We're so thankful for the great response we received regarding Dublin's Kindergarten Pow-wow. We had plenty of parents offer help in recreating many of our games/activities. Thanks too for the donation offers. I will send a note to those of you who offered to confirm items next week. We're completely covered for the food donations, thank you!
Please take time this coming week to create your child's tunic. This is sure to be a grand experience for all.
Work stations: Retelling puppets and wheels for Mrs. Wishy Washy, finding t's to record on clipboards, practicing t's with handwriting (starting at top line), sorting magnetic letters by short and tall letters (something we've been working on...l,t,h,k,b,d are examples of tall lowercase letters while a,c,e and v are short), browsing book- "On the farm", writing a November word book (from our Nov. chart) using a sentence pattern, making Mrs. Wishy Washy with a paper roll, making a turkey (which is hanging in the hall), counting how many cubes we could grab and graphing that number, counting Mrs. Wishy Washy's bubbles by tens (premade mats with number tiles by 10's)...and more!
We continued our farm theme from Mrs. Wishy Washy with other farm related big books. We sang "Old MacDonald had a farm" and then changed the words of this song to use "AEIOU". We sang about the short vowel sounds using the lamb, pig, hen, duck and dog...the lamb had an "a-a here and an a-a there". Students enjoyed learning to draw farm animals with some step by step directions.
Writer's Workshop: We had several important lessons about how authors keep writing projects going, how they may put some aside at times and how long it may take them to finish. In one mini-lesson we looked at 3 different books and predicted how long each book might take to complete. This guided our thinking towards our own writing. Students are learning to pull out previous writing pieces from their writer's notebook to continue working on them.
Reader's Workshop: Our focus this week was learning about reading partnerships. We had great conversation about how partners look, sound and act. The ideas discussed were put onto a chart (any charts we make are always revisited when time allows during our workshop time). Students were paired up with students of similar abilities and partner reading will now be a part of our workshop format within each workshop time. On our first day in partnerships I scanned the room with my camera looking for actions (rules) of partnerships we had just discussed. To end this first lesson I displayed partner photos on our TV screen (from my camera) and students examined each for strengths and areas for improvement. I was delightfully surprised with what students noticed.
Math: This week we took some time to review skills with various activities. We worked with patterns including using shape pattern blocks. The shape templates have become a favorite. I'm sure you found one or more shape designs in your child's folder this week. Ask your child how we remember the shape "trapezoid". I modeled using a robotic voice and could here it repeated throughout the week...I'll use any gimmicks to catch their attention, LOL. We also used links to pattern and count matching teen numbers. We also had an introductory lesson on symmetry. Students explored our room and even had a nature walk finding symmetrical items. Finally, we worked with measurement sequencing short to tall around the room.
We had our first sighting of hats & mittens on Friday. Many of you may not know that each morning your child hangs his/her coat on our coat rack which is packed tight housing 28 coats. This rack then gets brought down to lunch with us where students dress for recess. On Friday I taught children a song about putting our gloves in our hat and our hat in our sleeve. Please help your child practice this at home. Also, don't forget to put names on every article of clothing.
Reader's Workshop: Our focus this week was learning about reading partnerships. We had great conversation about how partners look, sound and act. The ideas discussed were put onto a chart (any charts we make are always revisited when time allows during our workshop time). Students were paired up with students of similar abilities and partner reading will now be a part of our workshop format within each workshop time. On our first day in partnerships I scanned the room with my camera looking for actions (rules) of partnerships we had just discussed. To end this first lesson I displayed partner photos on our TV screen (from my camera) and students examined each for strengths and areas for improvement. I was delightfully surprised with what students noticed.
Math: This week we took some time to review skills with various activities. We worked with patterns including using shape pattern blocks. The shape templates have become a favorite. I'm sure you found one or more shape designs in your child's folder this week. Ask your child how we remember the shape "trapezoid". I modeled using a robotic voice and could here it repeated throughout the week...I'll use any gimmicks to catch their attention, LOL. We also used links to pattern and count matching teen numbers. We also had an introductory lesson on symmetry. Students explored our room and even had a nature walk finding symmetrical items. Finally, we worked with measurement sequencing short to tall around the room.
We had our first sighting of hats & mittens on Friday. Many of you may not know that each morning your child hangs his/her coat on our coat rack which is packed tight housing 28 coats. This rack then gets brought down to lunch with us where students dress for recess. On Friday I taught children a song about putting our gloves in our hat and our hat in our sleeve. Please help your child practice this at home. Also, don't forget to put names on every article of clothing.
Upcoming Events:
Nov. 14-PICTURE RE-TAKE DAY
Nov. 17th: NO SCHOOL, parent/teacher conferences
Nov.23: Pajama Day to kick off pajama drive we hold for families in need
Nov. 23:Kindergarten Pow-wow (9:30 am)
Dec. 3: Dublin holiday craft show
Dec.3-9- Dublin Book Fair (will be open during holiday craft show)
Nov. 17th: NO SCHOOL, parent/teacher conferences
Nov.23: Pajama Day to kick off pajama drive we hold for families in need
Nov. 23:Kindergarten Pow-wow (9:30 am)
Dec. 3: Dublin holiday craft show
Dec.3-9- Dublin Book Fair (will be open during holiday craft show)
Great job kindergartners! And thank you for letting my first grader (Ali Jane) come in and read to you! She enjoyed it and said that you were a great audience! Keep up the great work!
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