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Kindergarten News

November 10-Nov 21

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 a greeting each day. Some of these were: an American Salute greeting, turkey gobble greeting, a corn on the cob greeting, a pilgrim greeting. We had a share each week- Would you rather make butter for an hour or pick blueberries for an hour? Last week was national vanilla cupcake week. Everyone told what their favorite flavor cupcake was.

Writing: We wrote in our journals about our weekends. We have written responses to two of the stories we've read. We wrote about something we lost like Josie, a character in Josie's lost Tooth. We also wrote about something we like to do with a friend like Gossie.  During centers we have been labeling pictures of Native Americans, Pilgrims and next week Turkeys. We have also been practicing our sight words.

 Independent Work-The children worked in 3 centers this week: read to self, writing and word work.  We had many Thanksgiving phonics pages. When the students finished those, they played some educational games that reinforce beginning sounds. This week we started hearing ending sounds and played some games to help us listen for these. We had journal writing, Thanksgiving label it pages.  We wrote about a connection we had to something we like to do with a 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 comparing numbers to ten. We practiced finding the set that was greater or more than the other.. We also learned what a number path was. We located a given number on it and then had to find a number greater than the original number and a number less than it.  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 Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving. We learned what Veteran's Day is. We learned about the men and women in the different armed forces. We watched a Brainpop Jr. video about it and made a book about Veterans Day.  We learned about the first Thanksgiving Story. We learned who the Pilgrims were and what life was like during that time.  We saw pictures from Plymouth Plantation. We packed a trunk with items the Pilgrims needed for their voyage on the Mayflower. We learned who the Native Americans were and how they helped the Pilgrims. We made our own butter and had it on crackers.  We painted some Thanksgiving corn (Native American corn) We each had a turn with a Native American rainstick. We made our own Thanksgiving Books. We also got together with our fifth grade buddy class last week. 

It was a great week in Kindergarten!  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fishelman & Mrs. Keirstead