This week we will be reviewing a lot about our school rules and what our job is at school! We will talk a lot about what kindergarteners look like and sound like when they are working!
This week in Literacy we will be finishing up unit 2 week 3 which is a review week although we will get to read a story called "I Love Bugs" and will talk about the different kinds of bugs we know about. The vocabulary words we will learn are curious, observe, attaches, process, and slender. As kindergarteners we know all there is to know about being curious! We will keep practicing our letters and sounds and blending them together to make words! Please continue to practice at home using your child's kindergarten folder! Also remember to READ, READ, READ for Book It – I can’t wait until I see all of your calendars at the end of the month!
In Math we will be continuing to learn more about numbers and using math talk to explain our thinking! We will also talk about 2-D and 3-D shapes and how they are the same and different!
In Writing we will review what good writers do and we will also talk about what the teacher does during writing time – the teachers in the room during writing time will go around to individual students and conference with them about their writing (which is a fancy way to say talk about their writing). During the conference the teacher is going to give each student a helpful hint to help them become a better writer – for example using turtle talk, adding more details to the picture or taking your time when drawing, or even helping come up with a sentence to write. Now that we are in the 2nd quarter we are going to start thinking of sentences to go with our stories – so we will think of a sentence and say it out loud a few times– then we will say it again and count how many words are in the sentence (this will help us remember what we are suppose to write hopefully). We will also hopefully be using our writer’s workshop folder as a tool to help us because it has an alphabet chart and all of our kindergarten words in there! I can’t wait to see all of the stories during writing time!
For Unit Studies we are going to jump back to Health and talk about drug safety – which ties in very well with Red Ribbon Week that is coming up. We will have discussions about drugs and how they can hurt our bodies if they are not used correctly. We will also be decorating our door this week with a drug free message. This Friday the 23rd is also silly sock day so please have your child wear silly socks if you have some. We will talk about how together we can "sock it to drugs" and make good choices to help our bodies stay healthy! There is also going to be a quick all school assembly on Friday morning to get us fired up for Red Ribbon Week!
Also this Thursday the 22nd is the Meadow Lane pumpkin walk and family's are encouraged to come back to school and walk together to receive a pumpkin! I will be there somewhere along the route and I would love to see as many of my friends as possible!
It is sure to be a fun week – I am looking forward to another great quarter in Kindergarten!
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