Friday was the 100th day of school! Our kindergarteners celebrated the day by creatively writing what they thought their lives would be like at age 100. All the kids thought they would be in a wheel chair because their legs would be very tired after walking around for 100 years :) They also followed the steps in a process to create an illustration of themselves as a 100 year old person! Thank you, Mrs. Sharp, for volunteering in our room and helping us with the project!
Since returning from winter break, we have been reviewing letter sounds and blends, sight words, and reading strategies. Our reading and writing groups have been doing a wonderful job supporting one another and helping a buddy with decoding words when reading and spelling when writing. I love to see them COLLABORATE which was a huge push for us first semester!
A special thank you to Mrs. Sniecinski, who was our mystery reader last Friday! The students listened to a book on dinosaurs, then each received a keepsake dino to take home. They were also given a special pencil and fancy eraser to write their own amazing stories! Thank you!! I can't wait to see my sweet kindergarteners tomorrow! I'm sure that their fun times over winter break will make for awesome share journal stories this week! We are going to dive right into reading groups and review all of the strategies we can use to decode words, such as looking at the pictures to help us, stretching out the word, or chunking the words into phonics parts that we know. Please keep working hard on the sight word lists (reading AND writing them!)
I am including some pictures from our winter party. It was a special day and the kiddos were so happy and excited! Thank you so much to our parent volunteers for all that you did to make our celebration a success! |
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