Week of February 12

As you can see from the clip art above, we have a GREAT week planned in Kindergarten!!

We will begin our week with Monday's Jump Rope for Heart Event. Parents are welcome to come and watch the event. The current plan is to have some events inside and some outside. If it rains however, we will follow a rainy day plan. (So cross your fingers the rain stays away!! Our event time is 12:00-12:45.) Wednesday is an Early Release Day, along with Valentine's Day!! Make sure to check out the Valentine post if you have any questions. Then on Friday we have a Dental Health Presentation at 9:00 and it's Sports Day. Make sure to rep your favorite sport or team!

**There is no school on Monday, February 19.**

MATH

We are working hard on number bonds and reading addition math problems. Make sure to review the problem sets that are sent home with your child. (For those of you that are not familiar with a number bond- it is the beginning stage of addition. It allows the students to see two parts that come together to equal a whole group. **The whole is not always on the left like it is in the clip art picture. The number bond can be turned and the whole can be on the right side.**

Here is a fun addition video to get the students excited about Addition!! Enjoy!!

READING

This week we will be reading a story for International Day~ The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo. We will use this book to compare with the Duval Reads version of Cinderella and then we will practice retelling the events of the story in the order that they occur. Then to celebrate the reading of this great book... we will make Egyptian Necklaces. (Make sure to check back for some pictures of the beautiful necklaces!!) 

For those of you that aren't familiar with the story, make sure to check out a Youtube reading of the book.

SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS, WORD FAMILIES AND MORE!!

This week Saxon focuses on the short e sound. The students have difficulty producing the sound in isolation and it becomes difficult for them to read CVC words that have a short e. So please review the work that comes home!

Also, make sure to practice substituting the beginning sound of a word. You can see the process in the word family video below. 

WRITING

This week we are learning about friendly letter writing. We will discuss the parts of a friendly letter and how we really need to use our sight words and the correct letters that match the letter sounds we make,  so that our friend can read the message we are trying to send them. 

Here is a cute friendly letter set up video and then the Youtube video for the story Dear Mr.Blueberry.