Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 17 Highlights!

What a wonderful week!

Thank you for join us for the Winter Sing on Wednesday. Take a peek at a few photos of our budding singers. You should be so proud of your child!

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

In Reader's Workshop, we completed our Super Powers unit. This week we introduced our ninth super power, book talk power. Working together with our reading buddy, we discussed the who, what, and where in our leveled readers. We continue to work on our persistence power and are now up to 8 whole minutes of independent or private reading. Please ask your child to show you their reading super powers at home.

Our Read Aloud of the week was The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. 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 two similarities and differences between our three gingerbread stories.

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. 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 completed our narrative writing unit. This week's focus was editing and publishing our narrative stories. Please check your child's folder for their narrative writing collection. You should be very proud of your kindergarten writer!

We introduced number writing in our Handwriting curriculum. We learned how to correctly write numbers 1 through 10. Please practice our frog jump, corner starter, center starter uppercase letters and all numbers with your child at home.

In Whole Group Math, we completed the third module in our Eureka Math curriculum. Our focus of module three will be measurement and data. This week's focus was more than, less than, and same as.

This week during Math Tubs, we continued our round of tubs. This rotation will focus on numeral writing, one-to-one correspondence, number identification, shape identification and composition, and basic addition. Please ask your child what their favorite math tub was this week. Take a peek at our kindergarten mathematicians!