KM Happenings

Themes this month :

Weather Around the World

Penguins

Kindness 

Dates to remember:

3/5 Early Dismissal @ 12:15 Conferences 

3/13 Early Dismissal @ 12:15 Conferences

3/27 No School Full Day Professional Development

This Week In KM

Literacy:  

In EL this week, we read The Kindness Book by Todd Parr. We used this book to discuss what it meant to be kind to others and to ourselves. The book sparked our classwide kindess flower garden. Children can add flower petals with kind acts written on them to our display.  We will vote on a classroom special activity when all the flowers are filled in. The Kindness Book also provided us an opportunity to write how we are kind, allowing us to practice sentance writing skills. 

Our penguin theme culminated this week as we read about various types of penguins. We used this theme to introduce the idea of what an opinion was. Children had the opportunity to share their opinion of which penguin they liked the most and explain to why to a partner.

Heggerty:  We are practicing the following phonemic awareness skills daily: 

• rhyming

• isolating beginning phonemes- this week we added in the digraphs sh, ch, and th

• blending phonemes

• isolating medial sounds

• segmenting words into phonemes

• adding initial phonemes 

• deleting initial phonemes

• substituting initial phonemes 

Fundations:  

We continue to use sound boxes to help us sound out and spell CVC words. We were introduced to the idea that vowels have a short and long sound, first practicing with the vowel A.  Children  are making their own set of heart words cards. Together we are looking at the letters/sounds that follow the sound rules we have learned so far and recognizing the sounds that are "rule breakers."  We are using small heart stickers to place over the sounds that we have to "learn by heart." It will take us a few weeks to get through all the words but children will be able to bring them home when they are complete. 

Math: 

We reviewed what 2D and 3D shape names and attributes are. Together we learned a game called Fives Up and a penny counting game. Both activities help to support making combinations to 5..

During our Number Corner time, we used animal stories to make addition and subtraction equations. We also played a partner number line game that supported problem solving skills to figure out how many fingers needed to display teen numbers.

We continue to practice counting to 100 (by ones and tens) daily. 

Craft: Paper cup pengiuns 

                    General Classroom Reminders: 

* If your child is absent, tardy, or has a dismissal change please use PickUp Patrol and email csamarjian@nrsd.net. If it’s a consistent change (ie. pick-up every Thursday), one communication to all stating this is fine. Health questions should go to Rebecca Carle, rcarle@nrsd.net. Anything that is simply classroom related (family news, having a tough day, classroom questions, etc) should go to myself and Colinda. 

Your child will receive a red folder to go between home and school every day. Please check their folder daily and send it back to school back each day. If your child is getting school lunch, please circle their choice on the lunch menu in their folder. 

Please pack a snack and labeled water bottle everyday. Snacks must be peanut nut and nut free as we eat in the classroom, peanut butter and nuts are fine to pack for lunch. It's best to separate your child's snack from their lunch.

Please keep your child's extra clothes updated with weather appropriate options. We go through a lot of socks and pants during the winter and early spring days! 

We have PE on C and E days (until 3/13). Please have your child wear sneakers to school for PE (sneakers are great all days, especially for recess!)