A look at our learning...
Fundations: we have learned all 26 lowercase letters of the alphabet! Yay! This means your child should know the name, sound and correct formation of all 26 lowercase letters. Next week, they will have a Fundations assessment, similar to the one I showed you at parent-teacher conferences, so you can see what letters/sounds/formations they need to work on. I will send these home in next week's Friday Folders.
Our final two letters are z and qu. We learned that "qu" is a "scaredy cat" and can never be alone. When spelling words, q and u must always be together.
Please use the following verbal prompts when forming these letters:
z: across, slant down, across
qu: over, around dow....n, curve back (q) down, curve up, down (u)
Shared Reading: this week we read the big book We Are and the poem I am me. Both of these texts featured our new word wall word, am. We are working on pointing to words when we read and identifying words we know (word wall words) in text.
Writing Workshop: now that we know all 26 letter sounds, students should be applying this knowledge more when spelling words and writing stories. At the beginning of the school year simply drawing pictures was ok, then adding a random string of letters showed they had an awareness of print even if you couldn't read it. Now, they should be writing words that are legible and using their letter sounds for at least beginning and ending sounds in words.
Look at the great "sounding out" on these Thanksgiving papers we did on Monday!
Math: this week we learned a new game called "Number Line Squeeze" or Monster Squeeze as we like to call it on the Every Day Math app in the CPS portal. You can access Every Day Math Games at home as well through the CPS portal. A note was attached to the parent hand out you received at parent teacher conferences explaining how to access these games. If you mis-placed it and would like another, please let me know. We also worked on positional words again, ST Math and number formation through a game called "roll and record."
We are beginning unit 4 next week.
Snacks: a reminder to please send one healthy snack to school with your child each day. I have noticed since returning from Thanksgiving break, many friends have not had a snack. I will always give a child a snack if one is forgotten on the rare occasion or you are unable to provide due to life situations, but if it is daily they are not bringing one simply because they prefer my snack, I will not provide one. You guys are very generous and have provided plenty of extra snacks, which I am not low on. I DO NOT need extra snacks provided at this time, but rather am trying to encourage responsibility of them remembering their school things. Thanks for understanding and helping with this. When they say "mom or dad forgot my snack" I always have them correct it and say "I forgot my snack." I remind them that mom and dad have their things to take care of, but their backpack, folder, library books and snack is their (the kindergarteners) responsibility. This is a great, age appropriate job for them.
November Citizen of the Month: I posted on Facebook, but wanted to share on here as well! Yay Cooper! He was chosen, by his peers, as our November Citizen of the Month!
The weather this week was beautiful! We enjoyed every minute!
Please be sure to send a jacket next week, as the weather cools of.
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