March 5-9

This Thursday we will have our Author's Breakfast!  It will take place in our classroom from 7:15-7:45am.  Stop by and admire some of your child's published work and enjoy a donut and juice.  Please come and go as you are able!

Important Dates and Reminders:

3/8: Author's Breakfast
3/9: 1/2 Day 11:30 Dismissal
3/16: Wear Green
3/19: Badger Day
3/20 & 3/22: Parent Teacher Conferences- more info coming soon
3/28: 1/2 day 11:30 Dismissal
3/28: Egg Crack off and class color day- more info to come
3/29-4/2 NO SCHOOL

Here is the March menu.
There is a menu change on 3/16- Corn dogs will be served in place of pizza dippers.

Here is a peek at the week:


Math: Mathematicians will learn about "magic number equations". Magic number equations make everything disappear! For example, 3-3, 5-5, etc. Students will be able to practice this skill by making a snack disappear:) Here are all the patterns we have learned to help us add and subtract so far:
When you +1, you count up
When you -1, you count backwards
When you +0 or -0, the number stays the same
When you subtract a number from the same number, it disappears to make 0

Mathematicians have been learning that there are some equations that they just know by thinking of the pattern, but there are some equations that they may need to solve using a strategy. We will introduce this chart as a reminder of the strategies the Kindergartners can use to solve addition and subtraction equations..



Reading: We are learning SO much about non-fiction topics during reading workshop!  One important strategy readers will work on this week will be to first say as much as they can while studying a page of their book and to listen carefully to the words they use and then to read the words.  Readers will come to realize there is a good chance many of the words they said while talking about the page will be there in print for them to read.  This helps us to read for understanding and also to take some of the heavy work out of decoding new vocabulary words.

Writing: This week in writing we will be looking closely at our books to make sure they have as much important information about our topic as they can.  We will use this chart to revise our books to make them better and will also work on editing so our books will be easy for others to read at Author's Breakfast.

Social Studies: This week we will switch gears and begin a 'self study' in social studies.  We will be reading books and listening to a song and poem to help us to begin thinking about what makes us unique and special.  This is such a fun time of year to do this unit because students are really coming into their own and are so self aware.