News from Room 113 February 12, 2016 A Peek at our Week Reading: This week we will be starting our Nonfiction Unit! Phonics: (A-Z, or, ar, ur, ir, er, ch, sh, th, wh, ing, ed, ai, ee, ie, oa, ue, ou, ow, oy, oi, oo, blends) We have spent some time on Phoneme Manipulation where we work with the individual sounds in words to make new words. Writing: We wrapped up our mini unit on writing sentences and will start our “How To” writing. It is so fun to see the kinders develop as writers. Words Their Way: We are working on individuals sorts to practice specific skillsshort vowels, blends, digraphs, and long vowels. Math: We finished our graphing unit. We made different types of graphs, looked at and compared the data. Next, we will begin our unit on measurement. Please play the math game throughout the week and sign and return the bottom portion on Friday in their purple folders. Important Dates Feb. 12 & 15: No School Mar. !!: Early Release Mar. 25: No School Mar 26-30: Spring Break Reminders: Six Flags Read to Succeed log is due February 25! Snappy Words: (I, a, and, me, the, to, go, you, can, my, he, she, we, at, be, no, it, like, am, Social Studies: We are discussing Friends play, on, in, yes, did, for, see through various books and activities. that, up, with) Take some time Science: We are continuing with our Earth to practice these so they know Science unit. them in a “snap.”