K for ME Community Week 2
Read Aloud
A young girl, Rosalba, and her grandmother celebrate their home
and relationship in this magical story. Rosalba is the narrator.
Math
Constructing an age graph.
Practicing touch counting.
Practicing touch counting.
Finished graph
At this time our class has 16 five year olds and 2 six years old.
The children learned that this will be a changing graph.
Read Aloud
To go with the daily math work.
Counting backwards (subtraction).
Recess
enjoying nature
Quiet Time Choice: Back to School coloring.
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Centers
Discovery Table
sand exploration
Centers
Writing and Drawing
Making signs for their community.
Math
Partners playing Bump.
Mrs. Snyder supporting the children with their partner play.
One threesome!
Stations
Name Puzzles
Completing not his own name puzzle, but a peers.
Quiet Time choice on Tuesday: Lowercase letter dot-to-dot ( a-s).
Handwriting
Slates, chalk, sponge, pom pom.
Practicing lowercase c.
"Magic c"
lowercase o
Magic c turns into and a.
Read Aloud
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Vocabulary focus this week.
Tuesday the children experienced a school wide fire drill with the alarm while in art class.
They did well!
Centers
Discovery Table
sand exploration
Centers
Dramatization
They have chosen to play house.
Math
Review of the numbers 0-10.
Recognition and formation.
Playing the dice game Roll and Write.
And number two reached the top first!
Practicing number formation on the whiteboard.
Recess
Baking in the kitchen.
Social emotional learning (SEL)
The children's first SEL lesson with Mrs. McDermott.
A walking field trip to her office and learning about her tool box.
Quiet Time choice on Wednesday: whiteboards, markers, erasers.
Handwriting
Ms.Moe (our OT) models the proper formation of lowercase c.
The children got their first look at their handwriting books on Wednesday.
She is working on her lowercase c page and words for me page.
The children are being reminded of ...
the correct way to hold a pencil
having good posture
making letters top to bottom
Centers
Blocks
Blocks were added to the choice board this week.
She made the village in Abiyoyo!
a house
Centers
Dot-A-Dot Markers
pencil
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Centers
Science & Engineering
sea animals
Morning Meeting
Share
The children had their first Would You Rather.
We are getting to know our classroom community a little better.
Morning Meeting
Activity
The Apple Tree song with motions,
Mr. Madan (one of our bus drivers) comes for bus safety.
Indoor Recess
Thursday was rainy. We played "Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?"
She is blindfolded and in the doghouse while her classmates sing to her
and someone quietly take the bone..
Read Aloud
Learning about apples.
Scholastic News
Let's Find Out
Focusing on the five senses.
Counting seeds inside apples.
Reading and answering questions.
The recess after lunch was also indoors. Several choices of play were offered.
Centers
Dramatization
playing house
Centers
Blocks
Happy to have been able to get his building to stay up.
Read Aloud
The children are enjoying hearing Pete the Cat stories.
I am reading this one before the daily math lesson.
The children are learning to recognize color words.
Math on Friday
Pete the Cat Roll and Color
Independent work: Creating a graph, recording, and writing numbers.
Math
Small group work.
Demonstrating understanding of an AB pattern.
Recording an AB pattern independently.
Phonics Goal Week 2
Matching upper and lowercase letters.
The children are being exposed to lowercase letters in a variety of ways daily.
Kindergarten Goals:
Name capital and lowercase letters
Write capital and lowercase letters.
Stations
The children were introduced to a classmate memory game.
As they played they were asked to say the name of the card they turned.
The children are working hard to use names rather than pronouns.
Writing
The children were introduced to their writing folders.
They are keeping their writing pieces in their new folders.
They are writing about what they know well - their family.
Centers
Blocks
a castle
Centers
Writing and Drawing
"a kitty castle"
This Week:
Wednesday: 
Several families have asked how they can help.
Three things that would be greatly appreciated:
1. Please visit PowerSchool and check to be sure you have entered an emergency contact other than mom and dad. We will always contact parents first, but really wish to have a separate contact when you can not be reached, thanks!
2. Please pack your child's snack separately from their lunch and pack only a couple options (15 minutes).
3. Please send a low (14 oz. or less) spill-proof water bottle. The bottles keep getting taller and taller every day. I know they like them, but they are hard for the children to manage.
THANKS! 😀
