A musical quintet

Today we had the pleasure of watching a quintet perform for us. We really enjoyed listening to the soft music they played. We learned that "quintet" means a group of 5 performers. We also learned about the different instruments they played as well as the sounds the instruments made. Ask your child about the different instruments that were played and how they liked the performance.

In class we've been very busy working on lots of new things. Here's an update on what we are doing this week:

*Writer's Workshop- We are continuing our work with Report Writing. We are trying to add more details to our stories instead of just listing four facts and saying we are done. Encourage your child to go more in depth in their writing. Another writing grade will be taken this week and sent home for parents to sign.

*Reader's Workshop- We are learning new strategies to help us read: Look for blends and endings and look for word families. The students are working very hard on their independent reading and becoming better reader's everyday. If you'd like to work on reading books at home that have word families to help focus on our reading strategy, please visit http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/ Click on the tab: literacy and find the tab "printable booklets". You can download these books at home, print them out and even have your child highlight the sight words and/or word families within the book. Have your child read these books to you and be sure to include them on the book log in the back of the agenda.

*Math Investigations- We are creating a new goal--Learning our Math Facts. We have started working on addition facts. The students are making their own flash cards to practice during the day. In addition to working towards our goal, we are also learning about 2-dimensional shapes (square, triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, skinny rhombus, and fat rhombus).

*Skills Block- We are working on our new sight words: could, and would. We are learning about long i with a silent e (words like dime, time, pile, etc.).

*Science-Our focus is on day and night and the differences between them. We have previously talked about things you see during the day and things you see during the night.

As you can see we have been extremely busy in Kindergarten. :) Progress reports will go home on Friday in your child's agenda. If you having any questions about your child's progress report, please contact us by either the agenda or by calling the school.

As always, thank you for your continued support!

100 days smarter!

In Math Investigations we learned how to play the game, "Racing Bears". The object of the game was to work with our partners to move the four racing bears to the end of the towers. Ask your student about the game and how we played it in class!

We welcome our UNF intern, Mrs. Kaileigh Deckert. She will be working in our classroom until she graduates in April. We are very excited to have her with us!

On February 3, we celebrated our success from the 2nd nine weeks of school and held a small awards ceremony in our classroom. We were very pleased to announce that each and every child received an award. The students have come such a long way since the beginning of the year and all the success they have shown would not have been possible without the support of our parents. Thank you parents for your continued support!





We are 100 days smarter! We had a fun filled day of celebrating the 100Th day of school on February 5Th. The posters students brought in were extremely creative and it was very evident that the students thoroughly enjoyed making them with family members! While each child shared their poster, we ate our special trail mix made up of 10 different snacks with 10 pieces of each snack. We also celebrated the day by doing other extra special things. Be sure to ask your child about how we celebrated the 100Th day of school. Thank you parents for sending in the treats for our trail mix! :)

Has your child mentioned Jackie Robinson to you at home? Our class is learning about Black History Month by celebrating the life of Jackie Robinson. We've been reading books about him, as well as doing activities and writing reports on him. If you have a chance, come see the Jackie Robinson display we have hanging outside of our classroom.

A new book order will be sent home soon. This book order is very special to us because we are joining the effort to support our troops and their kids! When we place an order from the UNITED WE READ catalog, we'll help donate $1 to the OPERATION PHONE HOME program, which provides prepaid calling cards to our troops overseas. If you have any questions about when book orders are due, feel free to send a note in the agenda.

As always, thank you for all you do for us!

Ms. Ryan & Ms. Burns