This week at Dublin was also spent celebrating the “Season of Non-violence”. In Kindergarten this meant we read a few books this week that dealt with kindness and bullies. We talked about being kind to people and treating our friends how we would want to be treated. We talked about how the words and action we use can hurt feelings. We read several good books including Audrey Penn’s Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully and Pat Thomas’ Stop Picking on Me. We had a really great discussion about both of these books and will refer back to them as needed in our classroom.
Reader’s Workshop: This week in Workshop we focused on the “-am” chunk in words. We brainstormed a list of words with “-am” at the end and also read a short little-book that featured many of these words and many names with –am. Reading groups continued to meet as well. To help clarify, if your child is in groups 1, 2 or 3, your child will ONLY need their book-bag at school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If your child is in groups 4 or 5, your child will ONLY need their book-bag at school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Writer’s Workshop: An important part of writing is having an audience. Writers need to have a purpose when they sit down to compose a piece and our kids have been THRILLED at the newest component of our Writer’s Workshop. We have really been focusing on sharing our work. We’ve been talking about how we can set an example as an individual for the writers in our class with the work we do. We started a new story on Monday and were reminded that it needed a beginning, a middle and an ending. To help our writer’s along the way, they have been introduced to four new words: FIRST, NEXT, THEN and LAST. When planning a story, you need to tell what happens in a sequential order. To build our understanding of this we have been working on “pre-tellings”. This is where we have stopped and retold how we do something. We practiced pre-telling how we get ready for lunch and how we get ready for snack. As an added treat, we also practiced “How we eat a cookie” this afternoon! It is impressive to see what our kids have been up to in Writer’s Workshop!
I have included a slideshow here of the four writers who shared their work today with our class!
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Math: In math we have been focusing on graphing this week. Students have created a couple different graphs. We graphed the types of shoes we were wearing (buckles, laces, Velcro, etc.) and we also played a dice game where students graphed the number of rolls they made on a certain side of the dice.
Important Info:
Valentines’ Day Party – 1:45 Monday, February 14th
Snack Leader’s: Monday: Ben; Tuesday: Kasey; Wednesday: Matthew; Thursday: Kelsey; Friday: Narek
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