Thank you for coming out to visit with the Kindergarteners despite the weather!
LANGUAGE ARTSTheme: Teamwork
Letter Sounds: /kw/ spelled Qq, /y/, and /v/
High Frequency Words: her , what
Decodable: Quin and the Jets*
*Please have your child read and re-read the pre-decodable and the decodable books that are sent home. Depending upon your child's reading abilities these books will range from very easy to challenging. However, it is still good practice to have your child read and discuss these books with you at home.
MATH
This week we will be discovering all the different ways to make the numbers 5, 6, and 7.
Coming up:
- Ordinal numbers
- Capacity
- Telling time
- Money- identifying and counting coins
Our math minute is a timed test that will develop math fact automaticity. Students will learn their addition and subtraction facts through repetition, games, activities and small group instruction at each student's current level.
This week students will work on tens and ones, counting on and counting back, ordering numbers out of sequence, and composing and decomposing numbers.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays students work in their Math Journals. Our Math Journal work begins with an open ended question that provides an opportunity for students to use multiple strategies for problem solving. Students are then asked to record their work and discuss how they solved the problem. Finally, a few students each week share their problem solving strategies with the class.
WRITING
This weeks mini-lessons:
We will continue to work on our writing project about penguins. Students still need time to record what they are learning about penguins and share it in a mini-report. Students will share their report with their 3rd grade book buddies.
Our goal is to convey our ideas through drawing and writing including a lot of details, colors, labels and sentences. The conventions of writing are practiced every day by our little kindergarten authors!
CORE KNOWLEDGE UNIT
Students will go to Mrs. Makela's room from 2:00-2:30 everyday.
check out Mrs. Makela's portal for more details!
In Mrs. Mase's room for Core Knowledge Ms. Sather's class will be learning about Seasons and Weather. On Tuesday, we will start our Map Unit.
Monday: Complete our lift the flap seasons worksheet
Tuesday: Our Planet- land and water
Wednesday: Intro to Maps
Thursday: What is a compass rose?
Friday: Symbols on a map
SHOW AND SHARE
Friday
HOMEWORK
- READ-O - complete 5 in a row, more than 5, or the whole page!
- Read 20 Minutes every night (READ-O can be applied to Reading Rodeo Minutes)
- Review High Frequency Words Grade K
- Practice writing numbers and letters
- Count forward and backward
- Play LEXIA or IXL
