Important upcoming dates:
Welcome to Kindergarten Please check in every week! We're going to be busy scholars in both the classroom and at home and this blog will be essential to keeping you informed and up-to-date on all of our adventures.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Weekly update 3/28
Friday, March 21, 2025
Weekly Update 3/21
Important Upcoming Dates:
Save the Date - Fine Arts Festival
Little Bear (Box set)- Else Holmelund Minarik ISBN: 978-0064441971
Mouse Soup - Arnold Lobel ISBN: 978-0064440417
Spalding:
Phonograms learned 1-70. Please spend time practicing 10-15 cards nightly. Please focus on saying the sounds so they can write the matching phonogram. Hearing the sounds helps to build their sense of recognition for spelling words and writing sentences.
*When reading and writing, help your scholar identify phonograms in the words and silent e-jobs to better understand the sounds they should read or need to spell words.
Literature:
We spent our week reading The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. We enjoyed hearing about all the fun Pooh had with his friends. We learned that a narrator is someone who tells a story. We learned Pooh loves honey and is always a great friend. He often gets into trouble because he loves honey, but his friends are always willing to help him. For Poetry, we looked at one of the songs Winne the Pooh and Piglet sing together called The More It Snows. It has silly words and rhymes. In grammar, we began talking about questions and how when you're reading and speaking, it makes your voice change. We practiced asking, writing, and using a question mark in our sentences.
Math:
We have switched our focus from addition to subtraction. The students explored the concept of subtraction in broad situations, discussing real life scenarios they may experience. For example, "I had 5 balloons. 2 of my balloons burst. How many balloons do I have left?" We practiced subtraction within 10 using pictures to match subtraction equations, crossing out how many are being taken away and circling what is left, then writing the matching subtraction sentence themselves. We have stressed the importance of what the subtraction symbol (-) means and how it differs from the addition symbol (+).
History:
This week in history we traveled to a new continent, South America. The children were so excited to sing their favorite song about the continents, and learn about some of the different climates, and traditions of the continent south of us. The children loved the game we played from Colombia where they held on to a string and passed a small straw around the string. The child in the middle with their eyes closed had to guess who had the straw hiding in their hands. It's similar to hot potato. The children had so much fun and asked to play it again soon.
Science
Friday, March 7, 2025
Weekly Update 3/7
We have finished the third quarter! The children have learned so much this year, and are excited for all the fun things planned for the rest of kindergarten!
Important upcoming dates:
Spalding:
Literature:
This week we also enjoyed reading the other side of the Fairy Tales. We read versions where we heard Goldilocks, Cinderella, Snow White and The 3 Little Pigs from the perspective of another character in the story. It was fun to talk about how people have different experiences even when they go through the same thing. We found many of these stories silly and really enjoyed them. In poetry, we read Little Boy Blue and talked about what he should have been doing instead of sleeping. In Grammar, we focused on retelling a story from the illustrations from our past Fairy Tales.