Wow, have things been busy in Kindergarten!! We have so many great things happening in 204 and I'm excited to share them with you in our newsletter!
Readers' Workshop
These past two weeks we have done all sorts of things in Workshop. We have maintained our 12 minute stamina for independent reading and have been focusing in on partner time. I'd like to announce that the "Honeymoon" phase of their partnerships have ended and there are many minor (but normal) typical arguments with partners lately. We have slowed down to focus on sitting side by side, with one book in the middle. We have spent time learning how to take turns picking a book (phew, is that exhausting) and how to take turns reading. We have also been spending a great deal of time with two different books, "Some Birthday!" by Patricia Polacco and "The Hello Goodbye Window" by Norton Juster. We picked out three words from Polacco's story: strength, familiar and investigate to be our vocab words for the week. We spent a lot of time during the week talking about the definitions of these words. From Juster's book: regular and different were our two words of focus this past week. I have been meeting with small groups of kids (2-3) daily to work on letters and sounds. Chances are, if your child was low in letter recognition and letter sounds, they have seen me! Please keep working on this at home too!
Writers' Workshop
Boy oh boy are we busy in this workshop!! We have been working on drawing pictures of a time something happened, adding labels complete with arrows and writing any letters or beginning letter sounds we can on the lines about our story. We also took a written assessment this week for Writers' Workshop. This provides me with info on where our beginning writers' are and how I can group them accordingly to work on their skills! The kids had to write a story about an animal - whether it was real or make believe. We had some pretty creative ideas and stories in our bunch! We will discuss these further at Parent-Teacher conferences on November 13!
Word Wall
These are the new words on our wall this week:and, it, play, two, you, we
These are the words that were already on the wall: a, blue, can, go, I, in, look, me, my, not, red, see, to, the, up, yellow
Math Stations
Counting, counting and more counting!! We have been working on counting up to ten and have been exploring with ten frames as we learn to add numbers that total ten! Your first Unit 1 HomeLink packet came this week. This is a "return to school" packet but on your own time. It would be safe to say, they should be back typically within a week to ten days. There are activities for you to do at home that are important to reinforce concepts we have covered or will cover soon in school! Our goal this year is by the end of April, to have all of our students writing their numbers correctly up to 100. We have been practicing our number writing during the day just like we practice our letter writing!
Halloween Update!
Halloween is going to be a very FUN day to be in Kindergarten! Information came home this week updating you on our field trip, permission slip, cost as well as parade and party! Thank you to the Moms and Grandma working hard to plan our awesome party! All are invited to come join us for the parade and party in our classroom :-).
Fun Run Update
Thank you to EVERYONE who helped donate to the Dublin Fun Run. Our school raised over $13,000 which is truly unbelievable! Thank you as well to all of the parents and grandparents who came out to cheer us on! The kids had a blast and you helped make it so much fun when we ran by and heard all the cheering and applause.
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