News from Room 10

February 13, 2015

News from Room 10

Theme Activities
Our theme this week was Valentine’s Day. We made a valentine for someone special. We read some fun Valentine’s Day stories. We joined our kindergarten and first grade classes on Friday to exchange valentines and share a special snack. We have also been continuing to do research on penguins, adding facts to our chart.
Dates to remember:
February 16 - 20: No school – Winter Break
March 13: Superintendent’s Conference Day
March 17 and 23: Parent conferences – half day for students
English and Language Arts
Our letter and sound this week was
Vv. We brainstormed words that start with the v sound and added pictures to our alphabet books. Our alphabet books are almost complete! In centers, we sorted pictures that started with v, j and r into three columns.
We worked on making and reading words with the –ay pattern. In our reading groups, many of us are focusing on using the patterns we know to read new words.
Our poem this week was Valentines. It is about making valentines for family members. We worked on thinking about what the poem was about and then using the beginning sounds in words to read the poem. There was actually very little that we were unable to figure out together! We illustrated the poem and added it to our poetry books.
Math
In math this week, we continued to work with number bonds and number sentences. We are working with manipulatives, and are figuring out all of the number sentences that make a given number. We worked with number sentences for 6, 7 and 8. We also worked with picture problems, filling in number bonds and writing number sentences for each one.
It was an exciting day on Friday. We hit the 100th day of school! When we did the calendar, we bundled all of our 10s to make 100 and traded in all of our dimes for a dollar bill. We counted to 100 by ones and by tens. Everyone went to their kindergarten or first grade classrooms to celebrate the 100th day of school by doing a lot of fun centers.
Class meeting
We read a book this week, The Recess Queen. In this story, a new girl comes to school and stops the playground bully by asking her to play.

A few more things:

·  Happy Valentine’s Day!! And enjoy the week with your child!