Hello Families!
This is only a three day week - there is no school on Thursday or Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. I am thankful to all of you for being so wonderfully supportive! Here is what's happening...
RSF DAY, DEC. 6th: It will be Relative and Special Friends Day the first Friday of December so there is no field trip or Family Sing first thing in the morning. The entire kindergarten will be singing together in the auditorium at 9 am (just a few songs) and then from 9:30 - 10:30 the relatives and special friends are welcomed into the classroom. In our class we will be having a fuller sing time and then do a special group activity!
FRIDAY, DEC. 13th: This will be our Field Trip Friday and Family Sing. I will let you know what we have planned asap.
WHAT WE ARE UP TO:
ABC School was fuzzy and fun! The kids were fabulous teachers so I'm sure now you've got some very well educated stuffies in your home! The next bend of our Word Scientists unit blends all of our literacy learning - writing, reading and word study. We will be working on using our tools and knowledge of letters to stretch out and write not only the first sound in words but ending sounds too (and depending on our abilities all the sounds in between.) Hand in hand with our learning in writers workshop where we are learning to bring our writing to life - making it super interesting and easy to read for our readers - we are also going to be using speech bubbles to add more to our stories and practice this during phonics as well.
Continuing with writing workshop and learning to Write for Readers - we are working on writing true stories. We are going to be working on writing sentences, word for word. We will also look at some Mo Willems books to see how speech and thought bubbles are used and try to work that into our own stories.
In reading we are going to dip our toes into punctuation! We will learn about what a period, a question mark and an exclamation point mean. We will work on changing our voices when we read and will also dive into learning how to talk about books - activating our Book Talk Power!
In math we have finished our comparing both the length and number of letters in our names through our name train project and this short week we will learn the card game Compare. We will also continue to dive into comparing quantities using the vocabulary less, more, equal through some math story problems and playdoh!
Stacie is coming on Tuesday to continue her I Feel work! Yay! I feel happy she's coming! And we got a little sidelined with the starting of our School study. We are going to hold off until December to start that (which is only a week away!) and we are going to be doing a very mini study around the picture book We're All Wondersby R.J. Palacio.
We didn't get to our seed experiment last week so we will do that this week!
I wish you all a very lovely holiday weekend,
Love,
Lynn