Theme: Ready, Set, Grow!
Letter Sounds: Long i
High Frequency Words: down, they
Decodable: Mike and Spike
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.
SHARED INQUIRY STORIES
Our Kindergarteners will be listening to stories and sharing answers to interpretive questions. During our shared inquiry discussions we will be learning to listen carefully, share our ideas, accept our classmates' ideas respectfully, and support our ideas with textual evidence.
This week's story: Feraj and the Magic Lute
MATH
This week our focus will be to work on subtraction and subtraction story problems. We will continue to review addition and counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
Coming up:
- Ordinal numbers
- Capacity
- Telling time
- Money- identifying and counting coins
This week students will work on addition and subtraction, tens and ones, and counting by 2s.
Math Journals - (Tuesdays and Thursdays) 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 week's mini-lessons:
We will be working on writing conventions this week (spacing, punctuation, spelling, capital letters etc.) No, David!, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, and Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type will be our inspiration!
CORE KNOWLEDGE UNIT
Mrs. Mase's students will go to Ms. Sather's room from 2:00-2:30 everyday for Science. Check out Ms. Sather's portal for more details!
Mrs. Makela's class will be learning about Nursery Rhymes and Fables with Mrs. Mase.
Monday: Star Light, Star Bright
Tuesday: Little Bo Peep & Little Boy Blue
Wednesday: The Lion and the Mouse
Thursday: The Dog and His Reflection
Friday: The Hare and the Tortoise
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
