Kindergarten
News
Week of
April 3-7,2017
School Supplies for the 2017-2018 school year are on sale now
through School Tool Box! You can order your child’s school supplies at www.schooltoolbox.com between now and June 23rd to have it delivered to the school.
Check the Flash for more information!
Thursday and Friday will be early dismissal days for spring
conferences. The kids will be dismissed at noon. We will have a
“lunch” break from 9:30-10:00 each day. Sack lunches will be available,
or you may send a heavy snack from home.
Friday, April 21st is Field Day. Kindergarten
classes will be wearing lime green shirts. Visit the link below if you
wish to order a shirt. The last day to order is Wednesday, April 5th!
Permission forms for our trip to MMS to see Beauty and the
Beast will be in your child's blue folder today. Please fill out BOTH sides of the
form and return to school before the end of the week.
Theme: Plants and Insects
Reading: The week will begin with a wrap up of
plants, then we will begin a study of insects. Shared reading will
introduce us to characteristics of all insects, and then we’ll read about and
compare a variety of insects.
Writing: We continue non-fiction
writing on topics such as insects, animals, and spring.
REVIEW ALL WORDS: 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
Word Study: We will finish up our
work with digraphs sh, ch, th, and wh.
Math: This week, we’ll explore three
dimensional figures. We’ll discuss the attributes of cubes, spheres,
cylinders, cones, and prisms. Our vocabulary this week will include all
the solid shape names and introduce face, edge, and corners. We will be
shape detectives as we look for solid shapes all around us.
Science: As we continue to study living things,
we will look at ways animal adaptations help them survive in their
habitats.
Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.
Optional Activities:
- Monday: Pick 5 words sight words and write a sentence
for each one. Did you use a capital letter at the beginning and a
punctuation mark at the end?
- Tuesday: Look for 3 animals with different body
coverings. Draw a picture and label each one.
- Wednesday: Make a list of sphere and cubes you can
find in your house. Try to find 5 of each.
- Thursday: Write a math story using two numbers that can
be combined to make 10. Write the math sentence that goes along with your
story. (Ex: Seven ladybugs were crawling on a leaf. Three more
ladybugs landed on the leaf. How many ladybugs were there in all? 7
+ 3 = 10)
- Friday: Pack up your library books and
practice your home reader!
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