Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 37 Highlights!

What a fun and busy week!

We began the week with a visit from our Mystery Reader, Shahad. Thank you for sharing two underwater animal books to our kindergartners.

During our ELA block, we reviewed many of our literature standards. Our story of the week was Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale. We retold the story with details, asked and answered questions about key details, and identified story elements.

We added one new word to the word wall this week. Our new word wall words is me. Please continue to practice our kindergarten word wall word lists and sight word punch cards with your child at home.

In writer's workshop, we began our all about underwater animal books. We reviewed our research and compiled three facts, then we wrote and illustrated our animal facts, and then we created a table of contents to help the reader understand what our non-fiction text. We will publish our books and next week and share. We can't wait for you to see our all about writing!

We continue to explore teen numbers in the 5th module of our Eureka Math curriculum. We explored extending the say ten and regular count sequence to 100. We also reviewed core fluency sprints. Please continue to practice addition and subtraction equations with your child at home.

During math tubs, we reviewed addition and subtraction to ten, teen number base ten blocks, sequencing two digit numbers, Subitize Tree, one-to-one correspondence to twenty, and Find Sums on the iPad.

Take a peek at our kindergartners participating in Outside Day during our ABC Countdown. Please continue to review our countdown nightly.

On Tuesday, we learned about coding during Library. Take a peek at our kindergartners playing the game, Code and Go Robot Mouse.

On Wednesday, we visited the Schaumburg Boomers' stadium to watch the Boomers take on the River City Rascals. Take a peek at our kindergartners and book buddies enjoying the ballgame.

On Thursday, we took a walking field trip to the Maze Library. We learned about the different items we can check out at the library, where different types of texts are located, and all about the summer reading program. Take a peek at our kindergartners enjoying some reading and play time at the Maze Library.