Happy New Year!

We are starting the second half of our kindergarten year! We are looking forward to an exciting January and February! We kick off the year with Q and U getting married. We will celebrate the lovely couple and start making words like quick, quiet, question, and quilt. Then we will move right into learning about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chinese New Year. We will also learn about winter animals like polar bears, brown bears and penguins. We will make lots of fun crafts too! In Fundations, we will begin learning some trick words while continuing to "tap out" CVC words and learn different word families! In our Community unit, we will have our parents come in to talk about their careers. It is so much fun learning about what jobs help our community. Guided reading will continue and we will be benchmarking our students, using Fontas and Pinnel. This way we will have a better understanding as to which guided reading level each child will be reading on. I know how much they love to read their guided reading books to their family!

February will bring our 100th Day celebration! This is an awesome day to celebrate our little kindergarteners and the fact that they are 100 days smarter. We have a day of fun activities and centers. We also dress up like we are 100. There will be "senior citizens" roaming the halls all day! What fun!