Tuesday is Field Day, so please remember to have your child wear sneakers and dress appropriately for the weather. Also, the t-shirt money is due Wednesday June 2, so that I can place the order. Also, please try to R.S.V.P. for the Kindergarten Celebration by June 4, so that I can continue with preparations for our special day.
We worked diligently this week preparing for the Kindergarten Celebration. The students and I are very excited!
We learned several new concepts in Math. First, the students learned a new game that allows them to practice addition and subtraction skills. The student rolls a cube that is labeled with 0, +1, +2, +3, -1, and -2. The student then places the corresponding number of chips on his/her gameboard. The students also practiced representing numbers with popsicle sticks. For this lesson, we focused on tens and ones. For example, if a student were to represent the number 23 with popsicle sticks, he/she would have to create two bundles of ten and have 3 single sticks. We also learned about ordering numbers from least to greatest.
In reading workshop, we practiced asking questions before, during, and after reading. To practice this skill, we read, "Dandelions," by Eve Bunting. This concludes our work with questioning, and we will now start to learn about inferring. In phonics and word study, we learned about subject-verb agreement by adding s to some words, so the sentence makes sense. For example, I put the following sentence on the pocket chart: "I run to the store." The I changed the sentence to, "She run to the store." Then we talked about how we can add -s to "run" so the sentence makes sense.
In writing, we worked on a Kindergarten Memory Book, so the students will have a keepsake for the end of the school year. In handwriting, we learned the lowercase letters y and j.
Workstations:
Math workstation: Playing the game addition/subtraction game learned during Monday's math lesson
Handwriting workstation: Practicing letters we've learned previously
Writing workstation: Writing about a game we like to play
Pocket Chart workstation: Sorting pictures that have the short o and short e sounds
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