Happy November

A look at our learning this week...

Fundations: we learned the letter name, letter sound and correct letter formation for the following letters:

l-down

h-down, up and over

k-down, slant in, slant out

We have learned 20 out of 26 lowercase letters.  Please continue to look for and reinforce correct letter formation at home when your child is writing.  We want to "write" our letters, not "draw" our letters.  Writing is a natural movement that typically doesn't stop until the letter is finished (some exceptions are t and k because you have to pick up your pencil halfway through).  "Drawing" a letter would be making a circle and then adding a stick when forming the letter a, rather than the natural movement of "over, around, down."

Shared Reading: we read the big book You and I this week and the poems "Red" and      "Y-O-U" to help us practice our new word wall words.  

Next week's new word wall words:

and

me

The test will be on Thursday, due to no school on Friday.

Math: our lessons this week focused on shapes, measurement (longer/shorter) and simple addition verbal story problems using our fingers/manipulatives to help us solve.  Check out the Kindergarten team newsletter and the Friday Folder to see ways you can help with math at home.  

Writing: continuing to work on adding more words to our stories.  I look forward to showing you a piece of their writing from the beginning of the year and one they recently finished!  I'm sure you will be amazed at the growth, I always am!

Enjoy some pictures from math this week.

Making shapes with yarn and using our bodies to measure shortest to longest.