Mrs. Aithal’s Room 15 News
Reading Workshop
This week, students continued reading nonfiction text. Students have learned to think about the text and ask questions as they read. At the end of reading, it is important to think about how all the pages fit together with the title and think about what the book is really teaching. Students also worked to collect expert words to help them teach and explain their book topics to others.
Students have learned to use the following superpowers to help them read:
- Pointer power Reread power Partner power
- Picture power Snap word power Sound power
- Persistence power Pattern power Book talk power
Things to do at home:
Read books coming home in folders and return folders and books daily! Retell stories from the beginning to the end.
Sight Words
All kindergarten words have been added to sight word rings. You can review and teach new words as you please. To be a sight word, your child must be able to read the word within 2 seconds.
Suggested things to do with sight words:
- Read the words Find them in books Write them
Students continue to write How -To books. We will be finishing up our how to books next week and moving into All About Books. This week, we looked at mentor texts to copy some of the features that they have. We worked on adding a page that lists all the things you need to complete the project as well as learning about bolding and capitalizing important words. Please help your student think about the things they can do on their own and what steps they complete to do the task. For example: make cereal, get dressed, make cocoa etc.
Things to do at home:
Drawing objects Labeling the parts Add a sentence or two to tell
Word Work and Phonemic Awareness Skills
This week students learned when to use the letter c or k when spelling words that have the /c/ sound. If the /c/ sound is followed by the letters a, o, or u, then the first letter must be a c. For example cat, cap, cot, cob, or cup, cub. If the /c/ sound is followed by the letters i or e, then the first letter must be a K. For example kit, kid, kelp.
Students have been taught how to correctly form each upper and lowercase letters. Please remember that NO letters start from the bottom and go up. Students continue to learn to blend sounds together to make words.
Examples: Any CVC word
Lip, sip, nip, lap, sap, map, sat, mat, rat,
Things to do at home:
Practice letter recognition, sound, and handwriting formation
Match ending sounds in words (kit and nut = /t/)
Segment the final sound (fill = /l/)
Blend onset and rime (s . . . at = sat)
Blend sounds (/b/ /a/ /t/ = bat
Phoneme segmentation ( cat = /c/ /a/ /t/
Math Workshop
Students have finished up the math unit on 2D and 3D shapes. We will be moving on to our fourth unit on place value of numbers 10-20. We already been working on learing how to write teen numbers.
Things to do at home:
Write numbers 1-10 You can rote count to 100 Count a group of objects to 30
Count backward from 30
Science and Social Studies
Students talked about and read about why we celebrate President’s Day.
Students began an experiment with plants to see what needs they have to live.
Important Dates
2/24- PTO Fun Run Pep Rally- 2:30pm
2/28- Town Meeting- 2:30pm