Here is a snippet of what we did in kindergarten this week:
Visual Arts: The children painted witches and finished up their spiders for our spooky spider web.
Readers' Workshop: We used the exact words of characters when acting out/retelling familiar stories. The children selected their own books today for reading next week. I introduced "just right" and "interest" books for them to choose from. This process/routine will be a focus for a few weeks as the children get used to caring for the class library.
Writers' Workshop: Our big focus this week was that writers can use word wall words in their writing. We used our word of the week, see to make I see... books. The children did a great job making these predictable pieces that follow a concrete pattern.
Math Workshop: Counting collections was a big focus during math this week. The children counted sets of objects arranged in lines and scattered. We discussed how counting scattered objects in trickier and I demonstrated how to organize scattered sets to count accurately. We also did some Halloween patterns, and began to work with number stories. I will be assessing our Unit 2 math skills next week.
Literacy: We sorted objects by beginning sound, worked on handwriting, and did activities to help us learn the word see.
Some Books We Read: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, Pumpkin Circle, Ten Red Apples, Ten Little Fish, The Roly-Poly Spider
Up-Coming Events:
- Handwriting- U and L
- Word of the Week- an
- Phonics- a (we refer to vowels as superstars)
- Halloween Celebration- 10/28
- Early Release for Conferences- 10/26 & 11/2
- No School (Teacher Workshop)- 11/8
- No School- 11/11
- Thanksgiving Break- 11/23-11/25
Have a great weekend.
Kristen
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