I hope you all had a terrific weekend. Hopefully we will begin to have some nice warmer weather! Please continue to send in boots for outdoor recess during the month of April. This is often a wet and muddy month! The boots help to keep our feet dry. Snow pants are helpful if the temperatures are cold or if it is extremely wet and muddy outside, otherwise...the children can keep snow pants at home. I probably just jinxed us and we will get hit with a spring snowstorm!
Last week we spent some time wrapping up our unit on the Solar System. We had so much fun learning all about the moon, the sun, the stars, constellations, and planets. The children had such great questions and were truly engaged during all of our lessons and activities. We have had some terrific kindergarten writers sharing some nonfiction books that they have worked on as well.
This week we will begin a new unit ~ All About Dinosaurs! We will read, write, and have fun with many different activities to help us learn all about different kinds of dinosaurs. This week we will learn all about paleontologists and what they do! Please mark your calendars. We will have our Kindergarten Dinosaur Exhibit on May 1st, 2-2:45. We would love for all of our families to come.
During math we will begin a new unit on composing and decomposing numbers up to 10. We have worked very hard learning addition and subtraction facts. This unit goes right along with our understanding of how to join numbers together and break them apart... 8 (whole) = 6(part) + 2(part) We will work with some hands on materials as well as our math books to practice these skills.
During writing we are continuing our work on How-To books. The children are doing a nice job writing stories that 'teach' others. Some examples are: How-To Do A Cartwheel, How-To Catch a Fish, How-To Play Soccer, How-To Make Brownies... It is truly amazing how much all of the children have grown as kindergarten writers. They love getting their ideas down onto paper and into books. :)
As readers the children have been working hard on reading 'just-right books' and participating in different literacy activities each day. We are using our Word Wall to help us read and write many different sight words. Thank you for your support at home as well! The children love to tell me who they read their books to at home.
I am looking forward to another busy and fun week in our kindergarten classroom!
Sincerely,
Eileen Browne
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