Friday March 25, 2013

We had a great Monday!
This morning for morning work the kids were to write two sentences and then draw an illustration. They all did a great job with this assignment. I really am impressed with their writing skills! We are also focusing on matching the illustration with what is written. This helps comprehension skills when reading books with illustrations. We then had our morning calender wall time.
Fundations today was all about short and long E sounds. We worked together to think of words with the short and long e's. Next we worked independently and then checked together a packet with long and short E's. We had some good discussion during this time and all the kids did a great job with the activities.
After fundations we had two center rotations!
During language arts we finished our fundations packet and then discussed our new sight word for the week. The new word is WHO. We thought of sentences to use WHO in.
The kids had lunch and then read aloud. They also had Music and Movement today!
We received letters back from our second grade friends at Bittersweet! We read these letters and responded to them today!
Recess was outside today! Weather looks to be getting better as the week goes on!
Our math time today was very busy! We had a hot pencils 3 minute test and we did great! I had probably 15 pass today! Next we worked in our March math books. The kids did a great job during this as well. We have good discussions about different strategies that we can use to solve the problems! Our last part of math was spent discussing tally marks and why they are helpful. We also discussed writing numbers as words. Students will be tested on actually writing the word out correctly. We had a worksheet that followed up our discussion.
We also had a few sentences that students read and picked out sight words from. They had to read on their own and highlight the sight words on their own. They also had to draw an illustration to go along with the writing. We discussed and checked together!
It was a GREAT day here in Kindergarten!!! Only 45 days until 1st grade!
Please complete math worksheet tonight for homework! Also remember to read with your children!!
Looking forward to Tuesday!
Mr. Schultz