Jan. 15, 2016

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KB News

Lead 21 –Literacy: Outdoor Explorers Unit theme “What can I learn when I explore the outdoors?”  This week we focused on the question, “What can I observe as the seasons change?”

Math: This week the children learned about the passage of time and order of events. Each child made a sequencing time line of daily events.  They drew pictures of what they did in the morning, afternoon, and at night. The children also played Bingo to practice reading 2-digit numbers (1-20).

Sharing: This was our final week for sharing.  We are now going to devote our scheduled sharing time to learning Jolly Phonics Tricky Words. 

Science: Our focus this week was on the story The Mitten by Jan Brett.  The children made mittens, which they decorated and display in our room.  We used the mittens to count by two’s during math class.  Check out our mitten snow people also displayed, they look great.

FAST Assessments: Next week the students will be taking FAST (Formative Assessment System for Teachers) assessments.  The Universal Screening materials included: Onset Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, and Letter Sounds. The aReading assessment will be the final component of the Winter FAST for Kindergarten students. It would be beneficial for the students to be well rested and have a nutritious breakfast all next week.  The aReading assessment will be given by the Title I teachers.  The computer lab has been reserved for our class to take the aReading assessment. The FAST results will be shared during conferences with parents.

Jolly Phonics: Please continue to review letter sounds at home. Thank you for working with your child on word lists that are sent home in the Jolly Phonics Envelopes.

Important Dates:

         Jan. 19^th  –Feb. 12^th  FAST Assessments

Feb. 5th – 100^th Day of School