What the heck do you do all day?

You might be wondering what we've been working on lately in kindergarten.  I know some of you hear a lot about our days, but many of you hear that we do "nothing" all day.  Here are a few things we've been working on lately...

In morning circle, we:

• practice reading and finding word wall words
• re-read for fluency, look for spacing, punctuation, and more
• started number of the day (to look at numbers in different ways and gain number sense)
• started fix-it sentences to start recognizing mistakes and practicing correcting them

In math, we:

• measure using length, using phrases like longer than, shorter than
• practice counting strategies (counting by ones, grouping twos, tens, etc)
• continue to familiarize ourselves with a ten-frame to help us gain number sense
• work towards being able to explain our thinking and also be able to listen and respond to the thinking of others

In writing, we:

• practice writing both our first and last names using appropriate capitalization
• leave spaces between our words
• experiment with punctuation at the end of our sentences
• spell word wall words correctly
• use our senses to make writing more interesting (I feel, I see, I smell, etc)

Of course, there are many other things scattered into our days.  I just thought I'd give you a snapshot of some of the things we're working on these days.  

Cheers!