Friday, September 22, 2017

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 18

This week in :

READING WE...
  • Started Reader's Workshop--Reader's Workshop is a time when reader's are spending time with books and practicing strategies that I have taught them through my mini lessons.  This week we learned that there are 3 ways to read a book.
  • Talked about what good reader's look and sound like.
  • Introduced letters t, f, b, n
  • Made a class book, I LOVE MY SCHOOL SHOES!
WRITING WE...
  •  Started Writer's Workshop--Similar to reader's workshop, but writing.  Writer's have been drawing pictures and practicing adding details to picture to make them more interesting.  We are writing about true stories.  Here's a picture we drew all together by adding detail by detail.  Everyone had a turn.
     
    Got writing partners and writing spots.  Our writing partners are there to be our writing coaches when needed!
MATH WE...
  • Did a math sheet using our new interactive whiteboards!  SO FUN!
  • Practiced careful counting
  • Played a symmetry game with pattern blocks
  • Practiced numeral writing--all numbers have been introduced now and have a rhyme to go with them.
  • Introduced Geoboards and Cuisenairre rods
  • Multisensory counting--I dropped coins into a tin can and children had to count with their eyes closed

OTHER
  • Monday is Open House 
  • Family Collage project due Monday!  You can bring it to Open House.
  • Tuesday is picture day
  • I will need a baby picture of everyone for our birthday bag Guess Who? game.  Send it to me via email or folder.  
  • We had our first guidance lesson
  • Friday is Library---Return your books day!
WHAT TO DO AT HOME
  • Brainstorm ideas for your kindergarten to write about during writer's workshop.  Things that have happened to him/her.  Big or Little.  
  • Ask your child if they can remember any of the rhymes that go with writing the numbers 
  • Do multisensory counts at home