Learning in room 302

 A look at our learning...

Fundations: now that we have finished learning all 26 lowercase letters, we are moving onto reading and writing 3-4 letter words by "tapping them out."  Ask your child to show you how to tap out a word.  More information will be in next week's Friday Folder.  There will not be Fundations handwriting practice in this week's folder, but will be next week as we quickly refresh uppercase letters (that we expect students to come into Kindergarten knowing.)

Please check your child's Friday Folder for the end of unit 1 Fundations assessment. 

Shared Reading: this week we read the Big Book Look at me.  This book featured our new word wall word, at.  We continue to work on pointing to words when we read and noticing when we come across word wall words in text. 

I'm very impressed with how well they have done on their first two spelling tests!  Keep practicing at home!  They should be able to read and write the words, so make sure you practicing both ways (flash cards are a great way to practice reading them). 

Below, students are highlighting word wall words in their own copy of the book Look at me.

Writing Workshop: we continue to work on sounding out, or now tapping out, words to help us spell when writing our stories.  This is a continuous theme in Kindergarten writing.  Their words should be more decodable and easier to read now that they know all of their letter sounds.  

Math: this week we worked on graphing, sorting shapes by type and exploring calculators.  They loved the calculator day! 

Check your child's Friday Folder for ways to extend their math learning at home. 

More great weather this week to play with our friends outside!