What's Going On?

Last week we celebrated Dr. Seuss by reading many of his books and participating in corresponding reading, writing, and art activities. This was such a fun author study! This week we will continue our series of author studies with Laura Numeroff.

 Daily Five

We have added many reading strategies to our CAFÉ board. While reading at home, ask your child to use the following strategies/tools:

1.Check for Understanding – think and discuss the story as you read, if you don’t understand or remember, go back and reread

2. Look at the pictures – take a picture walk before reading and preview the story

3. Check the picture – when you come to a tricky word, check the picture to help you decide what makes sense
4. Get your mouth ready - look at the first letter and get your mouth ready to read

5. Look at the cover and think about the story – helps to understand and predict what you are going to read, also gets your brain focused!

6. Remember New Words – stop and discuss vocabulary meaning while reading or any other time

7. Touch each word as you read – helps you become more accurate and fluent

 

Letterland/Word Work

We have been learning about the five Vowel Men in Letterland. The Vowel Men say their names in words (long vowel sounds).  This week we will continue working with vowels, both long and short.

 

Writer’s Workshop

We continue to work on writing complete sentences related to our topic using capitalization, spacing, and ending punctuation. We are also working on taking our stories from our head, to our hand, to our paper. One way you can help your child become a better writer is to encourage them to write the sounds they hear, even when it results in a misspelled word! The important thing right now is for your child to recognize themselves as a writer and use what they know to tell their story!

 

Sight Words

 I, see, like, my, the, can, am, we, will, go, to, play, he, she, and, made, is, went, said, love, with, what

 

Math

We are still working on solving addition and subtraction problems up to 10. Our goal is for students to be able to fluently add and subtract within five. Ex. “I had five cookies and then I ate three. How many cookies do I have now?” or I had four pencils and then I found one more. How many pencils do I have now?” These are the types of questions we want children to be able to answer quickly, within 3 seconds.

 

IB Attitudes

empathy, appreciation, curiosity, commitment

 

Updates & Reminders

-Year Book Order Forms are due by March 26th - $16.00

-I have added new dates/times to sign up for Book and Bite and Mystery Reading

-There is a new link to a document that contains sight words. You can print these to keep at home and review with your child. These are words we want them to know by heart! 

Kindergarten is going on a field trip to see Seussical, a musical of Dr. Seuss’s most loved stories narrated by the Cat in the Hat himself! Adapted from the Broadway version, this musical features twelve actors and enhanced production values.

When:
Monday, March 11 at 9:45
(Buses leave campus around 9:00, the show is approximately one hour.)

Where:
Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh

Cost:
$12.00/student
Please use the “Online School Payment” link to pay for the field trip OR send in a check made payable to Joyner, if you have not already.

Permission Slip:
A permission slip was sent home last week. Please make sure you have completely filled out both sides and return it ASAP!

Lunch:
Please bring a bag lunch that day. We will be eating in our classroom once we return.

This is going to be such a fun field trip!