Happy Mother’s Day! I hope this blog post finds you feeling loved and well
rested.
Math:
In math, we are working on many
concepts. One important concept
for kindergarteners this year is to identify 3 Dimensional shapes and describe
attributes
Another concept we will be working on is
(and have been for the past few months) is fluently adding and subtracting
within 5 using various strategies.
In addition we will be learning how to make 10. For any number 1-9, represent the
number that makes 10 when added to the given number.
Students will love working with graphs and
tally charts. We will be spending some time recording and analyzing data. For example, we will be completing a
class survey. Students will go
around and ask their peers different questions. After the survey, we will sit down and analyze the data to
draw conclusions.
Language
Arts:
We have learned all of the kindergarten Lively
Letters. We moved from the picture
cards to the regular letters. In writing, however, students can use the lively
letters picture cards or another alphabet chart to help them sound out words
and form letters.
Eric
Carle Author Study:
We have just begun our author study
of Eric Carle. Students watched a
video about this famous author and illustrator. They were so excited to learn that he wrote and illustrated
many books that they know and that we’ve read this year. We will spend a
lot of time reading his books this month. Many of our math, science and
ELA activities will be connected to these stories. Last week, we read the book A
House for Hermit. Students
retold the story, completed a writing piece about the book, and then created
Hermit Crab, the main character.
Ask your kindergartener about this precious story. Wednesday is our Eric
Carle Painting Day. See below for details!
Sight Words:
We have learned all 25 Kindergarten
sight words, so we have moved on.
Please continue to review ALL sight words learned this year with your
kindergartner!
Writing:
We have been having a lot of fun writing ‘How To’
books. Our classes read books
about how to make a pizza, and then wrote our own. When we were finished with our books, we actually used the
‘How to Make a Pizza’ book to make our own pizzas. It was so much fun to put the pizzas in the oven!
This week we are beginning to write our end of the
year personal narratives. We will
be sharing them at our June 17th Author’s Share. It is going to be great!
We are not finished with word families. We will finish the year learning as many new words families as possible.
FYI:
Wednesday,
May 13th is Painting Day in Kindergarten! Please have your child wear
clothing that you don’t mind getting paint on. You may also send in an
old button down shirt for a smock as well for extra protection. Thank you!!
May 19th~
Miller Kindergarten Field Day
More
information to follow
Online
Practice:
Addition
practice~
Subtraction practice~
Sight Word Review~
