Race To Trace!

This is a partner game to practice numeral writing. Partners take turn rolling a die, reading the dots and tracing the number. The first one to have all of their numbers traced wins!

Spelling Strategies For Longer Words

You would not believe the words we are now able to write during Writing Workshop utilizing a couple of spelling strategies! Our book review binder is getting full as we continue to write reviews that will convince people to try reading a new book. 

Music And Dancing

Music With Ms. Jenn

Missing Number Game

In this cooperative game kids work with a partner to arrange number cards in order and then take turns closing their eyes while their partner removes a card. The child guessing the missing number uses this math talk sentence: "I think ---- is missing because . . . . "

It is a fun game and also provides practice with the following common core standard:

Counting & Cardinality

Know number names and the count sequence.

1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

Domino Fact Families

Writing Reviews and Reccomendations

We wrote book reviews today. We first planned out a review that we could write for one of our favorites, "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More." Then we got to work writing our own reviews on books of our choice.

Character Feelings

We read "A Weekend With Wendell" by Kevin Henkes to talk about character feelings. Throughout the story we paused to talk to our partners about how the character was feeling. We used the anchor chart below as a guide. Then we did some buddy reading with new just-right-books, periodically  talking about our characters feelings along the way. 

Celebration of Learning

Bonus Recess

Word Families

On our morning message today we practiced changing the initial phoneme in CVC words to make new words. We created an -at family house. We also read a funny book with the same word family called "Pat the Cat."

During this activity we were working on the following kindergarten common core standard:

Reading: Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

1. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
2. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
3. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
4. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. ¹ (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
5. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

Little Free Library

Over the last 17 years I have often felt lucky to work in, and be a part of such an amazing community here at Folsom. Today was certainly one of those days! Today was the day that our new "Free Little Library" was opened for our kids and community members on the playground. The library was donated, built, and installed by the Morris family. Linda Morris (former Folsom teacher) and her family opted out of exchanging gifts over the last holiday, and instead worked together to make our new library possible. It was erected and opened today stocked with books for kids and adults to read, borrow, take, and add to. It was a very popular choice at recess today!!!

Problem Solving

Forget Me Not

We read this sweet story about friendship. In the story Mama explains that friendships take time to blossom, just like flowers on trees. It sparked some great conversations about our own life experiences with friendship.

Turn Around Trains

Part of math workplaces today was a game called "Turn Around Trains." To play students built trains using less than ten snap cubes, made from two colors. They then drew their trains and wrote  a number sentence to describe it from left to right. Then they flipped the train, drew it again, and wrote the turn around fact. 

New And Improved Sharing

Day one of our new approach to sharing was a huge success! We were treated to a great book, read independently and fluently by one of our friends.

Sharing Our Writing

Sharing our writing is an integral part of our writing workshop time. Each day three kids receive an "awesome writing card." Kids with the card get a chance to put their writing up with the document camera and read their writing. This gives students a purpose for writing and some motivation to produce quality  work. 

Snap Words

We circled all of the words we can read in a snap!!!!! 

Roll And Fill

We played a new game called roll and fill today which allowed us a ton of counting practice! 

Monday Message

I will let your children fill you in on what a "fearless" word is and how we incorporated them into our writing today during writing workshop.