Weekly Update 1/17

 Important upcoming dates:

1/20: No School - MLK day

1/22: Class celebration:100th day of school -- Birthday Book Club, Treat Friday, Spirit Wear Day

2/7: Early Dismissal at 12:30

2/8: Daddy-Daughter Dance 6-8:30 pm (tickets on Payment Portal)

2/11:  Class picture day

2/14: Great Hearts Day - A celebration of Friendship (NO valentines)

2/17: No school - President's Day

2/21: Birthday Book Club, Treat Friday, Spirit Wear Day

2/28: School Field Day

3/4: Kindergarten graduation pictures

3/7: Early Dismissal at 12:30

3/10-3/15: Spring Break

**Field Trip for Kindergarten is scheduled for May 9th - more info to come **

Check out what we learned this week:

Spalding: The children are becoming so confident with the Spalding Phonograms! As a reminder when practicing, please focus on 10-20 cards only. Choose some they are confident with and some that need extra practice. Please go through the set only twice, telling them the sounds when they are stuck to help them begin to retain it. Phonogram cards should be quick and simple. We have also continued talking about the jobs of silent e. We have rhymes we will learn to help us identify what the other letters are doing when we read. 

Job 1  (ex: time)                        Job 2   (ex: have, blue)

Vowel, Consonant, E                   English words don't end in v or u

Jump 1, Scare 1, Job 1                Job 2

Literature:  We read more of our chapter book Mr. Popper's Penguins and got to the chapters where Mr. Popper receives a gift from a famous explorer. Can you guess?? The children were delighted to hear about a penguin as a pet. Mr. Popper named the Penguin Captain Cook after the explorer, but also after the sound the penguin made 'gook!' We also learned about prepositions and how they are the linking words between the subject and action of a sentence.

Math:  The children are enjoying learning about measuring in our new Chapter. We have measured using our connecting cubes, and comparing the lengths of things being introduced to longer, shorter, taller, and smaller. We don't always need a ruler to measure!

Science: We've enjoyed learning about Pushes and Pulls this unit. The children learned how to change the direction of where something moves, by aiming, hitting it, and applying force. the children watched a demonstration of soccer goals to learn about changing the direction of pushes.

History:  In History, we traveled to the continent of Africa. We learned about some of the different terrains in this huge continent and some of the different animals that make Africa so special. We also learned about the country of Kenya and learned there are over 60 languages spoken there, and that many large animals live on the savanna, where there are 2 seasons. Wet and Dry.