Feb. 27-Mar. 2

We went batty in kindergarten! Bats were the animals we read and wrote about this week in honor of B week.  We also listened to the fictional story called Stellaluna.  Adjectives and adverbs were the focus of our pattern poem we wrote about bugs.  We also enjoyed a funny poem by Shel Silverstein called "Band-aids."  We made a neat class book!  I am truly excited about the effort the students are making in their writing.  We are concentrating on using upper case letters properly, remembering to use punctuation, spelling sight words correctly, and using spacing between our words.  We completed the kindergarten sight word list this week with the word "for."  We will begin to introduce first grade sight words shortly.

In math we practiced probability with colored bears.  Addition was reinforced with dice and a bug board.  It was fun to experience the new data projector in our classroom.  We will use it a lot!  We sequenced daily events using ordinal numbers to label the steps.  A caterpillar coin game helped us to recognize the different coins.

"In like a lion, out like a lamb!"  That's how the saying goes.  We read a story that explains the saying, predicted how our March will end (15 said lamb, 4 said lion,) and made fun lions and lambs for our bulletin board.  We will track the lion and lamb weather throughout March!

Our cool tool this week was:  Do your personal best.  We discussed the importance of putting forth your best effort in all that you do.  We also talked about appreciating who you are and your own abilities.

Please notice the new link under author studies.  Mo Willems has a sight called Pigeon Presents.  Thank you to Mrs. Marron, Mrs. Antti, Mrs. Husseini, and Mrs. Narayanappa for leading Literacy Centers.  Thank you to Mr. Nicklavose for popping the popcorn for popcorn day!

Have a great long weekend!