Mrs. Lerman's Kindergarten News
Friday, February 12, 2016
Hello Kindergarten Families!
Welcome to Kindergarten Room 114. Here you will find updates and news about what's happening in our classroom. As always, feel free to contact me with any questions or comments! :)
Classroom Highlights:
Math:
- We love using our counting buckets to practice counting by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's.
- February's Number Corner Calendar inspires us to think about counting groups of 5 and some more.
- We are continuing to accurately write our teen numbers.
- We are working on our subitizing skills. Subitizing is the ability to instantly identify how many without having to count from one. We practice this skill every day on ten frames, double-ten frames, using standard dot patterns (on a dice), and irregular dot patterns.
- We participated in many new Valentine's Day themed math centers.
- We started getting ready for the 100th day of kindergarten!
Reading:
- We continued using our reading super powers.
- We learned how to be careful readers by asking the following questions: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
- We made animal Valentines with our fourth grade reading buddies.
- During shared reading, we learned our new February Chicken Soup poem. We searched for sight words and worked on reading with fluency.
- We read many fun Valentine's Day books.
- We learned about the "Magic E" and how it makes the vowel say its name. (ride, make, tape).
- We added six new words to our word wall (with, was, want, then, that, this).
Writing:
- We worked on writing pattern books with a fun twist at the end.
- We continued using our writing checklist.
- We are working on using proper conventions of writing such as, using an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence, spaces in between words, and punctuation at the end of a sentence.
- We read the story, "Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch" and wrote Valentines to special teachers at Willowbrook.
- We made books about the people we love.
- We continued working on forming our letters correctly.
Important Dates:
Monday, February 15th: Presidents' Day: No School
Tuesday, February 16th: 100th Day Of School
Wednesday, February 17th: Special Lunch
Monday, March 7th: Teacher Institute Day: No School
Tuesday, February 16th: 100th Day Of School
Wednesday, February 17th: Special Lunch
Monday, March 7th: Teacher Institute Day: No School
Character Counts Week is February 22nd-26th
Monday-Pajama Day
Tuesday- Crazy Hat/Hair Day
Wednesday- Lego Block Day: (Wear Lego colors)
Thursday- Dress up as a character from your favorite TV Show/Movie/Book
Friday- Time Travel Day (Dress up from your favorite era)
Tuesday- Crazy Hat/Hair Day
Wednesday- Lego Block Day: (Wear Lego colors)
Thursday- Dress up as a character from your favorite TV Show/Movie/Book
Friday- Time Travel Day (Dress up from your favorite era)
Contact Information:
Email: slerman@district30.org
Phone: 847-400-8820
Twitter: @WillowbrookKL