Week of October 18

Happy Friday Kindergarten Families!

It has been an exciting couple of weeks in Kindergarten! We kicked off our Reading Workshop with the unit We Are Readers. During this unit we are on the lookout for things to read! That can be signs in the hallway, words on our classroom charts, and in our small books that we are practicing. Kindergarteners are also on the hunt for words that we know in a *snap*. Ask us about some snap words that we have been practicing.

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We wrapped up our unit about apples by trying different apples. We sampled red, yellow and green apples. In every classroom yellow was the favorite. A lot of us thought the green were too sour! We also talked about seasons and how apple trees change throughout the year. 

During our Writing Workshop we are putting our snap words to use by writing pattern books.  We're using sentence starters like "A ___" "The___" "I like"  or "I see". We've also started adding labels to our writing. We labeled a friend to practice! In math we have been comparing numbers and using words like fewer, more and less. We also made a pretty cool number book where each Kindergartener was able to help represent a number with a drawing. 

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Last Wednesday we had a virtual author visit by Brendan Wenzel, a Caldecott-winning author/illustrator. He read us his new book, Inside Cat and showed us how to draw the cat from the story.  We learned that he loves animals and they are his favorite thing to draw. 

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On Friday October 15, Mrs Kalloch's class had a film crew visit during their garden special from the Foundation Portland Public Schools (with permission of course) to see what we've been doing during our outdoor learning.  Talbot Kindergarten is so lucky to have such an amazing Garden teacher, Ms. Anna makes learning about the garden so engaging and fun.

This Friday was Unity Day! We wore orange, made crowns and went for a whole school walk around the building to kick off our day of kindness. This is the day we also wrapped up our Apple Unit with some delicious applesauce that we made ourselves! (some classes are making applesauce next week)

 

 

 

  

Have a great weekend!