Happy Monday!

 

Today we started doing reading interventions in the kindergarten grade levels. While some students went to Mrs. Boese's class to work in a small group with her, the rest of Mrs. Boese's class came to my classroom. The students were excited to make new friends during this 30 minute intervention time. In my classroom our large group worked on reviewing reading and math skills. All the boys and girls did a great job particpating and following the rules in such a large group.

 

In reading we started with a poem about grandparents. Then we worked on rhyming words. To review the letters we have learned thus far, the students got out their whiteboards. I said a word and they wrote either the beginning letter they heard or the ending letter they heard. As a challenge, the students had the option of trying to write the whole word.

 

We talked about sentences, how words are divided by spaces and that periods come at the end of them. Then we wrote our own sentence about something our family does together ("My family goes camping," "My family plays together"). The students were to stretch out the words the best they could, listening for all the letter they heard.

 

In math we talked about maps. The students did an activity where they were given a map and had to listen to directions and draw how to get from one place to another. After that we had just enough time to have a quick snack and story.

 

Reminder: Friday is picture re-take day.

Homework: You might be seeing some blue/white math homework sheets coming home. The purpose of these is so that kids are exposed to the material once more during the day, helping really embed that knowledge into them. If your child has the chance to do these during the week, I would love for you to send them back to me so I can see who has been working on them :) If you forget/have a busy week, no big deal it won't be held against your child either. 

 

Also, thank you for the egg cartons! We have enough now to do a craft with them hopefully sometime this week!


The boys and girls love listening to Mary read stories!