HAPPY SPRING!
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that
knows poems by heart. -Rainer Marie Rilke
Literacy Highlights
We are reading and writing up a storm in kindergarten! We are taking turns sharing our How To writing pieces from the Author’s Chair and on the SMART Board. It is truly the greatest gift as a teacher to see your children stand in front of peers to celebrate their work. We continue to work on beginning letter blends (bl, gr, fl, str, br), digraphs, long and short vowel spellings, punctuation, letter formation, reader’s/author’s voice, adding more detail to our writing, and using non fiction text elements such as the table of contents and glossary.
Math Highlights
We are working on measurement (weight, length, capacity, and time), constructing and deconstruction three dimensional shapes, and interval counting with number lines.
We continue to work on using a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction
problems. The focus of this work is on explaining our math thinking to demonstrate understanding and to build a community of collaborative mathematicians. Play around with addition and subtraction problems at home and ask your child to teach you different strategies to solve problems. For example, if a your child is presented with a 10 dot frame, a 4 dot frame, and a 7 dot frame, how does he/she justify the sum 21. Does he/she touch count all 21 dots, organize 10 and four into 14 and then count on 7 more, notice groupings of 5’s and 10’s, work with known number combinations, and/or notice doubles facts.
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March Comes in Like a Lion
And goes Out Like a Lamb |
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| We made fresh tracks in the snow! |
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| We can generate lists of word family words. |
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| We can analyze shares and talk about their different attributes. |
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| We can tap to help us read words. |
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| We can extend complex patterns. |
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| We learned how to hula hoop! |
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| We can read color words and label pictures. |
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| We can build a morning message. We discovered lots of trick (high frequency words) in the message. |
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| We can play partners games that hep us learn addition combinations to 10. |
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| We can play games that give us practice composing shapes out of different shapes. |
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| We can build and record shapes using rulers, geo boards and rubber bands. |
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We can tap to help us build read and nonsense words with magnetic tiles.
WE LOVE KINDERGARTEN! |
