WAKE Up and Read Book Drive

Don’t forget to send in your gently used books for JYJ’s WAKE Up and Read Book Drive.  Our school goal is to collect 2,000 books, but within a few days so far, we have collected over 500 books!   So scrounge around your bookshelves and send in those books that you no longer need and benefit another child within Wake County who does not have access to books.

 Kindergarten Spring Scavenger Hunt: The date has not been set, but our class will be having a Spring Scavenger Hunt and we need your help!  I have attached a sign up sheet to the blog.  We need filled plastic Easter eggs.  If you can help, please go to the sign up sheet and put your name beside the item.  We have a scavenger hunt for specific eggs – children will hunt for the eggs that have the following written on the outside of the egg with a sharpie:

S, P, R, I, N, G, a circle, a square, a triangle,  a rectangle, a smiley face and their initials. 

So each child will end up with 12 eggs!  So you can see we need LOTS of eggs!!!  The sign up sheet should explain how you can specifically prepare eggs.  Please DO NOT put chocolate or unwrapped jelly beans into the eggs.  Stickers, tattoos, life savers, individually wrapped bags of candy, trinkets, etc. are great to use!  If you sign up to help, please send in all eggs by APRIL 11 !!!  THANK YOU!!

 What’s Going on in Kindergarten?

Reading: We continue to build our understanding of story elements.   Practice having your child read their text two times  - the first time to word work and the second time to remember the story.   Practice retelling the characters, setting and sequence of events.  We are beginning to focus on making a connection to the text.  Here are the different types of connections that we are making:

1.          Text to Self – “This story reminds me of something in my own life.”

2.       Text to Text – “This story reminds me of another book that I know.”

3.       Text to World – “This story reminds me of something that has happened in the world around me.”

Making a connection requires children to make inferences and requires much time to teach this skill and  plenty of practice.  Help your child to formulate connections as they read their books each night! 

Math:  We continue addition with numbers to make 10.  We are learning that addition word problems use specific language such as plus, more, altogether, and in all.  The children are practicing making their own simple one-step word problems.

Science:  We are continuing our study of weather.  We have conducted experiments with thermometers to learn how to read a thermometer and to build an understanding about how different temperatures impact our daily decisions. 

Things to remember:

March 27 – Science Go Round

March 27 – End of Quarter

March 28 – Read – a – Thon for Wake Up and Read Book Drive