Kindergarten MP3 Campus
Monthly Progress
Monthly Progress is due November 1st
Language Arts
Topics:
Spiders, reading, writing, phonics,
Letters/sounds: B,b, S,s, T,t
Sight word: the, is, at,
Activities:
We have practiced letters, sounds and sight words through worksheets, games, reading poems, stories, and discussions. Students have practiced writing their name with a beginning capital and remaining lower case letters in a variety of ways and are showing nice progress! I can already see an improvement from the first days of school. (Continue to be working on this at home.)
Students have read poems and mini books: "The", "The Spider", and "I Can Read-at Words". Individual books and poems that students are bringing home can be collected and re-visited for continued reading practice.
We have practiced letter formation for the letters A,a, B,b, S,s, and T,t both with and without lines, on paper and white boards! We are working hard to remember to start our letters at the top. Be sure you are practicing correct letter formation at home. Bad habits are hard to break!
Together we drew a picture of a spider, added details to the picture, and labeled things in the picture. We continue to practice labeling pictures using beginning sounds.
Some books we have read this month include: Too Much Glue, What Makes a Rainbow?, Kindergarten Rocks!, Aarrrggghhh Spider!, Praying Mantises!, How To Catch a Dinosaur, Are You a Spider?, The Very Sleepy Sloth, How Dinosaurs Say Goodbye, The Diary of a Spider, and Pinkalicious.
Social Studies
Topics:
Rules and procedures
Getting along
Getting to know each other
How we go to school
Activities:
Kindergarteners are getting to know one another and continue to learn and practice classroom rules, routines and how to care for materials. Some routines include: entering the room in the morning, sitting at tables, working at centers, preparing for and eating snack, recess, lining up, cleaning up and packing for home.
We have learned about “Superstar” listening and speaking skills (eyes on speaker, ears listening, mouth closed, hands and feet to self, raise hand for turn to speak) This takes time, as we always have so many things to share.
We need a lot of practice with listening politely and using inside voices!
Science
Topics:
Spiders
Activities:
We read various books about spiders, fiction and non-fiction.
We completed a class chart together labeling the parts of a spider and completed a page where students colored the different parts according to instructions.
We played with a spider sensory bin.
We watched scholastic and YouTube videos about spiders: "Tricky Spiders" and "Don't Be Afraid of Spiders".
We did fun art projects like making spiders out of playdough, drew and labeled spiders, painted water color spider webs, and we are in the process of making more spider webs out of glue, salt, and water colors.
As we began to learn about spiders, students each added a spider on a chart to show if they were afraid of spiders, or not. We also created a KWL chart (Know, Wonder, Learned). Students contributed ideas for the chart about what they already know about spiders, and they came up with some great wonderings. We added things that we learned about spiders each day.
Ms. Hays, Campus Kindergarten Teacher