Mrs. Drake's Kindergarten News
May 4, 2016
Hello Kindergarten Families!
Welcome to Kindergarten Room 108. Here you will find updates and news of what's happening in our classroom. As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
Here's What We've Been Up To...
In Reading and Writing..
- As part of our shared reading, we continue to read the Gossie books (Gossie and Gertie, Otto) by Olivier Dunrea. We focused on a variety of skills including comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.
- We learned how to be an avid non-fiction reader by asking questions, using fancy words, and learning new interesting facts.
- We continued working on becoming independent readers.
- We are finishing up our new unit on "how-to" writing.
- We finished our "how to" unit this week. We wrote "how to" books to go along with our pictures from home.
- We have also been working on writing a special book for a special person in our family
In Science...
- We began our new Science unit on living and non-living things.
- The students will participate in activities that will allow them to plant seeds, care for fish, and set up a classroom environment to house insects.
- We studied various types of plants and recorded the similarities and differences among them.
In Math...
- In our May Number Corner this month we are working on solving addition and subtraction story problems, combinations to 10, and working on developing fluency with facts to 5.
- We have been working on estimating and students are making good mathematical guesses.
- We are exploring patterns and relationships on a 1-50 number grid and playing counting games.
- We are revisiting two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
- We are learning many new math games for the month of May.
Kindergarten at play
Reminders...
- Please make sure your child has a hat and gloves on colder days.
Upcoming Dates...
Monday, May 9 -ABC countdown begins
Wednesday, May 18 - The Grove field trip in the am
Friday, May 27 - Half Day
Monday, May 30 - No School in observance of Memorial Day
Mrs. Drake's Kindergarten
Email: cdrake@district30.org
Phone: 847-400-8814
Twitter: @willowbrookKD