Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 14 Highlights!

What a short and sweet week!

During our Shared Reading, we focused on the poem, Hibernate, to explore letters, sounds, rhyming words, and print concepts. We introduced one new word wall or snap word this week. Our new word that we can read in a snap is is. Please practice identifying, reading, and writing our sight words with your child at home.

In Reader's Workshop, we continued our Super Powers unit. This week we reviewed five of our six super powers. Our focus powers include: pointer, snap word, picture, reread, and sound powers. We are working to build private reading stamina. I have been impressed with our super readers who are now up to 5 whole minutes of independent reading. Please ask your child to show you their reading super powers at home.

Our Read Aloud of the week was Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson. We discussed character, settings, and important events. We used retell cards to identify the beginning, middle, and end of our story. Please ask your child to share story elements from our weekly read aloud.

During Daily Five word work stations this week, we played Sort It, Color, It, Roll and Read It, and Spin It with our snap words. We reviewed our word sorts and explored Lexia on the iPad. Thank you Mrs. O'Keefe for joining us to help with our phonemic awareness activities. We also practiced labeling at the writing table. Please ask your child what was their favorite Daily Five station this week!

This week during Writer's Workshop, we continued our narrative writing unit. This week's focus was creating narrative stories about our Thanksgiving break with a beginning, middle, and end. We are using our checklist to complete our collections of narrative stories. Please review our narrative writing checklist with your child at home.

We continue to practice uppercase letters in our Handwriting curriculum. We continue to practice corner starter letters. Our corner starters this week were L, U, V, and W. Please practice our frog jump and corner starter uppercase letters with your child at home.

In Whole Group Math, we began the third module in our Eureka Math curriculum. Our focus of module three will be measurement and data. This week, we discussed, compared, and contrasted items using the terms longer than, taller than, and shorter than. With our math tub partner, we went on a measurement hunt to find objects that were longer than or shorter than a piece of string.

This week during Math Tubs, we introduced a new round of tubs. This rotation will focus on numeral writing, one-to-one correspondence, number identification, shape identification and composition, and basic addition. Take a peek at our kindergarten mathematicians hard at work!