Numbers 1-10, Snowfall

Last week students worked on building the numbers 0-10.  We discussed the plus one staircase pattern created when we built the numbers.

Hello, I hope you enjoyed a beautiful weekend.

Needed Items
For some of our upcoming engineering work students will build prototypes of different weather instruments.  If you have any used plastic bottles, cups, boxes, or straws at home that you can wash and donate to school, please bring them in.  I also have put up a wish list of other needed staples like hand soap.

Parent/Teacher Conferences
Next week the kindergarten team will be holding Parent/Teacher conferences on Tuesday, October 20th and Thursday, October 22nd!  If you haven't already, please sign up for a time slot here. 

This Week’s Curriculum Overview
Science Weather Project - Taking on the role of meteorologists we have begun predicting whether or not it will be safe to go out at recess and what clothes we will need.  This week we are learning how the earth rotates and tilts creating seasons.

Math - We are learning how to compare numbers using terms like more, less, and equal.  We will also study sorting and what makes a circle a circle.

Literacy - We are reading fiction books where weather causes problems for the characters.  We are studying what characters are, and what a book’s setting is. We are also identifying the most important events from the story. 

Writing - Students are using pictures, letters, and words to write about what we learned last week about snow.

Word Study - This week we studying the -at and -it word families. 

Last Friday we studied snowfall and snowflakes.