March 7th-11th

Hello!

Don't forget to send in leprechaun traps! We want these by March 16th.

We got the date for the Raptor Center field trip. It will be April 21st. So add that date to the calendar! We will board the bus at 8:15 so everyone will need to be at school on time that day.

Math Workshop:

This week we worked on flipping equations to read like this: 4=2+2. We also learned how to turn these equations and number sentences in to subtraction problems. 4-2=2.

We filled in missing numbers on a 100's board and also filled in numbers of missing number pieces. Each puzzle had numbers missing above, below or to the right or left of it. Using a 100's board we had to fill in the missing numbers around the given number.

Reader's Workshop:

We learned a new sight word this week: has. We also continued our guided reading lessons. Please review the sight words with your child! This helps with reading. We re-read the same poem as last week because it was a little bit longer and we needed more practice.

Writer's Workshop:

We learned how to add spaces between words. Write a word and put your finger down before you start writing the next word. We have discussed this before but really focussed on it this week! Please give a reminder when your child is not doing this at home!

Thematic Centers:

This week we studied Leo Lionni. His illustrations and the way he writes about animals reminded us of Eric Carle! We rotated through 4 centers.

1. Make a book in the style of Leo. Choose an animal and paint or scrape paper and begin crafting your book. These took a long time to make but were well worth it!
2. Make a mouse out of your finger prints like Fredrick ( a book we read) and create a couplet poem to describe him.
3. Read the book Little Blue and Little Yellow and we experimented with mixing primary colors to make new colors.
4. Read the book A Color of His Own and followed the directions of how to color your chameleon. Example: if you are the youngest, color your tail yellow. If you are the oldest, color your tail red.

Enjoy this spring weather!
Mrs. Schultz

Important Dates and Last Week's Update!

March 23rd: QU Wedding: Your child will dress up in real wedding attire! More details to come but mark your calendar for your child to dress up.

Spring Break: March 25th-April 1st

Field Trip to the Children's Theatre: April 7th- Only a limited number of chaperones may go!

April 18th-22nd- Raptor Center trip sometime that week

Davidson Walking Trip: April 28th

Nursing Home- May 3rd at 10:00

Oceans Play- May 12th at 11:00

Bare Book tea- May 24th at 1:00

May 31st- Water Day

June 1st- Last Day of Kindergarten!

Last Week we studied Eric Carle and made beautiful artwork! We also learned a new site word: out. We learned about greater than and less than signs and played two super fun math games! We made How To books for writer's Workshop.

Sorry about that last post disappearing!

Mrs. Schultz

February 29th-March 4th-Pictures!

Below are some sweet, sweet pictures taken at the nursing home last week. We just love these trips!

February 29th-March 4th

Hello,

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

**We will  be celebrating Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th. We are going to try to catch a leprechaun that day! Please send leprechaun traps to school by March 16th. You can make these traps out of anything you wish! Shoe boxes, cereal boxes, coffee containers etc. Paint it, add stickers, or "gold" or anything you wish to make your leprechaun come in your trap! Thank you!

We had an awesome week.

Thematic Centers:

This week we studied Dr. Seuss! His books are full of rhymes and silly characters. We rotated through 4 centers:

1. Make OObleck! So fun!
2. Make Thing 1 and Thing 2 puppets and act out the story "A Cat in the Hat."
3. Illustrate the Cat in the Hat rhyming book and create your own rhyme at the end.
4. Make a Dr. Seuss hat.

Reader's Workshop:

Everyone did great with their guided reading books this week! We also learned a new site word this week: with. We worked on numbers 1-9 in our handwriting books and learned a new poem.

Math Workshop:

We learned two new math games this week: Ways to Make and Ten Frame Toss.

Ways to Make: Come up with as many ways to make a number as possible and record on your game board. Fill in the 10 frame that matches!

Ten Frame Toss: Toss: Toss 10 doubled sided counters (one color on one side and a different color on the other side). Color in the ten frame using the colors that the counter landed on! Make an addition sentence to match.

Writer's Workshop:

This month's theme is informational texts! We learned about how to write stories that give information. We loved this!

**We have our very first yoga lesson on Friday so there will be no Sci Fri this week. So neat!

Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz

February 16th-19th

**I forgot to send a sign up genius for this week. Sorry about that! Next week we will be going to the Laurel's Nursing Home so sign up to go if you can. 

Hello again! It has been a great week. Thank you all for coming to the art gallery. It was truly beautiful to sit back and watch.

Thematic Centers:

This week we put finishing touches on our artwork for the gallery. We also made welcome cards for our families for the art gallery! We worked on our bare book pages for our artist unit as well. We will begin our Author's unit on Monday.

Reader's Workshop:

We learned a new sight word this week: of! We had a blast looking for this word while reading the morning message, while we were reading during free choice time and in our sight word books. We worked in our Handwriting Without Tears books as well.

Math Workshop:

We played a few new games this week while also keeping up with our range cards. We played Race to 50, Seek and Find and reviewed 2D and 3D shapes while building with geo boards and pattern blocks.

Race to 50: Roll a dice and each time you roll move your game marker to the new number. The first one to get to 50 wins!

Seek and Find: On a 100's chart there are missing numbers that have been replaced with sea animals. On a separate sheet you have to find that sea animal and then record what number is supposed to be in its place.

Writer's Workshop: We continued to work on How To books and edited a few from last week!

Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Schultz

February 8th-10th

Announcements:

Please continue to check your child for lice each day. This is so important! I know everyone is busy, but we cannot do this without your help.

Please send in a heavy coat, hat and mittens for recess! I know keeping up with coats, hats and mittens can be difficult but it is very cold. 

Art Gallery Crawl: February 18th at 11:00 in our classroom. You will be blown away by the artwork!

Field Trip: February 23rd **We are heading to the nursing home again and would love your help.

No school: THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY due to optional parent/teacher conferences. No school MONDAY as it is a holiday.


Hello and happy short week (again).

We had a busy week and we are getting ready for our gallery crawl on February 18th.

Thematic Centers:

We are still working on Mary Cassat centers this week. The mom/baby pictures are taking a really long time but they look beautiful.

Reader's Workshop:

We worked on a new poem this week called "Hearts" for Valentine's Day. We also learned a new sight word this week: was. Please review site words with your child when you can. Seeing them over and over is really helpful! These tricky words cannot be "sounded out," they just need to be memorized.

We also made sight word rings for everyone to study their sight words! These need to stay in the red folders and come back and forth everyday. Each time we learn a new word, we will add it to the ring.

Math Workshop:

We learned about 2D and 3D shapes this week!

2D shapes we reviewed: square, rectangle, triangle, rhombus (diamond), hexagon, trapezoid, circle and oval.
3D shapes we reviewed: cone, cylinder, cube, rectangular prism, pyramid and sphere.

We built 2D shapes on the Geo Boards using the pegs and rubber bands. We also played a matching game where we had to match the object to the actual shape. Example: Soccer ball would be matched to the sphere.

Writer's Workshop:

This week we learned about "How To" books. These books explain how to do something! You could write a how to book about how to bake brownies, ride a bike, play soccer, pack for a trip, get dressed etc. These are super fun! Everyone is capable of teaching us "how to" do something.

We have been loving the science experiments lately!

Have a happy weekend,
Mrs. Schultz

January 25th-29th

 Proud of their puzzle.

Proud of their puzzle. 

Painting like Michelangelo. 

Painting like Michelangelo. 

Painting like Michelangelo. 

Painting like Michelangelo. 

This is a bulky post but please read everything carefully! There have been some changes since the email.

Important Dates:

2/2 Groundhog Day: You do not need to do anything, I just wanted you to know. :) In my email, I had is written down as 2/1. My mistake!

2/3 100's Day at school! Dress your child like they are 100 years old and allow them to bring in a collection of 100 items of their choice to share and count. ****This has changed since my email!! Due to the snow day, Hundreds Day is now February 3rd!! Be sure to note this change in your calendar.

2/4 Book Fair for our class 10:00-10:30- Feel free to come and shop with your child or send money for them to pick out something special!

2/10 Valentine Poem Reading Party at 1:00 in our classroom. All parents are invited to help us read our poems!

2/11 & 2/12 No school for kids/optional parent teacher conferences 

2/15 No school

2/18 Art Gallery Crawl at 11:00 in our classroom and all parents are invited!

2/23 Field Trip to the Laurel's Nursing Home

So do not forget to: Dress like a 100 year old and bring a collection of 100 things on Wednesday, bring book fair money or come shop on Thursday and finish those Valentine's Day poems!!

** We need your help! This is an important reminder that out school is NUT FREE. This is especially important in our classroom because we have several severe nut allergies. Please help us stay safe. This does not just mean the actual nut. This means we cannot have items containing nuts including (but not limited to) granola bars, candy, nutella, trail mix etc. This is very serious and we cannot have children bringing these items to school. This is something we cannot do without your help! Please triple check lunch boxes in the morning to be sure they are nut free. I know lunches can be hard to pack but it is a major safety concern of ours. We usually do a walk through before snack and lunch but we cannot always catch everything, so that is why we are reaching out to parents for support on this as well. Thank you for your attention to this!

**Our school's birthday "treat" policy is that parents are asked to bring a healthy item only.

Thematic Centers:

This week we learned all about Michelangelo! He lived in Italy, he painted and sculpted and even worked on the Sistine Chapel. We rotated through 4 centers.

1. Illustrate and read the Michelangelo book.
2. Pain underneath the tables lying on your back like Michelangelo did when he worked on the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel.
3. Sketch a teacher.
4. Sculpt out of Ivory soap.

Math Workshop:

This week we reviewed counting by 5's and 10's all the way to 100. This is a great skill to practice with your child at home. We also learned about tally marks! We learned that once you get to 5 you make a diagonal slash across the 4 marks. This will come in handy when we are counting out 100's day collections next week! We worked on our range cards and continued to practice making our addition equations too.

Reader's Workshop:

We learned a new poem this week and glued it into our day books. We also learned a new site word this week: "and." We reviewed our old sight words: my, you, is, this, the, for & do and worked on our pencil grips.

Writer's Workshop:

This week we worked on editing one of our existing books. We used "boo boo tape" to correct misspelled site words, added more details and learned about the editing process and why it's important.

Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Schultz