Boy am I glad that it is the weekend! This week was the last week of Bracken testing for our Pre-K students. I feel like all we did this week was testing!
Rest assured we were able to squeeze some fun learning in as well!
Our class this year LOVES to sing! You may have heard your little one singing one or two of our favorites!
Down By The Bay is one of my favorite songs from my school days! This song (and story) helps the children recognize and create rhymes. In this story we meet a whale with a polka dot tail, a fly wearing and tie and of course a goose kissing a moose!
If you hear your little one singing this song try and encourage them to create their own addition such as "Did you ever see a....cat wearing a hat?" "Did you ever see a....kangaroo with a shoe??"
Five Little Ducks is another one of our favorites! This is a fun finger rhyme that the students know by heart! We have the story version and the song version that adds a daddy duck to the story!
This week the students and I talked briefly about characters and setting. The children helped me make a list of the characters found in the story and we also described the setting of the story.
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| Zariyah took this great group picture for us! |
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| These are the characters and the setting we came up with! |
After we created our chart we were able to reenact the story!
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| A family picture of our little ducks. :) |
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| We had some pretty fast little ducks! |
I did video tape our final performance of "Five Little Ducks"! If I can get it uploaded I will share it with you!
Also this week we practiced, practiced and practiced our sight words over and over again! Sight words help children to become better readers! These are the sight words for the first nine weeks of school:
boy
girl
I
a
stop
red
blue
can
run
the
big
yes
like
we
no
In order for your child to have a word "mastered" they have to be able to read the word on sight (with in 3 seconds) and say it consistently correct (not guessing!). While sight words are technically only for kindergarten students....if your Pre-K student already knows all of their letter names and sounds PLEASE go ahead and start practicing these words now! It is never too early to get ahead! :)
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| We used popcorn to create our sight words because they should "POP!" out of our mouths! |
When our Pre-K students saw our popcorn words they fell in love! So....
we snuck some extra fine motor practice into our day by making our names with popcorn too!
This week we also worked a lot on patterns! Pre-K students are working on "AB" patterns which would look like Yellow Block, Red Block, Yellow Block, Red Block. While kinder students are working on AB, ABB, AABB and ABC patterns.
I hope you enjoyed your look into our classroom this week! I will leave you with some important information for the upcoming week!
****Kindergarten students will be taking the Stanford 10 test this week. We will take the test next week and again at the end of the year to measure growth in learning. Please make sure that your kindergarten student come to school each day as it will be very difficult to make up missed sections.****
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| Please refer to this handout from the Friday Folders for further information! |
Please consider becoming a member of our PTO. The PTO sponsors several of our field trips through out the year by paying for transportation or other fees that would otherwise raise the cost or cancel field trips for our students!
If you are interested in either of these products Scholastic Books or Highlights Magazine please fill out and return the forms in your child's Friday Folder. Our classroom receives special prizes and free books for all orders sent in!
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| Even if you are not interested in the Highlights Magazine, please sign and return the form so I may send it in for free prizes! |
Enjoy the rest of your weekend! And I hope to see all of my Kindergarten families Tuesday night at Parent Night!
(Pre-K Parent night will be later in the year!)
-Mrs. Richardson
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