Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 31 Highlights!

What a wonderful week!

During our Shared Reading, we focused on the poem, Recycle, to explore letters, sounds, rhyming words, and print concepts. We reviewed our kindergarten snap words this week. Please practice identifying, reading, and writing our sight words with your child at home.

In Reader's Workshop, we continue to explore our fourth unit, Becoming Avid Readers. This week, we reviewed three ways to "play" during workshop. We can play school, play games, and play pretend. Please have a reading playdate with your child at home.

During Read Aloud this week we continued our themed story sets. This week's theme was the Rhythm and Rhyme: Joyful Language. Some stories we read this week were The Doorbell Rang, Mary Wore Her Red Dress, When it Starts to Snow, and Sleeping Bears. We shared similarities and differences in all of our friendship books.

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 continue to explore phonics skills using our Word Sorts. Please ask your child to share with you their word pattern. We also practiced our phonemic awareness skills using Lexia on the iPad. We practiced labeling and creating lists 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 small moment narrative unit! We reviewed the components of a narrative piece. We must have a who, what, and where in our stories. Thank you for sending in pictures of your child's adventures. We began using these photos as a guide for our stories.

In Whole Group Math, we began the fifth unit in our Eureka Math curriculum. This unit is all about teen numbers. Our focus this week is counting ten ones and some ones. Please ask your child to share with you the say ten way to name our teen numbers.

This week during Math Tubs, we began a new round of tubs. Our rotation will focus on number writing, teen numbers, subitizing, one-to-one correspondence, manipulating 100 objects, number pairs to 10, and basic addition and subtraction. Please ask your child what their favorite math tub was this week.