Weekly News!!

This week we have started to learn about planting seeds, baby chicks, and animal habitats. We are studying these science units with fun hands-on learning. Mrs. Wells has chicken eggs in an incubator, we will observe them as they hatch into babies! Mrs. Smith helped us plant lima bean seeds, we are hoping they grow into tall plants! I am creating animal habitats with the classes. On Friday we will make a desert habitat. Ask your child which plants and animals live in the desert.

We continue to assess the students for the 3rd quarter report cards. Please review all numbers 0-20 with your child and compare those numbers by putting them in order from smallest to largest. This is a tricky skill.

Don't forget about Grandparent's Day next Thursday! It will be a lot of fun, please fill out the invitation so we know you will be attending. We are now making some fun presents to give our special grandparents.

Friday we get to wear our PJs for our special Pajama Day Party! Please send your child in PJs so they can be part of the fun.

The Cincinnati Zoo visited Room 106's P.M. Class!

The Cincinnati Zoo visited Room 106's P.M. Class!

Robert Munsch

In Room 106, we have been learning about the author Robert Munsch. He has written several hilarious children's books and we are enjoying them thoroughly in the classroom. Please check out some of his titles from the library or a book store for your family to enjoy at home. Your child will tell you just how fun they are!! Some titles we have enjoyed are...
*Andrew's Loose Tooth
*The Dark
*Purple, Green, and Yellow
*We Share Everything!
*Get Out of Bed!
*Alligator Baby

Let's Become Great Writers!

If your child is having trouble remembering to add spaces or reading their writing after they wrote it, here are a couple tips you can do to help!

-Have them state the complete sentence before writing it. You can use a colorful pen to draw line spaces for each word in the sentence, making spaces for your child to see. For example the sentence, My cat is big.
_ ___ _ ___.

-Have them identify the number of sounds in a word before writing it. Make sound placeholders with dots or spaces, so they know the correct number of letters or sounds to write.
-Re-read their sentences with them and make sure they are using their finger reading to keep track of where they are in the sentence.
-Have fun with it!

Spring Writing!

Check out what great writers we have in Room 106!

Read Aloud Video

Hello to all my kindergarten families! I have put together a short example of a read aloud for you to enjoy. I thought that this might inspire you to borrow some of my tricks of the trade when reading with your child. I bet most of you do use many of these ideas already.

In class, we are working on building our thinking while we read. I do a lot of thinking out loud when I read and encourage the kiddos to do the same. Asking questions, making predictions about what might happen, making connections to my life and other books we have read in class, and commenting on the book out loud are fun ways to get more involved with books. Check out this video to get some ideas! Remember to have your child choose texts that they enjoy, rhyming books, books about kids their age, animal books, cars and truck books, and books about school usually are appealing to a six year old. Have fun with it!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day this week! It was great fun learning about St. Pats Day. We read stories, sang songs, wrote our sight words in green, and went looking for leprechauns. Check out our day in the slide show below!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

This week we learned began celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! My family comes from Ireland and we love to share this holiday with others! We read stories, sang songs, and learned Irish traditions. Please ask your child to share what they know and make sure they wear green on Thursday!
Also, we reviewed all our letters and sounds. The letter Yy is our favorite letter this week. Please ask your child which letters have hanging tails...y’s will be in that group!
In math, we worked on counting forwards and backwards. We used number cards and played the game “have….who has?” This game is fun and you can play it at home with number cards. Ask your child to describe the game and learn together!
Please encourage your child to write a letter to a friend this week. Have them bring it to school and share with us!