We had a very busy but fun week in kindergarten. We are getting ready for the Spring season (which begins on Saturday). This week, we celebrated St. Patrick's Day! We even had a little visit from the Leprechaun who really created a diaster in the classroom on Wednesday! Below is a brief video from our week. The video includes the Leprechaun traps that were made, crafts, and clips of the diaster created by the Leprechaun! We had a very fun time celebrating St. Patrick's Day!
In reading, we learned about the -og word family. We read words such as: hog, fog, bog, clog, blog, and smog. Children can read these words in context and spell them accordingly. We also continued on our Dolch words. This week our words were: his, him, just, her, how. Have you seen our word wall? The word wall is already full and we still have a lot more to learn. In kindergarten, children are only required to know 32 basic sight words, our children know well over 125 so far with a lot more to go. The kids in Mr. Gibbs' class rock!
Because of their strong phonics and sight vocabulary skill, there writing has improved greatly. We wrote a story about catching a Leprechaun on Tuesday. They were funny, creative, and simply delightful to read. They are currently on display in the classroom. On Thursday, your child took the district writing assessment. Your child had 30 minutes to write me a story about their friend. I have not had the time to score them but they are simply amazing. EVERYONE had a beginning, middle, and end. EVERYONE wrote at least 5 sentences (many wrote 7-8). EVERYONE is beginning to use end punctuation. Finally, EVERYONE is using the word wall. Wow! We are no longer emergent writers, were developing writers!
In math, we continued with money. This weeek, we learned the value of the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. We also began to learn how to count out coin values. This is a difficult concept for children to master. Continue to practice this at home. Children also wrote numbers to 95 this week. Next week, your child will learn the numbers 96-100 and will have a final number writing assessment. Your child is expected to write numbers to 100 correctly. This will not be a problem because many are already doing so. We will also learn more about reading a calendar next week.
Living things has been the focus this week. This week we learned the difference between living and nonliving. We have learned that living things need food, water, air, and shelter. Living things also grow and change. We learned a song and completed several activities throughout the week. Next week, we will continue this topic. Eventually, we will watch caterpillars turn into butterflies - but that is after break. Workshops are a blast. Children constantly talk about them in school. Do they talk about them at home?
Workshops is a way to end the day by having fun socially (but not playing). I do not believe in free play, we complete fine motor skills instead. This week, we laced a four leaf clover and wrote about being lucky. We also made a rainbow and pot of gold craft with colored loops. We made a dancing Leprechaun. Finally, we made a kite.
On Wednesday, we completed special St. Patrick's Day stations that included graphing lucky charms, making hats, playing St. Patrick's Day sight word game, and making a rainbow out of ripped construction paper.
ERD begins again next week. Thursday is our Spring celebration and Easter egg hunt. Remember to bring in supplies ahead of time. There will be no school on Friday. We will be learning about the -op word family next week and our theme will be Easter!
50 days of school left as of today and your child is beyond ready for the 1st grade!
This is a video of the letter the Leprechaun left us....
This is a video of the reaction....
This is a video of Maylee and Jeremy discussing the event...
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