Read Across America Week-

The students have been working really hard this week with reading! We were challenged to read 100 minutes this week. Each time we read 2 minutes we get to choose one state on our US map to color in. We will have the entire map colored by the end of the day. As a reward, we got to take a break from reading and have a "Movie theater" featuring a short Dr.Suess story. Yesterday, the afternoon class got to listen to a real author and illustrator speak about the process of writing a book. Students in the morning class used puppets to make their own stories. The students really enjoyed the speical activities this week. Here are some pictures of us during Read Across America week!

This Week-

Reading- We are working on the letter W, along with reviewing the other letters during our Reading center time. We are also still focusing on telling stories that match a picture. We discussed that we can all read books by looking at the pictures. Just because we can't read the words yet doesn't mean we can't read. Challenge your students to use pictures in a book to tell you a story.

 

Math- In math this week we are working on graphing. We have been graphing the weather during calendar time so this is not the first time students are using/seeing a graph. We are working on a new graph each day to learn more about our classmates. Today, we graphed how many people live in our home. We found that many of the students in our class have atleast 5 people living in their home.

 

We will be talking about the famous story, The Lion and the Lamb. We will make predictions as to whether March will come in as a lion or a lamb next week. Talk with your students about the difference between "lion and lamb weather".

 

This is also Read Across America week so we will be participating in fun activities all week!

Free Book!

We are celebrating "Read Across America Week". As the kick-off to our celebration, the students all recieved a free book to take home today! (Just in case you were wondering where the book came from). The students are challenged to read, or be read to for 100 minutes this week. We are  working together (AM and PM) to accomplish this goal. Today, the classes read a total of 20 minutes! We are well on our way to meeting the challenge!

Read Across America Week

Feb 24-28, Fred Assam students will be celebrating Reading Across America week with many fun activities and Dr. Suess' theme days.

 

Monday- "Read a shirt Day"- Wear a shirt with (appropriate) writing on it

Tuesday- "B.E.A.R Day"- Block. Out. Everything. and Read! Students may bring a stuffed animal to read with

Wednesday- "Crazy Sock Day"- In honor of "The Foot Book"

Thursday- "Pajama Day"- in honoro of "The Sleep Book"

Friday- "R.E.D. Day"- (Read every day) Wear red!

 

Students are challenged to read 100 minutes in school this week. Prizes will be awarded throughout the week! We will welcome any guest readers into our classroom to help us get to 100 minutes. If you or someone you know would like to volunteer to come in and read a book or two please let me know!

 

Local author and illustrator Robert Palmer & Terri Pieters will share their books with us on Thursday.

 

We are looking forward to a fun week of reading!

This Week

Feb. 18-21

Finally, a nice week of weather! I think the kids forgot what outside recess was! We are all very excited to be able to go outside and run off some energy during recess time.

This Week:
Reading- We are working on the letter O- Remembering that the letter O is a vowel and has two sounds, long and short. We are finding things that begin with o, searching for the letter O in stories and working on writing the letter O. During reading centers we are continuing to work on letters learned so far. Some groups are also working on letter sounds and sight words. We are also starting to tell stories that go with certain pictures. I show the student a picture of a jumprope for example, the student then tells me any story that makes sense about a jumprope. Some of the other reading centers this week include using stamps to copy names of students in the class, matching pictures that have the same beginning sound (Shark and Shell), Stringing letter beads onto laces to make works (This is great for improving fine motor skills and working those writing muscles).

Math- In math this week we are talking about equal groups. We practice putting objects into equal groups. We will also learn that odd numbers cannot be split into equal groups, unless they are cookies, then we can break on in half. :) We are also continuing to work on recognizing numbers 1-10 and counting to 30. Keep practicing this with your child at home too! We will be working on a counting book this week that centers around the Olympics. We are excited to learn about some of the Olympic sports while we learn about counting and numbers.

Keep reinforcing skills at home- It really does show in school when parents are working with their children at home as well. I am seeing students make a lot of progress this year. I have a great set of parents to work with. Thanks for all you do for your child!

This week

Conferences were great! I was very impressed with the attendance and the conversations. I have great Jr.K parents! Thank you all for your support and dedication to your child and their education.

After visiting with parents at conferences, I found this great article on ways to prepare your child for Kindergarten. This article gives wonderful ideas of things you can do at home and over the summer time to help your child have a successful Kindergarten year. It's very important to continue the learning at home. Students typically loose some of what they learn over the summer time, unfortunately, so let's work together to make sure that doesn't happen :)

How to prepare your child for Kindergarten


This week has been a bit crazy as far as days off, early outs, Valentine's parties and conferences. For that reason, we are doing a review week this week. We are still practicing with letter K and working on the letters we have learned up to this point. We are really working hard on recognizing numbers 1-10 and counting to 30 as well.

The students are really looking forward to the Valentine's day parties tomorrow. Reminder- the AM party is at 10AM and the PM party is at 2PM. Please feel free to stop by if you would like to join in on the fun!

Next week we will be learning the letter O in Reading. We will be working on making equal groups and sharing in Math, and we will start talking about drawing pictures to go with stories or ideas. We will also make a fun counting book that centers around the Olympics. I am looking forward to a somewhat normal week again next week. Have a great weekend!