Pennies for Patients starts Tuesday Feb 24, our challenge will go thru Friday Feb 27. This effort helps children who are battling childhood cancer and leukemia. Last year we raised around $1,600, our goal this year is $2,000, let’s do this together and make this happen.
Here’s the scoop:
Each classroom will receive a bucket for their change.
Pennies are +
Silver is –
Students bring pennies for their own classroom. They can also bring silver to put in other classrooms' buckets reducing that classrooms total!
The battle is on between grade levels, the winning room will get bragging rights, and the winning classroom overall will get…A PIZZA PARTY!!!!! J J J
LITERATURE
Focus: Fractured Fairytales
- Cinderhazel
- Falling for Rapunzel
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett
MATH
This week's focus: 3 Dimensional Shapes
During the months of January, February, March students will work on the following skills:
· numbers 0-31 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
· addition
· interpreting and analyzing graphs
· tally marks
· matching and sorting: 3-D shapes
· patterns : ABC, ABBA
· comparing, ordering, and measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches
· Using a balance to measure weight
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
Students will be the authors of their own pattern books using books with a repetitive pattern as mentor texts.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Kindergarteners will learn about Kings and Queens, the Royal Family, and traditional songs and peoms related to Kings and Queens.
