"December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory..." John Geddes During our Reader’s workshop we learned about two more super powers that readers have. In addition to “pointer power”, we have the power to “re-read” our stories and we have “snap word” power. Re-reading is how readers in Kindergarten get to be stronger readers and when we combine that skill with the power to quickly read our Kindergarten spelling words we’ll be able to read more and more books. Readers had fun reading in our Gingerbread House during private and partner reading time. During our centers we matched upper and lowercase letters, listened for the beginning sound in words, read our just right books to Ms. Audet and completed a mystery picture. We started a new “gingerbread” write the room, identified the number of syllables in words and we colored a book with our new spelling word /like/ in it. On Friday we read with our Reading Buddies. Today during our extra library time, we explored school tools, play dough tools and woodworking tools in the maker space. During our Writer’s workshop we learned that the faces of the people in our stories will show how they are feeling. We also learned that our pencil helps us to write, but that we can flip it over and use it as a pointer to help us read our stories. We looked at how grown up authors add a period (or question mark) to the end of their sentences and we searched for places in our writing where we might need a period. Finally we learned that our true stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end. During our Math block we learned about attribute blocks, practiced sorting them many ways and learned that we could identify their shapes with our eyes closed. We made a graph of our favorite colors, showed different numbers on a ten frame and learned about the calculator. During our centers we practiced counting objects, building with pattern blocks, putting numbers in order, counted "teen" numbers during "count the room" and we completed a Number Race.
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