Mrs. Pisauro’s Class November 16, 2015 Books I have read to the class: “Scarecrow Pete” “Feeling Thankful” “10 Fat Turkeys” “The Most Thankful Thing” Readers Workshop: * Exploring the World of Books - Readers use their own identities and background knowledge to help them search for and discover a variety of texts across different genres. *Reading the Pictures - Readers use pictures to help them read the words and make meaning of a text. *Making the Text Memorable - Learning to pay attention to the details. *Counting Words, Finding Spaces - Readers put letters together to read words and words are separated by spaces. Jolly Phonics Storyline, action, flash cards, letter formation and blending for letters: y, x, ch, sh, and th.Room Parents: *Writing I am thankful for… Fall is fun because… The children worked on stretching out the sounds of the words they are writing. Journal free topic and weekend Extra Reading Skill: *Remember to read every night, pick out sight words and ask your child questions that go with the story. Poems “The Scarecrow” “Veterans Day” “Ways to Remember” “Odd and Even” Guided Reading “Veterans Day” Math *Recognizing Quantities by Sight *Introducing the Number Track – a number line *Exploring the relative position of numbers *Writing Numerals Before and After *Identify left and right Extra Math Skill *Talking about numbers that come before and after (you can even go two or three before and after) *Matching number names to pictures and to numerals *Practice left and right side Reminders: November Parent Teacher Conferences and Report cards go home rd November 23 Early Release and Parent Teacher Conferences November 25-27 No School- Enjoy the Thanksgiving Break Happy Thanksgiving to all Families 19th Thank you For all the help and support you give to your Kindergartner.