Week in Review- September 18th

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 five new books. We got early reader books 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 the review of our week!

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /n/ and /c/ /k/ (same sound)
Sounds we know: /s/ /a/ /t/ /i/ and /p/

Popcorn Word

 This week we learned: in, see
Words we know: a, I, it
We read books and practiced sorting our popcorn word. In the coming weeks we will be practicing new words. In the beginning it is only 2 words a week but as the year progresses we will eventually be up to 4 words a week. 

Handwriting

In handwriting this week we practiced backward curved lines for letters like C and O and slant lines for letters like M and W. These lines will help us form the letters of the alphabet.

Reading

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

Math

This week we were introduced to our new math topic of more or fewer and number 0. 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. We also started "real" math stations this week. We rotated between eight different centers throughout the week reinforcing numbers 0-5.

Important Reminders
Scholastic book orders are due September 18th (Tonight by 6pm, link on the side of the blog to order)

Magazine turn in days Tuesday September 22nd
Half Day September 24th

Join us for Daily 5 night at Elizabeth Ide on October 7th 6:30-8:00

Email me with any questions!