Tuesday was Groundhog's Day, so we celebrated by watching to see if "Phil" saw his shadow or not. We found out that he didn't see his shadow, so that means spring will come early! In reading groups, we focused on reviewing our letters "o" and "f" and our sight words "play" and "is." We also made cute little groundhog hats, practiced writing and counting up to the letter 7 many different ways, listened to "Goatilocks and the Three Bears," and we worked on blending, sounding out and writing CVC and CCVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant). After reading groups, we took a class picture in our groundhog hats that will go in our Memory Books. We then had our first Personal Safety lesson. We learned the eight Never-Never Rules!
1) Never touch guns
2) Never play with fire
3) Never ride on wheels without a helmet
4) Never go in water without an adult watching
5) Never use a sharp tool without an adult
6) Never ride in a car without wearing a seatbelt
7) Never touch a dog without asking the person in charge
8) Never cross the street without checking all ways for traffic
We practiced what to do if someone asks us to do one of these things:
1) We use our self talk and ask ourselves "Is it safe?"2) If it isn't safe or we don't know, we refuse by saying in a strong voice "No, that's not safe."
3) Then, we go tell the adult in charge.
We also learned about number bonds today in math! A number bond shows how two numbers make another number. For example 2 and 3 make 5. The total goes in the circle with the two lines going to it. The other two circles are the parts that make up the whole. Number bonds can be pointed towards any direction, we just look for where the lines point to see what circles are our parts and what circle is the whole.
Wednesday was a great day! We worked on more math fluency counting up and down and filling in the blank number. As part of our Kindergarten standards, students are still working on writing numbers without reversals. We played a really fun "Big Number Bond" game with Hula Hoops. Students were the parts and the whole in the Hula Hoops! We did our Calendar and Daily News routine. We also had reading groups focusing on reading our sight words, sounding out words and blending words we don't know. We played a dice game with our neighbor telling which number rolled is greater or less, worked on writing sight word sentences and reading our decodable and leveled readers. Students are doing a great job when reading to me one-on-one! I am super impressed by the blending and sounding out I am seeing! Way to go superstars!
Reminders:
1) Thursday is the Take Home Book Exchange
2) Homework Folders are due on Friday
3) Library Books are due on Friday
4) 100 Things Bags are due by Friday, February 12th
5) Students will need to make their own Valentines Day box for next Friday. Please bring it to school on Friday the 12th!
6) Our Valentine's Day parties are from 9:50-10:40 (AM) and 2:00-2:50 (PM)
A lot of news in the Kindergarten world, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Happy Trails!
~Love,
Mrs. Wittwer
