Week before Spring Break!

Hello Parents and Families!

This week we will continue to do some new learning and review some skills from last week. We will be learning:

In Literacy/Reading we will:
Continue to read with a partner the book of the week, "The Jumping Sack." We will complete and discuss a prompted comprehension journal question on the book as well, and continue to retell and practice story comprehension.

In Math we will:
Compose and Decompose #'s 6-10 and begin our introduction to addition concepts in addition story problems by using a number line to solve them.

In Writing we will be:
Continue to work on writing 'How to' stories to teach people how to do things by following written and picture directions. At the end of the week we will finalize a 'how to' directions list and test it out by following our directions in an experiment! Our topic will be 'how to spike my hair' or 'how to make a lunch-able pizza.'

Classroom Notes:

• February 22 - March 1 - Scholastic Book Fair (open before and after school)
• Feb 25-28 -  10th Grade AIMS Testing (reading and writing) 
• February 25-28 - Galileo Testing (all grades except Kinder)
•  March 6-8 - ILP Conferences (No School)
• March 11-18  - Spring Break
• Tuesday, March 19 - classes resume

  * Don't forget to bring in your student's 'Raising a Reader' Book Bags every Friday! Your child will not be allowed to get a new bag  until the old one had been returned, or missing books/items have been returned.

* I have sent home ILP conference papers for you to sign up for times and return  to me by this Friday, March 1st. I will send home your confirmed times by Monday, March 4th.

The week ahead: Valentine's Day, AZ's B-day, & President's Day!

Hello Parents and Families!

This week we will be celebrating Valentine's Day, Thursday, Feb, 14th as 'Friendship Day'. The school does not allow an actual Valentine's celebration, so on Thursday Kindergarten students will be celebrationg their friends and loved ones by doing activities throughout the day themed around friendship. Parents can send a Valentine to their students in their lunchbox, and students can bring Valentines'/Friendship cards to distribute during snack time at 2:15pm to their classmates. Parents can also contribute healthy snacks  for the children to share and eat during our 'Friendship Celebration' for snack time at 2:15pm-2:45pm on 2/14/1013.

This week we will also be celebrating the state of Arizona's 101st birthday! We will do activities themed around Arizona, discuss icons specific to AZ like the state flower, bird, flag, etc. We will also begin an introduction to coins, and their amounts/worth.

On Friday 2/15/13, we will celebrate President's of the U.S.A, both past and present. We will also be doing writing on President's like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. During math we will also be continuing our discussion and activities using coins and their amounts.

We will also be continuing to do some new learning this week and review some skills from last week.

We will be learning:

In Literacy/Reading we will:
Continue to read with a partner the book of the week, "Where is Pit-Pat?" We will complete and discuss the comprehension questions on the book as well. We will be using a retell rubric to review and retell the beginning, middle, and end of stories independently and with partners.

In Math we will:
Compose and Decompose #'s 1-5 and continue our introduction to addition concepts by beginning to represent addition problems using pictures and numbers. We will also begin an introduction to graphing by answering questions of the week and representing our findings in a chart. We will be doing addition using shapes, coins, stickers and connecting cubes to represent addition number sentences with pictures and numbers.

In Writing we will be:
 Continue to work on creating our 'all about' books about the solar system. We will continue to do so using diagrams, charts, table of contents, and 'how to' lists.

Classroom Notes:

* Don't forget to bring in your student's 'Raising a Reader' Book Bags every Friday! Your child will not be allowed to get a new bag  until the old one had been returned, or missing books/items have been returned.


*No school on Monday, Feb. 18th for the President's Day holiday.

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Crowl's Kindergarteners!

This Week

Hello Parents and Families!

This week we will continue to do some new learning and review some skills from last week. We will be learning:

In Literacy/Reading we will:
Read with a partner the book of the week, "Where is Pit-Pat?" We will complete and discuss the comprehension questions on the book as well.

In Math we will:
Compose and Decompose #'s 1-5 and continue our introduction to addition concepts by beginning to represent addition problems using pictures and numbers. We will also begin an introduction to graphing by answering questions of the week and representing our findings in a chart.

In Writing we will be:
Begin an introduction to 'all about' books about the solar system. We will create a book that is 'all about' the solar system using diagrams, charts, table of contents, and 'how to' lists.

Classroom Notes:

* Don't forget to bring in your student's 'Raising a Reader' Book Bags every Friday! Your child will not be allowed to get a new bag  until the old one had been returned, or missing books/items have been returned.

Check out some of the work we have done this week below:

Jayson Miranda practicing reading to self during Daily 5!

Andrea Gonzalez eating our Edible Jupiter

Mennen Ceballos eating our Edible Jupiter

Isabella DeMello and Daniella Gomez eating our Edible Jupiter

Maiah Rodriguez and Lizette Verdin-Sesmas eating our Edible Jupiter

Adbulahi Burkurow reading to himself during Daily 5.

Zayden Lerma reading to a friend during Daily 5.