Looking ahead....

Looking Ahead…

This week we will read books about the Easter bunny.  We will use these books to do retellings, talk about fantasy and realism and characters and setting.  We will review all vowels sounds and play some games spelling short vowel words or CVC words.  The entire class has been doing an amazing job with spelling.  We will continue to with reading groups and begin to learn our Concept of word poem for our Spring PALS testing which will begin in May.  WOW!  Time sure is flying.  We will write about the Easter bunny.

We will continue to review all math concepts taught this nine weeks.  We will review graphing, telling time, and subtraction. 

We will finish our Spring Facts book.  We will also do some activities like make out Egg hunt bags.  Return later this week for posted pictures of our egg hunt!

This week:

PLEASE send in permission slips for the Field Trip.  Your child will not be permitted to go if you have not returned this slip.  Even if you cannot afford it, please just return the slip so your child can attend. 

 End of the 3^rd nine weeks- Thursday, March 28

Egg Hunt- Thursday, March 28

Spring break begins- Friday, March 29^th- April 5

Thank you for all you do!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Beltz

This week...

Looking at this week…

This week we will continue to read, read, read.  We will finish up with our Leprechaun poem and put that in our poetry journal.  We have reviewed and practiced spelling lots of different short vowel word families.  This week we will review with a mixture of short o and short e words.  This will be our word study.  We will continue to review B, M and E and work on characters and setting when reading.  We have had some great reading this week in reading groups and the students are really working on reading with some expression and focusing on that exclamation mark!  Way to go!

As this marking period winds down, we will spend the week doing a variety of math skills.  We will do some graphing, some addition, telling time and fractions.  I have graded many papers this 9 weeks in math as the math SOLS have been increasingly harder.  Please keep this in mind when report cards are issued. 

On Monday we will have some St. Patrick’s Day fun.  The rest of the week we will continue our focus on Spring weather, even though the temperature may be well below where I’d like it, HA!  We will talk about characteristics of spring and make a spring book.

Upcoming Events:

Spring break begins Friday March 29- April 5, School resumes Monday, April 8.

Family Bingo Night- Friday, March 22

Kindergarten Egg Hunt- Thursday, March 28

End of this 9 weeks- Thursday, March 28

Kindergarten Registration Begins- Monday, March 25 ( please do this on the computer first if you have a little one at home ready for K )

Looking forward to another great week…

Mrs. Beltz

Looking Ahead....

I sure hope everyone had the chance to play out in the SNOW.  We finally got our WISH Kindergarten.  The weather finally came through for us!

This is how I enjoyed my snow days....

With that being said...This week we will finish up all our learning from last week.  We will finish up learning about Fantasy and Realism, learning about fractions and complete our Here I am book (maps).  We will also keep the same word study from last week.

We will also learn about the letter O.  We will learn a new poem about St. Patrick's Day to practice concept of word.  We will also write about our favorite place on the map, beach, mountains, playground, etc.

We will learn about the parts of a clock and how to tell time to the hour.  

We will also start to talk about Spring weather and how it affects animals and humans.  I hope you all remembered to Spring forward.  

We will have a guidance lesson with Mrs. Kopley and even have the chance to enjoy the 3rd grade recorder concert on Thursday.

Reminders for this week:

Monday will be Day 1: Music

Wednesday will be class picture day, our class will have it's picture taken together.

Please be aware of your child's lunch account if they purchase school lunch, as if you owe money they will not allow your child to purchase anything until it is paid in full.

Please continue to complete homework...as we near Spring break let's keep the learning fresh and moving forward!

If you have volunteered to send in items for the Egg Hunt, please do that as soon as possible.  

Many thanks for your continued support in helping to make learning fun and exciting in Kindergarten!

Mrs. Beltz

Behavior Reward!!!

“Donut” look at the following pictures!

They have done it again!

Their behavior is as sweet those donuts!

Working on another 30…….

The best class ever

"DONUT"ya think??!!

Looking Ahead....

Looking Ahead…

This week we will focus on the letter X.  We will also continue to practice spelling CVC words working on short e words.  We will focus on the en and et families.  We will review the words fantasy and realism and how to determine what our literature falls under.  We will continue to do reading groups and will continue to work on our Dr. Seuss poem for concept of word.  We will practice writing the letter X and also begin to write short stories independently.  We will talk about different ideas for writing and the students will choose what they write about.  We will focus on writing at least 2-3 sentences. 

This week in math we will learn about fractions.  I will begin with the terms symmetric and non symmetric, focusing on symmetry.  We will look at many shapes and determine if the shapes have been divided equally or symmetric.  We will then talk about the fraction ½.  We will compare whole and half using various projects and games.

We will also review maps and globes this week.  We will also begin to read maps and create a few of our own maps.  We will make our own books to help us identify where we are in reference to our bedroom, house, street, town and state. 

WES teachers and staff have formed a Relay for Life team.  We are asking our students and their families to get involved.  We will be collecting pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters over the next few weeks.  This coming week we will collect pennies.  If you are able to contribute and want to send in a handful of change, I can sort it out with the class.   

Thank you for continuing to do homework and being diligent about checking behavior charts.  We continue to do a great job and I am so impressed with the learning going on each and every day.

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Mrs. Beltz

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

What a fun and wacky week we had in Kindergarten!  This week even included a visit from the Cat in the Hat himself....their reactions were priceless!