About Me

I grew up in Maine and received my BS in Speech Pathology in 1995 from the University of Maine at Farmington. I moved to Oregon in 1995 and received my Master's of Arts in Education from Oregon State University in 1999. I taught in Oregon for 11 years in kindergarten and first grade. This will be my first year teaching at Rowe School in Yarmouth.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

This Week in Kindergarten (November 14-18)

Putting an ABC puzzle together in ABC order
This Week in Literacy: (Some things we worked on)

  • This week we talked about how all of the strategies we have for reading are like superpowers.  So many concepts have to come together for children to decode and understand what they are reading.
  • Readers look at the pictures and really think about what the book is about.  This includes making a movie in our minds about the book.
  • Beginning readers point under each word and make sure the number of words said matches the number of words on the page.
  • Readers read words we know by heart in a snap.
  • Readers look at the first letter in words and get their mouths ready to say that sound.  
  • Writers go back into their books to make a good book, great!  We add to the words and the pictures to help the reader read the book.
  • Writers leave spaces between words.
  • We studied the letters /Z,z/ and /Q,q/ and learned how to write them properly.
  • Shared Reading this week was:
Apples,
Pears,
Peaches,
Plums,
Tell me when
your birthday comes.

This Week in Math: (some things we worked on)
Measuring using nonstandard measurement



  • Developing and using strategies to find the sum of two dice rolls.
  • Creating a graph of dice rolls.
  • Making squares, rectangles and triangles using geobands and geoboards.
  • Counting by 1s through 50 using different starting points.







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