March 5- 9

Safe Student Educational Games

(Click on

the words below)

• Save the dog (Multi-level addition and subtraction)
• Spaceship-fight for flight (joining groups- addition)
• Dr. Seuss (mini-videos)
• Rhyming Words
• Dental Health interactive book
• Starfall- ABC's, songs, letters
• Addition and subtraction (membership required)
• Measurement (membership required)
• Rhyme Robot
• Frog Addition (counting on and addition)
• Penguin Party Addition

Read-A-Thon

(Reading Week)

Check the Rose Park website

website

For information on the Read-A-Thon or if you need additional reading logs or sponsor sheets, please email Brenda Binstock (PTA President) @ bbinstock@bresnan.net.

Read-A-Thon- Classroom minutes

Monday- 30 minutes

Tuesday- 20 minutes

Wednesday-25 minutes

Thursday- 30 minutes

Friday-35 minutes

Alberta Bair- Parent Volunteers (We need 2 parents to join us. Please email me at hansona@billingsschools.org if you are available)

Kindergarten is going to the Alberta Bair Theater to watch the performance of Raven Stole the Sun on Tuesday, April 10^th, 2012! In order to secure the seats and pay for the bus, we need to collect the money ASAP. The performance costs $5 per person (student/adult) and the bus will be $2 per person. Please send $7 (cash or check payable to Alysha Hanson) and the permission slip by Tuesday, February 28^th.

SNACKS PLEASE!!

We are in need of some snacks to get us through the rest of the year. Some of the favorites are goldfish, pretzels, graham crackers and anything else cracker related. Please try to buy snacks for the whole class and not anything in individual bags.

Class Pictures- Tuesday, March 13th

Lifetouch website- You can pay online!

Mini-Book

Click on the title of the book below and find FREE printouts of the mini-book, large colored big book and more!

This Week: My Look Book (I can look down. I can look near.)

• New Word- look
• Review Words- have, do, you, see, the, with, we, in it, and, at, said, see blue, red, yes, no, can, go, I, a, like, he, she, is

Last Week: Tails ( Cats have tails. Dogs have tails.)

• New Word- have

Ways to practice words at home

(click on the title above for more ideas)

• Choo-Choo Words- write the entire list end-to-end as one long word, using different colors of crayon or markers for different words.
• Etch-A-Word- Use a Etch-A-Sketch to write your words

Math This Week

Objective- write and solve addition sentences to represent jointing situations.

• At home idea- Roll two dice and find how many dots are altogether. Such as one showing 6 dots and 5 dots. On a piece of paper, have your child draw the dots on each die and write the addition sentence (6+5=11). Point to each number and symbol as children say the sentence with you. Ask questions about the addition sentence ( How many were in the first and/or second group or how many are there altogether?)

11-1 How many are left?

Object.- Act out number stories that involve separating two groups

11-2 Taking Away and Crossing Out

Object.- Determine how many are left when some objects in a groups are taken away.

Vocab.- take away

REPORT CARDS ARE COMING NEXT MONTH!!!

MATH COMMON CORE STANDARDS

• K.OA.1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings¹, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
• K.OA.2. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
• K.OA.3. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).