Friday February 7

In the classroom (and outside of it!) we learned about how the sun heats surfaces and makes shadows. Mrs Albright took the kids outside to try their hand at tracing dinosaur shadows and later in the week, she demonstrated how darker surfaces hold heat using a heat lamp. Ask your child how he or she protected a gummy bear from melting in the sun’s heat?

Additionally this week, we finished our phonics unit that focused on blending CVC words as well as reviewing capital letter handwriting strokes. Our next step in the reading journey is to focus our attention on writing the sounds we hear (this is the segmenting piece of letter sound work). All kids are working in small reading groups at their level and when they have had a little practice reading decodable readers, they will have a chance to bring them home and read them to you!

Today, as you know, was the 100th Day of kindergarten. I couldn’t be there because of a prior engagement, but the kids still had a blast with Mrs Albright!

They made necklaces with 100 pieces of cereal.

They were challenged to build a structure with exactly 100 LEGO.

They connected 100 cubes (and made 100th Day hats).

They attempted to stack 100 cups.

And they enjoyed a numerical snack!

A few weeks ago when we were looking forward to this day, a few kiddos suggested they’d be sad after today since kindergarten would be over. I was happy to inform them we still have 80 days left to learn together… and trust me, none of us are rushing it!