A look at our learning...
Fundations: now that we have finished learning all 26 lowercase letters, we are moving onto reading and writing 3-4 letter words by "tapping them out." Ask your child to show you how to tap out a word. Information on this was on the back of last week's Kindergarten Newsletter.
Please check your child's Friday Folder for the end of unit 1 Fundations assessment and practice any skills needed.
Shared Reading/Spelling: we read the books I can see shapes and I can see Christmas to practice our new spelling words. Both books had similar patterns that featured many of our word wall words "I can see the...", so this was great practice monitoring on the known. This week we also worked on looking at the picture as a reading strategy when we come to a word that isn't a word wall word. We learned we can look at the picture AND look at the first letter of the unknown word and this can sometimes help us figure it out! They did a great job of this with the I can see Christmas book!
We will not learn new spelling words next week, due to the short week. Spelling words will resume the week of January 8th. I highly encourage you to spend time practicing their spelling words, reading and writing them, over the winter holiday. While we want you to enjoy your break, students who do not do any learning during these times, show regression upon the return to school. It is important that they are still read to/read every day and work on some basic school skills for 10-15 minutes a few days a week. It makes a huge impact!
Writing Workshop: we continue to work on sounding out, or now tapping out, words to help us spell when writing our stories. This is a continuous theme in Kindergarten writing. Their words should be more decodable and easier to read now that they know all of their letter sounds.
Over the past two weeks, I have been conferencing with students about their writing. I do this daily, but this time we focused on finding things they do really well (praise is so important) and then also discussing things they can improve on. Each child was given a goal to focus on every day at writing. Once they have shown they have mastered this goal, their goal will change. How will we tell they have mastered it? We will see it improving daily in the stories they independently write. Please keep in mind that we discussed how no one is perfect and everyone has something to improve on, even adults. We all have goals to work towards!
Math: we began unit 4 this week. Please check your child's folder for a detailed note about the things they will learn in this unit and how to practice math at home.
Packmate of the Month: Yay Lilly! She was chosen, by her peers, as our December Packmate of the Month! We are so proud of her!
Family Traditions: We have thoroughly enjoyed hearing about each child's family traditions this week. The students were so excited to share special things about their family and did an amazing job! Thank you so much for participating in this sweet project.
We have so many fun thigs planned for our 3 days of school next week! I hope to see every child at school every day (unless sick) so they don't miss out on the fun and special memories!
Fun at school and our silly elf Jack!
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