One tradition in kindergarten at Rowe School is our Gingerbread Man unit. Gingerbread house building is always a highlight, as it was again this year. The conclusion of this unit was our Gingerbread Baby play which the children did a wonderful job performing. They worked hard to practice their lines at home and school in order to feel confident and fluent. Thank you for helping your child prepare for our play, and thank you for all those we were able to attend our performance. The children were very proud!
Here's what else we've been up to:
During Reading Workshop we have been learning strategies for reading words. We:
- practiced using Eagle Eye and Lips the Fish together.
- learned to use Stretchy Snake (say the sounds in a word).
- learned that after we have spent time trying to figure out a word, we need to reread the sentence to make sure the word makes sense.
- reviewed that readers need to point and hop under each word when they are learning how to read.
During Writing Workshop, we published one of our pattern books. All the children chose one book from their writing folder that they wanted to rewrite and fancy-up to add to our classroom library. We celebrated the end of this unit in our pajamas on Thursday. Children took turns reading their published books to the class.
During Math we:
- spent a couple days composing and decomposing numbers to learn that there are many combinations of numbers with the same value.
- played Number Top-It, a game to help us practice comparing numbers.
- spent a couple days learning about teen numbers as numbers that have one group of ten and some extra ones. We learned that the "1" should always be written first in the teen number (in the tens' place) since it tells us we have "one ten."
It's hard to believe we have reached the end of 2016. I look forward to celebrating the start of a new year with your children when we return in 2017. Happy New Year!
Warmly,
Katie Caron
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