The students were very hard workers again today. We did our morning calendar and then transitioned into reading. We warmed up with the song, "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes." Then we worked on describing things we see using complete sentences. "I see....(a desk, a table, a frog, etc)." We practiced blending syllables to say words, and worked on counting the number of syllables we hear in words (car-toon (2), pre-sent (2), a-ma-zing (3). They are doing excellent at this. The letters r and s were revisited. The students listened to me say a word, then had to decide and then write on their whiteboard what letter that word started with. We are getting pretty quick with r and s words. To reinforce our learning of the letter r and the word a (still tricky to understand that this is not only a letter but also a word), the students drew and labeled a picture of either a rainbow, a racoon, or a rabbit. While our reading was taking place, the substitute para that was in the room today pulled students aside to do a painting project.

 

Today I introduced station work to the students. I gave the boys and girls 4 tasks they needed to complete while I worked one-on-one with each student. The students did a great job independently working! One task had them highlighting all the 'r' words in a book, coloring it, then finding 3 students to read to and getting their signatures. I couldn't believe how well this went! I have some very smart kindergarteners :) 

I promise I will not be feeding your children sweets on a daily basis (especially right before they come home ;)  , but I brought in birthday treats today. I had the students guess how old they thought I was. Their first two guesses were 100 and 5. When they figured it out they we're shocked I was the oldest one in the room. I'll take that as a compliment and not that I need to act more my age :) :)

Looking forward to tomorrow!