Friday, May 3, 2013

May 6-10

With under twenty days left of Kindergarten, I want to say again how proud I am of every student in this class.  They have come so far with reading, math, science, social students, and overall maturity!  I'm beyond thankful for having such a solid group of students who have such supportive parents.  Let's enjoy this last month together and keep learning, growing, and having fun. I'm excited that I will get to see so many of you at Kids Core this summer-it'll be a blast!

Reminder: There is no school on Friday, May 10th.

Here's what we'll be covering this week.


Reading: Lesson 27
  • Phonemic Awareness: phoneme substitution
  • Letter: Qq (final one!!)
  • High-Frequency Words: that, have (last two!!)
  • Robust Vocabulary: hollow, scurry, watchful, cling, defend, ravenous, lively, pee, arise, clever, quarrel, boastful
  • Comprehension: reviewing main idea, rereading to increase comprehension
  • Literature: ReReading Good Morning, Little Polar Bear by Carol Votaw and How Chipmunk Got His Stripes by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac
  • Writing: invitations
Reading Homework
Math: Unit 6
  • Unit 6: Money, Time, Measurement, and Numbers
      • 6.1: Coins and Their Values
        • Objectives: identify pennies, nickels, and dimes, and their values; count different coin amounts
        • Vocabulary: dime, cent, penny, nickel
      • 6.2: Make Coin Collections
        • Objectives: count different coin amounts; identify a dollar and its value; identify a quarter and its value
        • Vocabulary: dollar, coin, quarter
      • 6.3: Introduction to Time
        • Objectives: describe the parts of an analog clock; read the time on a analog clock and a digital clock; identify reasons for measuring time
        • Vocabulary: clock, face, hands, hour, minute, time, yesterday, today, tomorrow
      • 6.4: Practice: Show and Write Times
        • Objectives: show on-the-hour times on a clock; read a clock and write the time to the hour
        • Vocabulary: clock, digital clock, hour hand, minute hand, hour, minute
            • Math Homework: 
              • Monday: 
              • Tuesday: 6.2
              • Wednesday: 
              • Thursday: 6.4
              • Friday: 
            Science:
            • Continuing to make and discuss fish observations
            • Creating a LEGO hockey player that can even shoot a puck (didn't get to do this last week)
            Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!