Almost to the end...

     I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break.  I was able to visit with family and enjoy the time off, but was very happy to get back to the routine today with the students.  We talked about all the fun things we did during our Spring Break and will be doing some independent writing on Wednesday.  I FINALLY got my phone working again and am able to show you what we've been doing the past few weeks.  I hope you enjoy the work they've been doing.  We've been having a great time!

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Reading Eggs

I have so many things to update you about!  We have another new student in our class her name is Amina and we're so happy to have her join our class.  Also I have gotten a free trial to a program called Reading Eggs.  The students started it today.  It is a computer reading program that works with them on their individual level.  The great part is they can do it at home as well.  The trial is good until May 19th and the students are having so much fun with it already.  We went to the computer lab today and work on it.  We will be using this during our center time and you can feel free to use it at home as well.  I will be sending home a paper today that has some more information as well as their username and password.  The passwords may seem a bit silly, they were given by the program.  When you log into the program click to go to the program called Reading Eggs, not Reading Eggspress that is for 7 yrs and up.  They are able to do activities and games that help with their learning.   The reason I like this program so much is because it is on their level and also gives me reports to see how they are doing with the different skills being taught.  It's another great tool that I have to help to individualize our instruction and also to have some fun while reading.  Many of the students enjoy the computer and I thought it would be nice to have an educational tool that they can use during centers.  I hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions you have my email feel free to message me! 
Here is that address again:  readingeggs.com

So many new things!

We have been busy in the Lower K class. Spring has arrived and we've been working like bees. The class has been phenomenal with learning the sight words and word families. They are finding words they know how to read in all the stories we are reading.
Along with reading we have been working so hard on our writing. Last week we created a class story about the wind. We created a predicted text of "The wind blew the" and the students finished the sentence and drew a picture. I will post pictures soon of how great they did. Right now my phone is not allowing pictures to transfer so I'm trying to get that worked out.
We also read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and created caterpillars with our fingerprints. They turned out so cute and brought Spring into the classroom.
This week we only have a 4 day week so we will be reviewing all of the sight words and word families that we've learned so far.
We are also reviewing our math concepts. The students have done an amazing job with graphing. We learned about different types of graphs and did a class graph everyday. Last week we learned about greater than or less than by turning the greater than or less than sign into an alligator mouth. The students learned that the alligator always eats the bigger number. They are doing great! We have been covering Kindergarten standards since December and I am so proud of them and how well they are progressing.
Last week we welcomed Amna to our class! She is a great addition to our class and we are so happy to have her with us. Next week we will be on Spring Break. We also have no school this Friday. I hope everyone enjoys their time off.