Whoo!  Whoo!  Owls!!

I am so pleased to present our "owl family glyphs" to you!  They are adorable!  We spent time last week learning all about owls.  The boys and girls had some connections to bats and other creatures.  A connection is when learning about something reminds them of something else they already know about, have read about or have experienced.  Making connections was the first comprehension strategy we learned this year.  Now, we are focusing on inferring.  However, our schema comes in handy everyday.   

 We have been using the "No, David" books to strengthen and learn about inferring.  Inferring is using their "schema" or "background knowledge" along with clues or evidence to make inferences or draw a conclusion about something.  Today we did an activity where we asked "23 Questions" and used the answers to the questions to make an inference about what we thought was in the "Mystery Box".  We wrote 4 of the clues or pieces of evidence down on our "It's a Mystery" sheet and then we drew a picture of what we thought was in the box.  We guessed everything from a rainbow, to a spider.  It was really a "gingerbread man".  We are learning so many things in kindergarten!!  It's amazing!!

Here's just a small sample of our "No, David" pictures we've been studying for inferring!!

Hola!  This week was filled with many exciting songs and adventures!  We completed our "Spider" unit and will be doing lots of fun activities about Halloween next week.  Parent/Teacher conferences were a huge success!!  Our kindergarten class had 100% turnout for conferences!!  Whoo!  Hoo!!  Thank you all for coming! It was wonderful having the opportunity to visit with each family to share all of the wonderful things your children have learned since the first day of school.  It's hard to believe that this coming Thursday we will have been in kindergarten for 50 days!  Wow!  

Below you will find our newsletter for this week. 

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for stopping by!!