Week 2

Happy Friday the 13th! (and full moon!)  We had a great first full week of Kindergarten!  Check out what we were up to!

Reading Workshop
We are readers!  We learned this week that all of us CAN read!  There are three ways we can read books:
1.  Read the pictures
2.  Read the words
3.  Retell the story

We practiced these ways of reading as we learned how Kindergarteners Read to Self.  When we follow these expectations we are working to build our stamina.  Stamina is how long we can do something without stopping.  This week our class built 2 minutes of reading stamina! Way to go
Kindergartners!

Writing Workshop
This week we worked on writing our names by creating two new class books!

We also worked on writing our letters through our handwriting centers.  We are working HARD to start our letters at the top and write them the Kindergarten Way!

Phonics

Meet Mabel!  She is helping us learn and study names and letters!  We are studying the names of the friends in our class.  This week we studied Mabel's, Milo's, and Max's names!  We noticed how many letters are in their names, if the letters are tall or small, and if the letters are all different or if some are the same. 

We are working to learn our letters and the sounds they make.  When we learn letters we name them, say their sound, write them, and use them!  Pretty soon we will have many letters we can 'pull out of our pocket' to use at any time :)

We sorted picture cards into 2 groups- pictures that start with M and pictures that do not start with M.

Word Wall Word
We added our first word to our word wall this week- THE!  We practiced writing and finding this word in our books.

Math Workshop

This week we began math by studying and sorting shoes! This activity gave us many opportunities to count as we discussed the different features of  shoes and sorted them by attributes.  We counted our groups and determined which group had more and less.

After our mini lesson we moved into our workplaces.  Check out what we did this week!

Pattern Blocks

GeoBoards

Unifix Cubes

Polydrons

REMINDERS

• We have library every Wednesday. Please be sure to have your child return his/her book that day.
• Check out Parkview's weekly update:   https://www.cedarburg.k12.wi.us/schools/parkview/forms/thursdayfolder.cfm
• We provide snack each afternoon.  These are purchased from the snack fee you paid during registration in Skyward.  Please do not send any other snacks with your children.  We have to make sure any food entering the classroom is safe.  

   

Have a great weekend!