Hi room 5 families! We can't believe November is almost over. This past month we have been busy learning about drafting and critique. We're also learning about different tools to help us express our emotions and feel calm when we are upset or sad. Read on below to see what we have been up to and for follow up questions for families to ask at home. In math we are exploring written numbers and quantity. Here we are playing a game with a partner called Match It. Each partner takes a turn turning over one purple and one white card to see if the written number matches the quantity that is flipped over. This is a great way for students to practice number recognition and linking a quantity to a written number. Families can create a similar game at home with two different colored index cards or two different colored squares of paper. One square gets a written number (e.g., 10) and the other card gets a matching quantity shown with dots. Kindergarteners work on addition and subtraction with numbers between 1 and 20. We started working on sight words! Sight words are words in English that do not follow phonetic rules but are rather read and pronounced a specific way. In these cases, students are asked to learn how these words are read and written instead of sounding them out (because it won't work). Here are the words we have been working on in November: is, the, you, and. At home students can practice these words by making with with play dog, writing the words in salt trays or shaving cream. Students also enjoy finding them in text that we read as a class and highlighting them. When reading at home with your child you can ask them to find and point to these words in the book you are reading together. You can also start expecting your child to write these words without sounding them out as these words do not work with the phonetic rules. Families can put these words on stickies on the fridge as a way for the child to find the words (like our classroom word wall) when they are writing. Here we are at our school jog-a-thon! We worked really hard to train for it with Coach Cribbs. Here we are making signs to cheer on our fifth grade buddies and some pictures and highlights from our run. Families can cask, "What was your highlight from jog-a-thon?" "What was a low?" "What would you like to do for next year's jog-a-thon?" In writer's workshop we are learning about writing how-to books. As a class we talk about the different things we know a lot about and can teach a reader or a friend through writing. We are learning about putting down our thoughts that follow a sequence (first, second, third, last...) and making sure that our pictures match our directions. We had a guest speaker, Abuela Liz, come in a teach us all about tofu - something she is very passionate about. Our next step is to write a how-to book on how to create the recipe that we made with Abuela. Families can ask, "What is the first step in making tofu stars?" "What is the next step?" "What is the last step?" "Do you have any tips for your readers?"
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