March 11-15

 

Our word of the week was "Brave" and we showed courage and bravery throughout the week as week become more and more independent in our learning- taking risks "guess spelling" all on our own in our journals and tackling new word problems in math.  Sometimes we may feel uncomfortable or nervous when we are trying new things on our own, or doing hard things.  We know that we can take a deep breath, think about what we need to do- and then give it our best try.   When we try- and do our best- we are brave.  

The Kindergarten students were able to share their family photos this week and ask each other questions about their families.  We spent time working on our detailed illustration skills as we drew and labeled our families.  We worked very hard on these this week and can't wait to share them at Parent Teacher Conferences next week.

During our Literacy time we read stories about families, and about our letter of the week "Jj".  We played a game called "Hey, hey, does it start with J?" and practiced making the letter J.  We sang songs about J and even made some jiggly jellyfish. During our phonics times we have been working on rhyming and medial sounds (the vowel sound in the middle of words).  We like to practice our medial sounds using what we call "Rollercoaster Arms".

During our math times we played a tally game called "Roll, Tally- Get the Gold!" to practice subitizing and tallying.  We also did some math problem solving and found that there are sooooo many ways to solve a problem.  We worked together to solve problems, shared how we solved them and explained our thinking to our classmates with pictures and our words.

We made sure to go outside and enjoy the sunshine and had way too much fun in the puddles.  My apologies for the wet clothes and muddy boots this week as we explored the changes happening outside as the snow melted into ginormous puddles that were just too hard to resist.  We loved splashing, jumping, running and playing in the mud, puddles and broken ice.  We are noticing how the sun is coming up and lighting up the sky, how the grass is starting to show, how the geese are flying back and how the rabbits hopping around are beginning to have different patched of brown fur growing in.  We have become very aware and observant of our environment and how it is transforming before our eyes.

In Center times we continued to play "school", had fun building and planning our builds for our cups and giant lego pieces.  We played board games, created a 4 leaf clover craft with our Buddies, went to the gym to participate in Gymnastics and visited the Library.  

One last thing!

We finally filled our Cutting Jar to the very top!  We brainstormed the perfect reward for our teamwork and decided on having a "Show and Tell" day on Monday.  Students are invited to bring something (1 thing) to share with the class at our Monday Meeting.  It will also go home with them on Monday.  It has to be able to fit in a bag, and not be the most important/expensive thing- as we don't want anything tooooo important to ever be misplaced or forgotten.  The Kindergarteners were very excited for this- so thank you for helping them to remember:)

Please remember to also book a Parent Teacher Conference for next Thursday or Friday (March 21/22).  I look forward to seeing you then.  

Thank you for continuing to support your child's learning.  Here are some pictures from our week!