Week in Review ~ October 31st - November 4th

Can you believe it is November already? I think the weeks keep going by so quickly because of how busy we are in K2!
In ELA this week we talked about what shapes are all around us. Our vocabulary words were materials, nature, decoration, games, and world. We read the stories "Shapes All Around," "Kites in Flight," "Find the Shapes," and "The Shape of Things." We focused in on the letter Tt and introduced the sight word like. Also, we reviewed what is a noun and what is a verb. In learning centers we wrote in our journals about what shapes we see in the classroom, built our sight words with letter tiles, listened for the sound of Tt, and sorted pictures by noun or verb. We also made our own version of the book "The Shape of Things" which we will start sending home each day with a new K2er to share with their family. Please be sure to send it back to school the following day when it is your child's turn so that it can be sent home with our next K2 friend.

In small groups we worked on first sound fluency, practiced sight word fluency and read the stories "We See a Map" and "We Like Tam!" Each K2er went home with a paper story titled "We Like." More and more of these paper stories will be coming home. When your K2er reads these stories they can be added to their Books & Beyond recording sheets. I will also be photocopying the stories we are reading in small groups to send home so the K2ers can practice reading more and more.

In Math we are close to finishing up Topic 3. Each day our math lesson starts with a Solve & Share problem. The goal of this part of the lesson is to show the students that there is often more than one way to solve a math problem. They are told the problem and then they solve it a way they can. As I walk around I am looking for different ways that the problem has been solved and then three K2ers are picked to share out their answer with the class up at the board. They are always excited to be able to share their thinking with their classmates.

This week we worked on counting, reading, and writing the number 10 and we also worked on showing 10 in different ways by breaking it into two parts such as 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, etc... We also practiced writing the numbers 5-10 by playing a favorite game called "Roll & Record."

We will be finishing up Topic 3 this week but with no school on Tuesday for students (Teacher Professional Development Day) and no school on Friday (Veterans' Day) we will most likely be finishing up our Topic Assessment the following week.

As a reminder we are having a Thanksgiving Food Drive at Johnny Appleseed School. Kindergarten students are asked to bring in soup and crackers. If you are able to donate to this, it is very much appreciated.

 Be sure to check out our "Student of the Month" Tab to see who earned student of the month for October in K2!

Enjoy your weekend!

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