Wow! How is it Friday already! This week flew by! It was a fun week and I am amazed with how much my kinder friends are learning! Today we got to celebrate Kyle's 6th birthday with him and it was so much fun! This week we had three friends who had a birthday. So fun!
In literacy and phonics, we learned another few sounds and have added them to our letter name/sound library. With each new sound, they are beginning to blend them together to read more and more words. It is so much fun to see! We have also been reading a few stories where we have been making the connection letters make up words and words make up sentences. Words have meaning! We have also talked about how when we read stories, we can connect them with our own lives. It was fun reading a story with the class the other day about school and how they were connecting what the kids were doing at their school that was like their experience at Olive or not like it. We also have dove a little into opinion writing as well where we are just drawing pictures right now to express their ideas.
In math, we have continued learning about the numbers through 10 focusing on 7,8,9, and 10 this week. We learned how to form the numbers correctly from top to bottom and we also talked about the quantity of both. We practiced showing those specified amounts on a ten frame. They are doing great understanding these numbers and how to write them the right way!
We also started social studies this week where the focus of the lessons was on how to get along with others. We talked about what it should look like when someone is talking and how to be a "good listener." We also discussed what our body should look like when we are really listening to someone that is talking. We also discussed the importance on not shouting out and raising our hand when we want to share so we don't interrupt someone that is talking. We want to be sure we are giving the speaker our full attention so we hear all they have to say in it's entirety. We also discussed turn taking too and the importance of that sill in our interactions with other people. To practice these skills we learned, we played a game of "telephone" as a class. We sat in a circle on the edge of the rug and we had one person start off by saying something in someone's ear and it got passed around the circle in each other's ears until we got to the last person. When we got to the end, did the message get passed correctly where each person heard what the first person had said or did the telephone message get broken as we went around the circle? They did great playing this FUN game and we played a few rounds because they loved every second of the game. They are really good listeners!!! When we finished, we did an activity where I asked them to draw a picture of themselves and a friend and what it would look like if they were being a good listener. It was so much fun discussing these important skills in social studies this week!
