The World of K2: Week in Review ~ October 11th

I hope everyone enjoyed the Columbus Day weekend. We had a great shorter week in K2 where as usual we were busy learning many new things! In ELA we finished up week 2 in Unit 1 where we introduced and practiced using the vocabulary words arrived, exciting and exhausted. I was so impressed with how well the K2ers remembered the meaning of each word and how they could use it in a sentence. Way to go! We continued to focus in on the letter Aa and the short sound /a/. We also began "tapping out" sounds in words. Ask your K2er to tap out the sounds in simple cvc words (consonant vowel consonant) such as mat, pot and cat. We read the Aesop Fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" and talked about what slow and steady wins the race means. We also reviewed all of our sight words introduced so far: I, can, the, we.

In math we are close to wrapping up Topic 2 where we are comparing numbers 0-5. We used the vocabulary words greater than, less than, equal to and we also focused in on the terms before and after once I saw that many were confused by those terms. A suggestion on how to practice before and after at home would be to have your K2er collect 5 or 6 small objects and then have them line them up on a table according to your directions. For example, in class we used the small bear counters so I asked them to put the yellow bear before the red bear, put the blue bear after the red bear, etc... We will be finishing up Topic 2 this week.

Each Friday the kindergarten students get a chance to use the iMac cart where they can use MacBooks or iPads during our ELA center time. There are very few sets of headphones on the cart so it makes it difficult for the K2ers to hear what they are suppose to do when they can hear each other's iPad or MacBook. Years past I have asked the K2ers to bring in a set of headphones to keep in their cubby for when we use the iMac cart on Fridays and it has worked out well. Headphones can be found at both Dollar Tree and Five Below for a reasonable price. If you can send in a set of headphones for your K2er, that would be greatly appreciated. Please be sure to write their name on them in case they get put in the wrong cubby.