Today was a pretty exciting day in kindergarten. We began the day praising God that He made the world and all that is in it....including us! It was wonderful to praise the Lord with the song "My God Is so Great!" especially since today we were thinking about the sun, moon, and stars. One of the verses praises God with the words...."The mountains are His, the rivers are His, the stars are His handiwork too!" The second verse reinforces that God loved us so much He sent Jesus to save us. Some of the words are: "My God loves me so. His love is so mighty. He sent His son Jesus for me.....He died for my sins. He rose from the grave. He'll come back in glory for me." We continue to sing the song "God's Creation" which reviews the days of creation and reminds the kids that God sent a Savior to save us from our sin.
We also started a new five day rotation of literacy centers today. Each day a group of 3-4 students goes to a different table that works on one of the following skills: alphabet, word work, phonemic awareness, writing, and reading. At the alphabet table the students are sorting cards to find a, m, s, or t, etc. in a variety of fonts. Books have more than one way to print letter a, for instance. It is not always a circle with a straight stick. Lowercase t is not always composed of two straight lines. Sometimes lowercase t has a curve at the bottom. Lowercase g can be extremely confusing for students as we only print one circle and then we put on a tail. However in many books a g has two loops. Having kids sort and recognize letters in various fonts is a very important skill in order to read a variety of stories from different books. At the word work center students are making a predictable book with the sentence frame "See the _____". They are beginning to learn the concept of word and are cutting apart the words that are mixed up and then they have to put the words in the correct order. I noticed that many of the students do not know that words are separated by spaces. As much as possible take your child's finger and point to the words as you read together. Count how many words are in a sentence. We also underlined words that began with letter t today. I could easily tell which kids did not have concept of word because some students underlined every t that they came across. Some underlined an entire sentence with one line. The phonemic awareness table had a spinner game where students had to match words that rhyme. At the writing center students made mini pictionaries and looked for words that began with b, d, m, s, and t. At the reading center students were book detectives as they looked for books with animals, numbers, abcs, and people. We also had a variety of other reading and math activities. Comments are closed.
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