Mrs. Grogan's Kindergarten: Week 24 Highlights!

What a short and sweet week!

In Second Step, we began our child protection unit. This week's focus was always ask first. We learned the never-never rules and the three Rs: recognize, refuse, and report. Please ask your child to model the 3 Rs for you at home.

To celebrate Black History Month, the kindergartners gathered together to make pieces to a famous black Americans collage. We can't wait to see the final product!

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

We continued our Word-Part Power unit in our Phonics curriculum. During this unit we will be adding, deleting, and manipulating phonemes to make new words. This week we learned about the word families -og and -ig.

In Reader's Workshop, we continued our fourth unit, Becoming Avid Readers. This week we reviewed reading playdates and goal setting. While playing school, we can read aloud or participate in shared reading. Our goals when reading aloud are to book talk with our partner. When participating in shared reading, we focus on partner power to make our reading stronger. Take a peek at our avid readers.

Our Read Alouds this week were Grace for President by Kelly Dipucchio and Duck for President by Doreen Cronin. Our comprehension focus was identifying character, setting, and important events. We also compared and contrasted two texts on a similar topic. Please ask your child to retell our stories to you.

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 ninth phonics sort in our Words Their Way curriculum this week. We practiced many of our routines and procedures when cutting, sorting, and gluing pictures into correct categories. We also played partner sort, memory match, 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 continued our how-to writing unit. Our focus this week was adding tips, tricks, suggestions and warnings to our how-to writing. Take a peek at our kindergarten writers.

In Whole Group Math, we began our fourth Eureka Math module. This unit is all about number pairs, addition and subtraction to ten. This week we practiced composing and decomposing numbers to 6, 7, and 8 using linking cubes. Please ask your child to share with you the number pairs that make each numeral. We have also been practicing subitizing and writing numbers to 10.

We began a new round of Math Tubs which include: one to one correspondence, addition to ten, nonstandard measurement, subitizing, and Zearn. This week, we continued our Math Workshop Wednesday. Each Wednesday, we will be working in small groups to complete enrichment activities. Take a peek at our kindergarten mathematicians.