Kindergarten with Mrs Munden

Pumpkins and Fire Safety

Math:

We just finished our Unit 2 Assessment! We worked on different ways to make the number 2 and 3, continued to count a set of objects and write the corresponding number and answer story problems asking us which one "has more." This week we are learning the different ways to sort things. Today we explored with pattern blocks and found out we can sort them in 3 ways: by shape, color and size!

Language Arts:

Last week was our first week introducing heart words and word families! Each week from now on the students will have 4 heart words they will work on memorizing as well as a word family. Last week our heart words were: the, I, a, big. The goal with heart words is to be able to read and write them by MEMORY!!! I will be sending home flashcards soon to practice these at home! The more heart words your child knows, the more words they will know as they begin to start reading books. Word families are a group of letters that can be read together. Last week our word family was: -ad. We practiced putting different letters in front of -ad to make words! Ask your child to write words in the -ad family! This week we are working on the -an family. Again, being able to write and read these words and recognize them in reading is the goal!

Writing:

We continue to learn about personal narratives and how to make the come alive! A good personal narrative includes a cover, three important parts to the story and words to go with it. Some of them have finished and are working on new books and some are still working hard to make their first one great! The goal for each student is to write a book about something that has happened in their life that they remember. It has been so fun to read these books and see what is important to them!!

            

Discovery:

Two weeks ago we learned all about pumpkins! We studied a pumpkins life cycle, read a pumpkin poem, made our own scary pumpkins and did a pumpkin investigation! We finished our unit off by visiting the pumpkin patch--which we loved!!!!

     

  

 



Last week was fire safety week. We learned about firefighters and their jobs, safety rules and the parts of a fire truck. We also got to visit the Spirit Lake Fire Department. It was great to see where they work and what they do.