We made it through a 5 day week and the K2ers seem to be adjusting nicely to our classroom schedule and routines. We started our ELA curriculum where our essential question was "How is everyone special?" We read the stories "Animals in the Park: An ABC Book", "The Ugly Ducklimg", and "The Three Sisters." We discussed how in each story the characters were all different but still special in their own way. We introduced the letters p, b, t, d, f, v, k, g, q and their sound using the lively letters program. The letters are often introduced in pairs and we focus on how we form our mouth to make the sound and if the sound is a "voice on" or "voice off" sound. There is also a song that goes with each sound. Here is a video with the song for p and b. Ask your K2er which one of those letters is the quiet "voice off" sound and which one is the noisy "voice on" sound.
We also introduced our first two sight words: I, can. Next week I will be sending home a set of sight word flash cards for each child to use at home. Sight words are common words that a reader should recognize on sight. I always tell my students that these words most often can not be "sounded out" and that we want to be able to just read it automatically and without hesitation. The best way to become fluent with our 47 kindergarten sight words is to practice them at home.
In learning centers we wrote in our journals, worked on an I and can sight word page, sorted uppercase and lowercase letters, matched pictures of items that rhymed, used a language arts program on the computer called Lexia Core5, and practiced writing our first names with an uppercase at the beginning and the rest lowercase. We sure we're busy this week!
In Math we started Topic 1 titled Numbers 0-5. We read and counted numbers 1-5 and practiced writing numbers 1-3. Next week we will continue with Topic 1 and work on writing the numbers 4 and 5. Writing numbers for some children can be frustrating so practicing at home would be helpful. Each lesson comes with a homework page to reiterate what was taught at school that day. On Monday I will begin sending these homework pages home. It is meant to be a practice and should not be difficult for your child. For that reason, these homework sheets do not need to be returned back to me unless you feel your child is struggling with the page. Even though I do not expect the sheet back, please have your child take the time to work on it.
Thank you to all those that came to our Open House on Tuesday. It was a fun night and I loved watching all the K2ers show their parents around our classroom as they participated in the Scavenger Hunt. I hope you enjoyed it as well.
Enjoy the weekend!
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