What a week (or two!)

Last week we had tons of special events!  At our Monday Meeting we learned that our school will nominate Coach C for the teacher of the year.  You can write a letter in support of him too!  

 We went to the steam bus on Monday.  The steam bus is a traveling classroom that does math and science around the district!  We celebrated the end of our measurement study by measuring on the steam bus with Legos!

On Tuesday it would have been Beulah Ralph's 90th birthday.  We did lots to celebrate.  Check it out!  

Brown bag lunch was awesome!  We all had so much fun sharing our writing and sharing lunch!  

Thursday was the 100th day of school.  Mrs. Wrong came to sub!  The kids weren't sure what to think!  We made crowns with 100 objects, did 100 piece puzzles, made necklaces with 100 fruit loops, talked about what we would buy with 100 dollars, and dress like we were 100.  It was super fun!

Here's a quick recap of this week's learning.

Math:  Counting all to add.

Reading:  Non-fiction vs Fiction & Non-Fiction text features

Writing:  Writing Informational books

We had puzzle day this week too!  We talked about how problem solvers try something and if it doesn't work they try it a different way.  We shared puzzles and problem solved together! 

Happy half birthday friend!  Thanks for sharing donuts!  

Phew!  I'm exhausted just thinking about it all!  Here's to two super fun weeks!  See you at conferences this week!  

Highlight reel week 20

We are rocking and rolling in kindergarten!  We've been learning a ton about measurement.  This week we began to learn about weight as a measure.  We explored balances and learned how to tell which weighs more.  The first day, with our partner, we chose random objects in the room to see which was heavier.  The second day, we worked with a partner to weigh specific objects to decide which weighs more.  This was one engaging lesson!  Everyone was excited about their discoveries.  

We have been looking at what good kindergarten writing looks like.  We will be doing our writing assessment this week so we focused on exactly what we need to do to be a good kindergarten writer.  We began by discussing what kindergarten writers can do.  And we ended our lesson looking at an example of one of our students work and discussing what made it great.  Check it out!  

We also tried out some of these things together during interactive writing.  We focused on word spaces and punctuation and writing neatly.  

We used our book box books to buddy read.  Not only is it fun to read with friends but it helps us practice fluency and work together to figure out words we don't know.  

Congrats to our citizen of the month and our class spelling bee winners!  We are proud of you!   Thank you for helping by voting for citizen of the month at home! 

Career day was so much fun!  Everyone was excited to share what they want to be when they grow up.  Can you guess what we want to be?  

This friend wasn't feeling well but he participated from home!  

General Announcements:

• Tuesday, January 31 - Brown bag lunch 11:00.  Recess at 10:40 if you wish to come!
• Please send your child's collection of 100 to school on Tuesday as well!  
• Thursday, February 2 - 100s day!  Dress like an 100 year old person! 
• Friday, February 3 - Neon Color day to celebrate being positive.

This is a busy week!  Thank you for your help to make it great for our kids!