Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

We just wanted to send out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped with the holiday party today, and to everyone who contributed to make the party so fun. I will post some pictures later today.  And thank you from all of us in 102 for all the gifts, cards, treats and kind words. We appreciate all the love. Happy Holidays!

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 Reinde...