Schedule for the Week of February 13-17th

It was great to catch up with some families at conferences last Thursday night. I look forward meeting with the rest of you in the coming week!

SPECIALS: (February 13-17)

Monday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Tuesday:   Art/Music (Day 3) - Valentine's Party 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Wednesday: P.E./Media (Day 4) - 100th Day of Kindergarten! 

Thursday:  Music/Art (Day 5) Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-8pm - Book Fair Open!

Friday:  No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences 8am-Noon

MEDIA (Library): check out every Day 6/PLEASE return books every Day 5!

Other News::

• Valentines Day Party on Tuesday, February 14th 2:00-3:15pm (letter was sent home to all families last Friday)
• Send in homemade Valentines box/bag--if time is an issue, email me and your child can decorate a bag at school
• Treats can be sent in, but I will send them all home and let parents decided who can eat what
• Please only have your child write From "your child's name," as this will make passing out Valentines much easier
• We have 17 students in the class
• 100th Day of Kindergarten is coming up on Wed. February 15th. Please have your child bring in their bag of 100 items by this day.

Unit 6: Fix-Up Monitoring/Summarize Information (Week 1)

• Letter(s): Dd
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /d/
• Associate the letter Dd with the sound /d/
• Listen for medial sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyme
• Spell CVC words using D and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: we, there

• Summarize what you see in pictures and read in text
• Use academic sentence frames to discuss strategies
• learn strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence in a text
• answer text-dependent summarizing questions
• create summary chart and write a summary statement (whole group)

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Introduce the Genre of Book Reviews

• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Write some CVC words
• Write high-frequency words
• Demonstrate writer's voice
• Analyze story elements

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 6.1 (Will come home in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.) THANK YOU to all the families who have been working on these homework sheets and reading with your child! 

• PLEASE work on this with your child 2-3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. We need YOU as a partner in helping your child become fluent with letter recognition, sound, and sight words. Thanks!
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids (reading), Reading Eggs (phonics/reading) and Dream Box (math) at home as well!
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers
• Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading :)

Math: Unit 4 - Partners, Problems, Drawings, and Tens

• 4.14: Partners of 10 with 5-Groups
• Objectives: find partners of 10 in 5-groups; record sets or partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2; develop spatial concepts
• 4.15: Addition Equations
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; show teen numbers as 10 + 1-digit number, solve addition equations and explore addition strategies; order numbers 1 through 18

• 4.16: More Partners of 10 with 5-Groups
• Objectives: find partners of 10 in 5-groups; record sets or partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2; develop spatial concepts

• 4.17: Introduction to the -1 Routine
• Objectives: create story problems (addition and subtraction), solve addition equations; order numbers 1 through 20

Science:
Discussing MN lakes during winter

• Making winter tree observations
• how are they different from fall and spring? how are they the same?