KINDERGARTEN CONNECTION ~ NOVEMBER 20th

KINDERGARTEN CONNECTION 

Happy Thanksgiving! 

I am incredibly thankful to be your children's teacher. It is a privilege to teach and learn with your kind, curious and hardworking children.

Literacy Highlights
The children are actively reinforcing new skills and concepts through motor-memory methods and kinesthetic procedures. Motion chanting, skywriting, tracing, tapping and finger-blending solidify learning within the brain. We can name all 26 letters of the alphabet and match them with their corresponding sounds. Ask your child to chant the letters/sounds for you. Remind your child to show you the motions that go with each letter/sound.

Letter Name–Keyword–Letter Sound

Aa-apple-/a/ 
Bb-bat-/bat/ 
Cc-cat-/c/ 
Dd-dog-/d/ 
Ee-Ed-/e/ 
Ff-fun-/f/ 
Gg-game-/g/
Hh-hat-/h/ 
Ii-itch-/i/ 
Jj-jug-/j/ 
Kk-kite-/k/
Ll-lamp-/l/ 
Mm-man-/m/

Nn-nut-/n/
Oo-octopus-/o/
Pp-pan-/p/ 
Qu-queen-/qu/
Rr-rat-/r/ 
Ss-snake-/s/ 
Tt-top-/t/ 
Uu-up-/u/ 
Vv-van-/v/ 
Ww-wind-/w/
 Xx-fox-/x/ 
Yy-yellow-/y/ 
Zz-zebra-/z/

Writer's Workshop

We are writing up a storm in kindergarten! We are studying various authors and illustrators work to learn how writers create engaging and informative books. This week we learned the power of word choice, full illustrations and diagramming. Encourage your child to write a book at home. Maybe you and your child can co-author a book. Happy writing!

Math Highlights
We are becoming teen number experts in kindergarten! We can represent teen numbers as a group of ten and some more with ten frames, tally sticks, scattered objects and our math hands. We are learning how to represent the part-part-whole relationship of addition with objects and written equations. The children are working hard at justifying their math thinking as they work with partners and share in front of the class. We continue to practice naming numerals, ordering numerals, and counting forwards and backwards. 

Science

We are leaning about the seasons and how animals prepare for the winter. We will begin a full weather unit in December.

Play Dough Recipe

Here's an easy recipe if you are looking for something fun to do with your child over the vacation.

Cooked Play Dough Recipe 1 cup flour
1 tablespoon oil
1 cup water
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp cream of tarter
food coloring
Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat.
Stir constantly until mixture forms a ball. Knead until smooth.
Store in covered container.

Reading Strategy Cards

We can say words write the first letter of words using lowercase letters.

Before and After Numbers

We feel so proud when others can read our writing!

We are working on responding to questions in writing. We continue to work hard at stretching words out, writing high frequency words and spacing between words. 

We love working together on floor puzzles.

We can dots on dice together to play Five in a Row.

We can quickly tell how many dots we see and match them to numerals. 

We can read and write sight words quickly.

We can write magic c letters c, d, g, a, q.

We went on a three dimensional shape hunt in the classroom. Look how many real life three dimensional shape objects we found and sorted.

We love to write in kindergarten! These kiddos discovered how to make offices with their writing folders.

We are building our writing stamina. 

This game is called Count and Compare Pirate Treasure. 

We can use tally marks to help us organize our math thinking and count by 5's.

We can match beginning sounds to their corresponding letters.

We know how to solve our own writing problems.
We can sound words out and use the word wall to help us spell. 

We are writing simple sentences!

"I can be a good friend!"

We are learning how to use conversation bubbles in our writing.

We are feeling so proud of our writing successes!

We worked with friends from Ms. Rowntree's class to make cornucopias. 

We learned several Thanksgiving Day songs and plays. Ask your children to teach them to you.

We are learning about the tricky teens. We know that teens are made up of ten and some more.

We are learning about consonants and vowels. We know that all words have vowels in them. We know that there are long and short vowel sounds. 

These are our Foundations magnetic letter boards. We use them to work with letters/sounds and to build cvc words.

We can form almost all of the lowercase letters the kindergarten way! 

We can construct shapes out of shapes.

We discovered that you can build hexagons using different combinations of rhombi, triangles, and trapezoids.

We learned how to add labels to our illustrations.
We know that labels  teach readers more about a topic.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!