What do we DO in Kindergarten?

Here's a small peek at our day:
We start our morning with breakfast and morning meeting.  We review the expectations and have a morning message.  This week our reading comprehension skill was inferencing.  We talked a lot about what that means (taking what we know and what we see or hear and connecting them) and I tied in a lot to our Morning Message (example: I asked you to wear tennis shoes today.  It is Thursday.  What can you infer? Answer: that we have P.E.).  They are really starting to understand that skill- we will still do lots of practicing but the foundation is there!

After Morning Meeting we started our Reading Intervention.  We are focusing on letter names and sounds as well as the differences between letters and words.  Our Reading block is next and goes until 11:00.  We have been working on that skill (inferencing) and then during small groups we have been doing our Phonics lessons.  This week we have reviewed and learned the names and sounds of Aa, Mm, and Ss.  We worked on saying the sound quickly when shown the letter as well as identifying the beginning sound in the words.

Quick tip: This is something you can do with your child as you have free moments- give them a word and ask them to tell you the beginning sound.

After the break in our schedule for Recess and Lunch we came back and did our Calendar time and worked on writing those letters that we learned.  Pretty soon we will be looking at writing sentences with our sight words and words we can sound out!

We had a good week in specials and then came back to our Math lessons.  We have been working on counting.  We would like for them to be able to count to 100 by the end of school year so we worked on the rote counting and then we are also working on one to one correspondence.  Below you can see a few pictures of ways that we did that in the class.  We used a magnetic ten frame and button magnets in our large group and then counted goldfish onto Pete the Cat's ten frames at small group (and after we counted we ate them :) )

Next week we will be working on the following skills:
Reading- Continue to work on inferencing
Phonics and writing- Tt and Nn and review
Math- Continue to work on One to One correspondence

As always if you have any questions please email me at tgrandi@mccsc.edu