January 10th

This week your kindergartners brought home their Acadience Benchmark Assessments.  These are just one piece of data that we use to decide the skills each child needs to work on.  We will go over the results further at our winter conferences, but if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.  

We'd like to welcome Emma Jenks (Miss Emma) to our classroom!  She is a senior at Lowell High School that is taking a course through the KCTC program on becoming a future educator.  She will be spending an hour with us, three days a week throughout the end of the school year, where she will learn more about a career in education.  She is currently considering education and nursing as possible careers in her future.  When she graduates from LHS this spring, she plans to continue her education at GVSU.  Welcome Miss Emma!

Dates for your calendar

February 11th--9:30-12:00  Field Trip to the Wittenbach Nature Center 

February 14th--Valentine's Day Party and 1/2 Day of school

March 12th--9:30-11:30am  Field Trip to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum

May 12th--10:00-12:30am  Field Trip to the Dairy Discovery Farm

Reading:   The kids are becoming much more fluent with reading and writing CVC words (i.e.  bat, sun, red).  This week we played a game called "Meltdown".  This is a fun way to practice this skill.  Our focus this week was on the letter sounds:  /l/  /b/  and /r/

Words to Practice:  the, a, I, am, and, at, if, it, is, in, as, an, am, on, not, did, can, got, big, get, had, red, ran

Tricky Words:  to, do, of, said, one, two, three

Phonics/Foundational Skills:  Letters your child should be able to give the sound for and also be able to write:  m, n, p, t, d, f, v, c, g, s, z, h, i, a, o, e, l, b, r

  

Math:  We are learning about the subtraction (-) and equal (=) symbols and how we can take a group of objects and break them apart into two or more groups.  

Take a Peek at our Week...

Meltdown!

Miss Emma 

Library Time

Working on Writing

Look at those readers!!

Our new reading nook!  Thank you Family Links!

Working on writing

Solving subtraction number stories with ten frames