Wintry Weather!

What a week it's been - a double Superstar, ice skating lessons, a visit from the Milwaukee Ballet, a veritable blizzard, and a wintry wonderland at school today!  Read on for more details about our week in SK...

Daily Five

- Word families: We're working hard to distinguish medial vowel sounds (i.e. contrasting op/at/it families) - it's tricky business, but we're up for the challenge, listening, writing and sorting words into word families.
- The -an family: Dan is in the Van!  We're adding a new family to our neighborhood.  Hunt for -an family words this weekend!

- Word wall words: "see" is a new friend to our Word Wall... Oh say can you "see" any "see" words around town this weekend?

 

Printing

- A-Z: We tackled writing our entire alphabet in upper case this week!  We're working hard to get all of our letters in the right order, in the correct case, facing the right direction!

- a-z: Again, we worked hard to do our best SK writing of our lower case alphabet: it's not easy, but we're really making progress!

 

Math
- 100 Day!  We celebrated our 100th day of SK with a morning full of 100 math games, comparing and contrasting our 100 collections, ... and an afternoon party with the whole grade, creating 100 hats (10 groups of 10 polka dots!), 100 glasses, 100 necklaces (with 10 groups of 10 Fruit Loops!), enjoying 100 cookies, bouncing basketballs 100 times... it was a hundred hoot! 
- When I Am 100: Don't forget to take a peek at our "When I Am 100" collages and written work outside our classroom door - they're marvelous!

- Counting by: 5's, 10's, and 2's too! (Counting by 1's into the high high numbers)

- Tricky Double Digit Numbers: Writing (up to 30, recognizing (up to 50)
- 0-9: We wrote from 0-30 this week, and WOW do our numbers look better than they did at the beginning of the year!  There's a lot to keep track of... getting numbers in the right order, (27, 28, 29), order the digits correctly (12, not 21), and be sure that numerals are facing the correct way!

 

Science - Project Groundhog

- Consensus: although time of day, location and placement if our groundhogs made a BIG difference (which we discovered in a heated discussion!) we found that the overwhelming majority of groundhog enthusiasts witnessed a no-shadow situation!

 

- Map skills: we used our smart board to point out the locations if our team members and read their letters, describing their favorite hobbies (snow skiing, water skiing, biking, beach going!) and their classrooms (one has 8 boys and 1 girl!)

- Data collection: we averaged our week's temperatures and posted them online for our team to view..based on the weather we've been having, we're not so sure that our groundhog knew what they were doing!  We're looking forward to compiling our findings with our team members to get a bigger picture, week by week.

 

Announcements:

- Envelopes?  We are sharpening our letter writing skills and mailing them in our classroom post office!  Any old envelopes you might have are warmly welcomed!

- Valentines at School: we are looking forward to our afternoon party on Valentines Day next Thursday!  Please help your SKer select (or make) 17 valentines, one for each friend (free if any candy or treats) - we can't wait to deliver and feel the love!

- Snow gear: Thanks for being sure your SKer has hat, waterproof mittens, coat, snow pants, and warm boots each day at a hook for our daily 45+ minute recess.

 

Reminders:

- Healthy Picnic: Lukas Monday 2/11

- Fun at the Rink: Last Skating Lesson and final Family Skate coming up soon!
- No School: 2/15 (Teacher comment writing) and 2/18 (President's Day) - Have a LOVEly long weekend!
- Nuriyyeh's Friday Superstar: Photos will be up in next week's blog.  Thanks for your kind patience!