What's coming up...

In Our Classroom:

Reading: We have spent quite a bit of time going over the different ways to “make a connection” to the books we are reading.  We will continue this for several weeks as we meet in our reading groups and have carpet time read-a-louds.

Making a connection really just means ….  “When you read this book, what does it remind you of?”   It’s important to remember to give the details of what you're thinking. We’ve learned that we can make the following connections:

·       Book to Myself:  When I read this book it reminded me about when I….

·       Book to Book:  When I read this book I think about another book that I’ve read because….

·       Book to World:  When I read this book, I think about something that I know about or know of that’s similar….(something that has happened in the world around me.)

Writing:  In writing, we are always creating stories that 1) make sense; 2) start with a capital letter and 3) end with a period.  We have been trying hard to shape our lowercase letters correctly, and we are doing a great job at it!   

 

We will soon learn that “How to” books teach us how to do something.  "How to" books are non-fiction and have special features such as using “time words” like, first, then, next, at last.  

Math: We continue to work on composing and decomposing numbers to 10.  We are learning that 2 number friends can make ten and that there are lots of different friends to make 10.  For instance,  3 and 7 make 10…. So does 5 and 5, etc.

We’re rote counting to 100!  Also try rote counting to 100 but starting at any number other than 1 – start at 29, etc.!!

Important Dates:

Report Cards go home at the end of this week.

May 2 – K Orientation (if you know of anyone who has not registered their K child, please tell them to do so ASAP)