K3 The Place To Be!

Hello K3 Families,

We had another great week in K3! If you haven’t heard the wonderful news yet, Ms. McNaught welcomed her baby boy on Wednesday! We were so excited to see a beautiful photo of Meghann, Cooper, and baby Westley. Next week, we’ll be creating individual cards for Baby Westley.

I’d also like to send a big thank you to the parents who have come in to support either our Hello Yellows or our Blue Crew. Your help is truly appreciated, especially during art projects! 💛💙

We began a unit on Presidents this week and started learning about George Washington. We drew his portrait, and read many informational books about his life and contributions to our country. Next week we will learn about Abraham Lincoln.

In social emotional learning this week we began a Kimochis Unit. As you recall, Kimochis in Japanese means feelings. We read about the Kimochis character Lovey Dove. Lovey Dove is a character who is sweet and nurturing, wise and calm. But sometimes she does worry. You will find a hand out in your child’s Friday bag that goes into more detail and suggests some fun home/school activities.

In Bridge to Reading Phonics, we worked on the sounds; /x/ and /y/. You will find the story Fox’s Box on the back of this week’s A Peek at Our Week. See if your child can sound out the words and read it to you. They have been working hard sounding out CVC words and reading smoothly, and with inflection! Your child is bringing home their readers for the month of January this week. Please keep them and have your child read them with you at home.

In writing we continued our Bridge to Reading unit by writing all we know about foxes after reading the story A look at a Fox. Students worked on sounding out words (CVC) and using our word wall to help them write their ideas. They also wrote about how they would feel if they saw a fox! We are still practicing using finger spaces between each word as we continue to build strong writing habits.

In math, we continued our addition unit by using the dots on dominos to add. We paired this with a domino game (see pictures!) where students worked in pairs to find three different ways to count up to our target number (12-25). This involved counting the dots and adding on to the dominoes we already had. We also used bear manipulatives to help us physically count the numbers on our worksheets and figure out how many we had altogether.

In January, Mrs G, our councilor, facilitated 4 lessons focused on Friendship. The class spent time learning about how to make friends, how working together with friends makes things even better, and how important it is to really listen to a friend (especially remembering their name!) Ask your child who’d they like to get to know better from their class and invite them over to practice these skills!

We were so lucky to have Ms. Valerie visit our classroom twice in one week (we even had a make-up session from a Monday off!). K3 did such an amazing job (see pictures!) that their artwork will be featured at the DO (District Office) in a few weeks. If you make it over to Stanley toward the end of February, be sure to check it out…such great little Van Goghs! 

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! We will be celebrating on Thursday, February 12th. We will be having a Valentine’s card exchange and party! Each child is invited to bring in 22 valentines (one for each classmate including themselves.) Please do not have your child address them, just have your child sign the cards. This helps with passing out the valentines!

Thank you for your continued support! -Mrs. Spansail