Welcome to Kindergarten!

Welcome to Mrs. Schlagbaum's Kindergarten Blog!

Each week our blog with be updated to reflect our week. We have already learned so many new things in our second week of Kindergarten. Let's take a look at what we have been working on.

The first three days of school we practiced being Respectful, Responsible, and Safe in all areas of the school building. It was a lot to learn in three days, however we are practicing hard and earning lots of paws! We have had our first paw winner too!

In the classroom:

Phonics: We have already learned three sounds in our Jolly phonics program. We know s, a, & t. We also learned our first popcorn word "a." We brought home a book to practice with if we are looking for a book to read.

Handwriting: We are working on the formation of letters using a big stick, little stick, big curve, and little curve. We will continue next week on the formation of letters and holding our pencil correctly.

Reading: During making meaning we read the story "My Friends" by Taro Gomi. The story was about a girl who learns new skills from her friends. Along with this book we started to learn some "Fancy words" including companion, imitate, and explore.

In daily 5 we are working on the 3 ways to read a book as well as "Read to Self." The 3 ways to read a book include; reading the pictures, reading the words, and retelling the story. Everyday we have practiced reading alone during read to self time. We are working on building our stamina to read up to 15 minutes without being distracted by our friends. We made a chart of the ways we want to act while we are reading so that we do not disturb our friends.

- We will read the whole time.
- We will keep our eyes on our own books.
- We will read quietly.
- We will not be a bug. (class favorite)
- We will treat our books with respect.
- We will stay in one spot.

We made it to 7 minutes today (Friday September 6th). This was a huge accomplishment.

Here are the times we made the other days:
Tuesday 2 minutes (after a lot of practice)
Wednesday 3 minutes
Thursday 4.5 minutes
Friday 7 minutes (!!)

Math: In math we are working in our numbers unit. We have been practicing writing the numbers 1-3. We played a dice game this week to practice identifying the dots on the dice and matching it to the numeral. We also got to play with play dough. Mrs. Schlagbaum would call out a number and we would all make it out of the play dough. In addition to the numeral we had to make play dough balls in the same number. For example if the number was 4 we would show the number 4 as well as 4 balls.

Next week we will continue our learning.

Have a wonderful weekend!

 Any questions please email Mrs. Schlagbaum at cschlagbaum@ccsd66.org