It was a great first full week of kindergarten! We read Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten, Chrysanthemum, I Like ME!, All Are Welcome, This School Year Will Be the Best! You Will Be My Friend!, Will I Have A Friend?, Little Beaver and the Echo, and more. We had many great discussions. Much of our reading work was focused on the letters in our names, reading and writing our names, and being able to recognize peers' names. The children met Señora Chase and had their first World Language Class!
Morning Meeting: Passing Pete and giving a weekend share if interested.
We read Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.
Reviewed that we make letters from the top.
Practiced our fine motor skills with tear art.
Each child worked on the first letter of their name top to bottom formation.
We practiced using glue sticks appropriately.
Quiet Time: Coloring
We read and discussed chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes and most agreed our names are very important.
We studied each of our names and carefully colored name plates.
These are hung in our classroom.
Math: Comparing and Measuring Lengths
Partner math: Comparing lengths. Finding the peer with the same size piece.
Sequencing smallest to largest matching pairs.
Enjoying Outdoor Time
Playing in the new outdoor kitchen.
Cooking outdoors
Enjoying the new donation.
Making a choice on the Choice Time Board.
Reading: Scholastic News: All About ME
Miss Moe our Occupational Therapist joins us for handwriting.
Miss Moe introduces her big pencil.
We covered the 3 Ps:
Pencil
Paper
Posture
Teaching proper grip.
Self Portraits
Sharing with classmates who they are and what they are good at.
What are you good at?
These are all hung in the hallway.
Morning Meeting: Sharing the marker. Helping to fill in the date of our morning message.
Thursday we had two special visitors: Ms. Cooke and Mrs. O'Kelly visited.
They are two of our bus drivers. They came to teach bus safety.
Go Noodle movement break.
Quiet Time: Choosing to rest on a yoga mat or the classroom rug.
Quiet Time: whiteboards
Colored Bears: patterning
The children enjoy building a pattern under the document camera and allowing others to extend it.
ABC Pattern: Blue, green, yellow, blue, green, yellow
AB Pattern: purple, yellow, purple, yellow
Two AB Patterns
AB: green, blue, green, blue
ABC: blue, green, red
ABC: orange, green, red
ABC Pattern
ABC Pattern
Two AB Patterns
AB Pattern
Book Response:
Miss Moe our OT is in to help us with proper grip and the 3 Ps:
Pencil
Paper
Posture
Writer's Workshop:
Hope and Dreams
Writing and drawing our Hopes and Dreams for the kindergarten year!
Writer's Workshop ends with a few shares!
These are hung in our classroom!
We'll see how many of these we can make come true! 🥰
Quiet Time Choice Thursday: Cosmic Yoga!
Practicing Sign In
Top to Bottom, Left to Right letter formation.
Each child has a sign-in card with their name.
Kindergarten Goal: write their name independently with upper and lowercase letters.
We will practice with these cards daily until not needed! 😄
A great story!
Ask your child about Mabel!
We will be working with this chart often.
Kindergarten Goals:
Identify all capitals
Identify all lowercase
Know all the sounds for consonants and vowels.
Our reading work included listening for the first sound in words and isolating that sound.
The tubs were available at choice to play independently.
Quiet Time Friday: Rest, book or Sketch Books
Math: How Old Are You? Graph
A horizontal graph
A changing graph
We will revisit the graph as we celebrate class birthdays!
Math: Ask your child about our magic number game Puff! Number 6 today!
Ask your child how our choice board works!
What have they been trying?
Lots of smiles to be proud of!
I hope you had a great weekend!
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