Science...Trees!

We have begun our Science Unit on Trees!  We started out to find out all that we know about trees.  We have a science journal that we are keeping notes in to help us remember all the things we are learning.  We even had a tree come to class one day so we could really examine it.  We can't wait to learn more about trees!

Abraham Lincoln

We celebrated President's Day by learning about what President's Day was and then discussing George Washing and Abraham Lincoln.  When we spent out day on Abraham Lincoln we were able to learn and make a cool "stove top" hat to wear!!

Writing Stories

We have really been working very hard to start creating stories during our writing time.  Once we have them finished then Mrs. Hendershot will type them up.  Finally the students get to illustrate each page to their story and then read them to the class in the "Author's" Chair!  It is a lot of fun to hear everyone's stories!

Questioning????

We were busy last week working on asking questions while reading books.  We worked on asking questions before we read, during our reading, and even after we read.  We were very good at asking all sorts of questions.  One very fun activity we did was all about play doh.  Each student was given a small ball of play doh and the only direction they were given was to create something.  Then I just wandered around and listened to the questions they asked and wrote them down.  They had a great time and loved not being given very many directions.  We only had a few questions.  Then after about 5 minutes they were told to add something to their creation.  Now that step really got the questions flowing!  :)

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, February 21, 2014

Dates:

    February 28^th – End of 2^nd Trimester

    March 12^th – Early Out

    March 14^th – No School for K students due to Round Up!!

    March 17-21- No School – Spring Break

    March 26- Early Out

Daily 5:

WOW!!  We have been busy learning in kindergarten.  We have spent the last couple of weeks discussing metacognition and schema in our room.  We learned that metacognition is thinking about our thinking while reading.  Then we learned that schema is what we already know about what we are reading.  We have done a lot of activities to help reinforce what these mean and to learn how to use these while reading books.  Ask your child to share their ideas with you as they are reading to you. 

Math:

Adding….Adding…Adding!  That is what we have been up to in math.  These students are working hard to be able to fluently add up to 5 in our classroom.  We have worked on many different ways to solve addition problems.  We have used counting objects, using a number line, and learning how to do touch math.  A note will be coming home about touch math so be sure to take a look!  Also any extra practice with addition within 10 would be great!

Health/Social Studies:

We have finished up our Health unit on talking about good habits to have in life.  We spent a lot of time on Being Proactive (making changes in our lives) and setting goals.  We each set a goal and it is hanging in our room of something we wanted to do to make a change.  Many of these goals were about making our beds and cleaning our rooms.  J  Then we spent this past week discussing President’s Day.  We spent some time on each president: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  We sure did learn a lot!

Helpful Hints:

·      Practice Counting by 10’s to 100!

·      Start working on basic subtraction at home.  2 minus 1 equals 1. 

Classroom Party!!!

We had fun!!!

Mega Party!!!

ENJOY!!!