It was a great second week of kindergarten!
This week in our reading workshop we talked about the expectations, proper book handling, and what it means to be a "Book lover, not a book bully."

 

 We also worked on our reading stamina and what it means to be respectful during reading workshop.  We created an anchor chart with our rules of reader respect.
1. Read quietly
2. Stay in one spot
3. Read the whole time
4. Get started right away

In writing workshop we talked about how we are all writers and that writers put ideas on paper with pictures and words.  Before they begin, writers think about what they would like to write about. We thought of ideas and had a chance to share them before we began writing.  Writers also look back at their writing and see if they can add more.  We practiced looking back and adding to previous pieces.  This included adding detail to pictures, more labels, and even attempting sentences.

 

We worked on the short A sound and created an alligator from the letter A.  This worked on phonological awareness as well as the fine motor skills of cutting and gluing.

In math we worked on one-to-one correspondence, counting and numbering groups of items to five, and reading number words one-five.