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Hello Kindergarten Families

Hello Families,

Kindergartners have had a busy couple of weeks!

We have been working hard to get ready for our very first publishing party. We have learned how to choose a story to publish, read to revise, edit, create a cover picture and title, and share our stories with others (we even got to practice with some 4th graders!). All while we have been writing, writing, writing!

In reading, we have been exploring story elements through a wide variety of stories. We have been discussing different types of characters and settings, and how to recognize a problem and solution. Feel free to discuss these story elements when you read at home!

In math, we have started to compose and decompose numbers. We have explored this by looking at a group of objects and breaking it into two different groups or putting two groups together. For example 2 red cubes and 3 blue cubes makes 5 cubes. This makes the number sentence 5 is 3 and 2 or 3 and 2 is 5.

We have also been getting to know, learn, and have fun with Dawn!

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A note from Dawn:

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

My name is Dawn Wheatley, and as you heard from Shelley, I will be covering for Liz when she has her baby and goes on maternity leave, I have been in the classroom all week, working alongside Liz and Talia, and have had a great time getting to know your children and the school. There is such a wonderful sense of community, and your children are so much fun to be with and so eager to learn. Particular highlights this week have been working on their stories for the Publishing Party and playing a new math game. Today, some children had the idea to create their own version of the math game, which never would have occurred to me. But of course teachers are always getting good ideas from their students!

I look forward to meeting many of you at the Publishing Party and working with you and your children over the next several weeks.

Sincerely,
Dawn
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Reminders:

Monday:
Coffee and Conversation with Karen from 8:15 to 9:00 AM
Publishing Party! 9:00 AM

In Partnership,

Liz, Talia, and Dawn