This week in Kindergarten, we celebrated two October birthdays: Ryan and Kate. Thank you to Ryan and Kate's Mom for coming in to read to our PM class- the children absolutely LOVE when guest readers come in!
In Fundations, I introduced the next two letters- a and g. The g was particularly exciting for the children because it is the first letter in Fundations that reaches the "worm" line. I explained to the children that letter g is written just like letter a but the line keeps on going until it reaches the worm that gets "hooked" on the fishing line. The children also sorted pictures that started with the letters taught thus far :)
Also in Fundations, we identified rhyming words. Finally, we revisited the Echo story from last week and echo read the story and looked at the pictures and then read the corresponding words. Then, I reread a sentence and asked a student to come find one of the key words in that sentence and circle it (tree, hungry, forest, mouse, happy).
In Math, the children were introduced to sorting. I showed the children a group of crayons and asked them how we could sort them into like categories. One child suggested we could sort them by color. The children watched as I sorted the crayons by color using my sorting mat. Then, I cleared my mat and asked if we could sort the crayons a different way. Another child suggested we could sort by size. This time, the children told me where to place each crayon. One box on the sorting mat was for the large crayons, one box was for the medium sizes crayons and the other was for the small crayons. They did such a great job with this! Click on the link below to review this lesson with your child :)
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On Friday, the children were introduced to the ten frame. We discussed how a ten frame is similar and different to a five frame and I explained that they can show different numbers on their ten frames by placing one dot on each square. Children showed various numbers on their ten frames and shared their representations.
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Below is our poem of the week: Five Little Pumpkins. I love Autumn and I love cute, fun poems ☺. The children learned cute hand motions to go along with it. I also had 5 children come up to the front of the classroom to act out the poem by squatting down when their pumpkin number was featured. They even wore cute little pumpkin crowns! They were very giggly when they "rolled" out of sight!
During Guided Reading/Literacy Centers, the children visited the following four centers:
•Math Center: Children practiced sorting by various attributes
• Play dough: Children used play dough to form sight words, trace/write sight words, and trace/read sentences with sight words
•ABC Center: Children matched uppercase and lowercase letters.
•Writing: Children illustrated/wrote reasons they like Fall.
Well that about wraps up our week! I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend :)
Warm Regards,
Mrs. Nork