Yikes! It's been almost a month since my last post!

I don't know where the time has gone, but I can't believe it's been a month since my last post.  Sorry for the delay, but we have certainly been busy in Kindergarten!  Here's an extra long update.  :-) 

In reading, we loved reading different versions of The Gingerbead Man.  Most children loved The Gingerbread Girl, because she outsmarted the fox and tied him up with her licorice hair! :)   Now, we are reading books about bears and we will have our teddy bear picnic next week.  Some of the reading strategies we are focusing on with these books are making predictions, asking questions, and retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  We even made a graph of our favorite book!

 

 

 

In writing we are hard at work with sequencing.  We sequenced some of our routines such as brushing teeth, washing hands and getting dressed.  Then we wrote sentences about these things and our writing is getting a lot better.  We know to use a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence, lowercase letters for the rest of the sentence, spaces between our words and a period at the end of each sentence!  We also sequenced the steps on how to eat a gingerbread cookie!  Now we are writing a book about what we do in the morning, afternoon and evening! 

In math we've really been busy with numbers!  We had a lot of fun counting with gingerbread people.  We use cubes to count and know how to use a ten frame, double ten frame and even a triple ten frame!  Now we are working on even and odd.  We know that even numbers always have a partner, and odd numbers have one left out.  We also like to compare numbers by using the words more, less, equal, most and least!!

We've been busy planting grass in science, and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly, frog, and plant.   Now we're focusing more on Social Studies and are learning about maps and globes.  It's important that your child know the broad to specific areas they live:  North America---> United States ---> Maryland ---> Montgomery County---> Silver Spring. 

We've had some fun mystery readers. Noah's dad came back for a second visit and Griffin's mom was our mystery reader Friday!