Morning Meeting
Greeting: Switch Places
Morning Meeting
Share: Cozy/SillySock Day!
Unicorns
cupcakes
Cozy/Silly Sock Day also brought in donations for Preble Street!
By the end of the day, several boxes were full of sock donations from all the children at Pond Cove!
350+ pairs of socks were donated to Preble Street Resource Center! 🧦
Writer's Workshop
Show and Tell
Fancying up one Show and Tell piece, their most proud piece!
As a celebration/culmination of this writing bend ...
Each writing piece was briefly shared with classmates!
All the items have now gone home.
The read aloud on Monday to follow up on Don Freeman's original story Corduroy.
Phonics Sort
Letters Ss and Ww
Kindergarten Goals:
Name all capital letters.
Name all lowercase letters.
Write capital and lowercase letters.
Provide all consonant sounds in isolation.
Phonological Awareness skills
Initial Sounds
Final Sounds
You can reinforce your children's knowledge of letter-sound relationships by asking such questions as,
'What is the beginning letter in this word? What sound does it make? What is the last letter in the word? What sound does it make?'
Word Study: (you)
Independent work while other children are working on reading skills with Mrs. Cornell.
On Monday Mrs. Joiner came to our classroom to teach about coding.
The children learned about Bee-Bots!
The children found their partners and spread out in the classroom.
They practiced putting in code to move their Bee Bots in the direction they wished.
They worked on programming their Bee-Bots to make
circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and hexagons.
Protect that Bee Bot if you accidentally program it to travel off the table!
This was our first 30-minute lesson on code celebrating one hour of code!.
Health class with Mrs. Kennedy has begun.
Ask your child about their first few classes.
The children are participating in a movement activity in the health room.
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.
Tuesday was jeans/Cape swag day!
AABB Pattern
Many children were happy to show off their Cape Swag!
Writing
Starting his Show and Tell Book!
Movement break: freeze dance!
Partner Reading
The children are trying hard to read responsibly for 8 minutes with their reading partner(s)!
Practicing match as he points under the words.
His partner is reading his alphabet chart to him.
Your child should be very comfortable with their alphabet chart.
I will help to support their reading and writing.
Rereading his Veteran's Day book for smooth reading.
A Quiet Time Choice: Color By Number
Handwriting this week: Tall letters lowercase l and t.
Chalkboard practice.
Wet try
She is working to transfer her skills to recording those letters in her handwriting book.
Movement break
Counting to 100 by ones, moving with every number.
Kindergarten Math Goals:
Count by ones to one hundred.
Read and write 0-30.
Mrs. Joiner came back Wednesday for our second 30-minute lesson,
which gave us an hour of code this week! ❤️
Numbers and Bee Bots
Practicing programming the Bee Bot to go to a specific number.
Bee Bots and Letters
Science
Weather Unit
Wednesday's read-aloud.
Comparing and contrasting gingerbread stories.
Quiet Time Choice on Wednesday: Whiteboards.
She is choosing to practice sentence writing!
He is choosing to write numbers as high as time allows.
Drawing
Math: Practicing Number writing
Review of 1-10 in his handwriting Book.
Math
Patterning
AB
ABB
ABB
Hexagon, Dimond, Diamond
Yellow, Blue, Blue
AB Pattern
ABB Pattern
Saying her pattern multiple ways.
Started out with a pattern that turned into a design.
Kindergarten Math Goals:
Recognize a pattern.
Extend a pattern.
Create a pattern.
Record a pattern.
Choice Time
Math Table: Building creatively with pattern blocks.
Very proud of his pattern block creations!
Choice Time: Choosing to add to their Show and Tell Book!
Choice Time: The Doll House
Choice Time: Drawing on the Easel.
The children enjoyed Thursday's read-aloud by Jan Brett. Some children knew it!
Thursday was an Early Release Day.
The children had lunch in the classroom for the first time!
We are working daily to dress independently.
We had a good week!
It was nice to meet with so many of you recently!
Next Week:
Wednesday:
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