Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 36 Highlights!

What a wonderful week!

On Friday, we celebrated Olympic Day. Please ask your child to share with you their country name, colors of their flag, group cheer, and favorite Olympic Day station.

During our Shared Reading, we focused on the poem, In the Ocean, to explore letters, sounds, rhyming words, and print concepts. We added one new word to our snap word wall. Our new snap word is of. We also reviewed our kindergarten word wall words this week, because our poem was filled with 23 snap words! 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 avid nonfiction reading. We learned that nonfiction readers name the main idea and key details. Take a peek at our avid readers!

During Read Aloud this week we continued our themed story sets. This week's theme was Learning How to Be Yourself. Some stories we read this week were The Pig in the Pond, Three Hens and a Peacock, Harold Finds a Voice, Ruby the Copycat, and I Like Me. We identified characters, setting, and main event; as well as, shared similarities and differences in all of our texts.

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 also practiced our phonemic awareness skills using Lexia on the iPad. We practiced labeling and creating lists at the writing table. We also read leveled texts in our guided reading groups. Please ask your child what was their favorite Daily Five station this week.

This week during Writer's Workshop, we reviewed our three writing types: narrative, informational, and opinion writing. Our kindergarten writers selected their favorite genre of writing and composed personal texts.

In Whole Group Math, we began the sixth unit in our Eureka Math curriculum. This unit was all about analyzing, composing, and comparing shapes. Our focus this week was composing 2D shapes. Please ask your child to create flat shapes with materials at home.

This week during Math Tubs, we completed our round of tubs. Our rotation focused on number writing, shape composition, teen numbers, one-to-one correspondence, number pairs to 10, and basic addition and subtraction. Please ask your child what their favorite math tub was this week.