18 | September | 2020 | Mrs. Baker's Class

POPCORN WORDS: dog, the

COLOR WORD: blue

: We read Little Blue Truck books!

: We read Pete the Cat books! Pete is a blue cat!

: We read Pout-Pout Fish books!

: We had fun making our own Little Blue Truck!

READING: This week during reading, we practiced re-reading to learn more about a topic. We also re-read our books to put all the pages together. We started at the front cover and went through page by page all the way until we got to the back cover. When reading our real world books, we learned to add a “pinch” of ourselves, by telling what we think about our books.

WRITING: During writing this week, we listened to the story The Little Engine That Could. We learned that even when things get hard, it’s ok…we don’t give up! We used whiteboards and markers to practice this lesson by drawing (and erasing if we made mistakes) a train. We drew pictures of the playground and our homes. We added details to the pictures and labeled some things on the pictures too. The Kinders did a great job taking a risk and writing the first sound they heard as well as stretching out some words. We ended the week by starting a three page booklet about school. We wrote about the lunchroom – drawing a picture, labeling and even writing a sentence! We will continue these books about school next week.

MATH: This week during math, we were excited to use our math books for the very first time this year! We drew objects to match the number we were given and met a new friend named Puzzled Penguin. We had to help Puzzled Penguin figure out his mistake! Puzzled Penguin will be in our math books frequently this year, so we are going to need to help him! We learned about circles – they have no sides and no corners. We practiced finding circles and drawing circles. This week we also added numbers together using our math tools. We ended the week by comparing numbers – we colored graphs to show which number was bigger or smaller. The Kinders are doing a great job!

ABC BOOTCAMP: We learned about the letters J, K and L. We talked about what the letters look like, practiced making the letter sounds, writing the letters, learned about and colored things that start with that letter.

COOL TOOLS:

We read the story The Monster Who Lost His Mean. The monster learned about being a friend in this story and not being mean. We sorted little stories into being a friend or a bully.

We read the story Howard B. Wigglebottom. We heard about how Howard learns about bullies. We learned about how we want to be buddies, not bullies!

We read the story Interrupting Chicken. We learned that it’s important to wait our turn to talk and not be an interrupting chicken.

CONSTITUTION DAY: On Thursday we learned about Constitution Day! We read a book to help us learn more about the constitution and made an American flag hat to wear. We also talked about our class rules and decorated hands to show that we follow these rules! We hung them up by our class pledge.