Woking Hard...

Ms. Lipka captured our Learner Profile.  We love it!

We are anxious to share with you the excitement that has been brewing in our Kindergarten classes.  We have been in school for 14 days and already we are READING!  We have spent a great deal of time learning the ways to read a book:

1-Look at the Pictures

2-Read the Words

3-Retell 

With this in mind, one way we are reading is that we are working hard to build our STAMINA as we Read to Self (a component of the Daily 5).  Our students are working toward a goal of Reading to Self for 15 minutes (as of Friday most classes had accomplished 6 minutes).  The students understand this takes time and practice, but we are on our way and the excitement is being felt everywhere!  The ability to read is so very powerful and our Explorers are ready!

We are amazing writers too!  Here a student is sharing his journal entry about how he shows Caring (Learner Profile). 

Making connections between what we are learning and the world around us is a large part of our day.  Here students are showing us that the letters we were learning about are written around our room.

Oh the fun of putting our names, or our friends' names, into a poem!  

Here a student is using the Brighlink to complete a rhyming puzzle.  These "magic" boards have been so fun to explore and wonder about all week!

Our math lessons have been focusing on number formation and quantity.  We really enjoyed our Counting Rhyme Moo! and using our new Problem Solving Journals.

A favorite game in class is called Finger Flash. Ask your child to play this with you at home. *Take turns flashing fingers to show a number.  It is simple enough with fantastic concepts embedded (5 and 3 more make 8, etc.).

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

-The OneWorld! Fundraiser is on September 29.  We hope to see   

  everyone there.  What a fantastic evening this will be and so very

  powerful for our school.

-Curriculum Night is scheduled for September 27.  This will

 be an Early Release Day.  More information will

 follow.