We had a great last week in class. All of the dress up days were so much fun with the best day on Friday. We really had a great time at the homecoming parade and enjoyed seeing Mrs. Klinginsmith all dressed up since we met our fundraising goal!
We have officially learned all of our sounds for OG! Yahoo! We are currently reviewing the more difficult sounds (vowels, ch, wh, th, sh, etc.) Our next big push with sounds and letters is to use what we know and put them together to build words. We have started this task out with three letter words (consonant vowel consonant words). See if your child can blend some of these for you at home and see if they can do it our "OG" way (they should all be able to do this independently for you). This just means blending the unknown word one sound at a time and building upon what is in front of them. Using this skill has really helped during our Daily 5 time in the classroom when we are working on reading stories with words.
Speaking of words, in Kindergarten, we are looking for each child to master reading at least 84 sight words by the end of the school year. To help with this task, we are going to be setting goals with your child for the school year. More information will be coming home soon on what exactly this looks like and how you can help your child out at home.
With the start of Fall, we have started to read several books about the season change and started to have some great conversations about what does it mean when we say Fall. Some things we have talked about is how the leaves change colors and fall off of trees, how the temperature gets cooler, and how it is darker sooner at night and longer in the morning because the days are getting shorter.
We have also continued to work on our handwriting skills in the classroom. This week, we have practiced the letters S, A, I, T, and J. After this week, we will be finished with the capital letters and next we will work on the lower case letters of the alphabet. I do pick up the pace a bit with lower case letters since they have already been a key focus during our OG time in the classroom each day.
Finally, during centers, we are reviewing rhyming words, middle sounds in words, basic number order (1-10), and we have started working on independent writing skills.
Sorry for such a long blog post this week! Have a great week and upcoming weekend!
We have officially learned all of our sounds for OG! Yahoo! We are currently reviewing the more difficult sounds (vowels, ch, wh, th, sh, etc.) Our next big push with sounds and letters is to use what we know and put them together to build words. We have started this task out with three letter words (consonant vowel consonant words). See if your child can blend some of these for you at home and see if they can do it our "OG" way (they should all be able to do this independently for you). This just means blending the unknown word one sound at a time and building upon what is in front of them. Using this skill has really helped during our Daily 5 time in the classroom when we are working on reading stories with words.
Speaking of words, in Kindergarten, we are looking for each child to master reading at least 84 sight words by the end of the school year. To help with this task, we are going to be setting goals with your child for the school year. More information will be coming home soon on what exactly this looks like and how you can help your child out at home.
With the start of Fall, we have started to read several books about the season change and started to have some great conversations about what does it mean when we say Fall. Some things we have talked about is how the leaves change colors and fall off of trees, how the temperature gets cooler, and how it is darker sooner at night and longer in the morning because the days are getting shorter.
We have also continued to work on our handwriting skills in the classroom. This week, we have practiced the letters S, A, I, T, and J. After this week, we will be finished with the capital letters and next we will work on the lower case letters of the alphabet. I do pick up the pace a bit with lower case letters since they have already been a key focus during our OG time in the classroom each day.
Finally, during centers, we are reviewing rhyming words, middle sounds in words, basic number order (1-10), and we have started working on independent writing skills.
Sorry for such a long blog post this week! Have a great week and upcoming weekend!
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