Mrs. Silvey's Kindergarten Class: Fire Safety Week

We had a busy week wrapping up our Community Helpers unit and learning about Fire Safety! Here are some of the important things we learned...

We had centers four days this week (and will continue to do so from here on out). Our literacy centers this week included independent reading, RAZKids on the iPads, and reading group with me! We played roll a power word at Word Work center, wrote about community helpers and fire safety at Write the Room center, wrote the power words "I see a" and sorted safe and unsafe pictures at Theme center, played CVC games at ABC center, and found magnetic letters and matched them to our pumpkin power words, then wrote them, at Sensory center. We also wrote power words on Magna Doodles.

During our reading lessons this week, we learned new vocabulary words that we read in our mentor texts (snatch, comfort, welcome, and furious). We made text to self connections with the story When Sophie Gets Angry...Really, Really Angry. We learned a new poem, Just Three, and added it to our poem books.

We worked on letters "e" and "r" during Phonics. We also did a lot of work with CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant). Please continue to work with your child at home on stretching out words, tapping out the sounds they hear on their fingers (they can show you how), and then writing what the hear.

In Writing, we used the story Round is a Mooncake to help us generate ideas for our writing. We wrote lists of various objects of different shapes. We worked on making sure our writing went from left to right and again, worked on tapping out and recording the sounds we hear in each word. Ask your child to tell you what they wrote about this week!

We compared the length of objects (and each other!) and measured using non-standard units in Math. We learned the words length, shorter, longer, and height. We will continue working on measurement for the next few weeks. More to come!

We had our first Reed Family time! Every child at Reed is assigned to a family; a group of two kids from each grade level and one Reed parent (teacher). We get together each month to complete fun activities and get to know others in the building! Ask your child to tell you whose family they are in!

This week's Second Step lesson: