Hello!
I'm excited to see all of you at conferences this week to share the growth and many successes that we have seen thus far in Kindergarten. I'm so proud of every student in this class-they work so hard, take care of each other, and come to school with such enthusiasm and excitement everyday! If possible, please bring your Kindergartener to conferences.
Here's what we'll be covering this week.
Reading: Lesson 7
- Phonological Awareness: review rhyme recognition and production
- Phonics: word building
- Reviewing High-Frequency Words: I, a, my, the, go, can, to
- Introducing and identifying beginning, middle, and end in a story
- Robust Vocabulary: sly, proceed, apparel, announced, imaginary, precisely
- Continuing to work on recognizing and writing sentences
- Continuing with centers: five centers containing an apple art project, a fall tree art project, number writing, rhyming on the smart board, and a hand tracing/math activity.
- Reading The Little School Bus by Carol Roth and Jessica by Kevin Henkes
- Unit 2:
- 2.5: More Family Math Stories
- Objectives: establish links between math and the real world, draw 6 objects, write the numeral 6
- Vocabulary: straight, curved
- 2.6: Introduction to Repeating Patterns
- Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; develop spatial concepts; identify repeating patterns
- Vocabulary: repeating pattern, up, down, left, right, more, fewer
- 2.7: Make Repeating Patterns
- Objectives: make repeating patterns; write the numerals 1 through 5
- Vocabulary: pattern
Science:
- Continuing to make tree observations; draw in our tree journals; and discuss what happens to trees during the winter months in Minnesota.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
