Beach Buddies' Bulletin
March 5-9, 2018
Greetings from Kindergarten! Hope your family enjoyed Monday's snow day. While we are all ready for spring, the K's did have some fun recess days with all the snow! Note that I sent home a new March calendar as the snow days changes our specialist schedule for the month.
Writers' Workshop
During writers' workshop we were busy fixing and fancying our HOW TO stories for our museum. The kindergartners did an outstanding job sharing their stories with the visitors on Thursday. It was absolutely heart warming to see the pride in the kindergartners and the genuine interest in the adults. I hope it helped to bring the kindergartners continued confidence and a love for writing.
Writing Museum
Math Workshop
In math workshop this week we have been working on grouping craft sticks into groups of 10's and 1's and then using the groups to make numbers. We also have used different addition strategies and have counted backwards.
Readers' Workshop
This week in reader's workshop we have been inferring to figure out new vocabulary. We are using text clues and our schema to understand hard words.
Recycling Collection - Can you help?
Doing an all call for RECYCLING (or any junk- boxes, containers, etc.) for Wednesday 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.
Kindergarten Hawaii Trip
This Thursday, 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!
Thanks, Ms. Gersch!
Technology Tidbits
Beach Buddies' Blog
Click on the link on our blog to hear our FLUENCY practice in action as students practiced reading their poem books fluently. (I see a few students' poems didn't quite make it on the grid...we'll get those uploaded from their ipads on Monday so you can visit this link after school on Monday and see the few that are missing.)
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 use for making number stories. We can record our voice and make the story pieces move during the recording. Free!
Upcoming Dates
Thursday, March 15 - Imaginary Trip to Hawaii (wear beachy clothes)
March 16-23 - Spring Break
Wednesday, March 28 - Pen Pal field trip to Oak Hill Elementary
Wishing you peace and everything good,
-Katie
Kindergarten Beach Buddies
Email: kzuehlke@isd876.org
Website: kindergartenbeachbuddies.blogspot.com
Phone: 320-274-8218
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