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October 21-October 31
Dear Parents,
Below is what we have been working on the past two weeks:
Morning Meeting- We have a morning message to outline each day's activities. We had various Halloween greetings: A witch cackle, a spooky ghost greeting, a zombie walk greeting, In keeping with the Halloween excitement, everyone shared their favorite candy. We had some fun Halloween dances, a ghost hunt (looking for paper ghosts hiding around the room) and Doggy Doggy Where's Your Bone?
Writing: We wrote in our journals about our weekends. In our Being a Writer Program. we heard the story, Round is a Mooncake. We made a list of all the shapes we knew. Then I modeled writing about things that were all about the same big idea. I chose a shape and wrote about all things that were that shape (triangle) such as a slice of pizza, a slice of watermelon, half of a sandwich and a folded napkin. I had the class help me label each picture by stretching out the words and listening to the sounds they heard. Then everyone chose their own shape and drew and wrote about it. Everyone also labeled by writing beginning, middle and ending sound next to each object in their picture. We listened to two poems: My Crown, and I love Myself. We made a group chart of all the things we love about ourselves. The next day we wrote about one thing we love about ourselves and why.
Independent Work-The children worked in 3 centers this week: read to self, writing and word work. We had many Halloween phonics pages. When the students finished those, they played some educational games that reinforce beginning sounds. We had journal writing, Halloween Haunted House label it pages, we wrote about a connection we had to meeting a new friend in our Being a Reader student response books. We also had some choices to read to self, playdoh sight word practice, rainbow sight words and roll-a sight word.
Math- This week we worked on numbers 6-10. We practice counting sets of objects to 10, writing numbers 6-10 and representing a number through counters, cubes and ten frames. Some days we worked together whole group to work on the math lesson. Three of the days we worked in small groups. While we were meeting with each group, the other students either played a math game or worked on a number worksheet that reinforced their counting and number recognition/formation.
Science/Social Studies
The past two weeks in Kindergarten have been about Halloween fun! We learned about the holiday of Diwali as well. We learned about bats. We heard fiction and nonfiction books about bats. (Stellaluna and Bats). We read a weekly reader Let's Find Out magazine about bats and aye ayes. We made a bat project too! We read the story Crankenstein and made a Frankenstein project. We read Spookly the Square Pumpkin and made a square pumkin. We also read two witch stories (Teeny Witch and the Halloween Ride and Room on the Broom). Everyone made a headband that showed the order that the characters came into the story. We finishe up the week with a candy corn project on Halloween. All of these projects are fun. But more importantly, the are strengthening the students' fine motor skills and ability to follow multi-step directions.
We ended our week on Friday with Mt. Horeb's Halloween Parade and our class party. Everyone had a great time. Thank you to our Homeroom moms and to all the parents who sent in food for the party!
It was a great week in Kindergarten!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Fishelman & Mrs. Keirstead
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