Saturday, December 1, 2012

This week in KC

KC had many students vote for this book!
Ask your child what book they voted for this month?


 Learning About Letters

During Shared Reading  time we have been looking for uppercase letters. We noticed that names are always capitalized and the first word in a sentence. We talked about what a sentence is. We made a Tree Map to show the two parts to a sentence.
At Interactive Writing time we are working on using upper and lowercase letters in the correct spot. This can be tricky in kindergarten!
Investigation Letters 
Daily 5 Station~Sorting Letters
 We are looking at how letters are similar and different.
We are learning that if you can make o it is similar to a. c. d, g, q
Making Letters in Sand Trays

These are learned word family chunks!  
 Reading with Friends!
At large group time we are playing a game called Sound Boxes.  In this game we are listening to how many sounds in a word. The students who are up say each sound while jumping in their box.  Lastly, we put the sounds together and say the word!
Science Observation

Some Writing In KC this Week
 
At Daily 5 Time students could write a holiday wish list for Hanukkah or Christmas. This is Patrick's list.
Gabe made this picture at choice time. I love how he wrote Patriots! 
At choice time Aila made this card for a friend who was feeling sick.



Friday, November 30, 2012

Math This Week









We LOVED playing the What's Missing Game!! Ask your child how to play this game.
Look at all of the objects!
Close your eyes.
What's missing?

L...is for Lexie

Lexie is the Special Person this Week!

Friday, November 23, 2012

This Week In KC

We celebrated the 50th day of school this week! We make crowns and played Race to 50 with Mrs. Mead's class!  Thanks for all of the wonderful gratitude grams!  I hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend...see you on Tuesday!
 The Queen came for a visit!
 Playing Race to 50 with a friend







Shared Reading
During Shared Reading time we are reading Will You Be My Mother and Hairy Bear. You can see above that we wrote words that have the AM chunk. We learned if you can spell AM you can spell bam, clam, ham, Pam etc. We are also working on the strategy of asking ourselves while reading and writing  Does it sound right? Does it look right? Does it make sense?


Writing Workshop
 We are learning about small moments. At writing time, we have been reading and talking about how these books have parts to them that are small moments. 






We are starting a new math unit about patterns. 
You can download the parent letters below.