Weekly Review September 15-19

Thank you families for supporting the Elizabeth Ide PTO last night at the Book Fair and Ice cream social. From the stories I have heard from the students today it was a fun event. Thank you to the parents who donated book money for our classroom library. We were able to get three news books. We got early reader book which are perfect for us in kindergarten as we are learning our sight words (popcorn words) 
As a reminder the Elizabeth Ide Literacy night team has created a sign up for anyone interested in attending this family literacy night. I will be there and it will be an engaging and informative night to learn Daily 5 from your child. The students will lead their parents through different stations of daily 5 throughout the building. Click here to sign up.
Here is a week in review.

Phonics
 Our sounds of the week: /n/, /c/ and /k/
Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ and /p/.

 Popcorn Words
 This week we learned: in and see
Words we know: a, I, it
In class we practiced our popcorn words this week by reading and finding them in our weekly readers/other books, We searched for the word on the ipad. We also used the word in (verbal) sentences and practiced writing the words.

Handwriting

In handwriting this week we practiced the capital and lowercase letter Ll. 

Reading

During our reading time we read theFriends at School. We had many connections with the students in this nonfiction story about school. We learned four new vocabulary words with this story. Those words were enjoy, gooey, container, and scrumptious

In daily 5 we continued practicing read to self and listen to reading. We made it to 15 minutes this week for both of our centers. This week we practiced doing both centers at the same time. Half of the class went to one center while the other half went to the other center. THis was tricky for some us as we were easily distracted by the students doing other tasks. As we continued practicing and reviewing our charts it became much easier to block out our friends and concentrate on our own center.

Math

This week we were introduced to our new math topic of more or fewer. We read an interactive story and played a game to get us excited for this topic. This week we have been focusing on finding groups of 1 more, 2 more, 1 fewer, and 2 fewer. The word fewer is tricky for us, but we try to remember it is just another word for less or the smaller group.

Important Reminders
Magazine turn in days Monday September 23rd and Thursday September 25th
Last day to sign up for Daily 5 Literacy Night at Ide September 24th
Half Day September 25th
Scholastic book orders are due September 26th. 

Email me with any questions!