Kindergarten
October 11th
Reading
We continued reading our favorite storybooks. It is exciting to see how well we are able to tell a story through our use of the pictures, the familiarity of the repeated phrases in a story, and our voice to match the character's voice. We are building our confidence in believing that we are readers and that reading is fun!
We also continued to build our comprehension through listening to Otis by Loren Long. In this story a little, old tractor named Otis is thought to be of no use until he shows he can help a little calf that is in trouble. We practiced retelling the key details in the story; making connections to the story; and identifying character traits.
Phonics
We introduced our first 'most common words' lesson and grammar lesson in phonics this week. The first most common word list connected to our Reading Horizons phonics program was a review of the words the, and, & of. While we have already spent some time practicing to memorize these common words in reading and in isolation. We practiced spelling and writing these words. It is important to learn these words thoroughly so that we can not only recognize them in reading but also recall them in order to spell/write them when writing. Our grammar lesson revolved around capitalization. Students learned that sentences need to begin with a capital letter. They also learned that the pronoun I needs to be capitalized all the time no matter where it falls in a sentence. We also moved on to our next letter group starting with Hh. We learned the letter name, sound, and formation for both uppercase and lowercase. We also applied it to our understanding about slides, nonsense words, and simple words.
Writing
Students are working to expand their narrative about recess. We used our snapshot moment sheet to help write a couple of sentences about one time at recess. We will continue to use this moment to expand our writing into multiple pages. Even if we cannot write complete sentences we will expand our story to have separate thoughts per page using the words First, Next, Then, and Last.
Math
We worked on the concept of one more. Students completed a number of tasks to solidify their understanding of the sequence of numbers. The next number in the sequence represents one more than the previous number. Students demonstrated this understanding by creating number cards 1-10 and dot cards 1-10 and them matching the cards and putting them in order. They also created stairs 1-10 with unifix cubes and then counting up the stairs. Another task we completed was to roll a die and show one more than the number rolled. For example, if a five was rolled students needed to show five cubes and one more. They then needed to identify that one more than five is six.
Assembly DuPage Children's Museum
Buddies
Welcome Back, Mrs. Strejcek!
Mrs. Strejcek is very happy to be back! She spent some time this week building relationships, getting to know all of the students, and reviewing some routines and expectations.