What We Did During Our Week:
We are working on the vowels, and being able to differentiate between short and long vowels. This week we focused extensively on the vowel A, ands learning that the silent e is usually an indicator that the word is long A.
Next week’s spelling words: no, he, of, we, men, hen, ten, pen, then, when
We have also introduced our writing process. This is something that we have been doing all year, but now it is a little more refined. They now move their popsicle stick along our stair step model in order to be aware of what step of writing they are working on. There are 4 steps: pre-writing, drafting, editing, and publishing. We have introduced editing and publishing. Now, they go back and edit their errors and when it is perfect they transfer their writing to a final copy. THEN, as a stretch for students that are wanting to push their work to the next level, they get on google docs and type their work! They did a fantastic job this week with their writing! They will bring these home so be sure to celebrate their major growth in writing!
In Math we continue to work on number bonds. We are learning how to write them, and how to talk about them. They come up with fun stories to match their number bonds.
We had our dinosaur excavation! Within in small groups, they used paleontologist tools to carefully dig up and assemble dinosaurs bones to reveal a complete dinosaur! They had a blast doing this – it was a perfect way to end our Dino unit!
We have gotten to share every single timeline project, they loved getting to share their pictures and past events with their classmates!
Other:
NWEA is complete! We started the year with 47% on grade level for reading and 40% on grade level for math.We now have 70% of the class on grade level for reading and math! Keep in mind it is the middle of the year, and we are going to really start seeing even more progress for the remainder of the year. Awesome job kindergartners!
Thursday we saw big buddies and did some typing with them!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, February 8th – NO SCHOOL for KINDERGARTEN only
February 15th and 18th – NO SCHOOL
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