Thank you all for making Halloween such a fun afternoon!!!
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After much consideration and weather tracking, We are going to reschedule our pumpkin patch field trip for same time on Tuesday! Weather looks a bit drier!
Reading Workshop
This week, students learned how to activate picture, snap word, and sound power! How to help: Read a page or two to your child and see if they can continue to read the rest of the book. Writing Workshop This week, students were writing show and tell about the places they go alot or the places they like to go. How to help: Discuss places that you have gone. Ie beach, store, Disney, New York etc. Word Work This week, we learned how to write and make the sound for the letters e and r. E - ed /e/ R - rat /r/ How to help: You can practice naming all the letters below, making the sounds, and writing the lowercase letter. Taught letters: t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s, e, r Taught sight words: a, is, my, I, see, like, look, at, the How to help: Read and write sight words! Math Workshop This week, students learned how to draw a picture like a mathematician to represent a number story. Student also learned how to show their thinking by making a space or drawing a line between the 2 parts. How to help: Count to 30 Count backward from 20 Count on or backward from a different number other than 1 Write numbers 1 -5 Count a group of objects Second Steps Each Tuesday, Mrs, Nelson is teaching us a new skill. Papers go home so you can be informed of what we are working on in class. You do not need to complete and return the activities that go with it. Important Dates 10/29 Pumpkin patch field trip RAIN DATE 10/30 10/31- Halloween Parade- 2:15 p.m. I have created a Sign Up Genius for Mystery Readers! A mystery reader can be a parent, grandparent, cousin, aunt, uncle, brother, sister or anybody who wants to read a book or two to our class! Sign up online and join us on Friday at 3:00 to read. If you do not see the sign up in your email, please let me know! SSHH!!! Keep it a mystery!!!!
Reading Workshop
Students continued to find ways to make their pointer power even stronger. Remember, 1 tap, say 1 word! We have started book shopping. Each week, students will be picking some leveled books and some old favorites. Students may start coming home with books that have letters on them. The leveled letter books, should be books that students can point and read with support to get them going. They are very patterned books. At this stage, students really rely on the pattern and the picture to read. How to help: Read a page or two to your child and see if they can continue to read the rest of the book. Writing Workshop This week, students were writing about show and tell objects. Students worked hard to draw all the parts they see on their show and tell object. Then they added labels to name all the parts. Some students even worked to add simple sentences using lots of our sight words. I, see, my, and like were very helpful words! Next week, we will be writing about places! How to help: Discuss places that you have gone. Ie beach, store, Disney, New York etc. Word Work This week, we learned how to write and make the sound for the letters d and s. How to help: You can practice naming these letters, making the sounds, and writing the lowercase letter. A - apple - /a/ G - game /g/ Taught letters: t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s Taught sight words: a, is, my, I, see, like How to help: Read and write sight words! Math Workshop This week, students used manipulatives to solve number stories. We did some more and some less stories. There were 3 kids reading. 2 more kids came to read. How many kids are reading? There were 4 dogs at the park. 3 dogs went home. How many dogs at the park? How to help: Count to 30 Count backward from 20 Write numbers 1 -5 Count a group of objects Important Dates 10/24- Early Dismissal, P/T Conferences 10/25- Early Dismissal, P/T Conferences 10/31- Halloween Parade- 2:15 p.m. Reading Workshop
Students have begun their journey into reading conventionally! We have begun a new unit called Reading Super Powers. In this unit, students will learn many strategies to read new words. This week, students learned that they have pointer power. When reading, students need to use their finger to point to the words that they read. Writing Workshop Students also began a new unit in writing called Show and Tell. A separate letter will be going home to explain. Students will need to bring in an object for Monday. Word Work This week, we learned how to write and make the sound for the letters a and g. You can practice naming these letters, making the sounds, and writing the lowercase letter. Through practicing using our pointing power in reading, we learned 3 new sight words this week: I, see, like. As we add more sight words to our list, you can practice reading these words too! A - apple - /a/ G - game /g/ Taught letters: t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g Taught sight words: a, is, my, I, see, like Math Workshop This week, students were learning about acting out number stories that included addition and subtraction. We used our bodies to act out some simple number sentences like: There were 3 kids reading. 2 more kids came to read. How many kids are reading? Science/Social Studies This week, we talked about Christopher Columbus and native peoples as we celebrated Columbus Day on Monday. Important Dates 10/17- Early Dismissal, Staff PD 10/24- Early Dismissal, P/T Conferences 10/25- Early Dismissal, P/T Conferences 10/31- Halloween Parade- 2:15 p.m. Reading Workshop
We have finished learning about the ways to “read” our old favorite storybooks. We dressed up like the characters from our books and paraded around the school. We even got to read to our second grade buddies! Writing Workshop Students also finished up their first writing unit! Students worked on making their favorite story the very best it could be by adding more to the words and the pictures. We even got to add some detail through coloring. This unit’s stories will come home next week. Word Work This week, we learned how to write and make the sound for the letters c and o You can practice naming these letters, making the sounds, and writing the lowercase letter. As we add more sight words to our list, you can practice reading these words too! C - cat - /c/ O - octopus - /o/ Taught letters: t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o Taught sight words: a, is, my Math Workshop Students are continuing to work on number formations to 5. This week, we worked on learning how to decide if a group of objects is more or less than another. Students discovered that lining the two groups of objects up and matching them with a partner, allowed them to see which group had more or less. We compared numbers on a number line and learned that when we count, a number is bigger than another if you say it after the other number. X X X X X X ___1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10_____ 1 2 3 4 5 6 X X X Science/Social Studies This year, we will have a buddy class with Mrs. Harkin’s second grade. We will get together several times a month for activities. Mrs. Harkin and I have a former teacher of ours from High School who has adopted a service member. She has asked us to help her send some cards and crafts from the USA. We often make something special for her to send overseas! This week, we made some Halloween cards. Other times, we may read, share our writing, or make something for our school or home. Important Dates 10/8- No School- Columbus Day 10/9- Picture Day 10/17- Early Dismissal, Staff PD 10/24- Early Dismissal, P/T Conferences 10/25- Early Dismissal, P/T Conferences 10/31- Halloween Parade- 2:15 p.m. We have come to the end of our first kindergarten reading unit! Students dressed up as the characters from some of our old favorites! We walked around the school sharing our favorite books!
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