This was a very short week which felt like it was rushed in many ways! Today is Thursday and it is the last day before Spring Break begins. Your child deserves a break. They have been working very hard and with only 46 more days left of kindergarten, let them enjoy the break and have fun! Because Easter occurs on the Sunday before we return, we celebrated Easter this week. "We had so much fun this week," said one student. Below is a brief recap of our week.
In reading, we worked with the -op word family this week. We can now read words with the -op word family. We can also build these words. Some of our more challenging words this week included blends. Your child can now read, decode, and spell the words: slop, chop, stop, crop! We have introduced the next set of five Dolch words. We learned the words: know, let, live, may, of. Your child was assessed on Wednesday and I can't believe almost everyone has mastered that set! When we return, we will review all of the Grade 1 Sight Vocabulary to review. We are almost finished with this list and will continue to more difficult words that students will see next year.
In writing, we read a story titled, "How Spider Saved Easter." It was a cute story about a Spider helping his friend during Easter. We wrote our own story and made it into a class book. Students love making class books! On the last day of school, your child will be able to choose a class book to take home as a keepsake! They work so hard making a book every week. The writing assessment was this week and EVERYONE scored either a P3+, P4, or P5. Everyone is now writing on or above level. However, we must remember to keep encouraging them to do their best. Most are still forgetting punctuation and capital letters. There stories have a beginning, middle, and end which I am so proud of.
In math, we learned how to read a calendar and reviewed money. Students should know the values of all coins and be able to identify them. Students also wrote up to 100 this week. Wow! "Now what, Mr. Gibbs?" said Davis. He continued, "We made it to 100. Do we stop?" My response, "No way! We keep on going!" Students will be learning how to write counting by 10s to 100 next week. We will continue number writing. Students are beginning to correct their reversals in their number writing and that is fantastic! We will begin time when we return!
In science, we continued learning about living things. Students should know the difference between a living vs. nonliving thing. Students should also be able to tell you four things that all living things need in order to survive. Next week, we will begin learning about life cycles. We will learn about the frog first. Then, we will eventually watch as caterpillars turn into butterflies.
Workshops were fun! We made a Easter Bunny from paper towel rolls. We also made a hatching chick, a funny bunny, and made our own Easter baskets.
On Thursday, we had special holiday stations. We made a paper plate bunny, sorted and graphed jelly beans, completed a eggs-of-sound activity, and made a puppet. We also dyed Easter eggs! When we left for lunch, we put our Easter baskets out in hopes that the Easter bunny would come leave us a special treat.... And, boy - did he!
Not only did he leave us special things, we also hid additional eggs on our playground! We had so much fun trying to find them. We learned that the Easter Bunny must be very sneaky! At the end of the day, we practiced the "Jack in the Beanstalk" program with Ms. Elliot! It is adorable! We also celebrated Spring with a small party!
What a great week! From me to you, have a great break!
Mr. Gibbs
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