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. 

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This Week In KC

 At math time we have made cube sticks of our names. We have been comparing our names with classmates. In our math books we are recording names that are shorter, longer or the same.

 comparing names

On a different day we had to put four names in order from shortest to longest or longest to shortest. We recorded our results in our math books.

 Fall Alphabet Bridge Map

  We worked on words with the all chunk. One of the stay days recorded words with the all chunk.

We made pattern block turkey's 

 Writing Workshop Small Moments

At Writing time we are learning how to write Small Moment stories. We worked with Mrs. Clancy on writing a Small Moment story about Apple Picking.  Ask your child about their Small Moment Story! We are also working on  publishing a story from our writing folders. Some students have been working on the illustrations.

 

This Week In KC Kindergarten

 L...is for Lucy
Lucy is the Special Person this Week!!!




Yes It was snowing out this week!

 We are writing a class Nonfiction Book ALL ABOUT FALL

We are learning that Nonfiction books sometimes have BOLD headings at the top of the page.
Nonfiction books give facts and new information. Some nonfiction books have photographs and some
  have pictures. At Interactive Writing time we wrote facts about leaves and pumpkins. We focused on spelling, writing sentences that make sense and spacing between words.

                                                             
                                                                
We picked writing workshop goals this week

We are picking a favorite book to publish from our writing folders!

ABC
We are working on an fall alphabet Bridge Map
We read the story

We tried to think of words that  that began with the same beginning sounds like the Dr.Seuss ABC book! We are still working on this Thinking Map.

The message is missing vowels!!

We worked together figuring out the missing vowels. You can see that for some of the words like Let's and Busy were tricky. We  tried a few different vowels and asked ourselves what vowel looked right!

Math
We looked around the room for objects that were shorter and longer then our cube measuring sticks.

 We worked on combinations of 5 leaves some of them where red and some yellow

 We record our thinking with a Brace Map

Fall Story Hour

Everyone had a great time wearing their PJ's to school on Tuesday! We went on a Fall Story Walk visiting each kindergarten classroom listening to different fall stories and learning some fall songs.

We went to KM first. Ms. McMahon read a funny story about a Turkey. We went into KC next, Mrs. Clancy read a funny story about a spider. We also learned a new song called Thanks A Lot and The Earth.

Mrs. Mead read a funny story about Thanksgiving! Ask your child what was their favorite fall book and why!

 We loved wearing our PJ's!!

 A few students suggested we do this again in the winter!