March 12-16

This spring weather is crazy! If there is snow on the ground, sending snow pants is appreciated. As the snow starts to melt (hopefully soon!), please continue to send boots as it can be pretty wet on the playground. Thanks!

Here is the link to the lunch menu.
LUNCH MENU CHANGE: March 16th--mini corn dogs will be served instead of pizza dippers.

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

2018 Knowledge-A-Thon (KAT) Day

Upcoming Events: 
March 16: Wear green
March 19: Badger sports wear
March 20 & March 22: Parent Teacher Conferences- more info coming soon

March 28: Half Day 

March 28: Egg Crack off and class color day- more info to come
March 29-April 2: NO SCHOOL


Reading: To wrap up our nonfiction unit, students will work in nonfiction book clubs to learn all they can about topics they are interested in. After readers read about the same topic, they can talk about the key details and ask “What’s the same? What’s different?” Readers will then be able to invent their own ways to share their books and keep the conversation going!
Some examples of how to share include:

•  Acting out the book
• Preparing a read aloud--just like a teacher!
• Planting questions in the book to ask their "students" 
• Taking notes and sharing what they learned

Writing: As we are nearing the end of our All About writing unit. the writers will be focusing on editing. We will check over our work to make sure we:

• used lowercase letters in the middle of our sentences
• used uppercase letters at the beginning of the sentence
• have snap words spelled correctly 
• have punctuation in our books 
• included an introduction and conclusion 
• included our opinion on some pages 

Students will write their final All About piece on Friday that will go into their portfolios! I can't wait to share how far they have come as writers during conferences.

Math: Mathematicians are digging deeper into teen numbers. We know that teen numbers are a group of ten and extras; we will discover that mathematicians can see that when they build numbers OR look at equations. Each student will create a book that shows a picture, equation, and correct way to write the digits for each teen number to solidify this understanding. We will look at partners of the numbers 6-10. Although students are not expected to know these partners fluently, they are expected to build with tools or draw to show the partners to 10. Mathematicians will review position words and shapes this week.

Social Studies: After starting to think about what makes them so special, students will have a chance to show what makes them unique in the following centers:

• Photographs—We will sort pictures on a timeline. Then students will create their own timelines. 
• Collage—Kindergarteners will look through magazines and cut out things that represent them. They will glue these onto a poster. We will share these at closing circle.
• Starfall.com—Students will work with partners on Ipads to “write” about themselves