I have noticed a lot of toys coming in to kindergarten. The kindergarteners do not need any toys or stuffed animals at school. They are very distracting to our learning.
In Readers Workshop, we are building stamina in our reading. We have some independent reading time and now we are adding partner reading to our routine. We talked about Environmental Print. We can read words like stop, legos, Disney Jr., Cheerios, and more. I encouraged the students to look around for labels they could bring to school for a display.
In Writers Workshop, we have been working on drawing faces, bodies, and clothes to our people. We are able to add lots of details to help tell our stories.
We are doing lots of activities for practicing letter and number formation. There are some ways you can strengthen your child's hand muscles to get them ready for writing:
*play with play doh
*use a squeeze bottle
*use scissors (have them cut your coupons!)
*open and close jars
*open and close clothespins
*crumple or rip paper
*color with small broken crayons
*play with squishy bath toys
In Fundations, we added the letters u and i to our daily chant.
Here are some books we read this week:
