Valentine's Day....what a fun way to start the week! The students had a great time at the party and enjoyed passing out their Valentine's to their teachers and friends. I wanted to thank everyone for the chocolates and flowers that I received, I truly felt special!
Next week is a short week at May Watts. We have no school on Monday, Tuesday, or Friday. We will be at school on Wednesday and Thursday, and we will be busy working of course. This week we will focus on blending words as we read and write them and we will be catching up on a few things we got behind on from the snow days. We of course will work on writing during writer's workshop and hopefully we will spend a lot of time sharing all the AMAZING writing that the kids have been producing lately. I am so happy with the quality of writing I am seeing in Kindergarten this year. I hope you are enjoying and celebrating the pieces your children bring home as well. For a fun change of pace and some at home practice, check out the Story Starter section of our Great Links to Learning section of our blog.
In math we will continue to work on building number sense with the number grid and review graphing as we make a class graph on pets. Each week we review previous math skills as well as learn new ones. We also review and practice skills from the math assessment guide. Refer to your math report card to see what skills we are working on this quarter. Students will be introduced to new math centers this week that work on problem solving and number sense. Every day students have the opportunity to work on math centers as they complete their morning work. This gives them the time to practice and perfect skills we are developing.
Hopefully by now your child has transitioned to using ONLY LOWER CASE letters after the initial letter in their name. If not, please practice and focus on this important writing skill at home. At this time of year, they should also be working on writing their last name correctly . Check and see if your child is able to do this...if not, it is a good time to start working on it. Check out my new link (to the right in the Great Links for Learning section) called Handwriting Practice...you can create easy worksheets for your child to practice their names or anything you want!
I once again would like to thank everyone for their hard work at home in helping their students reach our school goals. It is important for children to know that we are all on the same path. May Watts students and parents are the best!
