Week 21

RAZ KID READER

Look who passed off a level in Raz Kids!

Dominic Tiznado

Ashlynn Johns

Aiden Morrison

Edison Phipps

Miguelangel Perez

 

EAGLE BOOKS

Last week we learned all about what eagles eat.  We wrote about it on our next page in our Eagle Book and drew an eagle with its prey.  Our books are really coming together!  This week we will talk about where they live and baby eaglets.

Thank you for sending your family photo to school.  It has been so fun listening to the children identify and share (in Spanish) who the members are in their family.  If your child has not sent me a photo (electronically) or brought one to class it’s not too late.  Send it this week.

HOMEWORK this week is all 

about getting prepared to

celebrate 100 DAYS of 

KINDERGARTEN!  

Please read it carefully.  Your child’s job is to put together a collection of 100 of the same item and put it in the bag (provided) and bring to school along with 3 clues about their collection.  Examples are: 100 Legos, 100 pieces of ribbon, 100 pennies, 100 Cheerios.  Then write 3 clues about your item.  For example if your child brought 100 rubber bands they could say –

 They are rubber.

 They stretch.

You use them to hold things together.

You may help your child spell words but, please have them do ALL of the writing. 

Friday, February 3^rd ~ Minimum Day & $1.00 FREE DRESS

Thursday, Friday February 15^th & 16^th 

Minimum ½ Day & Parent Teacher 

Conferences

Tuesday, February 20^th ~ Field Trip to the Ogden Treehouse Museum

(We now have all of our Parent Chaperones)

Week 20

Our class is becoming really great at synergizing!  They earned 100 tally marks for working together and chose as their reward to have a STUFFED ANIMAL DAY!

Each child taught their animal all throughout the day.  

Take a look at some of the things they taught them…

 How to do our Jump-Start

How to read CVC words

How to do the Pledge of Allegiance

How to be the Calendar Leader

How to clip-up on our RESPONSIBILITY CHART

How to write

How to speak spanish

How to eat a snack

How to do our Waterford Program

How to do science

How to do our Leadership Jobs like cleaning the tables...

Sharpening pencils...

Sweeping the floor

And how to wear a name tag

I am so happy and pleased to announce that our DIBELS assessment was a HUGE success!  The progress that the children made was such a  pay-out for me as a teacher!  I hope when you see your child’s progress report (a copy will be given to you at Parent Teacher Conference) you will give yourself a pat on the back and smother you child with hugs and kisses!

RAZ KID READER

Look who passed off a level in Raz Kids…

Aiden Janssen

In Spanish Mrs. Sorensen is teaching the children all about the family.  She is asking that each child bring a picture of his/her family by Tuesday to use in class this week.  Any size will do.  The pictures will be returned to you and will not be altered in any way.

This week we will be taking our unit assessment on Comparing Numbers

Our eagle writing is really coming along!  I can’t wait for you to see their book!  We have already completed 4 pages!  When they are finished we will submit them to the Love Your Library Contest.

1 large bag or box of Fruit Loops

Please contact me if you would like to donate this

Minimum Day & $1.00 Free Dress ~ Friday, February 2^nd

Valentine’s Day Activity ~ Wednesday, February 14^th

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES ~ Thursday/Friday, February 15^th & 17^th 

CHILDRENS TREEHOUSE Field Trip 

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 20^th

9:00 – 11:00 am

This is one of my favorite field-trips!  We will be learning all about Fairy Tales and doing several activities including participating in a play.

I will need 5 parents to accompany us that day.  I will take the first 5 that contact me.  NO siblings – please.  You may ride with us on the bus or meet us there.

 

Week 19

I hope you and your child had a relaxing long weekend.  I sure enjoyed mine!  Now we are ready to get to get back to work!  A little bit about last week and this week…

Congratulations to Victor Buendia for passing off a level in Raz Kids last week!

Last week in language arts we practiced our new sight word - this.  At the same time we tied it into our 7 HABITS:  #4 Think Win-Win!  

We each drew a name out of a container of someone in our class.  

Then we wrote the sentence, “This is for you!”  we then drew a picture

of something we thought they would like.  We kept it a secret until we

were done then we gave it to them.  It was a win-win because everyone

got a special note and everyone got to practice learning a new word.

Our DIBELS testing will begin this week. It is very important that the children come rested and well fed each day so

they can be alert and ready to do their best work.  If you would like to know the

areas in which they will be assessed please refer to last week’s blog post.

We are still working on our math unit that is all about Comparing Sets.  

We have compared everything from sets of children to fish crackers.  

We rolled a die and created a set.  Then we made another set that had 1

more or 1 less in it.  Try doing this at home with the dice I gave your child

at Christmas.  Get creative with the manipulative and have fun!

2nd TERM REPORT CARDS will come home on Wednesday  

Please take time to celebrate all that your child has learned.  
You can access the grade break-down on ASPIRE if you have any questions.

REPORT CARD ENVELOPES

Don’t forget to sign the envelope and send it back this week.

You get to keep the report card.