3/13/2017

March 13-17

Career Day
On March 16th and 17th, several Kinder parents are coming in to share their careers with us to introduce the kinders to different careers.

St. Patrick's Day
March 17th is St. Patrick's Day and the kinders will be doing lucky activities, reading themed readers, and writing about how lucky they are.

DONATIONS NEEDED:
Kindergarten is looking for donations of graham crackers and pre-made white frosting (store bought) for our How To writing project where we will be writing about how to make a gingerbread house and then constructing it using the crackers, frosting, and candy.

LITERATURE
Fairy Tales and Fairy Tale Elements (Royalty, Magic, Talking Animals, Good/Evil Character, Love, Once Upon a Time, Happily Ever After)

MATH
During the months of January, February, March students will work on the following skills:
·         numbers 0-31 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
·         addition
·         Ordinal Position
·         tally marks
·         matching and sorting: 3-D shapes
·         patterns : ABC, ABBA, growing patterns
·         comparing, ordering, and  measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches

Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.


HANDWRITING/WRITING
We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story. 

CORE KNOWLEDGE
Columbus and the Pilgrims--This unit introduces students to two important topics in the
history of the United States: the first voyage of Columbus, and the voyage of the Pilgrims some 128 years later.