I Love Reading Week & Valentine's Day

Last week we celebrated "I Love Reading Week" and Valentine's Day. Thank you to all the parents and family members that sent in valentines. The students were very surprised and excited to hear from you. It made their day extra special. We met our fifth grade buddies in the special reading tent set up in the library and, after sharing some books, the fifth graders helped the kindergarteners read their special valentines. Please view the video below to see pictures from this special day!

Reading Tent 2-Large from Kacey on Vimeo.

100th Day of School

We celebrated the 100th day of school last week and had a great time exploring the number 100. Check out the slide show above to see some of our activities. 

Welcome, Adoo!

We welcomed a new member to our class last week and farewelled another one. Adoo joined us on Monday and we are so lucky to have her join our team. She was previously living in Ghana. Please welcome her if you see her in school! We said goodbye to our close friend Dongmin on Thursday. He will be leaving Dhaka to return to Korea and then on to a new location. We are very sad to see him go but wish him all the best in his next school.

Last Tuesday we celebrated the arrival of Maahir's sister, Elina! She came to visit our classroom with a delicious cake. Everyone was so excited to meet her!

This week we will continue our math unit on time. Today we used our bodies to tell time and worked with Ms. Preeti during learning centers on writing time to the hour in two different ways (analog and digital). Thanks for helping and encouraging your child to add a comment to our blog on clocks. For future comments on our blog, please keep in mind that the settings are such that I have to "approve" all comments before they appear. When you type in your message and click "comment", nothing will immediately happen. Kindly note that unless you get an error message, everything is working fine; you simply need to wait until I see that you've added something for it to show up on the blog. This setting is for safety reasons and we appreciate your understanding.

Reminders/Notices:

• We will have a class photo taken on Thursday, January 31. Please keep this in mind if you want your child to dress in anything special.
• Home extension activities are due every Sunday. Please remind your child to bring in his/her pouch on time so that we can prepare the next week's work.
• The folders the report cards came home in must be returned to school. Kindly sign the folder (making sure to add your child's name somewhere so we know it belongs to him/her) and return it as soon as possible.
• The students love using www.raz-kids.com at home and regularly talk about it in class. We have found this program really helps with reading fluency and comprehension, so please take a look at it if you haven't already. 

Follow us on Twitter!

We are finally beginning our big debut on Twitter! Twitter is an online social networking service and we will begin using this to connect and extend our learning to the greater world. Our hope is to share our learning and to use it as a tool to seek answers. We also hope to connect with other students across the world. The only people that will be able to view our "tweets" are those that are our followers. To become a follower, set up your own account (which is free) and search for our name, which is "Kinder Kids" (@KinderKiddos). We would love if relatives and friends from around the world would follow us so we can interact.

If you have any questions about Twitter please comment on this post. We look forward expanding our learning opportunity!

**FYI - When posting comments to our blog please keep in mind that your comment(s) will not immediately appear. The settings are set so that I have to approve all comments first. This is to ensure nothing inappropriate is somehow added. Thanks for you understanding.

What clocks can you find in and around your house?

In class we have just begun learning about time and are curious about the different clocks in our world. I have encouraged students to comment on our blog about the clocks they see in and around their own houses! We will look at their responses during our morning meeting. (Parents: Please encourage your child to type in the comment box. Of course correct spelling is not required.)