Week 5 and 6 in Kindergarten

Can you believe its been a month and a half? It seems like a long time, but these kindergartners have accomplished a lot in a short amount of time!

In Math we have been studying the numbers 1-10. We are journaling about them and practicing writing them in our "numeral" song. We are up to number 3 in our journals and we are up to number 8 in our numeral song. In our journals we write the number, fill in a ten frame with the number, color that many cubes, make that many tallys and draw a picture of that many things.

In Writing we are learning how to plan our writing, how to stretch out the sounds in a word and how to set up our page for writing with words and pictures. The confidence is growing in our classroom! We write in books that are 8 1/2 X 14 pieces of paper folded in half and stapled. Right now we are going through one book together. Most of us are writing about our playground.

In Reading we have reached our goal of 10 minutes of independent reading. We have even read for 11 and 12 minutes. This is uniterupted reading time, where the children are looking at their books the entire time and thinking about their books. The only noise we hear are children whisper reading to themselves. I am quite proud of their progress in this area. This part of our readers workshop will be important so that I can meet with small groups of children while everyone else independent reads.

Also in Reading we have learned a lot of new letters. We have read, written and said the sounds of 19 of the 26 letters. Feel free to visit the website that has all of our Alphafriends on it. You can hear each song and have your child sing for you!

https://teacher.ocps.net/janet.cahill/page7.html

As we near the end of learning all of our letters, I am beginning to plan our Readers Workshop that we will be doing every day. The children will be doing buddy reading, independent reading, word work, guided reading and journaling every day in our readers workshop. They work very hard every day!

We have also been doing an art project every week focused on pumpkins, as we begin to prepare for our field trip to B-Zi Farms on Thursday, October 30th. We are very excited! The PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) donated $300.00 to kindergarten so that we could buy white t-shirts to tie-dye for each class for our field trip. This should make it a little easier to keep track of all our angels!

Remember to return all paperwork and money sometime this next week! I don't want anyone to be left behind. The most important thing is the permission form. Your child cannot go without it.

Things to remember:


October 21st - October 24th:  Early Release for conferences. Early release is at 1:15. Kindergarten will not be holding conferences.

October 22nd: Fall Festival at Endeavour 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM. This is hosted by the PTO. There will be games and activities for all ages.

October 30th: Bi_Zi Farm Field Trip 9:30 AM - 11:45 AM. Please make sure your child is at school by 9:15.

I hope you have a great week! Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks!

Mr. Mason