First Week Complete!

First Week Complete!

 

 

 

    Our first week of kindergarten is complete!  Students have dived right in by learning classroom procedures and routines.  We have also practiced the school-wide PBIS system so that we are safe, respectful, and responsible in all we do.  Reader’s Workshop and Writer’s Workshop have begun!  Students are practicing habits of independent readers, writers, and listeners.  Each classroom has practiced what each workshop should look and sound like. 

 

 

    In Reader’s Workshop, students have helped to create a list of what good readers do.  Students have been introduced to print concepts as we demonstrate how to open and take care of a book, and how text moves left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.  We have studied our names and recognize the first letter that begins our name.  Teachers have modeled making personal connections to text.  Students have learned to compare events in a story by using the words “same” and “different.”  Students have also learned to retell an event’s beginning, middle, and end through sequencing pictures.             

 

    In Writer’s Workshop, students have helped to create a list of what good writers do.  During the workshop, we have brainstormed specific ideas that we have that could help teach someone else something new.  Students have used drawing and writing to tell about an event.  Students have learned that “When we think we are done, we have just begun!”  This means they look at their work again to add more detail to their words or pictures.  After celebrating our hard work, students have learned how to make suggestions to peers to make their work even better!  We have also wrote or drawn or reactions to the character’s in the story and how we have felt similar.    

We will continue exploring the following books this upcoming week!