Friday, November 20, 2015

November 20th

Congratulations to Maria, Russell, Andi, Ada, Weldon, and Ryder for being leaders in our classroom and getting the leadership award at the assembly!

Kindergarten teachers are asking that children who are dropped off in the mornings and need to eat breakfast arrive by 8:10.  This allows them enough time to eat breakfast before learning begins at 8:20.  We are having many students arrive later or even after breakfast is over who have not eaten.  Students who arrive late and need to eat breakfast miss our morning routine and opening.  This is an important part of our day and a lot of learning conversations happen at this time.  Please make sure that if your child needs to eat breakfast they arrive by 8:10.  Thank you for your support in this matter!


Reading

This week in reading we talked about making connections when we read.  We talked about what making a connection is, things that the books remind us of.  At literacy stations we worked on:

At the math station we colored by number a picture of a turkey.  
At star station we made a paper bag turkey.  
At smartboard we worked on beginning letter sounds.  
At word work we make turkeys and wrote a word wall word on each feather.  

All of the other stations were the same as last week.  

Writing

In writing this week we talked about "When we are done, We've just BEGUN."  When we finish a story we try to add more details to the picture, then we add more words, and after that then we start a new story.  I am encouraging kiddos to add details like where their story happened, who else was in the story, etc.  Then to label all of the added pieces.  

Math

We played compare this week in math.  Compare is similar to the card game war.  This game focuses on greater than/ less than.  Each player gets a pile of cards face down, we practiced dealing the cards fairly.  After each player has their cards each player flips the top card over.  Whoever has the greater card says "Me, because __ is more than __."  The kids did a great job playing with their partner and keeping the focus on more/less.