Notes:
Concert: Thursday Night
Students should be dropped off at their classroom at 5:15.
K-1 students perform at 5:30pm.
All concert info is available on Mr. Petersen's portal:
http://cologneacademy.org/district-info/staff/teacher-portals/aaron-petersen-music-teacher/
2-Hour Late Start: Friday
Gale Woods Farm Field Trip: April 24 12:00 - 3:00
We will be leaving after we eat lunch and have recess. The field trip will be both indoors & outdoors so please have your child dress accordingly. Dismissal from school will be at 3:30 as usual.
Spring Fling Volunteer Sign up:
http://www.mysignup.com/caspringfling is the link for the parents, students, and teachers to sign up for volunteering at the Spring Fling. Kindergarten families are asked to volunteer for:
o K – Gone Fishing, Plinko, & Pick a duck
LANGUAGE ARTS
Theme: Red, White, and Blue
Letter Sounds: Long u
High Frequency Words: do, little
Decodable: Cute Little Mule
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.
Literature Focus: We will be reading familiar stories such as Chrysanthemum, The Princess and the Pizza, Caps for Sale, and Amazing Grace to help us identify and describe major events in a story using key details.
MATH
This week our focus will be skip counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s.
Coming up:
- Capacity
- Telling time
- Money- identifying and counting coins
This week students will work on addition and subtraction, skip counting, and place value.
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:
Our focus will be personal narratives. Students will learn how to retell a sequence of events, from a "small moment" in their life, with precise detail. Students will tell their story across the pages in a small booklet.
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 Classic Stories with Mrs. Mase.
Monday: Momotaro: Peach Boy
Tuesday: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Wednesday: How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?
Thursday: ----
Friday: Begin Weather Unit: Winter
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
