Week of 10/8-10/12

Good evening kindergarten families,

I hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend!  Here's a recap of last week's learning, and a preview of the next few weeks:

Last week, we continued our phonics lessons by learning the letters and sounds of /a/ and /g/.  Students were able to practice forming the letters on their whiteboards, finding the letters in the alphabet with their magnet letter tiles, and matching the letter name with the sound it makes.  We reviewed stretching out our vowel sounds.  We have now introduced the letters t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, and g.

In phonics centers, we are working on syllable sorting, rhyming, writing beginning sounds, conversational skills using the prompt "I like to ____________________ when I am with my friends.", and using our chromebooks to play phonics game.  As always, we are also practicing independent and buddy reading in the library area.

Our book this past week was The Name Jar, and this week we are focusing in on the story Big Al and Shrimpy.  We are doing a close read to identify the author's purpose for writing and what message the author wanted to share with his readers.

We completed our first quarter writing task on Chrysanthemum.  After reading, students were asked to draw and label pictures of the main character and setting of the story.  We will be finishing up our inital study of personal recounts this week.

In math, we are now working on identifying, counting, and writing our numbers 6-9.

For PBIS, we are watching videos of Bubbles, our school mascot, making poor choices around school, and learning what better choices there are to show how to be responsible, respectful, and safe.  These videos have led to good class discussions on how to behave at school.  We will continue watching more of these videos this week.

Kudos to Javiel, Jayden, and Amy for receiving last week's positive notes for excellent behavior! :)

Reminders: Picture Day is tomorrow, Monday, October 15.  Socktober continues the remainder of the month and donations can be brought right into our classroom.  Class brick donations can be brought in anytime.  Finally, Fundraising order forms are due back by October 26.

Here's to a wonderful week of new learning! :)