The Friday Five--Week Six

Here are some of the many things we did this week.  Ask your child which one was his or her favorite.

1. We learned how to introduce ourselves to others with Miss Wiggam.

2. We compared shapes.  Here we are discussing how our shapes are alike and different with a partner.

3. We learned two new games this week.  One game is like Memory, but instead of matching pictures, we're matching sets of numbers. Another game is called Top-It.  Who had the largest number?

4. We learned how to be scientists this week!  One of the things we did was observe sunflowers.  Ask your child what he or she wonders about sunflowers!

5. We had time with our buddy class on Friday learning how to synergize, or work as a team.  It was a lot of fun!

The Friday Five--Week Five

1. What a way to cap off the week--Blue and Gold spirit day and the Homecoming Parade!  Thank you to our fifth grade buddies who took good care of us during the parade.

Thanks for showing us kindness! Today during our leadership time, we practiced being kind by making cards and saying thank you to our custodians.

Here's our latest video we sent to the custodians.
2. We learned the difference between private reading and partner reading this week, and boy am I impressed with our progress so far.  In addition, we continue to learn how books work and how to read them.

3. Last week we spent time reading the pictures, and this week we learned that readers don't just see things, they read things.  We toured the school looking for things to read.  I was a happy teacher each time I heard students reading the words they found around the room and other parts of the school.

4. We've been telling stories since school began, but this week we started drawing our stories.  We worked on drawing who was in our story, where the story takes place, and what happened.  We practiced being detailed so that anyone can tell what our story is about, and we worked on narrowing our story to one event.

5. It was a spirit filled week!  Besides the Blue and Gold day, we had Pajama Day and Super Hero Day.  What fun!

Have a great weekend!

The Friday Five--Week Four

Confession:  I didn't do a good job of capturing our week with pictures this week.  I even forgot to take a picture of us dressed up on Friday.  Shoot!  But, we still learned a lot.  Let's take a look!

1. We read many new books this week.  We spent time building our independent, or private, reading stamina, and we are working on retelling what we've read in order.  In addition, we're learning about front covers and titles.  Ask your child which one was his or her favorite.  There is a good chance it will be Tough Boris, I bet!  Ask your child about what a linger finger is and why we use it for reading.

2. We've have been learning how to get along with others and how to solve problems when we disagree or when we need help.  Here are some of the charts we've made to help us learn how to get along with others.

We've been working in our notebooks as well.  Ask your child what adult can help us when we have a problem we cannot solve on our own.

3. Part of being a leader is being kind.  During the past two weeks, we've focused on ways we can be kind.  We thought of many examples, and we're doing a good job of applying it in the classroom. This week we focused on kind words to say.

4. In math we've focused on two things:  numbers and counting.  We learned a new game called count and sit.  Ask your child how to play! Also, we learned that we're all five now, and boy are we excited to turn six!  We collected data on when our classmates birthday are celebrated.  We used words like most, more, fewer, less than, and least when talking about birthdays this week.

5. We learned the difference between letters, words, and sentences.  It was fun to recognize that letters make words, words make sentences, and sentences make books!  Speaking of words, we learned two sight words this week:  a, I.

A lot packed in to four days!  :)

The Friday Five--Week 3

It's been a great week in kindergarten!  Take a look at what we've done this week:

1. We worked on independent reading this week.  We had two goals.  The first goal was to read the pictures. All week we learned to take a look at the pictures and figure out what is happening in the story.  We studied the pictures and looked for details to help us understand the story.  We asked ourselves questions like "Who is in the story?"  and "What is happening so far?" We talked about how the pictures match the words on the page, and we practiced reading some words, too.  Our other goal was to read the whole time and build our independent reading stamina. We made a video of our thoughts on independent reading.
Here are some pictures I took this week. See if you child can read the pictures and tell you what we were doing.

2. Speaking of reading, here are the books we've read this week.  Ask your child about his or her favorite.  Also, ask him or her what happened in the book since we've been working on retelling a story.

3. We learned some new words in math class this week.  Stay tuned to see what we learned.
Also, we went on number hunt to find numbers.  Where can you find numbers outside of school?
4. One of our favorite activities of the week was exploring with pattern blocks.  Ask your child what he or she can do with pattern blocks.

5. Did you get to see us exploring, creating, and collaborating?  If not, click here.

Enjoy the three-day weekend!