This Week in Kindergarten (November 7-10)

Partner Reading

Taking turns as "Drill Leader"
during Fundations letter practice.

Reading in our Shared Reading Binders

This Week in Literacy (some things we worked on)

• We talked a lot about building our reading muscles and stamina by being engaged in our books.  We reviewed strategies for what to do if our minds start to wander.  
• Readers know that pointing helps you focus on the words.
• In writing we talked a lot about making plans for our writing by telling the story across the pages before putting the words down. 
• We can write about things we know about!!!  Students have been writing about: dresses, McDonald's, trucks, getting ready to go outside in snowy weather and so much more!!
• We read and colored a mini-book about Veteran's Day.
• We are almost through the Fundations lowercase alphabet.  This week we studied the formation, name and sound of /v/ and /w/.  
• We also worked on word awareness and ending punctuation of sentences.

This Week in Math (some things we worked on)

• Reading and comparing numbers.  
• Solving addition number stories using linking cubes.
• Recognizing "joining" situations as addition.
• Learning about the plus symbol.
• Creating and describing patterns with pattern blocks.
• Continuing pattern block patterns.
• Constructing a class bar graph of our favorite colors.
• Discussing information presented in a bar graph and answering questions.

Thank you Kindergarten Families for the great items in our Arts and Crafts Basket!!!  You are the best!!!  It was great to see many of you at our Thanksgiving Lunch on Thursday.