Estes Extras...

Happy New Year! We had an awesome start to 2011! We are half way done with Kindergarten. I'm can't believe it's flown by so fast! This week was a short one but a good one. We did lots of winter activities and review from last semester. Report Cards went home today. Please send back the signed signature cards and envelope on Monday. We will discuss any questions about the report card at the conference in February.

Specials for next week: Monday: Spanish, Tuesday: Art, Wednesday: P.E., Thursday: Media, Friday: Music

Library books are due on Wednesday. We are visiting the library on Thursday.

Aijah celebrated a birthday this week! Happy Birthday!

Elianna was picked for student of the week. She has Max the Moose for the weekend. Have fun!

We have a few students who have forgotten snack before break and recently. I either split my snack with them or hand out snack that I have in the class. But it has become a ritual where they are consistently not bringing snack. We officially do not have snack to be handed out any more! The students do not share their snacks in class either. Please don't forget to send a snack.

Academic Update:

Literacy: We did a small author study this week. We read lots of Jan Brett books. We did lots of winter activities and lots of review. We had some role playing of the book, The Mitten. Keep working on sight words and reading as much as you can. In writing, we are really working on sounding out our words, using capital letters at the beginning and a period at the end of the sentence. We start a new unit on weather on Monday.

Math: We did lots of review and learned new dice games. We even tried out a few addition problems- and we did really good for a first time!  We do calendar everyday. Over break, I created calendar notebooks. Not only will be doing calendar everyday, but the students will be writing in their calendar notebooks and following along with me. The items we discuss during calendar time are: Date, Month, Day, tally marks, patters, ones/tens/hundreds, shapes, weather, odd/even, graphing and now money!. It's awesome! We start a new chapter on money on Monday.

Science: Elianna's dad came and taught us an awesome lesson about turtles. He brought their family pet turtle, Einstein, to visit. We learned how to say turtle in Spanish too!

Have an awesome weekend! :)