Are you ready for some more snow? I know I am
ready for some football tomorrow night, but NOT more snow!
Math:
In math we are having so much fun learning
about attributes. We have been
working specifically with attribute blocks. Students are learning four ways to sort these attribute
blocks (color, thickness, size, and shape). At the end of last week, we played an attribute spinner
game. Students spun three spinners
(color spinner, size spinner, and thickness spinner) to see if they could find
that block in the pile.
This coming week, we will continue to work
on writing numbers correctly. The
most important message we send to our kids is “always start your letters and
numbers at the top!”
Decomposing numbers is another math concept for this week. Below is one activity we will do.
Language Arts:
The new Lively Letters we are working on are /w/,
/wh/, /h/, and /i/.
We are really working hard on making CVC words
with the letters we’ve learned. I
am teaching word families to help students sound out and find patterns in
words. Word families are
groups of words that are sufficiently closely related to each other to form a
'family'. This
week we are focusing on the –op family. We will be
reading books and poems with words that end in –op, we will make –op words with
magnetic letters, we will practice writing words that end in –op on white
boards, and we will make –op headbands at the end of the week.
Writing:
In writing, we are working on writing longer
stories. Instead of writing one
sentence, we are stretching our ideas to include a beginning and end. Last week we read the story Peter’s
Chair by Ezra Jack Keats. We paid close attention to how the main character
changed from the beginning of the book to end. In the beginning, Peter was jealous of his new baby sister,
and he did not want his parents to paint his chair pink for her. By the end, Peter had a change of heart
and helped his father paint the chair.
I was so proud of our kindergartners’ writing. They wrote about what happened in the beginning of the book
and what happened in the end. They
truly exhibited a clear understanding of how Peter’s feelings changed. That means our reading comprehension is
getting stronger.
Sight
Words:
This week, we will review the words “an” and “so”. We will make the words with magnetic
letters, practice writing the words, and playing our fun new sight word game
called “BAM”. I will
introduce a new sight word this week that is NOT on our Kindergarten Sight Word
list. The word is “said”. This word is in many guided reading
books, and it allows me to introduce dialogue in reading.
Concepts
for the Car Ride:
(Concepts for the Car Ride is a section of my blog
that gives you tips on what to practice with your kindergartener in the car,
before bed, in the bath, or at the dinner table)
Rhyming words and Nursery Rhymes
Words that end with –op
Counting from 0-100 (with no errors)
Counting by 10s and 5s
Guess my number. Think of a number between 1 and 10. Use words like greater than and less
than.
When you are driving, look for people who
are considered community helpers and/or buildings where community helpers work.
Focusing
on subtraction using numbers up to 10.
Write simple sentences
including mostly sight words and relatively easy CVC words. Cut up the sentence and have your
kindergartener put it back together.
When they are done, they can draw a picture to go with it! Example sentence (I see a dog on the
rug).
Read with your
kindergartener and have him/her look for sight words.
FYI:
Guided Reading books
will be coming home at the end of this week with your kindergartner. They will be due back the following
Monday.
FYI:
We will be doing lots of
fun activities for Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School. There is nothing special to note for
Groundhog Day, but for the 100th Day, I am allowing students to
dress up like they are 100 years old!
I will be sending home a letter all about it. Please don’t feel obligated to, the kids just thought it
would be fun.
**I am also wondering if 2 parents from each class would volunteer on the 100th Day. We will be celebrating it on Monday, February 9th.
AM Class- 9:30-10:30
PM Class-1:30-2:30
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