Parents are welcome to meet students at the park and enjoy the day with us! Students will need to ride the bus. Lunches packed from home must be in a disposable bag with disposable water bottle and beverage containers. Please include your child's name on all items. Apply sunscreen and choose comfortable footwear and socks.
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
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: Buya Marries the Tortoise
MATH
This week our focus will be telling time, ordering numbers, and coin identification. Students will identify the hour and minute hand to tell the time to the hour and the half hour. When ordering numbers, students will need to look at the tens place and then the ones places to determine how to put the numbers in order.
Coming up:
- Capacity
- Money- identifying and counting coins
This week students will be working in small groups to put numbers in order and tell time.
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:
As a class, we will be reading stories by Kevin Henkes (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, Sheila Rae the Brave, etc) to see how authors write focused pieces. Students will gather ideas and write them in their Tiny Topics Notebook. They will identify the problems in stories and write focused pieces of their own. At the end of the week, we will focus on features of text such as quotation marks and practice using them in our own writing!
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 Maps with Mrs. Mase.
Monday: Our Continent & Country
Tuesday: Our State
Wednesday: My Town
Thursday: My Street and House/Apt. #
Friday: My Bedroom 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
