Mrs. Fox's Kindergarten 2022/23

  It was a perfect day to visit the post office and mail a letter! Our tour took us behind the scenes of a busy post office.  The kids even got to scan packages and sort them by zip code.  It was such a great field trip!    

  It's safe to say we are on our final stretch of kindergarten!  It is ALWAYS so bittersweet for me as I think about the amount progress this class has achieved both socially and academically.  This is a tight group of kids that supports and looks out for each other.  It is such a bonus when a class has a wonderful dynamic such as ours.   We continue to forge ahead in our day to day work.  We are up to 43 word wall words.  That is A LOT of words to be responsible for reading and yet these kids are making me so proud with their consistency and effort in learning these words. This week in math I am introducing 3D shapes and their attributes.  In writing, we are wrapping up our nonfiction unit and will begin our opinion writing.  I always love teaching opinion writing as it's fun to encourage them to try to persuade me to be on their "side!" We are ending the year by studying plants and seeds.  You will see in the pictures below, the k...

  Hopefully the saying of April showers brings May flowers rings true next month because we have definitely had our fair share of showers this month!  It's hard to believe that we have only been back from break for a week...we've been a busy bunch in room 60! We started the week with "vacation share."  I heard about different play dates, trips and family fun!  This week I introduced 2 new word wall words: said and of.   Both can be pretty tricky when read in isolation.  You may notice every week I am sending home our entire list of word wall words.  As the kids read them independently, they highlight the word.  If they are unable to read the word they circle it and then we read it together.  Please spend a couple of minutes with your child going over these words.  You will be impressed!  :)  The next few weeks in writing we will be focusing on nonfiction.  I LOVE this writing unit as I get to introduce my big crate of nonf...

  It's hard to believe this is the last week of March! I am certainly excited for the snow to melt (goodbye to snow gear!!!) and warmer temperatures.  We are slowly but surly headed in the right direction!  ☀️  Last Monday, we celebrated the first day of spring by learning a new poem, Ode to Spring . We also brainstormed all of the exciting things that come with a new season.  Later in the week I introduced another poem for their poetry journals.  This poem was a familiar one for most of the kids, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. It's so fun watching the kids proudly read along to a poem that they have previously learned.  Last week I introduced two new word wall words, was and little.   We are moving along with new books in reading groups as well as continuing to practice different reading strategies that come in handy when "stuck" on challenging words.  In writing, we wrote about feelings.  The kids drew different feelings cards (happy, sad,...