January 9th

Welcome Miss B!

Hello! My name is Kelsey Bartholomew. I am studying Elementary Education at Northern Michigan University. I will be student teaching in the classroom for the next few months. I am so excited to be working with Mrs. Byrne and all of your kindergarteners! 

For Your Calendar:

Jan 27th--Field Trip to The Grand Rapids Symphony Lollipop Concert at East Grand Rapids Performing Arts Center.  Kaylee Smith and Brooklynn Cowan will be attending as our parent volunteers. 

Feb. 10th--Field Trip to the Wittenbach Nature Center 9:30am--We will need parent volunteers to meet us there.  Let me know if you are able to attend!

Reading

Theme:  Home Sweet Home

*The job of the author and illustrator

*Letters/Sounds:  Oo, Rr and Gg

*Building words with known letters

*Taking picture tours/walks through a book

*Using an illustration to tell a story

*Make connections to our own lives when we read a book

Sight Words:   

Review Words:  a      the     and       go    he   had    I     see   you    has   we   of     at    to

it     is     in    has     am    on    as   can    his     him    have   did    girl  

Writing

*Using sight words and known sounds to write simple sentences

*Capitalizing the first word in a sentence

*Space between words

*Period at the end of the sentence

Math

*Understanding subtraction 0-10

*Writing and solving addition and subtraction problems 0-10 using manipulatives

Reminders

*Send a snack daily

*Library books are returned on Thursdays

*Literacy Bags returned on Mondays

*Send a water bottle daily

*Once a month ice cream Fridays are free for all :)

Take a Peek at our Week

A few pictures from our Polar Express Day!

Have a great weekend!