Tuesday, October 14, 2014

This Week's News

Kindergarten News
Week of Oct. 14th-18th, 2014

Thank you for sending your child with their library books, Pete the Cat reading logs, and home readers.  You are helping us to grow readers!  This Friday will be the RCE Fall Festival.  We hope to see you at this fun event!, that begins at 4:00. J

This week we will explore the following:
Theme: FALL!!
Reading:  We will have fun with Fall stories, focusing on story elements.  We will also sequence and retell, which are two very important reading skills!
Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to Fall books for our own individual book making/writing! We will learn the routines of Writer’s Workshop.  Our authors will be very busy!  We will write about colors we see, fall, etc.  Hooray!
Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: a, is, it, the, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, write, pink, brown, black, NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  and, to
Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of F and D.

Math: This week we will continue problem solving, focusing on acting out to solve a problem and/or drawing a picture. Using the math workshop approach, our focus this week will be on: positional words (above, below, behind, etc.), ordinal numbers, measuring length and width using math manipulatives, and sets to 10.

Science: Light and Heat give us energy!
    
Social Studies:  Fall Traditions , What makes a Neighborhood/Community

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.
Optional Activities:
·       Tuesday: Make a list of F and D words   
·       Wednesday: Write a simple sentence using and and to.  Do you have a capital and a period? 
·       Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com
·       Friday: Read your home reader this weekend.  Return your book bag and your library book/reading log on Monday!

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