No April showers here!

We had a very sunny week in Kindergarten! The weather has finally begun to warm up and I can tell the students are able to run around more at recess so they can focus in the classroom. :)

Reading:
We worked on story maps this week. After reading stories I had the students tell me the setting, characters, beginning/middle/end. We are really working on the big ideas for beginning/middle/end and trying to not get caught up in the little details.

We continued our Inquiry study of community jobs by doing some research. I checked out a lot of books from the library and the students filled in a web with their job, 3 facts that they got from their book, and a picture. Next week we will be making them into picture books!

 

Writing:

We worked on writing poetry this week! We read many different animal poems and discussed how the poets used describing words to tell what the animal looked like and things that it did. The students and I then worked together to write a poem about a cat and one about a shark. Next week we will continue with writing poetry!

 

Math:

We did some more work with story problems this week. The students wrote their own story problems for us to make into a class book.

We have also been working really hard on our coin identification. Students are expected to correctly identify the penny, nickle, dime, and quarter out of order by the end of Kindergarten. If your child can already do this, practice counting up the amount of money in a pile.

 

We also learned a new math game, disappearing train game. In this game each player starts with 10 blocks and then they add more or take away with a special addition/subtraction dice. The person with the first train to "disappear" wins!

 

Science:

We finished up food groups this week with fruits, grains, and oils. Your child should have brought home the food group packet that we've been working through for the past 2 weeks.