Beach Buddies' Bulletin
March 4-8, 2019
Hello Kindergarten Families! We celebrated Dr. Seuss this week with his birthday being March 2nd. Ms. Pellegrene kept the learning strong with her last week in kindergarten.
Writers' Workshop
In writers' workshop this week we finished up our book reviews. We picked our favorite book review to edit and will be sharing those reviews next week.
Readers' workshop
In readers' workshop this week, we performed a readers theater and practiced fluent reading. We read different parts in small groups.
Math Workshop
In math, we learned how to skip count with calculators, make combinations of six with ice cream scoops, and explored beginning fraction work.
More awesome reading at home - good work! The Cardinal visited to share our high reading minute total. On Friday we had an All School assembly to celebrate all the awesome reading that happened in February. ALL of our names were put in for drawings and we had 2 friends win! yay!
Recycling Collection - Can you help?
Doing an all call for RECYCLING (or any junk- boxes, containers, etc.) for Thursday when we make leprechaun traps. Can you help us out? Thank you!
Take Home Books
Be sure to let me know if your child needs support in choosing new or different books to bring home. Typically, your child chooses these books independently, but I am happy to help as needed! **If you have not sent your bag back in a while, now is a great time to do that! New books will help your child prepare for next year.
Thank you, Ms. Pellegrene!
We are thankful to have spent 9 wonderful weeks learning from Ms. Pellegrene. We were proud to give her our personalized bag of teacher supplies. (Thank you for sending in items to share!) We will miss her! We look forward to seeing her in the hallway as she travels upstairs to teach 5th grade.
Kindergarten Hawaii Trip
This Friday, March 15, we will be taking a "Kindergarten Spring Break" as we take an imaginary trip to Hawaii! Come dressed in beachy clothes with beach accessories such as towels and sunglasses. Plane departs at 8:15!
Technology Tidbits
Habitat Research on our Beach Buddies' Blog
We completed our habitat research this week. The kindergartners made habitat posters with words and pictures. Visit our blog for our habitat video.
Oceanhouse Media
Looking for quality books for your child's iPad? We love the company Oceanhouse Media. Here is a link to their website. Click on apps at the top to see all the books available as well as links to iTunes.
Draw and Tell
This is a great storytelling app we will use for making number stories. We can record our voice and make the story pieces move during the recording. Free!
Upcoming Dates
Friday, March 15 - Imaginary Trip to Hawaii (wear beachy clothes)
March 18-22 - Spring Break
Wednesday, March 27 - Pen Pal field trip to Oak Hill Elementary (wear class shirt!)
Wishing you peace and everything good,
-Katie
Kindergarten Beach Buddies
Email: kzuehlke@isd876.org
Website: kindergartenbeachbuddies.blogspot.com
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