How much can we fit into one day?!?!? Wow were we busy! This morning during our Morning Meeting we talked about "Gus the Good Listener." It's hard to follow a rule about being a good listener if we have never defined what a good listener looks like and sounds like!
Today was our tenth day of school! In kindergarten, it's a pretty big deal. Today was the first time Zero the Hero snuck into our room and left a treat. Zero the Hero leaves us something shaped like a zero every ten days of school (the days that have a zero!). Today he left us Fruit Loops! We can't wait to see what he brings us in ten more days!
We began working on building our stamina with independent reading today. In our classroom we use the Daily 5 framework to provide students with meaningful, independent literacy activities. The Daily 5 consists of five different activity choices. In kindergarten, we will be using three of the choices, so I guess it should be called the Daily 3 :). We will be introducing Read to Self, Word Work, and Listen to Reading over the next couple of weeks. Today we started the launch of Read to Self. At first many students proclaimed, "but I can't read yet!" So we started a list of three ways to read a book:
Then students took their book boxes to a quiet place and focused on uninterrupted reading. Today we only read for one minute. We could have gone longer! It was hard to get friends to put their books away:) Tomorrow we will read for two minutes. Like training for a marathon, we will increase our daily reading time over the next couple of weeks, until we are able to read for 10-15 minutes without loosing focus. This will allow Mrs. Huettl to meet with small groups of students for guided reading lessons.
We had two Mystery Letters again today. We started with the letter G,g. We made gold, glittery G's with glue:) These are still at school drying but will be ready to come home tomorrow.
Our second Mystery Letter was the letter Q,q. We put question mark stickers on our letter Q,q.
This morning was also our first library check-out! Please spend time reading your child's selection together. Library books are welcome back any day this week, but MUST be returned by Monday morning in order for your child to check out a new book.
This afternoon we went on a tree walk around or school. We compared different trees. Discussed different trunks and leaves. We talked about different types of pine needles and how they feel different. We checked the ground for clues about the trees. Around one tree we found lots of acorns. This was a clue as to what type of tree was near by. We also saw lots of bees on our walk! Yikes!
When we returned to the classroom, we labeled two tree posters with the parts of a tree: roots, trunk, branches, and leaves.
Mrs. Palodichuk came in this afternoon and read us a story about a box of crayons that worked together to make a beautiful picture. This reminds us of Somerset where we all work together to make this world a more beautiful place.
Remember: tomorrow is our field trip to the Dodge Nature Center! Dress for the weather!
Love,
Mrs. Huettl
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