POPCORN WORDS: PLAY. AWAY. TODAY. UP
MATH: The kinders did a fabulous job being “office workers” while taking their last math test. I am so impressed and proud of how hard they have worked to learn these math skills. Their math tests came home this week. We will continue to review math skills for the rest of the school year.
The kinders did a bit of first grade work and were introduced to learning about the parts of a clock and how to tell time to the hour. They learned that a clock has two hands—one short and one long. The short hand tells the hour, the long hand tells the minutes. They really enjoyed practicing using their own clocks before completing a worksheet. We also did more practice with showing teen numbers by tens and extra ones. On Friday we played FACE OFF, an addition game with a partner. What fun!
WRITING: The kinders continued to write and write more small moment stories…all by themselves. They are doing a great job drawing pictures and writing words to tell about a one time, one event in their life. They worked hard to think about how they may have felt during this time and included that feeling in their story. Some of those feelings were: happy, sad, excited, scared. They did their best work! We ended the week reading our own writing – each kinder reading their story to Mrs. Bohl. Way to go, kinders!
READING: At the beginning of the week, we noticed that characters can remind us of other characters in books. For example, in Little Critter’s I Was So Mad and Llama, Llama mad at Mama, both of the main characters were upset. We are having a lot of fun reading and asking questions that help us make connections to characters. Later in the week the kinders were introduced to how characters perform in a Reader’s Theater. In order to get really good at our parts we practiced…
- taking turns reading the script
- sounding like real characters when we read
- watching for punctuation
- using our face and body to become the character
Then we took turns to act out one of the characters in the story The Pigeon wants a…
LITERACY/PHONICS: We worked on these skills….
- learning that every syllable has at least one vowel
- making more words in the -ay word family (play, lay, hay, say, etc)
- identifying the H brothers
- listening for vowels in words
- identifying words that begin with BL or ST blends
- finding pictures that have the R blend
- listening to story and drawing a picture of our favorite character
A fun way to end the week by making a fun summer treat on Friday.
REMINDERS
- Bring 2 snacks each day to school and a water bottle with a spill proof lid please. Now that the days are getting warmer, we are getting a little more thirsty during the day.
- Return take home books on Wednesday. We are collecting all books for summer inventory.
UPCOMING DATES
*Monday, May 24—STEAM
*Tuesday, May 25—MUSIC
*Wednesday, May 26—GYM; Return TAKE HOME BOOKS
*Thursday, May 27—ART
*Friday, May 28–STEAM CELEBRATING AMERICA––wear red, white and blue
*Monday, May 31–NO SCHOOL Memorial Day
*Thursday, June 3–If your kinder would like a sack lunch from the lunch service, please email me or write a note by Thursday, 6/3
*Friday, June 4–Fast Friday (Early Release) 12:15 p.m. Dismissal. LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!
***Have a FABULOUS weekend. Another nice weekend to be outside. Mrs. Bohl