Week oF: September 19, 2016

Reading

Kindy NEWS 5
Math

-We continued to practice buddy

reading and independent reading.
-We practiced naming shapes and
-We have been reading TONS of
discussed the difference between a
nursery rhymes and finding rhyming
square and a rectangle.
words and sight words.
-We sorted shapes by color, type, number
-We talked about how readers point to of sides, and more.
each word as they read.
-We learned about Ten Frames! We
-We started our second Flat Stanley
practiced using ten frames to represent
book during rest time!
numbers.
-We have been exploring non-fiction
-We talked about representing numbers in
books during our readers workshop
different ways.
and discussing the difference between
fiction and non-fiction.
Other News
-We learned letter sounds /d/, /r/, and /m/.
-We learned sight words for, up, and
-We met our fourth grade buddies!
look.
-We had a town hall meeting to
discuss safe playground behavior
-Congrats to Lily and Eli for being
Writing
chosen as PAW winners this week!
-We have been creating some incredible
narrative writing pieces! The students
have shared about vacations, pets,
family events, and more.
-We practices s t r e t c h i n g out our
words and listening for sounds we
know.
-We have been focusing on writing
numbers in handwriting and practicing
our grips and hand motions.

We used the
geo boards to
match upper
and
lowercase
letters!