Thank you, thank you, thank you for ALL of the love this week for Teacher Appreciation Week!! The cards, pictures, chocolate, crafts, cookies, chocolate, emails, school supplies and CHOCOLATE have just been awesome! It truly is a blessing for me to get to spend my days with 19 of the smartest, most curious little Kindergarten kids at Dublin. I love this bunch so much and cannot believe we are running out of time together!
Reader's Workshop: Our big focus the last two months has been on retelling the events of a story. This is a major comprehension skill that our kiddoes will want to continue to get better as as they grow up reading! We have talked about how every story needs a beginning, middle, ending, a setting and characters. We have spent a lot of time using "Chicken Little" as our mentor text and used it to have a great discussion about the problem and solution. Our Sight Word list has grown as well to include the following words: a, am, are, be, can, go, have, has, is, it, I like, look, me, not, of, on, see, to, this, the, wind, we, will, you, your. These are all words we want our kiddoes to be able to read, write and spell correctly!
Writer's Workshop: We recently finished up our Close Reading Unit using the mentor text "Bear Snores On" and used that informational fiction unit to spring us onto our non-fiction writing unit! We have been doing close readings and research on dolphins the last two weeks! Be sure to ask your child what they have learned about this sea creature! Soon we will move into individual animal reports, a favorite in Kindergarten! Thank you for continuing to send the writing folders back and forth with your child each week! Take a moment to look back at how far they have come in their writing and you'll simply be shocked!
Math Workshop: Unit 6 Home Links are coming home today! Make sure to wrap up unit 5 and get those sent back soon! We have been working a great deal on skip counting: counting by 2's, 5's and 10's. We have also been spending a ton of time lately on number scrolls! Be sure to ask your mathematician to tell you how high they have gotten their scroll to be already!
A special thank you to all of the parents who helped chaperone our field trip to the Health Exploration Stations - we had a wonderful day!!
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