Week 3 of Kindergarten

 We have completed the second week of our new CKLA program and we are working hard on our Skills unit. We have been listening and tracking sounds and words. We are making and tracing horizontal, vertical and curved lines. We have been practicing using a correct pencil grip, writing on a vertical surface and working on left and right (you may have noticed a little stamp on your child's right hand, this is to help us remember our left from our right). We also used play doh to practice making the different types of lines and writing our names. In our Knowledge Unit we have been learning Nursery Rhymes. We have been think, pair, sharing with a partner (or turning and talking) and discussing lots of questions about what students notice in pictures that go along with our nursery rhymes and comprehension questions. For this unit there have been many exit tickets that the students have had to illustrate the different nursery rhymes we are learning. The students have been reciting the nursery rhymes during our lessons and at other random times throughout the day, so the students are internalizing their learning, which we LOVE to hear and see in school!