We had another busy, fun filled week in Kindergarten! We practiced our reading and literacy skills, worked on our listening skills, started a new chapter book, read many dinosaur books, finished our poetry book, shared poems with our preschool reading buddies, worked with new workstations, and explored caterpillars! Take a look below to find out more.
In the listening center the students listened to the story "Corduroy". They worked with Mrs. Boyd on making sight words and Mrs. Arnold on sounding out words.
When students worked with me, we practiced reading three different books this week. Mrs. Roland's group also worked on reading books.
Like I mentioned, we started piloting a social skills program called TeachTown this week. We focused on Listening when the teacher talks this week and watched a video that discussed this skill. The students had to show their knowledge of the rules to listening when the teacher talks.
The students had to find and circle the pictures that showed times when the students should be quietly listening to their teacher. They also had to cut apart a comic from the video we watched and put the pictures in sequential order. We also used character puppets to act out the situation as well.
The students voted on what chapter book they would like to read next and this is what they decided. We began reading it this week and the students are really enjoying it!
We also read many dinosaur books. Here are some of them.
We also worked hard to finish our poems for our Student Treasures poetry book this week. The students all worked very hard and their poems look amazing! I mailed everything out Thursday after school and now we wait a couple weeks for them to come back in. I can't wait to share them with you all at our Poetry Cafe next month!!
Here are the pictures we took for the meet the authors page as well as for a poem I wrote to the students. They will both be in our Poetry Book as well!
The students were very excited to share their poems with our preschool reading buddies on Friday.
We worked on some new workstations this week. Below you can see an Easter egg graphing paper. Gabriel is also working on a survey to ask his peers what their favorite insect is and then he counted the tallies for each one. Also below, you can see Dakota and Lauranna building with styrofoam cups as they read the sight words.
We also worked on putting pictures in sequential order based on what happened first, next, then and last. The students also played Sight Word Candyland. I made sight word cards for them to use with the board game Candyland and once they read the sight words, they were able to move those colors on the board. Below you can also see Alexander and Elisa working on putting together addition and subtraction puzzles and then copying the number sentence onto a dry erase board.
This week we also received caterpillars in our classroom to watch and observe over the next couple of weeks! The students are excited to see what will happen to them and have already made some guesses on what they think will happen. They have enjoyed observing them so far.
Some important papers that came home this week are pictured below. The first one is asking for volunteers for our field trip coming up in a couple weeks. If you are able to volunteer please return it to school as soon as you can so I know who all will be joining us. Thank you!
You will also need to send in a t-shirt for field day. Please send them in by Friday, May 5th so your chid can tie-dye them in art class in order to wear them for field day!
Thanks for checking in this week. Check back again next week to see what we are up to!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant
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