Week Seven Highlights!

What a busy short week!  Take a peek at our kindergartners participating in the Irving School Fun Run!  Way to go runners!

Our story of the week was Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats.  Our comprehension focus was naming the main character, setting, and important events.  We also sequenced events using our retell cards.  Please ask your child to share with you a detail from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  

We added one new word to the word wall this week.  Our new word wall word is the.  Please work on reading, writing, and identifying our word wall words and sight word punch cards with your child at home.

Take a peek at our kiddos reading to self, working on writing, and completing word work.  We even began guided reading groups this week!  Please ask your child to tell you their favorite Daily Five station this week.

We completed the second bend of launching our writer's workshop.  We are busy creating many teaching books.  Take a peek at our kindergartners sharing the beginning, middle, and end of their teaching book with our peanut butter and jelly partner.  We celebrated our the end of our teaching book bend by sharing our writing with our 5th grade book buddies.  Our 5th grade buddies were so impressed by our kindergarten writers!

In math, we are beginning to decompose numbers three, four, and five.  Using manipulatives we created different ways to make numbers.  We practiced correctly writing numbers from zero to five.  Where do we start our numbers, at the top!  During our fluency practice, we played hide and see, beep number, and see, count, and write numbers.  

Take a peek at our kindergarten mathematicians hard at work during math tubs.  

We began our first FOSS science unit this week, Trees and Weather.  We visited our schoolyard tree, illustrated and labeled our tree in our science notebook, and discussed the parts of a tree.  Take a peek at our kindergarten scientists observing our schoolyard tree!

We had an author visit from Lori Degman this week.  She shared her new book, Norbert's Big Dream, and we read along to Cock-A-Doodle Oops.

Finally, we had our first kindergarten birthday this week!  Take a peek at our kindergartners listening to our friend share her favorite story.

Upcoming Events

Week of October 18th-20th—Parent-Teacher Conferences
October 19th--Academic Fair and Egg Drop

October 20th and 21st—Parent-Teacher Conference Half Days—Dismissal is at 11:00am
October 24th-27th--Irving Book Fair
October 27th--Morton Arboretum Field Trip--permission slips and money are due by October 21st

October 31st—Irving Halloween Parade and Party—Please check your email in the next few days for updates from our Room Moms.  Plan on joining us at 1:30pm until dismissal.