Monday, October 3, 2016

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Kindergarten News
Week of Oct. 3rd-7th, 2016

Important Dates:
October 7 – Staff development day.  No school for RCE kids!
October 13- Field trip to Dewberry Farms.  Permission forms came home recently.  Please be sure to fill out both sides of the form and return to school.
October 28- Book Character Parade J
November 4 – Fall Festival (more details to come)

This week we will explore the following:
Theme: Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

Reading:  We will continue to explore the wonderful world of nursery rhymes and fairy tales.  We will identify rhyming words, characters and setting.  We will also sequence and retell, which are two very important reading skills!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to nursery rhymes and fairy while using these familiar texts as a basis for our own individual book making/writing!

Word Wall Words: 
REVIEW: is, my, like, to, the, can, see, go the, in, it, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black,

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  all, me

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of C and H.

Math: This week we will continue counting objects with one to one correspondence.  Practice continues writing letters in the teens. We will also work on counting/creating/identifying sets to 10.  We will count forwards and backwards to 20, as well as create number lines to 20.  

Science: Our work with matter continues, focusing on how matter can change.

Social Studies:  We begin a study of U.S. symbols and what they mean to us.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.
Optional Activities:
·         Monday:  Make a list of things that start with C & H
·         Tuesday: Take a handful of junk/tiny treasures.  Sort them into sets and describe how you sorted to mom or dad.
·         Wednesday: Write a simple sentence using can and see.  Do you have a capital and a period? 
·         Thursday:  Pick a US Symbol.  Tell Mom or Dad what it means.  Why is it important to us?

·         Friday: Bring back your library books, reading log, and home reader bag!  Remember there is no school on Monday!

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