The Buzz in Room 103

This week, the children will:

Language Arts-

begin work on a new book called Now and Ben, which is about Ben Franklin.
write about something they feel lucky to have
reading decodable books about the first cars and Amelia Earhart
arrange letter tiles spell words
determine if a CVC word is real or nonsense
practice two new trick words: this, was
label the parts of a leprechaun
write/spell short vowel words that have been dictated to them

Math-

We will spend this week reviewing ways to make 10 by playing lots of games and making a few projects. This is a skill that is difficult for all the students and I feel they need more practice before their unit assessment.

Second Step- lesson #21 : fair ways to play

Science- we will be finishing up our discussions about winter (I have had enough 😂). We will be learning a little about how rainbows are formed and, to compliment our new book about Ben Franklin, the children will be inventing something of their own over the next few weeks!

FYI:

Wednesday- 12:15 early release day

**March Scholastic Book Orders will be due Friday March 6th!

*Please be sure to sign up for a parent/teacher conference (the link is above this post). This is an important time for us to communicate about your child's progress at school. I am looking forward to seeing you!

We are about to begin Shaker Lane's version of March Madness! Throughout the month, I will be reading the books shown below and the students will vote on their favorites...until we find the champion! Thank you to the PTA for purchasing all these books for kindergarten!💖 Here is the K bracket:

Here are some pictures from last week:

friends playing together💕

being creative during choice time💖

snow play day!

We poured salt over an ice balloon and then listened for it to "crack"!

Exploring with a giant ice "balloon" and watching the different colors freeze on top and then melt and make cracks in the ice...also experimenting with colors! We also explored snow and looked for 6 sided snowflakes...

helping a student spell a word during Fundations

We used rekenreks A LOT last week to help the students see combinations of 10- we also played some new math games to practice this skill!

Mrs. Kane read us a great book about all
kinds of different families!

Hello!

I hope you all had a nice February break.

Before the break, we had such a fun week, hence the photo dump😂

We will be doing a lot of review this week. We will, however, begin our next arc in Wit and Wisdom and will look at how transportation and communication have changed over time. The children will be learning about different punctuation and practice sequencing events.

In math, the students will continue to make combinations of 10 and then we will have an end of unit assessment later in the week. They will also be practicing number writing.

Please note the sign up above for parent/teacher conferences. It will be open to sign up on Monday 2/23.

Here are some pictures from our week together before the break: