Monday, December 7, 2015

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Kindergarten News
Week of Dec 7th-11th, 2015

Remember to keep all library books at home until after we are back in the new building. The library is packed!  If your child brings a jacket/sweatshirt, please make sure his or her name is inside it. Also, NEXT week we have three early dismissal days on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Our class party is on Thursday of next week at 10:00.  We hope to see you there! J



Theme: Happy Holidays!!

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds about holiday themes, making predictions, re-telling the story, recalling the sequence of events and discussing the characters, the rising action in a story that forms a story arc.

Writing:  Writers Workshop!  Shared, Interactive and Modeled writing and Independent writing. We will be continuing to use a book format to write our own stories.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, like, see, in, and, can, I, the, you, for, it, go, to, was, on, if, that, into, said, me

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the word.  They need to be able to read them quickly by sight (not sounding them out). J

Word Family:  This we will explore the word family of AG

Math: Review: tally marks, graphing, counting aloud, counting sets, counting objects with one to one correspondence, and determining more/less (Focus is numeracy to 20).

Science:   Continuing Weather
Social Studies:  Holiday Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:
·        Monday:  Ask your family what their favorite holiday symbol is:  dreidel, Christmas tree, or a candy cane?  Record their answers with tally marks!
·        Tuesday:  Write a sentence using the word SAID and a sentence using the word into.
·        Wednesday:  Put five toys in a linePractice describing them using your
ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.)

·        Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com
·        Friday: Enjoy family time, read a story, and/or play outside!

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