November is a busy month for us in kindergarten. We will be doing a lot of testing and getting ready for
conferences this month. So if a homework baggie does not come home, it is probably due to testing that day. We
will continue to work on our learning stamina (doing something for a long time and not getting tired). Our class
is doing great! We are really having fun with the fall season and Thanksgiving. If you have any great thanksgiving ideas let me know. I welcome ideas either for me to do with the kids or you may schedule a time to do activity with the class.
I am sure the kids would love to do any activity. Thanks for your support with book ordering and homework.
Reading:
Most should know all their letters and sounds.
We should all know the words our RED WORDS: ( A, I, see, the, red), and our BLUE WORDS: ( look. at, can, is, to), and our working on ou rGREEN WORDS: (we, he, me, in, and).
We will work on our reading skills:
Reading a book by the pictures to ourselves and our friends
Words versus letters
1:1 Matching (touching each word as we read)
Retelling stories in our own words with felt, pictures, or puppets
Stamina (doing something for a long time and not getting tired
Reader’s Workshop
We read books to ourselves and others
Listen to books on CD and follow along in the book and write our favorite part or character
Letter work (work on computer/IPAD with letter sounds and pocket charts)
Word work (practice reading site words, poems we know, word games)
Problem solving (puzzles, magnetic letters, go fish)
Author Study : read seasonal books or author we are working on.
Reading or letter work with Mrs. Lelm
Author:
Karma Wilson (Bear books) Bear Wants More
Math:
We will begin work on recognizing, drawing, and talking about shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle, ellipse, and rhombus, pentagon, and hexagon). We will also notice them in real life.
We are working on understanding numbers 0-10 by using dice, a number line, a rekenrek, cubes, the
tens frame and other objects). We are learning there are lots of ways to make a number!
We are working on using math words more, less, and equal to in relation to numbers.
Writing:
We will work on writing a story with pictures that has a beginning middle and an end. This month we will
focus on writing a sentence to match our pictures. We are authors and we want others to be able to read our writing.
Conferences:
There are plenty of options if your assigned time does not work or life happens. I want to meet with you on your child's learning so please let me know if we need to arrange a different time. I have lots of good learning to report!