Looking Ahead:
- September 18-26: Cookie Dough School Fundraiser
- Tuesday, September 26: Picture Day
- Friday, September 29: Dollar Dress Down Day
- Friday, September 29: Scholastic Book Orders Due: Scholastic Reading Club (use class activation code: Y8WGR)
- Friday, October 6: Station 63 Firefighters Visit Kindergarten
- Wednesday-Friday, October 11-13: NO SCHOOL Fall Break
Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve been learning:
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Ask and Answer Questions” and “Characters”. We read a fable, a fantasy, and an informational text to go along with our theme “How can we get along with friends?”
Power Words: “I“, “Can” “a” and “The” (please practice these)
Phonics: Sound and Spelling of Mm.
Phonemic Awareness: We started learning sounds from our sound wall. We look in the mirror to see how our mouth forms these sounds including what our tongue, teeth and lips are all doing. We work all year on rhyming words, chunking words into syllables, first and last sounds we hear in words, adding and taking away and replacing words in compound words, and blending 3 sounds to make a word (consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC words).
Practice: Name writing, logging into our iReady, Lexia and handwriting programs, transitions from whole group practice into small group learning.
Math: We have started our individual math lessons on iReady. We are working to master counting to 20 and reading and writing our numbers 0-10. In addition, we are identifying which number comes next when we hear any number 1-99. You can help us at home by saying a random number 1-99 and asking us which number comes next. Our math lessons have covered positional terms, comparing length & height, and sorting.
Science: Completed our summer “Weather Watcher” form in preparation for our Seasons Lesson in the future and started our wild weather unit. We learned about weather prediction and storms. Your child heard a story about a boy named JJ who helped his grandfather get ready for a big thunderstorm.
Library: We’ve visited the library 3 times now and love going. Ms. Anderson always has amazing books and lessons to share!
We have a very sweet class and I’ve watched several acts of kindness between them as they start to form new friendships and enjoy being with each other and helping each other. Thanks so much for sharing them with us! Kindergarteners are the best! 🙂