Weekly News (April 3-6)

I loved hearing about all of the students' spring break adventures! I hope everyone enjoyed the time off from school. Take a peek below to see what we've been learning this week!

Math
This week we continued to focus on Numbers 1 to 100 as we began to explore the basics of place value. The children practiced counting by 10's and learned how to use groups of tens and ones to represent a two-digit number. Students practiced using connecting cubes to represent different two-digit numbers. We also focused on transitions from one group of ten to the next. Check us out in action below!

Literacy
Reading Workshop
The children were excited to begin our new reading workshop unit, which focuses on the exciting world of poetry! We introduced our mentor texts for this unit and practiced getting read to read poetry using the following steps--looking at and reading the title of the book and the poem; looking closely at the illustrations; making predictions; making connections to our own lives; and thinking about how the poem makes us feel. We also learned about the different ways poetry can look and how poets use different features to help us know how the words should sound. Then we found and shared some examples. Take a peek at some of our finds below!

Writing Workshop
The class had a great time talking about what they did over spring vacation with their turn-and-talk partners, and they did a nice job writing about their spring break adventures too. We have been focusing on adding detail to our writing and remembering to leave spaces between words. The students have also been doing a great job working toward their individual writing goals. Keep up the great work kindergarten!!

Guided Reading
The children were eager to get new books for their blue book bags this week! Thank you all so much for your continued support at home. I can tell the children have been practicing their sight words and Jolly Phonics sounds, and they have been doing a great job reading their books at home too. Keep up the great work!

LMC
This week in the LMC the students listened to the book One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree. Then they used the Nearpod app to compare this story with another familiar tale. They also learned more about real rainbow eucalyptus trees.

Hope everyone has a great week.

Thanks for reading!