Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

We had a visit from the Boy Scouts this week! We have wonderful troops here at Addison with wonderful leaders so please consider joining.

It was a great week in kindergarten! Here are some of the things we worked on in class this week. Reading: We focused on the 3 things teachers want their students to do when reading (think about their reading, talk about their reading and love their reading) while reinforcing the vocabulary of what an illustrator and illustration mean. We did all this while reading fiction books about alligators underbeds, growing in water and coming to school. Math: We worked on teen numbers, naming them, defining them as more than 10 and less that 20 that start with a 1. We learned about the words more and less as we began to subitize (know without counting) numbers shown in dots. Writing: We worked on the illustrations for our 3 sentence stories. The illustrations must have 3 details to further explain the main picture and at least 5 colors so this is no small task. We sounded out 1 word that begins with “i” on our bubble maps. Growth Mindset: We examined what our brains look ...

Homework has begun! Your child should have brought their homework notebook home with them today.  It is due back this Friday  but we recommend keeping it in their backpack to help ensure it doesn't get left somewhere on that day.  Each night your child should complete the review skill, choice 1 OR choice 2 and then do some reading with you. Reading aside, the work should take no longer than 20 minutes. The work should be completed on the pages behind the homework grid and you can put more than one night on a page to save paper. Until the children get more comfortable in their writing, they may need to dictate some of their ideas to you. But after a week or two, they need to begin doing some or more of the writing.  All the questions from the homework relate to our Cobb County Standards of Excellence. For example, you will see a question about finding the numbers on the mailbox. This relates to our social studies standard of knowing their "place in spac...

We chose our class jobs today and asked questions about what each job entails. Ask your child about their role in keeping our class fully operational.