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Week of April 28th-May 2nd
Dear Parents,
We had a great week of learning in Kindergarten! Everyone worked hard, played hard and learned a lot!
Morning Meeting- This week we had a morning message to outline each day's activities. Since Monday was National Superhero Day, our share this week was: Who is your favorite superhero? We had various greetings: One was the spiderman web throw greet, one the superman greeting with our fists on our waist. We had some greetings like some of the animals in our poems (chicken wing elbow, quack and waddle greeting, etc...) Our activities were: Monday Monkey dance, Superhero dance, and our Friday Song.
Being a Reader- This week read a non-fiction book called dolphins. We learned many new facts about dolphins. We heard different poems and visualized the poem in our minds. We shared what we saw. We read the poem I'm a Yellow Billed Duck with our partners. We generated a list of other animals words. We reviewed what verbs were (action words) and wrote a list of them under each animal. We also heard two other poems about animals: sparrows and The Squirrel. We also wrote about an animal from the list during centers.
Vocabulary: Our words this week were: pointy, diet, active and playful. We reviewed the full endings on words means full of.
Writing: On Monday we wrote in our journals about our weekends. We had a write the room of Springtime words. We heard various poems in both reading and writing. Then we generated a chart with animal words, action words, fun or interesting sounds the animals make. Then we wrote a shared class poem about a cheetah. Finally everyone was invited to write their own poem or a book.
Reading Groups- We worked in our small reading groups this week! All but one group brought home a new book this week. The other group will bring it home on Monday. So check your child's backpack and have them read to you several times. We also learned the sh sound, the ch sound, the tch sound and the wh sound. One group learned that s at the end of a word means more than one. Some of us learned the three sounds the ed make at the end of a word and that it means it happened in the past.
Sight Words this week: one groups words were: his, her,
The other groups words were: come, some, out
These are based on the books they read in small group reading.
Independent Work-We continued to work in our centers this week! Everyone went to a center for 10-15 minutes, then rotated to the next one until everyone went to all three (read to self, writing and word work).
This week in word work, we practiced CVC games, rhyming games and digraph and consonant blend games.
Read to self- We read books and looked for interesting parts. We also read from our poetry journals.
Writing- We wrote about our weekends. We had a write the room for Earth Day. Everyone wrote two sentences. We made books or poems about animals. We used action words and descriptive words.
Math- This week we learned about teen numbers. We learned that all teen numbers are made up of ten and then some more. We saw this on two ten frames. One was filled up completely and the other had some more. We turned that into an addition sentence. We counted sets of teen objects. Then we circled just ten of the objects to help us write the addition sentence. We will continue with this topic next week.
Science
We started a new unit called extreme weather. We first looked at some pictures of kites and discussed what type of weather is best for flying them. Then we saw some videos of different types of weather (hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards). We discussed how other children around the country prepare for these storms. (go in basements, pull hurricane shudders across windows, get extra food and warm clothing, etc...) We pretended to do some of these things by acting out. Next week we will do a craft to see what wind does to objects.
Social Studies- We discussed the upcoming Mother's Day. We started making something for our moms.
It was a great week in Kindergarten! Enjoy the weekend!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Fishelman
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