We completed our first week in 2015. I love January in Kindergarten. The kids make HUGE gains this time of year. However, this week was not one of those weeks. It was a very long and exhausting short week. We spent a lot of time reviewing procedures and expectations. While we got right back into literacy and math rotations, I did not pull any small groups. Instead, I walked around the classroom to support kids. I did a few formative assessments to see if any skills were lost over break.
We also read Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. You can get this anchor chart and an emergent reader FREE HERE at my TPT store. The snow child craft was inspired by the teacher next door. It is a simple cutting activity. You need the following sheets of paper.
Now that we are half way through the year, I really want to focus on writing. We did this easy shared writing activity. Each student wrote what they got for Christmas. We focused on the sight words we knew and sounding out words. We also talked a lot lot about spacing. I talk about when to use upper and lower case letters but I don’t make a huge deal about it. I would rather focus on getting the words out and spelling to the best of their ability, which varies from student to student.
