We will continue to read and study Eric Carle books. This week we will read From Head to Toe, The Very Lonely Firefly and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  

We will study the high frequency word very.  Eric Carle uses this word a lot in his writing.  

The Marvelous Me will be Braden this week! 

We will study the letter Uu.  The chant - which is my all time favorite!

Ugly underwear

Ugly underwear (u-u-u) pretend to hold nose

This will we will study our favorite community helper... Ms. Anne!  She is the owner of our custodial service here at Woodlawn.  

We are still working on discovering place value of 10's and 1's.  We will also practice using standard measurement inches and centimeters, to measure our newest hatchlings.  

This is the week where we all become parents!  Our chickens will hopefully hatch between Wednesday and Friday.  This is a very eggs-citing time but  also know it can be a sad one.  Not every chicken will survive the birthing process.  This is the culmination to our life cycle that we have been studying.  Privately without sharing this with our children, our upper and middle school science teachers will use the chicken fetus' that do not hatch to conduct their own experiments.  All of Woodlawn will benefit from our chicken project. They are good about keeping it a secret too.  

We will continue to use our chickens to learn all about writing, math, science and social studies.  This hands on learning is one that your child will hopefully always remember. 

We will continue to read and study Eric Carle books.  We're going to keep working with The Very Busy Spider this week and might have time to begin From Head to Toe.

We are going to study the high frequency word like.  It has a super "e"! Be sure to ask your child about that!

We will also study the high frequency word very.  Eric Carle uses this word a lot in his writing.  

The Marvelous Me will be Braden this week! 

We will study the letter Tt.  The chant:

Ticking timer

Ticking timer t-t-t  (move hands around like a clock)

We are continuing to study the community helpers around us and how much we rely on them.  Are you a community helper?  Or know of one that would like to speak to our class? Just let me know! 

We have some hidden Spring addition problems around our classroom for the kids to discover.  In our math books, we are exploring place value of ones and tens.  We still review our numerals to 100.  

We are in full swing with our 24 eggs in the incubator!  Wow!  That's the most chickens we have ever tried to have!  We have assigned students to be on Chicken Patrol and each day they have to record their observations of the eggs, check the temperature and humidity of the incubator and generally make sure we are on the right track.  

Our expected Hatch Date will be April 15th!  

We will continue to focus on punctuation as we read and write.  What would our voice sound like if we see a question mark? Exclamation point! Period.  

Our new author study is Eric Carle.  He continues to be an amazing influence in children's literature.  We will study his background and his works over the next  2 months.

This week we will finish working with his story Little Cloud and then we will begin The Very Busy Spider.  

We are going to study the high frequency word like.  It has a super "e"! Be sure to ask your child about that!

The Marvelous Me will be Deven this week! 

We will study the letter Ss.  The chant:

Slithering snake

Slithering snake  s-s-s (move hands like a snake)

Who are the Community Helpers that make life easier for us every day?  We have already explored a few like the dentist and fire fighter.  We will go into more depth about the people in our neighborhood that help us out!  Are you a community helper?  Would you like to share with our class the things that you do?  Send me an email!

We are learning all about skip counting.  It's much easier to count to 100 by 10's than it is by 1's!  We are practicing skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's.

This week we begin incubation!  We will learn all about the parts of an incubator and how it acts like the mommy chicken.  We will also study the life cycle of a chicken.

Our expected Hatch Date will be April 15th!  

Month of:

March 2015

In our classes...

Integration points...

Art

with Ms. Royce

Stations: Drawing, painting, sculpture, clay, collage, architecture, bookmaking

Choose project (Night of the Arts)

 Bees

Life Skills

Music

with Ms. Donna

This month we will sing about Bees and Planet Earth. We will also begin preparing for our Night of the Arts program called "Choose" focusing on our Kindergarten Life Skills

Bees

Gardening/Caring for the Earth

Life Skill-Kindness

Spanish

with Senorita Morgan

We are continuing to learn about the alphabet as well as school supplies in Spanish. We will also learn about bees.

alphabet

bees

Life Sports with Ms. Atkins

Playing tag games focusing on "bees" 

St. Patricks Day themed games. 

Continue Yoga: Arm balances and Head stands.

Science- study of bees

Life Skills with Mrs. Lolla

*read aloud

"I can BEARly live without you" journals

K students will write to mom and dad

in the journals. Mom and dad, please write back!

BEE a part of the Little Cub Club and BEE grateful for your family!

Build-a-Bear field trip:  Make a bear for a family at the Ronald McDonald House

Little Cub

Old Bear and His Cub

Hugless Douglass

Don't Worry, Douglass

Gardening with

Mrs. Denham

Gardening begins March 13.  Daffodil Watch will be part of March gardening as well as planting lettuce!  Spring is almost here!  We will talk about which plants flower early so the bees can have something to eat!