![page background](https://cdn.smore.com/_fr/snowyleaves.23849ef0.jpg)
Current Happenings in 235
Week of December 16th
Upcoming Dates
Monday, 1-13: cycle day 8
Tuesday, 1-14: cycle day 9
Wednesday, 1-15: cycle day 10; book bags back to classroom
Thursday, 1-16: cycle day 1
Friday, 1-17: cycle day 2; book bag checkout
Link
The link will be sent out from the office staff on Monday. Please do your best to sign up as soon as possible.
PTO Dance
On Friday, January 31st, the Jackson PTO is sponsoring a family dance night! The event will take place at school from 5:30-7:30pm; families are encouraged to attend for a fun night out!
Winter Gear
Please make sure winter gear continues to come to school every day and that it is labeled with your child's name. Students will go out for recess each day unless it is below zero (including wind chill).
What we learned
Take a look into our class
Reading:
- Kindergartners read a variety of snowmen books as that was our theme throughout the week! We practiced recalling big events from stories and retelling what happened in pairs and with the whole group. We took special interest in Carolyn Buehner's Snowmen at Night, Snowmen at Work, and Snowmen All Year throughout the week as well.
- Kindergartners painted a special snowman project on Friday.
Writing:
- I began modeling two pictures and two sentences with our class. This is not something you will see your child doing for a few weeks yet.
- I also showed green light, red light. Green light signals an uppercase at the beginning of a sentence; red light signals a period is present at the end of a sentence. Kindergartners will be doing this independently within the week (if they are not doing so already).
Phonics:
- Poem: My Eyes Can See
- Word family: /-ug/ (hug, rug, jug, etc.) and /-ink/ (blink, think, wink, etc. What do we do with word families? Recognize chunks of words and hear the remaining sounds as a group and independently in our poems on Fridays.
- Focus: hearing sounds in CVC words to make words; writing CVC words (fan, rug, bit, etc.).
Math:
- We learned how to play top it (another name for it is "war") with number cards represented from 0-20 in ten frames.
- Sticking with our snowman theme, we did some snowman addition stories. These were quite basic as we are just going to be diving into addition!
- Kindergartners shared how high they can write in a number writing assessment for quarter two testing.
Kaitlin Wermerskirchen
Email: kwermers@shakopee.k12.mn.us
Phone: 952.496.5802
Twitter: @Kindersin235