This Week in Kindergarten (October 10-14)

A fun fall birthday snack!  Jack-O-Lanterns made from oranges, filled with fruit salad.

Independent Reading 

Partner Reading (sharing our favorite part of a story)

This was a busy week in kindergarten.  We read many new books (check the shelf) and then worked on retelling the stories in our own words, using story language and character's voices.  The primary focus is on building meaning and growing our talk about books.    In writing, we began book making and this will continue as we learn to tell/illustrate/write stories across pages.  Again, the focus is on making meaning.


Shared Reading this week was a poem by Nellie Edge called, "Reading is Fun" it goes:

Reading is Fun,

Reading is Fun,

Reading is Fun for everyone.

The more you read

The better  you read.

So, Read, Read, Read.

We worked on finding words we know, counting words on each line, reading  fluently, together with "one voice".  On Friday, students read and illustrated the poem, then added it to their shared reading binders.

Students worked with partners to build chains to represent "teen" numbers.

Making Number Charts

In math we continued to work on number sense, counting and building number grids.  We also began exploring "teen" numbers by writing numbers 10-19, using visuals to represent teens as ten and some more, and building chains with partners with 12-19 links...the first ten one color, then adding on another color. (see photo above)