Morning Tubs: Water-color painting, light table, letter/number puzzles and activities
Writing: This week in writing we learned that writers label their pictures to help readers know more about their stories. We can hear a sound and use our ABC chart to put a sound on our paper. We also become fancy authors that write actual books!!! We have writing partners that help us when we're stuck on a story. We practiced telling our story plan across 3 fingers to know the order of our story. When we think we're done, we can go back to see if we can add more detail or labels. If so, we can start a new idea! We are writing fiction or non-fiction. Whatever inspires the authors.
Word Study: We're all about names! We've been doing some fun name chants. We're also doing proper letter formation (starting letters from the top) and learning about uppercase/lowercase and letter sounds. We'll continue to grow as readers and writers through our word work.
Reading: Readers can reread to learn more! Pages are connected, we can use the words "and then" to tell what happens from page to page. We can add a pinch of us by sharing our thoughts with partners, "I think..." We're working on building our stamina to be able to private/partner read for longer amounts of time.
Math: Our main focus right now is number recognition and number formation. We do lots of counting during transitions and our stations practice 1:1 and anything/all about exposure to numbers! We're all about subitizing and looking at different ways to make each number. We'll continue with hands on math stations next week building on vocabulary.
Social Skills: We continued focusing on how to show our Jaguar PRIDE but really put extra focus on problem solving, how to express our feelings through an "I message" and practicing self control. We are working hard to sit and be a learner for our 5 minute mini-lessons at the beginning of each workshop throughout the day. This is still a little tricky for us :)
Sight Words: I, a, am, and, the
Coming Up:
-NO SCHOOL tomorrow or Monday!
-I am the ER representative for a district committee and the kindergarten team representative for our Professional Learning Committee (PLC). With that being said, there will be a total of 6 professional development days that I will be out of the building. Please know that on days that I am out, very detailed plans are left to ensure an 'ordinary' kindergarten day goes as usual. Thank you in advance for your understanding! The first two dates I'll be out are 9/12 and 9/26.
Helpful Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKdUpJQBTY Letter Sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMQpyjFkdtA Number Formations
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