Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 21 Highlights and the 100th Day of Kindergarten!

What a short and sweet week!

During our Shared Reading, we focused on the poem, I'm a Little Penguin, 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 so. Please practice identifying, reading, and writing our sight words with your child at home.

In Reader's Workshop, we continued our third unit, Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles. This week we focused on using sound power to read tricky words. Take a peek at our kindergarten readers practicing sound power with their partner using alphabet books.

Our Read Aloud of the week was Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester. We discussed character, setting, and main event. Please ask your child to retell our story of the week.

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 began our second bend in our how-to writing unit, Learning from Mentor Texts. Using My First Soccer Game as our guide, we discovered that how-to books must have a title, list, pictures, and important parts in bold. We can't wait to share with you our how-to writing collections.

We continue to practice lowercase letter writing in our Handwriting curriculum. We reviewed how to correctly write all Magic C lowercase letters. Please review our frog jump, corner starter, center starter uppercase letters and all numbers with your child at home.

In Whole Group Math, we continue to explore number pairs, decomposing, and composing numbers in the fourth module in our Eureka Math curriculum. This week's focus was composing and decomposing numbers 6 to 9. Please ask your child to share with you a number bond for each of our numerals to 9.

This week during Math Tubs, we continued our round of tubs. Our rotation will focus on number writing, teen numbers, subitizing, one-to-one correspondence, number sequencing, and basic addition to 10. Please ask your child what their favorite math tub was this week.

On Friday, we celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten! We are 100 days smarter! Take a peek at our kindergartners exploring all things 100.