Ask Me about friday, november 6, 2020

Thursday and Friday I was finishing up retesting foundational skills that need to be reported out on the report card each marking period.  Once a child has completed all the items on the checklist, they aren't retested, but it's meant to be done throughout the year because this is what we are learning in kindergarten.  I was able to pull kids into breakout rooms to do this work, while the other kids worked independently.  This showed me how hard they have come this first marking period.  They were able to do their work, follow directions, navigate with a little support to other sites to do work, and read on their own away from the screen.  I think that's amazing for five and six year olds to be able to do all that in the beginning of November.  Thank-you for your support, especially in helping the children toggle to Google classroom and Seesaw.  As the children become more comfortable with these sites, I will be able to add more that they can do independently.
Today we talked about feelings.  We looked at some Todd Parr feelings flashcards, then read his book online.  The children then drew in the style of Todd Parr and wrote sentences to go with their feelings pictures.  Ask me to show you my feelings pictures.

In the afternoon, we worked independently in the Google classroom and on Seesaw, and also played one of the Bingo counting games in our folder.  Your child can go to Google classroom and Seesaw anytime to work on activities and games.  I will release new activities that I want them to do in class as we do them, so anything they don't finish in class, they can do another time if they want, or at another time in class.  
I wanted to read to the children before we dismissed for the weekend.  I read the book Just Ask! by Sonia Sotomayor.  This beautiful book is about differences, and learning about how those differences really show us how much we are the same.  We will be reading this book again and doing several lessons with it next week, but I wanted them to hear the beauty of the book before I stopped along the way to talk about the content.  I'm including a YouTube reading of the story if you would like to listen to it with your child.

Just a reminder that the children do not have school on Monday.  I will send out a revised schedule for Wednesdays from now on.  

I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing weekend! 
​Miss Wolfe