Matter: Snowmen

We stayed with our snowy January theme, but switched back to properties of matter to learn about snowmen! There are so many great fiction books about snowmen, so we did some serious higher order thinking during read alouds!

After reading, "Snowman Magic," we made snowman soup! The kids impressed me so much with their writing pieces about their soup! I told them they could write WHATEVER they wanted about their snowman soup because I wanted to see what they could do completely independently (no guidance whatsoever) and I was blown away! So many of them wrote 5+ beautiful sentences and I can tell who has been working on their best kindergarten handwriting!

They are on our bulletin board outside of our classroom if you'd like to check them out!

We had some fun new snowman centers and some more arctic animal centers!

Mrs. Grotts was in our room on Wednesday to watch our writing block and the kids were so excited to show her their writing. They begged to do Author's Chair, but we didn't have enough time after I got through all of our groups! So we slowed down on Thursday and spent our morning sharing our writing on Thursday!

We have another fun week of snowmen and matter next week before we move on to fairytales & fables in February!

Ask Your Child About:

-Phonics/Phonemic Awareness: digraphs (/ph/) diphthongs (/ow/)

-Math: 2d vs. 3d shapes! Please practice naming and describing both 2d and 3d shapes! We have a tough time with this! (hexagon, trapezoid, cone, cube, sphere, cylinder)

-Reading: Making inferences, identifying the problem and solution

-Science: Properties of matter- changes in water to make snow....snowmen!

-Writing: Adding details to our writing, publishing our writing

-Technology: Coding! (link)

FYI: Schedule Changes

-Mondays: 11:10-12:00 STEAM (new!)

-Tuesdays: 2:20-2:50 Library (stays the same)

-Thursdays: 9:30-10:15 Technology Lab (time change)

Upcoming Dates:

-February 6th: 100th Day of School - Dress like you are 100 years old (see email/note sent home)

-February 7th: Stuffed Animal Sleepover- Bring stuffed animal to school! Mrs. Grotts will read us a story at 3:00 and then our stuffed animals will spend the night at school! :)

-February 14th (2:30-3:30): Valentine's Day Party

-February 16th: Professional Development Day- No School!

-February 19th: President's Day- No School!

-February 26th-March 2nd: Dr. Seuss Week

-March 19-23rd: Spring Break

-April 11th: Class Picture Day & Cap and Gown Pictures (more info. to come!)

-April 20th: Comp Day- No School!

-May 18th: Games Day

-May 22nd: Sight Word Bee

-May 25th: End Of Year Ceremony

SUMMER!

Crazy right? :)