We have begun our unit on sea life in preparation for our trip to the New England Aquarium on Thursday, January 31st. Please don’t forget to send in the $7 to cover the cost of the trip. Checks can be made payable to Burlington Public Schools. I will try to confirm chaperones by the beginning of next week.
We will be having our Annual Fish Day on Friday, February 1st. Students will get to visit other Kindergarten classrooms to complete various fish projects. We will need extra help that day. The volunteer time will be around 9-10:15am. If you are available and interested in helping, please let me know so I can put you on the schedule.
The children made their own aquarium scenes, which look amazing hanging on our back wall. They are also working on an innovation of Eric Carle's, A House for Hermit Crab. We have been learning many neat facts about fish too!
The students continue to write in their journals and practice writing the lowercase letters. We also just started practicing uppercase letters too. Although the children are more familiar and comfortable with these, we are spending quite a bit of time making sure they are forming the letters correctly. We encourage the children to use more lowercase letters in their names. We just started learning how to “tap out” words to read. The students are doing very well with this!
We have also been working more with syllables this week and have started doing more with sight words. The list of sight words went home before vacation in the reading packet I sent home. Please be sure to practice these words with your child often so they become more familiar. A memory game may work well (only use 10-15 words at a time) and be sure to look for these words on signs, around the house, in books, etc. The more students read and write these words, the more automatic they will become!
I will be sending some addition fluency fact cards home with students on Monday. Students should cut them out and practice them at home so they can answer each math fact quickly (the goal is less than 3 seconds each). Students should not write the answers on the cards so that they can reuse them again and again.
The Francis Wyman Used Bookstore will be open this Wednesday, January 16th. Students are welcome to bring in 25 cents to buy a book or bring in a used book from home to trade for another book. This is completely optional.
Have a great weekend!
Melanie
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