September 27- October 1

 

This week in Kindergarten! 

Monday was apple day! Check out my blog post on apple day to learn about our apple activities and to see fun apple day pictures. 

For reading, we read "Chrysanthemum". We worked on predicting, retelling, comparing and contrasting (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse), making connections, and answering comprehension questions. 

Our poem this week was "Apples". We made movements to our poem, glued it in our poetry notebook, completed a poetry page, and recorded ourselves singing the poem for seesaw. 

 

For writing, we finished our uppercase handwriting pages! We worked on C, O, Q, G, S, A, I, T, Z, and J. We then moved on to pattern books. During September, the Kindergartners were mostly copying my writing. We would talk about sounding out strategies, sight words, and basic writing skills like starting with a capital, writing mostly in lowercase, using spaces, and ending with a period. Now that we are in to pattern books, your child will be more independent in writing and will be able to write more on their own. Here are some writing examples from the week. 

In math, we have been working hard on learning our shapes and describing our shapes. We have also been working on recognizing and writing numbers to 5. We aim to have no backwards numbers.

For guidance, we learned about focusing our attention and using our attention and using our attenta-scopes to help us.