Kindergarten News - Week of January 26th

 We have had 89 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:

                          Happy Birthday, Frankie!! (Jan. 28th) 

• ​SHOW and T​ELL on Monday (February 2nd): Talia, Kinnick, and Olivia​. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.
• Scholastic Reading Club orders for the month of February are due back on Wednesday, February 4th.
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “January 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Unit 3 intro
• Tapping out three letter words
• Recognizing sound at beginning and ending of words
• Math “Race You to 15 cents”

A Peek At Our Week:

January Birthdays. Special Happy Birthday to Frankie!! On the last Friday of the month we also celebrated Isa's (PreK) Birthday.

MATH: Two-Dimensional Geometry:

It was so exciting for Kindergartners this week to be handed a handful of pattern blocks and have a chance to play and explore. We talked about the Square, Triangle, Hexagon,Trapezoid, and Rhombus - thinking about the different properties of these shapes. We also learned about the circle and talked about its properties. With some modeling clay everyone made a flat pancake (circle) and then a solid ball (sphere). Whenever you have a chance (ball, orange, moon, marble, etc), ask your child if they remember the name of a solid ball. Please check the Bridges in Math Unit 5 overview for a look at what's ahead in Math.

Reading Buddies: Our first time with our 4th grade Reading 

Buddies and everyone was so excited! We were together in the

library this week, but will use the Kindergarten classroom and ELC 

patio next time. We’ll be meeting every Friday. Yay!

 

Show and Tell: Iron presented his Show and Tell to the class this week. He had an article about his dad when he was a baseball player as a teeneager and had struck out 18 players! Wow! Iron also had a baseball and his dad's baseball glove to show the class. Well done, Iron! Looking forward to Talia, Kinnick's and Olivia's show and tell next week.

Global Perspectives/Science:

We continued talking about keeping healthy this week, with a 

focus on Dental Health. The class knew that eating sugary foods is bad for

their teeth. Some shared their tooth brushing habits (after every meal

or twice a day), and it was generally agreed that water was the healthiest

drink and also the best thing in the absence of tooth brushing.

We then had the opportunity to perform a little experiment. We used eggs,

because the shell is a good representative of our tooth enamel.

Each eggs was placed in a cup of Coca Cola, a cup of juice, a cup of vinegar,

and a cup of water. After some discussion, each student made predictions

about what effect each liquid would have on the egg. A few said that the egg

in the soda would explode! After a couple of days we checked the eggs and

discovered that the soda really stained the egg and could not be cleaned

completely. The one in the juice got slightly discolored but could be cleaned

fairly well. The one in the vinegar had the most dramatic change. The egg

became rubbery and the shell was paper thin! The one in the water?

Perfect, as predicted.