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!