Weekly Review

Throughout the week, the students and I worked on a variety of skills. For math, we focused on shape recognition, positional words, and patterns. To practice our shape recognition skills, we discussed the properties of a rectangle, square, triangle, and circle. To incorporate this lesson into our workstations, the students went on a shape scavenger hunt in magazines to create shape collages for each shape previously mentioned. To work on our understanding of positional words, I had the students put a pattern block in a specific place, which they noticed was similar to the game, "Simon Says." For example, I said, "put the pattern block on top of your head," "put the pattern block behind your back," and "put the pattern block next to your foot," just to name a few. Also, we read "Rosie's Walk" by Pat Hutchins. To continue our work with patterns, the students and I went on a pattern hunt around our school. The students did a great job finding patterns within our school. As they noticed the patterns, I photographed them, so we can make a pattern book for our classroom library. For reading and writing, the students and I discussed the characteristics of a sentence, which include starting a sentence with a capital letter and ending with a period. We also practiced reading sentences from left to right. The students and I worked collaboratively to create sentences describing things we do in Kindergarten. After writing them, I cut the sentences apart into words. The students helped me put each sentence together again in the correct order. Also, we started writing a class journal entry at the end of each day. This helps to solidify the writing lessons that we did throughout the week, but also prepares them to start writing their own journal entries in just a few weeks. For handwriting, we focused on properly writing the numbers one and two. I hope you enjoy the following pictures from this week's activities.