This week in reading the letters are soft Gg and hard Gg. There is so much to do with both sounds this week and it's already a short week with yesterday off! I sure hope we don't have anymore days off with the bad weather coming in again.
I like to have fun reading several different Gingerbread Man books. Today we read, "The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School" and "The Ninjabread Man". We will also read, "The Gingerbread Man Loose in School", " The Gingerbread Girl", and the original, "Gingerbread Man". We will compare and contrast the characters, setting, and refrain (the repeated verse) of the latter two stories.
On Friday I have a special scavenger hunt planned to find the Gingerbread Man. Shh! it's a secret!
sight words: from, one . (Please keep helping your child work on learning their 3rd quarter sight words!)
Math this week! We are working on finding patterns on a 100's chart. We are learning to recognize when we are counting by ones starting with a random number or when we are counting by 10's beginning with a different number than 10. We do not have to learn how to count by 5's in KDG, but we practice it at calendar and most can do it!
Last week some of us were ready to write all the way to 100 by themselves without any help, which means they will be able to count to 100 too! What an accomplishment!
Kansas packets--This week we are learning about the Kansas Seal and the Kansas Flag. We will find out what "Ad Astra Per Aspera" means at the top of the seal. "Through the Stars With Difficulties". January 29, 1861 is the year Kansas became a state, is at the bottom of the seal. The seal also has 34 stars representing Kansas being the 34th state. The picture also has the covered wagon, a man plowing with his horses, bison in a field, and a cabin overlooking the horizon. There's a lot happening on the seal that we forget is on it!
We will be finding Kansas on the map, along with its bordering states. Then, we will find our county on the map of 105 Kansas counties.
There's just so much to learn about Kansas! We will also graph who was born in Kansas and is called a Jayhawker, and who is not born in Kansas and what they are called.
100's Day! Right now we will celebrate Kansas Day on it's birthday since we had the snow day and 100's day is pushed back to Jan. 30. Some of you were sure on the ball this weekend getting the 100 collections done and sent back to school! Feel free to do those ahead of time and check it off your list!
Coming up!
Jan. 29 Kansas Day Activities
Jan. 30 100th Day of School!!
Feb. 1 Books and Bling Dance at MTMS . 6 pm
Feb. 12 Valentine's Party 11:15-11:45, Dismiss at 12:10, P/T conferences 4:15-8:00
Feb. 13 P/T conferences all day--No School
Feb. 14/17 No School
Feb. 21 PTA Family Movie Night 7 pm
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