2026 Week 21 Groundhogs

Thank you to everyone who came to conferences and EVERYONE came to conferences. It was my final evening of sharing about wonderful students after 33 years of sharing about wonderful students!

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Centers on Wednesday included these 4 fun Groundhog themed stations:

Station 1

Middle Sound Groundhogs with Mr. Tom

(I know the paper says ending sounds but we are moving on to this harder skill!)

Station 2

Digraphs with Ms. Mohs

Sh-Ch-Th sound

Station 3

Groundhog Teens with me!

(one set of 10 with__ ones leftover)

And Station 4

Playdough and Groundhogs/Valentines

 Here is a sneak peek for next week's 100 Day celebration!

We've been having a fun time learning at choice time!

 

 

Mrs. Heyer works in small groups with kiddos in the afternoon.  Somehow the 3rd toy for the "Rhymes with Bee" went missing so we used.....Lee!  My 3rd child!!! Haha! This is him in Kindergarten (he is 37 now!) 

Our Social Studies topic was to compare cultures.  Since we just finished learning about the Lunar New Year, we decided to compare China and U.S.A!

On Monday we learned soooo much about Groundhogs and then created these cutie patooties:

 

Here are few new stations around the room:

And believe me, it was a very Monday Monday when I spilled an entire container of Orbees!

Thank goodness for kind and helpful kindergarteners that LOVE to help!

And now for the week of February 9-13:

Reading Language Arts:

Letters: Vv and Zz

Sight Words: *have* and *love*

Grammar: prepositions

Math:  teens

Social Studies: American Symbols 

Science: What Makes Sound? 

Theme: Valentines and 100 Days of School

BIG NEWS: 

Valentines may be brought in anytime this week

No School for students on 

Monday and Tuesday,

February 16-17

Presidents' Day and Staff Development 

2026 Week 20 Beach party and Chinese New Year

 

Thank you for the generous fruit donations for our Beach Party! It was amazing!

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What a tropical good time!

Choice time during the beach unit is such a good time!

Oh! Be looking for a cute lucky duck book about our adventurous crabs!

Monday's Science topic was

What Are Things Made Of?

We focused on Plastic, Wood, Metal, Glass.

We discovered that each material has advantages and disadvantages.

On Tuesday we began learning about the Chinese New Year by creating a lucky dragon!

Here are a few new learning stations around our room:

Look at those Lego pandas!!!

Wednesday's centers included:

Station 1

Chinese Noodles and chopsticks!

Station 2

Playdough Noodle Station

Station 3

Panda numerals

Station 4

Creating cvc words

On Thursday we had PANDA DAY!

Ms.Mohs has been playing a Subtraction and Addition lego game with the kids!

The kimono is super cute on the kiddos!

The kids and I ( I just helped with the border) finished a 100 piece puzzle!

What a fun week!!!!

And now for the week of February 2-6:

Reading Language Arts:

Letters: Ww and Qq

Sight Word: review cvc words 

Grammar: dialogue

Math:  teens

Social Studies: American Symbols 1

Science: Shadows

Theme: Ground Hogs

BIG NEWS: 

No School for students on 

Monday and Tuesday,

February 16-17

Presidents' Day and Staff Development