100 Days Smarter! February 6 - 10

100-Day Trail Mix

100-Day Fruit Loop Necklaces!

Stella having a good time!

Alana with her 100-Day Crown!

Stringing 100 Fruit Loops!

One Hundred Days of school have come and gone! We cannot believe how fast the year is flying by! Thank you, again, to our wonderful room moms, Carol Cristobal and Melissa Radoc, and parent volunteers for all of the fun activities the kindergarteners participated in on Tuesday. Also, thank you to the Spiegel family for donating the delicious pizza lunch! You all really helped make the day special and memorable for the boys and girls.

This has been a very busy week for our students. They started off the week with the Family Mass on Sunday. The kindergartners did such a wonderful job at church. Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered during the mass, as well as all of the families who were able to join us in celebration. We really appreciate your support!

The boys and girls have been working very hard in the classroom as well. In Language Arts, the students used their "stamping skills" and participated in centers focused on beginning sounds, spelling, and handwriting. The students picked out stamps with different pictures and only the ending sound of each word. They then had to figure out the beginning sound and write out the whole word. The kindergartners also used letter stamps in the "Graffiti" Center to spell out different words, write the word, and draw a picture. They came up with a lot of great words! The students continued working in their handwriting books, as well, practicing uppercase and lowercase letters "F" and "E". They are really excelling in their letter formation!

In Math, the kindergartners took their Topic 5 Test, and have now moved on to addition. They are having fun joining two groups of objects and figuring out how many in all!

We wrapped up our Lunar New Year Celebration with our own parade around the school. We had  dragons and lots of Chinese Lanterns, and made a lot of noise with musical instruments.

Parading around STM for Lunar New Year.

In Science this week the students focused on the sense of Touch. We came up with a lot of words describing how things feel. This helped us to describe what we felt in the "Mystery Bag." It was so much fun to see them cautiously put their hands into a paper bag to feel a "mystery" object and then see their faces light up when they discovered what it was! Ask your child about some of the objects.

On Friday, the students, along with the 1st graders, received a visit from the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and participated in an activity called "Terrific Trash". We had a guest speaker come to our classroom, and show us extraordinary works of art made entirely of simple, everyday materials. The kindergartners were "Ooooooing and Aaaahing" at each slide she put up. They  loved it! During the activity portion, the students were able to make paper bag hats using a variety of materials. Thank you for sending in the bags and materials! The students had a blast creating their own works of art!

We truly appreciate all of your support in and out of the classroom! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Reminder: Tuesday, February 14 is Valentine's Day. Please have your child just sign their name on thirty-five valentines (one for each student). They do not need to be addressed individually. More to come... Thank you!