Future Journalists

In reading and writing, we are learning about biographies! We will read about lots of important people and their lives. So far, we have read about Dr. Suess and Benjamin Franklin. Ask your child to tell you each day who they read about!! 

 In writing today we each thought of an interview question. Then we asked our questions to Mr. Bernstein!  We learned a lot about his life, favorite things and his job!! Next we will  use what we learned to write his biography. It will be lots of fun!!! Who knew his favorite shape is a circle? 

The Blog is Back!!

I'm finally back!! I had some technical difficulties and one of the solutions was to erase the blog completely and start over. I didn't want to do that so after some troubleshooting and LOTS of technical support, we are back online!! I apologize for the delay. 

Here's what we are up to in Kindergarten these days. 

In reading and writing we have been learning about persuasion. We read some funny books about characters trying to persuade us to buy a book, stay up late, and a few about kids persuading their parents to ge them a new pet. So... If your child has been particularly persuasive lately, you know why!! We wrote persuasive paragraphs about the best pet, best special, best food, best season, and best part of kindergarten. We know that to be persuasive, we must give three good reasons. 

Did you know we can add and subtract? We use different strategies to solve basic number sentences. Drawing a picture and using a number line are two of te best ways to join and separate numbers. We can even read a story problem and decide if it is adding or subtracting. 

In science we had fun learning about animal camouflage and how animals move, but this week it's all about trees!! Today we went on a tree walk and discovered many different types of trees right in our backyard. 

There is no school for Kindergarteners on Thursday or Friday this week because of Kindergarten Orientation!!