Weekly Update

What's been going on?

On Wednesday we celebrated our Kindergarten election results with a picnic. It was a little too chilly outside so all the students gathered in the hallway with their teddy bears. The kids enjoyed a snack and listened to two more books about "the bear".

 

 

 

What's new?

Daily 5 Literacy:

-       We have finished fast tracking all the Letterlanders and their sounds! We will now begin teaching each Letterlander for mastery, introducing capital letters and working on correct letter formation.

-          literacy assessments (letter sound/id, phonological awareness, and print concepts)

 Reading:

-          real reading vs. fake reading

-          what do to during “Read to Self”

-          the 3 ways to read a book

Word Work:

-          identifying beginning sounds in words for each consonant

-          segmenting sounds and sentences segmenting sentences

 Sight Words (Target Words): I, see, like, my, the, can, am, we

 

Writer’s Workshop:

-          using drawings to convey our stories

-          what to do during “Work on Writing”

-          choosing topics that are important to us

-          telling about our stories in the order in which they

 Math:

-          counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s

-           answering “how many” questions when counting and solving word problems

-          writing numbers 1-20

-          sorting and comparing numbers using graphs

-           using one-to-one correspondence when counting objects

 IB Words and Meanings:respect, empathy

 IB Unit: Food for Thought

What’s coming up?

Pow Wow
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