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.

Friday, December 2, 2011

This Week in Kindergarten (November 28-December 2)

This Week in Literacy: (some things we worked on)

  • Reading with engagement and independence, building stamina, reading lots of books.
  • Building our reading lives by choosing a special spot to read at home.
  • Warming up for reading by reading words we know by heart in a snap. (We now have these words on word cards in our reading bags.)
  • Recognizing patterns in books and knowing that the patterns can sweep us along in our reading.
  • Writing pattern books.
  • Having whole class conversations about books.  (Looking at the person who is talking.  Building on what was said before.  Taking turns.)
  • We finished learning the lowercase alphabet in our Fundations/WordStudy work with the letters: /y/ and /x/.  
This Week in Math: (some things we worked on)
  • Modeling and solving subtraction stories using manipulatives.
  • Learning the (-) symbol.
  • Recognizing "take away" situations as subtraction.
  • One-to-one Counting.
  • Recognizing and writing numbers.
  • Sorting blocks according to different attributes.
  • Figuring out and applying sorting rules.
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