We have some really good forward momentum in Kindergarten. It has been so great to be able to stay in school IN-PERSON consistently, and it is showing up in the progress the kids are making.
We are learning lots of new "popcorn words", or sight words, and also working hard on rhyming, word families, and phoneme segmentation, or listening for sounds when we chop up words, and being able to translate those sounds into phonetic spelling! The language we use with the kids is "chopping up words", "What sound do you hear first?" "Then what?" and "kid spelling." You may want to practice those skills for fun at home with your kinder!
We also are working on greater than or less than in math, and had fun making alligator puppets and playing with dice to make the alligator "eat" the greater number!
We are still celebrating Thanksgiving in lots of fun ways, including making cards for our families to show them we are thankful for them!
The class earned a "sun" party, by blasting their rocket off through the solar system all the way from Pluto to the sun by being good listeners and working hard, so we had microwave s'mores on Wednesday, and watched a Magic School Bus movie about the human body. We finished up our body unit this week, by answering our last question, "How does hair grow?" See if your kinder remembers the answer!
We also had Birthday Mania this week, with three birthdays! We have two more coming up next week! It was lots of fun, and if you ever want to invite someone to your birthday party, I recommend kindergarteners. They were WAY more excited about my birthday than I was, and I got the BEST group hugs! Happy birthday to Brent and Mary Ellen too! The kids had so much fun making blue lipstick out of the frosting :).
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