Room P171 has been hard at work over the past few weeks. In writing, each student has begun to write their Personal Narrative story. Thank you so much for helping your kindergartner come up with some great life events to write about! Each student narrowed his or her topic and is off and running as a personal narrative author. We will continue to work on these special stories for another couple of weeks.
Our reading focus has been finding the main idea and details of a text. We discussed that the main idea is what the story is mostly about, while the details are the little parts of the story that support the main idea. When reading at-home books, you can ask your child to tell the main idea and the details of the book you are reading and they should be able to tell you (with support). In addition to main idea and details, we are still working on recognizing sight words in the books that we are reading. Our new words this week are OF and ARE. Both of these words are challenging, so please practice reading and writing them at home with your child.
Our Common Core focus this week and next week will be learning about the Five Senses. We have been doing many fun activities that activate each of our senses. Ask your child to sing you the Five Senses Song!
Finally, today we celebrated the 100th Day of School! We did lots of math activities using the number 100. Below are some pictures of us during this very special day!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
No School - Monday, February 18th - President's Day
Field Trip to the Shedd Aquarium - Tuesday, February 19th
