Happy Valentine’s Day
Random Acts of Kindness & Bucket Fillers This week we focused on learning how to “fill each others’ buckets.” The bucket represents a person’s mental and emotional health. You can’t…
1 Week Closer to the 100th Day!
Cafe Strategy: Flip the Sounds This week, we learned how to flip the sounds! We use our knowledge of letter sounds to decode words by trying out or “flipping,” the…
Halfway to 1st grade!!
Cold End to Quarter 2 We hope you stayed extra warm inside during the past couple days. Our plans shifted a bit due to the weather but we were still…
Bonjour, Ciao, Hola!
Europe Over the next 3 weeks we are visiting our 4th continent on our passport through the world: Europe. This week we focused on an overview of the continent and…
Travels Through Africa Continued!
Jambo! We wrapped up our Africa trip by traveling through the Nile River, the Savanna, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Cape Town! We enjoyed visiting all that Africa has to offer and…
Africa, Here We Come!
Passport to Africa We’re now visiting the second largest continent, Africa! After Kindergartners created a schema chart, we started to explore the climate. We learned how Africa was similar and…
Happy Holidays
Penguins We put all of our new learning about penguins into our writing! Writers learned how to categorize their learning into separate headings and complete a nonfiction page all about…
Penguins, Penguins, Everywhere!
Amazing Readers We had so much fun on Monday celebrating our huge accomplishment of building our stamina all the way to 20 minutes! The readers loved dressing up in their…
Brrrrr Antarctica!
Pajama Party!! We did it! Kindergarten worked on building our reading stamina during Daily 5 and we reached our goal! We can Read To Self for 20 minutes! It’s time…
Slippery, Slimy, Worms!
Word Work This week we added the third component to Daily 5! During Word Work, students experiment with spelling patterns, heart words, and develop a genuine curiosity and interest for…