Week 20 Highlights!

What a fun-filled week!

We began our first author study this week. We are reading books by the hilarious author-illustrator, Mo Willems.  Our story of the week was Leonardo the Terrible Monster.  Our comprehension skills were retell, making connections, and using evidence in the text to determine the author's purpose.  We also introduced opinion writing.  The kiddos wrote about their favorite part of the book and why.  Please ask your child to share with you their favorite part of our story of the week.

We added one new word to the word wall this week.  Our new word wall word is what.  Please continue to practice reading, writing, and identifying word wall words with your child at home.

Take a peek at our kiddos hard at work during our Daily Five reading and writing stations.

In writing, we continue to develop writing stamina.  Our kiddos are becoming more determined to create their own books by expanding their stories across multiple pages.  We even had a few books "published" this week!  We continue to practice how to writing creating recipe cards for Cooking Friday.  Take a peek at our kiddos creating our valentines parfait and practicing our how to writing during Cooking Friday.

During whole group math this week, we introduced subtraction and the game Match Me Minus One.  In our calendar books, we are focusing on basic addition and subtraction, numbers before and after, and odd and even numbers.  Take a peek at our kindergarten mathematicians.

We had a blast experimenting with water this week!  We completed two science experiments.  Our first experiment involved putting together and taking apart water drops.  Please ask your child to share with you how we were able to move water.  For our second experiment, we discovered how water can move from one glass to another.  Our kiddos made predictions, took careful observations, and recorded their findings in our walking water experiment.  Take a peek at our kindergarten scientists hard at work.

Thank you to our classroom volunteers this week: Ms. Daniel, Ms. Trudell, and Laylah's Mammaw.

Upcoming Dates
February 9th-12th--Parent-Teacher Conferences
February 11th and 12th--Parent-Teacher Conference 1/2 Days-11:00am Dismissal
February 15th--Presidents Day-NO SCHOOL
February 20th--Irving Fun Fair-11:00am-3:00pm-I hope to see you there!