Every Day is Earth Day!

This week, we celebrated Earth Day and learned how we can take care of the Earth.  Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included playing various literacy games that targeted individual skills that we are working on in reading groups, writing about ways to take care of the Earth, reading and writing power words and words with blends/CCVCe words, reading books on RAZkids and answering comprehension questions, and so much more!

 We continued talking about mindfulness this week. Being mindful is being focused on the present moment (the present moment is right now) and noticing your thoughts, feelings, and breath. Ask your child to teach you about mindfulness.

We started a new Math unit last week and will be focusing on numbers to 100 for the last few weeks of Kindergarten. This week, we continued looking at numbers 21-50 and practiced reading, writing, and counting.

During Reading, we revisited the various big books we have read this year and talked about the ways that we have grown as readers. We reviewed the prefix "un" (not) to determine word meanings, antonyms, synonyms, and words with multiple meanings.  We learned the vocabulary words unselfish, selfish, scrumptious, and blue. 

In Phonics we reviewed CCVe words and practiced all of the sight words we have learned this year. We will continue reviewing in the coming weeks.

Looking ahead...

No School- Teacher Work Day 5/2

Peace Out Kindergarten Performance 5/14

Reed Rocks 5/16

No School- Memorial Day 5/26

Summer Sendoff 5/28

Last Day of Kindergarten :( 5/29

Have a great weekend!

Jena

Ribbit!

This week we learned about the life cycle of a frog.  Here are some of the other important things we learned...

Our centers this week included sequencing the life cycle of a frog, finding, reading and writing words with silent e and long vowels, writing words with blends, playing various learning games, and writing what we've learned about frogs.  

In Phonics, we worked on the long o and long u sounds.  We continued learning about silent e and learned the power word "use".  We built words with long vowels and read a story called My Dog Duke. 

We learned more about temperature during Science and talked about the difference in temperature in the sun and in the shade.  We experimented with thermometers on the playground and charted temperatures in our Science workbooks. 

In Reading, we listened to and discussed a book about dolphins.  We wondered about dolphins and used text features to build knowledge and locate information in our book.  We looked at the glossary, index, table of contents, diagrams, and bold words. We reviewed the -ful (full of) suffix during vocabulary and learned the words pointy, diet, playful and active.

We started a new Math unit and will be focusing on numbers to 100 for the last few weeks of Kindergarten. This week, we looked at numbers 21-50 and practiced reading, writing, and counting.

We wrapped up our opinion unit this week! We are excited to start how-to stories next week! 

We continued talking about being mindful this week. Mindfulness resources can be found here: Mindfulness Resources

Looking ahead...

No School- Teacher Work Day 5/2

Have a great weekend!

Jena