It's a Nautical Kind of Year in Kindergarten

Welcome to our kindergarten blog for Smith Elementary. Stop by often to see what is going on at Smith Elementary and in Kindergarten. We will post each week what we are learning and let you see some of the great creations. Stop by as often as you would like.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

August 25-29 What's Happening in Kindergarten?

Journey's Reading 
We are starting Unit 1 of reading this week.  We are still quickly moving through the letters of the alphabet, but will go back and slow down after completing.  You will notice this week that there is so much more added to what we are learning now in language arts.  Don't let it overwhelm you, because our K-Crew Kids will be little troopers and move along with us.  

Letters
Kk-Oo

ELA: Weekly Focus
Domain: Social Relationships
Theme: Families

Essential Question:
What is the same about families?

Books
Building With Dad
Families, Families
What Makes a Family
Brothers and Sisters

Poems and Songs
Frere Jacques

High Frequency Words
I

Concepts of Print
Book Handling

Skills
Listening comprehension
Ask & Answer questions about text.
- Main Idea
- Genre

Strategy
Summarize

Fluency
Read with expression

Grammer
Nouns for People
(ex. boy, girl, mom, dad......)

Vocabulary Strategies 
Classify and Categorize
(Our kids will be  hearing and learning lots of new vocabulary this week.)

Phonological Awareness
Rhyming Words
(Can they pick out two words that rhyme? If given a word, can they name a rhyming word?)

Writing
Narrative Writing

Invision Math
Topic 2
More, Fewer, Same as
(one more, two more...
one and two fewer....)
Zero means None
Numbers 0-5
Counting objects
Writing numbers
Matching number and sets


Looking forward to a great week in Kindergarten!
The K-Crew Teachers

Sunday, August 17, 2014

August 18th - 22 What's happening in Kindergarten?

Journey's Reading 
The first two weeks of our reading series will be a jump start into kindergarten.  We will be quickly  covering all the letters of the alphabet in these two week.  After the first two weeks we will slow down the pace and come back to all of the letters again.

Letters
Ff-Jj

Rhyming with Songs or Poems
I Went Upstairs
Quack, Quack, Quack
Mix a Pancake
Sing a Song of Six Pence 
To Market, To Market

Concepts of Print
Recognize Names
Distinguish Letters and Numbers
Book Handling
Environmental Print
How to understand a Label and Logo

Phonological Awareness
Rhyming Words
Syllables


Invision Math
Numbers 1-5
Counting objects
Writing numbers
Matching number and sets


Looking forward to a great week in Kindergarten!
The K-Crew Teachers

Sunday, August 10, 2014

What will our K-Crew kids learn this week? August 11th - 15th

Kindergarten at Smith Elementary got off to a great start last week as we "Set Sail" on the "SS K-Crew Kids".  The days were filled with feelings of being scared, happy, excited, tired...... Most of all lots of learning took place.  
This week the K-Crew will be starting our new Reading series Journeys and getting into Invision Math. Take a look below at what we will be doing in K-land this week.

Journey's Reading 
The first two weeks of our reading series will be a jump start into kindergarten.  We will be quickly  covering all the letters of the alphabet in these two week.  After the first two weeks we will slow down the pace and come back to all of the letters again.

Letters
Aa-Ee

Rhyming with Songs or Poems
Jack and Jill
1,2,3,4,5
Peas Porridge Hot
Colors
To Market, To Market

Concepts of Print
Recognize Names
Distinguish Letters and Numbers
Book Handling
Environmental Print

Phonological Awareness
Rhyming Words
Blends Syllables


Invision Math
Numbers 1-5
Counting objects
Writing numbers
Matching number and sets


Looking forward to a great week in Kindergarten!
The K-Crew Teachers