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Kindergarten News

Week of April 24- April 28, 2017

The library will be closing in a few weeks, so it’s time to start searching for “lost” library books.  Some of us have quite a few checked out.  J Send them any day this week! 

It is time to order school supplies for next year.  Go to www.schooltoolbox.com.  Type in Rummel Creek Elementary.  Choose your child’s grade for NEXT year!

Mark your calendar for Kindergarten graduation on Friday, May 26^th, at 9:00 am in the cafeteria.  More information to come!

Theme: More Insects!

Reading:  Our shared reading and interactive read-alouds about insects will finish up this week.  We are practicing using good vocabulary to describe the attributes of insects.  Ask your child to sing you the song about the parts of an insect!  We will begin our end of the year literacy testing this week, as well.

Writing:  We will combine our prior knowledge with new learning about insects for fiction and non-fiction writing.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW:  red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was, not, she, this, come, you, are, get, some, with, will, have, went, saw, so, make, up, what, that, out, down, then, do, they, of

Word Study: review all short vowel sounds-a,e,i,o,u 

Math: Review measurement-comparing weight, height, length, and capacity using nonstandard units of measurement. We will introduce subtraction this week, as well.

Science: Our work with cycles in nature continues will wrap up this week.

Social studies:  We will compare life today with life long ago. 

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·      Monday: Ask an older adult (grandma or grandpa would be great!) about school jobs, or transportation, or games that were common they were in kindergarten.  

·      Tuesday:  Use your home reader to practice “retelling” the plot and characters of a book.  Be sure to include details from the beginning, middle and end!

·      Wednesday:   Teach your mom or dad to play Take Away 1 or 2.  If you can’t remember, you each get 15 pieces of cereal. Take turns taking away 1 or 2 (you decide!). First one to get rid of all of their cereal is the winner. If you don’t play with cereal, you can play with any small pieces of junk!

·      Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·      Friday:  Pack up your library books and practice your home reader!