February 12-15 2019

I hope everyone enjoyed the 3 day weekend! Short weeks mean extra busy weeks in school. We’ve been busy getting our YEP performance ready for the first rehearsal next week. We made sure to save time to make valentines for each other as well!

Here is what we did this week:


Literacy
This week we finished our green level 1 sight words with fly, just, put, were, and when. We’ll do 2 weeks of general review (of all sight words) before doing a final assessment. Just as a reminder, it is expected that students completely master the pre-primer and primer Dolch sight words, as well as have a firm grasp of the green level 1 words for kinder.
We are also doing a general review of all phase 3 phonics sounds and button words. I’d like the spend the last month of school reviewing all the button words and sound, as well as developing kid’s reading comprehension in preparation for kinder.
Our next Raz-Kids deadline was be February 20th. I see that almost everyone has already reached that deadline. It makes me so happy to see the kids reading so much. I’m going to go ahead and push back the Level E deadline to March 1st. All other students should try and read for 5 minutes a day, but please do it at your leisure.

Math
There's been a huge improvement on “one more” and “two more” this week. Most kids are quite comfortable with this concept now. It might seem small, but it helps a lot with kid’s number sense.

Unit of Inquiry
We are made a lot of progress on our YEP Performance. The kids are reflecting as we go and deciding if they want to change things. The final product will be a nice, polished reflection of their work and input. There's also a lot of integration across various subjects. The kids are feeling more comfortable asking questions and making suggestions in other subjects as well (can we have a practice first? We we try it this way?)We also worked on designing some of the YEP tickets. One of them might be chosen as the real ticket design!

Announcements
Please return piancias by Monday (February 18). It is very important kids have their pianicas on Monday for YEP rehearsal.
We will have our field trip to Tennoji playville on Tuesday! It looks like a great area to play and explore. Make sure to bring a coat and lunch from home that day.
Thursday is Japanese culture day, so feel free to dress up in traditional Japanese clothes for the day
Friday will be PTC day. The office should be sending the schedule out shortly
The next Raz-Kids deadline is March 1st. Please reach level E by that time, and continue to read 5 minutes a day after.
The park is getting a quite cold, so please send your students with a jacket on our park days.



Sharing Time
Please refer to the sharing time blog post or the sidebar for the sharing time schedule. Next week’s sharing times are
Thursday: Suiren and Yuto
Please bring in a piece of art to share with the class


Upcoming Events
February 11th: Holiday. No school
February 19th: Field trip date
February 21st: Japanese Culture Day
February 22nd: PTC day
March 1st: Raz-Kid deadline (Reach level E)
March 14th: Last class day
March 15th: YEP

Thanks everyone!
Ms. Aurora