Kindergarten Update 2/18 - 2/22

Hello Families,

  I'm writing this a little early because I have to leave right after school. We are going to have such a fun Valentine's Day party!  Thank you so much to our amazing and lovely Roommom Sarrah Cowen and  all of our parent helpers! We could not do it without you! I know this party will be a blast!

Here is a peek at next week:

No school on Monday for Presidents' Day. 

Social Studies/ Science: We will continue learning about presidents and our country. This week our focus is on George Washington.  In science we will watch a video on dental health and eating healthy foods.  February is dental awareness month.  Please encourage students to brush teeth, floss and eat healthy foods. 

 Readers Workshop:  We are working on our "reading muscles."  We have learned many different strategies when reading.  For instance, using the picture to figure out a difficult word, putting words into "chunks" to sound it out, and using our pointer fingers (pointer power)to read each word on the page. When reading at home try to help them with reading for fluency with our take home books.  If students still continue to sound out the words have them repeat the sentence with fluency for understanding.  Please remind them that reading is for understanding/comprehending not just being able to read the words.  

Word Wall words: will, come

Math: We will continue with subtraction and addition with word problems and basic addition and subtraction to 10.  

Special thanks:  Thank you Becky and Sean for working on our folders and providing each student a new leveled book, when they are ready each day! It is a big job and I greatly appreciate it! A big thank you to Monique for helping with all our prep work!

Have a relaxing weekend!!!

Ms. Werner