A Peek At Our Week!

  I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend! A friendly reminder that class is back in session tomorrow, Tuesday, January 16th. I'm looking forward to seeing all my Kindergarten friends! 😊

Announcements:

Snow Fun! ❆

The children had so much fun playing in the snow during recess last week! 

Star Student ⭐

Congratulations to Annie who was our very first Star Student last week! We look forward to learning about, and celebrating another friend from our class in the week ahead!

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we practiced reading the sight word can. We also continued to practice our "tapping" skills and became more comfortable with applying them to various CVC words. Additionally, we began to review how we write our uppercase letters. While we spent an entire week learning how to write each lowercase letter at the beginning of the year, our uppercase review is moving MUCH quicker, and we are practicing how to write two letters each day!

Last week our class reviewed the sight word an, and learned that this little word can be found inside many bigger words! We took the time to brainstorm bigger words with the word "an" such as fan, man, ban, and tan, and learned that all of these words (and many more!) belong to what we call a word family!  The class then practiced reading words in the "an" word family as they created their own an vans!

Reader's Workshop

We continued to practice applying our reading superpowers to new stories last week in Reader's Workshop! We also added two new superpowers, thinking power and fix it power. Thinking power encourages students to not just read the words on each page of a book, but to make predictions, comments on what they notice, and make connections. Fix it power requires students to monitor their reading and go back to "fix it" when their reading doesn't sound right, look right, or make sense. 

Writer's Workshop

Last week in Writer's Workshop the student's continued to work on their personal narrative/true stories. They learned that writers make their books "readable" by remembering to include finger spaces and as many letters as possible in the words that they write. We have also been exploring other conventions of sentence writing such as beginning each sentence with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark.

Math

Last week in math we continued to practice counting, adding and subtracting. We learned to play a fun new game called Foxes and Dens where the children added two numbers using a "counting up" strategy. This means if they rolled the numbers 5 and 2, they would say "5, 6, 7" instead of starting at one, counting to 5, then counting up two more. We also played a game called Beat You to Twenty where the students rolled a number cube and added that number of unifix cubes to their tower. The first played to 20 wins! 

Social Studies

In Social Studies we discussed the important contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. The students watched a portion of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream Speech" and learned about his life through our Let's Find Out magazine. 

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎📖🚌