February Newsletter – Ms Soranson’s Class

Hello ParentsThis month we are getting ready to share our learning

at the March Portfolio Conferences. Students are again excited for you to see how much they have improved and their reflections on their learning.

What perfect weather we had

for our Field Day last Thursday. Check out this months photo gallery for pictures of your children having fun. As the weather

is warming up please make

sure that your child is dressed in layers so that they can undress and play. A water bottle for P.E is also important.

Language ArtsSmall group reading continues to focus on reading strategies – with children making sure their words – look right, sound right and make sense. A new element is text fluency – reading in a smooth rather than choppy voice. Students will practice this skills each day in the small group setting. The children are learning more and more words that they can read and write in a Snap. The word work this month will use these words in different games such as Bingo, Find a word and make a sentence

In Writing we continue with our Non-Fiction Writing theme and begin report writing. The students will

call these All About books – where they will think of a topic that they know about and write facts about this topic. This ties in nicely with our Science – as students

will be able to write about fish, snails and soon, worms. We continue to work on letter formation reviewing the letter and sound in our handwriting lessons. See

over for some of our favorite books this past monthI

Science – Animals 2 by 2Our science investigations of 2 different animals still manages to hold the

students attention. AS you can see from the pictures the class has been holding

snails, watching snail races and comparing land and water snails. We also wait with great excitement for our land snail eggs to hatch. We have had an ongoing nursery in our room with our guppies giving birth and also our water snails.

Portfolio Conferences will be a perfect opportunity to see our growing class’s growing animal kingdom

Our favorite books this monthHenry & the Dragon Kite by Bruce Edward

HallChopsticks by Jon Berkley

COMING UP NEXT MONTH:• Portfolio Conferences 12th & 13th

March• Spring Break March 25th till April

7th

MathMath continues to be hands on with students playing coin exchange or piggybank to learn about pennies,

nickels and dimes. Students also begin thinking about fractions – with the introduction of ½, skip counting by 2s & 5s using the calculator and lots of work on 2 digit numbers. Graphing and

surveys continue throughout the year.

School Spirit DayOur Kindergarten class led the cheers

for the TAS boys basketball team against Singapore. It was an exciting game to watch and the children really enjoyed being part of a whole school activity.

GO TIGERS!!!