I hope that you had a wonderful break! We have had a very busy week back.
Reading
In shared reading we are reading different versions of The Gingerbread Man. We are focusing on characters, setting, and the ending. We are noticing the differences in each version.
We started independent reading this week where the kids read from there book bins. We started off at 3 minutes and worked hard to read the entire time. In the beginning of the week we struggled with getting up to talk to me or talk to neighbors, but by the end of the week most of us were able to read for the entire time!
We started independent reading this week where the kids read from there book bins. We started off at 3 minutes and worked hard to read the entire time. In the beginning of the week we struggled with getting up to talk to me or talk to neighbors, but by the end of the week most of us were able to read for the entire time!
At literacy stations we are working on
Reading
Reading
Computer
Rocket speller is a free app that has different levels and stages of support. The kids start out by matching the letters to spell words, but work to spell words by hearing the sound and identifying the letter.
Writing
The kiddos can label pictures, write a list or card.
Star
The kids made a movable gingerbread man. They had to use their fine motor skills to push the brads and open the back to make the gingerbread man movable.
Math
The kids made a gingerbread man book and had to count the animals and fill in the blank.
Listening
Poetry
We illustrated our fluency poem, Gingerbread, Gingerbread.
Smart board
The kids could decorate a gingerbread man or match letters uppercase and lower case.
Word work
The kids could do rainbow words, wiki sticks or play dough, or use stamps to spell word wall words.
Storytelling
We continued with the same stories we had last week.
Writing
This week we have talked about adding more words to our story. We have talked about writing what our story is about on the line. We are practicing coming up with a sentence to tell our story. Sometimes kindergartners want to write every detail in their story but lose track of the sentence so we have talked a lot about simple sentences, I played outside. Or I went on a walk. We are also trying to use word wall words in our sentence.
Word Work
We worked on the letters v and w this week. We practiced letter formation and letter sounds. We also added the word "it" to the word wall and practiced spelling it.
Math
We started a new math unit this week, numbers to 20. We have practiced writing 11-20. We practiced counting sets, making sets of the numbers, and representing the numbers with pictures and the numeral. We talked about how all of the teens have a 1 in the front and practiced identifying the numbers by saying the second number first and adding teen- for 16 you look at the 6 and say "six" and add "teen" to make sixteen.
