Week of Feb. 23 to Feb. 27

We have been busy and having fun in kindergarten! It was our last week of "I Love To Read" month! Our class read 1,974 books this month in school and at home!!!! WoW!!!!! We counted backpack books and independent reading books. We also included read alouds and we counted the calendars that a few students have returned. Thanks for reading at home! What a fun month.


Reading/Reading Activities-We have been reading a lot in kindergarten! Our AlphaFriend this week was the letter Qq. We talked about how "q" and "u" are always together. We read the mini book "Fan". We reviewed the "an" family. We did independent reading 4 times this week. We did shared reading one time this week. We also talked about visual images. We read a poem about weather and the students drew the mental image on paper after each verse. We also wrote and read about weather and seasons.

Writing/Writer's Workshop-We talked about using periods at the end of sentences. We had a mini-lesson on writing more and drawing less. We had a few students from Mrs. Jurek's class come over and read their writing. We reveiwed the vowel sounds and practiced listening for them in words.

Math-We played a card game called Top-It. It was card game about greater than or less than. We had workjobs on Tuesday. We reviewed telling time to the hour. We also talked about the minute hand and practiced counting by 5's to figure out the time. We did simple addition also.

Social-We are continuing our work with the Unthinkables. We are making posters and brainstorming ways to defeat the unthinkable behaviors.

All Day Read/PJ Day
We read all day. We read with partners, individually and with small groups. We had special guest readers including Emily (High School Helper) ,MRs. Wharram, Mrs. Petersmeyer, John (Grace's Dad) and Mrs. Jurek. We had a total of 28 read alouds that day! Mrs. Biorn's 4th grade students came to read with us. They read a couple of books and we read a couple of books. It was a fun day of reading!