Weekly Update 3-13-20

Dear Families,

Starting Monday, March 16, Henrico County Public Schools will be closed for students for two full weeks of school (through Friday, March 27). Henrico County Public Schools will continue to assess the situation and decide later if we need to extend this period of closure. You will be notified as soon as possible of all changes.

Coming home in folders today we are including a Distance Learning Packet. Please complete this packet with your child over the next two-weeks. Any students that complete the assignments and return the packet when school reopens will earn TWO trips to the treasure chest!

Students also checked out additional library books today to use with their packet activities and have extra reading materials. Also, students will bring home their supply bags, a few sheets of white paper.

Every Kindergarten teacher reviewed the packet and expectations of its completion with students today. The packet contains four (4) assignments:

  • – What’s the Weather? : Students will have FUN observing, investigating, and tracking the weather. Students will observe and identify daily weather conditions (sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy, windy, warm, hot, cool, and cold); predict daily weather based on basic observable conditions (watch/check the weather forecast if possible); and, chart daily weather conditions.
  • – Choice Board: These engaging family activities will help students continue actively learning in Reading/Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies while giving them an opportunity to choose their own learning experience.
  • – Reading, Language Arts, and Writing: Again, students are able to choose activities that help them stay in a routine of reviewing solid and rigorous literacy skills. The charts and worksheets needed to complete some of the activities are included in the packet.
  • – Math: Along with a 120 Chart, Ten Frames, and Digit Cards (the digit cards will need to be cut apart for some of the activities), students can cover many areas of number sense development by selecting activities that will help them practice and strengthen skills we have been working on in class.

We hope your family will use these two weeks to really dive into learning with your child. Enjoy this time together and make it fun! Take care of yourselves during this unpredictable time. We wish you exceptional health, positive learning experiences, and great family memories.

The Kindergarten Team 🙂

Weekly Update 3-6-20

Happy Friday!

We have just finished up another fun week in room #14. The students enjoyed celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday  and Read Across America this week.  We also had to chance to listen to Mrs. Broudy and Mrs. Rhoden read a Dr. Seuss book each morning on the announcements. The children had fun predicting where Thing 1 and Thing 2 would be each day as they read to the class from different locations every morning. The students had a surprise today when my daughter, Taylor was able to come from North Carolina to read to them.

Enjoy these pictures from our week:

This week we  enjoyed listening to Dr. Seuss stories . We worked really hard on explaining: Who were the important characters in the story? Where/When was the setting?  What was the problem?  How did they solve it? We also reviewed digraphs ch, sh, th, and wh. We practiced finding sight words: over, away. In math this week, we worked on  identifying and reading a given numeral up to 20 and constructing a corresponding set of objects. In science this week, we identified and described objects that sink or float.

Click on the following videos for extra practice at home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8kjNAB9qk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2yQTfDbSaY&list=PLCeTcLGI29X0IlnDqHiSrv6m54uMvGCHD&index=22&app=desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQuW8G2QV_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8mMXiSRLnU

Next week we will be learning the following:

Reading:

Sight words: she, with, her

Ending digraphs: sh, th, ch, wh

Comprehension Focus:

Who were the important characters in the story? Where/When was the setting?  What was the problem? How did they solve it?

Math:

We are going to count, read, and represent numbers up to 20.

Social Studies:

We are going to learn that a map is a drawing of a place to show where things are located and that a globe is a round model of the Earth.

Please read to your child or have your child read to you every night!

Thank you for all of your help at home.  If you have any questions, please email me!

Upcoming Events:

March 9-13 Spring Book Fair!

March 13th Field Trip to CMOR

March 30- STEAM Day and Half Day

Thanks to all of the parents who have signed up to help us chaperone our field trip to CMOR. I will send an email on Monday to let you know which parents will be able to ride the bus with us to the museum. I will pick the names out of a hat to make it fair. The remaining parents will have to drive behind the bus. Thanks so much for your understanding. Each class is only allowed three chaperones on the bus.

I hope everyone has a terrific weekend. Remember to set your clocks up an hour since Daylight Savings Time begins on Saturday night at midnight.

Mrs. Smith 🙂