What's been going on?

A look at our learning this week...

Fundations: we learned the letter name, letter sound and correct letter formation for lowercase e & r.  Please use the following verbal prompts when practicing at home:

e-across, over, around, open

r- down, up, curve

On our weekly spelling test your child receives one point if they spell their name correctly AND form the letters correctly (if we haven't learned the correct formation yet, I do not deduct a point as that isn't fair since it hasn't been taught).  

We have learned the following letters this year: t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s, e,r

If any of these letters are in your child's name (or our word wall words) please help hold them accountable for correct formation when you practice for the test at home.  

Shared Reading: we read the following books that featured see, our word of the week:

A firefighter, The colors of Fall and I See Halloween.  They now have copies of these books in their book boxes that they practice reading daily during "Read to Self" time.  

Next week's new spelling word:

can

Math: as the end of 1st trimester is drawing near we will be looking for the following things:

*can your child count to at least 30?

*can they identify the basic 2-D shapes? (circle, square, rectangle, hexagon, rhombus, trapezoid, triangle)

*can they create and extend simple patterns? 

*can your child write numbers 0-10 in order and with correct formation?

*how many numbers, 0-31, does your child recognize when shown to them out of order?

These would be great things to work on at home as well.  

Writing: we continue to work on labeling our drawings and saying our words slowly and writing the sounds we hear to spell unknown words.  Next week we will begin to work on adding sentences, in addition to our labels, to our stories.  Simple sentences such as "I went to Cosmo park" or "We went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch."  

Here are a couple examples of some friends in our class who are already writing simple sentences and are a good example of what to expect from your child over the coming weeks.  Notice the detailed picture, labels, neat coloring, best guess spelling and a simple "story"/sentence.

I am playing outside at school.

I opened presents at Christmas.

Friday craft: every Friday we take time out of our day to do a craft.  Crafts are such an important part of Kindergarten.  Not only are they cute, but it helps with fine motor skills, scissor skills, eye-hand coordination, improving focus and attention, listening and following directions and so much more!  

Check out our Frankesteins from today! 

Have a great weekend!