Mrs. Cornell's Kindergarteners: First Week in November: First Remote Learning Day

The children were of course very excited about Halloween night. They had all shared that their families were planning to celebrate, so on Monday we squeezed in the writing below. They enjoyed sharing about their night. Take a look at the labels that are now appearing as the children acquire more letter sound knowledge! Any letter sound work you can fit in verbally will support your young writer.

Example: Pumpkin ... What does that start with? What do you think it ends with etc?

Writer's Workshop Share

Choice Time post Halloween message: : I hope my teeth stay clean! 😉

Quiet Time Option

We have been reading the Big Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. This story is a great one to have in your home library, many early literacy skills can be acquired from knowing it well.

Practicing keeping match in books.

Kindergarten Goal: recognizing and writing color words.

After modeling and reviewing a couple number each day, we have a pumpkin book which highlights the numbers 1-10 in a ten frame!

Tuesday was our first remote day. Below are some writing pieces from that day:

Divine: My favorite thing is cooking in the garden.

Thank you to the parents who provide the cooking pieces for garden play at recess!

These play pieces have certainly helped make the yellow zone a more exciting place to play in!

Violet: Friends ♥️

Ziva: The day I turned 6!

Mr. Shields

Noa: playground

The children are working hard to master partner reading. We are working to build stamina to read with purpose to a partner.

Each child has a book bucket of books they can read and they partner to read them.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Sometimes they read a book they both know well at the same time.

Simply enjoy the illustrations and talk about a book that one child has in their bucket.

Take turns reading a book a child knows well.

Each child reads a whole book to the other peer.

Writer's Workshop: We started a new writing unit called Show and Tell. To start the unit we sketched something we were wearing. Here he sketched his mask and labeled what he saw. Below his sketch is sentence writing.

Writer's Workshop most often ends with share time.

She sketched the details on the shirt she was wearing.

Handwriting this week: Corner starting letters: Capital L & U.

Dry try: L

Wet try: L

Wet try: U

Handwriting Without Tears Workbook: L & U.

Reading: Lessons have been focusing on understanding the difference between letters, words and sentences. This task gave the children a chance to show what they have learned.

Morning Meeting: Share question on Friday.

Thanks for supporting your writer by helping them pack something special to them that they can write about! We will be doing this unit for a little bit, so if you child has not brought something in please send it in this week.