Quarter 1 Highlights

Quarter 1 Highlights

What a super first quarter!  Students have grown as

 readers and writers tremendously during this time! 

Readers Workshop

Here is a list of what we have been working on:

·         Providing a reaction to a story event using “I think” and “I like/didn’t like…because”

·         Retelling the story in sequence using the words beginning, middle, and end to a partner

·         Retelling key details from a story

·         Discussing what moment in a story an illustration depicts

·         Identifying and producing rhyming words

·         Comparing different fairy tale versions and character traits

·         Making connections to the story, characters, and setting

·         Making a prediction about what will happen next in the story

·         Vocabulary – first thinking aloud about unknown words & possible means, then learning the words, and finally using the new words as we talk with our partners and in our classroom setting

·         Using nonfiction books to find answers to both answer questions & gain information

·         Summarizing stories

·         Discussing multiple meaning of words

·         Close reading passages

·         Print concepts of nonfiction books

o   Using a table of contents

o   Flipping to the glossary to find the definitions of unknown words

o   Finding a chapter within the book to find information to answer a question

·         Identifying capital & lowercase letters and producing letter sounds

·         Practicing identifying and writing kindergarten snappy sight words

·         Reading leveled books independently

·         Using strategies  to decode tricky words

·         Increasing our stamina while reading independently and throughout partner reading

Our Favorite Books

The Three Little Bears

 

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

   

The Three Little Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood & Lon Po Po

 

Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book

Clever Jack Takes the Cake

The Apple Pie Tree

Pete's A Pizza

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree

Stellaluna

The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

 

Nonfiction bat, spider, and apple books

Snappy Words We Have Learned

I, like, see, a my, am, can, to, me, at, and, go, the, is

Writers Workshop

Here is a list of what we have been working on:

·         Writing Teaching Books

·         Writing True Stories

·         Stretching out words slowly

·         Writing down each sound we hear in a word

·         Writing top to bottom and left to right

·         Labeling our pictures

·         Including Who, What, & Where in our illustrations

·         Including Who, What, & Where in our writing

·         Writing a complete sentence

·         Using finger spaces

·         Including a vowel in each word

·         Including snappy words in our writing

·         Including motion, emotion, and speech bubbles to make our writing more exciting

·         Re-reading our writing to make sure it is easy to read and adding more sounds to our words to make sure others can read it

·         Writing stories using story-telling words

·         Increasing our stamina while writing independently

·         Giving feedback to our writing partners.  We tell our partners our favorite part of their writing and if we have any wonderings about their writing and what they might add to make it easier to read. 

 

        Science/Social Studies

Here is a list of what we have been working on:

Apple Life Cycle

Seasons of the Apple Tree

Our Favorite Apple Treats

Bat Facts & Vocabulary

Spider Facts & Vocabulary

Math

-       Sequencing events, such as the steps to making a pizza

-       Sequencing the life cycle of an apple seed to apple

-       Graphing

-       Shapes

-       Addition word story problems

-       Counting by 1s to 100

-       Counting by 10s to 100

-       Writing numbers 0-20

-       Identifying numbers 0-30

~ The Kindergarten Team ~