,

What a week! Between the Imagatorium, 100s day, Global Play Day and the NED Mindset presentation- we had a very special week. Sorry for the photo dump...there were a lot of fun moments last week😄!

This week-

Monday: I will be adding the sign up for conferences to the blog. All of the teachers at Shaker Lane are releasing their sign up on the same day. Our parent teacher conferences are on March 13.

Wednesday: Valentine's Day! Please make sure to send in your child's Valentine cards by Wednesday morning and having them in order by FIRST name will be very helpful to your child. Please remember that there can NOT be any candy attached to any Valentine! There is a class list at the top of the blog.

We will continue our Kindness theme and the children will be given a kindness challenge throughout the week. The students will:

Language Arts-

practice a new trick word: what
read and spell, write CVC words
practice adding the silent and magical e to a cvc word to make the vowel say it's name (for example, pin/pine)
write full sentences about who/what they love and how to show kindness in our classroom, family and community
read from decodable books! (I am seeing the magic of kindergarten come to fruition!💖)
practice ABC order
practice discriminating between vowel sounds

Math-

demonstrate different ways to make numbers 6-10
practice add/sub through 10
practice number writing
count to 100 while playing games
adding on to a number (instead of recounting)

Social Emotional-

As I stated last week, we are going to focus on past second step lessons that I feel our class needs to review and we will participate in several activities that practice kindness.

Science-

observe and compare candy hearts in 3 different liquids (water, soda and vinegar)- "will the hearts sink or float?" "which will dissolve and why did some dissolve faster?"
learn a little about the heart and prove that our heart beats faster after exercising. We will test this with homemade stethoscopes!
IF YOU HAVE ANY EXTRA PAPER TOWEL TUBES WE CAN USE THEM:)

Just a friendly reminder to please send in a snack for your child each day (and any donations of plastic spoons is greatly appreciated!).

Here are some pictures from last week's fun!

Imagatorium!