PBIS Recess We were so excited to finally fill up our PBIS Shamrock Board in the main hallway! As a treat, when a grade level fills up the board with hard earned shamrocks, they get an extra 20 minute recess! We were sure to pick a nice, mid-forties, sunny day to go out and play with the whole grade!
Reader's Workshop
We have just begun our third unit in Reader's Workshop and have been working on learning all about characters! Our Mentor Text, the tale of Chicken Little, has helped to teach us all about characters in stories. We have been using the chart shown below to guide our study of characters. Each child had time to put themselves into the role of a character and tell about themselves before we took apart Chicken Little as a character and learned to describe him and Foxy Loxy. We have spent time looking for characters in our own texts that demonstrate the use of dialogue. Additionally we did some role playing with the characters from Chicken Little and the kids got to act the parts! Be sure to ask your child to retell you all about this story. To wrap up the unit this week, we will be making our own Chicken Little. If you are able, please send in ONE (or more) empty toilet paper rolls. We will need about 25 total. Thank you!
Word Wall Words: The Word Wall list is growing: be, can, four, five, go, have, is, it, I, one, see, six, the, to, two, three, you - are all words currently on the word wall!
Writer's Workshop
In Writer's Workshop we have also begun a new unit all about pattern books. A pattern book is a book that has a repeating line throughout each page of the book. Many of the sight word books we use are pattern books. Also books like Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly are also great examples of pattern books. Each author began working on their own book using the pattern: I see _______. We spent time talking about how to complete the sentence with good details, how to add a surprise ending on the fourth page, how to make the illustrations match the words and the dynamics of a sentence. It has been fun to watch our writers' blossom and create books on their own!
An Update from Miss Lempert:
Hello kindergarten families!
I’ve loved
being able to get to know some of you and getting to work with your
children every day! It’s been so fun getting to know your
kindergartners. We’ve been learning a lot in kindergarten
this past week.
In “Making
Meaning” this week we read, “Charlie Needs a Cloak.” This book was
about how a shepherd needs a new cloak and all the steps he goes through
to make a new cloak. In the end, a sheep eats
the cloak he worked so hard to make. Kindergarteners really enjoyed this
book! We did a few retelling activities with this book, a sequencing
activity where we put all the events in order, and then we did a writing
piece. For the writing piece, we talked about
how Charlie was very resilient. He never gave up on finishing his coat,
even though his sheep gave him a hard time throughout the story!
Kindergarteners were able to write about a time they were resilient and
illustrated a picture to go along with it. I’m very
proud of them for what they came up with! Their writing and drawings
were awesome! 
In math
this week, we were doing a lot of work with combining! Tuesday and
Wednesday were all about combining shapes to create hexagons.
Kindergarteners explored shapes by playing with pattern blocks.
They were all able to come up with ways to combine shapes (other than
using hexagons) to create hexagons! For example, 6 triangles make a
hexagon! They did really well with this activity. Thursday, we combined
colored connecting cubes to build numbers in many
ways. We found that there are many ways to show the number “5” using
only 2 colors of cubes. Kindergarteners then had the opportunity to try
this on their own. Every table had a different number (5, 6, 7, 8 or 9)
to play around with. Everyone seemed to have
fun with this! Recording sheets from both days were sent home in their
folders. Take a look at their hard work!
I’m
looking forward to being back with your children next week and have some
more fun while we learn! I absolutely love kindergarten and can’t wait
to see what exciting things will happen next week.
Have a great weekend! :)
Important Dates:
Wednesday, February 1st: 1/2 Day of School - School dismisses between 12:00-12:09 depending on your mode of transportation!
Thursday, February 2nd: Jump Rope for Hearth Health Kick-Off Assembly - info came home last week on a mini-magnet! Please check the Dublin Times for more information.
Friday, February 3rd: Pennies for Patients Coin Collection Day
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