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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
January 25th to 29th, 2016
Volume 19, Issue 21
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Monday
Tuesday
Our math starter today was a snowman dot-to-dot. We
then greeted our friends. We said the pledge and our class
promise and did calendar. We did our ABC charts and sang
our vowel song. We sang our Days and Months songs,
subitized and read our popcorn words. We reviewed the
habits of thinkers. Our kindergartner of the Week shared
his/her poster and we wrote a sentence about him/her
using interactive writing. We learned our new popcorn word
‘it’ and did rainbow writing of it. We learned that good
readers and writers set goals to improve. We were
introduced to our poem of the week, ‘Winter’. We graphed
whether we have ever made a snowman. We read three
parts of a nonfiction book, Snow. We did shared reading.
We made paper snowmen. We had recess!! We figured out
our mystery number and determined which had more or
less on two ten frames. We did dice math.
Our math starter today was to identify which group had less.
We then greeted our friends. We said the pledge and our
class promise and did calendar. We counted to 100 by fives
and tens and read our popcorn words. We did our ABC
charts with blends. We reviewed the habits of thinkers. Our
kindergartner of the week brought something for social
studies and we wrote a sentence about him/her using
interactive writing. We did speedwriting of our popcorn
words. Our clothes pin graph was ‘did you bring gloves or
mittens today?’. We predicted which colored ice block would
melt first and then observed to see if we were right. We did
shared reading and read The Mitten. Then we used pictures
from the book to retell the story from the beginning to the
end. We wrote a story about the snowman that we made
yesterday. We figured out our mystery number. We played a
math game called ‘What’s the Missing Number? with
partners.
Our math starter was a quick count and write the number
activity. We then greeted one another, said the pledge and
our class promise and did calendar. We counted to 100 by
fives and tens and read our popcorn words. We reviewed
the six habits of thinkers. We did ‘Action Alphabet’. Our
kindergartner of the week brought items for us to estimate
and we wrote a sentence about him/her using interactive
writing. We did speedwriting of our popcorn word. We read
Maggie and the Pirate by Ezra Jack Keats. The AM class had
library. The PM class examined the snowman story that they
wrote on Tuesday to determine their first writing goal. We
sequenced the lines of our poem. We graphed whether we
like snow. We did shared reading and read There Was a
Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow! We found our
mystery number and played ‘Roll and Cover’ math where
we raced to fill ten frames.
We greeted classmates. We said the pledge and our class promise and did calendar. We counted backwards from 20, subitized ten frames and read our popcorn words. W e reviewed the habits of thinkers. Our kindergartner of the week shared something for Social Studies and we wrote our final sentence about him/her using interactive writing. We kept our personal writing goal in mind as we wrote independently about our kindergartner of the week. The AM class examined the snowman story that they wrote on Tuesday to determine their first writing goal. The PM class had library. We read, highlighted the popcorn word in and illustrated our poem. We did shared reading and learned the characteristics of living things. We read Over and Under the Snow. W e did a Time for Kids – Ready for W inter. We found our mystery number and worked with partners to sequence 1-­‐10 and then identify the most, least, 1 more or less, 2 more or less, the number before and after. Wednesday
Friday
Thursday
We greeted classmates. We said the pledge and our class promise. We did calendar, counted on and read our popcorn words. We reviewed the habits of thinkers. We had Family Friday. We did shared reading and reviewed the characteristics of living things. We read Katy and the Big Snow and made snowman puppets. We did fitness. We found our mystery number and practiced counting and writing the numeral that represents that number. We read Geraldine’s Big Snow. Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
Voicemail:
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E-MAIL:
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REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
(beginning in
November)
PLEASE REMEMBER
TO STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS OR
DAMAGE.
We’re on the Web!
See us at:
www.dublinschools.
net/oldesawmill
Valentines will be exchanged on February 12th. This is very lowkey, no party but we will decorate bags to collect valentines at
school (no boxes or bags need to be prepared at home). Students
can sign valentines at home (23 should be plenty). Please don’t put
names on the envelopes. We line up the bags and drop them in
one at a time. If there are names on envelopes it really slows
down the process.
If you have any empty tissue boxes or Pringles-type cans, we
could use them for an upcoming project.
If you are interested in the details on redistricting for the 2016-17
school year, it is available at this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
Upcoming Dates:
February 5th- 100th Day of Kindergarten (barring any now days) –
Volunteers are needed – see the pink paper that came home on
Friday for details.
February 10th – Father’s Night #2 –Note date change- due to a Cub
Scout function- details to come
February 15th – No School – President’s Day
February 17th to 25th – Round #2 Newsminutes
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Smialek and Mrs. White.
Have a super weekend!
Go Buck!
Vianne