Week in Review ~ May 9th - 13th

This week was a bit of a crazy week due to some testing and our Field Trip to the EcoTarium on Tuesday. As I mentioned in last week's week in review post, the next 5 weeks are sure to be crazy ones! I hope all the K2ers had fun on the field trip. They are such a well-behaved group of children which makes it all that much more fun to go on field trips! I hope you took some time to see the video of our pictures from the day. I showed the K2ers and they loved "re-living" the day. On Wednesday we started unit 10 in reading and we talked about how working together gets jobs done quicker and that teamwork is so important. Our vocabulary words were decide, opinion, ragged, marvel and grateful. We read the stories "What's the Big Idea, Molly?" and "The Shoemaker and the Elves." When we read "What's the Big Idea, Molly?" I told the K2ers to listen to the story to try and figure out what genre the story was (fiction, fantasy, tale, informational text, etc...) but that they had to have concrete reasons from the text why they felt it was that genre. I was amazed with why they said it was fantasy. Their reasons were that animals do not talk, animals do not wear clothes, animals can not draw or write and animals (pigs, mice, rabbits, turtles) can not walk on 2 back legs. It was fun to hear their reasons and it was nice to see that all year long they were listening to what clues help us figure out what genre a piece of writing is. Great job, K2ers!!! We also introduced the long u sound as well as the sight words good and who. In learning centers we wrote about our trip to the EcoTarium, sorted pictures by the long and short u sound, and worked on activities with our sight words. We will continue week 1 of unit 10 next week since we had a crazy week. In Math we started Topic 11. We started by counting to 30 and figuring out what patterns we see in numbers after 20. We will continue with Topic 11 next week. Now is a good time to have your K2er practice counting to 100. As mentioned in a previous post, by the end of kindergarten it is the goal that eack student can count to 100! This week we also visited with our Book Buddies but for a completley different reason. They are learning about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly so they invited us to come see their caterpillars. The 2nd graders told the K2ers about what they have learned about the caterpillar stage. They said that we are invited back to see each stage. Thank you 2B!

I hope everyone enjoys the weekend and the beautiful spring weather!