This Week in Kindergarten…

POPCORN WORDS: review week

READING: This week during reading, we learned about how non-fiction books end…some books just end and some invite readers to do something else – read other books, give websites to look at information, etc. We also learned about different features of non-fiction texts – bold words, colored words, photographs, labels, headings, etc. We used a dragonfly book to practice reading non-fiction texts. We read and reread the dragonfly book to learn more and more. 

 

WRITING: During writing this week, we continued writing all about books. The topic we studied was bears. We started by listing everything we already knew about bears. We learned a lot of information about bears by reading a lot of books, watching bear videos and then wrote about…

  • things bears can do
  • things bears have
  • things bears are

We finished learning about bears by putting all of the information we learned about bears into a book. We wrote complete sentences and drew and labeled pictures to go along with our writing. 

MATH: This week during math, we practiced counting groups of stars and animals – we counted groups of ten, circled it and then counted the extra ones. We continued practicing finding partners of ten. We even helped Puzzled Penguin write his teen numbers the correct way! We finished the week in math by coloring blocks to show the correct teen number. 

LITERACY/PHONICS: During our phonics and literacy time this week, we worked on…

  • long a and short a sound
  • reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and retelling it using the props we made
  • making words in the word family -op and -un
  • sentence dictation – Mrs. Baker gave us a sentence and we stretched out all the sounds we heard in the words

MYSTERY READERS: We had A GREAT TIME having mystery readers each day this week! It was an exciting part of our day and it made March is Reading Month so much fun!

OUR SUPER STARS AND LUCKY…had fun getting to hang out together on their Super Star Day!

UPCOMING DATES…

Friday, April 2 – Sunday, April 11: Spring Break…enjoy!

Monday, April 12: Music

Tuesday, April 13: Gym; Return Take Home Book Bags & Library Books today!

Wednesday, April 14: Art

Thursday, April 15: STEAM

Friday, April 16: Music

Have a wonderful Spring break!