Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

Thank you so much for coming to talk with me/us at conferences. It is always exciting getting to know more details about the kiddos and working together to brainstorm ideas to help them. I really appreciate you coming in to meet. Though it is a short week, we squeezed in lots of learning. Reading: We continued to work on retelling fiction stories while we began discussing how to retell non-fiction by figuring out the main idea and three supporting details. We used bats as our topic to explore for both fiction and non-fiction. Math: We continued our work on classification and focused on how you can sort the same group of things in different ways of you think out of the box. The students are getting much better in the skill and we thank all the parents who are sorting and classifying with the kids at home to reinforce this skill. Halloween candy is a great thing to sort with. May I suggest the groups of “Candy you should let Mrs. Powers eat for you” and the much smaller group of