Ms. Concannon's Kindergarten: Yay Spring!

We love that it finally feels like spring! At least for now!

The kiddos giggled with excitement as I gave them their "homework" on the early release day! I hope there are many more days for them to spend outside!

A look at our learning...

Fundations: we are beginning a new unit in Fundations. During this unit we will really focus on digraphs (two or three letters that go together to make one sound) and sounding fluent when we read words and sentences. Please check the Friday Folder for a detailed note about this and ways to help at home.

Shared Reading: we read the big books He Will Not Jump and Allie and Ollie (they especially loved this book about two dogs who think they are human).

Next week's word wall words:

had

did

Writing Workshop: we continue to learn about Opinion Writing. We have written opinion pieces on the following topics: favorite pet, favorite food, if they could go on a field trip where would they go, if they could travel to a place where would they go. It isn't hard for a Kindergartener to have an opinion, but it is a bit tougher to give at least 3 reasons WHY we feel that way. We are trying to move beyond reasons such as it was fun or I liked it. We are trying to write specific reasons about why we feel that way.

Math: please see the note that came home on Thursday asking for bottle caps. We are collecting these items for the next 2 weeks to help with some math activities. We will be counting, graphing, sorting, etc. the bottle caps. They can be bottle caps of various sizes.

In the pictures below we are working with our bead bracelets and math notebooks to make different combinations of numbers.

Makerspace: on Friday we spent an hour in the Makerspace with Mrs. Fitch. What is Makerspace? Click here if you aren't sure. The kids always love this time and are very creative! They are bringing home many of their creations today! They were most impressed with the Ozobots and button machine. (click to make photos larger)