April 3-6

Happy Spring everyone! Check out the bottom of the blog to see a few fun pictures from last week!


Here is the link to the sign up for KAT volunteers!

2018 Knowledge-A-Thon (KAT) Day

Upcoming Events: 
April 3: Wear odd clothes
April 9: Wear PJs or comfy clothes
April 10: No School
April 11: Dress like an answer to a kat question
April 12: Dress like a teacher
April 13: Class color day--Dress in red
April 13: Knowledge-A-Thon
April 19: Family Night
April 20: Wear green and blue for Earth Day
April 26: Movie star day

What is happening in Room 82 this week? 

Reading: Readers will begin to ask themselves these questions:

• What strategies have I tried to solve these unknown words?
• Did it work?
• What else could I try? 

By reflecting on what they have tried, the readers will begin to discover when different strategies work best and become more efficient when choosing strategies. Here is a chart of some of the main strategies readers rely on:

Writing: Students will begin writing opinion letters about things that should be changed in our room.Writers will set goals to fix up their writing. They could choose to fix up spelling or punctuation. They could also choose to elaborate by adding more drawings and labels, telling more reasons to convince others of their opinions, or adding speech bubbles. These writers have done a wonderful job finding problems and writing about ways to make them better. They are quite convincing!

Math: One of the main concepts that we want Kindergartners to take away this year is that numbers can be taken apart and put back together. This understanding provides a base for adding, subtracting, multiplying, etc. We have been talking about different ways to build and take apart numbers using this chart:

Science: This week we’re learning about the four classic “seasons.” Your child will be given a series of drawings and look for patterns to figure out the seasons’ order. You can further encourage your child’s curiosity about the weather by going on a “Season Walk."  Go for a walk together and look for clues that help you to know what season it is!

SO much orange! Go K! 

The finalists of room 82 battle it out! Karlene was our class winner! 

We made windsocks to study wind and weather in science.