January 16, 2015

A Message from Mrs. Kendall

Reading/Writing

Our Secret Reader was Mrs. Jebraail,

Myreons mom!

Our high-frequency words of the week

were, are and we. Our new book was We Are
Painting. In this book we read our color words
and identified each of them. We also had to
be careful to simply memorize the word are
Important Dates:
because this word is so tricky and so
No School Monday, January 19th
important! We added this book to our Daily 5
book boxes for our independent Read-to-Self
day of school on Thursday,
time.
January 22nd (Dismissal 12:15 p.m.)
In Word Work, we practiced listening
closely for the a sound in the beginning of
day of school on Friday, January
rd
the word and in the middle of a word. We had
23 (Dismissal 12:15 p.m.)
to sort pictures according to this attribute.
We were great listeners!
During Daily 5 time, I met with
children to complete our independent reading
level assessment and to begin our math
assessments. I will meet with each child to go
over all of our math concepts one-on-one as I
This week, we began exploring sorting
prepare for our kindergarten report card.
In Writers Workshop, we wrote
items by various attributes. We sorted animals,
pattern
books just like the books we read each
shapes, and even ourselves! This was hard! We
day during Read-to-Self time! We are focusing
didnt always sort by color! Sometimes we
on stretching words to hear all of the sounds
sorted by feathers and no feathers, two legs
in the word. Next week, we will receive our
and four legs, short sleeves and long sleeves, and
own kindergarten dictionary with many
It Is Snowing!
important words we frequently use so we can
wings and no wings. We really had to focus to
be responsible to have these words spelled
what the attribute
was we
were
for our
We have
been
busyusing
exploring
snowflakes and making snowflakes in kindergarten!
correctly in our writing. Wow! We are really
sort.
We have learned how to fold paper and make little cutsmoving
to create
along!a beautiful
Wemasterpiece.
reviewed our
shapes
and
made
We also read our Kindergarten Studies paper about
the various
of to work on
In handwriting,
wetypes
continue
weather
our world.
discussed
tornados.
Weexciting
then thing is
snowflakes
out ofaround
our shapes.
We We
learned
all blizzards, hurricanes,
lowercase and
letters.
The most
discussed
where
in
the
world
these
types
of
weather
occur.
We
sure
are
lucky
in
we
have
begun
practicing
our
last
names. We
snowflakes must have 6 sides and all snowflakes
practiced
last hazardous
names each day and we
Michigan!
also learned
where
to stay
safe our
during
are different!
OurWe
classroom
looks
like ato go in our classroomhave

Math

weather. 5 Little Snowmen was in our pocket chart this week as we reviewed
blizzard hit!
subtraction during our poetry time. We then painted 5 snowmen using large
How can you quickly count to 10? You can
marshmallows and decorated our snowmen with various types of hats, buttons, scarves
look for a 5s group and count on! We practiced
and faces! We played a Snowmen Attribute game to discover ways to sort our snowmen.
this quick count in our math books this week!
This game is coming home with your child tonight! Try playing it with your child!

Computer Lab
Today the students went to the
website www.abcya.com. We played an
addition game using marbles as counters.
Some of us knew the answers in our head
from all the practice in our math books,
and could just click the answer. As the
kids unlocked more levels, the numbers
got bigger and it was nice to have the
marbles to use as a visual. Boy did we
enjoy this math practice!! Thank you to
Mr. Feys for helping us log-on and get to
the website!

3rd Grade Buddies

We will meet with our
buddies next Friday to explore
and learn with their iPads!

REMINDERS!

Wass Mission Statement

On Gym Days- Dont forget your gym shoes!

The purpose of Wass Elementary is to

ensure that each child reaches his/her
highest learning potential!

On Library Days - Dont forget your library

book!

Have a safe and wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Kendall
248-823-3930
akendall2@troy.k12.mi.us

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