Morning Exploring: Egg addition, counting on, rhyming words and word families and magic words! So many rich skills packed into fun hands on learning.
Reading: As Avid Readers this week we learned to visualize and think about the story to comprehend better and then moved into non-fiction and learned how to talk like an expert and teach people through our books: fancy new words, facts, etc. instead of just reacting "wow" or "that's cute". Next week we'll get to do a reading workshop in the library and pick topics of choice!
Math: In math workshop we are working hard at subtraction. This is a tricky switch from addition so we'll be focusing on subtraction again next week. I encourage you to naturally add in word problems as you go about your day with your kinder!
Writing: We are starting a new unit next week, this week we wrote in our ABC countdown book each day reflecting on our fun, wrote an opinion piece on Peeps vs. jelly beans and did some word detective work with digraphs (sh, ch, th, ph, wh, ck)!
STEAM: We continued learning about animals and plants and how animals, plants and humans make changes to their environment to make it the best for their survival.
Social: We're using our lessons from our NCADA lessons to focus on teddy bear words and actions instead of porcupine words and actions. We are also working hard to continue being our best with quick transitions, following directions the first time and letting our Jaguar PRIDE shine!
Tips For Home: Book talk! Who's the characters, the sequence, setting, problem/solution?... Also, addition/subtraction naturally in conversation. (Example: "You had eight green beans and ate 3 how many more do you have left to eat?"...
Upcoming:
Mon-Green Day!
Tues-Hat Day!
In "Otter" News...(title help from Berit)
Friday, April 5, 2019
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Morning Exploring: "School", color by word family, puppets/oral storytelling, literacy fine motor (linking letter matches, trace pictures and match letters, build and spell CVCe words and ABC uppercase/lowercase puzzle, iPAD free choice.
Reading: In workshop this week we talked about using 'just right' words for characters feelings, reflected on our reading strategies and set goals to help us grow as readers and learned about 'reading playdates'! We had so much fun playing school with our partners, doing read alouds and playing games with our books. As we do read alouds in whole group we've been incorporating a lot more book talk: characters, setting, problem/solution, sequencing...
Math: Addition! We used lots of strategies to solve addition problems: rekenraks or math counters, cubes, tallies, pictures, our fingers... We know that addition problems have to have a plus and equals sign and that we need to double check our work with a different strategy! We are also working on HOW to show our thinking instead of just saying 'because we know'. Strategy groups are meeting with me a few times a week to practice a specific skill within addition.
Writing: We did some sentence building paying attention to sentence structures. We also used writing in science to label our work.
STEAM: Living/non-living items and plants! We'll jump into animals next week!
Social Skills: We are continuing to use specific words to explain and communicate our feelings and thoughts to our peers and adults. They have been SO great coming back from break, I've been so proud of their Jaguar PRIDE!
Tips for Home: Add as your doing things around the house, playing or in the car. Giving little story problems for your kinder to figure out naturally through conversations. Book talk with books you're reading at home!
Upcoming Events:
Reading: In workshop this week we talked about using 'just right' words for characters feelings, reflected on our reading strategies and set goals to help us grow as readers and learned about 'reading playdates'! We had so much fun playing school with our partners, doing read alouds and playing games with our books. As we do read alouds in whole group we've been incorporating a lot more book talk: characters, setting, problem/solution, sequencing...
Math: Addition! We used lots of strategies to solve addition problems: rekenraks or math counters, cubes, tallies, pictures, our fingers... We know that addition problems have to have a plus and equals sign and that we need to double check our work with a different strategy! We are also working on HOW to show our thinking instead of just saying 'because we know'. Strategy groups are meeting with me a few times a week to practice a specific skill within addition.
Writing: We did some sentence building paying attention to sentence structures. We also used writing in science to label our work.
STEAM: Living/non-living items and plants! We'll jump into animals next week!
Social Skills: We are continuing to use specific words to explain and communicate our feelings and thoughts to our peers and adults. They have been SO great coming back from break, I've been so proud of their Jaguar PRIDE!
Tips for Home: Add as your doing things around the house, playing or in the car. Giving little story problems for your kinder to figure out naturally through conversations. Book talk with books you're reading at home!
Upcoming Events:
- All kindergarten teachers are attending a phonics professional development next Tues./Wed./Thurs. We will have a fabulous sub I requested who will be in here all 3 days that we had when I was out sick. I will still have daily access to emails.
- Please turn in EXACT field trip money or a check asap! The quicker we get a head count on chaperones, the better! We do not keep cash that we're able to give change, sorry!
- 4/9: Special Olympics @ WGHS...GO Sam R.!!!
- Thurs. 4/11: KDG Musical @ 2:00 in the gym and also 6:00PM (students should arrive 15 min prior to classroom) --I will be at both performances!
- Next Friday we'll start our ABC countdown! Keep an eye out for handouts coming home soon with more information!
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