Week 20 Highlights!

What a short and sweet week!

Our Nora Project focus this week was understanding empathy.  After reading I am Human: A Book of Empathy by Susan Verde, we discussed what is empathy and how to show empathy to one another.

During our Shared Reading, we focused on the poem, Family. We used this poem to explore letters, sounds, rhyming words and print concepts.  We introduced one new snap word this week.  Our new snap words is for.  Please practice identifying, reading, and writing our snap words with your child at home.

We completed our Word Scientists unit in our Phonics curriculum.  This week we became word detectives.  We read the snap word chart in different ways, sorted our snap words in different fonts, went on snap word hunt in our classroom, and celebrated Word School.  Take a peek at our word scientists.

In Reader's Workshop, we completed our third unit, Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles.  This week we learned that now that we are beginning to read harder books, we need to activate extra strength super powers.  Take a peek at our kindergarten super readers!

Our Read Aloud of the week was Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats.  Our comprehension focus was identifying character, setting, and important events.  We sequenced the story using our retell strip.  Finally, we compared and contrasted text to The Snowy Day.  Please ask your child to share the similarities and differences between Peter's experiences in both texts. 

During Daily Five word work stations this week, used play-dough to make our names, created name puzzles, made name necklaces, matched letter and picture puzzles, composed letters using wood pieces and practiced phonemic awareness and phonics skills using Lexia.  We practiced labeling pictures at the writing table.  We began our fifth phonics sort in our Words Their Way curriculum this week.  We practiced many of our new routines and procedures when cutting, sorting, and gluing pictures into correct categories.  We also played partner sort and minute to win it.  Please ask your child to share their sound sort with you.  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 we picked a piece to publish, used our writing checklist to reread and revise, and shared our writing with the group with a writing celebration.  Please check your child's folder for their narrative writing collection.  You should be so proud of your true story writer!

In Whole Group Math, we completed our measurement and data unit in the third Eureka Math module.   This week we reviewed comparing numbers and quantities using rekenreks.  Our focus vocabulary is more than, less than, and same.  We have also been practicing subitizing and writing numbers to 10.

We introduced our new round of Math Tubs which include: one to one correspondence, addition to ten, nonstandard measurement, subitizing, number sequencing, number writing, BUMP, and Zearn.  Take a peek at our math tub partners hard at work.

Upcoming Dates

• January 28th--Coffee with Mr. Hodge-8:00-9:00am
• January 30th--Parent-Teacher Conferences-please make sure to take a peek at our sign up-11am dismissal
• January 31st--Parent-Teacher Conferences 1/2 day-11am dismissal