A
note from Ms. Poteet…
Wow! Our year has flown by so quickly. Tuesday is our 100th Day of
School!!!! I cannot believe we have had
100 days of schools already! I know this
sounds cliché, but it seems like just a few weeks ago, 23 little nervous
bundles of energy walked into room 103.
Many students were still learning to write their names and were trying
to decide whether or not they we going to like their new classmates, teacher
and school. Everyone has grown so much
since those first few days of school.
Now we are all readers, writers, scientists, historians, and most
importantly friends. I would like to
thank all of you for letting me educate and grow to love your babies!
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100th
Day Project
Our class has been adding one number for each school day to
our Growing Number Line. The 100th
day of school is coming up soon, and it will be a major celebration!
One of the things we will do to celebrate is to hold a “100th
Day Fashion Show.” Please help your
child glue, safety pin, or sew 100 things on a plain t-shirt. Children have been thinking about things
they could glue to their shirt including buttons, beads, pennies, paper
clips, cereal, etc. Be as creative as
possible! We have been talking about
ways to count the collections without losing track of the numbers. Making groups of 10 is a good way to count
and display the objects.
Children may need a little help gathering materials, but they
should be able to do most of the counting themselves.
Please
have your child wear their 100th day t-shirt to school on January
24th (may change if we have any snow days)!
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Mark your calendars
for the Kindergarten Writing Celebration
on February 10th from 11:05-11:30 in our school library. You are welcome to stay for lunch from
11:32-11:57. Lunch order forms will come
home soon. Due to the long lunch line, I
recommend you bring your own lunch. The
kids are so excited to share their books with you! Please let me know if you will not be able to
attend, I will try to ask a school friend to come read with your child.
We will be going on a
field trip to the Memorial Auditorium to see a performance of “Grimm’s Fairy
Tales” on March 15th. Each
class is able to bring two chaperones.
If you are interested, please indicate that on the form and return
it. If we have more than two interested
parents, we will pull names out of a hat during morning meeting and let you
know if you were one of the lucky winners.
Important Dates this Month:
January 24th:
100th Day of School!
January 25th:
Early Release Day
January 26th:
MegaSkills Assembly
What are we learning?
Reading Workshop
We are continuing
to learn about questioning. We are
learning the difference between “thick” and “thin” questions. Good readers ask questions before, during,
and after reading.
Writing Workshop
This week we will continue
working on our All About Me books. They
are very motivated to write a book all about themselves! Family journals will be sent home on
Friday. Please take time over the
weekend to read your child’s letter to you and respond.
Word Study
This
week, we will be learning about th and wh sounds. We will also learn how to
read and write these words that will be added to our Word Wall: are, come, if.
Have your child sing you the songs for these words.
Math
In
math, we a solving number stories and celebrating the 100th day of
school.
Science
We are finishing a unit about the five senses. This week we will learn about sight. We will also learn about the anatomy of our
eyes and how the pupil changes shape based on the amount of available light. On Friday we will begin our Science
Biographies Unit. The first scientist we
are learning about is George W. Carver.
Reminders
*Send
in a healthy snack and water bottle every day.
*
Our classroom gets very chilly sometimes.
Please send in a light jacket or sweater for your child to keep in their
back pack.
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Sign your child’s weekly planner every night!
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Library book due every Friday!
Related
Arts Schedule
Monday Music
Tuesday-Friday PE
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