Read the Room

Read the Room is a literacy center that we will use throughout the year.  Right now we are starting with looking for letters in the classroom.  The students have a clipboard with a list a letters on post-it notes to look for in the room.  The student records the letter on his or her paper.

Then the students go on a letter hunt in the room.  They stick the matching letter post-it note on the letter in the room.

Writing Center

Here is a picture of our writing center.  We read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? this week.  In writing center the boys and girls will complete the sentence: 

I see a (color word)      (animal).

This is one of our finished products!

Sentences

Today the book Lunch is coming home.  We worked with the book all week.  Today we added the last page.  First we worked with the words on big cards. 

We talked about how to order the words left to right.  We mixed the words up and read the words out of order too.  The children thought that was funny.  We also added a period to the end of our sentence.

Then we went to our seats to cut and glue the sentence on the last page.

Please keep the books at home to practice reading on your own.  

Literacy Centers

This week we are practicing literacy centers.  During literacy centers students work in small groups and I take a small group.  My group is working on letter formation using shaving cream.  We also had:

• matching lower and capital letters in the rice table
• using stamps to write name and stamp pictures
• computer (Starfall)
• act out a story with felt pieces
• shaving cream writing (with me)

Right now I am focusing on procedures.  Students are learning to work together, problem solve, follow directions, navigate the computer, and clean up.  They are off to a great start!  

MAP Assessment

The boys and girls took the MAP assessment this morning during media center time.  The kindergarteners worked hard!  It was a long test.  It took us an hour to complete.  We have not yet checked out books during media time yet.  Hopefully that will start up next week.  After the test the kindergarteners were a bit wiped out.  We decided to have a mini outside recess to stretch and run around a bit. 

Graphs on the Activboard

Here is a picture of us working on a class graph of our favorite flavor of ice cream.  Our kindergarten friend had to stretch to reach the top of the chocolate column. We counted how many kindergarteners voted for chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, and all three flavors combined.  

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