Kindergator Update 12.14.18



Happy Holidays everybody! We have just one week left and based on how distracted the kiddos were this week, it should be interesting for sure! We finished our curriculum this week along with most of our grading so our last week will be more about crafts, STEM, and retests on anything they may have scored a 2 on the first time. Here is what we finished up with this week:

Reading: We finished our unit on “mining for information” and getting the most learning out of what we read by rereading and thinking. We worked on how to retell a real reading text (non-fiction) with a main idea and 3 details. We began our unit on noticing the different kinds of conflict in fake fiction books while we read some great holiday favorites.

Math: We wrapped up our measurement unit by thinking about all the ways we can measure the same object. We found that one thing can have length, weight, capacity, speed and sometimes temperature that can be measured.

Writing: We almost finished our Reindeer or Hibernation question and answer books. They are helping the kids really begin to see the differences in how each type of sentence begins and ends. We are also working hard on getting the kids to recheck their sentences after they write them for beginnings and endings or capitals and end marks.

Science: The children designed a model to depict the changing from day to night using flashlights and objects found in the classroom. They created videos to teach others using this model and presented their lesson to others.


Vocabulary: rotate, toward, away, exclamation point, question mark, period, conflict


Big Things:

Hopefully the kids came home and told you about Mrs. Walkup’s wonderful news….she is having a baby boy this May. The kids took turns coming up with possible names for the baby and our favorite by far was Walkup Walkup.

Please be sure to send in the $5 class donation for our holiday party. Our room moms have worked hard to help make it a fun time for the kiddos for sure.

Don't forget that Thursday and Friday, December 20th and 21st) are early release days so the students will be getting out early. Please be sure to write any transportation changes in their agendas.



Thank you to:

Everyone who sent in toy donations for our sick classmate. He is back home from the hospital until the 27th when he will return for his last round of chemo and a bone marrow transplant after the holidays so we really want to make his time home as special as we can.

A special thank you to Aspen’s family who sent in such a cool hot wheels toy that my own son (a teenager by the way) complained about not getting anything that cool when he was young! 

The seven kids who made STAR behavior last week whose names I did not bring home with me this weekend. I am terribly sorry. They definitely deserve to be honored as this is a tough time for kids to remain focused and self-controlled.


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