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Week of Nov.10th-14th, 2014

We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday, November 19th  for a Thanksgiving program.  Stop in the office for a visitor’s sticker and then come at 10:00 to the cafeteria.  Afterwards your child will enjoy a feast…details to follow.  Please join your child for this special time! The weather will turn colder this week...label those jackets with your child's name!!!!!!!!!!!  Thank you!!

Theme: Fall and Thanksgiving!

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy fall and Thanksgiving stories!  We will identify characters, setting, and problem.  We will retell using story arcs.  We will continue to utilize the cognitive skill of mental imaging while listening to stories.  This skill will help us add details to our writing!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to Thanksgiving stories while using these stories as a basis for our own individual book making/writing. The children will focus on use of capitals, periods, and appropriate spacing as we write about turkeys!  We will continue to add details to make our writing more interesting.  This week we will write about fall, Thanksgiving traditions, and other stories from our lives. We will also use letter sound knowledge to make lists.  For example, we will make a list of what we want to eat on Thanksgiving!

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, I, can, a, see, to, and, it, my, is, he, she, the NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  GO, IN, YOU

Word Study:  We will focus on the sounds of V and Q, as well as review all of the consonant sounds taught so far

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to measure (length and width), create/extend patterns, create numeral sets, count aloud to 65 and back/forth to 20, and problem solve. We will to explore ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.).  We will focus on more and less.

Social Studies:  The First Thanksgiving

Science:  Magnets

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Ask your family what their favorite Thanksgiving Food is- tally the results 
• Tuesday: Write sentences using GO, YOU, and IN 

• Wednesday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com 
• Thursday:  Have your mom say a number! Can you tell her what is one more?  How about one less?
• Friday:  Return your library books and practice your home reader!  

TGIF

Here's some math and science we did this week!  Don't forget to look for your child's new home reader bag in their backpack and please send it back Monday. 

I gave the kids a number and they had to write the tally marks on their white board.  Practice these at home.  They can count and object and then draw how many with tally marks. 

We have been exploring  magnets all week.  We did this project to show what we learned is magnetic and not magnetic.  

Math

We tallied how many times we rolled the numbers 1-6 with a dice today in math.  Most of our friends seemed to understand the concept.  

Home Readers

Our home reader bags have arrived!  Yay!  Look for your child's this Friday in their backpack so they can read to you this weekend.  Please remember to return the bag and books on Monday.  

Field Trip Fun!

We had a great day at Blessington Farms!  If you haven't been you should check it out.  We had a little rain and the kids are nice and dirty, but it was fun.  

 

Tally Marks

Today in math we practiced using tally marks.  We do them each day in our class with our question of the day, but today the kids got to do them with a partner while doing a math game.  

Kindergarten News

Kindergarten News

Week of Nov.3-7, 2014

We are so excited for our field trip to the farm tomorrow!  Send your child in a RCE shirt if possible.  Watch the weather and send a jacket or sweatshirt, if need be.  Your child can tie it around his or her waist if they get hot.  You know what your child is most comfortable wearing- that is what matters!  Send your child in tennis shoes and with a sack lunch in a large Ziploc bag.  Label the bag with your child’s name.  They will need a drink in their lunch.  If you are a chaperone, please refer to the email that came this morning with specifics.  Thank you!!

Theme: Fall and Thanksgiving!

Reading:  This week we will enjoy fall and Thanksgiving stories!  We will identify characters, setting, and problem.  We will retell using picture cards.  We will continue to utilize the cognitive skill of mental imaging while listening to stories.  This skill will help us add details to our writing!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to Thanksgiving stories while using these stories as a basis for our own individual book making/writing! We will focus on use of capitals, periods, and appropriate spacing as we write.  We will continue to add details to make our writing more interesting.  This week we will write about fall, apples, Thanksgiving traditions, and other stories from our lives.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, I, can, a, see, to, and, it, is, my, like, on, NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  he, she

Word Study: We will focus on the sounds of X, Y and Z.

Math: During math workshop, we will continue to measure (length and width), explore ordinal numbers, create/extend patterns, create numeral sets, count aloud to 60, and problem solve. We will work with number wallets to build number sense. This week we will begin to explore data collection, specifically tally marks.

Social Studies:  Thanksgiving traditions

Science:  Energy

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of X, Y and/or Z words. 
• Tuesday: Put your favorite toys in a line. Now, describe what is 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, etc. 

• Wednesday: visit www.raz-kids.com
• Thursday:  Teach your mom or dad how to make tally marks!
• Friday:  Return your library books and practice your home reader!