Welcome to Kindergarten!

We had a busy week wrapping up our Community Helpers unit and learning about Fire Safety! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our literacy centers this week included independent reading, RAZKids on the iPads, and reading group with me! We wrote power words at Word Work center, wrote about fire safety at Write the Room center, wrote the power words "I can see at Theme center, played CVC games at ABC center, and wrote power words.

During our reading lessons this week, we learned new vocabulary words that we read in our mentor texts (snatch, comfort, welcome, and furious). We made text to self connections with the story When Sophie Gets Angry...Really, Really Angry. We practiced reading power words, learned a new poem, Just Three, and added it to our poem books.

We worked on the letters and sounds for Gg, Kk, and Oo during Phonics. We read and wrote the power word "is" and the heart word "was". We identified words and pictures that began with the /g/, /k/, and /o/ sounds and blended sounds to read words. Please continue to work with your child at home on stretching out words, tapping out the sounds they hear on their fingers (they can show you how), and then writing what the hear.

In Writing, we used the story Round is a Tortilla to help us generate ideas for our writing. We wrote lists of various objects of different shapes. We worked on making sure our writing went from left to right and again, worked on tapping out and recording the sounds we hear in each word. Ask your child to tell you what they wrote about this week!

We worked on comparing numbers to ten during Math. We compared using the words greater than, less than, more than, and equal to.

We had our first Reed Family time! Every child at Reed is assigned to a family; a group of two kids from each grade level and one-two Reed parents (teachers and staff). We get together each month to complete fun activities and get to know others in the building.

We continued learning about being a scientist during Science. We explored the five senses using science tools. More to come!