KIndergator Update 2.1.20


Hello again Kindergator Parents! We have had a fun week laughing, learning and programming. Here are some things we worked on this week:

Reading: We continued working on the “tricks” of “two vowels go walking” and “bully-e” in our reading groups. We began working on putting together the two reading skills of being able to sound out words and taking time to think about what they mean. At this age, the two skills are separated, but we want to plant the seed that thinking about what you read is important too. Mr. Webster began our lessons on Presidents’ day and dove into all of the fascinating places that they would take a president. We got some pretty interesting places such as Papa’s house and Disney land to Taco Bell.


Math: This week we really started to dive into the evil villain of subtraction and it’s four nasty abilities (take-away, make less, make smaller, break apart). We will start to focus on working with subtraction a little more in the upcoming weeks.


Writing: This week we continued our adventure into spicing up our story telling! All of our kiddos are getting really skilled with their openers to their stories they make! We continued working as a class to create some interesting stories with a great hook, lots of details about our wacky characters, descriptions about our environments and conflicts and how they get fixed. We also continued our writing for the writing fair contest, and we have some very imaginative students in our class this year!


Vocabulary: subtraction, decompose, hooks,


Big Things: Picture day is this week, February 4th in the morning. This is when we take our spring pictures and class pictures.
Please look to our next BLOG post for Valentine’s Day update. It will tell you all you need to know about for passing out Valentine’s that day!

Thank You To:
  • First and foremost, thank you to the parents and all of our lovely students for our warm wishes for both mine and Mr. Webster’s Birthday!
  • Mr. Webster would like to give a special thank you to Daniel, Eldabell, Audrey, Hadley, Avery, and Kendal for helping him with his college homework!
  • Catlin, who had some real fine handwriting when it came to our tricky letter K this week
  • Special shout out to our Ms. Fiona, Mr. Will, Mr. Dillan, Ms. Mila being seen by one of us as an exceptional friend including others in their games and conversations in class and out on the playground.
  • Ms. Audrey, who was kind enough to use her star behavior on sending the class to the front playground to play on Thursday. We all had a blast!
  • Hadley for reaching 100 sight words
  • Eldabelle, for our beautiful bead necklaces
  • Mae-Claire, for showing us her friend Elsa
  • Fiona, for winning the Addison, kindergarten writing competition
  • Carter, for his funny vacuum story
  • Avery, for her amazing story about a bullied refrigerator
  • Mason and Harrison for teaching us some new multiple meaning words this week








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