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!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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