Thinking and Learning Centers Week of Nov 5 and 12

Because of the short weeks our Thinking and Learning Centers have carried over :-)

Vowel Cut and Glue 

Learners in the Fawn Room have been working hard on segmenting words into beginning, middle and ending sounds. This means that given a word such as hat, your child should be able to say each sound /h/ /a/ /t/ and blend it back together to say "hat". When these sheets come home (we have done 'a' and 'i' middle sounds) ask your child to segment these words for you. See if you can come up with other 3 letter words with the same vowel sound for your child to segment for you. This is an end of the year kindergarten expectation. :-)

Here you see readers working to record "Wow" pages from their favorite star books. Your child should be able to tell you what book they recorded out of as well as what they liked about each page they recorded.

Above you see writers recording sentences made up of all pink heart words! The big focus with this work is using careful handwriting with spaces and punctuation. Your writers should also be able to read you these sentences when they bring them home.

Epic!!

This ipad app was purchased by the school and is an amazing way to incorporate technology, reading and science! These scientists have been focusing on nonfiction texts (the app reads to them and highlights the words as it goes) to learn more about fall!

Great thinking going on in the Fawn Room these past two weeks!