Wow! What a week we have had in K-1 and I cannot tell you how very, very proud I am of all 20 of my kindergarten friends. We had math MAP testing on Tuesday and reading MAP testing on Wednesday. They did such a great job navigating on the Ipad with my step-by-step directions to get to the testing site and trying their very best on both tests. It was a "tricky" process for new kindergarteners to do and wow, they did great! I was SO PROUD of them!

In structured literacy, we wrapped up learning how to write all the uppercase letters with the correct formation and now we have moved on to our first lowercase letter with learning the sound it makes. Yesterday we learned all about the letter Mm and the sound it makes along with the HMH motion that went along with it. The motion for the letter "m" is to pretend you are a mouse eating cheese and say, "mmmm,mmmmm, mmmm." They did a great job learning how to form the lowercase letter m on the lines the correct way and we did a few activites to practice it on their own. On the back of the Mm letter mat there were pictures and my kindergarten friends got to practice finding things that began with that letter. If it started with Mm, I asked them to circle it and color it with crayons working hard to try to stay in the lines. They all did such a great job! To finish learning about Mm, we glued that letter page in our sound book and we drew four things that began with that letter too. They had a lot of practice the last two days learning about the letter Mm sound, how to write both the upper and lowercase letter Mm the correct way on the lines and naming things that began with the letter. Way to go, K-1! In reading, we have been reading "Squiggle Story" and "One Happy Classroom" where we have been learning about: what an author and illustrator do, what the setting of a story is, identifying the characters and retelling the story by sequencing. We have also learned all about singular and plural nouns and my kindergarten friends are doing a wonderful job identifying them in a sentence. Way to go!

In math, we finished Chapter 1 where it focused learning all about the numbers 0-5. We learned about the quantity, how to write the numbers the correct way from top to bottom with cute rhymes and how to show each number in different ways. We also talked about "ordering numbers 0-5" in order. Counting up to 5 in order and counting backwards from 5 in order. They did a great job with our math chapter and yesterday, I gave them a math test to see what they learned. They all did fabulous on it! Way to go, K-1! Next week, we will be learning about numbers to 10. We are plugging right along in math and they have loved learning all about numbers!

The class is learning so much and are having so much fun playing with one another at outside recess and during our purposeful play block. I love their imaginations and all the creative things they make together. We are building a class family and working hard to ensure we treat eachother with kindness, love and our room is full with lots of fun! Have a great weekend, everyone!