I would like to begin by saying thank you too all of the parents that came to our back to school night. It was so nice to see everyone and I look forward to working with everyone this year!
We had a great week in school! The kids are learning the routine and are doing so well adjusting to Kindergarten. This week we began learning all about how to make predictions when we are reading. We started by taking a picture walk through a book and then we make our predicitions based on what we saw on our picture walk.
We worked on centers this week. In the Work Work center, the students traced, rainbowed, stamped, and wrote our star words. In the Listening Center, they listened to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and drew their favorite part from the story. In the Read and Write Around the Room center, the kids wrote words they found around the room. Before we did that, we labeled different items in the rom together as a class. In the ABC Center, the kids used letter tiles to show the letters that are in their names and not in their names. Then they worked on letter puzzles. In the Creation Center, they made rainbow names. In the Poetry Center, the class matched the words in the poem and then glued their poem and picture in their poetry journal. They must look for their star words, sentence stoppers, and commas in their poems and circle them. I am completely impressed at how well the students are working in centers and how quickly they have been able to adjust to the rigorous routine in Kindergarten!
In Math this week, we learned all about left and right, which can be quite confusing. Please work on that with your children at home. We also learned about top, middle, and bottom. Math has been whole group, however as time goes on, the students will be broken up into small Math groups and centers to learn their Math strategies.
Again, thank you so much for coming to back to school night. It was so nice to meet everyone! I hope you had a great weekend!
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