Mrs. Christensen's Kindergarten Class 2018-2019

Hello Families, On Monday, February 18th, we will observe George Washington's birthday.  There will be no school on this day.   On Tuesday, we have our Math Festival from 9:55-10:35.  We still need some volunteers to help out at the Festival.   We will continue learning about presidents and our country.  Also, we will continue our study on dental awareness for February!  Please encourage students to brush teeth, floss and eat healthy foods.  We will continue our biography study in RTI.  We will also introduce autobiographies. In Writers Workshop, students  are "editing" their  "How to" books and we will be celebrating in the next couple of weeks. In Readers Workshop, we are talking about reading with fluency not robot reading.  When reading at home try to help them with reading for fluency with our take home books.  If students still continue to sound out the words have them repeat the sentence with fluency for understanding.  Please remind

Hello Families, This week, we had so much fun learning about polar bears and how animals adapt to their environment.   We did a science experiment on blubber.  Ask your child about what they learned about blubber.   Next week, we have many celebrations!  On Monday, we'll celebrate "The 100th Day of School".  We have 4 fun centers planned to celebrate this special day! On Tuesday, Chinese New Year begins and we will have a few fun activities to celebrate.  We will finish our dragon mask on Tuesday, and have a "mini" parade on Wednesday.   Readers Workshop:  We will be introducing what vocabulary is and how to identify the definition of the word. We will be talking about biographies and autobiographies.  We will also introduce what a contraction is and how it is made up  of 2 words. Writers Workshop:  The class will be "picking a seed" which means they will choose one "how to" story they've written and nourish, edit and pub