November 13-17

It has been a pleasure meeting with you during conferences this past week. I am excited to continue sharing the awesome Kindergarten work on Tuesday night!

Feel free to send chapstick to keep at school if your child needs it! Please write their name on the tube.

Upcoming Events:
November 14: Conferences 4-7:30pm
November 17: 1/2 day- 11:30 dismissal
November 20: Badger Sports Wear
November 22-24: No School
December 1: Afternoon with Astronauts--> more information to come!

Reading: Beginning this week, students will be bringing home a book bag each night. These book bags will have 2 books at your child's reading level. Ask your student what he/she is working on when reading (pointing, using pictures, and using beginning sounds are a few examples). Read the books with the student when you are able or ask them to spend time with the books each night. Please send the book bag back to school every day so we can exchange the books!

Writing: The writers will begin to work on true stories this week. In Kindergarten, we work on oral storytelling and transferring those stories to paper.  We will think about writing stories that people are excited to read. Then, we will make sure they can read them by adding drawing and making our sentences easy to read by using spaces and many letter sounds.

Math: This week, mathematicians will continue to work on the +1 and -1 patterns. We will create books with poems that help us to remember the pattern and equations. We will also continue our work with story problems. The mathematicians made the connection between our writing chart and writing a math equation. We use this chart to check that we have completed each step:

The mathematicians have loved playing “Garbage” This is a card game that focuses on number order. Grab a deck of cards and ask your child to teach you how to play at home!

Science: The kindergartners are loving our science unit on space so far! We are going to start exploring different aspects of space including planets, asteroids, the sun, the moon, and stars.
Keep an eye out for an invitation to Afternoon with Astronauts, an event that will be held from 2:00-3:00 on December 1st. You will be invited to visit our classroom and have the scientists share their space knowledge with you!