February is almost over and we have had a great month of learning about kindness and sharing it with our school community. The students were excited to become kindness ninjas and share kind actions and words within our classroom and the school as a whole. We took the Kindness Pledge as a class and worked on reading it as our class poem for the first 2 weeks of February. Students had a lot of fun spreading kindness around our school by making posters and decorating them to put them up in the hallways. Students took great pride in coming up with the sayings on the posters themselves!
In literacy, we are continuing to work on building our early literacy skills and working on letters and their sounds everyday. We have talked about syllables and different parts of words and have just started talking about rhyming words and what makes a word rhyme. We are also working on retelling stories and making connections to the stories they have heard. Students are enjoying books out time and sharing their connections with a partner and talking about why they chose to share their page.
In math, we are working with numbers and making groups of given numbers. The students have enjoyed building different numbers with blocks, buttons and other small objects. We have also been working on identifying dot patterns on dice and playing different math number games.
We ended off our month of sharing kindness by recognizing Pink Shirt Day at school. The Kindergarten Kindness Ninjas created a book about kindness and each class at our school will be receiving a book as a gift from our kindergarten classes. The students are so excited to deliver their books next week and to further promote and spread kindness throughout our school!
