K-C News
March 1, 2019
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What need to know
Just when you think you might catch a break, March in Massachusetts comes along. We all know we shouldn't expect spring any time soon. And we're right! Keep sending in those hats and gloves for the foreseeable future and enjoy those delayed openings while we've got em.
This Friday your child will bring home their last official sight word homework assignment. They have done amazing work on their sight words and are really using their skills to become awesome readers. Thanks so much for your support in helping them feel confident and knowledgable.
This month we celebrated Nina's sixth birthday! Shane's mom, Devon, came in to be our Mystery Reader and shared Chrysanthemum. We also enjoyed hearing some first graders from Mrs. Schwarm's class read their favorites by Mo Willems in honor of his birthday.
Welcome to our new classmate, Isette, who will join the K-C crew on Monday!
Coming attractions
Tuesday, March 5
No Morning Kindergarten/Conferences
PM KASE will be in session
Wednesday, March 6
Used book sale at Eliot school (we will attend during our morning session)
Books are 25-50 cents each with a $1 spending limit per student. Send in a few quarters if your child would enjoy choosing a "new" used book!
Wednesday, March 13
Early release at 12:15
Dismissal forms to come home this week
Friday,March 15
February Book Orders due
Flyers to come home this week, or browse online at Scholastic Book Orders
Thursday, March 28
No Morning Kindergarten/Conferences
No PM KASE
All in a days work...
- We have been working on addition and subtraction in many ways and have been working hard to understand place value with tens and ones. We have also begun working with rulers and non-standard objects to measure length and width. We are honing our skills at number writing. Now is the time of year when we try to correct backwards number reversals. It's tricky stuff and takes lots of practice. Don't worry if reversals persist until first grade. We'll get there eventually. Help us practice recognizing and writing numbers to 100 at home!
- We learned a little bit about groundhog day (who should be out of a job as he could not have been more wrong) and Lunar New Year. We even made some pretend fortune cookies with our 3rd grade buddies. We learned a lot about China with Mrs. Sullivan, our literacy specialist, who has recently traveled there!
- Our sight word work at school continues... We are becoming experts at searching through books for all of the words we know and are becoming very accomplished at reading emergent reader texts independently.
- Ask your child to make a rhyme for any word. They are pretty good at it!
- Here's a tip. Get a giant pack of plastic cups. Let your kids play with them. The end. We are obsessed with stacking plastic cups, building forts, towers, using 100 or more, or less, sorting them by color. You name it, we will stack it.
- In iPad news, we have begun to use games on the website/app abcya.com. You can visit online to find many engaging games sorted by grade level. We learned to use Number Bubble Count to 100, Number Chart, and How Many Marbles.
- We are learning about empathy and understanding that others may not all share the same feelings about the same subject. We talked about how some of us would be happy to see a mouse in our classroom and how some us would feel a little less happy.
Links to explore
Practice locating numbers on the 100 chart
(choose the top option: find any number)
Just for fun on a snowy day!
The things kids say. For real.
Mrs. Cohen: Would anyone like to change their estimate?
All students: Yes!
Student 1: Did you know everyone was wrong?
Mrs. Cohen: Well, I knew where the 100th square would be.
Student 1: Why did you make us do it if you already knew where it was?