This Week in Kindergarten (October 24-28)

Guest Reader, Ms Jane (my mom) reading a childhood favorite of mine, "Owl at Home"

This Week in Literacy: Some things we worked on.

• Readers can make plans for how to read emergent storybooks with a partner and what to talk about together.  We are using post-its to mark places in books to share with our partners.
• Readers can read emergent storybooks like storytellers.
• Readers point under the words, rather than on top of them.
• Readers notice words they know in text and practice reading those words with ease.
• Writers do their best and keep on going. When writing an unknown word writers: say the word, ask, "what do I hear?", then write it.
• Writers go back and read what they have written to help remember the story.
• Writers make stories come to life by adding what people are saying.

Partner Reading (Sharing a Funny Part in "Green Wilma" by Ted Arnold).

Counting and Comparing Lengths

This Week in Math: Some things we worked on.

• Reading and Writing numbers
• Creating simple graphs of dice rolls
• Comparing the weight of different objects
• Comparing and ordering numbers
• Measuring objects using  objects of uniform length
• Comparing lengths and arranging items by length
• Developing strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems using concrete objects

Reading our shared reading poem of the week to Mrs. Campbell.
I love you, I love you
I love you so well.
If I had a peanut, I'd give you the shell.

Partner Reading

This week we read many books about firefighters and fire safety. We identified which books were fiction and which were nonfiction.  On Friday, we made a special fire truck snack.  Yum!!!