Garrett Gazette

This has been a big week in Kindergarten.  I finished up with all student testing. I am so impressed with what sweet, smart students I have.   It is so important that we all work together to provide our students with great learning experiences.  Work with your students for a few moments each day on reading, sight words, and letters as well as counting to 100 and number recognition.

We also have had a great time this week learning about our classroom library and checking books out that are of interest to us.

In Readers workshop,  we learned what it means to be a reader and are discovering what we as readers like.  In Writer’s workshop, we discovered that we are never finished with our writing,  we can always add more detail to the picture, add to the words, add labels or start a new piece.  An author is never finished!

In Math,  we are working on counting and number recognition.  We created Counting books, and learned to play Roll and Record. 

COMING UP

Our Reading Workshop focus will be how to pick books from class library based on interests and if the book is a  good reading fit as well as building our reading stamina.  We also are working on learning new reading strategies -   Eagle Eye,  Lips the Fish, and Stretchy Snake. 

Our Writing Workshop focus will be on  writing the beginning sounds of what we hear and having our writing match our picture to tell a story and building our writing stamina. 

Color Focus: Green                                                                        

Anim. Literacy :  Timmy Tiger (Tt) ;   Sadie Seal (Ss) & Rosie Raccoon (Rr)  

Predictable Chart:   I do not like ______________                        

Sight Words:   do      not       like       green                                     

Math:  6,7    rectangle,  sorting , and  # recognition

Science :  Fall Season; Science Tools!

Social Studies: Rules, Democracy, Pledge & Flag

 

WOW!   WONDERFULLY WILD STUDENTS:

The following students know all their uppercase letters: 

Selena, Kamya, Rashad, Yasmiin, Thomas, Quentin, Gabriella, 
Muaz,  Hailey, JC, Ar’ Tayhveon, Caitlin, Ahlam, Said

The following students know all their lowercase letters:

Selena, Kamya,  Rashad, Yasmiin, Thomas, Quentin, Muaz, Will,
Hailey,  Gabriella, Ar’Tayhveon, Caitlinm, Ahlam, Said

The following students know all their letter sounds: 

Muaz, Selena, Yasmiin, JC, Kamya, Rashad, Will, Thomas, Quentin

The following students can count all the way to 100:

Yasmiin, Muaz, Gabriella, Selena