Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

Kindergator Update 11.1.19 Well we survived Halloween on a school day and scarier yet……the day after! Here are some things we worked on this week. Reading: We continued working on noticing and sounding out word endings. That means -ing, -ly, -ed, -s or -es. We listened for words with endings in the spooky fiction stories we read in class and then classified them into groups based on what ending they had. We spent lots of time on the what -y does at the end of a word and how it switches from a consonant sound to a vowel sound of E or I. Math : We continued comparing numbers by using number-lines. We plotted numbers on the lines and decided which was more, less or if they were equal. We learned the symbols for comparing, the <, > and = for when the numbers are the same. We also began our unit on word problems. The big lesson we learned is that we do not draw pictures or illustrations when solving word problems. We use math drawings instead. That means whether ou...

As requested....here is a copy of our reading "tricks" chart. When we work with our students on sounding out words we ask them to stop before sounding it out and look for tricks like these: 1. Letter s that work together to make one sound (this is where we put blends and digraphs like sm, st, bl, dr, tr, fl, ch, sh, gh and so on) 2. Letters that change their sound: (like g, y, and vowels) 3. Weird O's (like ow, ou, oi) 4. Bully-E (when e jumps backward over one consonant and makes a vowel say his name as in joke or rake) 5. When 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking and says his own name usually (as in bean or pain) 6. Bossy-R (when you have a vowel then r as in car, burn, corn) 7. Sight words (they don't follow the rules so you cannot sound them out just learn them by sight) Feel free to use the same language we do when reading with your own kiddos at home!

Picture retakes are on Wednesday, November 6th. If you missed last picture day or did not like the picture in the proof we sent home, that is your second chance to get a school picture!

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