A look at our learning this week...
Fundations: week 2 of tapping out words to help us read and write is going so well! In addition to "tapping out" words, we are doing a quick review of how to form uppercase letters each day. With lowercase letters we spent one full week learning about 2 letters, however with uppercase letters we will work on 2 a day. This is because most children come into Kindergarten knowing how to form these letters, but a little refresh doesn't hurt.
Please continue to stress the importance of forming their letters correctly at home as well. It is important that they use the correct formation every time they write, not just at school or during Fundations time.
Shared Reading: this week we read the books Allie and Ollie and The Sandwich to help us practice our new word wall words but and on.They especially loved Allie and Ollie because it was a cute story about two tiny dogs who are spoiled and think they are humans.
Ask your child to tell you about it!
Below they are buddy reading these books and searching for
word wall words to highlight.
Daily 5: we have a new daily 5 center that helps us with word families/rhyming. Check it out! They sort the pictures in the correct word family and then "tap it out" to help them spell it on the paper.
Generating rhyme, by using word families, is an easy thing to do at home with your child! Use paper and pencil, magnets, shaving cream, play-dough ,anything! Pick a word family and have your child generate as many words as they can.
A few examples:
at-hat, cat, bat, mat
it-lit, bit, sit, pit
ed-bed, red, led
Doing these activities at home will also help reading and writing become more natural for your child.
Writing Workshop: along with writing stories about our daily lives, we wrote a good luck note for Miss Missouri, Simone Esters, as she prepares for the Miss America pageant on Thursday, December 19th. We are going to mail this letter to her to let her know we are rooting for her! We included pictures from her visit with the note and the class picture below. It's so fun to say we met a "celebrity" at our Heroes Day this year!
Math: we continued to work on teen numbers, as well as combining pattern blocks in different ways to make a hexagon and using snap cubes to compose and decompose numbers in multiple ways.
Friday Craft: we read the silly book Santa's Stuck by Rhonda Gowler Greene and made Santa's for our hallway bulletin board.
Dress to Impress Day: we sure have some handsome gentleman and beautiful ladies in our classroom! I love this day so much because they all look so cute! What a fun way to end our week of learning about our BEU Character Trait: Respectful.
