Kindergarten   

Miss Hulbert & Miss Corcoran

Kindergarteners spent time in the month of March talking about spring. We had the opportunity to graph our favorite spring activities and talk about what people in the class liked to do. Many stories about spring were read too! Some of our mini-lessons for these stories focused on fantasy vs. reality, sequence of events, rhyming, story characters and setting. We used our five senses to write about spring. We focused on district writing outcomes as we wrote about spring using letter/sound correspondence, spaces between our words, capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and punctuation at the end. 

            During the month of March we met many new friends. Ozzie Octopus helped us learn about the letter Oo. Willy Worm helped us to learn about letter Ww. He is such a fun worm! Edna Elephant taught us about the letter Ee and the short sound it makes. Yetta Yo-yo taught us about letter Yy. To finish off the month, we met Jumping Jill who helped us learn about the Letter Jj and the sound it makes. We have been playing fun word building games using all these new letters. 

            Math activities have focused around meeting West Irondequoit Kindergarten Outcomes as we learned about different shapes that we call pattern blocks. We have been using the blocks to make pictures. Another topic we discussed was how to measure area. Students were involved in using square inch tiles to measure the area of different shapes. We also looked at the part-part-whole relationship of a number using dominoes.

            In science we have been learning about plants and animal lifecycles. Our field trip to Genrich’s was a great experience. The children got a chance to learn about the greenhouse and even plant their very own plant. Make sure to take care of it at home.   April will be a busy month. We will meet our last letter friends and then learn about some brothers. We are so excited! We will be working on writing a book this month. In math, we will continue to work on mapping, measuring and addition skills.

Math Tip:

            Practice writing and recognition of numbers to 30.

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